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Appetites and anxieties : food, film, and the politics of representation / by Baron, Cynthia

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the cultural and material politics of food -- Representations in film -- Foodways as an ideological approach -- Food and film industries: a filter for the food we see in films -- Foodways syntax: utopian films' use of food to create community -- Foodways structured to convey disorder and dysfunction -- When humans are the food product: an ideological look at cannibal films -- Food as threat and promise: genre and auteur analysis -- Foodways in documentary films: consumer society in a wider frame -- The politics surrounding documentaries' depiction of foodways -- Food as a window into personal and cultural politics.…”
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The last dance : encountering death and dying / by DeSpelder, Lynne Ann, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Attitudes toward death : a climate of change -- Learning about death : the influence of sociocultural forces -- Perspectives on death : cultural and historical -- Death systems : mortality and society -- Health care : patients, staff, and institutions -- End-of-life issues and decisions -- Facing death : living with life-threatening illness -- Last rites : funerals and body disposition -- Survivors : understanding the experience of loss -- Death in the lives of children and adolescents -- Death in the lives of adults -- Suicide -- Threats of horrendous death -- Beyond death/after life -- The path ahead : personal and social choices.…”

Conflict of laws / by Hay, Peter, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the subject defined and overview -- The development and current state of approaches to choice of law -- Determining the applicable law -- Domicile -- Basic considerations in personal jurisdiction -- General jurisdiction -- Specific jurisdiction in the contract cases -- Specific jurisdiction in statutory cases -- Special jurisdictional problems -- Limitations on jurisdiction -- Procedure -- Forming domestic relationships -- Marital property -- Dissolution of domestic relationships and its consequences -- Legitimation and adoption -- Torts -- Contracts -- Property -- Succession -- Trusts and powers of appointment -- Probate and administration of estates -- Corporations, winding-up, and bankruptcy -- Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and decrees.…”

Cases & materials on equity & trusts / by Watt, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Foundations of equity and trusts -- Trusts in context -- Trusts created expressly -- Constitution of trusts : effective disposition of benefit -- Resulting trusts : ineffective disposition of benefit -- Formality, perpetuity, and illegality : trust creation and public policy I -- Charity : trust creation and public policy II -- Constructive trusts and informal trusts of land -- Variation of trusts and the flexibility of benefit -- The fiduciary duty -- Fulfilling and filling the office of trustee -- Investment -- Breach of trust : the personal liability of trustees -- Tracing and recovering trust property -- The equitable liability of strangers to the trust -- Equity : maxims, doctrines, and remedies.…”

Ethnic variation in the susceptibility to diabetes

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Different type of diabetes exhibits diverse ethnic patterns of diabetes -- T1D diabetes in people of European origin -- T2D diabetes in Non-European and indigenous populations -- High rates of T1D and T2D among some Middle Eastern countries -- T2D in South Asian populations caused by increased visceral fat and poorer beta cell function -- Association of early onset T2D with high risk of the disease -- Ethnicity and complication rates -- Personal cost burden of complications in lower and middle income countries.…”
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Strategic leadership in the business school keeping one step ahead / by Fragueiro, Fernando

Table of Contents: “…Learning from the trenches: personal reflections on Deanship; Bibliography; Index.…”
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The relevance of Bernard Lonergan's notion of self-appropriation to a mystical-political theology by Bell, Ian B., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Mystical-political theology -- Mysticism -- Evelyn Underhill -- William Johnston -- Political theology -- Gustavo Gutierrez -- Dorothee Sille -- Self-appropriation I : patterns of experience -- Biological pattern of experience -- Aesthetic pattern of experience -- Intellectual pattern of experience -- Dramatic pattern of experience -- Practical pattern of experience -- Worshipful pattern of experience -- Mystical pattern of experience -- Self-appropriation II : operations of the human subject -- Operations of the human subject -- Experiencing -- Understanding -- Judging -- Objectivity of knowing -- The role of definitions in judging -- The role of probability in judging -- Self-correcting nature of human knowing -- Common sense -- The relationship between common sense and theory -- Decision -- Freedom in deciding -- Kataphatic mysticism and the operations of the human subject -- Unity in differentiation: the spiritually integrated subject -- Self-appropriation III : conversion and the dialectic of the subject -- Conversion -- Intellectual conversion -- Religious conversion -- Moral conversion -- Feelings -- Implications of moral conversion -- The relationship between the conversions -- Dialectic of the subject -- Mysticism and the healing vector -- A clarification by contrast -- Self-appropriation and the theologian -- Self-appropriation and the mystical theologian -- Mystical theology as reflection upon personal mystical experience -- Mystical theology as the study of mystical texts -- Mystical theology as reflection on personal experience and tradition -- Self-appropriation and political theology -- Structure of the human good -- The early period -- The later period -- Self-appropriation and the human good.…”
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Advancing Human Assessment The Methodological, Psychological and Policy Contributions of ETS /

