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Carville remembering leprosy in America / by Gaudet, Marcia G.

Table of Contents: “…Carville, leprosy, and real people: an introduction to a culture apart -- "An exile in my own country": the unspeakable trauma of entering Carville -- "Through the hole in the fence": personal narratives of absconding from Carville -- Telling it slant: personal narratives, tall tales, and the reality of leprosy -- The world downside up: Mardi Gras at Carville -- "Under the pecans": history and memory in the graveyard at Carville -- Remembering leprosy: postmemory and the Carville legacy.…”
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Carville remembering leprosy in America / by Gaudet, Marcia G.

Table of Contents: “…Carville, leprosy, and real people: an introduction to a culture apart -- "An exile in my own country": the unspeakable trauma of entering Carville -- "Through the hole in the fence": personal narratives of absconding from Carville -- Telling it slant: personal narratives, tall tales, and the reality of leprosy -- The world downside up: Mardi Gras at Carville -- "Under the pecans": history and memory in the graveyard at Carville -- Remembering leprosy: postmemory and the Carville legacy.…”
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The Civil War journal of Private Heyward Emmell, ambulance and infantry corps a very disagreeable war / by Emmell, Heyward (Heyward G.), 1841-1917

Table of Contents: “…Marching as to war -- Winter quarters 1861-1862 -- The Peninsula Campaign -- Hospitalized -- Second Bull Run -- In camp around Washington -- On the march to Fredericksburg -- A march in the mud, winter camp, and a wedding -- Chancellorsville -- The calm between the storms -- Gettysburg and beyond -- Ambulance Corps -- A tall tale -- Along the Rappahannock -- Furlough -- Winter camp 1863-1864 -- Battles : the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and North Anna -- Cold Harbor to Petersburg -- Homeward bound.…”
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The Civil War journal of Private Heyward Emmell, ambulance and infantry corps a very disagreeable war / by Emmell, Heyward (Heyward G.), 1841-1917

Table of Contents: “…Marching as to war -- Winter quarters 1861-1862 -- The Peninsula Campaign -- Hospitalized -- Second Bull Run -- In camp around Washington -- On the march to Fredericksburg -- A march in the mud, winter camp, and a wedding -- Chancellorsville -- The calm between the storms -- Gettysburg and beyond -- Ambulance Corps -- A tall tale -- Along the Rappahannock -- Furlough -- Winter camp 1863-1864 -- Battles : the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and North Anna -- Cold Harbor to Petersburg -- Homeward bound.…”
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The fourth ghost white Southern writers and European fascism, 1930-1950 / by Brinkmeyer, Robert H.

Table of Contents: “…Cash -- Pastoralism and extinction: William Alexander Percy -- Georgia on my mind: Lillian Smith -- You can't go to Germany, again: Thomas Wolfe -- Democracy's tall men: William Faulkner -- Something deathly in the air: Katherine Anne Porter -- Dispatches from the home front: Carson McCullers -- Pragmatism, idealism, responsibility: Robert Penn Warren -- Ravagers of the earth: Lillian Hellman -- Coda: the long shadow.…”
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Poetry and displacement by Smith, Stan, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…: Carol Ann Duffy's Différance -- Darkening English : post-imperial contestations in Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott -- Living in history -- An age of simulation : tall tales and short stories -- Nowhere anyone would like to get to -- Milking the cow of the world : displacement displaced.…”
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Poetry and displacement by Smith, Stan, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…: Carol Ann Duffy's Différance -- Darkening English : post-imperial contestations in Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott -- Living in history -- An age of simulation : tall tales and short stories -- Nowhere anyone would like to get to -- Milking the cow of the world : displacement displaced.…”
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The fourth ghost white Southern writers and European fascism, 1930-1950 / by Brinkmeyer, Robert H.

Table of Contents: “…Cash -- Pastoralism and extinction: William Alexander Percy -- Georgia on my mind: Lillian Smith -- You can't go to Germany, again: Thomas Wolfe -- Democracy's tall men: William Faulkner -- Something deathly in the air: Katherine Anne Porter -- Dispatches from the home front: Carson McCullers -- Pragmatism, idealism, responsibility: Robert Penn Warren -- Ravagers of the earth: Lillian Hellman -- Coda: the long shadow.…”
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Bridging a great divide : the battle for the Columbia River Gorge / by Durbin, Kathie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the gift in our back yard -- The vision -- Hardly wilderness -- Watchdogs -- Saving Steigerwald -- Balancing act -- The launch -- Writing the rules -- Early friction -- The too-tall house -- Fear and loathing -- Land rush -- Oregon pushback -- A pile of rocks -- Time to amend -- Great debates -- Showdown at Lyle Point -- A destination resort -- Rails to trails -- The haze curtain -- Logging loopholes -- The casino deal -- Whistling Ridge -- Restoring a legacy -- Rebuilding a historic highway -- The recreation challenge -- Cape Horn convergence -- A river unleashed -- A quarter-century -- The fight continues.…”
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Bridging a great divide : the battle for the Columbia River Gorge / by Durbin, Kathie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the gift in our back yard -- The vision -- Hardly wilderness -- Watchdogs -- Saving Steigerwald -- Balancing act -- The launch -- Writing the rules -- Early friction -- The too-tall house -- Fear and loathing -- Land rush -- Oregon pushback -- A pile of rocks -- Time to amend -- Great debates -- Showdown at Lyle Point -- A destination resort -- Rails to trails -- The haze curtain -- Logging loopholes -- The casino deal -- Whistling Ridge -- Restoring a legacy -- Rebuilding a historic highway -- The recreation challenge -- Cape Horn convergence -- A river unleashed -- A quarter-century -- The fight continues.…”
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Structural masonry designers' manual

