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Retooling for growth building a 21st century economy in America's older industrial areas /

Table of Contents: “…/ Rachel Weber -- The reality of economic development in older industrial cities : the practioner's perspective / Jeffery A. …”
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The Dervishes of the North : Rumi, Whirling, and the Making of Sufism in Canada / by Xavier, Merin Shobhana

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Bytes and Backbeats : Repurposing Music in the Digital Age / by Savage, Steve, 1948-

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Displacement and the Somatics of Postcolonial Culture / by Robinson, Douglas, 1954-

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Lyric Orientations : Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community / by Eldridge, Hannah Vandegrift

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Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory : Vyasatirtha, Hindu Sectarianism, and the Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara Court / by Stoker, Valerie, 1969-

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Authors on Film /

Table of Contents: “…Howells / Editor's easy chair -- Virginia Woolf / The movies and reality -- H.L. Mencken / Appendix from Moronia -- Jack London / The message of motion pictures -- G.K. …”
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The Language(s) of Politics : Multilingual Policy-Making in the European Union / by Ringe, Nils

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Balanced Urban Development: Options and Strategies for Liveable Cities

Table of Contents: “…Balanced Urban Development: Is it a myth or reality? - Part II: Peri-Urbansation -- 2. Re-Ruralising the Urban Edge: Lessons from Europe, USA & the Global South -- 3. …”
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Hungry for ecstasy trauma, the brain, and the influence of the sixties / by Farber, Sharon Klayman

Table of Contents: “…-- Dissociative States -- The History of Altered States in Psychoanalysis -- Altered States can Enrich our Lives -- Chapter 3: The Brain and Altered States of Consciousness -- Ecstasies of Hysteria -- Freud's Victorian Ladies Suffering from Hysteria -- Hysteria and Dissociation -- Fainting, Swooning, and Seizures -- Atiques de Nervois and Other Ecstasies -- The Remarkable, Impressionable Human Brain -- Attachment and the Brain -- The Brain's Plasticity -- Sensitization, Kindling, and Addiction -- Trauma and Altered States of Consciousness -- The Third Eye and Altered States of Consciousness -- The Brain and Ecstasy -- Out of Body Experiences -- Near-Death Experiences -- Religion, Spirituality, and Ecstasy -- Orgasm and Ecstasy -- The Brain During Ecstasy -- I Can't Get No Satisfaction -- Chapter 4: The Sixties: Something is Happening Here -- The Legacy of the Sixties -- Life Should be Ecstasy -- Generations X and Y -- The Culture of Narcissism -- Like a Motherless Child -- Neglected and Unprotected -- Group Initiation Rites and Ecstasy -- When Life Becomes Ecstasy -- Chapter 5: Marketing and Producing Ecstasy -- A Separate Reality -- Pharmaceutical Paradise -- Marketing Religious Ecstasy -- Chapter 6: Cult-Induced Ecstasy and Psychosis -- Extreme Altered States -- You Create Your Own Reality -- Est, Also Known as The Forum and Landmark Forum: It Is What It Is -- Cults, Motivational Seminars, and the Human Potential Movement -- Snapping and Ecstasy -- What Psychotherapists Treating Cult-Involved Patients Need to Know -- Cults and the Consciousness Explosion -- Ecstasies of Cosmic Consciousness -- The Transcendental Meditation Vision of Possibilities -- Soul Murder -- She Saw Me Glowing, Just Like Freedom, Her Guru --…”
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Boomers and beyond reconsidering the role of libraries /

Table of Contents: “…Jureller -- Old dogs, new tricks : the myths and the realities / Stephen Abram -- Musings on challenges for librarians in 2040 / Pauline Rothstein.…”
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Warfare in Eastern Europe, 1500-1800

Table of Contents: “…Stevens -- Crimean Tatar long-range campaigns: the view from Remmal Khoja's The history of Sahib Gerey Khan / Victor Ostapchuk -- The siege of Azov in 1641: military realities and literary myth / Brian J. Boeck -- The generation of 1683: the scientific revolution and generalship in the Habsburg army, 1686-1723 / Erik R. …”
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Inheritance in contemporary America : the social dimensions of giving across generations / by Angel, Jacqueline Lowe

Table of Contents: “…The story of inheritance: intergenerational giving in aging America -- Trends in wealth transfers -- The aging American family -- The inheritance revolution -- The origins of our inheritance laws -- Early America -- Forging a new path: women and inheritance laws -- Inheritance in modern America -- Family and inheritance changes -- Decisions about inheritance -- The political realities of retirement security -- Who is going to care for us? …”
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Inheritance in Contemporary America The Social Dimensions of Giving across Generations / by Angel, Jacqueline Lowe

