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Aging identity a dialogue with postmodernism /

Table of Contents: “…Powell and Tony Gilbert -- "Making it up as you go along" : a personal account of ageing with cerebral palsydd / Claire Tregaskis -- The absence of adam : prostate cancer and male identity / Antje Kampf -- Social imagery, aging, and the life course : a postmodern assessment / Steven Arxer, John W. …”
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Falls from height a guide to rescue planning / by McCurley, Loui, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: SECTION 1 REGULATORY CONSIDERATIONS, RESCUE PLANS, AND DEVELOPING A RESCUE CAPABILITY CHAPTER 1 The Reason for Rescue CHAPTER 2 Developing a Post Fall Rescue Plan CHAPTER 3 Program Development and Incident Management SECTION 2 EQUIPMENT, SYSTEMS AND SKILLS CHAPTER 4 Equipment for Co-Worker Responders CHAPTER 5 Rescue Equipment and Systems CHAPTER 6 Personal Skills for Rescuers SECTION 3 - PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER CHAPTER 7 Principles of Rigging CHAPTER 8 Single-Rescuer Techniques CHAPTER 9 Group-Rescue Methods SECTION 4 - SUCCESSFUL WORKPLACE PLANNING CHAPTER 10 Industry Specific Considerations CHAPTER 11 Practical Workplace Application Your Step-by-Step Guide to Developing a CoWorker Assisted Rescue Plan.…”
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Plasticity and pathology : on the formation of the neural subject /

Table of Contents: “…Toward an ethnography of experimental psychology / Emily Martin -- You are (not) your synapses : toward a critical approach to neuroscience / Catherine Malabou -- Plasticity, pathology, and pleasure in cold war America / Cathy Gere -- Epileptic insanity and personal identity : John Hughlings Jackson and the Formations of the neuropathic self / Nima Bassiri -- Integrations, vigilance, catastrophe : the neuropsychiatry of aphasia in Henry Head and Kurt Goldstein / Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers -- The history of a brain wound : Alexander Luria and the dialectics of Soviet plasticity / Hannah Proctor and Laura Salisbury -- Automaticity, plasticity, and the deviant origins of artificial intelligence / David Bates -- Plastic diagrams : circuits in the brain and how they got there / Joseph Dumit -- Imperfect reflections : norms, pathology, and difference in mirror neuron research / Katja Guenther -- On how adult cerebral plasticity research has decoupled pathology from death / Tobias Rees.…”
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Madam Chief Justice : Jean Hoefer Toal of South Carolina /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Introduction -- "It's a girl" -- You don't start out as chief justice -- Into the twentieth century as a lawyer legislator -- A new associate justice -- An unrelenting judicial warrior in south carolina's video poker wars -- Toal on torts (1987-2014) -- Abbeville county school district v. state : changing south carolinar -- Bringing the courts into the twenty-first century -- Family, friends, and community -- The sisterhood of the ladder : the impact of chief justice toal on the rise in participation of women in the legal profession in south carolina -- Personal reflections collected by amelia waring walker -- The lady's a leader -- The hoefer girls -- Observations of chief justice jean hoefer toal -- From my vantage point -- Destined for the records book -- My first glimpse -- An amazing lady -- Reflections of a law clerk -- National leader -- Heeding the call -- Quintessential south carolinian.…”
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Dignity in the 21st Century Middle East and West / by Schroeder, Doris, Bani-Sadr, Abol‐Hassan

Table of Contents: “…The example of christianity -- Testing and critiquing the taxonomy of dignity -- Dignity and vagueness -- Could dignity be replaced with respect for persons? -- A common core of dignity building blocks? …”
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50 years of combinatorics, graph theory, and computing /

Table of Contents: “…Personal Reflections of the SEICCGTC: Origins and Beyond I: Combinatorics Some of My Favorite Problems Variations on the Sequenceable Theme Survey of Stack Sortable Permutations Dimensions for Posets and Chromatic Number for Graphs Edrős Magic II: Graph Theory Developments on Saturated Graphs Magic Labeling Basics Block Colorings of Graph Decompositions Reconfiguration of Colourings and Dominating Sets in Graphs Edge Intersection Graphs of Paths on a Grid III: Combinatorial Matrix Theory A Jaunt in Spectral Graph Theory Inverse Eigenvalue Problem of a Graph Rank Functions Permutation Matrices and Beyond: An Essay IV: Designs, Geometry, Packing and Covering Some New Families of 2-Resolutions Graphical Designs There Must be Fifty Ways to Miss a Cover Combinatorial Designs and Cryptography, Revisited A Survey of Scalar Multiplication Algorithms Arcs, Caps, Generalisations: Results and Problems…”
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Emergencies in psychiatry in low- and middle-income countries : second edition /

