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Bloody Lowndes civil rights and Black power in Alabama's Black Belt / by Jeffries, Hasan Kwame, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Conditions unfavorable to the rise of the Negro : the pursuit of freedom rights before the civil rights era -- I didn't come here to knock : the making of a grassroots social movement -- We ain't going to shed a tear for Jon : school desegregation, White resistance, and the African American response -- I'm going to try to take some of the freedom here back home : the federal government and the fight for freedom rights -- We gonna show Alabama just how bad we are : the birth of the original Black Panther Party and the development of freedom politics -- Tax the rich to feed the poor : Black power and the election of 1966 -- Now is the time for work to begin : Black politics in the post-civil rights era -- Epilogue: That black dirt gets in your soul : the fight for freedom rights in the days ahead.…”
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Looking north, looking south China, Taiwan, and the South Pacific /

Table of Contents: “…/ Fergus Hanson -- The security implications of cross-strait competition in the South Pacific from a Taiwanese perspective / Cheng-yi Lin -- Rising Chinese influence in the South Pacific : Beijing's island fever / Tamara Renee Shie -- Big trouble in little Chinatown : Australia, Taiwan and the April 2006 post-election riot in Solomon Islands / Joel Atkinson -- New Zealand, the Pacific and China : the challenges ahead / Anne-Marie Brady and John Henderson -- Chinese foreign policy in Asia : implications for the South Pacific / Phillip C. …”
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Bloody Lowndes civil rights and Black power in Alabama's Black Belt / by Jeffries, Hasan Kwame, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Conditions unfavorable to the rise of the Negro : the pursuit of freedom rights before the civil rights era -- I didn't come here to knock : the making of a grassroots social movement -- We ain't going to shed a tear for Jon : school desegregation, White resistance, and the African American response -- I'm going to try to take some of the freedom here back home : the federal government and the fight for freedom rights -- We gonna show Alabama just how bad we are : the birth of the original Black Panther Party and the development of freedom politics -- Tax the rich to feed the poor : Black power and the election of 1966 -- Now is the time for work to begin : Black politics in the post-civil rights era -- Epilogue: That black dirt gets in your soul : the fight for freedom rights in the days ahead.…”
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Looking north, looking south China, Taiwan, and the South Pacific /

Table of Contents: “…/ Fergus Hanson -- The security implications of cross-strait competition in the South Pacific from a Taiwanese perspective / Cheng-yi Lin -- Rising Chinese influence in the South Pacific : Beijing's island fever / Tamara Renee Shie -- Big trouble in little Chinatown : Australia, Taiwan and the April 2006 post-election riot in Solomon Islands / Joel Atkinson -- New Zealand, the Pacific and China : the challenges ahead / Anne-Marie Brady and John Henderson -- Chinese foreign policy in Asia : implications for the South Pacific / Phillip C. …”
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Mark Twain and the Colonel Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the arrival of a new century / by McFarland, Philip James

Table of Contents: “…War -- Return to America -- Celebrity -- Vice-presidential candidate -- Warfare -- Imperialist America -- Anti-imperialist -- Election results -- The strenuous life -- West -- Rural upbringing -- Urban upbringing -- Clemens goes west -- Grand tours -- Western writings -- Continental America -- The Philippines -- Pan-American Exposition -- Race -- Yale bicentennial -- Racial America -- Back to Hannibal -- Roosevelt and race -- Livy -- Huckleberry Finn -- Roosevelt and the Philippines -- Placating the South -- Oil -- The Kanawha -- Corporate America -- Roosevelt as reformer -- The Gilded Age -- Bankruptcy -- In the White House -- Trustbusting -- Our life is wrecked -- Children -- A seventieth birthday -- Susy -- America at home -- Bully father -- President in his own right -- Global visions -- Bereft and adrift -- Young people -- Peace -- Carnegie -- America at peace -- Late pleasures -- TR steps down -- Jean -- Funerals -- Bull Moose -- Afterward.…”
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Mark Twain and the Colonel Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the arrival of a new century / by McFarland, Philip James

Table of Contents: “…War -- Return to America -- Celebrity -- Vice-presidential candidate -- Warfare -- Imperialist America -- Anti-imperialist -- Election results -- The strenuous life -- West -- Rural upbringing -- Urban upbringing -- Clemens goes west -- Grand tours -- Western writings -- Continental America -- The Philippines -- Pan-American Exposition -- Race -- Yale bicentennial -- Racial America -- Back to Hannibal -- Roosevelt and race -- Livy -- Huckleberry Finn -- Roosevelt and the Philippines -- Placating the South -- Oil -- The Kanawha -- Corporate America -- Roosevelt as reformer -- The Gilded Age -- Bankruptcy -- In the White House -- Trustbusting -- Our life is wrecked -- Children -- A seventieth birthday -- Susy -- America at home -- Bully father -- President in his own right -- Global visions -- Bereft and adrift -- Young people -- Peace -- Carnegie -- America at peace -- Late pleasures -- TR steps down -- Jean -- Funerals -- Bull Moose -- Afterward.…”
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Dialogues on distribution of powers and responsibilities in federal countries

