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Mixtec Evangelicals Globalization, Migration, and Religious Change in a Oaxacan Indigenous Group / by O'Connor, Mary I.

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Derrida and Queer Theory /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Impossible uncanniness: deconstruction and queer theory / Nicolas Royle -- No kingdom of the queer / Calvin Thomas -- Derrida and the question of "woman" / Sarah Dillon -- Les chats de Derrida / Carla Freccero. -- Derrida's queer root(s) / Jarrod Hayes -- Deco-pervo-struction / Eamonn Dunne -- A man for all seasons: Derrida-cum-"queer theory," or The limits of "performativity" / Alexander Garcia Duttmann -- "Practical deconstruction": a note on some notes by Judith Butler / Martin McQuillan -- Performing friendship / Linnell Secomb -- Postface: Just queer / Geoffrey B ennington -- Appendix: Supreme Court (1988) . …”
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Communication between cultures / by Samovar, Larry A.

Table of Contents: “…The deep structure of culture: Roots of reality -- 3. Worldview: Cultural explanations of life and death. -- 4. …”

Communication between cultures / by Samovar, Larry A.

Table of Contents: “…The deep structure of culture: Roots of reality -- 3. Worldview: Cultural explanations of life and death. -- 4. …”

Communication between cultures / by Samovar, Larry A.

Table of Contents: “…The deep structure of culture: Roots of reality -- 3. Worldview: Cultural explanations of life and death. -- 4. …”

The vulnerability of cities natural disasters and social resilience / by Pelling, Mark, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Cities and Environmental Risk -- 1. Tracing the Roots of Urban Risk and Vulnerability -- 2. Cities as Sites for Disaster -- 3. …”
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Engaging deconstructive theology by Michener, Ronald T.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction and historical context -- Historical context : from modernism to postmodernism -- Deconstruction and its roots in Europe -- Jean-François Lyotard : the dissolution of the metanarrative -- The deconstructionism of Jacques Derrida -- Michel Foucault : the end of man? …”
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No minor accomplishment the revival of New Jersey professional baseball / by Golon, Bob

Table of Contents: “…Baseball's early roots in New Jersey -- The decline and reinvention of the minor leagues, post-1950 -- Baseball returns to New Jersey in 1994 -- The Trenton Thunder : the capital of New Jersey baseball -- A league of his own : Frank Boulton and the Atlantic League -- The Somerset Patriots : location, location, location! …”
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Migration and Christian identity in Congo (DRC) by Wild-Wood, Emma

Table of Contents: “…Of roots and routes : an introduction -- "Their own church" : l'Eglise Anglicane du Congo, 1896-1960 -- Being at home in a new place : EAC growth through rural-urban migration -- Returning home to a strange land : EAC growth through trans-border migration -- Contesting unity and order : inter-church conflict -- Homeless and free for the gospel : revivalists in the EAC -- Weak vessels or church foundations? …”
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Declarations of dependence the long reconstruction of popular politics in the South, 1861-1908 / by Downs, Gregory P.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Friends unseen : the ballad of political dependency -- Hungry for protection : the Confederate roots of dependence -- Slaves and the great deliverer : freedom and friendship behind Union lines -- Vulnerable at the circumference : demobilization and the limitations of the Freedmen's Bureau -- The great day of acounter : democracy and the problem of power in Republican Reconstruction -- The persistence of prayer : dependency after redemption -- Crazes, fetishes, and enthusiasms : the silver mania and the making of a new politics -- A compressive age : White supremacy and the growth of the modern state -- Coda: Desperate times call for distant friends : Franklin Roosevelt as the last good king?.…”
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Old stories retold narrative and vanishing pasts in modern China / by Stuckey, G. Andrew, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: history, memory, and phantasmal pasts -- Part I parody: traditional narrative revamped -- Tradition redux: parody and pathology -- Return to the primitive: de-civilized origins in Han Shaogong's fiction -- Interlude: the maoist (anti)tradition and the nationalist (neo)tradition -- Part II citation: strategies of intertextual connection -- The lyrical and the local: Shen Congwen, roots, and temporality in the lyrical tradition -- Tradition in exile: allusion and quotation in Bai Xianyong's Taipei people -- Back to the future: temporality and cliché in Wang Anyi's Song of everlasting sorrow -- Globalized traditions: Zhu Tianxin's The ancient capital.…”
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The mechanical patient : finding a more human model of health / by Glouberman, Sholom

