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Changing corporate America from inside out lesbian and gay workplace rights / by Raeburn, Nicole C. (Nicole Christine)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Corporations as the new frontier for lesbian, gay, and bisexual rights -- The rise of the corporate workplace -- The slowdown in new corporate organizing -- Building and benefiting from the movement -- Winds of change outside corporate walls: external factors influence gay-inclusive policies -- Corporate windows of opportunity: the impact of internal factors on gay-inclusive policies -- Changing the corporation from inside out: the power of employee activism -- Conclusion: movement success, theoretical and practical -- Appendix: The birth of gay employee networks and the adoption of domestic partner benefits.…”
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One day for democracy Independence Day and the Americanization of Iron Range immigrants / by Nemanic, Mary Lou, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "Toivo's Airbus, 1992" -- Early Fourth of July celebrations : from rites of resistance to celebrations of American nationalism -- The frontier period : celebrations of diversity in an isolated wilderness region, 1892-1905 -- One day for democracy : Independence Day as a festival of freedom in an era of labor oppression, 1906-24 -- The Great Depression : hard times, the New Deal, and a new nationalism, 1925-41 -- The queens of the Fourth of July : mass culture comes to the Iron Range, 1941-92 -- Epilogue: Looking into the twenty-first century.…”
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Private women, public lives gender and the missions of the Californias / by Reyes, Bárbara

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : gender and public space in the nineteenth-century Californias -- "For the riches of its souls" : the Society of Jesus in Antigua California -- "To teach the natives love and loyalty toward the Spanish monarch" : the Order of the Predicants of Santo Domingo in Baja California -- "[For its] very large and fine harbor" : the Franciscans of the College of San Fernando in Alta California -- Bárbara Gandiaga : race and agency at Mission Santo Tomás -- Eulalia Callis : privilege and power in the colonial Californias -- Eulalia Pérez : gender and labor in the Spanish frontier -- Conclusion : women in the public missions of the Californias.…”
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Enemies to allies : Cold War Germany and American memory / by Etheridge, Brian Craig, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: answering the German question -- "Tomorrow the world" : images of Germany before the Cold War -- "Germany belongs in the western world" : Germany and consensus politics in America, 1945-1959 -- "Your post on the frontier" : Germany in an age of consensus, 1945-1959 -- "The anti-German wave" : maintaining and challenging consensus in an age of chaos, 1959-1969 -- "We refuse to be "good Germans'" : Germany in a divided decade, 1959-1969 -- "The hero is us" : representations of Germany since the 1960s -- Conclusion: the significance of the German question in the twenty-first century.…”
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Private women, public lives gender and the missions of the Californias / by Reyes, Bárbara

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : gender and public space in the nineteenth-century Californias -- "For the riches of its souls" : the Society of Jesus in Antigua California -- "To teach the natives love and loyalty toward the Spanish monarch" : the Order of the Predicants of Santo Domingo in Baja California -- "[For its] very large and fine harbor" : the Franciscans of the College of San Fernando in Alta California -- Bárbara Gandiaga : race and agency at Mission Santo Tomás -- Eulalia Callis : privilege and power in the colonial Californias -- Eulalia Pérez : gender and labor in the Spanish frontier -- Conclusion : women in the public missions of the Californias.…”
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Enemies to allies : Cold War Germany and American memory / by Etheridge, Brian Craig, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: answering the German question -- "Tomorrow the world" : images of Germany before the Cold War -- "Germany belongs in the western world" : Germany and consensus politics in America, 1945-1959 -- "Your post on the frontier" : Germany in an age of consensus, 1945-1959 -- "The anti-German wave" : maintaining and challenging consensus in an age of chaos, 1959-1969 -- "We refuse to be "good Germans'" : Germany in a divided decade, 1959-1969 -- "The hero is us" : representations of Germany since the 1960s -- Conclusion: the significance of the German question in the twenty-first century.…”
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Changing corporate America from inside out lesbian and gay workplace rights / by Raeburn, Nicole C. (Nicole Christine)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Corporations as the new frontier for lesbian, gay, and bisexual rights -- The rise of the corporate workplace -- The slowdown in new corporate organizing -- Building and benefiting from the movement -- Winds of change outside corporate walls: external factors influence gay-inclusive policies -- Corporate windows of opportunity: the impact of internal factors on gay-inclusive policies -- Changing the corporation from inside out: the power of employee activism -- Conclusion: movement success, theoretical and practical -- Appendix: The birth of gay employee networks and the adoption of domestic partner benefits.…”
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One day for democracy Independence Day and the Americanization of Iron Range immigrants / by Nemanic, Mary Lou, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "Toivo's Airbus, 1992" -- Early Fourth of July celebrations : from rites of resistance to celebrations of American nationalism -- The frontier period : celebrations of diversity in an isolated wilderness region, 1892-1905 -- One day for democracy : Independence Day as a festival of freedom in an era of labor oppression, 1906-24 -- The Great Depression : hard times, the New Deal, and a new nationalism, 1925-41 -- The queens of the Fourth of July : mass culture comes to the Iron Range, 1941-92 -- Epilogue: Looking into the twenty-first century.…”
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101 quantum questions what you need to know about the world you can't see / by Ford, Kenneth William, 1926-

