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Confronting capitalism : real solutions for a troubled economic system / by Kotler, Philip

Table of Contents: “…Preface: creating high performance capitalism -- The fourteen shortcomings of capitalism -- The persistent problem of poverty -- Growing income inequality -- Worker well-being -- Job creation in the face of growing automation -- The need for companies to cover their social costs -- The exploitation of the environment -- Business cycles and economic instability -- The focus on narrow self-interest -- Dealing with the debt burden and financial regulation -- How politics subverts economics -- Capitalism's short-term orientation -- Questionable marketing outputs -- Setting the right gdp growth rate -- Creating happiness as well as goods -- Epilogue -- Index.…”
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Conversations with Bourdieu : the Johannesburg moment / by Burawoy, Michael, Von Holdt, K. (Karl)

Table of Contents: “…Burawoy meets Bordieu ; The margin of freedom -- Epilogue : Travelling theory.…”
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Trading secrets : spies and intelligence in an age of terror / by Huband, Mark

Table of Contents: “…"Hail the Chief" -- 12. Shadow wars -- Epilogue.…”
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Sidney J. Furie : life and films / by Kremer, Daniel, 1984-

Table of Contents: “…-- Sid & Carole & Clark & Sheila: the romantic fantasies -- Cast iron jacket -- Cool sounds from hell: The entity -- Matinee buster -- Housemaster -- Epilogue: still working the angles.…”
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The boardinghouse in nineteenth-century America / by Gamber, Wendy, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…-- Charity begins at home -- Epilogue : "Decay of the boarding-house".…”
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Transcolonial Maghreb : imagining Palestine in the era of decolonization / by Harrison, Olivia C., 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Palestine as metaphor -- Souffles-Anfas : Palestine and the decolonization of culture -- Transcolonial hospitality : Kateb Yacine's experiments in popular theater -- The transcolonial exotic : allegories of Palestine in Ahlam Mosteghanemi's Algerian trilogy -- Portrait of an Arab Jew : Albert Memmi and the politics of indigeneity -- Abrahamic tongues : Abdelkebir Khatibi, Jacques Hassoun, Jacques Derrida -- Edmond Amran el Maleh and the cause of the other -- Epilogue : Palestine and the Syrian intifada.…”
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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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Donut Dolly an American Red Cross girl's war in Vietnam / by Kotcher, Joann Puffer, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…The early years -- Arrival and An Khe -- A blacked-out runway -- A disguise to fool a sniper -- Hot landing zone -- Dong Ba Thin -- Poison booth at the carnival -- Di An -- Bring a case of beer -- A veteran under the desk -- Bien Hoa and the voyage home -- Rabies -- Ambush in the delta -- The cigarette in the rain -- The long, confusing trip home -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: let us remember -- Appendix 2: some questions answered -- Appendix 3: whatever happened to?.…”
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Women in the United States armed forces : a guide to the issues / by Iskra, Darlene M.

Table of Contents: “…Historical overview through 1990 -- Rescinding the combat exclusion laws -- Citizenship rights, responsibilities, and women in ground combat -- Women are heroes, too -- Gender, sexuality, and harassment -- Balancing life in the military -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Important policy decisions, court cases, and legislation for military women -- Appendix 2. …”
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The evangelical response to Bangkok / by Winter, Ralph D.

Table of Contents: “…Thinking aloud about Bangkok.--Glasser, A. F. Epilogue.…”

Desiring Rome : Male Subjectivity and Reading Ovid's Fasti / by King, Richard Jackson, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Desire and Ovid's Fasti -- Elite males, the Roman calendar and desire of mastery -- Ovid, Germanicus and homosocial desire -- Fasti, fantasy and Janus: an anatomy of libidinal exchange -- Monthly prefaces and the symbolic screen -- Under the Imperial name: Augustus and Ovid's "January" (Fasti, book one) -- Patrimony and transvestism in "February" (Fasti, book two) -- Epilogue: Ovid and broken form: three views.…”
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Writing the New World : The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire / by Caraccioli, Mauro Jose

Table of Contents: “…Opening: Of Nature and Other Demons -- Narratives of Conquest and the Conquest of Narrative -- Oviedo, Las Casas, and the Difference That Made Nature -- The Anthropolitics of Bernardino de Sahagún -- The Imperial Renaissance of Francisco Hernández -- Jose de Acosta and the Ends of Empire -- Epilogue: Towards a Natural History of Colonial Dominaton…”
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Bach's World / by Chiapusso, Jan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : A world without change : Luther to Bach -- Nuture of the spiritual man -- Early years (1684-1703) -- Theology in the classroom -- A Lutheran sense of history -- Music in the schools -- The education of an organist -- Growth of a master of music -- Beginning a music career (1703-1706) -- Bach and Buxtehude -- Ornamentation -- The organ -- Bach in Mühlhausen : encounter with pietism -- The Weimar years (1708-1717) -- Music speculation : Kircher and Werckmeister -- Bach in Köthen (1717-1723) -- Wordly music of the spirit -- Compositions for the keyboard -- Call to Leipzig -- Bach's liturgical art work -- Fulfillment of Lutheran reform -- The chorale -- The contata -- The passions and oratorios -- The culmination of a dying age -- Signs of change -- Enlightenment darkens Bach's horizon -- Wolffian philosophy -- Conflict with an "enlightened" rector -- Musical discipline : And act of worship -- Epilogue.…”
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The Power of Practice : How Music and Yoga Transformed the Life and Work of Yehudi Menuhin by Wendland, Kristin

