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Moral Enterprise Literature and Education in Antebellum America / by Pacheco, Derek Andrew, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Education and the "Alexandrian library" -- Bibliographic nationalism : marketing America in Horace Mann's school library -- "Disorders of the circulating medium" : Hawthorne's early children's literature -- "Contact with the world" : Elizabeth Peabody's West Street bookshop -- "Conversation of a better order" : Margaret Fuller from the classroom to the dial -- Coda. …”
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Moral Enterprise : Literature and Education in Antebellum America / by Pacheco, Derek Andrew, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Education and the "Alexandrian library" -- Bibliographic nationalism : marketing America in Horace Mann's school library -- "Disorders of the circulating medium" : Hawthorne's early children's literature -- "Contact with the world" : Elizabeth Peabody's West Street bookshop -- "Conversation of a better order" : Margaret Fuller from the classroom to the dial -- Coda. …”
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One man's music the life and times of Texas songwriter Vince Bell / by Bell, Vince

Table of Contents: “…Foreword by Kathleen Hudson -- Sorcerers' apprentice -- Look of the loner looking at it -- Sweat like a boxer -- Sinbad and the silver tooth -- Music where the words are the important part -- I'm not this way because I'm a musician, I'm a musician because I'm this way -- Secret mountain laboratory -- Six strings, no kick -- Three-day ride to the kitchen -- The songwriter -- Elastic plastic fork and pitiable paper plate -- Bermuda triangle -- Name unknown -- Rumor of my demise -- Room 933 -- If it was time for the musicians to call, it was time to go home and fix it -- Providence Street -- Even up on Misery Ave., they sometimes dance and sing -- Path of least regret -- Music school -- Edge of the world -- Monday for two years -- Keep your eyes in the sky -- Second Street -- Fate worse than death -- Wizard of odds -- Adrift in paradise -- Give chance a chance -- Prize for not working hard enough -- Phoenix -- Album of a lifetime -- The poetry in the prose -- Play like you practice -- Texas plates -- Say in your owndamnway -- The bottom line -- Live in Texas -- Rough old Texas hands.…”
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Race and religion among the chosen peoples of Crown Heights by Goldschmidt, Henry

Table of Contents: “…The voices of Jacob on the streets of Brooklyn: Israelite histories and identities.…”
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Hijos del pueblo gender, family, and community in rural Mexico, 1730-1850 / by Kanter, Deborah Ellen

Table of Contents: “…"Like three feet in one shoe" : the Toluca Region, 1730-1821 -- Hijos del pueblo : the limits of community -- "In compliance with marital obligations" : women, men, and married life -- "Not in the street" : households and the meanings of kinship -- Scandalous men and intrepid women -- Neither alone nor free : women in depósito -- From fathers to stepfathers : life after independence.…”
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Victorian popularizers of science designing nature for new audiences / by Lightman, Bernard V., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Historians, popularizers, and the Victorian scene -- Anglican theologies of nature in a post-Darwinian era -- Redefining the maternal tradition -- The showmen of science : wood, pepper, and visual spectacle -- The evolution of the evolutionary epic -- The science periodical : Proctor and the conduct of "knowledge" -- Practitioners enter the field : Huxley and Ball as popularizers -- Science writing on New Grub Street -- Conclusion: Remapping the terrain.…”
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Microsoft Word 2010 bible by Tyson, Herb Gene

Table of Contents: “…My word, and welcome to it -- pt. 2. Word on the street -- pt. 3. Writing tools -- pt. 4. More than mere words -- pt. 5. …”
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Gendered scenarios of revolution making new men and new women in Nicaragua, 1975-2000 / by Montoya, Rosario, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : in search of the "new man" -- State and community formation : El Tule to 1975 -- In search of utopia : El Tule's scenario and the Sandinista new man -- Ambivalent revolutionaries : class, nation, and campesino politics -- House, street, collective : revolutionary geographies and gender transformation -- New men, new women, sexuality, and the domestic -- Conclusions : empowerment and struggle in the new millennium.…”
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Olympic housing : a critical review of London 2012's legacy / by Bernstock, Penny

