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No direction home the American family and the fear of national decline, 1968-1980 / by Zaretsky, Natasha, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Homeward unbound : prisoners of war, national defeat, and the crisis of male authority -- Getting the house in order : the oil embargo, consumption, and the limits of American power -- "The great male cop-out" : productivity lag and the end of the family wage -- The spirit of '76 : the Bicentennial and Cold War revivalism -- The world as a mirror : narcissism, "malaise," and the middle-class family -- Conclusion : The familial roots of Republican domination.…”
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Violent adolescents understanding the destructive impulse /

Table of Contents: “…Liefooghe -- Parent battering and its roots in infantile trauma / R. du Bois -- Violence in care / B. …”
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Spartak Moscow a history of the people's team in the workers' state / by Edelman, Robert, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Spartak's roots : futbol in the 'hood, 1900-1917 -- Before there was Spartak, 1917-1935 -- The battle is joined, 1936-1937 -- On top and bottom, 1937-1944 -- The golden age of Soviet soccer : Spartak in eclipse, 1945-1948 -- Spartak resurgent, 1949-1952 -- Thaw, change, and resurrection, 1953-1956 -- Good-bye, golden age, 1957-1964 -- Uncertainly ever after, 1964-1991.…”
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Understanding Nationalism On Narrative, Cognitive Science, and Identity / by Hogan, Patrick Colm

Table of Contents: “…Understanding identity : what it is and what it does -- Hierarchizing identities : techniques of nationalization -- Metaphors and selves : forefathers, roots, and the voice of the people -- Emplotting the nation : the narrative structures of patriotism -- Heroic nationalism and the necessity of war from King David to George W. …”
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Understanding Nationalism : On Narrative, Cognitive Science, and Identity / by Hogan, Patrick Colm

Table of Contents: “…Understanding identity : what it is and what it does -- Hierarchizing identities : techniques of nationalization -- Metaphors and selves : forefathers, roots, and the voice of the people -- Emplotting the nation : the narrative structures of patriotism -- Heroic nationalism and the necessity of war from King David to George W. …”
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A socio-cultural perspective on patient safety

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Paul Barach -- Introduction : a socio-cultural perspective on patient safety / Emma Rowley and Justin Waring -- All news is bad news : patient safety in the news media / Cecily Palmer and Toby Murcott -- Broadening the patient safety movement : listening, involving, and learning / Josephine Ocloo -- Narrowing the gap between safety policy and practice : the role of nurses' implicit theories and heuristics / Anat Drach-Zahavy and Anit Somech -- Resources of strength : an exnovation of hidden competences to preserve patient safety / Jessica Mesman -- Deviantly innovative : when risking patient safety is the right thing to do / Emma Rowley -- The precarious gap between information technology and patient safety : lessons from medication systems / Habibollah Pirnejad and Roland Bal -- The politics of learning : the dilemma for patient safety / Justin Waring and Graeme Currie -- Exploring the contributions of professional-practice networks to knowledge sharing, problem-solving, and patient safety / Simon Bishop and Justin Waring -- Challenges to learning from clinical adverse events : a study of root cause analysis in practice / Jeanne Mengis and Davide Nicolini -- Patient safety and clinical practice improvement : the importance of reflecting on real-time, in situ care processes / Rick Iedema.…”
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Recycling & redesigning logos a designer's guide to refreshing & rethinking design / by Hodgson, Michael (Michael R.)

Table of Contents: “…. ; Carbone Smolan ; Grant Design Collaborative ; Rip Georges ; Chen Design ; Fridge Creative ; Carol Garcia Del Busto ; Mine(TM) ; Julia Reich Design ; Sony ; Pentagram ; Root Studio ; S Design ; Brendán Murphy ; Weights&Pulleys -- Section 3: Logo gallery.…”
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Jihad in the west the rise of militant salafism / by Egerton, Frazer, 1977-

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Battling pornography the American feminist anti-pornography movement, 1976-1986 / by Bronstein, Carolyn

