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Historicizing Roma in Central Europe : between critical whiteness and epistemic injustice / by Shmidt, Victoria R., Jaworsky, Bernadette N.

Table of Contents: “…Whiteness: a locus for doing race -- Obscure racism: from national indifference to whitening Roma -- The post-socialist shift in pathologizing: from disabled Roma to disabled socialism -- The limits and options of historical narratives concerning Roma in Central Europe -- The inception of whiteness: the Grellmannian intersections of European Roma -- Global racial order comes to Central Europe: the puzzle of "white gypsies" at the dawn of the twentieth century -- The institutionalization of a racialized approach to Roma in the 1920s-1940s: rooting the stigma of an insecure population -- In (re)search of inclusion: Roma under the pressure of de-historicizing between the 1950s and 1990s…”
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People's warrior John Moss and the fight for freedom of information and consumer rights / by Lemov, Michael R., 1935-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: the consumer decade -- Troubled roots : a little town in the valley -- Dangerous ground : the California Assembly -- I went to bed a loser : the road to Congress -- The people's right to know : a distant shore -- The Freedom of Information Act : perilous journey -- The Product Safety Act : consumer as guinea pig -- Reviving the Federal Trade Commission : the Magnuson-Moss Act -- Investor protection : breaking Wall Street's monopoly -- Cars, chemicals, and Arab oil : changing times -- Consumer protection in retreat: two crushing defeats -- Freedom of information today : the torture memos -- Epilogue : the legacy.…”
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College algebra : co-ordinate geometry, systems of equations, and radicals / by Ji, Xiang, Mu, Ge

Table of Contents: “…Radicals in algebraic expressions -- 3.1 Roots and radicals -- 3.2 Radical expressions -- 3.3 Rational and real exponents -- 3.4 Radical equations -- Index.…”
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Cannabis as medicine /

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Lean--let's get it right! : how to build a culture of continuous improvement / by Rizzardo, David

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Leadership can be learned : clarity, connection, and results / by Crosby, Gilmore

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Mo Yan in Context Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller /

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The master and the dean the literary criticism of Henry James and William Dean Howells / by Davidson, Rob, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…A horror of dogma : James, Howells, and the roots of American realism -- Young Americans : criticism and correspondence I -- James's "The art of fiction" in critical context -- Defining the critic in the "Editor's study" and "The science of criticism" -- "The honest daylight about us" : social, ethical, and moral concerns in the criticism of Howells and James, 1886-1895 -- "American chances and opportunities" : criticism and correspondence II -- The man of letters as a man of business : defining the writer, the novel, and the critic in the twentieth century -- James's prefaces to the New York edition -- Howells's literary criticism in the "Editor's easy chair" and Heroines of fiction -- On native grounds : criticism and correspondence III.…”
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To shake their guns in the tyrant's face libertarian political violence and the origins of the militia movement / by Churchill, Robert H.

Table of Contents: “…The precedent of 1774: the role of insurgent violence in the political theory of the founding -- The revolution as living memory: Fries' Rebellion and The Alien and Sedition Act crisis of 1798-1800 -- The libertarian memory of the revolution in the Antebellum Era -- The roots of modern patriotism: conscription, resistance, and the Sons of Liberty conspiracy of 1864 -- Cleansing the memory of the revolution: Americanism, the black legion, and the first Brown Scare -- The making of the second Brown Scare: liberal pluralism and the evolution of the white supremacist right -- The origins of the militia movement: violence and memory on the suburban-rural frontier -- An exploration of militia ideology: the Whig diagnosis of post-Cold War America -- Epilogue: the defense of liberty in the age of terror.…”
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Principles and practice of toxicology in public health / by Richards, Ira S. (Ira Steven), 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Toxicology and its roots as a science -- Chemical properties and information resources on hazardous chemicals -- Toxicity and the factors that modify toxic responses -- Biological poisons : plant and animal toxins -- Environmental pollutants and their fate -- Dose and response -- Absorption of toxicants and models of disposition -- Distribution, storage, and elimination of toxicants -- Biotransformation -- Chemical-induced mutagenesis -- Chemicals and cancer -- Role of the immune system -- Skin -- The liver and kidneys -- The cardiovascular system -- The respiratory system -- The nervous system -- The endocrine system -- The practice of toxicology -- Regulatory considerations -- Toxicity testing -- Uses and limitations of product labeling for public safety -- Toxicology principles in the management of acute poisonings -- Risk assessment and the perception of risk -- Making informed decisions.…”

Principles and practice of toxicology in public health / by Richards, Ira S. (Ira Steven), 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Toxicology and its roots as a science -- Chemical properties and information resources on hazardous chemicals -- Toxicity and the factors that modify toxic responses -- Biological poisons : plant and animal toxins -- Environmental pollutants and their fate -- Dose and response -- Absorption of toxicants and models of disposition -- Distribution, storage, and elimination of toxicants -- Biotransformation -- Chemical-induced mutagenesis -- Chemicals and cancer -- Role of the immune system -- Skin -- The liver and kidneys -- The cardiovascular system -- The respiratory system -- The nervous system -- The endocrine system -- The practice of toxicology -- Regulatory considerations -- Toxicity testing -- Uses and limitations of product labeling for public safety -- Toxicology principles in the management of acute poisonings -- Risk assessment and the perception of risk -- Making informed decisions.…”

