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Dying to know scientific epistemology and narrative in Victorian England / by Levine, George Lewis

Table of Contents: “…Wallace -- Self-effacement revisited : women and scientific autobiography -- The test of truth : Our Mutual Friend -- Daniel Deronda : a new epistemology -- The Cartesian Hardy : I think, therefore I'm doomed -- Daring to know : Karl Pearson and the romance of science -- The epistemology of science and art : Pearson and Pater.…”
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Catholic social learning educating the faith that does justice / by Bergman, Roger (Roger C.)

Table of Contents: “…Personal encounter : the only way -- Ignatian pedagogy and the faith that does justice -- Teaching justice after MacIntyre : toward a Catholic philosophy of moral education -- Immersion, empathy, and perspective transformation : Semestre Dominicano, 1998 -- "We make the road by stumbling": Aristotle, service-learning, and justice -- Meetings with remarkable men and women: on teaching moral exemplars -- Education for justice and the Catholic university : innovation or development? …”
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New Orleans after the promises poverty, citizenship, and the search for the Great Society / by Germany, Kent B., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…-- A European-African-Caribbean-American-Southern city -- Establishing the early war on poverty -- Building community action -- Challenging the establishment and the color line -- Making better and happier citizens -- Defusing the southern powder keg -- Making workers and jobs -- Making groceries -- Making a model New Orleans -- The thugs united and the politics of manhood -- Women, welfare, and political mobilization -- Acronyms, liberalism, and electoral politics, 1969-1971 -- Panthers, snipers, and the limits of liberalism -- Conclusion: Prelude to Katrina.…”
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Time and life cycle in Talmud and Midrash socio-anthropological perspectives / by Rubin, Nissan

Table of Contents: “…The sociology and anthropology of Talmudic texts -- The clothing of the primordial Adam as a symbol of apocalyptic time in the Midrashic sources -- Brit milah: a study of change in custom -- Coping with the value of the Pidyon haʼben payment in rabbinic literature: an example of a social change process -- Birth and marriage rituals: women's status in a critical reading of the texts -- The sages' conception of the body and soul -- From corpse to corpus: the body as a text in Talmudic literature -- Birkat avelim--the blessing of mourners: ritual aspects of social change.…”
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Laotian daughters working toward community, belonging, and environmental justice / by Shah, Bindi V., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…From Agent Orange to super fund sites to anti-immigrant sentiments : multiple voyages, on-going challenges -- New immigration and the American nation : a framework for citizenship and belonging in contemporary United States -- The politics of race : political identity and the struggle for social rights -- The politics of race : critical incorporation and inter-minority relations -- Family, culture, gender : narratives of ethnic reconstruction and meaning among second-generation Laotian women -- Building community, crafting belonging -- Conclusion : second-generation Laotians becoming "American".…”
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Narrative and imperative the first fifty years of Italian Holocaust writing (1944-1994) / by Sodi, Risa B., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: some considerations on Italian Holocaust writing -- Setting the stage: a brief history of the Jews of Italy -- Italian Holocaust testimony -- Primo Levi's Holocaust lexicon -- So that none should forget: Bruno Piazza -- Liana Millu's struggle for a women's Holocaust -- Giuliana Tedeschi: wife, mother, survivor -- Re-imagining the Holocaust: Italian fiction -- First on the scene: Giacomo Debenedetti -- Elsa Morante's questionable history -- "The only real Jew": Giorgio Bassani -- Paolo Maurensig and the "third iteration" -- Conclusion: 1944-1994 and beyond.…”
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Vonnegut and Hemingway writers at war / by Broer, Lawrence R.

Table of Contents: “…Family secrets: the absent mother and father -- Hemingway's sun, Vonnegut's night: the spoils of war -- Duty dance with death: A farewell to arms and Slaughterhouse-five -- Spiritual manifestos: Breakfast of champions, Death in the afternoon, and Green hills of Africa -- From Jailbird to canary bird: To have and have not and Jailbird -- Anima and animus in For whom the bell tolls and Slapstick -- A soldier's confessions: Across the river and into the trees and Hocus pocus -- Now it's women's turn: The rescue of Eurydice -- A literary farewell: Timequake and Under kilimanjaro.…”
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Sowing the seeds of safe motherhood in Sub-Saharan Africa by Harrison, Kelsey A.

