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In envy country stories / by Frank, Joan, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…A note on the type -- A thing that happens -- Betting on men -- Rearview -- In envy country -- Picaro -- Sandy candy -- Savoir faire, savoir vivre -- The sun on the Ganges.…”
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From midnight to guntown true crime stories from a federal prosecutor in Mississippi / by Hailman, John

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Orca echoes resource guide / by Van Tol, Alex, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…-- Classroom teaching ideas -- Literature circles -- Responding to literature -- Assessment -- Guided reading levels -- Books grouped by subject -- Book titles with themes -- Book summaries -- Index of teachers' guides -- A bee in your ear -- The big tree gang -- The birthday girl -- Bruno for real -- Captain Jake -- Cheetah -- Dimples delight -- Down the chimney with Googol and Googolplex -- A frog in my throat -- George most wanted -- George, the best of all! …”
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Prison, inc a convict exposes life inside a private prison / by Carceral, K. C.

Table of Contents: “…The politics of Enterprise Prison -- Orientation -- New prison problems -- Wild wild west -- Beat down crew -- The zoo -- Caught up -- The other enemy -- Gang related -- Seg time -- Riot -- Lockdown -- Aftermath -- The masters -- The servants -- The power -- Factors contributing to violence and its control.…”
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Laughter out of place race, class, violence, and sexuality in a Rio shantytown / by Goldstein, Donna M.

Table of Contents: “…Laughter out of place -- The aesthetics of domination -- Color-blind erotic democracies, black consciousness politics, and the black Cinderellas of Felicidade Eterna -- No time for childhood -- State terror, gangs, and everyday violence in Rio de Janeiro -- Partial truths, or, the carnivalization of desire -- What's so funny about rape?…”
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WebSphere application server V6 scalability and performance handbook by Roehm, Birgit

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Proceedings of the 2002 International Symposium on Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics CosPA 2002 /

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German Moravian missionaries in the British colony of Victoria, Australia, 1848-1908 influential strangers / by Jensz, Felicity

Table of Contents: “…God's lot : Moravians and missions -- "The most wretched and bleakest" : Moravian desire to work amongst the Australian Aborigines -- "Ein fauler Fleck" : Lake Boga, a putrid stain -- "I is done--no more" : the first converts -- "Alles geht seinen schleppenden Gang"-- expansion, movement and sluggish progress -- "Every triumphant death"-- closure in a British colony.…”
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Behind the walls a guide for family and friends of Texas inmates / by Renaud, Jorge Antonio, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…A short history of Texas prisons -- Diagnostic -- Living quarters -- Food -- Clothing -- Work -- Administrative segregation -- Medical/dental -- Recreation -- Money -- Mail -- Visits and phone calls -- Religion -- Law Libaries/libraries -- Craft shop -- Substance abuse -- Education -- Discipline -- Lockdowns -- Drugs -- Racism, gangs and violence -- Parole and good-time -- Emergencies -- The ECHO -- Helping convicts stay out of prison.…”
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From the ground up translating geography into community through neighbor networks / by Grannis, Rick, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Neighborhoods and neighboring -- The stages of neighboring -- Reconceptualizing stage 1 neighboring -- Reconceptualizing stage 1 neighbor networks -- Selection and influence -- Respondents, interviews, and other data -- Selecting stage 1 neighbors -- Unintentional encounters -- Stage 3 neighbors and tertiary streets -- The importance of neighbor networks -- Network influence theory -- Influence networks in a college town -- Influence networks in a gang barrio -- Implications.…”
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The technology of nonviolence social media and violence prevention / by Bock, Joseph G.

Table of Contents: “…Towards an applied theory of violence prevention -- Reporting and warning about deadly possibilities -- Organizing against ethnoreligious violence in Ahmedabad -- Overcoming gang violence in Chicago -- Counteracting ethnoreligious violence in Sri Lanka -- Crowdsourcing during post-election violence in Kenya -- Foisting tribal violence in East Africa -- Comparing the approaches -- How to intervene effectively -- What to do when violence prevention is unlikely to work -- Concerns about misallocation of resources -- Future directions and recommendations.…”
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Contextual safeguarding and child protection : rewriting the rules / by Firmin, Carlene

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Globalizing the sacred religion across the Americas / by Vásquez, Manuel A.

Table of Contents: “…The limits of dominant and emerging models -- Theorizing globalization and religion -- Miracles at the border : a genealogy of religious globalization -- Crossing the electronic frontier : religious congregations and the internet -- Saving souls transnationally : pentecostalism and the gangs in El Salvador and the United States / with Ileana Gomez -- A continuum of hybridity : Latino churches in the new South -- John Paul II's civilization of love : pre-modern, modern, or postmodern? …”
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More God, less crime why faith matters and how it could matter more / by Johnson, Byron R.

Table of Contents: “…The last acceptable prejudice -- Preachers partner with police to reduce gang violence : the Boston miracle -- Children of prisoners : people of faith mentoring children of promise -- The Center for Neighborhood Enterprise and the violence-free zone -- A systematic review of the literature : 1944 to 2010 -- Can a faith-based prison reduce recidivism? …”
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West Side story : cultural perspectives on an American musical / by Wells, Elizabeth Anne, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…: West Side story and the Hispanic -- "I and Velma ain't dumb" : the women of West Side story -- "A boy like that" : the gangs of West Side story -- From the West Side to the East Side : reception and revision -- "Finale" -- Appendix A: Lyrics to select songs -- Appendix B: Chronology -- Appendix C: Cast and crew of various productions, including award nominations and wins.…”
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Old-time music and dance community and folk revival / by Bealle, John

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : conjuring history -- An apocryphal story -- Old-time music revival -- Banjo pedagogy -- Back to the land -- The green house -- The old-time community -- The jukebox -- The orange sheet -- Anne's a bride tonight -- Opening up -- Gardening and dumpstering -- The Bean King -- The Indiana contra dancers' lament -- The Gang of Four -- Easy Street -- Dance camps -- The sovereign self -- Bloomington Quarry Morris -- May Day -- Dare to be square -- The Shuffle Creek Cloggers -- The old library -- Sugar Hill -- Young audiences -- Little Bloomington -- Eight miles from town -- The piano controversy -- The book -- Collection time! …”
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Everything you know about Indians is wrong by Smith, Paul Chaat

Table of Contents: “…Jukebox spiritualism -- A place called irony -- Life during peacetime -- Last gang in town -- From Lake Geneva to the Finland Station -- Ghost in the machine -- Afterword : end of the line -- Acknowledgments -- Publication history.…”
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Fighting for our health the epic battle to make health care a right in the United States / by Kirsch, Richard

Table of Contents: “…-- From the ground up, champions -- From the ground up, swings -- The happy warrior -- No help for the gang of six -- The guns of August -- The White House waffles -- If the insurance companies win, you lose -- The Baucus bill is a failure -- Did the White House try to get me fired? …”
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Diabetes in women

Table of Contents: “…Lowe -- Early mortality in diabetic women with non-ST elevation myocardial infarction / Andreja Sinkovic -- The gender-specific impact of diabetes on the risk of cardiovascular disease / Gang Hu -- Depression in women with diabetes : a review and methodological critique / Julie Wagner, Howard Tennen.…”
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Just neighbors? : research on African American and Latino relations in the United States /

Table of Contents: “…: framing commonality in a multiracial coalition / Sylvia Zamora -- Ethnic succession and ethnic conflict : street gangs in Los Angeles / James Diego Vigil -- Examining the relationship between African American and Latino street gangs : conflict, cooperation and avoidance in two multi-racial urban neighborhoods / Cid Martinez and Victor Rios.…”
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