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Adolescent risk behaviors why teens experiment and strategies to keep them safe / by Wolfe, David A. (David Allen), 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Kazdin -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Valuing adolescence -- Learning the rules of relating -- The dark side of the rules -- Choices and pressures of today's youth -- Making sense of making choices -- What works in prevention: promises and pitfalls -- The blueprint: best principles for program design -- The delivery: best practices for strengthening relationships and managing risks -- The context: overcoming barriers and engaging schools -- The evolution of universal efforts to reduce adolescent risk behaviors.…”
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Art and architecture of late medieval pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles texts /

Table of Contents: “…Cults and cult practices : evolution and expression.…”
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The Ethiopian revolution war in the Horn of Africa / by Gebru Tareke, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…The specter of revolution and war -- Roots and outcomes of revolution: a review -- Comrades against comrades -- The victorious nationalists: insurgent Eritrea -- The victorious ethnonationalists: insurgent Tigray -- The vanquished revolutionary army: birth and evolution -- The vanquished revolutionary army: defeat and demise -- Battlefield Ethiopia -- Ogaden: "socialist" neighbors at war -- Nakfa: "even the mountains fought" -- Af Abet: Ethiopia's Dienbienphu? …”
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Rediscovering value leading the 3-D enterprise to sustainable success / by Rummler, Geary A.

Table of Contents: “…The 3-D concept -- Three dimensions of an organization -- The value dimension -- The resource dimension -- Managerial practices in a one-dimensional organization -- The CEO's agenda -- Two-dimension management -- Making the system visible -- Demonstrating how -- Evolution of a management system -- Performance planned -- Performance managed -- What it will take -- A closer look at Belding -- Belding case tools, stage I -- Belding case tools, stage II -- Return to Belding engineering.…”
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Human walking /

Table of Contents: “…Human locomotion -- The evolution of human walking -- Kinematics of normal human walking -- Kinetics of normal walking -- Energetics of walking -- Muscle activity during walking -- Development of gait -- Gait adaptations in adulthood: pregnancy, aging, and alcoholism -- Walking for health -- Gait analysis: clinical decision making -- Lower limb prostheses: implications and applications -- Simulation of walking -- The next step: restoring walking after paralysis -- Human walking: six take-home lessons.…”
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The case for U.S. nuclear weapons in the 21st century / by Roberts, Brad

Table of Contents: “…The evolution of U.S. nuclear policy and posture since the end of the Cold War -- The first new problem : nuclear-armed regional challengers -- The new regional deterrence strategy -- The second new problem : relations with Putin's Russia -- The evolving relationship with China -- Extended deterrence and strategic stability in Europe -- Extended deterrence and strategic stability in Northeast Asia -- The broader nuclear assurance agenda -- Conclusions -- Epilogue : implications for future strategy, policy, and posture reviews.…”
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Tandem couples counseling : an innovative approach to working with high conflict couples / by Levitov, Justin E., Fall, Kevin A.

Table of Contents: “…A Brief History of Couples Counseling and the Evolution of Tandem Couples Counseling -- 2. Defining and Assessing High Conflict Couples -- 3. …”
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Otto Jespersen facets of his life and work /

Table of Contents: “…Otto Jespersen / by Paul Christophersen -- Otto Jespersen and Copenhagen University / by Jørgen Erik Nielsen -- The teaching of English in Denmark and Otto Jespersen / by Knud Sørensen -- Otto Jespersen's contribution to Danish and general phonetics / by Jørgen Rischel -- On Otto Jespersen's view of language evolution / by Hans Frede Nielsen -- Otto Jespersen as grammarian / by W. …”
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Power games in the Caucasus Azerbaijan's foreign and energy policy towards the West, Russia and the Middle East / by Mehdiyeva, Nazrin, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…-- Personalities, processes, institutions : sculpting Azerbaijan's foreign and energy policy -- In the name of sovereignty : Azerbaijan's perceptions and strategies in dealing with Russia's military might -- Mining, pipelines and deals : strategic manoeuvering with Russia on the Caspian -- From euphoria to pragmatism : the evolution of Azerbaijan's policy towards Turkey -- The Western dimension of Azerbaijan's strategic manoeuvering -- Postscript and conclusions: What future for Azerbaijani gas and strategic manoeuvering?.…”
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Chinese money in global context : historic junctures between 600 BCE and 2012 / by Horesh, Niv

Table of Contents: “…-- From coinage to paper money : the origins and evolution of Chinese and western banknotes in comparison -- The great money divergence : European and Chinese coinage before the age of steam -- Paper money in Qing China : exactly how common and reliable was it by the early 20th century ? …”
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Oxidative stress and disease atherosclerosis /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Oxidative stress, inflammation and fibrosis -- Redox-dependent expression of pro-fibrogenic cytokines -- Formation and evolution of fibrotic plaque: the primary role of inflammation -- LDL lipid oxidation products -- Lipid oxidation during the genesis of atherosclerotic lesion -- Enzymatic and non-enzymatic lipid oxidation products -- Pro-inflammatory and pro-fibrogenic effects of 4-hydroxy-2-alkenals -- Oxysterols of pathophysiological interest -- Oxysterols and atheroma formation -- Pro-inflammatory effects of cholesterol oxidation products.…”
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Marker assisted selection in agriculture

