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Manuel Zapata Olivella and the "darkening" of Latin American literature by Tillis, Antonio D.

Table of Contents: “…Tierra mojada -- the genesis of an Africanized literary trajectory -- From region to nation to North America -- La calle 10, en Chim and Chambacú : The "Boom" in Colombian violence, hunger, resistance, and hope -- Manuel Zapata Olivella : the postmodern writer -- An exploration of postcolonial tri-ethnicity in Levántate mulato!…”
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Emerging adulthood the winding road from the late teens through the twenties / by Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen

Table of Contents: “…: four profiles -- From conflict to companionship : a new relationship with parents -- Love and sex -- Meandering toward marriage -- The road through college : twists and turns -- Work : more than a job -- Sources of meaning : religious beliefs and values -- The age of possibilities : four case studies -- From emerging adulthood to young adulthood : what does it mean to become an adult?…”
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Slavery and the birth of an African city Lagos, 1760-1900 / by Mann, Kristin, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…The rise of Lagos as an Atlantic port, c. 1760-1851 -- Trade, oligarchy, and the transformation of the precolonial state -- The original sin : anti-slavery, imperial expansion, and early colonial rule -- Innocent commerce : boom and bust in the palm produce trade -- Britain and domestic slavery -- Redefining the owner-slave relationship : work, ideology, and the demand for people -- The changing meaning of land in the urban economy and culture -- Strategies of struggle and mechanisms of control : quotidian conflicts and court cases.…”
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From metaphysics to midrash myth, history, and the interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala / by Magid, Shaul, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Kabbala, new historicism, and the question of boundaries -- The Lurianic myth: a playbill -- Genesis: "And Adam's sin was (very) great": original sin in Lurianic exegesis -- Exodus: The "other" Israel: the ʻerev rav (mixed multitude) as conversos -- Leviticus: The sin of becoming a woman: male homosexuality and the castration complex -- Numbers: Balaam, Moses, and the prophecy of the "other": a Lurianic vision for the erasure of difference -- Deuteronomy: the human and/as God: divine incarnation and the "image of God".…”
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Andean cocaine the making of a global drug / by Gootenberg, Paul, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : cocaine as Andean history -- Imagining coca, discovering cocaine, 1850-1890 -- Making a national commodity : Peruvian crude cocaine, 1885-1910 -- Cocaine enchained : global commodity circuits, 1890s-1930s -- Withering cocaine : Peruvian responses, 1910-1945 -- Anticocaine : from reluctance to global prohibitions, 1910-1950 -- Birth of the narcos : Pan-American illicit networks, 1945-1965 -- The drug boom (1965-1975) and beyond.…”
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The tales of the Heike

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- book 1: The bells of Gion Monastery ; Night attack at Courtiers' Hall ; The sea bass ; Page-boy cuts ; Kiyomori's flowering fortunes ; Giō -- book 2: The admonition ; Signal fires ; The death of the senior counselor ; Yasuyori's prayer -- book 3: The pardon ; The foot-drumming ; Ariō ; The death of Shunkan -- book 4: The battle at the bridge -- book 5: The burning of Nara -- book 6: The death of Kiyomori -- book 7: Sanemori ; Tadanori leaves the capital ; The flight from Fukuhara -- book 8 [summary] -- book 9: The death of Lord Kiso ; The old horse ; The attack from the cliff ; The death of Tadanori ; The capture of Shigehira ; The death of Atsumori -- book 10: Regarding the precepts ; Senju-no-mae ; Yokobue ; Koremori becomes a monk ; Koremori drowns himself -- book 11: The death of Tsuginobu ; Nasu no Yoichi ; The lost bow ; The cockfights and the battle of Dan-no-ura ; Far-flying arrows ; The drowning of the former emperor -- book 12: The execution of Rokudai -- The initiates' book: The imperial lady becomes a nun ; The move to Ōhara ; The retired emperor visits Ōhara ; The six paths of existence ; The death of the imperial lady -- Glossary of characters.…”
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How Wikipedia works and how you can be a part of it / by Ayers, Phoebe

Table of Contents: “…-- The world gets a free encyclopedia -- Finding Wikipedia's content -- Understanding and evaluating an article -- Basic editing -- Good writing and research -- Cleanup, projects, and processes -- Make and mend Wikipedia's web -- image, templates, and special characters -- The life cycle of an article -- Becoming a Wikipedian -- Community and communication -- Policy and your input -- Dispute, blocks, and bans -- 200 languages and counting -- Wikimedia commons and other sister projects -- The foundation and project coordination.…”
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Professing to learn creating tenured lives and careers in the American research university / by Neumann, Anna

