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Discovering Addiction : The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research / by Campbell, Nancy D. (Nancy Dianne), 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Framing the "opium problem" : protoscientific concepts of addiction -- Creatures of habit : feeding the "junkie monkeys" of Michigan -- "A new deal for the drug addict" : addiction research moves to Lexington, Kentucky -- "The man with the syringe" : pain and pleasure in the experimental situation -- "The tightrope between coercion and seduction" : characterizing the ethos of addiction research at Lexington -- "The great hue and cry" : prison reform and the ethics of human subjects research -- "The behavior is always right" : behavioral pharmacology comes of age -- "The hijacked brain" : reimagining addiction.…”
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Millennial makeover MySpace, YouTube, and the future of American politics / by Winograd, Morley

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Composition studies as a creative art teaching, writing, scholarship, administration / by Bloom, Lynn Z., 1934-

Table of Contents: “…-- Subverting the academic masterplot -- Coming of age in the field that had no name -- Anxious writers in context -- I write for myself and strangers : private diaries as public documents -- Making essay connections : editing readers for first-year writers -- The importance of external reviews in composition studies -- Want a writing director -- Why I (used to) hate to give grades -- Initiation rites, initiation rights / with Thomas Recchio -- Making difference : writing program administration as a creative process -- Bloom's laws.…”
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Composition Studies As A Creative Art by Bloom, Lynn Z., 1934-

Table of Contents: “…-- Subverting the academic masterplot -- Coming of age in the field that had no name -- Anxious writers in context -- I write for myself and strangers : private diaries as public documents -- Making essay connections : editing readers for first-year writers -- The importance of external reviews in composition studies -- Want a writing director -- Why I (used to) hate to give grades -- Initiation rites, initiation rights / with Thomas Recchio -- Making difference : writing program administration as a creative process -- Bloom's laws.…”
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Composition Studies As A Creative Art / by Bloom, Lynn Z., 1934-

Table of Contents: “…-- Subverting the academic masterplot -- Coming of age in the field that had no name -- Anxious writers in context -- I write for myself and strangers : private diaries as public documents -- Making essay connections : editing readers for first-year writers -- The importance of external reviews in composition studies -- Want a writing director -- Why I (used to) hate to give grades -- Initiation rites, initiation rights / with Thomas Recchio -- Making difference : writing program administration as a creative process -- Bloom's laws.…”
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A poet's revolution the life of Denise Levertov / by Hollenberg, Donna Krolik

Table of Contents: “…"Dancing edgeways": coming of age as a poet in the new world (1949-1955); "The true artist": Levertov's engagement with tradition (1954-1960) -- "The poem ascends": taking a position (1960-1963) -- "To speak of sorrow": Levertov's emergence as a social poet (1963?…”
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Contemporary consumption, consumers and marketing : cases from generations Y and Z / by Canavan, Brendan

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Fitzgerald & Hemingway works and days / by Donaldson, Scott, 1928-

Table of Contents: “…"This side of paradise": Fitzgerald's coming of age novel -- Possessions in "the Great Gatsby": Reading Gatsby closely -- The trouble with Nick: Reading Gatsby closely -- Money and marriage in Fitzgerald's stories -- A short history of "Tender is the night" -- Pt. 3. …”
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Contemporary African American Fiction New Critical Essays /

