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The last great Senate by Shapiro, Ira S., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The grind -- The natural -- Great expectations, different agendas -- Hawk and Dove -- The appearance of impropriety -- The liberal filibuster -- A year of living dangerously -- The Panama Canal battle -- Venturing into the Middle East -- Business vs. labor -- Saving New York -- Closing days -- Before the storm -- After the Iranian Revolution -- Fighting the economic tide -- SALT II: death by a thousand cuts -- A tough political climate -- Battling over America's last frontier -- Fighting to survive -- The lame duck session.…”
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Metaphor and the slave trade in West African literature by Murphy, Laura (Laura T.)

Table of Contents: “…Against amnesia: metaphors and memory in West Africa -- Magical capture in a landscape of terror: the trope of the body in the bag in Amos Tutuola's My life in the bush of ghosts -- Geographies of memory: mapping slavery's recurrence in Ben Okri's The famished road -- The curse of constant remembrance: the belated trauma of the slave trade in Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments -- Childless mothers and dead husbands: the enslavement of intimacy and Ama Ata Aidoo's secret language of memory -- The suffering of survival -- The future of the past: the new historical fiction.…”
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Epidemiology kept simple an introduction to traditional and modern epidemiology / by Gerstman, B. Burt

Table of Contents: “…Epidemiology past and present -- Causal concepts -- Epidemiologic measures -- Descriptive epidemiology -- Introduction to epidemiologic study design -- Experimental studies -- Observational cohort studies -- Case control studies -- Error in epidemiologic research -- Screening for disease -- The infectious disease process -- Outbreak investigation -- Confidence intervals and p values -- Mantel/Haenszel methods -- Statistical interaction : effect measure modification -- Case definitions and disease classification -- Survival analysis -- Current life tables -- Random distribution of cases in time and space.…”
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'Ending AIDS' in the age of biopharmaceuticals : the individual, the state and the politics of prevention / by Sandset, Tony, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…A Short History towards the End of AIDS -- Viral load maps : The entanglements between the individual, the community, and space -- Molecular HIV surveillance : issues of consent, ethics, and molecular truth telling -- PrEP : the public life of an intimate drug -- 'HIV both starts and stops with me' : health promotions, neoliberalism and responsibility -- 'The category is : Suppress! Disclose! Survive!', 'Positive living' in health promotions for people living with HIV in the era of the end of AIDS -- Conclusion : a tentative end to AIDS?…”
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A Darwinian eye view of cancer

Table of Contents: “…Contents: The prevalence of cancer: man vs. animals -- The proximal causes of cancer: mutations and genotoxic exposures -- Limitations of evolutionary adaptation by natural selection -- Vulnerability to cancer from an evolutionary perspective -- Lack of perfection in evolutionary 'engineering': faults/trade-offs -- Evolutionary adaptation 'has no eyes to the future': mismatches between genetics and lifestyle -- Natural selection will happen: evolution of robust cancer clones -- The only fitness test of 'natural selectability' in evolution is survival and reproductive success: cancer risk escalation in old age.…”
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Coxsackie The Life and Death of Prison Reform / by Spillane, Joseph F.

Table of Contents: “…The reformer's mural -- A new deal for prisons : the politics of reform in New York -- Adolescents adrift : young men on the road to Coxsackie -- Against the wall : survival and resistance at Coxsackie -- Reform at work : ideas into action at Coxsackie -- A conspiracy of frustration : coming home -- The frying pan and the fire : the reformatory in crisis, 1944-1963 -- Out of time : Coxsackie and the end of the reform idea -- Floodtide : Coxsackie and post-reformatory prison politics, 1963-1977 -- Conclusion : the ghost of prisons future.…”
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Everyday Resistance, Peacebuilding and State-making : Insights from 'Africa's World War' / by Iñiguez de Heredia, Marta

Table of Contents: “…Everyday violence and Mai Mai Militias in Eastern DRC -- 6. Creative survival as subversion -- 7. Everyday resistance and everyday order in world politics -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Statistical aspects of the design and analysis of clinical trials by Everitt, Brian

Table of Contents: “…An introduction to clinical trials -- Treatment allocation, the size of trials and reporting results -- Monitoring trial progress: outcome measures, compliance, dropouts and interim analyses -- Basic analyses of clinical trials, the generalized linear model and the economic evaluation of trials -- Simple approaches to the analysis of longitudinal data from clinical trials -- Multivariate normal regression models for longitudinal data from clinical trials -- Models for non-normal longitudinal data from clinical trials -- Survival analysis -- Bayesian methods longitudinal data -- Meta-analysis.…”
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Wildlife demography analysis of sex, age, and count data / by Skalski, J. R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Primer on wildlife population dynamics -- Estimating population sex ratios -- Estimating productivity -- Estimating survival -- Estimating harvest and harvest mortality -- Estimating the rate of population change -- Analysis of population indices -- Estimating population abundance -- Integration of analytical techniques -- Appendix A. …”
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Developing civil society social order and the human factor / by Adjibolosoo, Senyo B-S. K.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Social engineering : survival strategies and techniques since the dawn of human civilization : an overview -- The creation of ideas and application of knowledge to social engineering -- Developing civil society the orthodox way : democratization and constitutional rule -- Legal proliferation and its implications -- The impact of human factor decay on the effectiveness of social engineering programs -- The failure of social engineering : the empirical evidence -- A human factor approach to developing civil society -- Transforming humanity : human factor principles of social engineering and community building -- The future of humanity.…”
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Making home work domesticity and Native American assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919 / by Simonsen, Jane E.

