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Teacher collaboration for professional learning : facilitating study, research, and inquiry communities / by Lassonde, Cynthia A.

Table of Contents: “…Improving teacher professional learning -- Initiating educational improvements -- Understanding the inquiry process -- Getting started -- Staying productive -- Ethical considerations: improving group dynamics -- Leadership strategies for collaborative support groups -- School-based and partnership communities -- Networking and online collaborations -- A districtwide model: the Fairfax County Public Schools teacher researcher network / contributed by Gail V. Ritchie -- Epilogue: supporting and sustaining professional collaboration.…”

African histories : new sources and new techniques for studying African pasts / by Brizuela-Garcia, Esperanza

Table of Contents: “…Archaeobotany and cultivation in Africa -- Early written evidence of state and society in classical northeastern Africa -- Linguistic evidence and the Bantu expansion -- Archaeological evidence for the development of African cities -- African memories and perspectives of the Atlantic slave trade -- Islamic sources and versions of Swahili origins -- Intellectual history and cultural nationalism in West Africa -- Planning, photography, and the struggle for power in colonial Africa -- Remembering decolonization through ethnography and popular painting in Central Africa -- Literature and decolonization in Africa -- Textbooks and tribunals in the aftermath of crises -- Anthropology and the gendering of the study of AIDS in Africa -- Epilogue: African histories and histories of Africa.…”

South Sudan the untold story : from independence to civil war / by Johnson, Hilde F

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / by Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Prologue -- A dream comes true -- A country without a state -- An incomplete divorce -- Jonglei : the UN - between a rock and a hard place -- The leadership -- The nightmare -- The heart of the matter : security -- Waging peace in South Sudan -- Epilogue -- Appendix I.…”

Quantifying the world UN ideas and statistics / by Ward, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- Ideas and statistics : an introduction -- The economic dimension -- The social dimension -- The environmental dimension -- Other statistical dimensions -- Epilogue: Success, missed opportunities, and the continuing agenda in statistics.…”
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Islam between divine message and history by Sharafī, ʻAbd al-Majīd

Table of Contents: “…The Mission in History -- The Prophet's caliphate -- Institutionalizing religion -- Theorizing for the institution -- Epilogue.…”
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Dreams of peace and freedom utopian moments in the twentieth century / by Winter, J. M.

Table of Contents: “…1900: The face of humanity and visions of peace -- 1919: Perpetual war/perpetual peace -- 1937: Illuminations -- 1948: Human rights -- 1968: Liberation -- 1992: Global citizenship -- Epilogue: An alternative history of the twentieth century.…”
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Nuns a history of convent life, 1450-1700 / by Evangelisti, Silvia

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- On nuns and nunneries -- Cloistered spaces-- Voices from the cloister -- Theatre and music-- The visual arts -- Expansion : nuns across the globe -- Open communities for women-- Epilogue.…”
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Bioinorganic vanadium chemistry by Rehder, Dieter

Table of Contents: “…Introduction and background -- Inorganic and coordination compounds of vanadium -- Physico-chemical methods for the characterisation of native and model vanadium compounds -- Naturally occurring vanadium compounds -- Influence of vanadium compounds on cellular functions -- Epilogue.…”
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Quantum mechanics & the big world order, broken symmetry and coherence in quantum many-body systems / by Wezel, Jasper van

Table of Contents: “…Quantum mechanics or the big world -- pt. 5. Epilogue.…”
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After anarchy legitimacy and power in the United Nations Security Council / by Hurd, Ian

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A theory of legitimacy -- Legitimacy, rationality, and power -- San Francisco, 1945 -- Blue helmets and white trucks -- Libya and the sanctions -- Legitimacy and sovereignty -- Epilogue.…”
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Fireflies, honey, and silk by Waldbauer, Gilbert

Table of Contents: “…Insects people like -- The silk we wear -- Dyeing the cloth -- Baubles, bracelets, and anklets -- Candles, shellac, and sealing wax -- Paper and ink -- Butterflies in your tummy -- Satisfying the sweet tooth -- Cures and nostrums -- Insect pets and performers -- Epilogue : the ecological context.…”
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How women got their curves and other just-so stories evolutionary enigmas / by Barash, David P.

Table of Contents: “…-- Invisible ovulation -- Breasts and other curves -- The enigmatic orgasm -- The menopause mystery -- Epilogue: The lure of the Limpopo.…”
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Recognizing Persius by Reckford, Kenneth J., 1933-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : in search of Persius -- Performing privately -- Seeking integrity -- Exploring freedom -- Life, death, and art -- Epilogue : from Persius to Juvenal.…”
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From villain to hero Odysseus in ancient thought / by Montiglio, Silvia, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…": Antisthenes' defense of an abused hero -- Plato's Odysseus: a soldier in the soul -- Yearning for excellence: Odysseus in cynic and stoic thought -- King, friend, and flatterer: Odysseus in epicureanism and beyond -- Between contemplation and action -- Epilogue: Odysseus' virtus and thirst for knowledge in the Renaissance.…”
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Washed in blood male sacrifice, trauma, and the cinema / by King, Claire Sisco

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Reel presence, sacrifice, and the cinema -- Unhinged heroes and alpha traumas -- Free falls in the American nineties -- Remakes, resurrections, and sacrificial returns -- Epilogue: big screen memories.…”
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Friendship as a way of life Foucault, AIDS, and the politics of shared estrangement / by Roach, Tom

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : between friends -- A letter and its implications -- An ethics of discomfort -- Ontology matters -- Labors of love : biopower, AIDS, and the buddy system -- Common sense and a politics of shared estrangement -- Epilogue : whatever friends.…”
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Burdens of proof cryptographic culture and evidence law in the age of electronic documents / by Blanchette, Jean-François

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Communication in the presence of adversaries -- On the brink of a revolution -- The equivalent of a written signature -- Written proof -- Paper and state -- The Cryptographic imagination -- Epilogue.…”
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Leadership responsibility ethical and organizational considerations / by Robinson, Simon, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…-- Moral leadership -- Virtuous leadership -- Taking responsibility -- Dirty hands -- Leadership and religion -- Fat cats and dirty rats: leadership in business -- Leadership and higher education -- Epilogue: are we still the good guys?.…”
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The great Manchurian plague of 1910-1911 the geopolitics of an epidemic disease / by Summers, William C.

Table of Contents: “…Plague comes to Manchuria -- The Manchurian question -- The plague -- The international plague conference and its aftermath -- The plague's origin : disease ecology -- Plague and politics -- Epilogue : a century later.…”
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Toni Morrison an ethical poetics / by Christiansë, Yvette

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- From witnessing to death dealing: on speaking of and for the dead -- Burnt offerings: law and sacrifice -- Time out of joint: the temporal logic of Morrison's modernist apocalyptics -- Beginning and ending, part one: old languages/new bodies -- Beginnings and endings, part two: the poetics of similitude and disavowal at utopia's gates -- Epilogue.…”
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