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Pilot selection : psychological principles and practice /

Table of Contents: “…Mental health assessment </P><P>15. Personality assessment </P><P>16. Personality disorder and its clinical assessment in aviation</P><P>17. …”
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Learning critical reflection experiences of the transformative learning process /

Table of Contents: “…Understanding knowledge, power, and reflexivityEvidence over time; Personal reflection; Conclusion; References; SECTION II: The changes made from the learning process; 6. …”
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Darwinian psychiatry by McGuire, Michael T., 1929-

Table of Contents: “…Regulation-Dysregulation Theory and Condition Triggering -- Ch. 9. Personality Conditions -- Ch. 10. Anorexia Nervosa -- Ch. 11. …”
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An introduction to Islam for Jews by Firestone, Reuven, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Jihad -- The range of practice among Muslims -- Sufism -- The shi'a -- Mosque and clergy -- The calendar -- The Muslim life-cycle -- Personal observance.…”
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Lincoln & Darwin shared visions of race, science, and religion / by Lander, James

Table of Contents: “…Origins and education -- Voyages and the experience of slavery -- The racial background, personal encounters, and turning points in 1837 -- Religious reformation -- Career preparations and rivals, 1845-49 -- Mortality, invention, and geology -- Scientific racism -- The types of mankind and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854-55 -- The politics of race -- Campaigning, 1856-58 -- Publications and crocodiles, 1859-60 -- More debates and new reviews -- Designers and inventors -- Inventions for a long war -- The Trent affair : a chemistry problem -- Delegation and control -- The rationality of colonization -- Colonization and emancipation -- Societies -- Mill workers and freedmen -- Testing hopes and hoaxes -- Spiritual forces -- Meeting Agassiz -- The descent of man -- An end to religion -- The dream of equality.…”
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Hatred at home Al-Qaida on trial in the American Midwest / by Welsh-Huggins, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Call to prayer -- The gymnast -- Split personality -- Increasing tensions -- On the move -- Hardworking truck driver -- Little Mujahideen -- Diaspora -- Ready at any time -- Four hundred years -- Busy summer -- Night -- We need people who can vanish -- Collateral damage -- Winning the war on terror -- A great chapter -- I'm doing this as a friend -- Material support -- Guilty -- A secret, double life -- Get this done -- Shopping mall plot -- A symphony of unfairness -- Life goes on -- Atypical psychosis -- Evening -- Radical role-playing -- American soil -- Bureaucratic sloth -- Dirty numbers -- Disturbing picture -- The Ummah is angry -- Changing of the guard.…”
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The psychology of diversity beyond prejudice and racism / by Jones, James M.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Framing diversity -- The psychology of diversity: challenges and benefits -- Central concepts in the psychology of diversity -- Historical perspectives on diversity in the United States -- Psychological processes -- Personality and individual differences : how different types of people respond to diversity in different ways -- Social cognition and categorization : distinguishing "us" from "them" -- Social identity, roles, and relations : motivational influences in responses to diversity -- Is bias in the brain? …”
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A decisive decade : an insider's view of the Chicago civil rights movement during the 1960s / by McKersie, Robert B.

Table of Contents: “…The First Unitarian Church of Chicago: my gateway to the civil rights movement and to Alex Poinsett -- Campaigns on the employment front -- The Motorola Campaign and Tim Black -- Campaigns on the education front -- The movement marks time, while the university plays catch-up -- Spring and summer 1965: marches, more marches, and Al Pitcher -- A peaceful march in Kenwood and a not-so-peaceful march led by Dick Gregory -- Looking back on the tumultuous events of 1965 -- The campaign for open housing, summer 1966 -- Jesse Jackson, Operation Breadbasket, and minority enterprise -- The movement and the decade wind down -- Initiatives continue within the university and the unitarian church -- Race relations and the personal equation.…”
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Biotechnology and biopharmaceuticals : transforming proteins and genes into drugs / by Ho, Rodney J. Y.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to biopharmaceuticals -- Distinctions of biologic versus small molecule platforms in drug development -- Financing biologic drug development -- Application of biotechnology in drug discovery and early development -- Large-scale production of recombinant proteins -- Clinical pharmacology, toxicology, and therapeutic dosage & response -- Clinical evaluation and regulatory approval & enforcement of biopharmaceuticals -- Pharmacoeconomics and drug pricing / Garrison -- Antibodies and derivatives -- Hematopoietic growth and coagulation factors -- Cytokines and interferons -- Hormones -- Enzymes -- Vaccines / Hu, Ho -- Other biopharmaceutical products -- Advances in personalized medicine : pharmacogenetics in drug therapy -- Gene and cell therapy -- Pharmacoeconomics, outcome, and health technology assessment research in drug development -- Summary and future prospects.…”
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Legal aspects of mental capacity : a practical guide for health and social care professionals / by Dimond, Bridgit

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : anatomy of the Mental Capacity Act and its terms -- Background to the legal system and the Mental Capacity Act -- Human rights and statutory principles for governing decision making -- Definition of mental capacity -- Making decisions in the best interests of others -- Lasting powers of attorney -- Court of Protection, court appointed deputies, the Office of the Public Guardian and visitors -- Independent mental capacity advocates -- Advance decisions -- Research -- Protection of vulnerable adults and accountability -- Children and young persons -- Mental capacity and mental disorder -- Deprivation of liberty safeguards (DOLS) -- Organ and tissue removal, storage and use -- The informal carer -- Implementation, resources, and code of practice -- Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland -- The future.…”
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Childhood abuse, body shame, and addictive plastic surgery : the face of trauma / by Constantian, Mark B.