Table of Contents: “…Mickle -- "When the women tell stories": healing in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory / Tara T. Green -- The coming-of-age of the contemporary African American novel: Olympia Vernon's Eden, Logic, and, A killing in this town / Dana A. …”
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Rewriting Womanhood Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel, 1887–1903 / by LaGreca, Nancy, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Women's imagined roles in nineteenth-century Mexico : seclusion in the midst of progress and early feminist reactions -- Coming of age(ncy) : Refugio Barragín de Toscano's La hija del bandido -- Women in Peru : national and private struggles for independence -- New models for new women : rethinking Cinderella's virtues and humanizing the stepmother in Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera's Blanca sol -- Women as body in Puerto Rico : medicine, morality, and institutionalizations of sexual oppression in the long nineteenth century -- Sexual agency in Ana Roque's Luz y sombra : a subversion of the essentialized woman.…”
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Rewriting Womanhood : Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel, 1887–1903 / by LaGreca, Nancy, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Women's imagined roles in nineteenth-century Mexico : seclusion in the midst of progress and early feminist reactions -- Coming of age(ncy) : Refugio Barragín de Toscano's La hija del bandido -- Women in Peru : national and private struggles for independence -- New models for new women : rethinking Cinderella's virtues and humanizing the stepmother in Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera's Blanca sol -- Women as body in Puerto Rico : medicine, morality, and institutionalizations of sexual oppression in the long nineteenth century -- Sexual agency in Ana Roque's Luz y sombra : a subversion of the essentialized woman.…”
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Revisiting Narnia fantasy, myth, and religion in C.S. Lewis' chronicles /

Table of Contents: “…Starr -- On the origins of evil / Lawrence Watt-Evans -- Elusive prey / Natasha Giardina -- God in the details / Naomi Wood -- Coming of age in Narnia / Sam McBride -- The chronicles of Narnia : for adults only? …”
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Evolution of a Missouri asylum Fulton State Hospital, 1851-2006 / by Lael, Richard L., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…From idea to reality, 1844-1850 -- Overcoming obstacles : the first decade, 1850-1860 -- Disaster and rebirth, 1861-1872 -- Administration gridlock and recovery, 1869-1897 -- "To the victors belong the spoils" : asylum patronage, 1872-1923 -- Search for a cure : treatments in transition, 1905-1940 -- Bursting at the seams : growing pains, 1890-1940 -- Three early residents -- Dramatic changes in treatment, 1940-1949 -- Missouri's mental health care comes of age, 1950-1959 -- Enlightened leadership, 1960-1969 -- New strategies, new challenges, 1970-1979 -- The challenge of youth, 1950-1991 -- Deinstitutionalization, 1980-1989 -- New missions as the century turns, 1990-2000 -- An uncertain future.…”
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The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America Decades of Change /

Table of Contents: “…Market Liberalization and the (Un-) Making of the 'Perfect Neoliberal Citizen': Enactments of Gendered and Racialized Inequalities among Peruvian Vendors -- 9. Coming of Age in the Penal System: Neoliberalism, 'Mano Dura', and the Reproduction of 'Racialised' Inequality in Honduras -- 10. …”
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Girlhood a global history /

Table of Contents: “…Duff -- Stolen girlhood : Australia's assimilation policies and aboriginal girls / Christine Cheater -- Fathers, daughters, and institutions : coming of age in Mombasa's colonial schools / Corrie Decker -- Mothers of warriors : girls in a youth debate of interwar Iraq / Peter Wien -- "'Homemaker' can include the world" : female citizenship and internationalism in the postwar camp fire girls / Jennifer Helgren -- From chattel to 'breeding wenches' : abolitionism, girlhood, and Jamaican slavery / Colleen A. …”
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Portrait of a Young Painter : Pepe Zuniga and Mexico City's Rebel Generation / by Vaughan, Mary K., 1942-

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Aural History / by Ashtor, Gila

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Contemporary African American Fiction : New Critical Essays /

Table of Contents: “…Mickle -- "When the women tell stories": healing in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory / Tara T. Green -- The coming-of-age of the contemporary African American novel: Olympia Vernon's Eden, Logic, and, A killing in this town / Dana A. …”
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The Future of Latin American Library Collections and Research : Contributing and Adapting to New Trends in Research Libraries /

Table of Contents: “…Denise Stuempfle -- Teaching ancient Mesoamerica : a collaborative faculty/librarian experiment in embedment / David C. Murray -- Coming of age through digitization : the Oral History Programme at the University of the West Indies, St. …”
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Digital state : the story of Minnesota's computing industry / by Misa, Thomas J.

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