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Beyond collective memory : structural complicity and future freedoms in Senegalese and South African narratives / by Goldblatt, Cullen

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What they don't teach you in library school by Doucett, Elisabeth

Table of Contents: “…The right job -- Planning your career -- Networking -- Making "librarian" a brand -- Understanding your new work environment : your library -- Understanding your new work environment : your community -- How to manage problem patrons in the library -- Managing confrontation productively -- Public speaking -- Teamwork -- Promotional marketing -- Thinking like a retailer -- Strategic planning -- Trend tracking -- Facilities management / by Robert E. …”
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Language across difference ethnicity, communication, and youth identities in changing urban schools / by Paris, Django

Table of Contents: “…'Spanish is becoming famous': youth perspectives on Spanish in a changing youth community; 3. 'True Samoan': ethnic solidarity and linguistic reality; 4. …”
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Body evidence intimate violence against South Asian women in America /

Table of Contents: “…Julie Rajan -- Silences that prevail when the perpetrators are our own / Grace Poore -- The violence that dares not speak its name : invisibility in the lives of lesbian and bisexual South Asian American women / Prajna Paramita Choudhury -- The trap of multiculturalism : battered South Asian women and health care / Sunita Puri -- Ahimsa and the contextual realities of woman abuse in the Jain community / Shamita Das Dasgupta and Shashi Jain -- A communicative perspective on assisting battered Asian Indian immigrant women / Mandeep Grewal -- Law's culture and cultural difference / Sharmila Rudrappa -- Middle class, documented, and helpless : the H-4 visa bind / Shivali Shah -- Battered South Asian women in U.S. courts / Shamita Das Dasgupta -- Navigating gender, immigration, and domestic violence : advocacy with work visa holders / Rupaleem Bhuyan -- Local and global undivided : transnational exploitation and violence against South Asian women / Sujatha Anbuselvi Jesudason -- From Dhaka to Cincinnati : tracing the trajectory of a transnational violence against women campaign / Elora Halim Chowdhury.…”
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Asian Americans in Dixie : race and migration in the south /

Table of Contents: “…Joshi -- Disrupting Race and Place -- Selling the East in the American South: Bengali Muslim Peddlers in New Orleans and Beyond, 1880-1920 / Vivek Bald -- Racial Interstitiality and the Anxieties of the "Partly Colored": Representations of Asians under Jim Crow / Leslie Bow -- Racism Without Recognition: Toward a Model of Asian American Racialization / Amy Brandzel and Jigna Desai -- Community Formation and Profiles -- Segregation, Exclusion, and the Chinese Communities in Georgia, 1880s-1940 / Daniel Bronstein -- Moving Out of the Margins and Into the Mainstream: the Demographics of Asian Americans in the New South / Arthur Sakamoto, Changhwan Kim, and Isao Takei -- Natives of a Ghost Country: the Vietnamese in Houston and their Construction of a Postwar Community / Roy Vu -- Standing Up and Speaking Out: Hindu Americans and Christian Normativity in Metro Atlanta -- Khyati Y. …”
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Reality principles from the absurd to the virtual / by Blau, Herbert

Table of Contents: “…community of the question -- The emotional memory of directing -- The commodius vicus of Beckett : vicissitudes of the arts in the science of affliction -- Among the deepening shades : the Beckettian moment(um) and the Brechtian arrest -- Apnea and true illusion : breath(less) in Beckett -- Art and crisis: homeland security and the noble savage -- Ground zero : the original vision (may 16, 2008) -- Blessings to the pope and the witch -- The pathos of dialogue : unable to speak a word -- Thinking history, history thinking -- Why "what history?" …”
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Alternative countrysides : Anthropological approaches to rural Western Europe today /

Table of Contents: “…Alternative countrysides : anthropology and rural West Europe today / Jeremy MacClancy -- A 'private place'? : changing meanings of the country side in northern Italy / Jaro Stacul -- Environmental attitudes, community development, and local politics in Ireland / Paul Collinson -- Ethnic identity, power, compromise, and territory : 'locals' and 'Moroccans' in the Sainte-Foy-Bordeaux vineyards / Chantal Crenn -- The new rural residents : emerging sociabilities in Alava, Basque Country / Josetxu Martínez Montoya -- Farms, flats, and villas : senses of country living in a Basque-speaking village / Kepa Fernández de Larrinoa -- The recuperation of Galician pottery : craft professions, cultural policies, and identity / Elena Freire Paz -- Fear and loving in the west of Ireland : the blows of County Clare / Jeremy MacClancy.…”
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Alternative countrysides : Anthropological approaches to rural Western Europe today /