Jacksonian antislavery and the politics of free soil, 1824-1854 by Earle, Jonathan Halperin

Table of Contents: “…Jacksonian antislavery and the roots of free soil -- Dissident Democrats in the 1830s : William Leggett, George Henry Evans, and Thomas Morris -- Set down your feet, Democrats : politics and free soil in New York -- Making hay from Democratic clover : John P. …”
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Self-determination of peoples and plural-ethnic states in contemporary international law failed states, nation-building and the alternative, federal option / by McWhinney, Edward

Table of Contents: “…The national and international faces of federalism -- Self-determination of peoples as United Nations principle : historical roots and contemporary international law/municipal (constitutional) law antinomies -- Emergence of states in classical international law -- The United Nations Charter and admission of states, and also their exclusion -- The United Nations Charter principle of territorial integrity of states : the Uti Possidetis Doctrine as element in state succession -- Federalism and constitutional pluralism as self-determination options for plural-ethnic States : the different faces of federalism in comparative constitutional law --Law and politics and the dialectical unfolding of the self-determination principle -- Excursus - failed states : the trial-and-error of contemporary exercises in constitution-making and nation-building.…”
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Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the evolution of the casebook novel by Emrys, A. B., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Framed: a brief history of documents as narrative frames -- How he wrote his books: the apprentice years of framing testimony -- The woman in white: Collins launches the casebook novel -- Counterpoint witnessing in No name and Armadale -- The moonstone: Collins eclipses his first casebook -- Framed testimony in Collins's later novels -- The casebook after Collins -- Before Laura: Vera Caspary's early career and novels -- Laura: sensation roots of a noir novel -- Laura and Bedelia: "new woman" noir -- After Laura: Caspary's other casebook novels -- Caspary continues multiple focus -- Reframed: multiple focus in popular and literary texts -- Conclusion.…”
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Libertinage in Russian culture and literature a bio-history of sexualities at the threshold of modernity / by Lalo, Alexei

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: approaching Russian silences and burlesques -- Carnality and eroticism in the history of Russian literature: toward a genealogy of a discourse of silence -- Golden silences in the golden age: Russian anxieties of the body and sexuality from Gogol to Chekhov -- Silence is golden, speech is silver: corporeality, sensuality, and "pornography" in Russian literature of the silver age -- Exploring the impetus of the silver age: the evolution of discourses of carnality and eroticism in pre-revolutionary Russian literature and in emigre writing -- Nabokov's Lolita and its precursors: silver age roots and sexuality in the novel -- Joseph Brodsky's libertinage: sexual and erotic themes in his poetry -- Conclusion: Russia's "threshold of modernity" and literary representations of sexuality in the era of bio-power.…”
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Monumental dreams : the life and sculpture of Ann Norton / by Seebohm, Caroline

Table of Contents: “…Southern roots: Selma, Alabama, 1905-1930 -- The origins of a great Alabama family -- Childhood in Selma -- Early success -- The art world in turmoil: New York, 1930-1942 -- A tumultuous education -- The emergence of an artist -- A rare friendship -- Career challenges -- A turning point -- From Annie Vaughan Weaver to Ann Norton: Florida, 1943-1953 -- The savior from Chicago -- A reticent romance -- Marriage and a new life -- A growing confidence -- The journey to the source: Florida, 1954-1982 -- New freedom, new work -- Figures in the landscape -- East and west, new relationships -- Dreams of Selma -- Time runs out -- The garden as legacy.…”
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Inside the Antisemitic Mind : The Language of Jew-Hatred in Contemporary Germany / by Schwarz-Friesel, Monika, Reinharz, Jehuda

Table of Contents: “…1 Introduction The Need for This Book -- 2 Hostility toward Jews and Language Verbal Imposition of Power and Violence -- 3 Hostile Stereotypes of Jews and Their Historical Roots -- 4 Present-Day Verbalization of Stereotypes -- 5 Echo of the Past -- 6 Anti-Israelism as a Modern Variant of Verbal Antisemitism The Modern Conceptualization of the Collective Jew -- 7 A Comparison with Other Countries in Europe Results of a Contrastive Analysis -- 8 The Emotional Basis of Modern Hostility toward Jews -- 9 Acts of Verbal Violence -- 10 Textual Strategies and Patterns of Argumentation -- Appendix The Basic Corpus -- Letters to the Central Council of Jews in Germany and the Israeli Embassy in Berlin, 2002 -- 2012.…”
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Ecocide and population by Adelstein, Michael E.

Table of Contents: “…Bowen.--The historical roots of our ecologic crisis, by L. White, Jr.--Control of population, by R. …”

Approaching the apocalypse a short history of Christian millenarianism / by Court, John M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The roots of the idea -- The biblical basis -- The return of Christ -- Millenarians among the church fathers -- Apocalypse then : the year 1000 -- Joachim of Fiore (c. 1135-1202 CE) -- The Black Death and other plagues -- Apocalypse and civil war (1500 CE and after) -- Edward Irving (1792-1834 CE) and the Catholic Apostolic movement -- Across the pond -- Joanna Southcott (1750-1814 CE) and her followers -- J.J. …”
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