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Committed to the state asylum insanity and society in nineteenth-century Quebec and Ontario / by Moran, James E.

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments ix -- Interpreting Sophie's World i -- 1 Manipulating a Monopoly: The State and the -- "Farming-Out System" in Quebec 13 -- 2 Insanity, Community, and Commissioner: -- The State and the Government System in Ontario 48 -- 3 Medicine, Moral Therapy, and Madness in -- Nineteenth-Century Quebec and Ontario 77 -- 4 Wanderer, Pauper, and Prisoner: The Social, -- Economic, and Political Contexts of Committal 113 -- 5 Criminal Insanity: The Creation and Dissolution -- of a Psychiatric Disorder 141 -- Conclusion: Re-evaluating the Asylum, the State, -- and the Management of Insanity 167.…”
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The uncensored Boris Godunov the case for Pushkin's original Comedy, with annotated text and translation / by Dunning, Chester S. L., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Reconsidering history and expanding the canon / Caryl Emerson and Chester Dunning -- The problem of Boris Godunov : a review of interpretations and the so-called canonical text / Chester Dunning -- The exiled poet-historian and the creation of his comedy / Chester Dunning -- The tragic fate of Pushkin's comedy / Chester Dunning -- The world of laughter in Pushkin's comedy / Sergei Fomichev -- Tragedy, comedy, carnival, and history on stage / Caryl Emerson -- The ebb and flow of influence : muffling the comedic in the move toward print / Caryl Emerson -- Boris Godunov and the Russian literary canon / Caryl Emerson and Chester Dunning.…”
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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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How happy to call oneself a Turk provincial newspapers and the negotiation of a Muslim national identity / by Brockett, Gavin D.

Table of Contents: “…Imagining the secular nation : Mustafa Kemal and the creation of modern Turkey -- Narrating the nation : print culture and the nationalist historical narrative -- Provincial newspapers and the emergence of a national print culture -- Religious print media and the national print culture -- Muslim Turks against Russian communists : the Turkish nation in the emerging Cold War world -- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Mehmed the Conqueror : negotiating a national historical narrative -- Religious reactionaries or Muslim Turks? …”
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Tirpitz and the Imperial German Navy by Kelly, Patrick J., 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Tirpitz's early life -- The aspirant, 1865-1870 -- The young officer, 1870-1877 : a taste of war -- The creation of the german torpedo arm, 1877-1889 -- Interim, 1889-1891 -- Oberkommando der Marine, 1892-1895 -- On the verge of power, 1895-1897 -- Tirpitz ascendant, 1897-1898 -- The second navy law, 1899-1900 -- The "quiet" years, 1900-1906 -- Sow the wind, 1906-1908 -- The whirlwind rises, 1908-1911 -- Denouement, 1911-1914 -- Tirpitz at war, August 1914-March 1916 -- Uncommon recessional, 1916-1930 -- Conclusion.…”
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Seen and heard in Mexico : children and revolutionary cultural nationalism / by Albarrán, Elena Jackson

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : seen and heard in revolutionary Mexico -- Constructing citizens : adult-produced science, space, symbolism, and rhetoric for the revolutionary child -- Pulgarcito and Popocatépetl : children's art curriculum and the creation of a national aesthetic -- A community of invisible little friends : technology and power in children's radio programs -- Comino vence al diablo and other terrifying episodes : Teatro Guiñol's itinerant puppet theater -- Hacer patria through peer education : literacy, alcohol, and the proletarian child -- Hermanitos de la raza : civic organizations and international diplomacy -- Conclusion : exceptional and everyday citizen.…”
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Confronting capitalism : real solutions for a troubled economic system / by Kotler, Philip

Table of Contents: “…Preface: creating high performance capitalism -- The fourteen shortcomings of capitalism -- The persistent problem of poverty -- Growing income inequality -- Worker well-being -- Job creation in the face of growing automation -- The need for companies to cover their social costs -- The exploitation of the environment -- Business cycles and economic instability -- The focus on narrow self-interest -- Dealing with the debt burden and financial regulation -- How politics subverts economics -- Capitalism's short-term orientation -- Questionable marketing outputs -- Setting the right gdp growth rate -- Creating happiness as well as goods -- Epilogue -- Index.…”
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No Useless Mouth : Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution / by Herrmann, Rachel B.

