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Who shall lead them? the future of ministry in America / by Witham, Larry, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Interesting times -- Call to ministry -- The Protestant divide -- Women in ministry -- The Catholic priesthood -- Southern Baptists -- The minority challenge -- Spirit filled -- Organized religion -- Fault lines -- Image makers -- The soul of ministry.…”
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Aberration of Mind : Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South / by Sommerville, Diane Miller

Table of Contents: “…A burden too heavy to bear: war trauma, suicide, and Confederate soldiers -- A dark doom to dread: women, suicide, and suffering on the Confederate homefront -- De lan' of sweet dreams: suffering and suicide among the enslaved -- Somethin' went hard agin her mind: suffering, suicide, and emancipation -- The accursed ills I cannot bear: Confederate veterans, suicide, and suffering in the defeated South -- The distressed state of the country: Confederate men and the navigation of economic, political, and emotional ruin in the postwar South -- All is dark before me: Confederate women and the postwar landscape of suffering and suicide -- Cumberer of the earth: the secularization of suffering and suicide.…”
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Aberration of Mind : Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South / by Sommerville, Diane Miller

Table of Contents: “…A burden too heavy to bear: war trauma, suicide, and Confederate soldiers -- A dark doom to dread: women, suicide, and suffering on the Confederate homefront -- De lan' of sweet dreams: suffering and suicide among the enslaved -- Somethin' went hard agin her mind: suffering, suicide, and emancipation -- The accursed ills I cannot bear: Confederate veterans, suicide, and suffering in the defeated South -- The distressed state of the country: Confederate men and the navigation of economic, political, and emotional ruin in the postwar South -- All is dark before me: Confederate women and the postwar landscape of suffering and suicide -- Cumberer of the earth: the secularization of suffering and suicide.…”
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Give the devil his due. / by Boruett, William Kibiegon

Table of Contents: “…--The cunning hare.--The women's solution.--Cut off your tails.--A big blunder.…”

Media score card : the coverage of the referendum campaigns 2005 /

Vision aids in America a social history of eyewear and sight correction since 1900 / by Segrave, Kerry, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…The years prior to 1900 -- Medical advice, lore and oddities -- Children and the needy -- Fashion and style -- Marketing -- Women -- Image, psychology, experiments -- Statistics -- Optometry laws -- Price-fixing, scams, retailing -- Contact lens -- Sunglasses.…”
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Teaching comics and graphic narratives essays on theory, strategy and practice /

Table of Contents: “…Ethnic studies -- pt. 3. Women's and gender studies -- pt. 4. Cultural studies -- pt. 5. …”
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The cowgirls by Roach, Joyce Gibson

Table of Contents: “…Through a glass darkly : women of cattle country -- section II. Face to face : the commercial cowgirls -- section III. …”
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Journey into Islam the crisis of globalization / by Ahmed, Akbar S.

Table of Contents: “…An anthropological excursion into the Muslim world -- The struggle within Islam -- Tribes, women, and honor in the age of globalization -- Who is defining Islam after 9/11 and why? …”
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Addressing the sexual rights of older people : theory, policy and practice / by Barrett, Catherine, Hinchliff, Sharron

Table of Contents: “…Framing the sexual rights of older heterosexual women: acknowledging diversity and change / Laura Hurd Clarke -- 4. …”
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Entertainment in the Old West theater, music, circuses, medicine shows, prizefighting and other popular amusements / by Agnew, Jeremy

Table of Contents: “…On with the show -- Entertainment for everyone -- Women as actresses -- Strutting their stuff -- Bright lights of the Pacific Coast -- Theaters across the Old West -- A few of the famous -- The amateurs -- Medicine shows -- Motley pleasures -- The Wild West shows -- Afterword : the stage lights dim.…”
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Maternal-newborn nursing : the critical components of nursing care / by Durham, Roberta F., Chapman, Linda, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Trends and issues -- Ethics and standards of practice issues -- Genetics, conception, fetal development, and reproductive technology -- Physiological aspects of antepartum care -- The psycho-social-cultural aspects of the antepartum period -- Antepartal tests -- High-risk antepartum nursing care -- Intrapartum assessment and interventions -- Fetal heart rate assessment -- High-risk labor and birth -- Intrapartum and postpartum care of cesarean birth families -- Postpartum physiological assessments and nursing care -- Transition to parenthood -- High-risk postpartum nursing care -- Physiological and behavioral responses of the neonate -- Discharge planning and teaching -- High-risk neonatal nursing care -- Well women's health -- Alterations in women's health.…”

Maternal-newborn nursing : the critical components of nursing care / by Durham, Roberta F., Chapman, Linda, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Trends and issues -- Ethics and standards of practice issues -- Genetics, conception, fetal development, and reproductive technology -- Physiological aspects of antepartum care -- The psycho-social-cultural aspects of the antepartum period -- Antepartal tests -- High-risk antepartum nursing care -- Intrapartum assessment and interventions -- Fetal heart rate assessment -- High-risk labor and birth -- Intrapartum and postpartum care of cesarean birth families -- Postpartum physiological assessments and nursing care -- Transition to parenthood -- High-risk postpartum nursing care -- Physiological and behavioral responses of the neonate -- Discharge planning and teaching -- High-risk neonatal nursing care -- Well women's health -- Alterations in women's health.…”

