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Genre in popular music by Holt, Fabian

Table of Contents: “…Roots and refigurations -- Double session I : Reactions to rock -- A model of genre transformation -- Country music and the Nashville sound -- Jazz and jazz-rock fusion -- Double session II : Urban boundaries -- Jeff Parker and the Chicago jazz scene -- A closer look at Jeff Parker and his music -- Music at American borders.…”
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Small, gritty, and green the promise of America's smaller industrial cities in a low-carbon world / by Tumber, Catherine

Table of Contents: “…." -- Mega dreams and small city realities : trafficking in transportation planning -- Agriculture on the urban fringe and beyond -- Framing urban farming -- Making good : renewables and the revival of smaller industrial cities -- Roots of knowledge : local economics, urban scale, and schooling for civic renewal.…”
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The Digital Humanist: A Critical Inquiry / by Fiormonte, Domenico, Tomasi, Francesca, Numerico, Teresa

Table of Contents: “…/ Geoffrey Rockwell -- Introduction -- Part I. The socio-historical roots -- Technology and the humanities: a history of interaction -- Internet, or the humanistic machine -- Part II. …”
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The new public service serving, not steering / by Denhardt, Janet Vinzant

Table of Contents: “…Public administration and the new public management -- The roots of the new public service -- Serve citizens, not customers -- Seek the public interest -- Value citizenship over entrepreneurship -- Think strategically, act democratically -- Recognize that accountability isn't simple -- Serve rather than steer -- Value people, not just productivity -- The new public service in action -- Conclusion.…”
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The figural Jew politics and identity in postwar French thought / by Hammerschlag, Sarah

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Roots, rootlessness, and fin de siècle France -- Stranger and self: Sartre's Jew -- Anti-Semite and Jew -- Dialectical history, unhappy consciousness, and the Messiah -- The ethics of uprootedness: Emmanuel Levinas's postwar project -- Literary unrest: Maurice Blanchot's rewriting of Levinas --"The Last of the Jews": Jacques Derrida and the case of the figure -- The cut -- The exemplar -- Conclusion.…”
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We are being transformed deification in Paul's soteriology / by Litwa, M. David

Table of Contents: “…: defining divinity in the Greco-Roman world -- Survey of deification: assimilation to specific deities -- The roots of a Jewish vision of deification -- Divine corporeality and the pneumatic body -- Divine corporeality and deification -- Deification and the cosmic rule of the saints -- Paul and moral assimilation to God -- Monotheism and divine multiplicity -- Creation and the objection of absolute transcendence.…”
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Economics as social science : economics imperialism and the challenge of interdisciplinary / by Marchionatti, Roberto, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. At the roots of economics imperialism : classical and neoclassical economics and the issue of primitive societies -- pt. 2. …”
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Your best life now : 7 steps to living at your full potential / by Osteen, Joel

Table of Contents: “…-- Understanding your value -- Become what you believe -- Developing a prosperous mindset -- Be happy with who you are -- Discover the power of your thoughts and words -- Choosing the right thoughts -- Re-programming your mental computer -- Power in your words -- Speaking life-changing words -- Speaking a blessing -- Let go of the past -- Letting go of emotional wounds -- Don't let bitterness take root -- Let God bring justice in your life -- Defeating disappointments -- Find strength through adversity -- Getting up on the inside -- Trusting God's timing -- The purpose of trials -- Trusting God when life doesn't make sense -- Live to give! …”
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Global Faulkner Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2006 /

Table of Contents: “…Handley -- Blood on the leaves, blood at the root: ritual carriers and sacrificial crises of transition in Yoknapatawpha and Oyo / Keith Cartwright -- Reading Faulkner in Spain, reading Spain in Faulkner / Manuel Broncano -- The global/local nexus of patriarchy: Japanese writers encounter Faulkner / Takako Tanaka -- Artificial women, the Pygmalion paradigm, and Faulkner's Gordon in Mosquitoes / Mario Materassi -- Almost feminine, almost brother, almost Southern: the transnational queer figure of Charles Bon in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! …”
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Starting with Heidegger by Greaves, Thomas C.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Phenomenology : the logic of appearance -- Phenomenology without attitude -- The root of sense and sensibility -- Concrete sketches of experience -- The self-evidence and elusiveness of phenomena -- Dasein : a living question -- Interrogating ourselves -- Hermeneutics, philosophy, and ontological difference -- The facts of life -- More or less human -- World : the event of meaning -- Tackling the world around us -- Environmental breakdown and recovery -- Our world owns itself -- Anyone and everyone -- Already with others -- The dictatorship of the one -- The real and the authentic self -- Language bears the one -- Between our selves -- Finding oneself in a mood -- Where do moods belong? …”
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Microcirculation function, malfunction and measurement /

