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A decisive decade : an insider's view of the Chicago civil rights movement during the 1960s / by McKersie, Robert B.

Table of Contents: “…The First Unitarian Church of Chicago: my gateway to the civil rights movement and to Alex Poinsett -- Campaigns on the employment front -- The Motorola Campaign and Tim Black -- Campaigns on the education front -- The movement marks time, while the university plays catch-up -- Spring and summer 1965: marches, more marches, and Al Pitcher -- A peaceful march in Kenwood and a not-so-peaceful march led by Dick Gregory -- Looking back on the tumultuous events of 1965 -- The campaign for open housing, summer 1966 -- Jesse Jackson, Operation Breadbasket, and minority enterprise -- The movement and the decade wind down -- Initiatives continue within the university and the unitarian church -- Race relations and the personal equation.…”
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From hot war to cold the U.S. Navy and national security affairs, 1945-1955 / by Barlow, Jeffrey G., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Wartime organizational changes in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations -- Initial challenges : postwar and demobilization planning -- The Navy and unification -- The National Security Act achieved -- Preparing for a new enemy -- War ends in the Pacific -- Troubles emerge in postwar China, 1945-1946 -- Assessing and responding to the Soviet naval threat -- Adjusting to the National Military Establishment -- Living in "interesting times" -- Slugging it out on Capitol Hill -- Events in the western Pacific -- Troubles on the Korean Peninsula -- Deciding to fight -- Defending NATO Europe : planning during the initial stages -- The Eisenhower national security structure -- Rethinking national strategy -- Coping with the new look -- A crisis abroad and a CNO's departure.…”
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A decisive decade : an insider's view of the Chicago civil rights movement during the 1960s / by McKersie, Robert B.

Table of Contents: “…The First Unitarian Church of Chicago: my gateway to the civil rights movement and to Alex Poinsett -- Campaigns on the employment front -- The Motorola Campaign and Tim Black -- Campaigns on the education front -- The movement marks time, while the university plays catch-up -- Spring and summer 1965: marches, more marches, and Al Pitcher -- A peaceful march in Kenwood and a not-so-peaceful march led by Dick Gregory -- Looking back on the tumultuous events of 1965 -- The campaign for open housing, summer 1966 -- Jesse Jackson, Operation Breadbasket, and minority enterprise -- The movement and the decade wind down -- Initiatives continue within the university and the unitarian church -- Race relations and the personal equation.…”
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The Tree Trunk Can Be My Pillow : The Biography of an Outstanding Japanese Canadian / by Kagetsu, Tadashi Jack, 1931-2006

Table of Contents: “…The hard life of a first born -- Getting started in a new land -- Early logging ventures -- A large-scale logging operation -- Life in a logging camp -- An unwanted partnership -- Personal life -- Maintaining Japanese traditions -- Education is a top priority -- A man of faith in action -- The Canadian Japanese Association -- Other activities in the community -- Participation in memorable events -- The Vimy pilgrimage and Berlin Olympics -- A great honour is savoured -- Pearl Harbor and its aftermath -- Our lives are changed forever -- Meager compensation for liquidated assets -- Starting a new life in the East -- The elder statesman is still active -- Life's sunset.…”
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Security strategies, power disparity and identity the Baltic Sea region /

Table of Contents: “…Knudsen -- Power disparities and the avoidance of confrontation / Olav F. Knudsen -- Events and ideas in the region : an overview 1980s-2000s / Olav F. …”
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The Tree Trunk Can Be My Pillow : The Biography of an Outstanding Japanese Canadian / by Kagetsu, Tadashi Jack, 1931-2006

Table of Contents: “…The hard life of a first born -- Getting started in a new land -- Early logging ventures -- A large-scale logging operation -- Life in a logging camp -- An unwanted partnership -- Personal life -- Maintaining Japanese traditions -- Education is a top priority -- A man of faith in action -- The Canadian Japanese Association -- Other activities in the community -- Participation in memorable events -- The Vimy pilgrimage and Berlin Olympics -- A great honour is savoured -- Pearl Harbor and its aftermath -- Our lives are changed forever -- Meager compensation for liquidated assets -- Starting a new life in the East -- The elder statesman is still active -- Life's sunset.…”
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The Impact of Losing Your Job : Unemployment and Influences from Market, Family, and State on Economic Well-Being in the US and Germany by Ehlert, Martin

Table of Contents: “…Life Courses and Trigger Events: Theoretical Considerations; 2.1 Institutional influences on the life course; 2.2 Family influences on the life course; 2.3 Unemployment dynamics over the life course; 2.4 Embedding the trigger events approach in the life course; 2.5 Expectations about differences in economic insecurity due to job loss; 3. …”
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The Impact of Losing Your Job : Unemployment and Influences from Market, Family, and State on Economic Well-Being in the US and Germany by Ehlert, Martin

