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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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