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The fertility doctor : John Rock and the reproductive revolution / by Marsh, Margaret S., 1945-, Ronner, Wanda

Table of Contents: “…Family matters -- Choosing medicine, coming of age -- New discoveries in human reproduction -- Firing the first shot in the reproductive revolution -- The world of the patients -- The fertility doctor meets the pill -- The era of the pill begins -- The face and voice of the pill -- The pill falls from grace -- A true visionary.…”
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Historical atlases the first three hundred years, 1570-1870 / by Goffart, Walter A.

Table of Contents: “…Historical atlases come of age -- 6. Nineteenth-century maps of the middle ages -- Conclusion.…”
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Vienna in the age of uncertainty science, liberalism, and private life / by Coen, Deborah R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a scientific dynasty -- The mind set free : preparing a liberal society in the 1840s -- In the stream of the world : coming of age in the 1860s -- Memory images : models of reason in the liberal age -- The pigtail of the nineteenth century : determinism in the 1880s -- Afterlife : inheritance at the fin de siècle -- The education of the normal eye : visual learning circa 1900 -- Citizens of the most probable state : the politics of learning, 1908 -- Into the open : measuring uncertainty, 1900-1918 -- The irreplaceable eye : visual statistics, 1914-1926 -- Conclusion : a family's legacy -- Appendix : the Exner-Frisch family tree -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Glass ceilings and 100-hour couples what the opt-out phenomenon can teach us about work and family / by Moe, Karine S.

Table of Contents: “…Numbers too big to ignore -- Why opting out is an everywoman issue -- The 100-hour couple -- Glass ceilings and maternal walls -- Second shift redux -- Child care dilemmas -- Mama time -- The hectic household -- The professionalization of at-home motherhood -- Financial costs -- Negotiating without a paycheck -- Reigniting the career -- Creative strategies for making work "work" -- Coming of age in America.…”
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Ben Love my life in Texas Commerce / by Love, Benton F., 1924-

Table of Contents: “…Growing up in Paris -- Coming of age during World War II -- Growing old over Europe -- Back to the real world -- From business to banking -- Downtown to Texas Commerce -- Solidifying the base, 1968-72 -- The glory years, 1972-84 -- A new home for Texas Commerce -- The economic downturn and merging with Chemical Bank, 1983-89 -- Striking a balance : investing in politics and the community -- The lessons of a life.…”
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Fallen elites the military other in post-unification Germany / by Bickford, Andrew, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…The military imaginary : soldiers, myths, and states -- Emotions, generations, and death cults : militarization and the creation of socialist military personalities -- Coming of age in the NVA : the master narratives of militarization -- The writing on the wall : the NVA surrenders -- A war of signs, images, and memories : German militaries in the Cold War and unification -- "Unification has ruined my life" : the political economy of the military other -- As Germans among Germans : life in the Kameradschaft -- "We're the Jews of the new Germany" : heroic victimhood, fallen elites, and the slipperiness of history and memory -- Death and allegiance : toward an anthropology of soldiering.…”
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Girls of Liberty : The Struggle for Suffrage in Mandatory Palestine / by Shilo, Margalit

Table of Contents: “…Feminism and its Zionist and Hebrew roots -- The women's struggle begins: local organization -- The national campaign commences -- From associations to political party: the union of Hebrew women for equal rights -- One step forward, two steps back -- The union comes of age -- Five years of struggle and a victory -- Victory and defeat.…”
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The true story of Pocahontas the other side of history / by Custalow, Linwood

Table of Contents: “…-- Pocahontas : a favorite child -- Captain John Smith : an English chief -- Pocahontas : the Powhatan peace symbol -- Powhatan rule : not by force -- Danger in Pocahontas's homeland -- Pocahontas comes of age -- Pocahontas kidnapped -- No retaliation -- Marriage in captivity -- The colony saved by the Powhatan -- Pocahontas's revelation -- Murder in England -- In the years that followed.…”
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Life on the press the popular art and illustrations of George Benjamin Luks / by Gambone, Robert L., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- A Luks biography : the context of his graphic art -- An illustrator comes of age -- Life on the press : Philadelphia evening bulletin and New York world -- The gilded age from the other side of the tracks : Hogan's alley -- Politics and sarcasm : Sandburrs and the Verdict -- Into the roaring twenties : Vanity fair and New Yorker -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Madrid the history / by Stewart, Jules

Table of Contents: “…-- Days of glorious decadence -- Madrid gets a taste of Bourbon -- 1808 and all that -- Madrid comes of age -- Monarchy is the best policy -- ¡No pasarán! …”
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The big three in economics Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes / by Skousen, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Adam Smith declares an economic revolution in 1776 -- From Smith to Marx: the rise and fall of classical economics -- Karl Marx leads a revolt against capitalism -- From Marx to Keynes: scientific economics comes of age -- John Maynard Keynes: capitalism faces its greatest challenge -- Conclusion: has Adam Smith triumphed over Marx and Keynes?.…”
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Bonhoeffer a guide for the perplexed / by Lawrence, Joel

