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Stranger intimacy contesting race, sexuality, and the law in the North American West / by Shah, Nayan, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Migration, capitalism, and stranger intimacy -- Passion, violence, and asserting honor -- Policing strangers and borderlands -- Rural dependency and intimate tensions -- Intimacy, law, and legitimacy -- Legal borderlands of age and gender -- Intimate ties and state legitimacy -- Membership and nation-states -- Regulating intimacy and immigration -- Strangers to citizenship -- Conclusion: estrangement or belonging? …”
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Surrender : How the Clinton Administration Completed the Reagan Revolution / by Meeropol, Michael

Table of Contents: “…-- Testing the various assertions -- Failures, real and imagined -- The Bush presidency and Clinton's first two years : the end of Reaganomics? …”
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The student EQ edge emotional intelligence and your academic and personal success / by Stein, Steven (Steven J.)

Table of Contents: “…Emotional intelligence: here to stay -- Class closed and the ABCDE model -- Emotional self-awareness -- Self-regard -- Self-actualization -- Emotional expression -- Independence -- Assertiveness -- Interpersonal relationships -- Empathy -- Social responsibility -- Reality testing -- Problem solving -- Impulse control -- Flexibility -- Stress tolerance -- Optimism -- Happiness -- EQ and student success -- EQ and work success -- The role of EQ in leadership -- EQ, lifestyle, healthy living, and relationships -- What's next?…”
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Faith and force a Christian debate about war / by Clough, David, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…-- The challenge of weapons proliferation -- Political and holy terrorism : frameworks for analysis and action -- Spreading democracy or asserting national interests? The case of the Wars on Iraq -- Conclusion : a Christian agenda for a warring world.…”
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A cognitive-behavioral treatment program for overcoming alcohol problems therapist guide / by Epstein, Elizabeth E.

Table of Contents: “…Introductory information for therapists -- Clinical issues -- Assessing alcohol use and problems -- Session 1: Introduction/rationale/self-recording -- Session 2: Functional analysis -- Session 3: High-risk hierarchy/social network triggers/self-management plans -- Session 4: Enhancing motivation to change -- Session 5: Assessing anxiety and depression/dealing with urges -- Session 6: Affect and mood management/rearranging behavioral consequences -- Session 7: Connecting with others/dealing with alcohol-related thoughts -- Session 8: Assertiveness training/drink refusal -- Session 9: Anger management part I/relapse prevention part I: seemingly irrelevant decisions -- Session 10: Anger management part II/problem solving/relapse prevention part II -- Session 11: Relapse prevention part III -- Session 12: Review/relapse prevention part IV: maintenance planning and relapse contract.…”
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Unlocking energy innovation how America can build a low-cost, low-carbon energy system / by Lester, Richard K. (Richard Keith), 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Beyond wishful thinking : facts, deductions, and grounded assertions about climate and energy -- An energy innovation system that works -- Electric utilities and the three waves of energy innovation -- The first wave : unlocking innovation in building energy efficiency -- The second wave of innovation-Part 1 : Low-carbon electricity supply -- The second wave of innovation-Part 2 : The rest of the electricity system -- The third wave of innovation : creating breakthrough options -- Building a new American energy innovation system : a ten-point framework.…”
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Alternative linguistics descriptive and theoretical modes /

Table of Contents: “…Fox & Robert Jasperson -- Asserting identity / János Révai -- Viewing in cognition and grammar / Ronald W. …”
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Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn, Volume II : "This Dark and Desperate Age" by Melnick, Ralph

Table of Contents: “…In Heaven's Name; 36. Damning Assertions; 37. Painfully Awake; 38. Desert Journey; 39. …”
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African American bioethics culture, race, and identity /

Table of Contents: “…Garcia -- The moral weight of culture in ethics / Segun Gbadegesin -- Whitewashing black health : lies, deceptions, assumptions, and assertions : and the disparities continue / Annette Dula -- Race, equity, health policy, and the African-American community / Patricia A. …”
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A handbook for classroom management that works