Table of Contents: “…Black victual warriors and hunger creation -- Fighting hunger, fearing violence after the Revolutionary War -- Learning from food laws in Nova Scotia -- Power waning. …”
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Contemporary Irish Women Poets : Memory and Estrangement / by Collins, Lucy, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Memory, Estrangement and the Poetic Text; I Concepts; 1 Lost Lands: The Creation of Memory in the Poetry of Eavan Boland; 2 Between Here and There: Migrant Identities and the Contemporary Irish Woman Poet; 3 Private Memory and the Construction of Subjectivity in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry; II Achievements; 4 Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin's Spaces of Memory; 5 Medbh McGuckian's Radical Temporalities; 6 Catherine Walsh: A Poetics of Flux; 7 Vona Groarke: Memory and Materiality; Conclusion: Memories of the Future ; Bibliography…”
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Managing water resources past and present

Table of Contents: “…Edmunds -- Water in Mediterranean history / Peregrine Horden -- The development of American water resources : planners, politicians, and constitutional interpretation / Martin Reuss -- Managing water for the future : the case of England and Wales / Ian Byatt -- Water for Europe : the creation of the European Water Framework Directive / Maria Kaika -- Water laws for water security in the twenty-first century / Stefano Burchi -- Water and conflicts, Hobbes v. …”
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Storing, searching and dissemination of chemical information

Table of Contents: “…Optimum structure -- Problems of hash methods -- Matching of data -- Index creation -- Chemical exact structure and substructure search -- Brute-force explanation -- ABAS in practice -- Heuristic backtracking in molecular tree -- The concept of screening -- Tanimoto coefficient -- Chemical reaction retrieval -- Atom-to-atom mapping -- Breaking/Formation of bonds -- Super atoms, generic groups, R groups -- Generation of synthesis trees for synthesis -- Document and fact retrieval -- Exact & Partial match searches -- Similarity & Associative searches.…”
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Structure, evolution and dynamics of transcriptional regulatory networks

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Regulatory genomics and systems biology -- Transcriptional networks -- Network motifs -- Scale-free networks -- How transcriptional networks evolve -- Mechanisms for the creation of new genes -- Gene duplication and network growth -- Evolution of local network structure -- Gene regulatory network and expression data -- Back-tracking method to find active sub-networks -Temporal dynamics of local & global structure -- Topological properties -- Dynamic properties -- Hierarchical organisation in networks & of regulatory proteins -- Noise in protein levels -- Non-genetic variation -- Phenotypic variability in fluctuating environments -- Differential cell-fate outcome -- Node dynamics.…”
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The city in the Roman West, c.250 BC-c.AD 250 by Laurence, Ray, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The creation of an urban culture; 2. Colonisation and the development of Roman urbanism; 3. …”
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Reining in the competition for capital

Table of Contents: “…/ Rachel Weber -- Do better job creation subsidies hold real promise for business incentive reformers? …”
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Arcimboldo visual jokes, natural history, and still-life painting / by Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Arcimboldo's Lombard origins -- Arcimboldo from 1562: the creation of composite heads -- Learning, poetry, and art -- Serious jokes -- Natural philosophy, natural history, and nature painting -- Nature studies -- Arcimboldo and the origins of still life -- Arcimboldo's paradoxical paintings and the origins of still life -- Conclusion: Arcimboldo in the history of art -- Appendix 1. …”
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On-demand culture digital delivery and the future of movies / by Tryon, Chuck, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Coming soon to a computer near you: digital delivery and ubiquitous entertainment -- Restricting and resistant mobilities: negotiating digital delivery -- "Make any room your tv room": digital delivery and media mobility -- Breaking through the screen: 3D, avatar, and the future of moviegoing -- Redbox vs. red envelope, or closing the window on the bricks and mortar video store -- The Twitter effect: social media, and digital delivery -- Indie 2.0: digital delivery, crowdsourcing, and social media -- Reinventing festivals: curation, distribution, and the creation of global cinephilia -- Conclusion.…”
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Philosophy and melancholy Benjamin's early reflections on theater and language / by Ferber, Ilit

