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Substance abuse : a comprehensive textbook /

Table of Contents: “…Life cycle -- section X. Women's issues -- section XI. Ethnic populations -- section XII. …”
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Periods in pop culture menstruation in film and television / by Rosewarne, Lauren

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: blood hunting -- Women bleeding secretly : the gender, place and segregation of menstruation -- Red tents and moon lodges : menstruation and the rites of passage -- The curse of eve : cramped stomachs and cramped lifestyles -- The menstrual mess : the disgust, horror and fear of menstruation -- I want to suck your blood : sex, sexiness and menstruation -- Bleeding out proud : menstruation and empowerment -- You don't know what you've got til it's gone : absent menstruation -- Where have all the menstruators gone? …”
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Encountering China : early modern European responses /

Table of Contents: “…European responses to child abandonment, sale of children and social welfare policies in Ming China / Rachana Sachdev -- Of golden lilies and gentlewomen : constructions of Chinese women in early modern European travel narratives / Qingjun Li -- Earlier moderns : the novel form as national development in China and Europe / Daniel Dooghan -- "A strong resemblance" : Samuel Richardson, Chinese talent-beauty novels, and a secret origin of "world literature" / Ning Ma -- 'Magicians, enchanters, and professional crooks' : early modern understandings of Daoism / Ronnie Littlejohn -- Buddhism and idolatry / Terry Logan Mazurak.…”
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Black Disability Politics / by Schalk, Samantha Dawn

Table of Contents: “…"We have a right to rebel" : Black disability politics in the Black Panther Party -- Fighting psychiatric abuse : the BPP and the Black disability politics of mental and carceral institutions -- Praxis interlude one : anti-ableist approaches to fighting disabling violence -- Empowerment through wellness : Black disability politics in the National Black Women's Health Project -- More than just prevention : the NBWHP and the Black disability politics of HIV/AIDS -- Praxis interlude two: Approaches to disability identity in Black disability politics -- Black disability politics now.…”
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Taking on the big boys, or, Why feminism is good for families, business, and the nation by Bravo, Ellen

Table of Contents: “…: sexual harassment -- Nine to five : not just a movie--the right to organize -- Working other than nine to five : part-time and temporary jobs -- What this nation really thinks of motherhood : welfare reform -- Revaluing women's work outside of work -- How you can help get there.…”
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Black Disability Politics / by Schalk, Samantha Dawn

Table of Contents: “…"We have a right to rebel" : Black disability politics in the Black Panther Party -- Fighting psychiatric abuse : the BPP and the Black disability politics of mental and carceral institutions -- Praxis interlude one : anti-ableist approaches to fighting disabling violence -- Empowerment through wellness : Black disability politics in the National Black Women's Health Project -- More than just prevention : the NBWHP and the Black disability politics of HIV/AIDS -- Praxis interlude two: Approaches to disability identity in Black disability politics -- Black disability politics now.…”
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Invisible earthquake a woman's journey through stillbirth / by Ndlovu, Malika

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Mass media and social change /

Table of Contents: “…--Wilson, S.J. The image of women in Canadian magazines.--Rosengren, K.E. Mass media and social change.…”

A History of Male Psychological Disorders in Britain, 1945–1980 by Haggett, Ali

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All-out for victory! magazine advertising and the World War II home front / by Jones, John Bush

Table of Contents: “…-- Conservation, scrap drives, and home front efficiency -- Soda pop, letters, and cigarettes -- Morale overseas and at home -- "Produce, conserve, share, and play square" -- Coping with shortages and rationing -- "The hand that rocked the cradle rules the world" -- Women in war work -- "Dig down deep" -- Giving blood and buying bonds -- Epilogue : the world of tomorrow.…”
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The novel and the American left critical essays on Depression-era fiction /

Table of Contents: “…Campbell -- My little illegality / Joy Castro -- Shriveled breasts and dollar signs / Angela Marie Smith -- Monstrous modernism / Joseph Entin -- The objectivity of nature in Josephine Herbst's Rope of gold / Caren Irr -- Agrarian landscapes, the Depression, and women's progressive fiction / Janet Galligani Casey -- The avengers of Christie Street / Lee Bernstein -- "Smashing cantatas" and "Looking glass pitchers" / Lawrence Hanley -- Marching! …”
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Right to ride streetcar boycotts and African American citizenship in the era of Plessy v. Ferguson / by Kelley, Blair Murphy, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…: Maggie Lena Walker, John Mitchell Jr., and the great class debate -- Negroes everywhere are walking : work, women, and the Richmond streetcar boycott -- Battling Jim Crow's buzzards : betrayal and the Savannah streetcar boycott -- Bend with unabated protest: on the meaning of failure -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Reluctant rebels the Confederates who joined the Army after 1861 / by Noe, Kenneth W., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…"Fighting for the property we gained by honest toil" -- Women : "Do the best you can" -- Hatred : "Vandal hordes" -- Pay : "Fighting for money instead of their country" -- pt. 3. …”
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Freedom is an endless meeting democracy in American social movements / by Polletta, Francesca

