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Stigma Stories : Rhetoric, Lived Experience, and Chronic Illness / by Kessler, Molly Margaret

Table of Contents: “…Studying stigma: a rhetorical approach to stories and lived experience ; Rhetoric of stories, stigma, lived experiences ; Studying stigma stories ; Preview of chapters -- Listening for stigma: praxiographic solutions and stigma in practice ; Critiques of stigma research ; Praxiographic solutions ; Stigma in practice ; An ethical case for engaging stigma praxiographically -- Staging stigma: ostomies as worst-case scenarios ; Leaks, stigma, and visceral publics ; Worst-case scenarios: ostomies in public health campaigns ; Ostomies on TV: fear and disgust in popular media ; Staging stigma through fear ; Credibility enhanced through stigma ; Conclusion -- Protesting stigma: disruptive stories, temporality, and ostomies as lifesavers ; Temporality, disability, and progressions of experience ; Rejecting compulsory nostalgia: disruptive ostomy stories as protest ; Disruptive stories, disruptive timelines ; Complicating a two-sided story ; Conclusion -- Managing stigma: visual acts of resistance ; Normalcy, norms, and the impossibility of normalization ; Displaying ostomies and soliciting stares ; Visual rewards and risks: sexualizing disability ; Showing off ostomies and arriving at the destination of normal ; Conclusion -- Thinking with stories: toward stigma interventions ; The value of a praxiographic approach to stories ; Interventional insights ; Conducting entangled research.…”
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Passing Performances : Queer Readings of Leading Players in American Theater History /

Table of Contents: “…Schanke and Kim Marra -- "My noble Spartacus": Edwin Forrest and masculinity on the nineteenth-century stage / Ginger Strand -- "Such Romeo as we had never ventured to hope for": Charlotte Cushman / Denise A. …”
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Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Power Plants by Gülen, S. Can, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…4.4 Basic Calculations4.4.1 Heat and Mass Balance Analysis (First Law); 4.4.2 Simplified Cycle Analysis; 4.4.3 Stage-by-Stage Gas Turbine Model; 4.4.3.1 Turbine Aero; 4.4.3.2 Turbine Cooling; 4.4.3.3 Compressor Aero; 4.5 Fuel Flexibility; References; Chapter 5 Steam Turbine; 5.1 Impulse versus Reaction; 5.1.1 Steam Turbine Irreversibility; 5.1.2 Supercritical Steam Turbine; 5.2 Last-Stage Bucket; 5.3 Basic Calculations; 5.3.1 Steam-Path Efc fi iency; 5.3.2 Steam Cycle Simple Calculation; 5.3.3 Steam Cycle Efc fi iency History; 5.3.4 Exhaust End Analysis; References…”
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Showdown in the Show-Me State the fight over conceal-and-carry gun laws in Missouri / by Horner, William T., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Changing the rules of regulating guns -- The gun lobby and round one, preemption -- 1992 : the conceal-and-carry fight begins -- 1993 to 1994 : conceal-and-carry returns -- Conceal-and-carry, 1995 -- Conceal-and-carry, 1996 : back for another try -- Conceal-and-carry, 1997 to 1998 : setting the stage for Prop B -- The Campaign of 1999 : an introduction -- The Campaign of 1999 : the activists -- The Campaign of 1999 : interpreting statistics and the law -- The Campaign of 1999 : funding and advertising -- The Campaign of 1999 : a brawl -- The Campaign of 1999 : public opinion and the news media -- The Campaign of 1999 : election day -- More in 1999 : Missouri takes on liability lawsuits -- 2000 : the fight continues with elections of a different sort : Ashcroft vs. …”
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Conflict management for libraries strategies for a positive, productive workplace / by Montgomery, Jack G.

Table of Contents: “…When you go to work, you bring more than your lunch from home -- How to identify the actors in the play : all the world's a stage -- The role of unions -- The specter and reality of workplace violence -- The internal candidate -- But she's had such a hard life -- It is obvious we do not matter -- I don't have to listen to this! …”
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Oxford readings in the Attic orators

