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The Mapuche in modern Chile a cultural history / by Crow, Joanna

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Mythical objects and political subjects -- Histories of conquest: the occupation of Araucanía and its consequences, 1862-1910 -- Renewed struggles for survival: national festivities and Mapuche political activism, 1910-1938 -- Caudillos, poets, and sopranos: articulating Mapuche identities on the national and international stage, 1938-1964 -- Revolutionary transformations and new representational challenges, 1964-1973 -- The Pinochet dictatorship: conflicting histories and memories, 1973-1990 -- Claiming historical truth in the era of neoliberal multiculturalism, 1990-2010 -- Conclusion: a defiant history of difference.…”
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Money, power & elections : how campaign finance reform subverts American democracy / by Smith, Rodney A., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…-- Political campaigns and money -- The perceived corruption of money versus the real corruption of power -- We the sovereigns, not we the subjects -- The crux of the problem -- Supreme Court mandates run amok -- Empirical evidence -- Freedom of the press -- Political fund-raising : the current reality -- The twenty-eighth amendment.…”
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Colonial citizenship and everyday transnationalism : an immigrant's story / by Innes, Alexandria J.

Table of Contents: “…The Global and Local Politics of Everyday Life in 1950s Famagusta Excerpt 2: Improvise to survive 2. Colonial Subjectivity, Colonial Immigration, and National Identity Excerpt 3: Going down the pits 3. …”
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European elites and ideas of empire, 1917-1957 / by Gusejnova, Dina

Table of Contents: “…Celebrity of Decline -- 1. Famous deaths : subjects of imperial decline -- 2. Shared horizons : the sentimental elite in the Great War -- Part II. …”
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Proteomics in kidney disease clinical considerations /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Proteomics for clinical use -- Available and applied single risk marker strategies in nephrology based on hypothesis driven biomarker search -- Open or unbiased multimarker approaches including plasma and urine proteomics -- Examples from different renal diseases -- Data from cross sectional and longitudinal studies -- Proteomics may provide insight into disease pathology -- Proteomics may provide risk stratification for clinical trials -- Example: intervention trial for type 2 diabetic subjects with high risk urinary proteomic pattern.…”
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Hair, headwear, and Orthodox Jewish women : Kallah's choice / by Milligan, Amy K., 1982-

Table of Contents: “…A hairy subject: approaches to hair and hair covering -- Covering Jewish women: the congregational context -- Splitting hairs: the struggle for community definition in a small town Orthodox synagogue -- Wearing many hats: the hair covering practices of the Orthodox Jewish women at Degel Israel Synagogue -- Letting their hair down: Orthodox women at Degel Israel Synagogue who choose not to cover their hair -- Flipping their wigs for Judaism: non-Orthodox women who choose to cover their heads -- The long and short of it: a psychoreligious interpretation of hair covering.…”
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A Player and a Gentleman : The Diary of Harry Watkins, Nineteenth-Century U.S. American Actor by Hughes, Amy E.

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Introduction; Editorial Policies; Harry Watkins (1825-1894): A Chronology; One. 1845-46; Two. 1846-47; Three. 1847-48; Four. 1848-49; Five. 1849-50; Six. 1850-51; Seven. 1851-52; Eight. 1852-53; Nine. 1853-54; Ten. 1854-55; Eleven. 1855-56; Twelve. 1856-57; Thirteen. 1857-58; Fourteen. 1858-60; Index of People; Index of Play Titles; Index of Subjects.…”
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The theory that would not die how Bayes' rule cracked the enigma code, hunted down Russian submarines, and emerged triumphant from two centuries of controversy / by McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch

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Gender meets genre in postwar cinemas

Table of Contents: “…/ Adam Segal -- Up close and personal: faces and names in Casualties of war / Deborah Thomas -- Gender hyperbole and the uncanny in the horror film: The shining / Katie Model -- Genre and gender transnational. Emotion, subjectivity, and the limits of desire: melodrama and modernity in Bombay cinema, 1940s-50s / Ira Bhaskar -- Woman, generic aesthetics, and the vernacular: Huangmei opera films from China to Hong Kong / Xiangyang Chen -- Homoeroticism contained: gender and sexual translation in John Woo's Migration to Hollywood / Vicente Rodriguez Ortega -- Generic "trans-ings": between genres, genders, and sexualities. …”
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Secrecy and insurgency : socialities and knowledge practices in Guatemala / by Posocco, Silvia

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Cyborg Saints Religion and Posthumanism in Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction. by Smith, Carissa Turner

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Community as the material basis of citizenship : the unfinished story of American democracy /

Table of Contents: “…: on comitatus, community, and citizenship / Louis Mendoza -- Setting the stage : a top-down perspective on factors that divide democratic citizenship / Carol Yoder and Christina Verzjil -- Dishonored citizenry : black women, civic virtue, and electoral powers / Joy James -- Transborder political subjectivity and enacted citizenship : toward the end of the neoliberal "state of exception"? …”
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Explorations in social theory from metatheorizing to rationalization / by Ritzer, George

