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Life in a Kam village in southwest China, 1930-1949 by Ou, Chaoquan

Table of Contents: “…Location -- Langdong -- The name 'Kam' -- The villagers -- Physical characteristics of the people -- The village -- Farming -- Spinning and weaving -- Thrifty people -- Mornings and evenings -- Food -- Mealtime etiquette -- Drinks -- Clothing -- Coming-of-age -- Courtship by night -- Courtship by day -- Intimidating situations for young women -- Matchmakers -- Engagement ceremony -- Marriage and divorce -- Unorthodox marriages -- Marriage relationships -- The distinction in culture between men and women -- Clan-centred community -- Pipe-smoking elders -- No beggars or thieves -- Monotonous and primitive music -- Festivals and celebrations -- Children -- Survival in the midst of suffering -- Author's postscript -- Translator's postscript.…”
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Granny D's American century by Haddock, Doris

Table of Contents: “…Book I -- Full Measure -- Steaming into Life : 1928 -- The Birthplace of Liberty, Including My Own -- Castles and Princes -- At Sea -- Bubbles Burst -- Jim's Girl -- The Bohemians -- Surviving by Our Wits -- The Main Course of Life -- Back to Harvard -- Book II -- On the Road Again -- Alligators, Mermaids, Etcetera -- Wake Up and Live -- From the Very Balcony -- Finding Life Everywhere -- The Wind Shifts -- Shared Courage -- A Campaign from Our Town -- Lessons from My Century -- Last Delivered Speech -- Last Undelivered Speech -- Closing Note to the Reader.…”
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Man up! a practical guide for men in nursing /

Table of Contents: “…-- Leading in a complex health care environment -- Men in nursing : historical career perspectives -- Men and mentorship : a significant component of professional development -- Lack of racial diversity in nursing : an ongoing problem among men entering nursing -- Strengthening the male nursing workforce -- Leadership : a matter of "refereed" experience -- Men in academia : pursuing a career in nursing research -- Evolving awareness -- A male students' survival guide for nursing school.…”
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Beyond bumper sticker ethics : an introduction to theories of right and wrong / by Wilkens, Steve, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Bumper stickers and ethical systems -- When in Rome, do as the Romans do: cultural relativism -- Look out for number one: ethical egoism -- I couldn't help myself: behaviorism -- Survival of the (ethical) fittest: evolutionary ethics -- The greatest happiness: utilitarianism -- It's your duty: Kantian ethics -- Be good: virtue ethics -- The moral of the story is ... : narrative ethics -- All you need is love: situation ethics -- Doing what comes naturally: natural law ethics -- God said it, I believe it, that settles it: divine command theory -- Unraveling the options.…”
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Visualizing Mortality Dynamics in the Lexis Diagram by Rau, Roland, Bohk-Ewald, Christina, Muszyńska, Magdalena M., Vaupel, James W.

Table of Contents: “…-- 2: The Lexis Diagram -- 3: Data and Software -- 4: Surface Plots of Observed Death Rates -- 5: Surface Plots of Smoothed Mortality Data -- 6: Surface Plots of Rates of Mortality Improvement -- 7: Surface Plots for Causes of Death -- 8: Surface Plots of Age-specific Contributions to the Increase in Life Expectancy -- 9: Seasonality of Causes of Death -- 10: Surface Plots for Cancer Survival -- 11: Summary and Outlook -- Bibliography -- References -- Additional Figures.  .…”
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The Bcl-2 family

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Apoptosis -- Discovery of Bcl-2 -- Cell death in worms -- Evolutionarily conserved pathways to cell death -- How cell death initiates -- BH3-only proteins -- Control of BH3- only proteins -- Promiscuous and selective BH3-only proteins -- Diverse Bcl-2 prosurvival proteins must be neutralized for apoptosis -- Pro-survival Bcl-2 proteins restrain Bax and Bak -- Apoptosis in the absence of "activator" BH3-only proteins -- BH3-only proteins activate Bax and Bak indirectly -- Control of Bak -- Outstanding questions.…”
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EGFR targeted therapies in lung cancer

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Lung cancer: facts and figures -- Lung cancer survival -- Lung cancer burden -- EGFR targeted therapeutics -- EGFR mutations -- Why Do EGFR inhibitors work so well in EGFR mutant cancers? …”
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Sharing economies in times of crisis : practices, politics and possibilities /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / by Clive Barnett -- Introduction: sharing economies in times of crisis / by Sarah Marie Hall and Anthony Ince -- Sharing in and through crisis -- "It feels connected in so many ways" : circulating seeds and sharing garden produce / by Laura Pottinger -- Malleable homes and mutual possessions : caring and sharing in extended family households as a resource for survival / by Chris Gibson, Natascha Klocker, Erin Borger and Sophie-May Kerr -- Reciprocity in uncertain times : negotiating giving and receiving across time and place among older New Zealanders / by Juliana Mansvelt -- Relationships, reciprocity and care : alcohol, sharing and "urban crisis" / by Mark Jayne, Gill Valentine and Sarah L. …”
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Religious pluralism in America the contentious history of a founding ideal / by Hutchison, William R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : religious pluralism as a work in progress -- Here are no disputes : reputation and realities in the new republic -- Just behave yourself : pluralism as selective tolerance -- Marching to Zion : the Protestant establishment as a unifying force -- Repentance for our social sins : adjustments within the establishment -- In (partway) from the margins : pluralism as inclusion -- Surviving a while longer : the establishment under stress in the early twentieth century -- Don't change your name : early assaults on the melting pot ideal -- Protestant-Catholic-Jew : new mainstream, gropings toward a new pluralism -- Whose America is it anyway? …”
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Philosophical witnessing the Holocaust as presence / by Lang, Berel

