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Nestwork : New Material Rhetorics for Precarious Species / by Clary-Lemon, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : turning otherwise -- Barn swallow : infrastructural migrations and the dull edge of extinction -- Chimney swift : building precarity with fake chimneys -- Bobolink : being on bird time -- Conclusions for irreconcilability : making attention.…”
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Dinosaur in a haystack reflections in natural history / by Gould, Stephen Jay

Table of Contents: “…Origins, stability, and extinction -- pt. 4. Writing about snails -- pt. 5. …”
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Jewishness and the human dimension by Boyarin, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…A Jewish introduction to the human sciences -- Responsive thinking : cultural studies and Jewish historiography -- Seasons and lifetimes -- Toward an anthropology of the twentieth century -- Tropes of home -- A moment of danger, a taste of death -- Extinction and difference.…”
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Survival by hunting prehistoric human predators and animal prey / by Frison, George C.

Table of Contents: “…Where the buffalo once roamed -- The education of a hunter -- Paleoindian hunters and extinct animals -- The North American bison -- The North American pronghorn -- The rocky mountain sheep -- Hunting the deer, elk, and other creatures -- Weaponry and tools used by the hunter -- Concluding thoughts.…”
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Why have children? the ethical debate / by Overall, Christine, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…-- Illness, impairment, and the procreation decision -- Overpopulation and extinction -- Procreation, values, and identity.…”
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Conservation genomics adaptation and gene flow /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Conservation genomics -- Adaptation and gene flow -- Environmental change is ubiquitous -- Selection and evolution -- Genetic variation in large and small populations -- The extinction vortex -- Mutation, selection, and drift in large and small populations -- Purging and genetic load -- Local adaptation -- Genetic rescue vs. outbreeding depression.…”
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Parent management training treatment for oppositional, aggressive, and antisocial behavior in children and adolescents / by Kazdin, Alan E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Underlying principles and concepts -- From principles to techniques : positive reinforcement -- From principles to techniques : punishment and extinction -- Characteristics of treatment -- Evidence : key findings, strengths, and limitations -- Critical issues in applying and implementing treatment -- Parent management training in perspective -- Parent management training treatment manual.…”
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New world poetics nature and the adamic imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott / by Handley, George B., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Ecology, the New World, and the "American" Adam -- A New World poetics -- reading Whitman in the New World -- Nature's last chemistry in Leaves of grass -- Natural history as autobiography -- Hemispheric history as natural history -- The muse of (natural) history -- Impressionism in the New World -- Death, regeneration, and the prospect of extinction.…”
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Big Bone Lick the cradle of American paleontology / by Hedeen, Stanley

Table of Contents: “…Geologic setting -- Source of salt and health -- Indian accounts of great buffalo -- Gathering the bones -- Animal incognitum -- Thomas Jefferson takes an interest -- A question of tusks -- William Goforth's stolen specimens -- William Clark's bountiful collection -- The faunal list evolves -- Other mammoth changes -- Agents of extinction.…”
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Full house the spread of excellence from Plato to Darwin / by Gould, Stephen Jay

Table of Contents: “…The model batter : extinction of 0.400 hitting and the improvement of baseball -- pt. 4. …”
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Plain diversity : Amish cultures and identities / by Nolt, Steven M., 1968-, Meyers, Thomas J., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Amish images and identities -- Patterns of peoplehood -- Migration -- Ordnung -- Ethnicity -- Comparative communities -- Elkhart-Lagrange and Nappanee settlements -- Swiss settlements of Eastern Indiana -- Transplants from Lancaster, Pennsylvania -- The Paoli-Salem communities -- Diversity and unity -- Diverse Amish worlds -- Amish community as conversation -- Appendix: Extinct Indiana Amish settlements.…”
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Sustaining linguistic diversity endangered and minority languages and language varieties /

Table of Contents: “…Linguistic diversity, sustainability, and the future of the past / Suzanne Romaine -- When is an "extinct language" not extinct? / Wesley Y. Leonard -- Evaluating endangerment / M. …”
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Sustaining Linguistic Diversity Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties /

Table of Contents: “…Linguistic diversity, sustainability, and the future of the past / Suzanne Romaine -- When is an "extinct language" not extinct? / Wesley Y. Leonard -- Evaluating endangerment / M. …”
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Sustaining Linguistic Diversity : Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties /

Table of Contents: “…Linguistic diversity, sustainability, and the future of the past / Suzanne Romaine -- When is an "extinct language" not extinct? / Wesley Y. Leonard -- Evaluating endangerment / M. …”
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Ancestors and relatives genealogy, identity, and community / by Zerubavel, Eviatar

Table of Contents: “…-- The rules of genealogical lineation -- The rules of genealogical delineation -- The politics of descent -- Stretching -- Cutting and pasting -- Clipping -- Braiding -- Lumping -- Marginalizing -- Splitting -- Pruning -- The genealogy of the future -- Genealogical engineering -- Integration -- Segregation -- Extinction -- The future of genealogy.…”
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Catastrophes! : earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, and other earth-shattering disasters / by Prothero, Donald R.

Table of Contents: “…Earthquakes : the Earth in upheaval -- Tsunamis : the sea rises up -- Volcanoes : the Earth's cauldron -- Landslides : gravity always wins -- Floods : raging waters -- Hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons : nature on the rampage -- Tornadoes : funnels of disaster -- Blizzard : white death -- Ice ages : frozen planet -- Greenhouse planet : too hot to handle? -- Mass extinctions : when life nearly died -- Can we survive nature and our own folly?…”
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Digging Miami by Carr, Robert S.

Table of Contents: “…Diggers, scientists, and antiquarians: history of archaeological research -- Prehistoric Miami -- The first people: the Cutler fossil site -- The South Florida archaic -- The perfect balance: adapting to the land and sea -- Sacred geography: the prehistoric settlement system -- Failed settlements: the European legacy -- European contact: the transition to extinction -- The English and Bahamian legacy -- Seminole legacy -- Seminole archaeology -- Stockades and musket balls -- Pioneer Miami -- The archaeology of arrowroot: Miami's first industry -- Tropical homesteads: artifacts of Miami's pioneers -- The Miami circle and beyond.…”
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Foundations of real world economics : what every economics student needs to know / by Komlos, John, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Welcome to real-world economics -- Markets are neither omniscient nor omnipotent -- The nature of demand -- Homo oeconomicus is extinct : the foundations of behavioral economics -- Taste makers and consumption -- Firms and imperfect competition -- Returns to the factors of production -- The case for oversight, regulation, and control of markets -- Microeconomic applications on and off the blackboard -- What is macroeconomics? …”
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The fourth ghost white Southern writers and European fascism, 1930-1950 / by Brinkmeyer, Robert H.

Table of Contents: “…Cash -- Pastoralism and extinction: William Alexander Percy -- Georgia on my mind: Lillian Smith -- You can't go to Germany, again: Thomas Wolfe -- Democracy's tall men: William Faulkner -- Something deathly in the air: Katherine Anne Porter -- Dispatches from the home front: Carson McCullers -- Pragmatism, idealism, responsibility: Robert Penn Warren -- Ravagers of the earth: Lillian Hellman -- Coda: the long shadow.…”
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The vegetation of Antarctica through geological time by Cantrill, David J., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Deglaciation and colonization of the South Pole; 4. Mass extinction and life in the Triassic; 5. Continental break up and its impact on Jurassic vegetation; 6. …”
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