Table of Contents: “…: the centrality of Christ in Bonhoeffer's theology -- 'The church is the church only when it exists for others' : Bonhoeffer's ecclesiology -- The world come of age : worldliness in Bonhoeffer -- Etsi deus non daretur : living without God before God -- Religionless Christianity -- The place of Bonhoeffer today -- Conclusion.…”
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Dead women talking figures of injustice in American literature / by Norman, Brian, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Dead woman wailing: Edgar Allan Poe's "The fall of the house of Usher" -- Dead woman dictating: Henry James's The turn of the screw -- Dead woman rotting: William Faulkner's As I lay dying -- Dead woman cursing: Alice Walker's In search of our mothers' gardens -- Dead woman wanting: Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Dead woman heckling: Tony Kushner's Angels in America -- Dead women gossiping: Randall Kenan's Let the dead bury their dead -- Dead women healing: Ana Castillo's So far from God -- Dead woman coming of age: Alice Sebold's The lovely bones -- Dead woman singing: Suzan-Lori Parks's Getting mother's body -- When dead women don't talk: Maxine Hong Kingston's "No name woman".…”
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The psychology of coaching, mentoring and learning / by Law, Ho

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The coming of age : coaching psychology, coaching & mentoring -- Philosophy and theories of learning applicable to coaching and mentoring : positive psychology and the learning process -- Definitions : coaching psychology, coaching, mentoring and learning -- Leadership and organizational coaching & mentoring - becoming a learning organization and learning community -- Developing a universal integrative framework for coaching and mentoring -- Techniques and tools -- Continuing professional development, learning resources and practical exercises -- Case studies -- Evaluation -- Conclusion, discussion, future research and development.…”
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Warriors without war Seminole leadership in the late twentieth century / by Wickman, Patricia R. (Patricia Riles)

Table of Contents: “…An alternate universe -- Coming of age in the '70s -- James "E." Billie : the man who would be king -- Hitting the big time -- Dollars and drugs -- Home, home on the res -- One too many alligators -- Money matters (more and more) -- The beginning of the end -- Gaming : the next chapter -- The fourth Seminole war -- La ley del deseo -- A change, of course? …”
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After the Girls Club how teenaged Holocaust survivors built new lives in America / by Ford, Carole Bell, 1934-

Table of Contents: “…A meeting with Holocaust survivors -- Introduction: The women and the Girls Club -- Lodz : a path to the ghetto -- Growing up : coming of age in a nightmare -- Sh'erit ha-Pletah : the "Surviving Remnant" -- America : a home at the Girls Club -- After the Girls Club : settling in, settling down -- Betty and Lucy : different forks in the road -- Child survivors in old age : the aging women.…”
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Life in a Kam village in southwest China, 1930-1949 by Ou, Chaoquan

Table of Contents: “…Location -- Langdong -- The name 'Kam' -- The villagers -- Physical characteristics of the people -- The village -- Farming -- Spinning and weaving -- Thrifty people -- Mornings and evenings -- Food -- Mealtime etiquette -- Drinks -- Clothing -- Coming-of-age -- Courtship by night -- Courtship by day -- Intimidating situations for young women -- Matchmakers -- Engagement ceremony -- Marriage and divorce -- Unorthodox marriages -- Marriage relationships -- The distinction in culture between men and women -- Clan-centred community -- Pipe-smoking elders -- No beggars or thieves -- Monotonous and primitive music -- Festivals and celebrations -- Children -- Survival in the midst of suffering -- Author's postscript -- Translator's postscript.…”
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Mr. New York : Lew Rudin and his love for the city / by Lachman, Seymour

Table of Contents: “…Take care of our city -- Family roots -- Entree to politics and policy -- Birth of the association for a better New York -- New York's film and television industry comes of age in New York City -- Advent of the fiscal crisis -- Pre-payment of property taxes, and the road back to prosperity -- New York City marathon -- International tennis becomes synonymous with New York -- Protecting local and state tax deductions -- Living landmark.…”
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Youth and empire : trans-colonial childhoods in British and French Asia / by Pomfret, David M., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : childhood and the reordering of empire -- Tropical childhoods : health, hygiene and nature -- Cultural contagions : children in the colonial home -- Magic islands : children on display in colonialisms' cultures -- Trouble in fairyland : cultures of childhood in interwar Asia -- Intimate heights : children, nature and colonial urban planning -- Sick traffic : 'child slavery' and imperial networks -- Class reactions : education and colonial 'comings of age' -- Raising Eurasia : childhood, youth and the mixed race question.…”
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House of Refuge : Origins of Juvenile Reform in New York State, 1815-1857 / by Pickett, Robert S.

Table of Contents: “…Manhattan, gateway to the New York world (1825-55) -- The society for the prevention of pauperism (1825-55) -- The quest for support (1824-26) -- Joseph Curtis, first superintendent of the New York house of refuge (1824-26) -- Institutions for the reformation of juvenile delinquents (1825-59) -- "Most prolific sources of juvenile crime" (1826-56) -- The road to Albany (1827-54) -- The New York house of refuge system (1827-54) -- Coming of age (1827-57).…”
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