Table of Contents: “…Philosophical witnessing: "-- and only I have survived to tell you" -- Truth at risk and the Holocaust's response -- Evil and understanding: a Holocaust dilemma -- Jaspers' Die Schuldfrage: a presence early and late -- Holocaust-representation in the genre of silence -- Representation and misrepresentation: on or about the Holocaust -- Applied ethics, post-Holocaust -- The Jewish declaration of war against the Nazis -- From the Holocaust to group rights: minorities in a majority world -- Metaphysical racism (or: biological warfare by other means) -- Hyphenated-Jews and the anxiety of identity -- Reconciliation: not revenge, not forgiveness, perhaps not even justice -- Afterword: wound and scar.…”
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Acts of recognition essays on medieval culture / by Patterson, Lee

Table of Contents: “…: Hoccleve and the trials of the urban self -- Beinecke MS 493 and the survival of Hoccleve's Series -- Making identities in fifteenth-century England: Henry V and John Lydgate -- The heroic laconic style: reticence and meaning from Beowulf to the Edwardians -- Writing amorous wrongs: Chaucer and the order of complaint -- Genre and source in Troilus and Criseyde -- "Rapt with pleasaunce": the gaze from Virgil to Milton -- Brother Fire and St. …”
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Uprooted how Breslau became Wrocław during the century of expulsions / by Thum, Gregor, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…The postwar era : rupture and survival -- Takeover -- Moving people -- A loss of substance -- Reconstruction -- pt. 2. …”
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Public housing that worked : New York in the twentieth century / by Bloom, Nicholas Dagen, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The boom years; Designs for a new metropolis; The price of design reform; The benefits of social engineering; Meeting the management challenge -- Welfare-state public housing. Surviving the welfare state; The value of consistency -- Affordable housing. …”
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Statistical methods in psychiatry research and SPSS / by Reddy, M. Venkataswamy

Table of Contents: “…Psychiatric research -- Observational studies -- Experimental studies -- One-variable descriptive statistics -- Mental health statistics -- Probability and probability distributions -- Sampling theory and methods -- Basic elements of statistical inference -- Parametric tests of significance -- Experimental data analysis : ANOVA -- Non-parametric tests of significance -- Correlation analysis and regression analysis -- Reliability analysis and validity analysis -- Survival analysis and time series analysis -- Multivariate statistical methods -- Cluster analysis -- Discriminant analysis -- Factor analysis -- Meta-analysis -- Reporting the results -- Statistical package for social sciences -- Running data analysis using SPSS.…”
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The myth of post-racial America searching for equality in the age of materialism / by Kaplan, H. Roy

Table of Contents: “…Facing the challenge of diversity -- The origin of our species -- The rise of racism -- Darwin's descendants : contemporary scientific racism -- Justifying the indefensible : rationalizing domination and exploitation -- Why people hate -- Surviving white culture -- You have to be carefully taught : learning about race and racism -- Thinking about race -- Teaching about inclusivity in schools -- Corporate diversity and the cost of color -- Social inequality from the world of work to society -- Racial disparities in health and wellness -- Crime and punishment -- How the military shaped Blacks' progress -- The myth of the meritocracy -- More than talk : why dialogue is not enough.…”
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Louis XVI and the French Revolution, 1789-1792 by Caiani, Ambrogio A.

Table of Contents: “…The court of the Tuileries 1789-1792; Part II. Reform and Survival of the Ancien R�egime: 4. The royal guard during the French Revolution; 5. …”
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Under the shadow : the atomic bomb and Cold War narratives / by Seed, David

Table of Contents: “…Wells to Leo Szilard -- The dawn of the atomic age -- the bomb and Hiroshima -- The debate over nuclear refuge -- Do-it-yourself survival -- Philip Wylie on the state of the nation -- Cultural cycles in Walter M. …”
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Philosophical Witnessing The Holocaust as Presence / by Lang, Berel

Table of Contents: “…Philosophical witnessing: "-- and only I have survived to tell you" -- Truth at risk and the Holocaust's response -- Evil and understanding: a Holocaust dilemma -- Jaspers' Die Schuldfrage: a presence early and late -- Holocaust-representation in the genre of silence -- Representation and misrepresentation: on or about the Holocaust -- Applied ethics, post-Holocaust -- The Jewish declaration of war against the Nazis -- From the Holocaust to group rights: minorities in a majority world -- Metaphysical racism (or: biological warfare by other means) -- Hyphenated-Jews and the anxiety of identity -- Reconciliation: not revenge, not forgiveness, perhaps not even justice -- Afterword: wound and scar.…”
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Romantic Sobriety Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History / by Wang, Orrin Nan Chung, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Lyric Ritalin: time and history in Ode to the west wind; no satisfaction: high theory, cultural studies, and Don Juan; Gothic thought and surviving romanticism in Zafloya and Jane Eyre; coming attractions: Lamia and cinematic sensation -- Coda. …”
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Romantic Sobriety : Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History / by Wang, Orrin Nan Chung, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Lyric Ritalin: time and history in Ode to the west wind; no satisfaction: high theory, cultural studies, and Don Juan; Gothic thought and surviving romanticism in Zafloya and Jane Eyre; coming attractions: Lamia and cinematic sensation -- Coda. …”
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