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Where the domino fell : America and Vietnam, 1945-2010 / by Olson, James Stuart, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Eternal war : the Vietnamese heritage -- The first Indochina War, 1945-1954 -- The making of a quagmire, 1954-1960 -- The new frontier in Vietnam, 1961-1963 -- Planning a tragedy, 1963-1965 -- Into the abyss, 1965-1966 -- The mirage of progress, 1966-1967 -- Tet and the year of the monkey, 1968 -- The beginning of the end, 1969-1970 -- The fall of South Vietnam, 1970-1975 -- Distorted images, missed opportunities, 1975-1995 -- Oliver Stone's Vietnam.…”
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Thin places a pilgrimage home / by Armbrecht, Ann, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Growing rice -- Seeds -- Conserving the land -- The books -- The black box -- The Barun Festival -- The bamboo bridge -- Stories as boundaries -- Gold earrings -- Thin places -- The sacred spring -- Kelekpa the shaman -- Mapping power -- Lost souls -- Leaving -- Baiseti Thuma -- A far-off place -- Absence -- Manguhang -- Birth -- Sage Mountain -- Sacred stories -- Listening -- The healing stone -- The black bag -- Voices in the land -- The waterfall -- Bare feet on wet earth.…”
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Where the domino fell : America and Vietnam, 1945-2010 / by Olson, James Stuart, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Eternal war : the Vietnamese heritage -- The first Indochina War, 1945-1954 -- The making of a quagmire, 1954-1960 -- The new frontier in Vietnam, 1961-1963 -- Planning a tragedy, 1963-1965 -- Into the abyss, 1965-1966 -- The mirage of progress, 1966-1967 -- Tet and the year of the monkey, 1968 -- The beginning of the end, 1969-1970 -- The fall of South Vietnam, 1970-1975 -- Distorted images, missed opportunities, 1975-1995 -- Oliver Stone's Vietnam.…”
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Understanding marijuana a new look at the scientific evidence / by Earleywine, Mitchell

Table of Contents: “…Cannabis use and misuse -- 3. Stepping stones, gateways, and the prevention of drug problems -- 4. …”
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The political thought of Frederick Douglass in pursuit of American liberty / by Buccola, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…The facts and the philosophy : Frederick Douglass as political thinker -- "Every man is himself and belongs to himself" : slavery and self-ownership as the -- Foundations of Douglass's liberalism -- From slavery to liberty and equality : Douglass's liberal democratic politics -- "Each for all and all for each" : Douglass's case for mutual responsibility -- "Friends of freedom" : reformers, self-made men, and the moral ecology of freedom -- "Man is neither wood nor stone" : top-down moral education in Douglass's liberalism -- Conclusion : Frederick Douglass in the American mind.…”
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The political thought of Frederick Douglass in pursuit of American liberty / by Buccola, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…The facts and the philosophy : Frederick Douglass as political thinker -- "Every man is himself and belongs to himself" : slavery and self-ownership as the -- Foundations of Douglass's liberalism -- From slavery to liberty and equality : Douglass's liberal democratic politics -- "Each for all and all for each" : Douglass's case for mutual responsibility -- "Friends of freedom" : reformers, self-made men, and the moral ecology of freedom -- "Man is neither wood nor stone" : top-down moral education in Douglass's liberalism -- Conclusion : Frederick Douglass in the American mind.…”
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Changing pictures rock art traditions and visions in Northern Europe /

Table of Contents: “…/ Jan Magne Gjerde -- Bronze Age rock art and religion in a maritime perspective / Melanie Wrigglesworth -- Epilogue: Drawing on stone / Richard Bradley.…”
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Changing pictures rock art traditions and visions in Northern Europe /

Table of Contents: “…/ Jan Magne Gjerde -- Bronze Age rock art and religion in a maritime perspective / Melanie Wrigglesworth -- Epilogue: Drawing on stone / Richard Bradley.…”
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Apostles of modernity American writers in the age of development / by Reynolds, Guy

Table of Contents: “…The American writer and development : contexts of cultural internationalism -- The "skin game" : Du Bois, Wright, Malcolm X, Baldwin -- "You were in on the last days of Morocco" : Paul Bowles and the end of empire -- Sinophilia : China and the writers -- Nonalignment and writing : rich lands and poor -- Stone ages : Peter Matthiessen and Susan Sontag in Latin America and Asia -- African American representations of the Hispanic : remaking Europe -- Ugly Americans and vanishing Europeans : American presence, European decolonization -- "These great new times" : cosmopolitanism and contemporary writing.…”
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Bastide on religion the invention of candomblé / by Despland, Michel