Table of Contents: “…Life Courses and Trigger Events: Theoretical Considerations; 2.1 Institutional influences on the life course; 2.2 Family influences on the life course; 2.3 Unemployment dynamics over the life course; 2.4 Embedding the trigger events approach in the life course; 2.5 Expectations about differences in economic insecurity due to job loss; 3. …”
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Financial bliss a couple's guide to merging money styles and building a rich life together / by Holzer, Bambi

Table of Contents: “…Getting to know you and your partner -- Love-- and dead ends-- are blind -- Finance is in the eye of the beholder--our individual money styles -- "We need to talk" -- Conducting your financial state of the union meeting -- Merging and managing your financial life together -- Yours, mine, and ours--marrying your finances-- or not -- No secrets--keeping and maintaining good financial records -- Successfully preparing for your financial life events -- Setting up house -- Children and couplehood -- Being prepared for emergencies -- Retirement--at long last and how long will our money last? …”
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Adventures in unfashionable philosophy by Felt, James W., 1926-

Table of Contents: “…Preface (2008) -- On being yourself (1968) -- Invitation to a philosophic revolution (1971) -- the temporality of divine freedom (1974) -- Philosophic understanding and the continuity of becoming (1978) -- Transmutation and Whitehead's elephant (1981) -- Coming around again in philosophy (1982) -- Impossible worlds (1983) -- God's choice : reflections on evil in a created world (1984) -- Whitehead's misconception of "substance" in Aristotle (1985) -- Intuition, event-atomism, and the self (1987) -- Faces of time (1987) -- Fatalism and truth about the future (1992) -- Relational realism and the great deception of sense (1994) -- Why possible worlds aren't (1996) -- Proposal for a Thomistic-Whiteheadian metaphysics of becoming (2000) -- Epochal time and the continuity of experience (2003) -- "Know yourself!" …”
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Lincoln, the law, and presidential leadership /

Table of Contents: “…Williams -- "I claim not to have controlled events" : Lincoln leadership, and the Emanicipation struggle / Edna Greene Medford -- The Quality of mercy : Abraham Lincoln and the presidential power to pardon / Ron Soodalter -- Lincoln and the law of war / Burrus M. …”
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Adventures in unfashionable philosophy by Felt, James W., 1926-

Table of Contents: “…Preface (2008) -- On being yourself (1968) -- Invitation to a philosophic revolution (1971) -- the temporality of divine freedom (1974) -- Philosophic understanding and the continuity of becoming (1978) -- Transmutation and Whitehead's elephant (1981) -- Coming around again in philosophy (1982) -- Impossible worlds (1983) -- God's choice : reflections on evil in a created world (1984) -- Whitehead's misconception of "substance" in Aristotle (1985) -- Intuition, event-atomism, and the self (1987) -- Faces of time (1987) -- Fatalism and truth about the future (1992) -- Relational realism and the great deception of sense (1994) -- Why possible worlds aren't (1996) -- Proposal for a Thomistic-Whiteheadian metaphysics of becoming (2000) -- Epochal time and the continuity of experience (2003) -- "Know yourself!" …”
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Lincoln, the law, and presidential leadership /

Table of Contents: “…Williams -- "I claim not to have controlled events" : Lincoln leadership, and the Emanicipation struggle / Edna Greene Medford -- The Quality of mercy : Abraham Lincoln and the presidential power to pardon / Ron Soodalter -- Lincoln and the law of war / Burrus M. …”
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AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City Phase 3: Civilian Participation – Including the Global Health Deal Proposition /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Foreword -- Chapter 1: Persuasive communication, by Jean-Paul Close, Jaap Ham -- Chapter 2: the AiREAS Proof of Principle - POP Relating air quality to health and lifestyle, by Jean-Paul Close, Nicolette Meeder, John Schmeitz -- Chapter 3: The backpack project, by Jean-Paul Close, Nicolette Meeder -- Chapter 4: New entrepreneurship, by John Schmeitz, Jean-Paul Close -- Chapter 5: Event linked communication, by Jean-Paul Close, Eric de Groot, Pierre Cluitmans -- Chapter 6: Multicultural context, by Jean-Paul Close, Rüstem Demir -- Chapter 7: Level 4 Sustainocratic regional development, by Jean-Paul Close.…”
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Financial bliss a couple's guide to merging money styles and building a rich life together / by Holzer, Bambi

