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Pioneer Jewish Texans by Ornish, Natalie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to a people -- The adventurers : conquistadors and the search for freedom -- The soldiers : Jews in the battles for Texas independence -- The colonizers : opening Texas's lands west -- The statesmen : constructing a republic and a nation -- The ranchers : giants of Texas's great cattle herds -- The financiers : new frontiers in banking -- The wildcatters : from pipes to oil leases -- The humanitarian : Galveston and the gateway immigration movement -- The great merchants : some called them princes -- The significant merchants : laying the economic foundation for Texas's future -- The educators : the Paul Reveres of education -- The artists : vanguards in the arts -- The doctors and other healers : from the Alamo to the Nobel Prize -- The lawyers : justice for all.…”
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Slavery & South Asian history

Table of Contents: “…Renewed and connected histories : slavery and the historiography of South Asia / Indrani Chatterjee -- War, servitude, and the Imperial household : a study of palace women in the Chola Empire / Daud Ali -- Turkish slaves on Islam's Indian frontier / Peter Jackson -- Service, status, and military slavery in the Delhi Sultanate : thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Sunil Kumar -- The rise and fall of military slavery in the Deccan, 1450-1650 / Richard M. …”
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The games presidents play sports and the presidency / by Watterson, John Sayle

Table of Contents: “…In the beginning -- The sporting frontier -- Barely visible to press and public -- Theodore Roosevelt : climbing the mountain -- Sports and the presidency : the founding father -- Inside TR's sporting presidency -- William Howard Taft : a large legacy -- Woodrow Wilson : more than just a game -- Warren Harding : the wager he didn't win -- Calvin Coolidge : grace, under pressure -- Herbert Hoover : no place to hide -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt : politically and physically challenged -- Harry S. …”
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Becoming your own China stock guru the ultimate investor's guide to profiting from China's economic boom / by Trippon, James

Table of Contents: “…Trends--why the future belongs to China -- Sunrise in the east: China becomes the new world superpower -- Sunset in the west: the end of U.S. economic supremacy -- Breaking the chains of the bicycle kingdom: China's dreams come true -- The coming financial flood -- Becoming a guru -- China's economic landscape -- China's booming base: manufacturing -- China's auto industry: in full gear -- China's energy industry: red hot -- China's bonanza: banking and finance -- China's communications revolution: almost free speech -- Understanding China's financial centers -- Beijing: the epicenter of a capitalist revolution -- Shenzhen: China's test city -- Shanghai: China's own Manhattan -- Taiwan: the breakaway prodigy -- Hong Kong: China's modern frontier -- Building a China stock guru portfolio -- Buying China without leaving home -- Understanding the safest way to invest in Chinese stocks -- Identifying opportunities in Chinese stocks -- Assembling your portfolio and managing risk -- Conclusion: a peek at your guru future.…”
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The creative retrieval of Saint Thomas Aquinas essays in Thomistic philosophy, new and old / by Clarke, W. Norris (William Norris), 1915-

Table of Contents: “…-- Conscience and the person -- Democracy, ethics, religion : an intrinsic connection -- What cannot be said in Saint Thomas's essence-existence doctrine -- Living on the edge : the human person as "frontier being" and microcosm -- The metaphysics of religious art : reflections on a text of Saint Thomas -- Part II: New articles -- The immediate creation of the human soul by God and some contemporary challenges -- The creative imagination : unique expression of our soul-body unity -- The creative imagination as treated in Western thought -- The integration of personalism and Thomistic metaphysics in twenty-first-century Thomism.…”
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Looking north, looking south China, Taiwan, and the South Pacific /

Table of Contents: “…The South Pacific : China's new frontier / Bertil Lintner -- The software of China-Pacific Island relations / Ron Crocombe -- Sino-Pacifica : extra-territorial influence and the overseas Chinese / James Jiann Hua To -- China : stumbling through the Pacific? …”
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The creative retrieval of Saint Thomas Aquinas essays in Thomistic philosophy, new and old / by Clarke, W. Norris (William Norris), 1915-