Table of Contents: “…Jane Gay's Choup-nit-ki -- A model of its kind : Anna Dawson Wilde's home in the field -- Border designs : domestic production and cultural survival -- Postscript: The map and the territory.…”
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Organized agriculture and the labor movement before the UFW Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, California / by Valdés, Dennis Nodín

Table of Contents: “…Colonizing a movement : the Federacion Libre de Trabajo in Puerto Rico -- Dreams of democratic unionism : the Confederacion General de Trabajadores and Puerto Rican agricultural workers -- Up from colonialism : Hawaiian plantation agriculture and the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union -- Challenges and survival : sustaining agricultural unionism in Hawai'i -- Marked in the annals of the labor movement : the National Farm Labor Union, organized labor, and the DiGiorgio Strike -- From factory to industrial area : areawide organizing in the San Joaquin and Imperial valleys.…”
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The Mapuche in modern Chile a cultural history / by Crow, Joanna

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Mythical objects and political subjects -- Histories of conquest: the occupation of Araucanía and its consequences, 1862-1910 -- Renewed struggles for survival: national festivities and Mapuche political activism, 1910-1938 -- Caudillos, poets, and sopranos: articulating Mapuche identities on the national and international stage, 1938-1964 -- Revolutionary transformations and new representational challenges, 1964-1973 -- The Pinochet dictatorship: conflicting histories and memories, 1973-1990 -- Claiming historical truth in the era of neoliberal multiculturalism, 1990-2010 -- Conclusion: a defiant history of difference.…”
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Fast facts for the ER nurse emergency room orientation in a nutshell / by Buettner, Jennifer R.

Table of Contents: “…Tips on surviving ER nursing -- Acid-base imbalances -- Cardiovascular emergencies -- Dental, ear, nose, and throat emergencies -- Disaster response emergencies -- Endocrine emergencies -- Environmental emergencies -- Fluid and electrolyte imbalances -- Gastrointestinal emergencies -- Genitourinary emergencies -- Geriatric emergencies -- Infectious disease emergencies -- Mental health emergencies -- Neurological emergencies -- OB GYN emergencies -- Ocular emergencies -- Orthopedic and wound care emergencies -- Pediatric emergencies -- Respiratory emergencies -- Shock and multisystem trauma emergencies -- Substance abuse and toxicological emergencies -- Triage.…”
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Bean Blossom : the Brown County Jamboree and Bill Monroe's bluegrass festivals / by Adler, Thomas A.

Table of Contents: “…Brown County history and roots -- Origins of the Brown County Jamboree (1939-1941) -- The Rund Family's Brown County Jamboree (1941-1951) -- Bill Monroe's Brown County Jamboree Park (1952-1957) -- Survivals, revivals, and arrivals (1958-1966) -- Building the festivals (1967-1968) -- The festival becomes a landmark (1969-1971) -- The festival's golden age (1972-1982) -- Festival people and lore -- Bill and James Monroe's festival park (1983-1997) -- Renaissance, continuity, and change (1998 and after).…”
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Children, youth and development / by Ansell, Nicola, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The politics of young people : rights, participation, activism -- 6. Health : ensuring survival and wellbeing? -- 7. Education : encounters with schooling -- 8. …”
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Colonial citizenship and everyday transnationalism : an immigrant's story / by Innes, Alexandria J.

Table of Contents: “…The Global and Local Politics of Everyday Life in 1950s Famagusta Excerpt 2: Improvise to survive 2. Colonial Subjectivity, Colonial Immigration, and National Identity Excerpt 3: Going down the pits 3. …”
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State and minorities in communist East Germany by Dennis, Mike, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…State, society, and minority groups in the GDR / Mike Dennis and Norman Laporte -- Between Torah and sickle : Jews in East Germany, 1945-1990 / Mike Dennis -- Jehovah's Witnesses : from persecution to survival / Mike Dennis -- Asian and African workers in the niches of society / Mike Dennis -- Football fans, hooligans, and the state / Mike Dennis -- Sub-cultures : punks, goths, and heavy metallers / Mike Dennis and Norman Laporte -- Skinheads and right extremism in an anti-fascist state / Norman Laporte -- Conclusion / Mike Dennis.…”
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Mussolini's dream factory : film stardom in fascist Italy / by Gundle, Stephen, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Civil war, liberation and reconstruction -- Survival, memory and forgetting.…”
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Women's labor in the global economy speaking in multiple voices /

Table of Contents: “…Hewitt -- The global politics of labor -- Surviving globalization: immigrant women workers in late capitalist America / Evelyn Hu-Dehart -- Harassment of female farmworkers: can the legal system help? …”
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