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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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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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Journal of Women's History Guide to Periodical Literature / by Fischer, Gayle V.

Table of Contents: “…Southern Women Biography -- Utopias/Communal Societies -- Violence -- Domestic Violence -- Other Sex Crimes -- Women on the U.S. Western Frontier -- Biography -- Life on the Frontier -- Moving West and Homesteading -- Native Americans -- Work Housework Theory and Issues -- Crafts, Trades, and Home-Based Work -- Domestics -- Factory Family -- Pre-Industrial Sexual Division of Labor -- Unions ....…”
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Journal of Women's History Guide to Periodical Literature / by Fischer, Gayle V.

Table of Contents: “…Southern Women Biography -- Utopias/Communal Societies -- Violence -- Domestic Violence -- Other Sex Crimes -- Women on the U.S. Western Frontier -- Biography -- Life on the Frontier -- Moving West and Homesteading -- Native Americans -- Work Housework Theory and Issues -- Crafts, Trades, and Home-Based Work -- Domestics -- Factory Family -- Pre-Industrial Sexual Division of Labor -- Unions ....…”
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Literary passports the making of modernist Hebrew fiction in Europe / by Pinsker, Shachar

Table of Contents: “…-- Homel and Lvov : the significance of the frontiers -- London : a foggy day in Whitechapel -- Vienna : "this mocking and innocent city" -- Berlin : between the Scheunenviertel and the Romanisches café -- The sexual turn in modernist fiction of fin de siècle Europe -- I am so weak and my desire is so strong : the crisis of (Jewish) masculinity -- In the house and in the gardens : erotic triangulations and homosocial desire -- Writing, masculinity and sexual desire -- Imagining the beloved : the new Jewish woman -- Old wine in new flasks : the reinvention of Jewish traditions -- In the shadow of God : the quest for new religiosity in European and Hebrew modernism -- Mysterium tremendum : the varieties of religious experience in Hebrew modernism -- Out of the depths : visions and guiding spirits -- Appendix : the meaning of Hasidism and its echoes in modern Hebrew literature (1906) / Yosef Chaim Brenner.…”
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A distant drummer foreign perspectives on F. Scott Fitzgerald /

Table of Contents: “…Scott Fitzgerald and the swimmer motif / Horst Kruse -- The frontiers that artists must explore / Elizabeth Bouzonviller -- Vision and loss in F. …”
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Literary passports the making of modernist Hebrew fiction in Europe / by Pinsker, Shachar

Table of Contents: “…-- Homel and Lvov : the significance of the frontiers -- London : a foggy day in Whitechapel -- Vienna : "this mocking and innocent city" -- Berlin : between the Scheunenviertel and the Romanisches café -- The sexual turn in modernist fiction of fin de siècle Europe -- I am so weak and my desire is so strong : the crisis of (Jewish) masculinity -- In the house and in the gardens : erotic triangulations and homosocial desire -- Writing, masculinity and sexual desire -- Imagining the beloved : the new Jewish woman -- Old wine in new flasks : the reinvention of Jewish traditions -- In the shadow of God : the quest for new religiosity in European and Hebrew modernism -- Mysterium tremendum : the varieties of religious experience in Hebrew modernism -- Out of the depths : visions and guiding spirits -- Appendix : the meaning of Hasidism and its echoes in modern Hebrew literature (1906) / Yosef Chaim Brenner.…”
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A distant drummer foreign perspectives on F. Scott Fitzgerald /