Table of Contents: “…Porter -- Demosthenes as advocate : the functions and methods of legal consultants in classical Athens / Hans Julius Wolff ; with an epilogue by Gerhard Thür -- Law and equity in the Attic trial / Harald Meyer-Laurin -- Social relations on stage : witnesses in classical Athens / S.C. Humphreys -- The nature of proofs in antiphon / Michael Gagarin -- 'Artless proofs' in Aristotle and the orators / Christopher Carey -- Torture and rhetoric in Athens / David Mirhady -- Ability and education : the power of persuasion / Josiah Ober -- Lady Chatterley's lover and the Attic orators : the social composition of the Athenian jury / Stephen Todd -- Arguments from precedent in the Attic oratory / Lene Rubinstein -- Politics as literature : Demosthenes and the burden of the Athenian past / Harvey Yunis.…”
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Chasing Lolita how popular culture corrupted Nabokov's little girl all over again / by Vickers, Graham

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Margaret Fuller transatlantic crossings in a revolutionary age /

Table of Contents: “…Reynolds -- A humbug, a bounder, and a dabbler : Margaret Fuller and/as Cristina di Belgioioso / Cristina Giorcelli -- Margaret Fuller on stage / Maria Anita Stefanelli -- Documents in the State Archive of Rome / Donato Tamblé -- Biographies / Cristina Giorcelli -- Chronology / Cristina Giorcelli.…”
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Buying into the world of goods early consumers in backcountry Virginia / by Martin, Ann Smart, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…In backcountry time -- The business of revolutions: John Hook and the Atlantic world : William Meade's Scottish clock -- Getting the goods: local acquisition in a tobacco economy : the iron plate -- Accounting for life: objects, names, and numbers : the ledger -- Living the backcountry: styles and standards : the Wade cabin in backcountry time -- Setting the stage, playing the part: stores as consumption spaces : ribbons of desire -- Suckey's looking glass: African Americans as consumers : mirrors and meanings -- Country gentleman in a new country: John Hook's beef.…”
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Thinking on thresholds the poetics of transitive spaces /

Table of Contents: “…Windows: looking in, looking out, breaking through / Gillian Beer; Permeable walls and off-stage spaces / Jean Chothia; The queer part doors play in Nabokov's Laughter in the dark / Beci Dobbin; Invasion from outer space: the threshold of annunciations / Subha Mukherji -- Part II: Lives and narratives, territories and worlds. …”
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The first-time manager by Belker, Loren B.

Table of Contents: “…-- Understanding risk inclination -- Encouraging initiative and innovation -- Improving outcomes -- The generation gap -- Writing job descriptions -- Doing performance appraisals -- Salary administration -- Having emotional intelligence -- Developing a positive self-image -- Managing your own time -- The written word -- The grapevine -- Your best friend : delegation -- A sense of humor -- Managing, participating in, and leading meetings -- Taking center stage : the role of public speaking in your career -- Coping with stress -- Having balance in your life -- A touch of class.…”
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Blackness in opera

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: representing blackness on the operatic stage -- From Otello to Porgy: blackness, masculinity, and morality in opera / Naomi André -- Hearing the other in The masque of blackness / Sarah Schmalenberger -- Nationalism, racial difference, and "Egyptian" meaning in Verdi's Aida / Christopher R. …”
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Colorectal cancer risk, diagnosis and treatments /

Table of Contents: “….] -- The role of cytoreduction as a multidisciplinary treatment modality for metastatic colorectal cancer / Koji Tanaka, Yasuhiro Inoue, Masato Kusunoki -- Prognostic factors of survival in stage IIB-III and IV colorectal cancer / Nicolaos Diamantis ... …”
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New directions in aging research health and cognition /

Table of Contents: “…Health factors and cognitive aging / Robert Krikorian -- Adult BMI and dimensions of psychological well-being : the role of gender / Jamila Bookwala and Jenny Boyar -- Dyadic intervention for persons with early-stage dementia : a cognitive rehabilitation focus / Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe ... …”
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The Canadian Rangers : a living history / by Lackenbauer, P. Whitney

Table of Contents: “…The Pacific Coast Militia Rangers, 1942-45 -- 2. Setting the Stage, 1946-47 -- 3. "Teething Troubles," 1947-49 -- 4. …”
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Performing democracy in Iraq and South Africa : gender, media, and resistance / by Segall, Kimberly Wedeven

Table of Contents: “…Radio songs, Kurdish stories, videos: politics of healing after ethnic cleansing -- Televised war, poetry, and Shiite women: a case study of generation gaps -- Sectarian media, 9 women, and the stage : transregional identities -- Baghdad blogs and gender sites : an Iraqi spring for youth culture? …”
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Introduction to contemporary print culture : books as media / by Murray, Simone

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Making change : facilitating community action / by Anderson, Jeanne (Author of Making change), Pyle, Maurine (Author of Making change)

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