Table of Contents: “…Research on Cognitive, Personality, and Social Psychology: I -- 14. Research on Cognitive, Personality, and Social Psychology: II -- 15. …”
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Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology Theories and Applications. by Mugford, Angus

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; About the Editors; Contributors; PART I: Contextual Understanding; 1 Introduction; 2 Professional Philosophy; 3 Governance on the Move: Actively Applying Ethics in Sport, Exercise and Performance Psychology Settings; 4 Personality in Relation to Sport, Exercise and Performance Psychology: Perspectives and Guidelines for Professional Practice; 5 Multicultural Diversity and Issues of Difference; 6 Working with Organizations in Sport, Exercise and Performance Psychology…”
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Trauma in the creative and embodied therapies : when words are not enough /

Table of Contents: “…Part 1 -- Wider Perspective -- Chapter 1: Sociopolitical perspectives on trauma in a world in crisis: 'the personal is political' revisited by Sissy lykou -- Chapter 2: Enacting testimony: trauma stories in playback theatre by Jo Salas -- Part 2 -- Clinical Perspectives -- Chapter 3: The unplayable piano: from discord to harmony: trauma, play therapy and the power of the non-verbal by David Le-Vay -- Chapter 4: As time goes by... …”
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Wealth and poverty in early church and society /

Table of Contents: “…Hasselhoff -- Wealth, poverty, and the value of the person : some notes on the hymn of the pearl and its early Christian context / Edward Moore -- Egypt in late antiquity -- Widening the eye of the needle : wealth and poverty in the works of Clement of Alexandria / Annewies van den Hoek -- Care for the poor, fear of poverty, and love of money : Evagrius Ponticus on the monk's economic vulnerability / David Brakke -- Wine for widows : papyrological evidence for Christian charity in late antiquity Egypt / Adam Serfass -- Rich and poor in sophronius of Jerusalem's Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John / Susan R. …”
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Muslim televangelists voices of islam's future /

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Delivering knock your socks off service

Table of Contents: “…-- Service recovery expectations -- Service recovery and the Internet -- Fix the person -- Fair-fax the problem -- Customers from hell are customers too -- Customers from hell hall of shame -- Knock your socks off service fitness: taking care of you -- Master the art of calm -- Keep it professional -- The competence principle: always be learning -- Party hearty.…”
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Visual marketing 99 proven ways for small businesses to market with images and design / by Langton, David, 1961-

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The millennial detective essays on trends in crime fiction, film and television, 1990-2010 /

Table of Contents: “…Patricia Cornwell's Third-Person Novels / Beth Head -- Inheriting the Mantle: Wallander and Daughter / Susan Massey -- "A Visitor for the Dead": Adam Dalgliesh as a Serial Detective / Sabine Vanacker -- Transforming Genres: Subversive Potentialand the Interface between Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction and Chick Lit / Sonja Altnoeder -- The Poetics of Deviance and the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time / Christiana Gregoriou -- "A Natural Instinct for Forensics": Trace Evidence and Embodied Gazes in The Bone Collector / Lindsay Steenberg -- "Post-Modern or Post-Mortem" Murder as a Self-consuming Artifact in Red Dragon / David Levente Palatinus -- Revisiting Paranoia: The "Witch Hunts" in James Ellroy's The Big Nowhere and Walter Mosley's A Red Death / Maureen Sunderland -- A Detective Series with Love Interruptions? …”
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Cloud computing theory and practice / by Marinescu, Dan C.

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Spanish Economic Growth, 1850–2015 by Prados de la Escosura, Leandro

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Swarm intelligence from social bacteria to humans /

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Lean and agile project management : how to make any project better, faster, and more cost effective, second edition / by Vanzant Stern, Terra

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A political biography of Aung San Suu Kyi : a hybrid politician / by Lubina, Michał

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