Table of Contents: “…Papadopoulos -- Changes of microcirculation in the lumbosacral nerve root and ganglia induced by mechanical compression / Shigeru Kobayashi, Hisatoshi Baba -- Relationship between the microcirculation and the pathological changes in the sporadic and variant forms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) / Richard A. …”
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Against nature : the metaphysics of information systems / by Kreps, David

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An Unspecific Dog: Artifacts of This Late Stage in History / by Rothes, Joshua

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The dark side of literacy literature and learning not to read / by Bennett, Benjamin, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Reading and the theory of reading -- Poems, myths, and the advent of modern reading -- Dante and the invention of the novel reader -- Boccaccio, Cervantes, and the path to solitary reading -- Magic and history : the roots and branches of Dr. Faustus -- Intransitive parody and the trap of reading : what reading really is -- Kleist, Kafka, and the refutation of reading -- The parting of the ways : a concluding note on the novel and literary studies.…”
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Number theory through inquiry by Marshall, David C.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Divide and conquer -- Prime time -- A modular world -- Fermat's Little Theorem and Euler's Theorem -- Public key cryptography -- Polynomial congruences and primitive roots -- The golden rule : quadratic reciprocity -- Pythagorean triples, sums of squares, and Fermat's Last Theorem -- Rationals close to irrationals and the Pell equation -- The search for primes -- Mathematical induction : the domino effect.…”
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How globalization spurs terrorism the lopsided benefits of "one world" and why that fuels violence / by Moghaddam, Fathali M.

Table of Contents: “…A dangerous new world -- The psychological citizen and globalization -- Universal needs and the psychological roots of radicalization and terrorism -- One world : globalization as ideal -- Fractured globalization : globalization in practice -- Intergroup contact and catastrophic evolution -- Threatened identities, change, and globalization -- Universal rights and duties as explosive threats -- The American dilemma becomes global -- Afterward: The veiled solitude : women as the solution.…”
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Constituting Workers, Protecting Women : Gender, Law and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years / by Novkov, Julie, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Rethinking the constitutional crisis of the 1930s : the forgotten doctrinal roots of the modern welfare state -- Generalized balancing : the early struggles over protective labor legislation -- Specific balancing : regulating labor and laborers -- Laborer-centered analysis : the ascendancy of women's legislation -- Gendered rebalancing : minimum wages and the battle over equality -- Reflecting on gender, due process, and constitutional development.…”
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The trouble with ed schools by Labaree, David F., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction, the lowly status of the ed school -- Teacher ed in the past : the roots of its lowly status -- Teacher ed in the present : the peculiar problems of preparing teachers -- The peculiar problems of doing educational research -- The peculiar problems of preparing educational researchers -- Status dilemmas of education professors -- The ed school's romance with progressivism -- The trouble with ed schools : little harm, little help.…”
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Kindler of souls Rabbi Henry Cohen of Texas / by Cohen, Henry, 1927-

Table of Contents: “…From Torah to Tennyson -- Being Jewish in Jamaica -- Little Jerusalem -- Planting roots -- The storm and its impact -- From health to horror -- "Through the gateway of Galveston" -- "Dear graduates" : on being a rabbi -- From the Kaiser to the Klan -- Prison reform : the rabbi and the convict -- Family matters and memory : 1930-1950 -- The rabbi and his times -- Appendix : selected poems by Rabbi Henry Cohen.…”
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Parts of speech empirical and theoretical advances /

Table of Contents: “…Parts of Speech: Particulars, universals and theoretical constructs / Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau -- Word classes in sign languages: Criteria and classifications / Waldemar Schwager and Ulrike Zeshan -- Roots, stems and word classes / Christian Lehmann -- Precategoriality and syntax-based parts of speech: The case of Late Archaic Chinese / Walter Bisang -- Covert word classes: Seeking your own syntax in Tukang Besi / Mark Donohue -- Pragmatic factors in the development of a switch-adjective language: A case study of the Miyako Hirara dialect of Ryukyuan / Yulia Koloskova and Toshio Ohori -- The acquisition of syntactic categories in Jakarta Indonesian / David Gil -- Possible phonological cues in categorial acquisition Evidence from adult categorization /Jan Don and Marian Erkelens -- Lexical semantic constraints on noun roots and noun borrowability / Lynn Nichols -- Degree words, intensification, and word class distinctions in Romance languages / Ventura Salazar-García -- On flexible and rigid nouns / Jan Rijkhoff.…”
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