Table of Contents: “…-- Conscience and the person -- Democracy, ethics, religion : an intrinsic connection -- What cannot be said in Saint Thomas's essence-existence doctrine -- Living on the edge : the human person as "frontier being" and microcosm -- The metaphysics of religious art : reflections on a text of Saint Thomas -- Part II: New articles -- The immediate creation of the human soul by God and some contemporary challenges -- The creative imagination : unique expression of our soul-body unity -- The creative imagination as treated in Western thought -- The integration of personalism and Thomistic metaphysics in twenty-first-century Thomism.…”
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Looking north, looking south China, Taiwan, and the South Pacific /

Table of Contents: “…The South Pacific : China's new frontier / Bertil Lintner -- The software of China-Pacific Island relations / Ron Crocombe -- Sino-Pacifica : extra-territorial influence and the overseas Chinese / James Jiann Hua To -- China : stumbling through the Pacific? …”
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Slavery & South Asian history

Table of Contents: “…Renewed and connected histories : slavery and the historiography of South Asia / Indrani Chatterjee -- War, servitude, and the Imperial household : a study of palace women in the Chola Empire / Daud Ali -- Turkish slaves on Islam's Indian frontier / Peter Jackson -- Service, status, and military slavery in the Delhi Sultanate : thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Sunil Kumar -- The rise and fall of military slavery in the Deccan, 1450-1650 / Richard M. …”
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The games presidents play sports and the presidency / by Watterson, John Sayle

Table of Contents: “…In the beginning -- The sporting frontier -- Barely visible to press and public -- Theodore Roosevelt : climbing the mountain -- Sports and the presidency : the founding father -- Inside TR's sporting presidency -- William Howard Taft : a large legacy -- Woodrow Wilson : more than just a game -- Warren Harding : the wager he didn't win -- Calvin Coolidge : grace, under pressure -- Herbert Hoover : no place to hide -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt : politically and physically challenged -- Harry S. …”
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Becoming your own China stock guru the ultimate investor's guide to profiting from China's economic boom / by Trippon, James

Table of Contents: “…Trends--why the future belongs to China -- Sunrise in the east: China becomes the new world superpower -- Sunset in the west: the end of U.S. economic supremacy -- Breaking the chains of the bicycle kingdom: China's dreams come true -- The coming financial flood -- Becoming a guru -- China's economic landscape -- China's booming base: manufacturing -- China's auto industry: in full gear -- China's energy industry: red hot -- China's bonanza: banking and finance -- China's communications revolution: almost free speech -- Understanding China's financial centers -- Beijing: the epicenter of a capitalist revolution -- Shenzhen: China's test city -- Shanghai: China's own Manhattan -- Taiwan: the breakaway prodigy -- Hong Kong: China's modern frontier -- Building a China stock guru portfolio -- Buying China without leaving home -- Understanding the safest way to invest in Chinese stocks -- Identifying opportunities in Chinese stocks -- Assembling your portfolio and managing risk -- Conclusion: a peek at your guru future.…”
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Introduction to computable general equilibrium models by Burfisher, Mary E.

Table of Contents: “…Taxes in a CGE model; 9. Conclusion: frontiers in CGE modeling; Modeling exercises; Appendix. …”
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Introduction to computable general equilibrium models by Burfisher, Mary E.

Table of Contents: “…Taxes in a CGE model; 9. Conclusion: frontiers in CGE modeling; Modeling exercises; Appendix. …”
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Fighting for America the struggle for mastery in North America, 1519-1871 / by Black, Jeremy

