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The power of positive leadership : how and why positive leaders transform teams and organizations and change the world / by Gordon, Jon, 1971-

AMERICANAS, AUTOCRACY, AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL INNOVATION : overwriting the dictator. by Ortiz-Vilarelle, Lisa

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Impossible Autobiography: Women's Life Writing and Twentieth-Century Latin American Dictatorships -- 1 I Remember Trujillo: Trujillo en Mis Memorias: Denial, Shame, Martyrdom, and Nostalgia in Dominican Women's Memoir -- Remembering Trujillo: The Memoir Boom -- Dictator as Tragic Hero: Aída Trujillo and the Shadow of Third-Person Memoir -- The Daughter and the Demi-God: Fugitive Acts in Flor de Oro Trujillo's Memoir Exposé…”
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Artificial intelligence safety and security /

Table of Contents: “…: Different Approaches and Their Implications for Life in the Universe -- chapter 10 The MADCOM Future: How Artificial Intelligence Will Enhance Computational Propaganda, Reprogram Human Culture, and Threaten Democracy … and What can be Done About It -- chapter 11 Strategic Implications of Openness in AI Development -- part, PART II Responses of Scholars -- chapter 12 Using Human History, Psychology, and Biology to Make AI Safe for Humans -- chapter 13 AI Safety: A First-Person Perspective -- chapter 14 Strategies for an Unfriendly Oracle AI with Reset Button -- chapter 15 Goal Changes in Intelligent Agents -- chapter 16 Limits to Verification and Validation of Agentic Behavior -- chapter 17 Adversarial Machine Learning (AI Safety and Security Textbook) -- chapter 18 Value Alignment via Tractable Preference Distance -- chapter 19 A Rationally Addicted Artificial Superintelligence -- chapter 20 On the Security of Robotic Applications Using ROS -- chapter 21 Social Choice and the Value Alignment Problem* -- chapter 22 Disjunctive Scenarios of Catastrophic AI Risk -- chapter 23 Offensive Realism and the Insecure Structure of the International System: Artificial Intelligence and Global Hegemony -- chapter 24 Superintelligence and the Future of Governance: On Prioritizing the Control Problem at the End of History -- chapter 25 Military AI as a Convergent Goal of Self-Improving AI -- chapter 26 A Value-Sensitive Design Approach to Intelligent Agents -- chapter 27 Consequentialism, Deontology, and Artificial Intelligence Safety -- chapter 28 Smart Machines ARE a Threat to Humanity.…”
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The Geography of American Poverty : Is There a Need for Place-Based Policies? / by Partridge, Mark D.

Table of Contents: “…-- Why society should care about poverty -- National poverty and economic growth -- Person- vs. place-based policy -- Overview of this book -- Recent spatial poverty trends in America -- Patterns and trends in state poverty -- Patterns and trends in county poverty rates -- Demographic patterns and trends in county poverty -- County patterns in employment growth -- Conclusions -- Regional economic performance and poverty : what's the theoretical connection? …”
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Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds /

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Food literacy : key concepts for health and education / by Vidgen, Helen

Table of Contents: “…Gillis -- Food literacy and food choice : a constructionist perspective / Carole Bisogni, Stephanie Bostic, Jeffery Sobal and Margaret Jastran -- Food literacy beyond the individual : the nexus between personal skills and victim blaming / Martin Caraher -- The nexus between food literacy, food security and disadvantage / Danielle Gallegos -- The development of food literacy / Helen Vidgen -- Developing food literacy through the education sector : a focus on home economics / Sandra Fordyce-Voorham and Theresa Wai Ling Lai-Yeung -- Developing food literacy through the health sector / Andrea Begley -- Developing food literacy through food production / Heather Yeatman -- Measuring food literacy / Rebecca Mckecknie -- Food literacy : key concepts and the elephants in the room / Helen Vidgen and Martin Caraher.…”

The psychology of superheroes an unauthorized exploration /

Table of Contents: “…The positive psychology of superheroes / Christopher Peterson and Nansook Park -- The social psychology of the Justice league of America / Wind Goodfriend -- Superman's personality / Robin S. Rosenberg -- Anti-heroism in the continuum of good and evil / Michael Spivey and Steven Knowlton -- Positive psychology of Peter Parker / Robert Biwas-Diener -- Prejudice lessons from the Xavier Institute / Mikhail Lyubansky -- When I grow up I want to be a superhero / Bryan J. …”
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English women, religion, and textual production, 1500-1625

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : women, religious communities, prose genres, and textual production / Micheline White -- Living stones : Lady Elizabeth Russell and the art of sacred conversation / Patricia Phillippy -- Theise dearest offrings of my heart : the sacrifice of praise in Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke's Psalmes / Mary Trull -- Anne Dacre Howard, Countess of Arundel, and Catholic patronage / Susannah Brietz Monta -- Ensigne-bearers of Saint Clare : Elizabeth Evelinge's early translations and the restoration of England franciscanism / Jaime Goodrich -- Lady Anne Clifford and the uses of Christian warfare / Julie Crawford -- Prospecting for common ground in devotion : Queen Katherine Parr's personal prayerbook / Janel Mueller -- "Halff a scrypture woman" : heteroglossia and female authorial agency in prayers by Lady Elizabeth Tyrwhit, Anne Lock, and Anne Wheathill / Susan M. …”
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Family, gender, and law in a globalizing Middle East and South Asia

