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Zoo renewal : white flight and the animal ghetto / by Uddin, Lisa

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : On feeling bad at the zoo -- Shame and the naked cage -- Zoo slum clearance in Washington, D.C. -- Mohini's bodies -- White open spaces in San Diego County -- Looking endangered -- Afterword: Good feelings in Seattle.…”
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Far Eastern tour the Canadian infantry in Korea, 1950-1953 / by Watson, Brent Byron, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: bums from the slums -- Slit-trench attitude -- A lot of good men died -- Domain of the golden dragon -- Rice burners and KATCOMS -- Keeping the gunners in good training -- Pucker factor -- Butcher's bill -- Permanent souvenirs -- Forgotten people -- Rum and Coke -- Conclusion: Kap'yong couldn't have been much of a battle.…”
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Fitzgerald geography of a revolution / by Bunge, William, 1928-

Table of Contents: “…The crucial present -- Races meet -- Races mix -- Races separate -- Slums move closer -- Fitzgerald plans -- Institutions respond -- Education strains -- section 3. …”
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Fitzgerald geography of a revolution / by Bunge, William, 1928-

Table of Contents: “…The crucial present -- Races meet -- Races mix -- Races separate -- Slums move closer -- Fitzgerald plans -- Institutions respond -- Education strains -- section 3. …”
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Far Eastern tour the Canadian infantry in Korea, 1950-1953 / by Watson, Brent Byron, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: bums from the slums -- Slit-trench attitude -- A lot of good men died -- Domain of the golden dragon -- Rice burners and KATCOMS -- Keeping the gunners in good training -- Pucker factor -- Butcher's bill -- Permanent souvenirs -- Forgotten people -- Rum and Coke -- Conclusion: Kap'yong couldn't have been much of a battle.…”
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Writing the ghetto class, authorship, and the Asian American ethnic enclave / by Chang, Yoonmee, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Writing the ghetto -- "Like a slum": ghettos and ethnic enclaves, ghetto and genre -- The Japanese American internment : master narratives and class critique -- Chinese suicide: political desire and queer exogamy -- Ethnic entrepreneurs: Korean American spies, shopkeepers, and the 1992 Los Angeles riots -- Indian Edison: the ethnoburbian paradox and corrective ethnography -- Conclusion : A fork in the road: the post-racial aesthetic and class visibility.…”
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Writing the ghetto class, authorship, and the Asian American ethnic enclave / by Chang, Yoonmee, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Writing the ghetto -- "Like a slum": ghettos and ethnic enclaves, ghetto and genre -- The Japanese American internment : master narratives and class critique -- Chinese suicide: political desire and queer exogamy -- Ethnic entrepreneurs: Korean American spies, shopkeepers, and the 1992 Los Angeles riots -- Indian Edison: the ethnoburbian paradox and corrective ethnography -- Conclusion : A fork in the road: the post-racial aesthetic and class visibility.…”
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Democracy as problem solving civic capacity in communities across the globe / by Briggs, Xavier de Souza

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Democracy and public problems -- Managing urban growth : the problem and its civics -- Rethinking the American West : a civic intermediary and the movement for "quality growth" in Utah -- The grassroots-to-grasstops dynamic : slum redevelopment and accountability in Mumbai -- The civics of economic restructuring -- The hyper-organized region : leading the next "new economy" in Pittsburgh -- Progressive regionalism and entrepreneurial government : democratization and competitive restructuring in the greater ABC, Brazil -- Leading change in child and youth well-being -- From the ballot box to better results : cross-sector accountability in the San Francisco children's movement -- Rights, conflict, and civic capacity : meeting the needs of poor children and families in postapartheid Cape Town -- Conclusion.…”
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Democracy as problem solving civic capacity in communities across the globe / by Briggs, Xavier de Souza

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Democracy and public problems -- Managing urban growth : the problem and its civics -- Rethinking the American West : a civic intermediary and the movement for "quality growth" in Utah -- The grassroots-to-grasstops dynamic : slum redevelopment and accountability in Mumbai -- The civics of economic restructuring -- The hyper-organized region : leading the next "new economy" in Pittsburgh -- Progressive regionalism and entrepreneurial government : democratization and competitive restructuring in the greater ABC, Brazil -- Leading change in child and youth well-being -- From the ballot box to better results : cross-sector accountability in the San Francisco children's movement -- Rights, conflict, and civic capacity : meeting the needs of poor children and families in postapartheid Cape Town -- Conclusion.…”
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Norman Thomas the great dissenter / by Gregory, Raymond F., 1927-

