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Festivals, affect, and identity a Deleuzian apprenticeship in central Italian communities / by Crociani-Windland, Lita

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Learning, identity, duration, and the virtual -- Siena and its province: an overview -- Siena and the Palio " war and state machine": identity and becoming -- Montepulciano and Bruscello: rupture, continuity, and the "refrain" -- The "problem/idea" of Montepulciano: how to be autonomous in the face of overwhelming force -- Montepulciano's bravio delle botti and a genealogy of cunning -- Sharecropping and modernity -- Monticchiello's "problem/idea": a community under siege -- A tree with its roots in the air: Monticchiello's theatre of the "virtual" -- Conclusion.…”
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Soured on the system disaffected men in 20th century American film / by Schultz, Robert T.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction: the roots and early cultural representations of discontented and disaffected men, 1853-1945 -- Negotiating corporate life: adapting to the organized system in the 1940s and 1950s -- Gunslingers and gangsters in the age of corporate combinations: the veiled struggle against the force that is evil in Joe McCarthy's America -- Similar criticisms, dissimilar solutions: the 1960s and 1970s -- Blowing up and dropping out: awakenings, agency and militancy at the end of the century -- Conclusion: disaffected men and resistance in American culture.…”
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To know her own history : writing at the woman's college, 1943-1963 / by Ritter, Kelly

Table of Contents: “…Her history matters: the United States normal school and the roots of women's public education -- In her own words: the yearling and first-year writing, 1948-51 -- Revisionist history: general education reform from Harvard University to the woman's college, 1943-56 -- The double-helix of creative/composition: Randall Jarrell, May Bush, and the politics of writing programs, 1947-63 -- What's in a name? …”
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Social inclusion of people with disabilities national and international perspectives / by Rimmerman, Arie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Historical roots and conceptualising disability -- Social exclusion and social inclusion -- Media and disability, disability culture and digital divide -- Social strategies to promote social inclusion : social protection and social capital -- National disability rights instruments and measures to promote social inclusion -- The convention on the rights of persons with disabilities : a comprehensive instrument to promote social inclusion -- Strategies for changing media stereotypes toward people with disabilities and for bridging digital divides -- Closing remarks.…”
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The Givenness of Desire : Concrete Subjectivity and the Natural Desire to See God / by Rosenberg, Randall S

Table of Contents: “…De Lubac's lament : loss of the supernatural -- Ressourcement and neo-Thomism : a narrative under scrutiny, a dialogue renewed -- The erotic roots of intellectual desire -- Concretely operating nature : Lonergan on the natural desire to see God -- Being-in-love and the desire for the supernatural : erotic-agapic subjectivity -- Incarnate meaning and mimetic desire : saints and the desire for God -- The metaphysics of holiness and the longing for God in history : Therese of Lisieux and Etty Hillesum -- Distorted desire and the love of deviated transcendence.…”
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Introduction to teaching : becoming a professional (Accompanied by a CD-Rom available at the Multimedia) / by Kauchak, Donald, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…-- Developing as a professional -- Helping diverse learners succeed in today's classrooms -- Changes in American society: their influences on today's schools -- Education in the United States: its historical roots -- Educational philosophy: the intellectual foundations of American education -- The organization of American schools -- Governance and finance: regulating and funding schools -- School law: ethical and legal influences on teaching -- The school curriculum -- Creating productive learning environments -- Instruction in American classrooms -- Technology in American schools.…”
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White collar Zen using Zen principles to overcome obstacles and achieve your career goals / by Heine, Steven, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Game plan -- Mountains are mountains: roots of everyday stress -- Introduction: applying Zen -- Zen and professional leadership -- The power of Zen -- Mountains are not mountains: transforming conflict into opportunity -- Everybody must get foxed -- The greater the doubt, the greater the enlightenment -- Seeing the forest, but not missing the trees -- Mountains are mountains, again: from structure to anti-structure -- Returning to the marketplace -- All's well that ends well -- Coming from nowhere to somewhere -- Glossary -- Appendix: Koan translation ("Te-shan carrying his bundle").…”
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The American Far West in the twentieth century by Pomeroy, Earl S. (Earl Spencer), 1915-2005

Table of Contents: “…The West in 1901 -- Agricultural frontiers : new farms and family farmers -- Agricultural frontiers : farming on new scales -- New forms of economic growth -- Economic growth from the 1940s -- The urban occupation of the West : rails, roads, and cities -- Rails, roads, and cities from the Second World War -- Social relations and social attitudes : cultural bases -- Social relations and social attitudes : putting down roots : agencies of acculturation -- Western politics -- Expanding electorates -- Frontiers of land and opportunity : the variously Far West.…”
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James Van Allen the first eight billion miles / by Foerstner, Abigail, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Frontier roots -- Heartland boyhood -- The making of a scientist -- Physicists to the war effort -- Enter Abigail Fithian Halsey -- The dawn of space exploration -- The mighty little aerobee -- It's a rocket! …”
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Saami linguistics

Table of Contents: “…Etymological nativization of loanwords: a case study of Saami and Finnish / Ante Aikio -- Grade alternation in Inari Saami and abstract declarative phonology / Patrik Bye -- Productive syncretism in Saami inflectional morphology / Gunnar Ólafur Hansson -- Roots and verbs in north Saami / Marit Julien -- The instability of systems with ternary length distinctions: the Skolt Saami evidence / Zita McRobbie-Utasi -- Events and case in Inari Saami / Diane Nelson -- Verbal agreement in Inari Saami / Ida Toivonen.…”
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Hidden histories Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean / by Raʻad, Basem L.

