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Whither al-Anbar Province? five scenarios through 2011 / by Bruce, James B.

Table of Contents: “…-- How this study was conducted -- Implications -- Major takeaways -- Study approach -- Assumptions -- Drivers -- Scenario A: Sunni fight for survival -- Scenario B: Every clan for itself -- Scenario C: Iron fist -- Scenario D: Glueless in Baghdad -- Scenario E: Path to stability -- The importance of drivers -- Indications and warnings -- Conclusions and implications.…”
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Lost in space the criminalization, globalization, and urban ecology of homelessness / by Amster, Randall

Table of Contents: “…Facing the "homeless problem" : subsistence, survival, and skid row -- Urban ecology and public space : Disney, development, and dystopia -- Patterns of exclusion : the perversity of homeless criminalization -- Mapping the territory : meanings, methodologies, means and ends -- Case in point : a brief history of the Tempe sidewalk ordinance -- The ecology of resistance : human rights struggles and the contested realms of public space -- Cities of the future : localizing the global, globalizing the local.…”
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Represent and destroy rationalizing violence in the new racial capitalism / by Melamed, Jodi

Table of Contents: “…Counterinsurgent Canon Wars and Surviving Liberal Multiculturalism -- 3. Making Global Citizens: Neoliberal Multiculturalism and Literary Value -- 4. …”
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Popular trauma culture selling the pain of others in the mass media / by Rothe, Anne

Table of Contents: “…Selling misery -- Fake suffering -- Forging child abuse -- Simulating Holocaust survival -- Epilogue : fantasies of witnessing.…”
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Understanding cancer trends

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Current trends in cancer incidence, mortality and relative survival in the US -- Understanding how improvements in prevention, early detection and treatment affect these trends -- How demographic changes affect the number of cancer cases and deaths but not the age-standardized incidence or death rates -- Specific cancer sites for which the incidence and/or death rates are changing -- Role of prevention, early detection, and improvements in treatment in reducing the burden of cancer.…”
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Hope and Suffering Children, Cancer, and the Paradox of Experimental Medicine / by Krueger, Gretchen Marie

Table of Contents: “…: remission, relapse, and child death in the 1960s and 1970s -- "The truly cured child": prolonged survival and the late effects of cancer.…”
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Are We Not Foreigners Here? : Indigenous Nationalism in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands / by Schulze, Jeffrey M.

Table of Contents: “…The white men came and pretty soon they were all around us : Yaqui, Kickapoo, and Tohono O'odham migrations -- The Indigenous race is abandoned : Indian policies -- God gave the land to the Yaquis : the beleaguered Yaqui nation -- Almost immune to change : the Mexican Kickapoo -- We are lost between two worlds : the Tohono O'odham nation -- All the doors are closing and now it's economic survival : federal recognition.…”
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Cape Town Harmonies : Memory, Humour and Resilience / by Gaulier, Armelle, Martin, Denis

Table of Contents: “…Moppies : humour and survival -- 5. Assembling comic songs -- 6. Behind the comic -- Conclusion : memory, resilience, identity and creolisation.…”
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Hope and Suffering : Children, Cancer, and the Paradox of Experimental Medicine / by Krueger, Gretchen Marie

Table of Contents: “…: remission, relapse, and child death in the 1960s and 1970s -- "The truly cured child": prolonged survival and the late effects of cancer.…”
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"Are We Not Foreigners Here?" : Indigenous Nationalism in the Twentieth-Century U.S.-Mexico Borderlands / by Schulze, Jeffrey M.

Table of Contents: “…The white men came and pretty soon they were all around us : Yaqui, Kickapoo, and Tohono O'odham migrations -- The indigenous race is abandoned : Indian policies -- God gave the land to the Yaquis : the beleaguered Yaqui nation -- Almost immune to change : the Mexican Kickapoo -- We are lost between two worlds : the Tohono O'odham nation -- All the doors are closing and now it's economic survival : federal recognition.…”
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Notes from a miner's canary essays on the state of Native America / by Weaver, Jace, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Scott Momaday, an appreciation -- Empires, no matter how gained : unmasking the barbarism with a human face -- Not bereft : a story of Cherokee survivance.…”
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River Basin Development and Human Rights in Eastern Africa — A Policy Crossroads by Carr, Claudia J.

Table of Contents: “…The Seismic Threat to the Gibe III: A Disaster in Waiting -- Chapter 4. Transboundary Survival Systems: A Profile of Vulnerability -- Chapter 5. …”
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Postmortal society : towards a sociology of immortality /

Table of Contents: “…1. How the dead survive : ancestors, immortality, memory / Tony Walter -- 2. …”
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Leadership in the crucible the Korean War battles of Twin Tunnels & Chipyong-ni / by Hamburger, Kenneth Earl, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Ralph Monclar -- Matthew Ridgway and a new war -- Wonju and patrols to Twin Tunnels -- The battle of Twin Tunnels -- Prelude to Chipyong-ni -- Isolated and encircled at Chipyong-ni -- Fighting and surviving on the second day -- Task force Crombez runs the Gauntlet -- Aftermath and reflections.…”
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Money and liberation the micropolitics of alternative currency movements / by North, Peter, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…: LETS in the United Kingdom -- Kaláka and K'r : green money, mutual aid, and transition in Hungary -- The longevity of alternative economic practices : green dollars in Aotearoa/New Zealand -- Surviving financial meltdown : Argentina's Barter networks.…”
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Refuge denied the St. Louis passengers and the Holocaust / by Ogilvie, Sarah A.

Table of Contents: “…A mystery beckons -- Fateful voyage -- Kaddish -- Archives, answers, and anomalies -- The first Israeli survivor -- A total American -- It depends what you mean by survived -- Reluctant witness -- Shadows -- Frankfurt-on-the-Hudson -- Graveyards -- Cruel calculus -- Washington Heights portrait : the fortunate -- Washington Heights portrait : exile in America -- Sowing in tears -- States of insecurity -- Displaced persons -- Kew Gardens portrait : a song at Auschwitz -- The missing.…”
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A librarian's guide to an uncertain job market by Woodward, Jeannette A.

Table of Contents: “…Employment prospects for LIS professionals -- Hoping for the best : recession-proofing your present job -- Preparing for the worst : sensible precautions for unsettled times -- When the axe falls : first aid for dealing with sudden job loss -- Step by step : a job hunting primer -- Changing directions : when it's time to move on -- First impressions : applications that make the cut -- Composing the well-tempered reśume -́- Surviving and triumphing : secrets of successful interviews.…”
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The economics of killing how the West fuels war and poverty in the developing world / by Mehta, Vijay

Table of Contents: “…A new vision, a new beginning in a new millennium : a practical way of reducing arms, armies and wars for the survival of humanity.…”
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Pests in the city : flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats / by Biehler, Dawn

Table of Contents: “…History, ecology, and the politics of pests -- The promises of modern pest control -- Flies : agents of interconnection in progressive era cities -- Bedbugs : creatures of community in modernizing cities -- German cockroaches : permeable homes in the postwar era -- Norway rats : back-alley ecology in the chemical age -- Persistence and resistance in the age of ecology -- The ecology of injustice : rats in the civil rights era -- Integrating urban homes : cockroaches and survival -- Epilogue: the persistence and resurgence of bedbugs.…”
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Catastrophes! : earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, and other earth-shattering disasters / by Prothero, Donald R.

Table of Contents: “…-- Mass extinctions : when life nearly died -- Can we survive nature and our own folly?…”
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