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Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy /

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Migración temporal en Malinalco : la agricultura de subsistencia en tiempos de crisis / by Szasz Pianta, Ivonne

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Ancient Knowledge Networks : A Social Geography of Cuneiform Scholarship in First-Millennium Assyria and Babylonia by Robson, Eleanor

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Nursing with a Message Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City / by D'Antonio, Patricia, 1955-

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The Papers of Thomas A. Edison : New Beginnings, January 1885–December 1887 / by Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931

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Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation / by Porter, Edgar A., Porter, Ran Ying

Table of Contents: “…Oita Men Troop to War; "Leaving My Hometown"; A Buddhist Priest's Gift for Hitler; Oita Soldiers; On to Nanjing; Nanjing Legacy and the Pride of Oita; Our Chinese Family Meets the 47th; Securing Victory and Moving On; 4. …”
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Health, the individual, and integrated medicine revisiting an aesthetic of health care / by Aldridge, David, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Making and taking health care decisions -- Lifestyle, charismatic ideology and a praxis aesthetic -- The clinical assessment of acupuncture for asthma -- Of ethics and education: strategies for curriculum development -- Aesthetics and the individual in the practice of medical research -- Clinical research, the individual patient, and the limits of randomized controlled trials -- A community approach to cancer in families -- Music therapy references relating to cancer and palliative care -- Music therapy and spirituality: a transcendental understanding of suffering -- Prayer and spiritual healing in medical settings -- A qualitative research perspective on healing -- The breath in healing -- Music therapy and neurological rehabilitation: recognition and the performed body in an ecological niche -- Guidelines for clinical research.…”
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Surrogate motherhood and the politics of reproduction by Markens, Susan, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: unfamiliar families? -- The new problem of surrogate motherhood: legislative responses -- "Choice" and the "best interests of children": claiming the problem of surrogate motherhood -- "Moral conundrums and menacing ambiguities": framing the problem of surrogate motherhood -- Competing frames of surrogacy: comparing newspapers' coverage of "horror stories" -- Unity, divisions, and strange bedfellows: divergent legislative responses to surrogate motherhood -- A brave new world? …”
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Democracy as problem solving civic capacity in communities across the globe / by Briggs, Xavier de Souza

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Democracy and public problems -- Managing urban growth : the problem and its civics -- Rethinking the American West : a civic intermediary and the movement for "quality growth" in Utah -- The grassroots-to-grasstops dynamic : slum redevelopment and accountability in Mumbai -- The civics of economic restructuring -- The hyper-organized region : leading the next "new economy" in Pittsburgh -- Progressive regionalism and entrepreneurial government : democratization and competitive restructuring in the greater ABC, Brazil -- Leading change in child and youth well-being -- From the ballot box to better results : cross-sector accountability in the San Francisco children's movement -- Rights, conflict, and civic capacity : meeting the needs of poor children and families in postapartheid Cape Town -- Conclusion.…”
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Before L.A. : race, space, and municipal power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894 / by Torres-Rouff, David Samuel, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : finding the past -- A pueblo by the Porciuncula, 1781-1840 -- "Members of the same family with ourselves" : intercultural civic ideals, identities, and spaces, 1840-1855 -- "Impossible to ascertain with any degree of certainty" : choosing between cooperation and confrontation, 1855-1856 -- "Upon this thread hangs the welfare of our city" : society, space, and public policy, 1857-1861 -- Judging "an 'Ethiopian by his skin'" : politics, violence, and the power of racialized place, 1862-1872 -- "Looking across the gulf of immeasurable distance" : the divergent paths of Los Angeles's places and peoples, 1870-1894 -- Conclusion : "a story hidden behind every crumbling wall" : history and memory in Los Angeles.…”
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In search of common ground on abortion : from culture war to reproductive justice /

Table of Contents: “…Prewitt -- Toward common ground on policies advancing reproductive justice / Dorothy Roberts -- Finding common ground in the disability rights critiques of selective abortions / Elizabeth Schiltz -- Supporting pregnant women and their families to reduce the abortion rate / Kristen Day -- Can a Catholic realist approach aid in the effort to find common ground in debates about abortion? …”
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Maternal-newborn nursing : the critical components of nursing care / by Durham, Roberta F., Chapman, Linda, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Trends and issues -- Ethics and standards of practice issues -- Genetics, conception, fetal development, and reproductive technology -- Physiological aspects of antepartum care -- The psycho-social-cultural aspects of the antepartum period -- Antepartal tests -- High-risk antepartum nursing care -- Intrapartum assessment and interventions -- Fetal heart rate assessment -- High-risk labor and birth -- Intrapartum and postpartum care of cesarean birth families -- Postpartum physiological assessments and nursing care -- Transition to parenthood -- High-risk postpartum nursing care -- Physiological and behavioral responses of the neonate -- Discharge planning and teaching -- High-risk neonatal nursing care -- Well women's health -- Alterations in women's health.…”

Childhood abuse, body shame, and addictive plastic surgery : the face of trauma / by Constantian, Mark B.