Table of Contents: “…Where the thread began: what surgeons learn from patients and their families -- What the mental health literature says about body dysmorphic disorder -- The valley of the shadow: core issues and parenting -- Body image and body image disorders -- The ways we suffer: body shame and the astounding spectrum of its ravages -- The ways we medicate: addictions and behaviors most relevant to body image -- The effects of trauma on brain and body -- Behavior, PTSD, and surgical compulsion in plastic surgery patients: trailing the trauma prevalence -- Adverse childhood events in medical and plastic surgery patients and their effects on adult health, personality, and surgical happiness -- Resilience: the antidote and the inspiration.…”
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Email marketing in a digital world : the basics and beyond / by Hanna, Richard C., Swain, Scott D., Smith, Jason

Table of Contents: “…Beyond the basics of email -- 8. The personalities of email users -- 9. Social media and email: friend, ally, or frenemy? …”
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Free Innovation / by Hippel, Eric von

Table of Contents: “…The broad scope of free innovation -- 9. Personality traits of successful free innovators -- 10. …”
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The Tree Trunk Can Be My Pillow : The Biography of an Outstanding Japanese Canadian / by Kagetsu, Tadashi Jack, 1931-2006

Table of Contents: “…The hard life of a first born -- Getting started in a new land -- Early logging ventures -- A large-scale logging operation -- Life in a logging camp -- An unwanted partnership -- Personal life -- Maintaining Japanese traditions -- Education is a top priority -- A man of faith in action -- The Canadian Japanese Association -- Other activities in the community -- Participation in memorable events -- The Vimy pilgrimage and Berlin Olympics -- A great honour is savoured -- Pearl Harbor and its aftermath -- Our lives are changed forever -- Meager compensation for liquidated assets -- Starting a new life in the East -- The elder statesman is still active -- Life's sunset.…”
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The Work of Authorship /

Table of Contents: “…Voices near and far : introduction / Mireille van Eechoud -- Creative work and communicative norms : perspectives from legal philosophy / Laura Biron -- Romantic authorship in copyright law and the uses of aesthetics / Erlend Lavik -- Creativity, autonomy and personal touch : a critical appraisal of the CJEU's originality test for copyright / Stef van Gompel -- Adapting the work / Mireille van Eechoud -- Reassessing the challenge of the digital : an empirical perspective on authorship and copyright / Elena Cooper -- Creativity and the sense of collective ownership in theatre and popular music / Jostein Gripsrud -- Discontinuities between legal conceptions of authorship and social practices : what, if anything, is to be done? …”
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Sitting in darkness New South fiction, education, and the rise of Jim Crow colonialism, 1865-1920 / by Schmidt, Peter, 1951 Dec. 23-

Table of Contents: “…Louis Exposition (1904) -- Counter-statements to Jim Crow colonialism : Mark Twain's "To the person sitting in darkness" (1901) and Aurelio Tolentino's Yesterday, today, and tomorrow (1905) -- Educating whites to be white on the global frontier : hypnotism and ambivalence in Thomas Dixon and Owen Wister (1900-1905) -- The dark archive: early twentieth-century critiques of Jim Crow colonialism by New South novelists -- The education of Walter Hines Page : a gentleman's disagreement with the New South in The Southerner, being the autobiography of "Nicholas Worth" (1909) -- Anti-colonial education? …”
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Health care costs causes, effects and control /

Table of Contents: “…Vazquez-Polo -- Medication management and the older person / Maggi Banning -- Training needs of healthcare professionals working with breastfeeding mothers in England and in Poland / Joanna Kosmala-Anderson ... …”
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Among the Garifuna : family tales and ethnography from the Caribbean coast / by Wells, Marilyn McKillop

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Project management skills for healthcare : methods and techniques for diverse skillsets / by Bove, Lisa Anne, Houston, Susan M. (Susan Murphy)

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X-ray contrast agent technology : a revolutionary history / by Haën, Christoph de

Table of Contents: “…Technical Knowledge from Interference of Different Knowledge CulturesInterference as Communication and Individuation of Knowledge; The Emergence of a Technological Vision; Synchronization and Interference; The Function of the Technological Vision; Technology Espousal and Resistance; Technology Consolidation and Economization Phase; History; The Search for a New Vision; Chapter 5 Conclusions; References; Endnotes; Person Index; Subject Index…”
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