Table of Contents: “…Housing legacy in context -- Moving out : experiences of those decanted to make way for the Olympic park -- A note on the carpenters estate -- London housing legacy : an overview -- The shifting terrain of housing legacy plans -- From athletes' village to East Village -- Accelerated regeneration : a case study of Stratford High Street -- New migrants to Stratford City.…”
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Mirage of Police Reform : Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy / by Worden, Robert E., McLean, Sarah J., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…The procedural justice model as reform -- Police departments as institutionalized organizations -- Police legitimacy -- Procedural justice in citizens' subjective experiences -- Citizens' dissatisfaction in their own words -- Procedural justice in police action -- Citizens' subjective experience and police action -- Procedural justice and management accountability -- Procedural justice and street-level sense-making -- Reflections on police reform -- Methodological appendix.…”
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Brownies and Kalashnikovs a Saudi woman's memoir of American Arabia and wartime Beirut / by Basrawi, Fadia

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A safer world-- ? by Debieuvre, Luc

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The dismissal : a practical and informative toolkit to ensure a fair and effective dismissal / by Nel, Jan Kemp

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Twenty-First Century Urbanism : A New Analysis of the City / by Sullivan, Rob

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Terror in the heart of freedom citizenship, sexual violence, and the meaning of race in the postemancipation South / by Rosén, Hannah

Table of Contents: “…I: A city of refuge: emancipation in Memphis, 1862-1866 -- City streets and other public spaces -- A riot and massacre -- II: A state of mobilization: politics in Arkansas, 1865-1868 -- The capitol and other public spheres == A constitutional convention -- III: A region of terror: violence in the South, 1865-1876 -- Houses, yards, and other domestic domains -- Testifying to violence.…”
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From pink to green disease prevention and the environmental breast cancer movement / by Ley, Barbara L., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…A movement in the making -- "End the silence" : uncertainty work and the politics of the cancer industry -- From touring the streets to taking on science -- "We should not have to be the bodies of evidence" : the precautionary principle in policy, science, and daily life -- The cultural politics of sisterhood -- Toxic tours move indoors : race, class, and breast cancer prevention -- Beyond breast cancer, beyond women's health -- Still in the making.…”
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From the ground up translating geography into community through neighbor networks / by Grannis, Rick, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Neighborhoods and neighboring -- The stages of neighboring -- Reconceptualizing stage 1 neighboring -- Reconceptualizing stage 1 neighbor networks -- Selection and influence -- Respondents, interviews, and other data -- Selecting stage 1 neighbors -- Unintentional encounters -- Stage 3 neighbors and tertiary streets -- The importance of neighbor networks -- Network influence theory -- Influence networks in a college town -- Influence networks in a gang barrio -- Implications.…”
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Among murderers life after prison / by Heinlein, Sabine, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Freedom day -- At the garden -- Street code -- Talking murder -- Poster boys -- Dinner with bruce -- Work readiness -- Prisoners still -- The penis monologues -- At the barber -- Causalities -- The new coat -- A haunted house -- Waiting for nothing -- Growing old -- Silent forgiveness -- Lies and good luck -- Sex, love, and race -- From attica to broadway -- The new home -- On guard -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References.…”
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Reflections on judging / by Posner, Richard A.

Table of Contents: “…The road to 219 South Dearborn Street -- The federal judiciary evolves -- The challenge of complexity -- Formalism and realism in appellate decision making -- The inadequate appellate record -- Coping strategies for appellate judges I : judicial self-restraint -- Coping strategies for appellate judges II : interpretation -- Make it simple, make it new : opinion writing and appellate advocacy -- Forays into the district court -- What can be done, modestly?…”
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Emerging trends in transportation planning / by Boenau, Andy

Table of Contents: “…1. Streets are for people -- 2. Imagined infrastructure -- 3. …”
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