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Critique of Sovereignty, Book 1: Contemporary Theories of Sovereignty by Lombardo, Marc

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Heathen Earth: Trumpism and Political Ecology / by McGee, Kyle

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Management of MDR and XDR TB

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Management of multi drug resistance (MDR) and extensive drug resistance (XDR) TB -- Management of TB before era of drug treatment -- Surgery for TB -- Drug treatment was introduced from 1943-1963 -- Rifampicin (1963) -- Timeline: discovery of drugs for TB -- Emergence of totally drug resistant TB -- Epidemiology -- Outcomes of MDR-TB treatment -- Survival curve of HIV patients with XDR TB -- Current drug treatment -- Treatment outcome in several cohorts -- Death rates in several cohorts -- Current approach for treatment of MDR/XDR TB -- WHO's programmatic management of DR TB -- Treatment recommendations -- Group 1: oral first-line agents -- Group 2: fluoroquinolones -- Group 3: injectables -- Group 4: less-effective anti-TB drugs -- Group 5: less-effective or clinical data sparse drugs -- Future drug treatment -- New compounds -- Bedaquiline (TMC207) -- The nitroimidazoles -- Thioridazine -- NC-001 (PA-824, moxifloxacine, PZA) -- Dreams and realities for the future of TB treatment.…”
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Management of MDR and XDR TB

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Management of multi drug resistance (MDR) and extensive drug resistance (XDR) TB -- Management of TB before era of drug treatment -- Surgery for TB -- Drug treatment was introduced from 1943-1963 -- Rifampicin (1963) -- Timeline: discovery of drugs for TB -- Emergence of totally drug resistant TB -- Epidemiology -- Outcomes of MDR-TB treatment -- Survival curve of HIV patients with XDR TB -- Current drug treatment -- Treatment outcome in several cohorts -- Death rates in several cohorts -- Current approach for treatment of MDR/XDR TB -- WHO's programmatic management of DR TB -- Treatment recommendations -- Group 1: oral first-line agents -- Group 2: fluoroquinolones -- Group 3: injectables -- Group 4: less-effective anti-TB drugs -- Group 5: less-effective or clinical data sparse drugs -- Future drug treatment -- New compounds -- Bedaquiline (TMC207) -- The nitroimidazoles -- Thioridazine -- NC-001 (PA-824, moxifloxacine, PZA) -- Dreams and realities for the future of TB treatment.…”
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Gaze Regimes : Film and feminisms in Africa /

Table of Contents: “…-- 15 'Women, use the gaze to change reality' -- 16 Post-colonial Film Collaboration and Festival Politics -- 17 Tsitsi Dangarembga: A manifesto.…”
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Advanced practice nursing core concepts for professional role development /

Table of Contents: “…Mirr-Jansen -- Reimbursement realities for APNs / Linda Lindeke -- Ethical issues in advanced practice nursing / Karen S. …”
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Management of MDR and XDR TB

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Management of multi drug resistance (MDR) and extensive drug resistance (XDR) TB -- Management of TB before era of drug treatment -- Surgery for TB -- Drug treatment was introduced from 1943-1963 -- Rifampicin (1963) -- Timeline: discovery of drugs for TB -- Emergence of totally drug resistant TB -- Epidemiology -- Outcomes of MDR-TB treatment -- Survival curve of HIV patients with XDR TB -- Current drug treatment -- Treatment outcome in several cohorts -- Death rates in several cohorts -- Current approach for treatment of MDR/XDR TB -- WHO's programmatic management of DR TB -- Treatment recommendations -- Group 1: oral first-line agents -- Group 2: fluoroquinolones -- Group 3: injectables -- Group 4: less-effective anti-TB drugs -- Group 5: less-effective or clinical data sparse drugs -- Future drug treatment -- New compounds -- Bedaquiline (TMC207) -- The nitroimidazoles -- Thioridazine -- NC-001 (PA-824, moxifloxacine, PZA) -- Dreams and realities for the future of TB treatment.…”
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Gaze Regimes : Film and feminisms in Africa /

Table of Contents: “…-- 15 'Women, use the gaze to change reality' -- 16 Post-colonial Film Collaboration and Festival Politics -- 17 Tsitsi Dangarembga: A manifesto.…”
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Human impacts on Amazonia the role of traditional ecological knowledge in conservation and development /