Table of Contents: “…chapter 1 Anxious Patient in the Emergency Ward -- chapter 2 Psychiatric Emergencies in Substance Abuse -- chapter 3 Psychotic Disorders including Schizophrenia -- chapter 4 Psychiatric Emergencies in Grief -- chapter 5 Emergency Treatment of the Acutely Disturbed and Aggressive Patient -- chapter 6 Psychiatric Emergencies Associated with Drug Overdose -- chapter 7 Psychiatric Emergencies in Women -- chapter 8 Emergency Management of Suicidal Behavior -- chapter 9 Psychiatric Emergencies in Disaster Situations -- chapter 10 Child Psychiatric Emergencies -- chapter 11 Sexual Emergencies: A Psychiatrist’s Perspective -- chapter 12 Psychiatric Emergencies in Medical Conditions -- chapter 13 Psychiatric Emergencies in Personality Disorders -- chapter 14 Legal Aspects of Psychiatric Emergencies -- chapter 15 Psychiatric Emergencies in the Elderly -- chapter 16 Psychiatric Emergencies after Terrorist Attacks.…”
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Culture and psychopathology : a guide to clinical assessment /

Table of Contents: “…Psychotic disorders / Abhishek Mehra and Junji Takeshita -- 10. Personality disorders / Steven R. Williams -- 11. Child and adolescent psychopathology / Shaylin Chock and Anthony P.S. …”
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Sylvia Plath : New Views on the Poetry /

Table of Contents: “…O'Hara -- Medusan imagery in Sylvia Plath / Sister Bernetta Quinn -- Influence and originality in Plath's poems / Gary Lane -- Plath's cosmology and the house of Yeats / Barnett Guttenberg -- 3. Personal and public contexts: Sylvia Plath's "sivvy" poems: a portrait of the poet as daughter / Marjorie Perloff -- The absence at the center: Sylvia Plath and suicide / Murray M. …”
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E-learning and the science of instruction proven guidelines for consumers and designers of multimedia learning / by Clark, Ruth Colvin

Table of Contents: “…Applying the Coherence Principle: Adding Material Can Hurt Learning.Coherence Principle 1: Avoid e-Lessons with Extraneous Audio.Psychological Reasons to Avoid Extraneous Audio in e-Learning.Evidence for Omitting Extraneous Audio.Coherence Principle 2: Avoid e-Lessons with Extraneous Graphics.Psychological Reasons to Avoid Extraneous Graphics in e-Learning.Evidence for Omitting Extraneous Graphics Added for Interest.Evidence for Using Simpler Visuals.Coherence Principle 3: Avoid e-Lessons with Extraneous Words.Psychological Reasons to Avoid Extraneous Words in e-Learning.Evidence for Omitting Extraneous Words Added for Interest.Evidence for Omitting Extraneous Words Added to Expand on Key Ideas.Evidence for Omitting Extraneous Words Added for Technical Depth.What We Don't Know About Coherence.9. Applying the Personalization Principle: Use Conversational Style and Virtual Coaches.Personalization Principle 1: Use Conversational Rather Than Formal Style.Psychological Reasons for the Personalization Principle.Evidence for Using Conversational Style.Promote Personalization Through Voice Quality.Promote Personalization Through Polite Speech.Personalization Principle 2: Use Effective On-Screen Coaches to Promote Learning.Personalization Principle 3: Make the Author Visible to Promote Learning.Psychological Reasons for Using a Visible Author.Evidence for the Visible Author.What We Don't Know About Personalization.10. …”
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Sisters and brothers of the common life : the Devotio Moderna and the world of the later Middle Ages / by Van Engen, John H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Devotio Moderna and modern history -- Converts in the Middle ages -- Conversion as a medieval form of life -- Converts in the Low Countries -- Circles of converts at Strassburg and Brussels -- Converts under suspicion : legislating against Beguines and free spirits -- Modern-day converts in the Low Countries -- The Low Countries -- Households of devout women -- Societies of devout men -- Modern-day conversion -- Suspicion and inquisition -- Suspicion of devout practices -- Charge and counter-charge in the mid-1390s -- Sisters under inquisition, 1396-1397 : Friar Eylard Schoneveld intervenes -- Resisting the inquisitor : legal tactics -- Awaiting the Bishop's decision, 1398-1401 -- From converts to communities : tertiaries, sisters, brothers, schoolboys, canons -- Tertiaries "living the common life" -- Sisters of the common life -- Brothers of the common life -- Schoolboys -- Windesheim canons and canonesses -- An option for enclosure : male canons and female tertiaries -- Inventing a communal household : goods, customs, labor, and "republican" harmony -- Living together without personal property -- House customs and personal exercises -- Obedience and humility in a voluntary community -- Labor : living from the work of their own hands -- Communal gatherings and a "republican" impulse -- Defending the modern-day Devout : expansion under scrutiny -- Women's houses and converting schoolboys : Burgher critics at Zwolle -- Friar Matthew Grabow and the Council of Constance -- The sisters and the aldermen in conflict at Deventer : the women's narrative -- Institutionalizing under scrutiny -- Proposing a theological rationale : the freedom of the "Christian religion" -- Place in society : taking on the "estate of the perfect" -- John Pupper of Goch (d. 1475) -- Gospel law and the freedom of the Christian religion -- Taking the spiritual offensive : caring for the self, examining the soul, progressing in virtue -- Reading, writing, and the lay tongue -- Exhortation in public and correction in private -- Spiritual guidance and mutual reproof -- Modern-day devotion : examining the self, making progress, experiencing peace -- Private gatherings and self-made societies in the fifteenth century -- The question of an afterlife.…”
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Writing gender writing self : memory, memoir and autobiography /