Table of Contents: “…chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Aristotle and a Good Life -- chapter 3 Galen’s Four Humors: The First Medical Model -- chapter 4 The Renaissance and Roots of the Mechanical Patient -- chapter 5 Robert Boyle: The First Mechanical Patient -- chapter 6 The Story of Scurvy and the First Failed Controlled Trial -- chapter 7 Surgery and the Mechanical Patient -- chapter 8 Medicine and the Chemical Patient -- chapter 9 Genetics and the Return of Individualized Medicine -- chapter 10 The Great Mortality Shift -- chapter 11 Humanizing Health: The Social/Relational Person.…”
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Big doctoring in America profiles in primary care / by Mullan, Fitzhugh

Table of Contents: “…Primary care roots -- The new GPs, the family physician comes of age -- Eugene McGregor, M.D., a legacy of general practice -- Connie Adler, M.D., living rural medicine -- Neil Calman, M.D., urban warrior -- Roots rediscovered, the internist and the pediatrician as generalists -- Beach Conger, M.D., caretaker and contrartian -- Linda Headrick, M.D., seeking a common language in primary care -- Selma Deitch, M.D., M.P.H., children first -- The new clinicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants -- Therese Hidalgo, R.N., F.N.P., proud to be a nurse -- Carl Toney, P.A., building a new profession -- Holly Gerlaugh, F.N.P.…”
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Entrepreneurship, polycentrism, and elites : local industrial development in modern Italy / by Carboni, Carlo, 1952-, Orazi, Francesco

Table of Contents: “…Ruptured Events and Social Practices in Italian Local Development -- 2.1 Local Development and the Social Rooting of the Economy -- 2.2 Modernization and Local Development: A Difficult Relationship…”
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Maroon and white Mississippi State University, 1878-2003 / by Ballard, Michael B.

Table of Contents: “…Roots and birth -- The formative years under General Lee, 1880-1899 -- Hardy expansion, 1900-1912 -- Hightower, Smith, and World War, 1912-1920 -- Hull, Walker, and Critz : the 1920s and the dark years, 1920-1934 -- Humphrey and Mitchell : war and peace, 1934-1953 -- Hilbun and Colvard : a university and racial challenges, 1953-1966 -- Giles : low-key, high results, 1966-1976 -- McComas : seeking a balance, 1976-1985 -- Zacharias : the starship years, 1985-1997 -- Portera and Lee : big business and steady hands, 1998-2003.…”
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Right to ride streetcar boycotts and African American citizenship in the era of Plessy v. Ferguson / by Kelley, Blair Murphy, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- New York : the Antebellum roots of segregation and dissent -- The color line and the ladies' car : segregation on southern rails before Plessy -- Our people, our problem? …”
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Fast facts for the faith community nurse implementing FCN/parish nursing in a nutshell / by Hickman, Janet Susan

Table of Contents: “…The roots of faith community nursing -- Looking at holistic health -- Spiritual caring -- Faith community nursing models of delivery introduction -- Exploring faith community nursing roles -- Practicing faith community nursing within legal parameters -- The ethics of practicing faith community nursing -- Initiating a faith community nursing program -- Assessing the faith community -- Education for health -- Teaching in faith community nursing practice -- Program planning -- Meeting special needs in the faith community -- Loss and grief -- Connecting with community resources -- Working with vulnerable populations -- Special topics in faith community nursing.…”
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What the Bible really tells us the essential guide to biblical literacy / by Wray, T. J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: why you need to know -- Take the test: the sixty-second super easy Bible quiz -- A tree with deep roots: a brief history of biblical illiteracy -- Bible basics: it's not rocket science! …”
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Philosophy, crime, and criminology

Table of Contents: “…Arrigo -- Normalized masculinity : the ontology of violence rooted in everyday life / Jessie Klein and Lynn S. …”
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The next generation of solution focused practice : stretching the world for new opportunities and progress / by McKergow, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Roots of solution focused brief therapy : the interactional view -- Steve de Shazer, Insoo Kim Berg and solution focused brief therapy -- The evolution of SFBT : spreading the word and defining the practice -- Evolving the next generation of SFBT -- 'Stretching the world' of the client -- The role of the practitioner -- Introducing the solution focused art gallery -- The ticket office : permission to start/enter -- The future gallery : miracles, parallel worlds and more -- The past gallery : instances connected to the better future -- The gift shop : what to take away? …”
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