Table of Contents: “…Scott Fitzgerald and the swimmer motif / Horst Kruse -- The frontiers that artists must explore / Elizabeth Bouzonviller -- Vision and loss in F. …”
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Pacific Strife : The Great Powers and their Political and Economic Rivalries in Asia and the Western Pacific, 1870-1914 / by Dijk, C. van (Cornelis), 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Steam and Istmus canals -- Planters, traders and labour in the South Pacific -- Fiji: the start of Anglo-German rivalry in the Pacific -- The Somoa conflict -- Germany enters the colonial race -- The New Guinea protectorates -- Great Britain, Russia and the Central Asian question -- Samoa remains a source of international tension -- The emerging economic world powers -- Great Britain, France and Southeast Asia -- The French-expansion westwards into Southeast Asia -- Russia, Japan and the Chinese empire -- Thailand and beyond -- The scramble for China: the Bay of Jiaozhou and Port Arthur -- The British reaction: Wei-Hai-Wei -- The scramble for China continues: Guangzhouwan and Tibet -- The failed annexation of Hawaii -- The United States becomes a colonial empire -- The partition of Samoa -- The Russo-Japanese war -- Great Britain's search for secure colonial frontiers -- The United States, Japan and the Pacific Ocean -- Epilogue.…”
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Pacific Strife : The Great Powers and their Political and Economic Rivalries in Asia and the Western Pacific, 1870-1914 / by Dijk, C. van (Cornelis), 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Steam and Istmus canals -- Planters, traders and labour in the South Pacific -- Fiji: the start of Anglo-German rivalry in the Pacific -- The Somoa conflict -- Germany enters the colonial race -- The New Guinea protectorates -- Great Britain, Russia and the Central Asian question -- Samoa remains a source of international tension -- The emerging economic world powers -- Great Britain, France and Southeast Asia -- The French-expansion westwards into Southeast Asia -- Russia, Japan and the Chinese empire -- Thailand and beyond -- The scramble for China: the Bay of Jiaozhou and Port Arthur -- The British reaction: Wei-Hai-Wei -- The scramble for China continues: Guangzhouwan and Tibet -- The failed annexation of Hawaii -- The United States becomes a colonial empire -- The partition of Samoa -- The Russo-Japanese war -- Great Britain's search for secure colonial frontiers -- The United States, Japan and the Pacific Ocean -- Epilogue.…”
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Distance education in nursing

Table of Contents: “…Teaching online pathophysiology: the University of Colorado Health Science Center School of Nursing / Haeok Lee, Nancy Holloway, and Leeann Field -- A distance learning master's degree program for nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners: frontier school of midwifery and family nursing / Susan Stone -- Supervising RN students in a RN to MSN program: Vanderbilt University School of Nursing / Carolyn J. …”
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Practicing protestants histories of Christian life in America, 1630-1965 /

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Evangelical practice in Enlightenment New England, 1630-1800 -- Writing as Protestant practice : devotional diaries in early New England / Catherine Brekus -- Forgiveness : from the Puritans to Jonathan Edwards / Mark Valeri -- Part II: Mission, nation, and Christian practice, 1820-1940 -- Assembling bodies and souls : missionary practices on the Pacific frontier / Laurie Maffly-Kipp -- Honoring elders : practices of sagacity and deference in Ojibwe Christianity / Michael McNally -- Nurturing religious nationalism : Korean Americans in Hawaii / David K. …”
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Iowa history reader

Table of Contents: “…Iowa : the middle land / Dorothy Schwieder -- "We dance in opposite directions" : Mesquakie (Fox) separatism from the Sac and Fox Tribe / Michael D. Green -- The frontier in process : Iowa's trail women as a paradigm / Glenda Riley -- Farming in the Prairie Peninsula, 1830/1890 / Allan G. …”
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Trends and traditions in southeastern zooarchaeology /

Table of Contents: “…Peres -- Shell trade: craft production at a fourteenth-century Mississippian frontier / Maureen S. Meyers -- The dogs of Spirit Hill: an analysis of domestic dog burials from Jackson County, Alabama / Renee B. …”
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Iowa history reader

Table of Contents: “…Iowa : the middle land / Dorothy Schwieder -- "We dance in opposite directions" : Mesquakie (Fox) separatism from the Sac and Fox Tribe / Michael D. Green -- The frontier in process : Iowa's trail women as a paradigm / Glenda Riley -- Farming in the Prairie Peninsula, 1830/1890 / Allan G. …”
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Trends and traditions in southeastern zooarchaeology /

Table of Contents: “…Peres -- Shell trade: craft production at a fourteenth-century Mississippian frontier / Maureen S. Meyers -- The dogs of Spirit Hill: an analysis of domestic dog burials from Jackson County, Alabama / Renee B. …”
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Advocates for the oppressed : Hispanos, Indians, Gen�izaros, and their land in New Mexico / by Ebright, Malcolm

Table of Contents: “…Taylor area on the Navajo frontier -- Appendix D. Census of San Gabriel de las Nutrias settlers by V�elez Cachup�in.…”
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