Table of Contents: “…Intersecting Terrains of Personal and Politics: An Arab Feminist Reading of Fadwa Tuqan's A Mountainous Journey 8. …”
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Eva and Otto : Resistance, Refugees, and Love in the Time of Hitler / by Pfister, Thomas L., 1948-, Pfister, Peter J., 1948-, Pfister, Katherine D., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Separated Again -- Otto's OSS Mission; Wartime Correspondence -- War Drags on; Reports on Nazi Atrocities; Another Personal Loss -- Questions about the Future as Allies Battle in Europe -- Part VIII. …”
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Issues in Feminist Film Criticism /

Table of Contents: “…Images and women / Robin Wood -- Unspoken and unsolved: Tell me a riddle / Florence Jacobowitz and Lori Spring -- Desperately seeking difference / Jackie Stacey -- Female narration, women's cinema: Helke Sander's The all-round reduced personality/redupers / Judith Mayne -- Feminist or tendentious? …”
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Consolidated legal texts for the Special Court for Sierra Leone by Jalloh, Charles

Table of Contents: “…UN Security Council resolution 1315 (2000) -- Agreement between the United Nations and the government of Sierra Leone on the establishment of a Special Court for Sierra Leone -- Statute of the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- Rules of procedure and evidence -- Headquarters agreement between the Republic of Sierra Leone and the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- UN Security Council resolution 1688 (2006) -- Memorandum of understanding regarding administrative arrangements between the International Criminal Court and the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- Rules governing the detention of persons awaiting trial or appeal before the Special Court for Sierra Leone or otherwise detained on the authority of the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- Code of professional conduct for counsel with the right of audience before the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- Code of ethics for interpreters and translators employed by the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- Directive on the assignment of counsel -- Practice direction on filing documents before the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- Practice direction on disclosure by the prosecution by the prosecutor pursuant to rule 66 of the rules of procedure and evidence of the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- Practice direction on filing documents under rule 72 of the rules of procedure and evidence before the Appeals Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- Practice direction on filing amicus curiae applications pursuant to rule 74 of the rules of procedure and evidence of the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- Practice direction on certain appeals before the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- Practice direction on the procedure following a request by a state, the truth and reconciliation commission, or other legitimate authority to take a statement from a person in the custody of the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- The National Constitution of Sierra Leone, 1991 (Act no. 6 of 1991) -- The Special Court Agreement, 2002 Ratication Act, 2002 -- The Special Court Agreement, 2002 (Ratication) Amendment Act, 2002 -- The Lome Peace Agreement (Ratication) Act, 1999 -- The Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act 2000 -- The Criminal Procedure Act, 1965 -- Prevention of Cruelty to Children Act -- An ordinance to prevent cruelty to children -- Malicious Damage Act, 1861 -- Peace agreement between the government of the Republic of Sierra Leone and the revolutionary united front of Sierra Leone (RUF/SL) (Abidjan Accord) -- Economic community of West African states six-month peace plan for Sierra Leone (Conakry Accord) -- Peace agreement between the government of Sierra Leone and the revolutionary united front of Sierra Leone (Lome peace agreement) -- Abuja cease're agreement between the government of Sierra Leone and the revolutionary united front (Abuja cease? …”
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Children and youth during the Civil War era