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Mark Twain and the spiritual crisis of his age by Bush, Harold K. (Harold Karl), 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Mark Twain's roots : Hannibal, the river, and the west -- Mark Twain's wife : the moral ethos of the Victorian home -- Mark Twain's pastor : Joe Twichell and social Christianity -- Mark Twain's liberal faith : the social gospel on Asylum Hill -- Mark Twain's Civil War : civil religion and the Lost Cause -- Mark Twain's American Adam : humor as hope and apocalypse -- Mark Twain's grief : the final years.…”
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Strange bedfellows how late-night comedy turns democracy into a joke / by Peterson, Russell Leslie

Table of Contents: “…Losing our religion -- "Showmen is devoid of politics": the roots of pseudo-satire and the rise of the comedy-industrial complex -- Film at 11:00, jokes at 11:30: topical comedy and the news -- The personal and the political -- Pay no attention to that man in front of the curtain -- Truth versus Truthiness; or, Looking for Mr. …”
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Metro movies cinematic urbanism in post-Mao China / by Kuoshu, Harry H., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- X-roads : old and new city films -- Dislocation : Huang Jianxin's urban searching for roots -- No one cheers : the later fifth generation and the urban "situation movie" -- Beijing bastards : century's end rock scenes and China's Generation X -- Captives of love : emotional styles and the new urbanites -- Lunar eclipse: elusive urban realities -- City paradise : urbanization looms over an old land -- Conclusion.…”
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The emergence of Latin American science fiction by Haywood Ferreira, Rachel

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Latin American science fiction discovers its roots -- Displacement in space and time: the Latin American utopia and dystopia -- The impact of Darwinism: civilization and barbarism meet evolution and devolution -- Strange forces: exploring the limits of science -- The double: from science to technology -- Conclusion: a global genre in the periphery -- Chronology: Latin American science fiction through 1920 -- Bibliography -- Primary texts -- Secondary sources -- Index.…”
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The Baha'i faith in Africa establishing a new religious movement, 1952-1962 / by Lee, Anthony A., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The Babi/Baha'i movement -- The African presence at the genesis of the Babi/Baha'i religions -- Opting for the apocalypse: the Baha'i response to the modern crisis in the Middle East and West Africa -- Planting the Baha'i faith in West Africa: the first decade -- The roots of Baha'i conversion in British Cameroons -- British Cameroons: a movement develops -- The Baha'i church of Calabar -- In lieu of a conclusion.…”
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The transhumanist reader classical and contemporary essays on the science, technology, and philosophy of the human future /

Table of Contents: “…pt. I. Roots and core themes -- pt. II. Human enhancement : the somatic sphere -- pt. …”
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Applied engineering mathematics / by Vick, Brian

Table of Contents: “…Non-Linear Algebraic Equations: Root Finding and Optimization 7. Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations 8. …”
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Contours of white ethnicity popular ethnography and the making of usable pasts in Greek America / by Anagnostou, Yiorgos

Table of Contents: “…Gendered pasts and polyphonies of belonging -- Interrogating ethnic whiteness, building interracial solidarity : popular ethnography as cultural critique -- Ethnicity as choice? Roots and identity as a narrative project -- Redirecting ethnic options : historical routes of heritage.…”
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The politics of space security strategic restraint and the pursuit of national interests / by Moltz, James Clay

Table of Contents: “…The dynamics of space security : existing explanations -- Space and environmental security -- Roots of the U.S.-Soviet space race : 1920s-1962 -- The emergence of cooperative restraint : 1962-1975 -- Challenges to space security and their resolution : 1976-1991 -- Post-Cold War space uncertainty : 1992-2000 -- Renewed U.S. space nationalism : 2001-2008 -- Expanding international norms amid tensions : 2009-present -- Alternative futures for space security.…”
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Literary Orientalism, postcolonialism, and universalism by Al-Dabbagh, Abdulla

Table of Contents: “…Orientalism, literary Orientalism and romanticism -- The Oriental roots of the picaresque -- Orientalism and literary translation -- The Oriental sources of courtly love -- The Orient, the other and the novel -- Going native: Conrad and postcolonial discourse -- Modern universalism and the myth of Westernness -- Globalism and the universal language: some lessons from the past -- Language, truth, and logic in the age of globalism and the discourse of civilizations -- Colonialism, postcolonialism, and anti-colonialism: a closer look at the false rhetoric of freedom.…”
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