Table of Contents: “…Quantum physics at every scale -- section 15. Frontiers and puzzles.…”
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The filth of progress : immigrants, Americans, and the building of canals and railroads in the West / by Dearinger, Ryan, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…"Bind the Republic together" : canals, railroads, and the paradox of American progress -- Immigrant labor and the American imagination : Irish ditchdiggers, the triumph of progress, and the contest of canal communities in the Hoosier State -- "Abuse of the labour and lives of men" : Irish construction workers and the violence of progress on the Illinois transportation frontier -- "Hell (and Heaven) on wheels" : Mormons, immigrants, and the reconstruction of American progress and masculinity on the transcontinental railroad -- "The greatest monument of human labor" : Chinese immigrants, the landscape of progress, and the work of building and celebrating the transcontinental railroad -- End-of-track : reflections on the history of immigrant labor and American progress.…”
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101 quantum questions what you need to know about the world you can't see / by Ford, Kenneth William, 1926-

Table of Contents: “…Quantum physics at every scale -- section 15. Frontiers and puzzles.…”
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The filth of progress : immigrants, Americans, and the building of canals and railroads in the West / by Dearinger, Ryan, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…"Bind the Republic together" : canals, railroads, and the paradox of American progress -- Immigrant labor and the American imagination : Irish ditchdiggers, the triumph of progress, and the contest of canal communities in the Hoosier State -- "Abuse of the labour and lives of men" : Irish construction workers and the violence of progress on the Illinois transportation frontier -- "Hell (and Heaven) on wheels" : Mormons, immigrants, and the reconstruction of American progress and masculinity on the transcontinental railroad -- "The greatest monument of human labor" : Chinese immigrants, the landscape of progress, and the work of building and celebrating the transcontinental railroad -- End-of-track : reflections on the history of immigrant labor and American progress.…”
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In Their Own Words : Forgotten Women Pilots of Early Aviation / by Erisman, Fred

Table of Contents: “…Ruth Nichols, the Air-Minded Society, and the Aerial Frontier -- VI. Anne Morrow Lindbergh and the Twilight of the Aviation Age -- Epilogue: Requiem for the Aviation Age -- Notes…”
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In Their Own Words : Forgotten Women Pilots of Early Aviation / by Erisman, Fred

Table of Contents: “…Ruth Nichols, the Air-Minded Society, and the Aerial Frontier -- VI. Anne Morrow Lindbergh and the Twilight of the Aviation Age -- Epilogue: Requiem for the Aviation Age -- Notes…”
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Contested agronomy : agricultural research in a changing world /

Table of Contents: “…Johnson-Beebout -- Water in African agronomy / Philip Woodhouse -- Understanding agricultural intensification on a forest frontier in Madagascar: elements for a Malthusian/Boserupian synthesis / Jacques Pollini -- Alternative configurations of agronomic experimentation / Harro Maat and Dominic Glover -- "This field is our church": the social and agronomic challenges of knowledge generation in a participatory soil fertility management project / Joshua Ramisch -- Contesting agronomy through dissent: experiences from India / C. …”

Gone to Texas a history of the Lone Star State / by Campbell, Randolph B., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…The Republic of Texas, 1836-1846 159 -- 8. Frontier Texas, 1846-1861 187 -- 9. Empire State of the South, 1846-1861 207 -- 10. …”
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Making easy listening material culture and postwar American recording / by Anderson, Tim J.

Table of Contents: “…A tale of two ears : the concert hall aesthetic and stereo ; Space, the pliable frontier : stereo as the new spatial palette of audio -- Conclusion : the flip side (and a few concluding thoughts).…”
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Catholics in the movies

Table of Contents: “…Kane -- America's favorite priest : Going my way (1944) / Anthony Burke Smith -- God and guns : Seven cities of gold (1955) / Theresa Saunders -- Life on the frontier : Lilies of the field (1963) / Jeffrey Marlett -- Praying for stones like this : The Godfather trilogy (1972, 1974, 1990) / Carlo Rotella -- Catholic horror :The exorcist (1973) / Colleen McDannell -- Cops, priests, and the decline of Irish America : True confessions (1981) / Timothy J. …”
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The land beyond the mists essays on identity and authority in precolonial Congo and Rwanda / by Newbury, David S.

Table of Contents: “…Bushi and the historians : historiographical themes in eastern Kivu -- Recent historical research in the area of Lake Kivu : Rwanda and Zaire -- Lake Kivu regional trade in the nineteenth century -- Kamo and lubambo : dual genesis traditions on Ijwi Island -- The campaigns of Rwabugiri -- Rwabugiri and Ijwi -- King and chief on Ijwi Island -- The clans of Rwanda : a historical hypothesis -- Bunyabungo : the western frontier in Rwanda, ca. 1750-1850 -- What role has kingship? …”
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Knowing global environments new historical perspectives on the field sciences /

Table of Contents: “…Nyhart -- Negotiating the agricultural frontier in nineteenth-century southern Ohio archaeology / J. …”
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