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Steven Mintz -- "Waked up to feel" : defining childhood, debating slavery in antebellum America / Rebecca de Schweinitz -- "Train up a child in the way he should go" : the image of idealized childhood in the slavery debate, 1850-1870 / Elizabeth Kuebler-Wolf -- "What is a person worth at such a time" : New England college students, sectionalism, and secession / Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai -- A "rebel to [his] govt. and to his parents" : the emancipation of Tommy Cave / Thomas F. …”
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Crowds and democracy : the idea and image of the masses from revolution to fascism / by Jonsson, Stefan, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Introducing the Masses : Vienna, 15 July 1927 (Elias Canetti -- Alfred Vierkandt -- Hannah Arendt -- Karl Kraus -- Heimito von Doderer) -- Shooting Psychosis -- Not a Word About the Bastille -- Explaining the Crowd -- Representing Social Passions -- A Work of Madness -- Invincibles -- Mirror for Princes -- Workers on the Run -- Lashing -- Authority Versus Anarchy : Allegories of the Mass in Sociology and Literature (Georg Simmel -- Werner Sombart -- Fritz Lang -- Leopold von Wiese -- Wilhelm Vleugels -- Gerhard Colm -- Max Weber -- Theodor Geiger -- August Sander -- Hermann Broch -- Ernst Toller -- Rainer Maria Rilke) -- The Missing Chapter -- Georg Simmel's Masses -- In Metropolis -- The Architecture of Society -- Steak Tartare -- Delta Formations -- Alarm Bells of History -- Sleepwalkers -- I Am Mass -- Rilke in the Revolution -- The Revolving Nature of the Social : Primal Hordes and Crowds Without Qualities (Sigmund Freud -- Hans Kelsen -- Theodor Adorno -- Wilhelm Reich -- Siegfried Kracauer -- Bertolt Brecht -- Alfred Doblin -- Georg Grosz -- Robert Musil) -- Sigmund Freud Between Individual and Society -- Masses Inside -- In Love with Many -- Primal Hordes -- Masses and Myths -- The Destruction of the Person -- The Flaneur-Medium of Modernity -- Ornaments of the People -- Beyond the Bourgeoisie -- Shapeless Lives -- Organizing the Passions -- Collective Vision : A Matrix for New Art and Politics (Laszlo Moholy-Nagy -- Marianne Brandt -- Walter Benjamin -- Ernst Junger -- Edmund Schultz -- Willi Munzenberg -- Der Arbeiter-Fotograf -- Erwin Piscator -- Walther Gropius) -- Mass Psychosis and Photoplastics -- Johanna in the Revolution -- A Socialist Eye -- The Secret Code of the Nineteenth Century -- Speaking Commodities -- Deus ex Machina -- Democracy's Veil -- The Face of the Masses -- Learning to Hold a Camera -- The Gaze of the Masses -- Total Theater -- Coda: Remnants of Weimar.…”
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Simulated patient methodology : theory, evidence and practice /

Table of Contents: “…Youngwerth -- Skills development in person-centred physiotherapy / Felicity C. Blackstock and Shane Pritchard -- Simulated family and healthcare professionals : consent for organ transplantation / Gayle A. …”
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TouchDevelop: Programming on the Go by Horspool, R. Nigel, Tillmann, Nikolai

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Christianity and criminal law /

Table of Contents: “…Chapman -- Christianity and Offences Against the Person / David Etherington -- Law Like Love Like Language : The Christian Uses of Property Crime / -- John F Stinneford -- Crimes against God and the Church / Jeroen Temperman -- Sex Crimes and Christianity / John Witte, Jr -- Attempts, Complicity, Virtue and the Limits of the Law / Richard W. …”
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