Table of Contents: “…"Canaan nails" : idealized perceptions and their uses ; Polytheistic origins of monotheism ; Sacred sites, pagan roots ; Ugaritic revelations : what an ancient city tells us ; Wheels of fortune : the alphabet -- Modern myths and (de)colonized history. …”
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North Korea the struggle against American power / by Beal, Tim

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Fulcrum of geography, anvil of history: DPRK in historical perspective -- The roots of modern Korea: from Tangun to liberation -- Years of struggle, years of hope: Korean War to first nuclear crisis -- Creation of the Agreed Framework and the flowering of dätente -- Crisis reignited: economic reform, regional accord, Washington discord -- Part II: The pillars of confrontation -- The human rights record: complexities, causes, solutions -- Drugs and generals -- The nuclear confrontation -- On the precipice: options, positions and dangers at the start of the second Bush administration.…”
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My century in history memoirs / by Clark, Thomas Dionysius, 1903-2005

Table of Contents: “…The long road home -- Old place, new place -- A world in change -- The road taken -- Out of the cotton patch -- Big river -- West to Kentucky -- The way to Durham -- Year of decision -- Depression years -- Putting down roots -- Building the special collections -- Years of passage -- Indiana University -- Breaking the racial barrier -- Teaching and lecturing abroad -- An ancient land in the grip of history -- The road to professionalism -- Speaking Kentucky (and a lot of other places) -- The book thieves -- Family -- A time of reckoning.…”
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Melancholia of freedom social life in an Indian township in South Africa / by Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Under the gaze: freedom and race after apartheid -- Ethnicity by fiat: the remaking of Indian life in South Africa -- Domesticity and cultural intimacy -- Charous and Ravans: a story of mutual nonrecognition -- Autonomy, freedom, and political speech -- Movement, sound, and body in the postapartheid city -- The unwieldy fetish: Desi fantasies, roots tourism, and diasporic desires -- Global Hindus and pure Muslims: universalist aspirations and territorialized lives -- The saved and the backsliders: the Charou soul and the instability of belief -- Postscript: Melancholia in the time of the "African personality".…”
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Participatory action research : theory and methods for engaged inquiry / by Chevalier, Jacques M., 1949-, Buckles, Daniel, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Ins and outs of participatory action research -- Pragmatic, psychosocial and critical PAR -- Planning systems that learn -- Participatory action monitoring and evaluation -- Measuring with measure -- Skills, process design and ethics -- Getting to the roots -- Participatory mapping and citizen science -- Factors at play -- Paradox -- Stakeholder basics -- Critical stakeholder thinking -- Social analysis CLIP -- Positions and values -- Thinking outside the box -- Reconciling differences -- Anticipating the future -- System dynamics -- Domain analysis -- Breaking the dependency on tobacco production.…”

Third-Generation Holocaust Representation Trauma, History, and Memory / by Aarons, Victoria, Berger, Alan L., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…On the periphery : the "tangled roots" of Holocaust remembrance for the third generation -- The intergenerational transmission of memory and trauma : from survivor writing to post-Holocaust representation -- Third-generation memoirs : metonymy and representation in Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost -- Trauma and tradition : changing classical paradigms in third-generation novelists -- Nicole Krauss : inheriting the burden of Holocaust trauma -- Refugee writers and Holocaust trauma -- "There were times when it was possible to weigh suffering" : Julie Orringer's The Invisible Bridge and the extended trauma of the Holocaust.…”
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Sacred Rivals : Catholic Missions and the Making of Islam in Nineteenth-Century France and Algeria / by Peterson, Joseph W.

Table of Contents: “…Sincerely religious : Louis Veuillot and Catholic representations of Islam and empire -- God and Caesar : missionaries and militaires in colonial Algeria -- White unto harvest : religion, race, and the Jesuit mission arabe at Constantine -- Crusade of charity : liberal Catholic roots of the civilizing mission -- Conspiracy to massacre : liberal Catholics and the invention of pan-Islam -- Worthy of his hire : Charles Lavigerie, Algerian Muslims, and missionary fundraising -- Compel them to come : Algerian students and colonial racism between France and Algeria.…”
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Third-Generation Holocaust Representation : Trauma, History, and Memory / by Aarons, Victoria, Berger, Alan L., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…On the periphery : the "tangled roots" of Holocaust remembrance for the third generation -- The intergenerational transmission of memory and trauma : from survivor writing to post-Holocaust representation -- Third-generation memoirs : metonymy and representation in Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost -- Trauma and tradition : changing classical paradigms in third-generation novelists -- Nicole Krauss : inheriting the burden of Holocaust trauma -- Refugee writers and Holocaust trauma -- "There were times when it was possible to weigh suffering" : Julie Orringer's The Invisible Bridge and the extended trauma of the Holocaust.…”
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Pain management in interventional radiology

Table of Contents: “…Davis, and James Choi -- Selective nerve root blocks / Brian Petersen, Kirkland W. Davis, and James Choi -- Discography / Charles E. …”
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Contentious cities : design and the gendered production of space /

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