Table of Contents: “…Sixteenth-century background -- Creating new frontiers, 1600-74 -- Britain, France, and the natives, 1674-1715 -- Multiple currents, 1715-53 -- War for dominance, 1754-64 -- Britain triumphant to America independent, 1765-76 -- Britain defeated, 1775-83 -- Flexing muscles, 1783-1811 -- Florida, but not Canada : from the War of 1812 to the Monroe Doctrine, 1812-23 -- Expansionism and its problems, 1823-43 -- From the Oregon question to the Gadsden Purchase, 1844-53 -- A great power in the making? …”
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The world of Persian literary humanism by Dabashi, Hamid, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the making of a literary humanism -- The making of an Iranian world in an Islamic universe: the rise of Persian language and literature (632-750) -- The Persian presence in the Abbasid empire: resisting Arabic literary imperialism (750-1258) -- The prose and poetry of the world: the rise of literary humanism in the Seljuqid empire (1038-1194) -- The triumph of the word: the perils and promises of the Mongol empire (1256-1353) -- The lure and lyrics of a literature: the center and periphery of the Timurid empire (1314-1508) -- The making of a literary cosmopolitanism: treading over multiple empires (1501-1732) -- The dawn of new empires: literary humanism in search of itself (1736-1924) -- The final frontiers: new Persian literary humanism (1906-present) -- Conclusion.…”
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Fighting for America the struggle for mastery in North America, 1519-1871 / by Black, Jeremy

Table of Contents: “…Sixteenth-century background -- Creating new frontiers, 1600-74 -- Britain, France, and the natives, 1674-1715 -- Multiple currents, 1715-53 -- War for dominance, 1754-64 -- Britain triumphant to America independent, 1765-76 -- Britain defeated, 1775-83 -- Flexing muscles, 1783-1811 -- Florida, but not Canada : from the War of 1812 to the Monroe Doctrine, 1812-23 -- Expansionism and its problems, 1823-43 -- From the Oregon question to the Gadsden Purchase, 1844-53 -- A great power in the making? …”
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The world of Persian literary humanism by Dabashi, Hamid, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the making of a literary humanism -- The making of an Iranian world in an Islamic universe: the rise of Persian language and literature (632-750) -- The Persian presence in the Abbasid empire: resisting Arabic literary imperialism (750-1258) -- The prose and poetry of the world: the rise of literary humanism in the Seljuqid empire (1038-1194) -- The triumph of the word: the perils and promises of the Mongol empire (1256-1353) -- The lure and lyrics of a literature: the center and periphery of the Timurid empire (1314-1508) -- The making of a literary cosmopolitanism: treading over multiple empires (1501-1732) -- The dawn of new empires: literary humanism in search of itself (1736-1924) -- The final frontiers: new Persian literary humanism (1906-present) -- Conclusion.…”
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Faulkner in the twenty-first century Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2000 /

Table of Contents: “…: the difference between white men and white men / Walter Benn Michaels -- Beyond the edge of the map : Faulkner, Turner, and the frontier line / Robert W. Hamblin.…”
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Women embracing Islam gender and conversion in the West /

Table of Contents: “…Conversion and gender, two contested concepts / Willy Jansen -- Gender and conversion to Islam in the West / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- Contextualizing conversion -- The quest for peace in submission: reflections on the journey of American women converts to Islam / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- The shaping of a Scandinavian "Islam": converts and gender equal opportunity / Anne Sofie Roald -- Symbolizing distance: conversion to Islam in Germany and the United States / Monika Wohlrab-Sahr -- Discourses and narratives -- Gender, conversion, and Islam: a comparison of online and offline conversion narratives / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- The shifting significance of the halal/haram frontier: narratives on the hijab and other issues / Stefano Allievi -- Trajectories and paradigms -- Female conversion to Islam: the Sufi paradigm / Haifaa Jawad -- African American Islam as an expression of converts' religious faith and nationalist dreams and ambitions / Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons -- Feminism and conversion: comparing British, Dutch, and South African life stories / Margot Badran -- Transmission and identity -- How Deborah became Aisha: the conversion process and the creation of female Muslim identity / Nicole Bourque -- Keeping the faith: convert Muslim mothers and the transmission of female Muslim identity in the West / Marcia Hermansen.…”
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Bastions and barbed wire

Table of Contents: “….] -- An archaeological study of Talamanca battlefield / Xavier Rubio Campillo -- Remembering the Charge of the Light Brigade : its commemoration, war memorials and memory / Gavin Hughes & Jonathan Trigg -- Fortified homesteads : the architecture of fear in frontier South Australia and the Northern Territory, ca. 1847-1885 / Nicolas K. …”
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