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Talking to strangers anxieties of citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education / by Allen, Danielle S., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Loss -- Little Rock, a new beginning -- Old myths and new epiphanies -- Sacrifice, a democratic fact -- Sacrifice and citizenship -- Why we have bad habits -- Imperfect democracy -- Imperfect people -- Imperfect pearls/imperfect ideals -- New democratic vistas -- Beyond invisible citizens -- Brotherhood, love, and political friendship -- Rhetoric, a good thing -- Epilogue: powerful citizens.…”
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Treatment manual for smoking cessation groups a guide for therapists / by Stritzke, Werner G. K., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Assessment, treatment planning, and evaluation of outcomes -- Starting the change process -- The ins and outs of becoming smoke free -- Kicking the chemical habit -- Staying smoke free I : enhancing motivation for change -- Staying smoke free II : prevention and management of a lapse or relapse -- Staying smoke free III : coping without smoking -- Thoughts : how they affect smoking behaviors -- Lifestyle change : on being a non-smoker.…”
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Treatment manual for smoking cessation groups a guide for therapists / by Stritzke, Werner G. K., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Assessment, treatment planning, and evaluation of outcomes -- Starting the change process -- The ins and outs of becoming smoke free -- Kicking the chemical habit -- Staying smoke free I : enhancing motivation for change -- Staying smoke free II : prevention and management of a lapse or relapse -- Staying smoke free III : coping without smoking -- Thoughts : how they affect smoking behaviors -- Lifestyle change : on being a non-smoker.…”
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Skyrocketing sales! the ultimate guide to boosting your confidence and exceeding your goals / by Allen, Debbie, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The amazing power of your belief system -- Boost your sales confidence -- Develop your mental coping skills -- Positively fearless selling -- Fired up for sales success -- The joy of selling you to the new customer -- Trigger enthusiasm for every prospect -- Form new habits that skyrocket sales -- Manage any customer resistance -- Building successful relationships -- Let your fans do the talking -- Exceed your sales goals -- Now the real work begins.…”
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Skyrocketing sales! the ultimate guide to boosting your confidence and exceeding your goals / by Allen, Debbie, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The amazing power of your belief system -- Boost your sales confidence -- Develop your mental coping skills -- Positively fearless selling -- Fired up for sales success -- The joy of selling you to the new customer -- Trigger enthusiasm for every prospect -- Form new habits that skyrocket sales -- Manage any customer resistance -- Building successful relationships -- Let your fans do the talking -- Exceed your sales goals -- Now the real work begins.…”
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Shanghai and the edges of empires by Meng, Yue, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Urban festivity as a disruptive history -- 4. In search of a habitable globe -- Part III. Interiors projecting the globe -- 5. …”
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Powered by feel how individuals, teams, and companies excel / by Clawson, James G.

Table of Contents: “…Pick up -- Feel -- Professionalism -- Success -- Inside out -- Informed energy -- Habits -- Routines -- Dreams -- Preparation -- Obligation -- Obstacles -- Lost -- Found -- Bad suits -- First day -- Identity -- Inspiration -- Learning -- Educate -- Control watching -- When it matters most -- Payback -- Work -- Find it -- Sustenance -- Horsing it -- Physics -- Numbers game -- Mastering the numbers -- Triangle trade-offs -- Freedom -- Responsibility -- Respondability -- Power -- Powerful -- Abuse -- Abusive -- You're got next -- The game with no name.…”
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David Hume and the problem of other minds by Waldow, Anik

Table of Contents: “…Other minds and their place in the Hume-literature -- A modern approach -- Scepticism versus naturalism -- The vulgar and the philosopher -- Relative ideas -- Concepts of the real -- Intuition and common sense -- Epistemic responsibility -- Degeneration of reason -- Just philosophy -- Conceiving minds -- Abstraction -- Argument from analogy -- Sympathy -- Limitations -- Generality -- Hume's concept of mind -- The world and the other -- Habit and intersubjective responsiveness -- Belief and education -- Mental facts -- Signs of mind and world -- The belief-grounding function of sympathy -- Corrigibility of belief -- Cognitive architecture.…”
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A short history of Wisconsin by Janik, Erika

Table of Contents: “…Geography of place -- Fortunes made of fur -- From territory to statehood -- Calling Wisconsin home -- Lead and lumber -- Social and moral improvement -- Civil War Wisconsin -- Becoming America's dairyland -- Manufacturing the future -- The sporting life -- Progressive politics -- World War I -- Changing habits of consumption -- Depression -- World War II -- Culture of fear -- Migration and civil rights -- Vietnam -- Greening Wisconsin -- The changing face of immigration -- Indian treaty rights -- Postwar politics and the conservative revolution -- Conclusion: Creating Wisconsin.…”
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Powered by feel how individuals, teams, and companies excel / by Clawson, James G.