Table of Contents: “…The story of inheritance: intergenerational giving in aging America -- Trends in wealth transfers -- The aging American family -- The inheritance revolution -- The origins of our inheritance laws -- Early America -- Forging a new path: women and inheritance laws -- Inheritance in modern America -- Family and inheritance changes -- Decisions about inheritance -- The political realities of retirement security -- Who is going to care for us? …”
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Inheritance in Contemporary America : The Social Dimensions of Giving across Generations / by Angel, Jacqueline Lowe

Table of Contents: “…The story of inheritance: intergenerational giving in aging America -- Trends in wealth transfers -- The aging American family -- The inheritance revolution -- The origins of our inheritance laws -- Early America -- Forging a new path: women and inheritance laws -- Inheritance in modern America -- Family and inheritance changes -- Decisions about inheritance -- The political realities of retirement security -- Who is going to care for us? …”
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Working to be someone child focused research and practice with working children /

Table of Contents: “…/ Dieter Kirchhfer -- Care and domestic work -- Child domestic workers in Zimbabwe / Michael Bourdillon -- Negotiating gender identities: domestic work of Indian children in Britain and in India / Vinod Chandra -- The significance of care and domestic work to children: a German portrayal / Anne Wihstutz -- 'Helping at home': the concept of childhood and work among the Nahuas of Tlaxcala, Mexico / Martha Areli Ramírez Sánchez -- Work and competence -- Children's work as preparation for adulthood: a British perspective / Jim McKechnie and Sandy Hobbs -- Working children in Fez (Morocco): relationship between knowledge and strategies -- For social and professional integration / Bernard Schlemmer -- Working and growing up in America: myths and realities / Jeylan T. Mortimer -- Between prohibition and praise: some hidden aspects of children's work in affluent societies / Manfred Liebel -- Participation of working children -- Children's work as 'participation': thoughts on ethnographic data in Lima and the Algarve / Antonella Invernizzi -- Child employment in Northern Ireland: myths and realities / Madeleine Leonard -- Vocabularies, motives and meanings-school-age workers in Britain: towards a synthesis? …”
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Inheritance in Contemporary America : The Social Dimensions of Giving across Generations / by Angel, Jacqueline Lowe

Table of Contents: “…The story of inheritance: intergenerational giving in aging America -- Trends in wealth transfers -- The aging American family -- The inheritance revolution -- The origins of our inheritance laws -- Early America -- Forging a new path: women and inheritance laws -- Inheritance in modern America -- Family and inheritance changes -- Decisions about inheritance -- The political realities of retirement security -- Who is going to care for us? …”
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Talk with you like a woman African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890-1935 / by Hicks, Cheryl D., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…To live a fuller and freer life : black women migrants' expectations and New York's urban realities, 1890-1927 -- The only one that would be interested in me : police brutality, black women's protection, and the New York Race Riot of 1900 -- I want to save these girls : single black women's protectors--the White Rose Home and the National League for the Protection of Colored Women, 1895-1911 -- Colored women of hard and vicious character : respectability, domesticity, and crime, 1893-1933 -- Tragedy of the colored girl in court : the National Urban League and New York's Women's Court, 1911-1931 -- In danger of becoming morally depraved : single black women, working-class black families, and New York State's Wayward Minor Laws, 1917-1928 -- A rather bright and good-looking colored girl : black women's sexuality, "harmful intimacy," and attempts to regulate desire, 1917-1928 -- I don't live on my sister, I living of myself : parole, gender, and black families, 1905-1935 -- She would be better off in the South : sending women on parole to their southern kin, 1920-1935 -- Conclusion: thank god I am independent one more time.…”
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Practical multiscaling by Fish, J. (Jacob)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to multiscale methods -- The rationale for multiscale computations -- The hype and the reality -- Examples and qualification of multiscale methods -- Nomenclature and definitions -- Notation -- Chapter 2. …”
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Researching the archaeological past through imagined narratives : a necessary fiction /

Table of Contents: “…Historical fiction and archaeological interpretation : introduction / Daniël van Helden & Robert Witcher -- The cornflakes of prehistory : fact, fiction and imagination in archaeology / Caroline Wickham-Jones -- Voices from the silence / Margaret Elphinstone -- Beyond archaeological narrative : imagined worlds of Neolithic Europe / Mark Patton -- Imagined realities in academic and fictional accounts of the British Mesolithic / Donald Henson -- Walking in someone else's shoes : archaeology, empathy and fiction / Daniël van Helden & Robert Witcher -- The multiverse of fiction : exploring interpretation through community archaeology / Francesco Ripanti & Giulia Osti -- Entering undocumented pasts through playwriting / James G. …”
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