Table of Contents: “…Iyengar -- Chapter 2: Early Influences and Career: Menuhin's Path to Embracing Yoga -- Chapter 3: Yoga Path of Action: Menuhin's Musical Performances and Yoga Advocacy -- Chapter 4: Yoga Path of Knowledge: Menuhin's Teachings and Writings -- Chapter 5: Yoga Path of Devotion: Menuhin's Philosophical and Spiritual Beliefs -- Epilogue: Menuhin's Legacy…”
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Philosopher & founder : rediscovery of the human soul. by Hubbard, L. Ron (La Fayette Ron), 1911-1986

Table of Contents: “…Ron Hubbard -- My philosophy -- Epilogue.…”
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Ryōgen and Mount Hiei Japanese Tendai in the tenth century / by Groner, Paul, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Ryōgen's place in the history of the Tendai School -- The early history of factionalism within the Tendai School: from Saichō through the mid-tenth century -- Ryōgen's early years -- Ryōgen's rise to prominence -- Ryōgen and the Fujiwaras: patronage and esoteric Buddhism ritual -- The Ōwa debates -- Ryōgen's appointment's as head of the Tendai School and to the office of monastic affairs -- The significance of Ryōgen's revival of the examination system -- Rebuilding the Tendai establishment on Mount Hiei -- Ryōgen as Zasu: financing the spread of Tendai influence -- Factionalism and Ryōgen's efforts to control the order -- Ryōgen and the role of nuns in ninth- and tenth-century Japan -- Epilogue: Ryōgen's posthumous career.…”
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Inventing global ecology tracking the biodiversity ideal in India, 1947-1997 / by Lewis, Michael L., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…All nature great and small : designing Indian nature preserves -- Epilogue : conservation ecology crossing borders.…”
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Evangelical Christians in the Muslim sahel by Cooper, Barbara MacGowan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: fundamental differences -- Anatomy of a riot -- Love and violence -- From "Satan's masterpiece" to "the social problem of Islam" -- A Hausa spiritual vernacular -- African agency and the growth of the church in the Maradi Region, 1927-1960 -- Disciplining the Christian : defining elderhood, Christian marriage, and "God's work," 1933-1955 -- "An extremely dangerous suspect" : from Vichy-era travails to postwar triumph -- Impasses in vernacular education, 1945-1995 -- Handmaid to the gospel : SIM's medical work in Niger, 1944-1975 -- The tree of life : regenerating and gendering the garden after the fall, 1975-2000 -- Ca̧ bouge : Hausa Christian practice in a Muslim milieu -- Epilogue: SIM's successors and the Pentecostal explosion.…”
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Fit to be citizens? public health and race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 / by Molina, Natalia

Table of Contents: “…Interlopers in the land of sunshine : Chinese disease carriers, launderers, and vegetable peddlers -- Caught between discourses of disease, health, and nation : public health attitudes toward Japanese and Mexican laborers in progressive-era Los Angeles -- Institutionalizing public health in ethnic Los Angeles in the 1920s -- "We can no longer ignore the problem of the Mexican" : depression-era public health policies in Los Angeles -- The fight for "health, morality, and decent living standards" : Mexican Americans and the struggle for public housing in 1930s Los Angeles -- Epilogue : genealogies of racial discourses and practices.…”
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Be in charge a leadership manual : how to stay on top / by Margulis, Alexander R.

Table of Contents: “…-- THE VARIOUS TYPES OF CHIEFS -- GENDER DIFFERENCES: Equal, but -- STARTING: The Different Approaches and the Entrance Speech -- THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ACADEMIC -- AND BUSINESS CHIEFS -- HOW TO DRESS WHEN YOU START -- HOW TO DRESS ONCE YOU ARE ESTABLISHED -- HOW TO USE YOUR OFFICE AS A THEATER OF OPERATIONS -- HOW TO BUDGET YOUR TIME -- GAINING RESPECT -- GAINING LOYALTY -- HOW TO TREAT CLOSE ASSOCIATES -- HOW TO TREAT EQUALS -- HOW TO TREAT SUBORDINATES -- TREATING ADVERSITY -- HOW TO RECRUIT AND PROMOTE TALENT -- HOW TO LET YOUR ASSOCIATES GO -- ENTERTAINING -- HAVING A NEW CHIEF -- RECRUITING -- PROMOTION TO THE NEXT STEP OF CHIEF -- SURVIVING AWAY FROM THE JOB -- SAYING GOODBYE -- EPILOGUE: Surviving and enjoying -- retirement.…”
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