Table of Contents: “…Benjamin and Freud : at the juncture of melancholy loss -- Commitment and loyalty to the lost object -- The intentionless nature of truth -- Work and play : a view of melancholic productivity -- The Trauerspiel : reflections on the baroque -- Expressions of pain in the Trauerspiel -- The bombastic nature of expression in the Trauerspiel -- Pain and spectacle : the figure of the martyr -- Death and meaning : the figure of the ghost -- Language and loss : Benjamin's concept of expression -- Creation and loss : "on language as such" -- Lament : language and sadness -- The ghosts of language : "the task of the translator" -- The "epistemo-critical prologue" -- The "monad" : Leibniz and Benjamin -- The monads' configuration as a hierarchy -- A pre-established harmony : Benjamin's conception of truth as harmony -- Stimmung : philosophy and mood.…”
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Labor in the tourism and hospitality industry : skills, ethics, issues, and rights / by Elshaer, Abdallah M., Marzouk, Asmaa M.

Table of Contents: “…The significance of the tourism and hospitality industry in employment creation -- A critical analysis of labor supply and demand in the tourism and hospitality industries -- Labor skills and training in the tourism and hospitality industry -- Labor shortage in the tourism and hospitality industry -- Ethics in the tourism and hospitality industry -- Labor ethics and social responsibility in the tourism and hospitality industry -- Labor turnover in the tourism and hospitality industry -- Tourism and seasonality -- The high vulnerability of the tourism industry to risks and emergencies -- Low wages and overdependence on tipping -- Workforce diversity in the tourism and hospitality industry -- Technological change resistance -- Labor discrimination -- Labor trafficking in the tourism and hospitality industry -- Social justice, human rights, and labor rights.…”
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Pliny the Elder themes and contexts /

Table of Contents: “…Pliny the Elder's attitude to warfare / Rhiannon Ash -- Roman's burden / Andrew Fear -- Luxury and the creation of a good consumer / Eugenia Lao -- Imperialism, mirabilia, and knowledge: some paradoxes in the Naturalis historia / Valerie Naas -- Curious eye of the Elder Pliny / Mary Beagon -- Philosophy and science in the Elder Pliny's Naturalis historia / Ernesto Paparazzo -- Science and aesthetics of names in the Naturalis historia / Aude Doody -- Pliny on Apion / Cynthia Damon -- Pliny and the encyclopaedic addressee / Ruth Morello -- Encylcopaedic exemplarity in Pliny the Elder / Clemence Schultze -- Elder and better: the Naturalis historia and the letters of the younger Pliny / Roy K. …”
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China's route heritage : mobility narratives, modernity and the Ancient Tea Horse Road / by Sigley, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Chinese Culture and the 'Great Revival of the Chinese Nation': From Silk Road to Belt and Road -- The Physical and Cultural Geography of Southwest China's Ancient Tea Horse Road: Muleteers, Mountains and Mobility -- Modernity, Territoriality and the Terraformation of Yunnan: From Tianxia to Nation-State -- The Creation and Proliferation of a Route Heritage Mobility Narrative of Southwest China: The 'Old Ancient Tea Horse Road' -- Touristic Modernity and the Simulacrum: The Invention of the 'New Ancient Tea Horse Road' -- Tea-Horse Road Tourism, Theme Parks and Themed Residential and Commercial Spaces: The 'New Ancient Tea Horse Road' and Global Modernity -- Epilogue: Mobility and the 'Modern World': Revisiting the Dulong Road.…”
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