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Celiac plexus block

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Anatomy -- Demographics of pancreatic cancer pain -- US cancer deaths -- Relative survival -- Pancreatic cancer risk factors -- Pancreatic cancer pain -- Retrocrural anatomy and pancreatic cancer -- Celiac Technique -- Neurolytic celiac plexus block in cancer pain: a meta-analysis -- Block outcome -- Managing risks of technique.…”
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Women's Work and Chicano Families : Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley / by Zavella, Patricia

Table of Contents: “…Two worlds in one : women's work and family structure -- Occupational segregation in the canning industry -- It was the best solution at the time: family constraints on women's work -- I'm not exactly in love with my job: cannery work culture -- Everybody's trying to survive: the impact of women's employment on Chicano families -- Six years later.…”
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Refusing the favor the Spanish-Mexican women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880 / by González, Deena J., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Women under Siege: Sexuality and the Gendered Economics of Colonization, 1840-1852 -- 3. Women's Survival Strategies: Gifts and Giving as Methods of Resistance, 1846-1880 -- 4. …”
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Social exclusion and mobility in Brazil

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : assessing social exclusion and mobility / Estanislao Gacitúa Marió and Michael Woolcock with Marisa von Bulow -- Social exclusion and poverty dynamics / Regis Bonelli, Gustavo Gonzaga, and Alinne Veiga -- Legitimization and acceptance : how Brazilians survive inequalities / Maria Celi Scalon and Ignacio Cano -- Conclusions and recommendations / Estanislao Gacitúa Marió.…”
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Chinese capitalists in Japan's new order the occupied lower Yangzi, 1937-1945 / by Coble, Parks M., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Surviving the fall of Shanghai -- Japan's new order -- Establishing control : the North China and Central China Development companies -- Puppet governments and Chinese capitalists -- Individual firms and the war experience -- The Rong family industrial enterprises and the war -- Textile and consumer industries in the war era : beyond the Rong model -- Chemical and match industrialists -- China's rubber industry.…”
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The last titan a life of Theodore Dreiser / by Loving, Jerome, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Hoosier hard times -- A very bard of a city -- This matter of reporting -- Survival of the fittest -- Editorial days -- The writer -- Sister Carrie -- Down hill and up -- Return of the novelist -- Life after the Titanic -- The genius himself -- Back to the future -- An American tragedy -- Celebrity -- Tragic America -- Facing West -- Selected works of Theodore Dreiser.…”
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Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and the aesthetic of revelation by Sykes, John, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…O'Connor and new criticism -- Romantic symbol and the Catholic revival -- O'Connor and the body : incarnation, redemptive suffering, and evil -- O'Connor on divine self-disclosure : Eucharist as revelation -- Helen Keller and the message in the bottle : Percy on language -- Percy's novelistic quest for faith -- Surviving apocalypse through hope and love -- Southern strangers and the sacramental community.…”
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Out of the northwoods the many lives of Paul Bunyan / by Edmonds, M. E.

Table of Contents: “…s origins in fact and fiction -- Lumberjacks and their culture -- How the tales were told -- The earliest surviving versions -- The curious claims of Gene Shepard -- Out of the woods and onto the page -- Stewart and watt, the first careful collectors -- Charles brown gets caught in the middle -- Bunyan becomes a celebrity -- Competing claims to fame.…”
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Hepatitis B virus (HBV)

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Virus structure and its genome -- Prevention: universal vaccination -- Geographic distribution -- HBV transmission -- Special HBV mechanisms -- The immune reaction and different phases -- Chronic hepatitis B serology -- Viral markers -- Risk of becoming a carrier -- Available treatments and their goals -- Medications -- Reistance to antiviral treatment -- Mutants -- HCC screening -- Survival.…”
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More studies in ethnomethodology by Liberman, Kenneth, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The local orderliness of crossing Kincaid -- Following sketched maps -- The reflexivity of rules in games -- Communicating meanings -- Some local strategies for surviving intercultural conversations -- "There is a gap" in the Tibetological literature -- Choreographing the orderliness of Tibetan philosophical debates -- The phenomenology of coffee tasting: lessons in practical objectivity -- Conclusion: respecifying Husserl's phenomenology as situated worldly inquiries.…”
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Prosperity's predicament : identity, reform, and resistance in rural wartime China / by Crook, Isabel