Table of Contents: “…The Thomas and Mattoon families -- Working in the slum areas of New York City -- Pacifism and socialism -- Civil liberties in time of war -- Running for elective office -- Running for President -- The Depression years -- The 1932 presidential election and the New Deal -- Arkansas sharecroppers -- The sharecropper problem and the Roosevelt administration -- The decline of the Socialist Party -- Between elections -- Opposing a United States President and a New Jersey mayor -- Fascism, communism and pacifism -- Opposing United States' entry into World War II -- The internment of Japanese-Americans and other wartime civil rights violations -- Taking stock -- The final run for the presidency -- Opposing nuclear testing, supporting disarmament -- Reevaluating socialism -- Confronting racism, the Vietnam War, and injustice -- The great dissenter -- Declining health -- Summing up.…”
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Norman Thomas the great dissenter / by Gregory, Raymond F., 1927-

Table of Contents: “…The Thomas and Mattoon families -- Working in the slum areas of New York City -- Pacifism and socialism -- Civil liberties in time of war -- Running for elective office -- Running for President -- The Depression years -- The 1932 presidential election and the New Deal -- Arkansas sharecroppers -- The sharecropper problem and the Roosevelt administration -- The decline of the Socialist Party -- Between elections -- Opposing a United States President and a New Jersey mayor -- Fascism, communism and pacifism -- Opposing United States' entry into World War II -- The internment of Japanese-Americans and other wartime civil rights violations -- Taking stock -- The final run for the presidency -- Opposing nuclear testing, supporting disarmament -- Reevaluating socialism -- Confronting racism, the Vietnam War, and injustice -- The great dissenter -- Declining health -- Summing up.…”
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Urban underworlds a geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture / by Heise, Thomas, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…An overview and an underview: Uneven development and the social production of American underworlds -- Going down: Narratives of slumming in the ethnic underworlds of lower New York, 1890s-1910s -- Degenerate "Sex and the City": The underworlds of New York and Paris in the work of Djuna Barnes and Claude McKay, 1910s-1930s -- The black underground: Urban riots, the black underclass, and the work of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, 1940s-1950s -- Wasted dreams: John Rechy, Thomas Pynchon, and the underworlds of Los Angeles, 1960s -- White spaces and urban ruins: Postmodern geographies in Don DeLillo's underworld, 1950s-1990s.…”
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Urban underworlds a geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture / by Heise, Thomas, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…An overview and an underview: Uneven development and the social production of American underworlds -- Going down: Narratives of slumming in the ethnic underworlds of lower New York, 1890s-1910s -- Degenerate "Sex and the City": The underworlds of New York and Paris in the work of Djuna Barnes and Claude McKay, 1910s-1930s -- The black underground: Urban riots, the black underclass, and the work of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, 1940s-1950s -- Wasted dreams: John Rechy, Thomas Pynchon, and the underworlds of Los Angeles, 1960s -- White spaces and urban ruins: Postmodern geographies in Don DeLillo's underworld, 1950s-1990s.…”
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Mediations of violence in Africa fashioning new futures from contested pasts /

Table of Contents: “…Mediations of masculinity, ethnicity, and violence in a Nairobi slum / Naomi van Stapele -- Testimonies of suffering and recasting the meanings of memories of violence in post-war Mozambique / Victor Igreja -- Suffering and healing in the aftermath of war and genocide in Rwanda : mediations through community-based sociotherapy / Annemiek Richters -- "The balsak in the roof " : bush war experiences and mediations as related by white South African conscripts / Diana Gibson.…”
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Mediations of violence in Africa fashioning new futures from contested pasts /