Table of Contents: “…Advantages and disadvantages of structural masonry -- Design philosophy -- Limit state design -- Basis of design (1): vertical loading -- Basis of design (2): lateral loading tensile and shear strength -- Strapping, propping and tying of loadbearing masonry -- Stability, accidental damage and progressive collapse -- Structural elements and forms -- Design of masonry elements (1): vertically loaded -- Design of masonry elements (2): combined bending and axial loading -- Design of single-storey buildings -- Fin and diaphragm walls in tall single-storey buildings -- Design of multi-storey structures -- Reinforced and post-tensioned masonry -- Arches -- Materials -- Components -- Movement joints -- Provision for services.…”
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Structural masonry designers' manual

Table of Contents: “…Advantages and disadvantages of structural masonry -- Design philosophy -- Limit state design -- Basis of design (1): vertical loading -- Basis of design (2): lateral loading tensile and shear strength -- Strapping, propping and tying of loadbearing masonry -- Stability, accidental damage and progressive collapse -- Structural elements and forms -- Design of masonry elements (1): vertically loaded -- Design of masonry elements (2): combined bending and axial loading -- Design of single-storey buildings -- Fin and diaphragm walls in tall single-storey buildings -- Design of multi-storey structures -- Reinforced and post-tensioned masonry -- Arches -- Materials -- Components -- Movement joints -- Provision for services.…”
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Literary Cincinnati the missing chapter / by Brown, Dale Patrick

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The traditions of invention Romanian ethnic and social stereotypes in historical context / by Drace-Francis, Alex

Table of Contents: “…Representations of the Romanian peasant from ancient stereotype to modern symbol -- A provincial imperialist and a curious account of Wallachia: Ignaz von Born -- "At ten minutes past two, I gazed ecstatically on both lighthouses": -- Time, self and object in early Romanian travel texts -- "Like a member of a free nation, he spoke without shame": foreign travellers as a trope in Romanian cultural tradition -- Dinicu Golescu's Account of my travels (1826): Eurotopia as manifesto -- National ideology between lyrics and metaphysics: the political writings of Mihai Eminescu -- Ion Luca Caragiale: the tall tale of the Romanian nation -- Eugen Ionescu's Selves, 1934-60 -- Beyond the land of green plums: Romanian language and culture in Herta -- Muller's work -- Sex, lies and stereotypes: images of Romania in British literature 1945-2000 -- Paradoxes of occidentalism: on travel and travel writing in Ceausescu's Romania.…”
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Literary Cincinnati the missing chapter / by Brown, Dale Patrick

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The traditions of invention Romanian ethnic and social stereotypes in historical context / by Drace-Francis, Alex

Table of Contents: “…Representations of the Romanian peasant from ancient stereotype to modern symbol -- A provincial imperialist and a curious account of Wallachia: Ignaz von Born -- "At ten minutes past two, I gazed ecstatically on both lighthouses": -- Time, self and object in early Romanian travel texts -- "Like a member of a free nation, he spoke without shame": foreign travellers as a trope in Romanian cultural tradition -- Dinicu Golescu's Account of my travels (1826): Eurotopia as manifesto -- National ideology between lyrics and metaphysics: the political writings of Mihai Eminescu -- Ion Luca Caragiale: the tall tale of the Romanian nation -- Eugen Ionescu's Selves, 1934-60 -- Beyond the land of green plums: Romanian language and culture in Herta -- Muller's work -- Sex, lies and stereotypes: images of Romania in British literature 1945-2000 -- Paradoxes of occidentalism: on travel and travel writing in Ceausescu's Romania.…”
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Houston blue the story of the Houston Police Department / by Roth, Mitchel P., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Short -- Conflict at Texas Southern -- The successor -- All 7's -- Buffalo hunters and a union -- Darkest day -- The drill instructor -- Hispanics stand tall -- The outsider -- Neighborhood-oriented policing -- Betsy and the poster boy -- The man in the uniform 437 -- Hans Marticiuc and greater benefits -- The chief from Phoenix -- An insider and new trust -- Appendix 1: Fallen heroes of HPD -- Appendix 2: Houston mayors and police chiefs, 1837/2012 -- Appendix 3: HPOA/HPOU presidents.…”
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Houston blue the story of the Houston Police Department / by Roth, Mitchel P., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Short -- Conflict at Texas Southern -- The successor -- All 7's -- Buffalo hunters and a union -- Darkest day -- The drill instructor -- Hispanics stand tall -- The outsider -- Neighborhood-oriented policing -- Betsy and the poster boy -- The man in the uniform 437 -- Hans Marticiuc and greater benefits -- The chief from Phoenix -- An insider and new trust -- Appendix 1: Fallen heroes of HPD -- Appendix 2: Houston mayors and police chiefs, 1837/2012 -- Appendix 3: HPOA/HPOU presidents.…”
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