Table of Contents: “…Rules and procedures -- General classroom behavior -- Beginning and ending the period or the day -- Transitions and interruptions -- Use of materials and equipment -- Group work -- Seat work and teacher-led activities -- Discipline and consequences -- Teacher reaction -- Tangible rewards -- Direct cost -- Group contingency -- Home contingency -- Teacher/student relationships -- Demonstrating personal interest in students -- Behaving equitably and responding affirmatively to questions -- Exhibiting an assertive connection -- Being aware of the needs of different types of students -- Mental set -- Exhibiting "withitness" -- Exhibiting emotional objectivity -- Student responsibility -- The nature of responsibility -- Strategies for personal development -- Strategies for conflict prevention and resolution -- Getting off to a good start -- Before school begins -- The first day of school -- The first two weeks of school -- Management at the school level -- Establishing and enforcing schoolwide rules, procedures, and consequences -- Establishing norms of conduct for faculty and staff.…”
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Cognitive-behavioral stress management for prostate cancer recovery facilitator guide / by Penedo, Frank J.

Table of Contents: “…Introductory information for facilitators -- Logistics of the cognitive-behavioral stress management intervention program -- Session 1: Introduction to the program/Stress awareness and physical responses/8-muscle-group progressive muscle relaxation -- Session 2: Diaphragmatic breathing and 4-muscle-groups progressive muscle relaxation/Stress awareness and the appraisal process -- Session 3: Deep breathing and counting with passive progressive muscle relaxation/Sex and sexuality after prostate cancer treatment and automatic thoughts -- Session 4: Special place imagery/Cognitive distortions -- Session 5: Relaxation for healing and well-being/Cognitive restructuring -- Session 6: Autogenic training/Coping I -- Session 7: Autogenics with visual imagery and positive self-suggestions/Coping II -- Session 8: Mantra meditation/Anger management -- Session 9: Mindfulness meditation/Assertive communication -- Session 10: Group favorite relaxation exercise/Social support and program wrap-up.…”
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Applied research and evaluation in community mental health services an update of key research domains /

Table of Contents: “…State -- Current developments in assertive community treatment / Joan Bishop ... [et al.]. -- Supported employment / Eric Latimer.…”
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Moore's paradox new essays on belief, rationality, and the first person /

Table of Contents: “…Williams -- Moore's paradox, belief, and assertion -- What reflexive pronouns tell us about belief : a new Moore's paradox de se, rationality, and privileged access / Jay David Atlas -- Moore's paradox and the transparency of belief / Jonathan E. …”
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Functional categories in learner language

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Preface / Christine Dimroth and Peter Jordens -- Convergence on finite V2 clauses in L1, bilingual L1 and early L2 acquisition / Rosemarie Tracy and Dieter Thoma -- The acquisition of functional categories in child L1 and adult L2 Dutch / Peter Jordens -- The acquisition of syntactic finiteness in L1 German: A structure-building approach / Steffi Winkler -- Stepping stones and stumbling blocks: Why negation accelerates and additive particles delay the acquisition of finiteness in German / Christine Dimroth -- Does finiteness mark assertion? A picture selection study with native speakers and adult learners of German / Sarah Schimke -- Light verbs and the acquisition of finiteness and negation in Dutch as a second language / Josje Verhagen -- Finiteness in children with SLI: a functional approach / Anke Jolink -- Functional and modal elements in child and adult Russian / Natalia Gagarina -- How much (morpho-)syntax is needed to express finiteness? …”
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Lobbying the Autocrat : The Dynamics of Policy Advocacy in Nondemocracies /

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Surveillance and spies in the Civil War : exposing Confederate conspiracies in America's heartland / by Towne, Stephen E., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Vallandigham, the Ohio gubernatorial election of 1863, and plots to release Confederate POWs in the fall of 1863 -- "It is impossible to doubt this": army intelligence in the Northern Department in early 1864 -- "What I say about secret dangers is well considered and based on fact": how Rosecrans's detectives infiltrated the secret organizations in early 1864 -- "When government determines to act": how Carrington's detectives infiltrated the secret organizations in 1864 -- "I feel provoked beyond measure at the indifference of the president": convincing Lincoln of the danger of insurrection, summer 1864 -- A "narrow escape from a Civil War": the triumph of military intelligence in august 1864 -- "I make no assertions without proof": preserving the northwest in the fall of 1864 -- Postscript: the evidence of conspiracy.…”
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From colony to superpower U.S. foreign relations since 1776 / by Herring, George C., 1936-