Table of Contents: “…Insiders -- The market way of life -- Living off the land: farm labor -- Not far afield: family survival strategies -- Lineages, landlords, and the local body politic -- The paoge and informal power -- Part II. …”
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Torts in a nutshell / by Kionka, Edward J., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : origins, objectives, and overviews of tort liability -- Cause in fact -- Strict liability -- Liability for negligent conduct -- Defenses to negligence liability -- Liabillity for interntional misconduct -- Defenses to liability for intentional misconduct -- Special liability rules for particular activities and parties -- Damages for physical harm -- Tort and contract -- Immunities -- Survival and wrongful death -- Defamation -- Privacy -- Misrepresentation and non-disclosure.…”

Sweatshop the history of an American idea / by Hapke, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Narrating the shop -- A shop is not a home: dirt, ethnicity, and the sweatshop -- Surviving sites: sweatshops in the progressive era and beyond -- Newsreel of memory: the WPA sweatshop in the Great Depression -- The sweatshop returns: post-industrial art -- Spinning the shop -- Spinning the new shop: El Monte and the Smithsonian furor -- Nike's sweatshop quandary and the industrial sublime -- Watching out for the shop.…”
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China fragile superpower / by Shirk, Susan L.

Table of Contents: “…Strong abroad but fragile at home -- China's economic miracle -- Domestic threats -- The echo chamber of nationalism : media and the Internet -- The responsible power -- Japan : "when the Chinese people get angry, the result is always big trouble" -- Taiwan : "a question of regime survival" -- The United States : "external troubles can become internal troubles" -- China's weakness, America's danger.…”
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Pandora's trap presidential decision making and blame avoidance in Vietnam and Iraq / by Preston, Thomas, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Bush and Lyndon Johnson -- The Politics of Blame Avoidance : Presidential Strategies for Surviving the Washington "Blame Game" -- Opening Pandora's Box : Blame Avoidance, 9/11, and the Push for War with Iraq -- Opening Pandora's Box : Blame Avoidance During the Iraq War -- Bush and Iraq : Revisiting the Vietnam Analogy.…”
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Unity and diversity in microbial genomes

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Host-pathogen interaction -- Microbial genomics -- Properties and functions of microbes: their genomes, protein coding, sequences and putative biochemical pathways -- The concept of the "universal" minimal genome -- Strategies used by obligatory intracellular parasites for genome reduction and survival -- The use of comparative genomics in understanding the concept of the "backbone genome" -- Differential gene loss and overlapping genes -- Drug targets.…”
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Secret Affairs : Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles / by Gellman, Irwin F.

Table of Contents: “…The chief sets the tone -- Enter Hull -- Welles in Cuba -- The balance of the first term -- The bloodiest bureaucratic battle -- Reorganizing the department -- The Welles mission -- The sphinx, Hull, and the others -- An incredible set of circumstances -- Provoking war -- Hull loses control -- Working for victory -- Ruining Welles -- Resignation -- Hull's last year -- Roosevelt's last months -- Those who survived.…”
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Technology, management & society : essays / by Drucker, Peter Ferdinand, 1909-

Table of Contents: “…--Business objectives and survival needs.--The Manager and the moron.--The technological revolution: notes on the relationship of technology, science, and culture.…”

Latinos in America philosophy and social identity / by Gracia, Jorge J. E.

Table of Contents: “…Preface: The Latino challenge -- Latino/a identities -- Identities : general and particular -- Individuation : circularity and demarcation -- Labels : politics and names -- Latinos/as in society -- Marketplace : survival and flourishing -- Affirmative action : meaning and justification -- Linguistic rights : language and children -- Latino/a philosophy -- Philosophy : Latino vs. …”
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The mystery of the missing antimatter by Quinn, Helen R.

Table of Contents: “…-- Enter neutrinos -- Mesons -- Through the looking glass -- Through the looking antiglass -- The survival of matter -- Enter quarks -- Energy rules -- Symmetry rules -- Standard model gauge symmetries -- A missing piece -- It still doesn't work! …”
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