Table of Contents: “…Thoughts on the future of Amazonia : the region, residents, researchers, and realities / Michael J. Balick -- Romance and reality : the first European vision of Brazilian Indians / John Hemming -- Constructing tropical nature / Nancy Leys Stepan -- Demand for two classes of traditional agroecological knowledge in modern Amazonia / Charles R. …”
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Too smart to be sentimental contemporary Irish American women writers /

Table of Contents: “…Menaghan -- "Forget about being Irish" : family, transgression, and identity in the fiction of Elizabeth Cullinan / Kathleen McInerney -- Alice McDermott's narrators / Beatrice Jacobson -- Tess Gallagher : a network of sympathies and distant connections / Mary Ann Ryan -- "I'm your man" : Irish American masculinity in the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates / Susana Araújo -- Hardly sentimental : the "bad girls" and lonely men of Mary McGarry Morris's fiction / Patricia Gott -- Blurring boundaries : Eileen Myles and the Irish American identity / Kathleen Ann Kremins -- The world of Mary Gordon : writing from the "other side" / Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw -- Jean McGarry : sojourners between dreams and realities / Amy Lee -- Erin McGraw : expanding the tradition of Irish American women writers / Sally Barr Ebest.…”
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Dynamics of Long-Life Assets From Technology Adaptation to Upgrading the Business Model /

Table of Contents: “…PART I: Introduction and Setting the scene -- Dynamics of Long-Life Assets: The Editors’ Intro -- The Challenge -- The Use-it-Wisely (UIW) Approach -- PART II: Tools and Methods -- Innovation Management with an Emphasis on Co-Creation -- Complexity Management and System Dynamics Thinking -- Managing the Life Cycle to Reduce Environmental Impacts -- Virtual Reality and 3D Imaging to Support Collaborative Decision Making for Adaptation of Long-llife Assets -- Operator-oriented Product and Production Process Design for Manufacturing, Maintenance and Upgrading -- Fostering a Community of Practice for Industrial Processes -- Extending the System Model -- PART III: From Theory to Practice -- Collaborative Management of inspection Results in Power Plant Turbines -- Rock crusher Upgrade Business from a PLM Perspective -- Space Systems Development -- Adaptation of High-Variant Automotive Production System Using a Collaborative Approach -- Supporting the Small-to-Medium Vessel Industry -- Sustainable Furniture that Grows with End-users -- Comparing Industrial Cluster Cases to Define Upgrade Business Models for a Circular Economy.   .…”
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Model-Based Demography Essays on Integrating Data, Technique and Theory / by Burch, Thomas K.

Table of Contents: “…Demography in a New Key: A Theory of Population Theory --  2. Data, Models and Reality: The Structure of Demographic Knowledge -- 3. …”
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Interactions with a Violent Past : Reading Post-Conflict Landscapes in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam /

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction the "American war," post-conflict landscapes, and violent memories / Oliver Tappe and Vatthana Pholsena -- National memorial sites and personal remembrance : remembering the dead of Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek at the ECCC in Cambodia / Sina Emde -- National lieu de memoire vs. multivocal memories : the case of Viengxay, Lao PDR / Oliver Tappe -- War-martyr bia : commemoration and perdurability in rural Vietnam / Markus Schlecker -- Laos : living with unexploded ordnance : past memories and present realities / Elaine Russell -- War debris in postwar society : managing risk and uncertainty in the DMZ / Christina Schwenkel -- A social reading of a post-conflict landscape : Route 9 in southern Laos / Vatthana Pholsena -- Redefining Agent Orange, mitigating its impacts / Susan Hammond -- Aesthetic forms of post-conflict memory : inspired vessels of memory in northeast Cambodia / Krisna Uk -- Remembering old homelands : the Houay Ho Dam, the resettlement of the Heuny (Nya Heun), memory, and the struggle for places -- Ian G. …”
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Interrogating Orientalism : Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : mapping orientalism : representations and pedagogies / Diane Long Hoeveler and Jeffrey Cass -- Interrogating orientalism : theories and practices / Jeffrey Cass -- The female captivity narrative : blood, water, and orientalism / Diane Long Hoeveler -- "Better than the reality" : the Egyptian market in nineteenth-century travel writing / Emily A. …”
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Red and blue nation? characteristics and causes of America's polarized politics. Vol. 1 /