Table of Contents: “…"To begin the world over again" : foreign policy and the birth of the republic, 1776-1778 -- "None who can make us afraid" : the new republic in a hostile world, 1789-1801 -- "Purified as by fire" : republicanism challenged and reaffirmed, 1801-1815 -- "Leave the rest to us" : the assertive republic, 1815-1837 -- "A dose of arsenic" : slavery, expansionism, and the road to disunion, 1837-1861 -- "Last best hope" : the Union, the Confederacy, and Civil War diplomacy, 1861-1877 -- "A good enough England" : foreign relations in the Gilded Age, 1877-1893 -- The War of 1898 and the dawn of the American century, 1893-1901 -- "Bursting with good intentions" : the United States in world affairs, 1901-1913 -- "A new age" : Wilson, the Great War, and U.S. foreign policy, 1913-1921 -- Involvement without commitment, 1921-1931 -- The great transformation : depression, isolationism, and war, 1931-1941 -- "Five continents and seven seas" : World War II and the emergence of American globalism, 1941-1945 -- "A noble burden far from our shores" : Truman, the Cold War, and the revolution in American foreign policy, 1945-1953 -- Coexistence and crises, 1953-1961 -- Gulliver's troubles: Kennedy, Johnson, and the limits of power, 1961-1969 -- Nixon, Kissinger, and the end of the postwar era, 1969-1974 -- Foreign policy in an age of dissonance, 1974-1981 -- "A unique and extraordinary time in world history" : Gorbachev, Reagan, Bush, and the end of the Cold War, 1981-1991 -- The strength of a giant : America as hyper-power, 1992-2007.…”
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Key concepts of Romanian history alternative approaches to socio-political languages /

Table of Contents: “…: the evolution of socio-political concepts and alternative interpretations / Victor Neumann -- On the process of writing the history of Romania : methodological issues / Armin Heinen -- Some reflections on historical semantics, political modernity and Romanian history (1780-1939) / Alexandre Escudier -- The concept of patriotism in Romanian culture / Klaus Bochmann -- Romanian liberalism (1821-1866) / Keith Hitchins -- Democracy, democratic, democratization / Wim van Meurs -- The concept of progress : the fraught relation between liberalism and state intervention / Angela Harre -- The concept of property in Romania's economic-legal history / Dietmar Müller -- The notion of Europe from the perspective of Romanian historical studies / Hans Christian Maner -- Images of Europe : images of Romania (1945/1948-2008) / Armin Heinen -- The concept of constitution in the history of Romanian legal thought / Edda Binder Iijima -- The concept of national style in artistic historiography : asserting a critical vocabulary / Ruxandra Demetrescu -- The conceptualization of national character in the Romanian intellectual tradition / Balázs Trencsényi -- Neam (Romanian for kin) and popor (Romanian for people) : the notions of Romanian ethno-centrism / Victor Neumann -- The concept of totalitarianism in Romanian socio-political languages / Victor Neumann -- Transition, transitions : the conceptualization of change in Romanian culture / Mirela-Luminita Murgescu, Bogdan Murgescu -- The history of politics as a dispute around the concepts of politics, statesman political person, politician / Armin Heinen -- Summary : key-concepts of Romanian history : alternative approaches to socio-political languages / Victor Neumann, Armin Heinen.…”
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A road to nowhere? Jewish experiences in the unifying Europe /

Table of Contents: “…Michal Bodemann -- Reading between the lines : assertion and reassertion in European Jewish life / Antony Lerman -- Anti-semitism, Israel, and Jewish politics -- Hate against the others : about the fatal chain creating xenophobia and anti-semitism / Thomas Gergely -- "Anti-semites of the continent unite!" …”
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Secret wars and secret policies in the Americas, 1842-1929 by Schuler, Friedrich Engelbert, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Latin American diplomats assert a policy of armed peace -- Italian, German, and Japanese governments and Soviet communists resume manipulations of ethnic communities and workers in the Americas (1923) -- Spain's elites lay the foundations for a global Iberian commonwealth -- [pt.] …”
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