Table of Contents: “…Mediations of masculinity, ethnicity, and violence in a Nairobi slum / Naomi van Stapele -- Testimonies of suffering and recasting the meanings of memories of violence in post-war Mozambique / Victor Igreja -- Suffering and healing in the aftermath of war and genocide in Rwanda : mediations through community-based sociotherapy / Annemiek Richters -- "The balsak in the roof " : bush war experiences and mediations as related by white South African conscripts / Diana Gibson.…”
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Livelihoods at the margins surviving the city /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : livelihoods at the margins / James Staples -- No money, no life : surviving on the streets of Kampala / Stan Frankland -- Embodying oppression : revolta amongst young people living on the streets of Rio De Janeiro / Udi Butler -- Children on the streets of Dhaka and their coping strategies / Alessandro Conticini -- Hindu nationalism and failing development goals : micro-finance, women and illegal livelihoods in the Bombay slums / Atreyee Sen -- Keeping it clean : discipline, control and everyday politics in a Bangkok shopping mall / Alyson Brody -- Fast money in the margins : migrants in the sex industry / Laura María Agustín -- -- Begging questions : leprosy and alms collection in Mumbai / James Staples -- Vulnerable in the city : Adivasi seasonal labour migrants in western India / David Mosse, with Sanjeev Gupta and Vidya Shah -- "Moving up and down looking for money" : making a living in a Ugandan refugee camp / Tania Kaiser -- "In-betweenness" on the margins : collective organisation, ethnicity and political agency among Bolivian street traders / Sian Lazar.…”
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Livelihoods at the margins surviving the city /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : livelihoods at the margins / James Staples -- No money, no life : surviving on the streets of Kampala / Stan Frankland -- Embodying oppression : revolta amongst young people living on the streets of Rio De Janeiro / Udi Butler -- Children on the streets of Dhaka and their coping strategies / Alessandro Conticini -- Hindu nationalism and failing development goals : micro-finance, women and illegal livelihoods in the Bombay slums / Atreyee Sen -- Keeping it clean : discipline, control and everyday politics in a Bangkok shopping mall / Alyson Brody -- Fast money in the margins : migrants in the sex industry / Laura María Agustín -- -- Begging questions : leprosy and alms collection in Mumbai / James Staples -- Vulnerable in the city : Adivasi seasonal labour migrants in western India / David Mosse, with Sanjeev Gupta and Vidya Shah -- "Moving up and down looking for money" : making a living in a Ugandan refugee camp / Tania Kaiser -- "In-betweenness" on the margins : collective organisation, ethnicity and political agency among Bolivian street traders / Sian Lazar.…”
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Rival Kurdish Movements in Turkey : Transforming Ethnic Conflict / by Gurbuz, Mustafa Cagri

Table of Contents: “…-- Exogenous Shocks: Increasing Poverty and the Emergence of Kurdish Slums -- Constructing Competition through Resemblance: The Charity Initiatives -- "Education is Our Job": The Gülen Movement Goes to Slums -- Namûsa Me Azadîya Me Ye: The Democratic Free Women's Movement -- Religious Public Symbolism: Hizbullah Finds Its Niche -- Civic Activism and Conflict Transformation -- 6. …”
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Rival Kurdish Movements in Turkey : Transforming Ethnic Conflict / by Gurbuz, Mustafa Cagri

Table of Contents: “…-- Exogenous Shocks: Increasing Poverty and the Emergence of Kurdish Slums -- Constructing Competition through Resemblance: The Charity Initiatives -- "Education is Our Job": The Gülen Movement Goes to Slums -- Namûsa Me Azadîya Me Ye: The Democratic Free Women's Movement -- Religious Public Symbolism: Hizbullah Finds Its Niche -- Civic Activism and Conflict Transformation -- 6. …”
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Appetite and nutritional assessment

Table of Contents: “…Wilson, Emma Goodwin -- The use of composite scores to assess adherence to dietary patterns : the Mediterranean diet case / Angeliki Papadaki and Manolis Linardakis -- Estimation of dietary intakes by digital images : potential and limitation / Da-Hong Wang, Michiko Kogashiwa, Keiki Ogino -- Nutrition and diabetes mellitus type 1 : a brief overview / Abdullah Al-Abdulhadi & Rossana Salerno-Kennedy -- Diabetes mellitus type 1 and eating disorders : a brief overview / Steven Laragh & Rossana Salerno-Kennedy -- Use of mid-upper arm circumference as a measure of nutritional status and its relationship with self reported morbidity among adult Bengalee male slum dwellers of Kolkata, India / Raja Chakraborty, Kaushik Bose, and Samiran Bisai.…”
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