Table of Contents: “…Pick up -- Feel -- Professionalism -- Success -- Inside out -- Informed energy -- Habits -- Routines -- Dreams -- Preparation -- Obligation -- Obstacles -- Lost -- Found -- Bad suits -- First day -- Identity -- Inspiration -- Learning -- Educate -- Control watching -- When it matters most -- Payback -- Work -- Find it -- Sustenance -- Horsing it -- Physics -- Numbers game -- Mastering the numbers -- Triangle trade-offs -- Freedom -- Responsibility -- Respondability -- Power -- Powerful -- Abuse -- Abusive -- You're got next -- The game with no name.…”
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David Hume and the problem of other minds by Waldow, Anik

Table of Contents: “…Other minds and their place in the Hume-literature -- A modern approach -- Scepticism versus naturalism -- The vulgar and the philosopher -- Relative ideas -- Concepts of the real -- Intuition and common sense -- Epistemic responsibility -- Degeneration of reason -- Just philosophy -- Conceiving minds -- Abstraction -- Argument from analogy -- Sympathy -- Limitations -- Generality -- Hume's concept of mind -- The world and the other -- Habit and intersubjective responsiveness -- Belief and education -- Mental facts -- Signs of mind and world -- The belief-grounding function of sympathy -- Corrigibility of belief -- Cognitive architecture.…”
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A short history of Wisconsin by Janik, Erika

Table of Contents: “…Geography of place -- Fortunes made of fur -- From territory to statehood -- Calling Wisconsin home -- Lead and lumber -- Social and moral improvement -- Civil War Wisconsin -- Becoming America's dairyland -- Manufacturing the future -- The sporting life -- Progressive politics -- World War I -- Changing habits of consumption -- Depression -- World War II -- Culture of fear -- Migration and civil rights -- Vietnam -- Greening Wisconsin -- The changing face of immigration -- Indian treaty rights -- Postwar politics and the conservative revolution -- Conclusion: Creating Wisconsin.…”
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Discovering Addiction : The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research / by Campbell, Nancy D. (Nancy Dianne), 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Framing the "opium problem" : protoscientific concepts of addiction -- Creatures of habit : feeding the "junkie monkeys" of Michigan -- "A new deal for the drug addict" : addiction research moves to Lexington, Kentucky -- "The man with the syringe" : pain and pleasure in the experimental situation -- "The tightrope between coercion and seduction" : characterizing the ethos of addiction research at Lexington -- "The great hue and cry" : prison reform and the ethics of human subjects research -- "The behavior is always right" : behavioral pharmacology comes of age -- "The hijacked brain" : reimagining addiction.…”
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Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar, Second Edition : Martinique and the World-Economy, 1830-1848 / by Tomich, Dale W., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Sugar and slavery in an age of global transformation, 1791-1848 -- The contradictions of protectionism : colonial policy and the French sugar market, 1804-1848 -- The local face of world process -- Sugar and slavery : forces and relations of production -- The habitation sucriere : cell unit of colonial production -- Obstacles to innovation -- A calculated and calculating system : the dialectic of slave labor -- The other face of slave labor : provision grounds and internal marketing -- Conclusion the global in the local : world-economy, sugar, and the crisis of plantation slavery in Martinique.…”
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Shanghai and the edges of empires by Meng, Yue, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Urban festivity as a disruptive history -- 4. In search of a habitable globe -- Part III. Interiors projecting the globe -- 5. …”
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Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar, Second Edition : Martinique and the World-Economy, 1830-1848 / by Tomich, Dale W., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Sugar and slavery in an age of global transformation, 1791-1848 -- The contradictions of protectionism : colonial policy and the French sugar market, 1804-1848 -- The local face of world process -- Sugar and slavery : forces and relations of production -- The habitation sucriere : cell unit of colonial production -- Obstacles to innovation -- A calculated and calculating system : the dialectic of slave labor -- The other face of slave labor : provision grounds and internal marketing -- Conclusion the global in the local : world-economy, sugar, and the crisis of plantation slavery in Martinique.…”
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Discovering Addiction : The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research / by Campbell, Nancy D. (Nancy Dianne), 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Framing the "opium problem" : protoscientific concepts of addiction -- Creatures of habit : feeding the "junkie monkeys" of Michigan -- "A new deal for the drug addict" : addiction research moves to Lexington, Kentucky -- "The man with the syringe" : pain and pleasure in the experimental situation -- "The tightrope between coercion and seduction" : characterizing the ethos of addiction research at Lexington -- "The great hue and cry" : prison reform and the ethics of human subjects research -- "The behavior is always right" : behavioral pharmacology comes of age -- "The hijacked brain" : reimagining addiction.…”
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Operation excellence succeeding in business and life, the U.S. military way / by Bender, Mark C. (Mark Christian), 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Operation motivation, you can't say no to the drill sergeant -- Discipline, it's habit forming -- Confidence, the ultimate lifestyle -- Sacrifice, sorry, you really can't have it all -- Endstate, understanding the mission -- Learning, no such thing as graduation -- Problem-solving, we're here to fix things! …”
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Operation excellence succeeding in business and life, the U.S. military way / by Bender, Mark C. (Mark Christian), 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Operation motivation, you can't say no to the drill sergeant -- Discipline, it's habit forming -- Confidence, the ultimate lifestyle -- Sacrifice, sorry, you really can't have it all -- Endstate, understanding the mission -- Learning, no such thing as graduation -- Problem-solving, we're here to fix things! …”
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Compelled to write alternative rhetoric in theory and practice / by Wallace, David L., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 1.Defining Alternative Rhetoric: Embracing Intersectionality and Owning Opacity -- Interchapter: Piano Lessons -- 2.Sarah Grimke: Breaking the Bonds of Womanhood -- Interchapter: Jumper Cables and Double Consciousness as a Habit of Mind -- 3.Frederick Douglass: Taking an Ell to Claim Humanity -- Interchapter: Pickles -- 4.Gloria Anzaldua: Borderlands and Fences; Literacy and Rhetoric -- Interchapter: The Light of the World -- 5.David Sedaris: Expanding Epideictic -- A Rhetoric of Indirection -- Interchapter: Day Four in Paris -- 6.Alternative Rhetoric and Marked Writing -- Interchapter: God Abhors You.…”
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