Table of Contents: “…An intellectual biography -- Breaking the glass and striking the rock -- Symbols, memory and anticipation : sociology from Durkheim to Gurvitch -- Civilizations neither meet nor clash, people do -- The three books on Afro-Brazilian religions -- The Paris career : the world of French ethnologists -- Leaving safe ground : acknowledging the fluidity of human interaction -- Candomblé as paradigm for translocal religion -- O sagrado selvagem as corner stone of a theory of religion -- Study of religion and sociology of knowledge -- The aesthetic dimension, or the black hen lays white eggs.…”
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Law without nations

Table of Contents: “…: the ongoing Jewish discussion / Suzanne Last Stone -- Western imperialism and Islamic law / Margaret Kohn -- Ethnic cleansing, genocides and gross violations of human rights : the state versus humanitarian law / Elazar Barkan -- Geertz's challenge : robust cultural pluralism in a liberal multinational empire / Richard A. …”
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A living man from Africa Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa chief and missionary, and the making of nineteenth-century South Africa / by Levine, Roger S.

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The Spirit of 1976 : Commerce, Community, and the Politics of Commemoration / by Gordon, Tammy S., 1967-

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Bastide on religion the invention of candomblé / by Despland, Michel

Table of Contents: “…An intellectual biography -- Breaking the glass and striking the rock -- Symbols, memory and anticipation : sociology from Durkheim to Gurvitch -- Civilizations neither meet nor clash, people do -- The three books on Afro-Brazilian religions -- The Paris career : the world of French ethnologists -- Leaving safe ground : acknowledging the fluidity of human interaction -- Candomblé as paradigm for translocal religion -- O sagrado selvagem as corner stone of a theory of religion -- Study of religion and sociology of knowledge -- The aesthetic dimension, or the black hen lays white eggs.…”
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Law without nations

Table of Contents: “…: the ongoing Jewish discussion / Suzanne Last Stone -- Western imperialism and Islamic law / Margaret Kohn -- Ethnic cleansing, genocides and gross violations of human rights : the state versus humanitarian law / Elazar Barkan -- Geertz's challenge : robust cultural pluralism in a liberal multinational empire / Richard A. …”
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A living man from Africa Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa chief and missionary, and the making of nineteenth-century South Africa / by Levine, Roger S.

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The Spirit of 1976 : Commerce, Community, and the Politics of Commemoration / by Gordon, Tammy S., 1967-

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Apostles of modernity American writers in the age of development / by Reynolds, Guy

Table of Contents: “…The American writer and development : contexts of cultural internationalism -- The "skin game" : Du Bois, Wright, Malcolm X, Baldwin -- "You were in on the last days of Morocco" : Paul Bowles and the end of empire -- Sinophilia : China and the writers -- Nonalignment and writing : rich lands and poor -- Stone ages : Peter Matthiessen and Susan Sontag in Latin America and Asia -- African American representations of the Hispanic : remaking Europe -- Ugly Americans and vanishing Europeans : American presence, European decolonization -- "These great new times" : cosmopolitanism and contemporary writing.…”
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Tell this silence Asian American women writers and the politics of speech / by Duncan, Patti, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…: histories of immigration and exclusion of Asians in the U.S. in Maxine Hong Kingston's China men -- "White sound" and silences from stone : discursive silences in the internment writings of Mitsuye Yamada and Joy Kogawa -- Cartographies of silence : language and nation in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee -- Silence and public discourse : interventions into dominant national and sexual narratives in Anchee Min's Red azalea and Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman -- Tell this silence : Asian American women's narratives and feminist movement.…”
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Reinvent a leader's playbook for serial success / by Hassan, Fred

Table of Contents: “…List of figures -- Foreword -- Author's note -- Introduction -- Unleashing the power of me -- Be authentic -- Be purposeful -- Be connected -- Unleashing the power of we -- Keep leading -- Role model your expectations -- Keep winning -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Appendices -- Appendix A: Serial success playbook summary -- Appendix B: The concepts behind my playbook -- Appendix C: Values matter -- Appendix D: Bausch + Lomb's rating system descriptors -- Appendix E: Guidelines for expat managers -- Appendix F: Stepping-stones to transformation -- Index -- Acknowledgments -- About the author.…”
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