Table of Contents: “…Kabasakal Arat -- Struggles over personal status and family law in post-Baathist Iraq / Juan Cole -- Family, gender, and law in Jordan and Palestine / Lynn Welchman -- Revisiting the debate on family law in Morocco : context, actors, and discourses / Zakia Salime -- Straddling CEDAW and the MMA : conflicting visions of women's rights in contemporary Pakistan / Anita M. …”
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Outsourcing technical communication issues, policies, and practices /

Table of Contents: “…Amant -- Outsourcing technical communication : the policy behind the practice / Keith Gibson -- Obligations and opportunities : legal issues in offshore outsourcing technical communication / Charlsye Smith Diaz -- Conclusion : personal reflection on developing a viable trajectory for outsourcing technical communications / Barry Thatcher.…”
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Canyon of dreams : stories from Grand Canyon history / by Lago, Don, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…The Yellow Brick Road: A Personal Reflection on History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Clinical psychology /

Table of Contents: “…Working with people with personality disorders -- 10. Working with people with eating disorders -- 11. …”
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Charles Kingsley : faith, flesh, and fantasy /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword: Amyas and me : a personal history of Charles Kingsley / John Sutherland -- Introduction: Charles Kingsley : "The most typical Victorian of them all" / Jan Marten Ivo Klaver and Jonathan Conlin -- "Love me! …”
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Big data : a new medium? /

Table of Contents: “…Big data, engendered determinism and the end of prophecy / Franco 'Bifo' Berardi -- "Visual hallucination of probable events" : on environments of images, data, and machine learning / Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka -- Biometric datafication in governmental and personal spheres / Btihaj Ajana -- Digital biopolitics and the problem of fatigue in platform capitalism / Tim Christaens -- Appreciating machine-generated artwork through deep learning mechanisms / Lonce Wyse -- Data to the Nth degree : zooming in on the smart set / Craig J. …”
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After the death of nature : Carolyn Merchant and the future of human-nature relations /

Table of Contents: “…-- Carolyn Merchant's the death of nature: launching new trajectories in interdisciplinary research -- From a partnership to a fidelity ethic: framing an old story for a new time -- Bewitching nature -- Leading and misleading metaphors: from organism to anthropocene -- Part II: Environmental history: Personal, political, and professional: the impact of Carolyn Merchant's life and leadership -- Carolyn Merchant and the ecological Indian -- All our relations: reflections on women, nature, and science -- The other scientific revolution: Calvinist scientists and the origins of ecology -- Carolyn Merchant and the environmental humanities in Scandinavia -- Part III: The politics of landscapes, embodiment, and epistemologies: Landscape, science, and social reproduction: the long-reaching influence of Carolyn Merchant's insight -- The spiritual politics of the Kendeng Mountains versus the global cement industry1 -- Toward a political ecology of environmental discourse -- Environmental history and the materialization of bodies -- A mighty tree is Carolyn Merchant -- Afterward -- Index.…”
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Thinking About Dementia : Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility /

Table of Contents: “…Kontos -- Normality and difference : institutional classification and the constitution of subjectivity in a Dutch nursing home / Roma Chatterji -- Divided gazes : Alzheimer's disease, the person within, and death in life / Annette Leibing -- Being a good rōjin : senility, power, and self-actualization in Japan / John W. …”
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Forensic mental health assessment of children and adolescents

Table of Contents: “…Friedrich -- Measuring adolescent personality and psychopathology with the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI) / Joseph T. …”
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The view from the helm leading the American university during an era of change / by Duderstadt, James J., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…-- Presidential leadership -- Presidential leadership -- The elements of presidential leadership -- Several unique aspects of university leadership -- The many styles and philosophies of presidential leadership -- Adapting leadership styles to the times and the institution -- A matter of personal style -- Movers and shakers, pushers and coasters: the impact of the presidency -- Leadership for a time of change -- Executive leadership -- The executive officer team -- Go downtown and get the money -- Bricks and mortar -- Crisis management -- The challenges of executive leadership -- Academic leadership -- The academic clockwork -- Academic leadership -- Faculty quality -- Selection and recruitment of academic leadership -- Tinkering with time bombs -- The challenges to academic leadership by the president -- Political leadership -- Growing up in a rough neighborhood -- Defending the university -- The loyal (and sometimes not so loyal) opposition -- The president and the governing board -- The broader political agenda of the university and the university presidency -- The hazards of political leadership -- Moral leadership -- The challenges to moral leadership -- Social diversity and academic excellence -- Student affairs -- Institutional integrity -- The bully pulpit -- Pastoral care -- Personal traits and traps -- Strategic leadership -- The approach -- The action plan -- Lessons learned and the growing concern -- Institutional transformation -- Experiments and ventures -- More lessons learned: the challenges of transformation -- The university president: an endangered species? …”
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Inheritance in contemporary America : the social dimensions of giving across generations / by Angel, Jacqueline Lowe

Table of Contents: “…-- The political economy of giving and receiving -- The legacy of the modern welfare state -- The dilemma -- Employer pension versus personal savings -- Cross-national research -- Dimensions of giving between generations -- The joy of giving -- Theoretical perspectives on money: good versus evil? …”
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A Coach's Guide to Maximizing the Youth Sport Experience Work Hard, Be Kind. by Fry, Mary

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Endorsement; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; Part I Introduction; 1 A Caring and Task-Involving Climate: The Key to Maximizing Sport Performance and Experience; Highlights; Introduction to Nicholls' Motivation Theory Applied to Sport; Young Athletes' Understanding of Sport Ability; Athletes' Development of Their Personal Definitions of Success; The Climate on Sport Teams; The Addition of Caring to the Sport Climate; Reflecting on Practice; How Do the Ideas in this Chapter Align with your Approach to Coaching and to Life?…”
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