Table of Contents: “…Alternative countrysides : anthropology and rural West Europe today / Jeremy MacClancy -- A 'private place'? : changing meanings of the country side in northern Italy / Jaro Stacul -- Environmental attitudes, community development, and local politics in Ireland / Paul Collinson -- Ethnic identity, power, compromise, and territory : 'locals' and 'Moroccans' in the Sainte-Foy-Bordeaux vineyards / Chantal Crenn -- The new rural residents : emerging sociabilities in Alava, Basque Country / Josetxu Martínez Montoya -- Farms, flats, and villas : senses of country living in a Basque-speaking village / Kepa Fernández de Larrinoa -- The recuperation of Galician pottery : craft professions, cultural policies, and identity / Elena Freire Paz -- Fear and loving in the west of Ireland : the blows of County Clare / Jeremy MacClancy.…”
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Changing the Course of AIDS : Peer Education in South Africa and Its Lessons for the Global Crisis / by Dickinson, David, 1963-

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Another world is possible spiritualities and religions of global darker peoples /

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Changing the Course of AIDS : Peer Education in South Africa and Its Lessons for the Global Crisis / by Dickinson, David, 1963-

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The rebel den of Nùng Trí Cao loyalty and identity along the Sino-Vietnamese frontier / by Anderson, James, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…The great King Nùng Trí Cao : a rebel's role in shaping regional identity along the modern Sino-Vietnamese border -- The legacy of the Chinese imperial tribute system in the south : balancing ritual harmony with frontier stability -- Examples of negotiated autonomy : Sino-Vietnamese relations before the eleventh century -- Gaining legitimacy at the empire's edge : indigenous Tai-speaking communities along the Sino-Vietnamese frontier through the early Song period -- The specter of southern power : Nùng Trí Cao's insurrection, court reaction, and the legacy of Nam Việt -- Tempting "treacherous factions" : the manipulation of frontier alliances on the eve of the 1075 Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands War -- Monumental pride : Sino-Vietnamese cross-border commemorations of Nùng Trí Cao.…”
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Placing the Academy Essays on Landscape, Work, and Identity /

Table of Contents: “…Moore -- The work the landscape calls us to / Michael Sowder -- Valley language / Diana Garcia -- What I learned from the campus plumber / Charles Bergman -- M-i-crooked letter-crooked letter / Katherine Fischer -- On frogs, poems, and teaching at a rural community college / Seán W. Henne -- Levittown breeds anarchists! …”
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Placing the Academy : Essays on Landscape, Work, and Identity /

Table of Contents: “…Moore -- The work the landscape calls us to / Michael Sowder -- Valley language / Diana Garcia -- What I learned from the campus plumber / Charles Bergman -- M-i-crooked letter-crooked letter / Katherine Fischer -- On frogs, poems, and teaching at a rural community college / Seán W. Henne -- Levittown breeds anarchists! …”
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Placing the Academy : Essays on Landscape, Work, and Identity /

Table of Contents: “…Moore -- The work the landscape calls us to / Michael Sowder -- Valley language / Diana Garcia -- What I learned from the campus plumber / Charles Bergman -- M-i-crooked letter-crooked letter / Katherine Fischer -- On frogs, poems, and teaching at a rural community college / Seán W. Henne -- Levittown breeds anarchists! …”
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Critical suicidology : transforming suicide research and prevention for the 21st century /

Table of Contents: “…Gone -- Risky bodies : making suicide knowable among youth / Jonathan Morris -- Speaking of suicide as a gendered problematic : suicide attempts and recovery within women's narratives of depression / Simone Fullagar and Wendy O'Brien -- "Being more than just your final act" : elevating the multiple storylines of suicide with narrative practices / Marnie Sather and David Newman -- "When despair and hope meet the stigma of "manipulation" and "ambivalence" / Yvonne Bergmans ... …”
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Ancient Borinquen archaeology and ethnohistory of native Puerto Rico /

Table of Contents: “…The crab-shell dichotomy revisited : the lithics speak out / Reniel Rodríguez Ramos -- The Paso del Indio Site, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico : a progress report / Jeff Walker -- Environmental and cultural correlates in the West Indies : a view from Puerto Rico / Peter E. …”
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Affliction : health, disease, poverty / by Das, Veena

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The culture of mental illness and psychiatric practice in Africa /

Table of Contents: “…Doku, and Ama de-Graft Aikins -- Mental illness and destitution in Ghana : a social-psychological perspective / Ama de-Graft Aikins -- Children and adolescent mental health in South Africa / Alan Flisher, Andrew Dawes, Zuhayr Kafaar, Crick Lund, Katherine Sorsdahl, Bronwyn Myers, Rita Thom, and Soraya Seedat -- Some aspects of mental illness in French-speaking West Africa / René Collignon -- Women's self-reported mental health in Accra, Ghana / Allan G. …”
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Disability and social media : global perspectives /

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