Table of Contents: “….] -- Brazil: federation building and social welfare / Marcelo Piancastelli de Siqueira -- Canada: competition within cooperative federalism / Richard Simeon -- Germany: Länder implementing federal legislation / Hans-Peter Schneider -- India: continuity and change in the federal union / George Mathew -- Mexico: a historic election brings pressures for decentralization / Manuel González Oropeza -- Nigeria: over-centralization after decades of military rule / J. …”
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History and hope in the heart of Dixie scholarship, activism, and Wayne Flynt in the modern South /

Table of Contents: “…Manis -- Race, class, the Southern conference, and the beginning of the end of the New Deal coalition / Glenn Feldman -- "Wallaceism is an insidious and treacherous type of disease" : the 1970 Alabama gubernatorial election and the "Wallace freeze" on Alabama politics / Gordon E. …”
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Displays! dynamic design ideas for your library step by step / by Phillips, Susan P., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…-- Autism aware -- Gallery of rogues -- Election central -- Connections : the social network -- Going green -- Sci-fi -- Generations -- Get lit at the library -- ... isms -- In stitches -- The great ships of sail -- The Plain people -- Appendix. …”
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Framing American politics /

Table of Contents: “…Kenney -- Obstacles and opportunities : factors that constrain elected officials' ability to frame political issues / Teena Gabrielson -- Democratic debate and real opinions / Donald R. …”
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Displays! dynamic design ideas for your library step by step / by Phillips, Susan P., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…-- Autism aware -- Gallery of rogues -- Election central -- Connections : the social network -- Going green -- Sci-fi -- Generations -- Get lit at the library -- ... isms -- In stitches -- The great ships of sail -- The Plain people -- Appendix. …”
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Framing American politics /

Table of Contents: “…Kenney -- Obstacles and opportunities : factors that constrain elected officials' ability to frame political issues / Teena Gabrielson -- Democratic debate and real opinions / Donald R. …”
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Dialogues on distribution of powers and responsibilities in federal countries

Table of Contents: “….] -- Brazil: federation building and social welfare / Marcelo Piancastelli de Siqueira -- Canada: competition within cooperative federalism / Richard Simeon -- Germany: Länder implementing federal legislation / Hans-Peter Schneider -- India: continuity and change in the federal union / George Mathew -- Mexico: a historic election brings pressures for decentralization / Manuel González Oropeza -- Nigeria: over-centralization after decades of military rule / J. …”
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History and hope in the heart of Dixie scholarship, activism, and Wayne Flynt in the modern South /

Table of Contents: “…Manis -- Race, class, the Southern conference, and the beginning of the end of the New Deal coalition / Glenn Feldman -- "Wallaceism is an insidious and treacherous type of disease" : the 1970 Alabama gubernatorial election and the "Wallace freeze" on Alabama politics / Gordon E. …”
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Congress Responds to the Twentieth Century /

Table of Contents: “…Oppenheimer -- The decline of competition and change in congressional elections / James E. Campbell and Steve J. Jurek -- Life and work on the Hill : careers, norms, staff, and informal caucuses / Susan Webb Hammond -- Full circle? …”
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Electoral Campaigns, Media, and the New World of Digital Politics /

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Electoral Campaigns, Media, and the New World of Digital Politics /

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Congress Responds to the Twentieth Century /

Table of Contents: “…Oppenheimer -- The decline of competition and change in congressional elections / James E. Campbell and Steve J. Jurek -- Life and work on the Hill : careers, norms, staff, and informal caucuses / Susan Webb Hammond -- Full circle? …”
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Individualization institutionalized individualism and its social and political consequences / by Beck, Ulrich, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…30 -- 4 The ambivalent social structure: Poverty and wealth -- in a 'self-driven culture' 42 -- 5 From 'living for others' to 'a life of one's own': -- Individualization and women 54 -- 6 On the way to a post-familial family: From a community -- of need to elective affinities 85 -- 7 Division of labour, self-image and life projects: -- New conflicts in the family 101 -- 8 Declining birthrates and the wish to have children 119 -- 9 Apparatuses do not care for people 129 -- 10 Health and responsibility in the age of genetic technology 139 -- 11 Death of one's own, life of one's own: Hopes from transience 151 -- 12 Freedom's children 156 -- 13 Freedom's fathers 172 -- 14 Zombie categories: Interview with Ulrich Beck 202.…”
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