The consequences of maternal morbidity and maternal mortality report of a workshop /

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Iowa history reader

Table of Contents: “…Green -- The frontier in process : Iowa's trail women as a paradigm / Glenda Riley -- Farming in the Prairie Peninsula, 1830/1890 / Allan G. …”
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East Asian pop culture analysing the Korean wave /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: East Asian TV dramas: identifications, sentiments and effects / Chua Beng Huat and Koichi Iwabuchi -- The growth of Korean cultural industries and the Korean wave / Doobo Shim -- Renting East Asian popular culture for local television: regional networks of cultural production / Tania Lim -- Mediating nationalism and modernity: the transnationalization of Korean dramas on Chinese (satellite) TV / Lisa Leung -- Structure of identification and distancing in watching East Asian television drama / Chua Beng Huat -- Re-imagining a cosmopolitan 'Asian Us': Korean media flows and imaginaries of Asian modern femininities / Angel Lin and Avin Tong -- Winter sonata and cultural practices of active fans in Japan: considering middle-aged women as cultural agents / Yoshitaka M�ori -- Touring 'dramatic Korea': Japanese women as viewers of Hanryu dramas and tourists on Hanryu tours / Yukie Hirata -- Popular cultural capital and cultural identity: young Korean women's cultural appropriation of Japanese TV dramas / Dong-Hoo Lee -- Mapping out the cultural politics of "the Korean wave" in contemporary South Korea / Keehyeung Lee -- Rap(p)ing Korean wave: national identity in question / Fang-chih Irene Yang -- Existing in the age of innocence: pop stars, publics, and politics in Asia / Eva Tsai -- When the Korean wave meets resident Koreans in Japan: intersections of the transnational, the postcolonial and the multicultural / Koichi Iwabuchi.…”
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Family welfare gender, property, and inheritance since the seventeenth century /

Table of Contents: “…/ G�erard B�eaur -- Emigration, gender and inheritance : a case study of the high Auvergne, 1700/1900 / Rose Duroux -- Headship succession and retirement in South Bohemia, 1640/1840 / Hermann Zeitlhofer -- Close relatives and useful relatives : welfare, inheritance and the use of kinship in an alpine dynasty, 1650/1800 / Sandro Guzzi-Heeb -- Wealth, gender and inheritance amongst the U.S. elite : the Rockefellers and Binghams / Marsha Shapiro Rose -- Family networks and the transmission of assets : managing the property and care of orphans in eighteenth-century Amsterdam / Anne E.C. Mccants -- Did women invent life insurance? : widows and the demand for financial services in eighteenth-century Germany / Eve Rosenhaft -- Women without gender : commerce, exchange codes and the erosion of german gender guardianship, 1680/1830 / Robert Beachy -- Minors, guardians and inheritance in early nineteenth-century Sweden : a case of gendered property rights / Ann Ighe -- Marriage and economic rights : women, men and property in Sweden during the first half of the twentieth century / Kirsti Niskanen.…”
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Words, worlds, and material girls language, gender, globalization /

Table of Contents: “…Language, gender and economies in global transitions : provocative and provoking questions about how gender is articulated / Bonnie McElhinny -- Symbolically central and materially marginal : women's talk in a Tongan work group / Susan U. Philips -- "Re-employment stars" : language, gender and neoliberal restructuring in China / Jie Yang -- When Aboriginal equals "at risk" : the impact of institutional discourse on Aboriginal Head Start families / Susanne Miskimmin -- Stage goddesses and studio divas in South India : on agency and the politics of voice / Amanda Weidman -- Echoes of modernity : nationalism and the enigma of "women's language" in late nineteenth century Japan / Miyako Inoue -- Recontextualizing the American occupation of the Philippines : erasure and ventriloquism in colonial discourse around men, medicine and infant mortality / Bonnie McElhinny -- Out on video : gender, language and new public spheres in Islamic northern Nigeria / Rudolf P. …”
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American mythos why our best efforts to be a better nation fall short / by Wuthnow, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Deep culture and democratic renewal -- Quandaries of individualism -- The justice of privilege -- Self-made men and women -- In America, all religions are true -- Ethnic ties that bind (loosely) -- Saving ourselves from materialism -- Venues for reflective democracy.…”
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The readers' advisory guide to genre fiction by Saricks, Joyce G.

Table of Contents: “…Understanding the appeal of genre fiction -- Adventure -- Romantic suspense -- Suspense -- Thrillers -- Gentle reads -- Horror -- Romance -- Women's lives and relationships -- Literary fiction -- Mysteries -- Psychological suspense -- Science fiction -- Fantasy -- Historical fiction -- Westerns.…”
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