Table of Contents: “…International advocacy and advisory role in the care of women in childbirth -- section 4. Advocacy and advisory role : obstetric fistula (VVF), early teenage pregnancy and related issues -- section 5. …”
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The development of infant education in Ireland, 1838-1948 epochs and eras / by O'Connor, Maura, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…New educational thinking: a European perspective -- New educational thinking: an Irish experience -- A new concept of schooling and wilderspin as a transformational individual -- The struggle for child-centred infant education: Irish women pioneers -- State endorsement of child-centred principles of education -- A national curriculum based on child-centred principles -- A national curriculum created to promote a Gaelic revival, 1922-1948 -- Reclaiming child-centred infant education: the revised national curriculum of 1948 -- Conclusion: a backward glance.…”
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Don't stop thinking about the music : the politics of songs and musicians in Presidential campaigns / by Schoening, Benjamin S., 1978-

Table of Contents: “…The early use of "campaign" music (1789-1840) ; Campaign music post Tippecanoe (1844-1916) -- The mass media era. Women's suffrage & "wireless" technology (1920-1948) ; Good night, and good luck (1952-1968) ; Campaign music transitions to the pop era (1972-1984) -- The popular music era and beyond. …”
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Transforming Gender and Emotion : The Butterfly Lovers Story in China and Korea / by Cho, Sookja

Table of Contents: “…Adventures in a Male Space: Troubled Gender and Sexuality -- 3. Between Women and Men: Friendship vs. Love -- 4. From Sorrowful Separation to Convivial Excursion: The Aesthetics and Poetics of a Parting Journey -- 5. …”
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Ripples of Hope : How Ordinary People Resist Repression Without Violence / by Press, Robert M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Resisting repression without violence -- Sierra Leone -- Students shake the pillars of power -- Radical activism : from seeking regime reform to regime change -- Women help restore democracy -- Mass noncooperation helps defeat a violent junta -- Liberia -- Nonviolent resistance in abeyance -- Peaceful resistance during a civil war -- Kenya -- Individual resistance against repression -- Establishing a culture of resistance -- Conclusion -- Appendix. …”
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The Virgin of el barrio Marian apparitions, Catholic evangelizing, and Mexican American activism / by Nabhan-Warren, Kristy

Table of Contents: “…: becoming new men and women in Mary's Ministries -- Catholic evangelization : fighting "fire with fire" -- Corporate evangelizers :: a family's "vision" for South Phoenix -- Hope and healing : the dialectics of faith and place -- Conclusion : Grassroots Catholicism.…”
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Colonial rosary the Spanish and Indian missions of California / by Lake, Alison

Table of Contents: “…Francis -- Conversion and mission life -- The women of mission California -- Spanish and Mexican settlement -- Colonial soldiers and the Presidio -- Style and layout of mission buildings -- Farming -- Mission trades and economy -- Indians of the missions -- Changing rule of the missions -- The decline of a civilization -- The cycle of decline and restoration -- Conclusion : the colonial rosary -- Appendix A : research and resources -- Appendix B : additional resources pertaining to California indians.…”
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"Shakin' up" race and gender intercultural connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano narratives and culture (1965-1995) / by Sánchez, Marta Ester

Table of Contents: “…"In bed" with La Malinche : stories of "family" à la Octavio Paz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Oscar Lewis -- La Malinche at the intersection of Puerto Rican and African American cultures : Piri Thomas and Down these mean streets -- La Malinche : shuffling the Puerto Rican border in Spanish and Black Harlem -- Of nutshells, frogs, and men in Manchild in the promised land -- Grandma knows best : the women in Manchild in the promised land -- Overcoming self-loathing, learning to love brownness : Oscar Zeta Acosta and the autobiography of a brown buffalo.…”
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Transforming Gender and Emotion : The Butterfly Lovers Story in China and Korea / by Cho, Sookja

Table of Contents: “…Adventures in a Male Space: Troubled Gender and Sexuality -- 3. Between Women and Men: Friendship vs. Love -- 4. From Sorrowful Separation to Convivial Excursion: The Aesthetics and Poetics of a Parting Journey -- 5. …”
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Ripples of Hope : How Ordinary People Resist Repression Without Violence / by Press, Robert M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Resisting repression without violence -- Sierra Leone -- Students shake the pillars of power -- Radical activism : from seeking regime reform to regime change -- Women help restore democracy -- Mass noncooperation helps defeat a violent junta -- Liberia -- Nonviolent resistance in abeyance -- Peaceful resistance during a civil war -- Kenya -- Individual resistance against repression -- Establishing a culture of resistance -- Conclusion -- Appendix. …”
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In envy country stories / by Frank, Joan, 1949-

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The admonishment of vegetarian great aunt reflections on sexual and gender multiplicity and culture / by Wieringa, Saskia, 1950-

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Russia's penal colony in the Far East a translation of Vlas Doroshevich's "Sakhalin" / by Doroshevich, V. M. (Vlas Mikhaĭlovich), 1864-1922

Table of Contents: “…Portraits of Sakhalin -- First impressions -- The infirmary -- The Katorga cemetery -- A day in prison -- The chains prison -- The free prison -- Workshops -- "Aid station" -- The women's prison -- The isolators -- "Reformed" -- Two Odessans -- The murderers (a married couple) -- Grebeniuk and his homestead -- Paklin (from my notebook) -- Settlements (the exile-settlers) -- The female cohabitant -- The male cohabitant -- Those who've voluntarily followed -- The homeowners -- Reztsov -- Freemen on Sakhalin -- The Katorga theater -- Katorga actors -- The Brodiaga Sokolsky -- Crimes in Korsakovsk District -- Departure -- Real Katorga -- The capital of Sakhalin -- Aleksandrovsk post -- Sentenced to penal labor -- Who runs Katorga? …”
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