Search Results - "The Epilogue"

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 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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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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Wives without husbands marriage, desertion, & welfare in New York, 1900-1935 / by Igra, Anna R.

Table of Contents: “…They need not become a burden to the state -- The creation of an antidesertion system in New York -- Ambivalent breadwinners and the public purse -- Bread givers : from desertion to the national desertion bureau -- Desertion and the courts -- Deserted women and social welfare policy -- Epilogue: The legacy of antidesertion reform.…”
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Mediating American autobiography photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman / by Meehan, Sean Ross, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: the reproduction of the author -- Strange developments: photography's autobiography -- Like iodine to light: Emerson's photographic thinking -- Pencil of nature: Thoreau's photographic register -- Pictures in progress: the claims of Frederick Douglass, photographically considered -- Specimen daze: Whitman's photobiography -- Epilogue: future readers.…”
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My dear boy : Carrie Hughes's letters to Langston Hughes, 1926-1938 /

Table of Contents: “…Following Langston: A foreword by Nikky Finney -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chronology -- Prologue -- The letters: Dreams deferred, 1926-1929; Zenith and descent, 1930-1934; Things fall apart, 1935; Dear lovely death, 1936-1938 -- Coda -- Epilogue -- Second coda.…”
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My dear boy : Carrie Hughes's letters to Langston Hughes, 1926-1938 /

Table of Contents: “…Following Langston: A foreword by Nikky Finney -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chronology -- Prologue -- The letters: Dreams deferred, 1926-1929; Zenith and descent, 1930-1934; Things fall apart, 1935; Dear lovely death, 1936-1938 -- Coda -- Epilogue -- Second coda.…”
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International economics : understanding the forces of globalization for managers / by Torelli, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Poverty, progress, and critics of globalization -- Epilogue -- Index.…”
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Customers inside, customers outside : designing and succeeding with enterprise customer-centricity concepts, practices, and applications / by Lowenstein, Michael W., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Customer strategy and tactics (branding, communications, and relationships) -- Afterword -- Epilogue -- About the author -- Notes -- References -- Index.…”
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The Cold War from the Margins : A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene / by Dragostinova, Theodora, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Communist Extravaganza: Culture in the Global -- The Contradictions of Developed Socialism -- Goodwill between Neighbors -- Culture as a Way of Life -- Forging a Bulgarian Diaspora -- Like a Grand World Civilization -- Culture under Special Conditions -- Epilogue : The Socialist Past Today.…”
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Wives without husbands marriage, desertion, & welfare in New York, 1900-1935 / by Igra, Anna R.

Table of Contents: “…They need not become a burden to the state -- The creation of an antidesertion system in New York -- Ambivalent breadwinners and the public purse -- Bread givers : from desertion to the national desertion bureau -- Desertion and the courts -- Deserted women and social welfare policy -- Epilogue: The legacy of antidesertion reform.…”
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Mediating American autobiography photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman / by Meehan, Sean Ross, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: the reproduction of the author -- Strange developments: photography's autobiography -- Like iodine to light: Emerson's photographic thinking -- Pencil of nature: Thoreau's photographic register -- Pictures in progress: the claims of Frederick Douglass, photographically considered -- Specimen daze: Whitman's photobiography -- Epilogue: future readers.…”
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International economics : understanding the forces of globalization for managers / by Torelli, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Poverty, progress, and critics of globalization -- Epilogue -- Index.…”
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Customers inside, customers outside : designing and succeeding with enterprise customer-centricity concepts, practices, and applications / by Lowenstein, Michael W., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Customer strategy and tactics (branding, communications, and relationships) -- Afterword -- Epilogue -- About the author -- Notes -- References -- Index.…”
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The Cold War from the Margins : A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene / by Dragostinova, Theodora, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Communist Extravaganza: Culture in the Global -- The Contradictions of Developed Socialism -- Goodwill between Neighbors -- Culture as a Way of Life -- Forging a Bulgarian Diaspora -- Like a Grand World Civilization -- Culture under Special Conditions -- Epilogue : The Socialist Past Today.…”
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Whales & nations : environmental diplomacy on the high seas / by Dorsey, Kurkpatrick

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / by William Cronon -- A Global Industry and Global Challenges -- The Pelagic and the Political -- World War and the World's Whales -- Cheaters Sometimes Prosper -- Melting Down and Muddling Through -- Save the Whales (for Later) -- The End of Commercial Whaling -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Whaling Data, 1904-1965.…”
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