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Measuring traits & genetic markers directly -- Evolution of genetic markers -- Discrete traits resulting from single genes -- Marker searches using pooling strategies -- Small influences of environment vs. dealing with complex traits -- Quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping -- Association genetics complements QTL mapping -- Conventional 3-generation linkage mapping -- False positive (relatedness) vs. …”
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"Portuguese" style and Luso-African identity precolonial Senegambia, sixteenth-nineteenth centuries / by Mark, Peter, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The evolution of "Portuguese" identity: Luso-Africans on the upper Guinea coast from the sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century -- Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century architecture in the Gambia-Geba region and the articulation of Luso-African ethnicity -- Reconstructing West African architectural history: images of seventeenth-century "Portuguese"-style houses in Brazil -- "The people there are beginning to take on English manners": mixed manners in seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century Gambia -- Senegambia from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century -- Casamance architecture from 1850 to the establishment of colonial administration.…”
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Treating drug problems commissioned papers on historical, institutional, and economic contexts of drug treatment /

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Immigration, acculturation, and health the Mexican diaspora / by Reichman, Jill S.

Table of Contents: “…Mexican immigrants, health care, and acculturation -- Modeling and measuring acculturation -- Methodological considerations, data collection, and analysis -- Sociodemographic profile -- Models of health, models of illness -- Change over time in health prescriptions -- Cognitive models of how people should behave when sick -- Therapeutic options: awareness and usage of complementary and alternative medicine -- Crossing boundaries: geographical, political, and religious -- Diagnosis and treatment efficacy -- Antibiotic usage and rate of acculturation -- Nervios, stress, sadness, depression: the evolution of a mind/body discourse -- Conclusion.…”
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Primer of genetic analysis a problems approach /

Table of Contents: “…Overview of genetic organization and scale -- Mitosis and meiosis -- Nucleic acids: DNA and RNA -- Basic mendelian genetics -- Probability and chi square -- Sex linkage and gene interactions -- Pedigree analysis -- Overview of basic statistical testing -- Quantitative inheritance -- Overview of genetic mapping -- Assessing chromosome linkage relationships -- Linkage and mapping in diploids -- Mapping in bacteria and viruses -- Overview of types of genetic change -- Gene mutation -- Changes in chromosome number and structure -- Protein synthesis and the genetic code -- Gene regulation and development -- Overview of molecular biology techniques -- DNA mapping and human genome analysis -- Basic population genetics -- Selection and evolution -- Practice tests -- Answers to practice tests and crossword puzzles -- Landmarks in the history of genetics.…”
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The constitutionalism of American states

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Re-forming capitalism institutional change in the German political economy / by Streeck, Wolfgang, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Systemic change : five parallel trajectories -- From system to process -- Endogenous change : time, age, and the self-undermining of institutions -- Time's up : positive externalities turning negative -- Disorganization as liberalization -- Convergence, non-convergence, divergence -- "Economizing'' and the evolution of political-economic institutions -- Internationalization -- German unification -- History -- Bringing capitalism back in.…”
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Prokofiev's piano sonatas a guide for the listener and the performer / by Berman, Boris

Table of Contents: “…Prokofiev : his life and the evolution of his musical language -- Prokofiev the pianist -- Sonata no. 1 in F minor, op. 1 -- Sonata no. 2 in D minor, op. 14 -- Sonata no. 3 in A minor, op. 28 -- Sonata no. 4 in C minor, op. 29 -- Sonata no. 5 in C major, op. 38 (first version), op. 135 (second version) -- Sonata no. 6 in A major, op. 82 -- Sonata no. 7 in B-flat major, op. 83 -- Sonata no. 8 in B-flat major, op. 84 -- Sonata no. 9 in C major, op. 103 -- Sonata no. 10 in E minor, op. 137 -- Conclusion : To be a Prokofiev pianist.…”
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Constructing irregular theology bamboo and Minjung in East Asian perspective / by Chung, Paul S., 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Asian irregular theology : inculturation and emancipation -- Justification and self-cultivation : Christian faith and Buddhist enlightenment -- God and the mysterious place of the world : Judeo-Christian narrative in engagement with mystery of Tao -- God the Trinity : an interfaith reframing of the trinity with an Asian face -- Christian mission: Matteo Ricci and his legacy for Christian-Confucian renewal -- Religious pluralism : Asian Christianity and life horizon of world religions -- God and evolution : God and Sunyata in an evolutionary context -- The future of irregular theology in East Asia : Asian contextual theology : past, present, and future.…”
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