Table of Contents: “…Into the middle : mapping the early post-tenure career in the research university -- The heart of the matter : passionate thought and scholarly learning -- Mindwork : what and how professors strive to learn -- Location : where professors pursue their scholarly learning -- Becoming strategic : recently tenured university professors as agents of scholarly learning / with Kimberley B. …”
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Language, eros, being kabbalistic hermeneutics and poetic imagination / by Wolfson, Elliot R.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : timeswerve/hermeneutic reversibility -- Showing the saying : laying interpretative ground -- Differentiating (in)difference : heresy, gender, and Kabbalah study -- Phallomorphic exposure : concealing soteric esotericism -- Male androgyne : engendering e/masculation -- Flesh become word : textual embodiment and poetic incarnation -- Envisioning eros : poiesis and heeding silence -- Eunuchs who keep Sabbath: erotic asceticism/ascetic eroticism -- Coming-to-head, returning-to-womb: (e)soteric gnosis and overcoming gender dimorphism.…”
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Managing successful universities by Shattock, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Ambition -- 10. Inhibitions to becoming entrepreneurial -- 11. Turning round failure, arresting decline, managing retrenchment -- 12. …”
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Festivals, affect, and identity a Deleuzian apprenticeship in central Italian communities / by Crociani-Windland, Lita

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Learning, identity, duration, and the virtual -- Siena and its province: an overview -- Siena and the Palio " war and state machine": identity and becoming -- Montepulciano and Bruscello: rupture, continuity, and the "refrain" -- The "problem/idea" of Montepulciano: how to be autonomous in the face of overwhelming force -- Montepulciano's bravio delle botti and a genealogy of cunning -- Sharecropping and modernity -- Monticchiello's "problem/idea": a community under siege -- A tree with its roots in the air: Monticchiello's theatre of the "virtual" -- Conclusion.…”
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Care to dare unleashing astonishing potential through secure base leadership / by Kohlrieser, George, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Your leadership opportunity -- Secure base leadership in action -- Building trust through the bonding cycle -- Delivering change : embracing loss through grief -- Focus : bringing forward the power of the mind's eye -- Achievement : playing to win -- Strengthen your own secure bases -- Becoming a secure base for others -- Transforming your organization into a secure base -- Humanizing your leadership and your organization -- About the research -- Notes -- Index.…”
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The everyday Atlantic : time, knowledge, and subjectivity in the twentieth-century Iberian and Latin American newspaper chronicle / by Gentic, Tania, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Reading time, knowledge, and power in the Ibero-American Atlantic -- The Mediterranean is the Atlantic : imperialisme and ideology in Eugeni d'Ors' Catalan gloses -- Reimagining America, reproducing Europe : ambivalence and intersubjectivity in Germán Arciniegas' "indigenous" ethics -- Knowledge beyond borders : Clarice Lispector chronicles affect in dictatorship Brazil -- The virtual subject : Carlos Monsiváis, media time and Mexico's "citizens-on-their-way-to-becoming-citizens" -- Conclusion: From chronicle to blog : (digital) knowledge and the Atlantic subject as palimpsest.…”
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Selling, the new norm : dynamic new methods for a competitive and changing world / by Stevens, Drew

Table of Contents: “…Wow it's noisy, how to get heard in a rock concert -- 8. Becoming a buyer peer -- 9. Sales tools for today's seller -- Book summary and action steps -- Templates for selling professionals -- Index.…”
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Hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy for the treatment of metachromatic leukodystrophy

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) -- Hematopoietic stem cell therapy (HCT) for lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs) -- Improving HCT efficacy -- The role of brain pre-conditioning -- Mechanisms of microglia turnover -- Gene therapy (GT) & enzyme release -- Gene therapy in murine models -- HSC gene therapy for MLD -- Lentivirus integration site analysis -- Stem cells analysis -- ARSA activity and delivery to the CNS -- Cerebral and peripheral demyelination -- Motor function testing (GMFM).…”
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The unstuck church : equipping churches to experience sustained health / by Morgan, Tony

Table of Contents: “…-- Strategic growth: plan your work and work your plan -- Sustained health: becoming the church God designed it to be -- Maintenance: it's time to embrace a new vision all over again -- Preservation: the church must change to survive -- Life support: it's time to embrace a new beginning -- Conclusion: parting words -- Life cycles: where is your church?…”

Hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy for the treatment of metachromatic leukodystrophy

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) -- Hematopoietic stem cell therapy (HCT) for lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs) -- Improving HCT efficacy -- The role of brain pre-conditioning -- Mechanisms of microglia turnover -- Gene therapy (GT) & enzyme release -- Gene therapy in murine models -- HSC gene therapy for MLD -- Lentivirus integration site analysis -- Stem cells analysis -- ARSA activity and delivery to the CNS -- Cerebral and peripheral demyelination -- Motor function testing (GMFM).…”
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Behind every choice is a story by Feldt, Gloria, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…-- Making family -- Choice as sacrifice, choice as freedom, or, how I became a perfect ten -- Viagra yes, pills no -- Rights vs. access -- Whose conscience counts? …”
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High tech trash digital devices, hidden toxics, and human health / by Grossman, Elizabeth, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The underside of high tech -- Raw materials : where bits, bytes, and the earth's crust coincide -- Producing high tech : the environmental impact -- High-tech manufacture and human health -- Flame retardants : a tale of toxics -- When high tech electronics become trash -- Not in our backyard : exporting electronic waste -- The politics of recycling -- A land ethic for the digital age -- Appendix. …”
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New geographies of the American West land use and the changing patterns of place / by Travis, William R. (William Riebsame), 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Building a better mountain? -- The long boom of western development -- Development geographies of the new West -- Footprints of development -- The metro-zones : shining cities at the foot of the mountains -- Beyond the suburban frontier : the West's exurbs -- Resort geographies : building a better mountain? …”
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