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The legacy of the Mastodon the golden age of fossils in America / by Thomson, Keith Stewart

Table of Contents: “…Pt. one: The Jeffersonians -- Fossil hunters on the frontier -- Big Bone Lick -- Franklin, Jefferson, and the incognitum -- Jefferson's "great-claw" and a world about to change -- The first American dinosaurs: an eighteenth-century mystery story -- Fossils and show business: Mr. …”
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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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The legacy of the Mastodon the golden age of fossils in America / by Thomson, Keith Stewart

Table of Contents: “…Pt. one: The Jeffersonians -- Fossil hunters on the frontier -- Big Bone Lick -- Franklin, Jefferson, and the incognitum -- Jefferson's "great-claw" and a world about to change -- The first American dinosaurs: an eighteenth-century mystery story -- Fossils and show business: Mr. …”
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From the Ground Up : A History of Mining in Utah /

Table of Contents: “…Rampton -- Silver Reef and southwestern Utah's shifting frontier / W. Paul Reeve -- Alta, the Cottonwoods, and American Fork / Laurence P. …”
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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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From the Ground Up : A History of Mining in Utah /

Table of Contents: “…Rampton -- Silver Reef and southwestern Utah's shifting frontier / W. Paul Reeve -- Alta, the Cottonwoods, and American Fork / Laurence P. …”
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Language diversity in the classroom : from intention to practice /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Suresh Canagarajah -- Resolution from students' right to their own language and national language policy statement of CCCC -- Introduction / Geneva Smitherman and Victor Villanueva -- The historical struggle for language rights in CCCC / Geneva Smitherman -- Race, class(es), gender, and age : the making of knowledge about language diversity / Elaine Richardson -- The expanding frontier of world Englishes : a new perspective for teachers of English / Victoria Cliett -- Language diversity in teacher education and in the classroom / Arnetha F. …”
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Language diversity in the classroom : from intention to practice /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Suresh Canagarajah -- Resolution from students' right to their own language and national language policy statement of CCCC -- Introduction / Geneva Smitherman and Victor Villanueva -- The historical struggle for language rights in CCCC / Geneva Smitherman -- Race, class(es), gender, and age : the making of knowledge about language diversity / Elaine Richardson -- The expanding frontier of world Englishes : a new perspective for teachers of English / Victoria Cliett -- Language diversity in teacher education and in the classroom / Arnetha F. …”
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Contact and conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 1204-1453 : crusade, religion and trade between Latins, Greeks and Turks /

Table of Contents: “…New frontiers : Frankish Greece and the development of crusading in the early thirteenth century / Nikolaos Chrissis -- The Latin Empire and western contacts with Asia / Bernard Hamilton -- Golden athens : episcopal wealth and power in Greece at the time of the crusades / Teresa Shawcross -- Demetrius kydones' History of the crusades : reality or rhetoric? …”
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Contact and conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 1204-1453 : crusade, religion and trade between Latins, Greeks and Turks /

Table of Contents: “…New frontiers : Frankish Greece and the development of crusading in the early thirteenth century / Nikolaos Chrissis -- The Latin Empire and western contacts with Asia / Bernard Hamilton -- Golden athens : episcopal wealth and power in Greece at the time of the crusades / Teresa Shawcross -- Demetrius kydones' History of the crusades : reality or rhetoric? …”
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Imperial desire dissident sexualities and colonial literature /

Table of Contents: “…: adventure, homoeroticism, and divine order in Prester John / Maria Davidis -- Many lips will I kiss : the queer foreplay of "the east" in Russian aestheticism / Dennis Denisoff -- Sex/race wars on the frontier : homosexuality and colonialism in The golden notebook / Joseph A. …”
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Overcoming fragmentation in Southeast Europe spatial development trends and integration potential /