Table of Contents: “…SNCC'S CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY, 1964-65 -- 5 PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY IN THE NEW LEFT, 1960-67 -- 6 FRIENDSHIP AND EQUALITY IN THE WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT, 1967-77 -- 7 DEMOCRACY IN RELATIONSHIP: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND DIRECT ACTION TODAY -- 8 CONCLUSION: RULES, RITUALS, AND RELATIONSHIPS.…”
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Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 / by Garcia, Humberto, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: rethinking Islam in the eighteenth century -- "A true protestant Mahometan": Henry Stubbe, Ottoman Hungary, and the siege of Vienna -- Letters from a female deist: Lady Mary Wortley, muslim women, and freethinking feminism -- In defense of the ancient Mughal constitution: Edmund Burke, India and the Warren Hastings trial -- Hermetic Egypt, Ali Bonaparte, and the colonial politics of Walter Savage Landor's Gebir -- "The flight and return of Mohammed": plotting Samuel Taylor Coleridge's and Robert Southey's unitarian epic -- A last woman's eschatology: the avenging Turks in Mary Shelley's The last man -- Epilogue: postcolonial reflections.…”
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The Chouteaus first family of the fur trade / by Hoig, Stan

Table of Contents: “…Threshold to an empire -- Beyond the great river -- War and peace on the Missouri -- In a Spanish dungeon -- Scions to the fore -- Amid an Indian war -- A frontier in havoc -- The "Osage outfit" -- VIPs at the Verdigris -- Probing the plains -- To the prairies unknown -- Debt unto death -- Steamboats "to the mountains" -- A mile wide and six inches deep -- Deadly cargoes : whiskey and cholera -- Charles Chouteau at the helm -- Passions of war -- Requiems in retrospect -- Addendum : the Chouteau women -- Appendix A : Chouteau families and Osage offspring -- Appendix B : Chouteau-related trading posts -- Appendix C : Chouteau-involved Indian treaties.…”
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NGOs, civil society, and the public sphere by Lang, Sabine, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Urban development advocacy in the United States and Germany; 6. Transnational women's NGO networks in the European Union; 7. NGOs navigating inclusion in governance and public accountabilities; Appendix A. …”
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Nonparametric covariate adjustment

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Common parametric and semiparametric approaches for adjusting for covariates, including analysis of variance (ANOVA) and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) -- The assumptions underlying their validity -- The nonparametric version of the ANOVA model which formulates hypotheses in terms of the cumulative distribution functions as a useful, assumption-free, alternative -- Statistics for testing such hypotheses are extensions of the rank-sum statistic to the ANOVA setting and are implemented with the FANOVA and PROC MIXED procedures in SAS -- An extension of the nonparametric ANOVA methodology to continuous covariates (ANCOVA) -- Simulation results -- Analysis of data examples: the Penn State Young Women's Health Study (YWHS) and the Etiology of Crime Study.…”
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International disability law : a practical approach to the united nations convention on the rights of persons with disabilities / by Pyaneandee, Coomara

Table of Contents: “…part PART I General provisions -- chapter 1 Functions of the CRPD Committee -- chapter 2 Pillars of the CRPD -- chapter 3 Women and girls with disabilities -- part PART II Civil and political rights -- chapter 4 Legal capacity and access to justice -- chapter 5 Security of the person -- chapter 6 Right to life -- chapter 7 Participation in political and public life -- part PART III Economic, social and cultural rights -- chapter 8 Accessibility -- chapter 9 Right to education -- chapter 10 Right to work and employment -- chapter 11 Inclusive independent living.…”
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Understanding strength and conditioning as sport coaching : bridging the biophysical, pedagogical and sociocultural foundations of practice / by Cassidy, Tania, 1964-, Handcock, Phil, Burrows, Lisette, 1963-, Gearity, Brian

Table of Contents: “…-- Training volume : fear of missing out (FOMO) -- 'Helicopter' strength and conditioning : questioning the role of monitoring -- Developing as a competent strength and conditioning professional -- Women and strength and conditioning coaching -- Finding a professional voice and collaborating -- Healthy development of youth for sport -- Talent identification and development and creating an environment for success -- Older and wiser? …”
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