Table of Contents: “…Metatheorizing in sociology -- The deliniation of an underlying architectonic -- Sociology: a multiple paradigm science -- Toward an integrated sociological paradigm: image of the subject matter -- Potential exemplars for an integrated sociological paradigm -- Methodological relationism: lessons for and from social psychology -- From exclusion to inclusion to chaos (?) …”
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Race & resistance literature & politics in Asian America / by Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: ONE On the Origins of Asian American Literature: The Eaton Sisters and the Hybrid Body 33 -- TWO Wounded Bodies and the Cold War: Freedom, Materialism, and Revolution in Asian American Literature, 1946-1957 61 -- THREE The Remasculinization of Chinese America: Race, Violence, and the Novel 87 -- FOUR Representing Reconciliation: Le Ly Hayslip and the Emblematic Victim 107 -- FIVE Queer Bodies and Subaltern Spectators: Guerrilla Theater, Hollywood Melodrama, and the Filipino (American) Novel 125 -- Conclusion: Model Minorities and Bad Subjects 143.…”
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Planning for educational change putting people and their contexts first / by Wedell, Martin

Table of Contents: “…-- Initiating educational change -- The implementation stage -- Why educational changes fail -- Case studies -- A sudden need for English teachers -- A change in teaching approach -- Introducing a new subject in primary school -- Planning to implement educational change : beginning at the beginning -- Introducing ICT to support language teaching in one institution -- Introducing a new national curriculum -- Planning the development of a new initial teacher education curriculum -- Setting the scene for successful change : beginning at the beginning.…”
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After we die the life and times of the human cadaver / by Cantor, Norman L.

Table of Contents: “…-- Decomposition of the body and efforts to slow its disintegration -- Final disposal of human remains -- Eternal preservation of the deceased : literally and figuratively -- The cadaver as supplier of used body parts -- The cadaver as teacher, research subject, or forensic witness -- The cadaver as parent -- Body snatching, then and now -- Desecration of human remains -- Public display and the dignity of human remains -- Corpses are a lot like you and me, only different.…”
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Integral dreaming a holistic approach to dreams / by Bogzaran, Fariba, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…A larger calling: the field integral studies -- An integral approach to dreams -- The creative brain and the science of sleep and dreams -- Embodied and purposeful dreaming -- The subjective experience of dreams -- Types of dreams: towards an ecology of dreaming -- Dreams and self-inquiry -- Dreams and intersubjectivity -- Culture, ecology and identity -- Tuning to larger patterns: dreams, society and the environment -- Toward an integral dream practice -- The hermeneutic of dream interpretation -- Epistemic uncertainty: non-interpretive approaches to dreams -- Philosophy of practice -- Hermeneutic of creation: the five movements of integral dream practice -- Dreams in creation: the ursa major dream.…”
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Africa and France postcolonial cultures, migration, and racism / by Thomas, Dominic Richard David

Table of Contents: “…Museology and globalization: the Quai Branly Museum -- Object/subject migration: The National Centre for the History of Immigration -- Sarkozy's Law: national identity and the institutionalization of xenophobia -- Africa, France, and Eurafrica in the twenty-first century -- From mirage to image: contest(ed)ing space in diasporic films (1955-2011) -- The "Marie Ndiaye Affair," or the coming of a postcolonial évoluée -- The Euro-mediterranean: literature and migration -- Into the "jungle": migration and grammar in the new Europe -- Documenting the periphery: the French banlieues in words and film -- Decolonizing France: national literatures, world literature, and world identities.…”
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Between distant modernities : performing exceptionality in Francoist Spain and the Jim Crow South / by Kennedy, Brittany Powell

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: constructing Spanish and Southern exceptionality -- Breathing modern life into the Quijote: Spanish and Southern regeneration in the new century -- The religion of blood and myth: William Faulkner's and Camilo Jose Cela's modern subjects -- Fleeing exceptionality in A little red MG: driving through national melancholia -- Contesting narratives of failed performance: racial identity and national exceptionality -- Being "bad" and objectified womanhood: transgressive femininity in Spain and the South -- Exceptionality as leisure: tourism and urban planning in the New South and democratic Spain -- Conclusion: from tourism to time travel.…”
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Conflict of laws / by Hay, Peter, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the subject defined and overview -- The development and current state of approaches to choice of law -- Determining the applicable law -- Domicile -- Basic considerations in personal jurisdiction -- General jurisdiction -- Specific jurisdiction in the contract cases -- Specific jurisdiction in statutory cases -- Special jurisdictional problems -- Limitations on jurisdiction -- Procedure -- Forming domestic relationships -- Marital property -- Dissolution of domestic relationships and its consequences -- Legitimation and adoption -- Torts -- Contracts -- Property -- Succession -- Trusts and powers of appointment -- Probate and administration of estates -- Corporations, winding-up, and bankruptcy -- Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and decrees.…”