Table of Contents: “…/ Thanassis Kalogeressis and Lois Labrianidis -- Development planning and territorial integration prospects in South Eastern Europe : a foresight exercise in the region of central Macedonia / Dimitris Foutakis and Elisavet Thoidou -- Southeast Europe within changing European geographies : tracing socio-economic disparities and potentials of integration / Peter Schoen and Petra Pelster -- The new generation of European sustainable development documents and strategic development schemes of Serbia and Montenegro : the problem of correspondence / Miodrag Vujosevic -- Settlement patterns in Europe : elements and comparative typology / Alma Zavodnik-Lamovsek -- Transport infrastructure priorities and territorial cohesion prospects in SE Europe / Magda Pitsiava -- Territorial governance, institutional structures and trans-frontier cooperation prospects in South-Eastern Europe / Panayiotis Getimis and Leeda Demetropoulou.…”
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The development of social engagement neurobiological perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Françoise Acra -- The social dimension in language development : a rich history and a new frontier / Shannon M. Pruden, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, & Roberta Michnick Golinkoff -- Neurocognitive bases of preschoolers' theory-of-mind development : integrating cognitive neuroscience and cognitive development / Mark A. …”
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Empire speaks out languages of rationalization and self-description in the Russian Empire /

Table of Contents: “…: Polish self-descriptions and perceptions of the Russian Empire between homogeneity and diversity (1815-1863) / Hans-Christian Petersen ; Siberian middle ground: languages of rule and accommodation on the Siberian frontier / Sergey Glebov -- The challenge of transformation and rationalization. …”
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In another time sketches of Utah history / by Schindler, Harold, 1929-

Table of Contents: “…-- Firearms: a dangerous necessity in the old west -- A handbook for America's pioneers -- Pulling toward Zion: Young calls flock to travel to mountain home by handcart, 1850 1856 -- The Utah War: the hold Mormons had on Utah is broken, 1857 1858 -- Territory in transition: Army arrives to stay; governors and Pony Express come and go, 1858 1869 -- Browsing through early newspapers -- Frontier medicine -- Timely gull on the Great Salt Lake -- The great camel experiment.…”
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Empire speaks out languages of rationalization and self-description in the Russian Empire /

Table of Contents: “…: Polish self-descriptions and perceptions of the Russian Empire between homogeneity and diversity (1815-1863) / Hans-Christian Petersen ; Siberian middle ground: languages of rule and accommodation on the Siberian frontier / Sergey Glebov -- The challenge of transformation and rationalization. …”
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In another time sketches of Utah history / by Schindler, Harold, 1929-

Table of Contents: “…-- Firearms: a dangerous necessity in the old west -- A handbook for America's pioneers -- Pulling toward Zion: Young calls flock to travel to mountain home by handcart, 1850 1856 -- The Utah War: the hold Mormons had on Utah is broken, 1857 1858 -- Territory in transition: Army arrives to stay; governors and Pony Express come and go, 1858 1869 -- Browsing through early newspapers -- Frontier medicine -- Timely gull on the Great Salt Lake -- The great camel experiment.…”
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Diasporic histories cultural archives of Chinese transnationalism /

Table of Contents: “…Wong -- Between Sovereignty and Capitalism : The Historical Experiences of Migrant Chinese / Prasenjit Duara -- Exile in China during the Han Dynasty / Nicolas Zufferey -- Fantasizing the Homeland : Ji Yun's Recollections of Exile at the Western Frontier (1769-70) / Roland Altenburger -- The Voyage to Hong Kong : Bildungsroman in Hong Kong Literature of the 1950s / Mary Shuk- han Wong -- Another Diaspora : Chineseness and the Traffic in Women in Fruit Chan's Durian Durian / Pheng Cheah -- Queer Transnationalism : Literary Anthropologies from the Contact Zone / Andrea Riemenschnitter -- Women and Diaspora : Zhao Shuxia's Novel Sai Jinhua and the Quest for Female Agency / Kathrin Ensinger -- Double Diaspora? …”
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In Another Time / by Schindler, Harold, 1929-

Table of Contents: “…-- Firearms: a dangerous necessity in the old west -- A handbook for America's pioneers -- Pulling toward Zion: Young calls flock to travel to mountain home by handcart, 1850 1856 -- The Utah War: the hold Mormons had on Utah is broken, 1857 1858 -- Territory in transition: Army arrives to stay; governors and Pony Express come and go, 1858 1869 -- Browsing through early newspapers -- Frontier medicine -- Timely gull on the Great Salt Lake -- The great camel experiment…”
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