Table of Contents: “…Comments : Myths and realities of religion in politics / Alan Wolfe, Andrew Kohut -- How the mass media divide us / Diana C. …”
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Interactions with a Violent Past : Reading Post-Conflict Landscapes in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam /

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction the "American war," post-conflict landscapes, and violent memories / Oliver Tappe and Vatthana Pholsena -- National memorial sites and personal remembrance : remembering the dead of Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek at the ECCC in Cambodia / Sina Emde -- National lieu de memoire vs. multivocal memories : the case of Viengxay, Lao PDR / Oliver Tappe -- War-martyr bia : commemoration and perdurability in rural Vietnam / Markus Schlecker -- Laos : living with unexploded ordnance : past memories and present realities / Elaine Russell -- War debris in postwar society : managing risk and uncertainty in the DMZ / Christina Schwenkel -- A social reading of a post-conflict landscape : Route 9 in southern Laos / Vatthana Pholsena -- Redefining Agent Orange, mitigating its impacts / Susan Hammond -- Aesthetic forms of post-conflict memory : inspired vessels of memory in northeast Cambodia / Krisna Uk -- Remembering old homelands : the Houay Ho Dam, the resettlement of the Heuny (Nya Heun), memory, and the struggle for places -- Ian G. …”
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Interrogating Orientalism : Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : mapping orientalism : representations and pedagogies / Diane Long Hoeveler and Jeffrey Cass -- Interrogating orientalism : theories and practices / Jeffrey Cass -- The female captivity narrative : blood, water, and orientalism / Diane Long Hoeveler -- "Better than the reality" : the Egyptian market in nineteenth-century travel writing / Emily A. …”
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Women healing/healing women the genderization of healing in early Christianity / by Wainwright, Elaine Mary, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Agamede and Polydama -- Midwife and physician : early hints of professional healing -- Through the eyes of women healing in professional Hippocratic medicine -- Mousa, Antiochis, Secunda, Sotira : gendering professional medicine -- Pharmaka, magica, hygieia : when reality and stereotype meet, what lies beyond? -- Her home and his household -- Pharmaka and magica -- Religious healing -- Hygeia and Asclepius -- Women healing in biblical Judaism -- Telling stories of women healing/healing women : the gospel of Mark -- The Markan world of healing -- A fevered woman is raised up to diakonia (Mark 1:29-31) -- A young girl and a woman with a blood flow are healed (Mark 5:21-43) -- A daughter is healed of an unclean spirit (7:24-31) -- Healing women/women healing in the Markan health care system : a summary -- A woman pours out healing ointment (Mark 14:3-9) -- Re-telling stories of women healing/healing women : the gospel of Matthew -- Re-telling the raising up of Peter's mother-in-law to diakonia (Matt. 8:14-15) -- Re-telling the young girl raised and the woman saved (Matt. 9:18-26) -- A demon-possessed daughter is healed (Matt. 15:21-28) -- Retelling the pouring out of healing ointment (Matt. 26:6-13) -- Women cured of evil spirits and infirmities : the gospel of Luke -- Women healed of evil spirits and infirmities (Luke 8:1-3) -- Another woman healed for diakonia? …”
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Progress in the humanities? comparing the objects of culture and science / by Gay, Volney P. (Volney Patrick), 1948-

Table of Contents: “…-- Tragedy and mourning as progress -- The power to guess the unseen from the seen -- Reality testing as an intrapsychic process -- Looking outward, three movies -- Blow up -- High anxiety -- The conversation -- Isolating valid signals, making the right cut -- Magnification in humanistic theory.…”
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Engineered transparency the technical, visual, and spatial effects of glass /

Table of Contents: “…Richardson -- Double performances / Scott Marble -- Conversions of light / Graham Dodd -- Solar vision / Bernhard Weller, Susanne Rexroth, and Stefan Unnewehr -- Optics, waves, and particles / Michelle Addington -- Technical innovations: structure and glass : Engineered glass / Werner Sobek -- Making visions reality / Jens Schneider -- Maximum glass / Richard L. …”
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