Table of Contents: “…Getting to know you and your partner -- Love-- and dead ends-- are blind -- Finance is in the eye of the beholder--our individual money styles -- "We need to talk" -- Conducting your financial state of the union meeting -- Merging and managing your financial life together -- Yours, mine, and ours--marrying your finances-- or not -- No secrets--keeping and maintaining good financial records -- Successfully preparing for your financial life events -- Setting up house -- Children and couplehood -- Being prepared for emergencies -- Retirement--at long last and how long will our money last? …”
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AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City Phase 3: Civilian Participation – Including the Global Health Deal Proposition /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Foreword -- Chapter 1: Persuasive communication, by Jean-Paul Close, Jaap Ham -- Chapter 2: the AiREAS Proof of Principle - POP Relating air quality to health and lifestyle, by Jean-Paul Close, Nicolette Meeder, John Schmeitz -- Chapter 3: The backpack project, by Jean-Paul Close, Nicolette Meeder -- Chapter 4: New entrepreneurship, by John Schmeitz, Jean-Paul Close -- Chapter 5: Event linked communication, by Jean-Paul Close, Eric de Groot, Pierre Cluitmans -- Chapter 6: Multicultural context, by Jean-Paul Close, Rüstem Demir -- Chapter 7: Level 4 Sustainocratic regional development, by Jean-Paul Close.…”
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The romance of the three kingdoms and Mao's global order of tripolarity by Lam, Lai Sing

Table of Contents: “…The political role of classical Chinese literature in Mao's fight against the twin superpowers -- Chronological events of the Three Kingdoms period -- Mao and theme of The romance of the three kingdoms -- The romance of the three kingdoms and the origins of Mao's global order of tripolarity -- Mao's tripolar methodology: from theory to praxis -- From post-war bipolarity to Mao's global order of tripolarity -- 1954-1964 period of tripolarity: Sino-Soviet break up and dismissal of Soviet-backed Peng Dehuai -- 1965-1969 period of tripolarity: Cultural Revolution as part of Sino-US hostility -- 1969-1976 period of tripolarity: Sino-US courtship and Mao's modernization initiatives in western economic style -- 1979-1990 period: collapse of Mao's global order of tripolarity.…”
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Sleep and breathing in infants and young children by Kelʹmanson, I. A. (Igorʹ Aleksandrovich)

Table of Contents: “…Polysomnography as the objective method of sleep study -- Basic knowledge on sleep neurophysiology -- Sleep ontogeny -- Sleep chronobiology -- The mechanisms responsible for the maintenance of respiration -- Respiratory and other physiological characteristics during sleep -- Arousals -- Major forms of sleep disorders in infants and young children and approaches to their correction -- Apnea of prematurity and infantile apnea -- Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) -- Central hypoventilation -- Apparent life-threatening events (ALTE) -- Sleep disordered breathing and chronic pulmonary diseases -- Approaches to evaluation and management in cases of sleep disordered breathing in infants and young children -- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome : definition and epidemiology -- SIDS and sleep disordered breathing -- Infant behavioral characteristics associated with SIDA and its risk factors -- Model of SIDS and preventive strategies.…”
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The romance of the three kingdoms and Mao's global order of tripolarity by Lam, Lai Sing

Table of Contents: “…The political role of classical Chinese literature in Mao's fight against the twin superpowers -- Chronological events of the Three Kingdoms period -- Mao and theme of The romance of the three kingdoms -- The romance of the three kingdoms and the origins of Mao's global order of tripolarity -- Mao's tripolar methodology: from theory to praxis -- From post-war bipolarity to Mao's global order of tripolarity -- 1954-1964 period of tripolarity: Sino-Soviet break up and dismissal of Soviet-backed Peng Dehuai -- 1965-1969 period of tripolarity: Cultural Revolution as part of Sino-US hostility -- 1969-1976 period of tripolarity: Sino-US courtship and Mao's modernization initiatives in western economic style -- 1979-1990 period: collapse of Mao's global order of tripolarity.…”
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Sleep and breathing in infants and young children by Kelʹmanson, I. A. (Igorʹ Aleksandrovich)

Table of Contents: “…Polysomnography as the objective method of sleep study -- Basic knowledge on sleep neurophysiology -- Sleep ontogeny -- Sleep chronobiology -- The mechanisms responsible for the maintenance of respiration -- Respiratory and other physiological characteristics during sleep -- Arousals -- Major forms of sleep disorders in infants and young children and approaches to their correction -- Apnea of prematurity and infantile apnea -- Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) -- Central hypoventilation -- Apparent life-threatening events (ALTE) -- Sleep disordered breathing and chronic pulmonary diseases -- Approaches to evaluation and management in cases of sleep disordered breathing in infants and young children -- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome : definition and epidemiology -- SIDS and sleep disordered breathing -- Infant behavioral characteristics associated with SIDA and its risk factors -- Model of SIDS and preventive strategies.…”
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