Table of Contents: “…Where the thread began: what surgeons learn from patients and their families -- What the mental health literature says about body dysmorphic disorder -- The valley of the shadow: core issues and parenting -- Body image and body image disorders -- The ways we suffer: body shame and the astounding spectrum of its ravages -- The ways we medicate: addictions and behaviors most relevant to body image -- The effects of trauma on brain and body -- Behavior, PTSD, and surgical compulsion in plastic surgery patients: trailing the trauma prevalence -- Adverse childhood events in medical and plastic surgery patients and their effects on adult health, personality, and surgical happiness -- Resilience: the antidote and the inspiration.…”
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SARS-CoV and other emerging coronaviruses

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Nidovirales family -- Coronavirus phylogeny -- Timeline of emerging coronaviruses -- Virus particles and entrance -- Coronavirus structure -- MERS-CoV group 2c betacoronavirus -- Mechanisms of CoV emergence -- Role of cell surface receptors -- Public health preparedness -- Is SARS extinct? …”
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Resolvins activate imflammation-resolution programs a systems approach to resolution /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: New genus for pro-resolving lipid mediators -- Resolvins & protectins -- Metabolomics towards human treatment -- Decision paths in acute Inflammation -- Systems approach mapping resolution -- Ideal inflammation outcome- complete resolution -- Acute phase to resolution phase -- Effects of Aspirin -- Resolvins and Protectins- new mediator families -- DHA metabolome -- Pro-resolving lipid mediators -- Resolution interval and failure of resolution in inflammatory diseases -- RvE1 and RvD1- biosynthesis, structure and action -- Pathogenesis of sepsis -- RvD2, RvE1, RvD1 effects in inflammation -- Self-limited evolving exudate -- Resolvins are agonists that stimulate resolution.…”
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Evidence-based strategies for leading 21st century schools / by Schrum, Lynne, Levin, Barbara B

Table of Contents: “…: how curriculum and instructional practices change -- Setting the stage : the importance of attending to school culture -- Ideas about funding 21st century technology initiatives : tools, options, and resources -- Reaching out to parents, families, and the community : creating partnerships is a win-win proposition.…”

Dance hall days intimacy and leisure among working-class immigrants in the United States / by McBee, Randy D.

Table of Contents: “…Marriages were a little different then : marriages upon short acquaintance and immigrant, working-class life -- The era of large ballrooms and famous bands : the rise of commercial leisure and the making of a peer culture -- The girls here are like crazy : working-class women's heterosocial leisure and homosocial fun -- That's alright, I have my gang here : working-class male culture and the struggle over gender, identity, and dance -- And you know the old saying about familiarity breeding contempt : working-class male culture, social clubs, and heterosocial leisure -- When it comes to my marrying, boy, there will be a lot of strings pulled by my parents : familial conflict, commercial leisure, and weddings.…”
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Foundations of comparative genomics by Mushegian, Arcady R.

Table of Contents: “…-- How many protein families are there? -- Phylogenetic inference and the era of complete genomes -- Two stories about evolution -- Minimal and ancestral genomes -- Comparative genomics and systems biology.…”
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The lives of Peter the Iberian, Theodosius of Jerusalem, and the Monk Romanus by John Rufus, Bishop of Maiuma, fl. 476-518

Table of Contents: “…The context of the history of Georgia from the fourth to the sixth centuries -- Christianity and monasticism in Georgia in the fourth and fifth centuries -- Peter's genealogy in the Life of Peter the Iberian : hagiographic ancestry -- The history of the christological controversies and their context in Palestine from the fourth to the sixth centuries -- Monasticism in fifth-century Palestine -- On the death of Theodosius -- The anti-chalcedonian defeat in Palestine -- Authorship -- John Rufus -- Rhetoric and genre in the Life of Peter the Iberian -- Text-critical overview -- Versions and original text -- Synopsis of the Vita Petri Iberi and the De obitu Theodosii -- Outline of the Vita Petri Iberi -- Outline of the De obitu Theodosii -- Genealogical tables of the families of Peter the Iberian and Zuzo -- Chronological timeline -- Texts and translations -- Life of Peter the Iberian -- On the death of Theodosius.…”
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Eating disorders and the brain

Table of Contents: “…Why clinicians should love neuroscience : the clinical relevance of contemporary knowledge / David Wood -- Eating disorders : an overview / Beth Watkins -- Neuroimaging / Tone Seim Fuglset and Ian Frampton -- Neuropsychology / Joanna Steinglass and Deborah Glasofer -- Neurochemistry : the fabric of life and the fabric of eating disorders / Ken Nunn -- Body image disturbance / Maria Øverås -- Conceptual models / Mark Rose and Ian Frampton -- Toward a comprehensive, causal and explanatory neuroscience model of anorexia nervosa / Ken Nunn, Ian Frampton and Bryan Lask -- Neurobiological models : implications for patients and families / Ilina Singh and Alina Wengaard -- Clinical implications / Camilla Lindwall and Bryan Lask -- Future directions / Ian Frampton and Bryan Lask.…”
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