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A new synthesis of public administration serving in the 21st century / by Bourgon, Jocelyne

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Exploring the new frontiers of public administration -- pt. 2. Case studies : bridging theory and practice -- pt. 3. …”
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Capturing the landscape of New Spain : Baltasar Obregón and the 1564 Ibarra Expedition / by Carte, Rebecca A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Taking place -- "Lo que hay en esta tierra" -- Multiple landscapes, multiple frontiers -- (Re)producing social space and textualscapes -- Conclusion.…”
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Empire and slavery in American literature, 1820-1865 by Sundquist, Eric J.

Table of Contents: “…The land of promise -- Exploration and empire -- To muse on nations passed away -- The frontier and American Indians -- No more auction block for me -- The literature of slavery and African American culture.…”
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Engineering Philadelphia : the Sellers family and the industrial metropolis / by Vitiello, Domenic

Table of Contents: “…Manufacturing metropolitan development -- Migration strategies and industrial frontiers -- Rationalizing the factory and city -- Progressive economic development -- Empires of steel -- Building the scientific city -- Roots of decline.…”
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Empire and slavery in American literature, 1820-1865 by Sundquist, Eric J.

Table of Contents: “…The land of promise -- Exploration and empire -- To muse on nations passed away -- The frontier and American Indians -- No more auction block for me -- The literature of slavery and African American culture.…”
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Engineering Philadelphia : the Sellers family and the industrial metropolis / by Vitiello, Domenic

Table of Contents: “…Manufacturing metropolitan development -- Migration strategies and industrial frontiers -- Rationalizing the factory and city -- Progressive economic development -- Empires of steel -- Building the scientific city -- Roots of decline.…”
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A short history of physics in the American century by Cassidy, David C., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Entering the new century -- American physics comes of age -- Surviving the depression -- The physicists war -- Taming the endless frontier -- The new physics -- Sputnik : action and reaction -- Revising the partnership.…”
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A short history of physics in the American century by Cassidy, David C., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Entering the new century -- American physics comes of age -- Surviving the depression -- The physicists war -- Taming the endless frontier -- The new physics -- Sputnik : action and reaction -- Revising the partnership.…”
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Infectious disease ecology the effects of ecosystems on disease and of disease on ecosystems /

Table of Contents: “…Concluding comments : frontiers in the ecology of infectious diseases.…”
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Infectious disease ecology the effects of ecosystems on disease and of disease on ecosystems /

Table of Contents: “…Concluding comments : frontiers in the ecology of infectious diseases.…”
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Feminisms : Diversity, Difference and Multiplicity in Contemporary Film Cultures /

Table of Contents: “…New perspectives : images and the female body -- Theory in contemporary contexts -- History and practice -- Contextualizing history : new frontiers in feminist journals -- Discussions : dialoguing difference and extremity in contemporary cinemas.…”
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Feminisms : Diversity, Difference and Multiplicity in Contemporary Film Cultures /

Table of Contents: “…New perspectives : images and the female body -- Theory in contemporary contexts -- History and practice -- Contextualizing history : new frontiers in feminist journals -- Discussions : dialoguing difference and extremity in contemporary cinemas.…”
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Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : conversion, apostasy, and literacy / by Kefeli, Agnès Nilüfer

Table of Contents: “…Apostasy, conversion, and literacy at work -- Popular knowledge of Islam on the Volga frontier -- Tailors, Sufis, and Abïstays: agents of change -- Christian martyrdom in Bolghar land -- Desacralization of Islamic knowledge and national martyrdom.…”
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Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : conversion, apostasy, and literacy / by Kefeli, Agnès Nilüfer

Table of Contents: “…Apostasy, conversion, and literacy at work -- Popular knowledge of Islam on the Volga frontier -- Tailors, Sufis, and Abïstays: agents of change -- Christian martyrdom in Bolghar land -- Desacralization of Islamic knowledge and national martyrdom.…”
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Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy /

Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : conversion, apostasy, and literacy /

by Kefeli, Agnes

Table of Contents: “…Apostasy, conversion, and literacy at work -- Popular knowledge of Islam on the Volga frontier -- Tailors, Sufis, and Abïstays: agents of change -- Christian martyrdom in Bolghar land -- Desacralization of Islamic knowledge and national martyrdom.…”
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Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy /

Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : conversion, apostasy, and literacy /

by Kefeli, Agnes

Table of Contents: “…Apostasy, conversion, and literacy at work -- Popular knowledge of Islam on the Volga frontier -- Tailors, Sufis, and Abïstays: agents of change -- Christian martyrdom in Bolghar land -- Desacralization of Islamic knowledge and national martyrdom.…”
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Faithful transgressions in the American West six twentieth-century Mormon women's autobiographical acts / by Bush, Laura L., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier -- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother -- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier -- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story -- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place -- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.…”
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Faithful transgressions in the American West six twentieth-century Mormon women's autobiographical acts / by Bush, Laura L., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier -- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother -- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier -- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story -- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place -- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.…”
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The Moorish guard of the Kings of Castile (1410-1467) by Echevarria, Ana

Table of Contents: “…Christians, mudejars and Granadans : three sides of one political reality -- The Moorish knights, from the frontier to the court -- The king's "foreign" guard -- The conversion of the Moorish knights -- The dissolution of the Moorish guard -- Documentary appendix.…”
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The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and free labor by Case, Theresa Ann, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Constructing a new Southwest -- Labor kinship -- Hierarchy and conflict -- Southwestern railroaders and the receding 'frontier of labor scarcity' -- Testing the hierarchies -- The independent path of District Assembly 101 -- Blaming Martin Irons.…”
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