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Gettysburg heroes perfect soldiers, hallowed ground / by LaFantasie, Glenn W.

Table of Contents: “…Haskell : tragic hero of the Union -- Becoming Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain -- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the American dream -- Finding William C. …”
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The making of environmental law by Lazarus, Richard J.

Table of Contents: “…Time, space, and ecological injury -- The implications of ecological injury for environmental protection law -- The challenges for U.S. lawmaking institutions and processes of environmental protection law -- Becoming environmental law -- Building a road : the 1970s -- Expanding the road : the 1980s -- Maintaining the road : the 1990s -- The emerging architecture of U.S. environmental law -- Changing conceptions of time and space redux : environmental law's future challenges -- Environmental law's second (and quite different) "republican moment" -- Conclusion : the graying of the green.…”
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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 forgotten majority : German merchants in London, naturalization, and global trade, 1660-1815 / by Schulte Beerb�uhl, Margrit

Table of Contents: “…Naturalizing newcomers for prosperity (1660-1818) -- Early modern English naturalization law -- Naturalized subjects : their number and native lands -- The occupations of German immigrants to become English subjects -- Ch. 2. Promoting Anglo-German trade in the seventeenth century -- Reorganizing Anglo-German trade during the 1600s -- London's German merchants after 1660 -- Lack of trust and understanding : challenges for both sides -- German merchant trade in London -- Trading regions and commodities -- Late-seventeenth-century German trade networks -- German merchants and London trade companies -- Fighting regulated companies -- Politics and commerce -- Ch. 3. …”
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Stanford in turmoil campus unrest, 1966-1972 / by Lyman, Richard W.

Table of Contents: “…The Sterling-Terman era -- Early Vietnam stirrings, Dean Allen's departure, David Harris's arrival, and Stanford's first sit-in -- How I became provost -- The stage is set -- The Martin Luther King Jr. crisis -- The first Old Union sit-in -- Classified research, SRI, and the coming of Ken Pitzer -- AEL, Encina, and calling the police -- Ken Pitzer's departure -- My presidency begins, and the Franklin Case is initiated -- The Franklin Case and after -- Trying to make sense of the campus unrest.…”
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Eyes in the sky Eisenhower, the CIA, and Cold War aerial espionage / by Brugioni, Dino A.

Table of Contents: “…The beginning -- The awakening -- Cold War overflights -- Allen Dulles becomes CIA director -- The awakening of science as an intelligence collector -- Under way -- 1955 : year of transition to technology -- The U-2 missions begin -- Suez, Little Rock, Hungary, and the Black Knight flights -- The technological capabilities panel -- The U-2 flights resume -- Tactical use of the U-2 and related technical developments -- The missile gap and the Gary Powers flight -- The Corona Program gets under way -- The missile gap is solved.…”
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The borders of integration Polish migrants in Germany and the United States, 1870-1924 / by McCook, Brian Joseph, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Migration and citizenship in a globalizing world -- Migration and settlement : building Polish communities in the Ruhr and northeastern Pennsylvania -- The face of mining : the coal industry in the Ruhr and northeastern Pennsylvania -- Breaking barriers : Polish entry into the mines -- Becoming mining men : Polish integration within the workforce -- Divided hearts, divided faith : Poles and the Catholic Church -- Challenging state and society : the "Polish question" and the rise of Polish ethnic associations -- War and Polish communities transformed, 1914-24 -- Conclusion: Determining the borders of integration.…”
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Social things an introduction to the sociological life / by Lemert, Charles C., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Imagining social things, competently -- Personal courage and practical sociologies -- Practicing the discipline of social things sociology -- Sociology and the lost worlds of the new world order : 1848-1920 -- Sociology becomes the science of worldly structures : 1920-1960 -- Sociology reaches into the world : 1968-2000s -- The mysterious power of social structures -- The lively subjects of dead structures -- Well-measured lives in a world of differences -- Global methods -- Global things on a fragile planet -- Living against the conclusion.…”
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Animal the bloody rise and fall of the mob's most feared assassin / by Sherman, Casey, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- Thacher Island ; september 1967 -- Deviltry, dirt, and degradation -- That pig on the hill -- Wild thing -- Top echelon -- Skullduggery -- Uncaged -- War -- Ruthless men -- Deegan -- Turning up the heat -- The mickey mouse club -- The hit parade -- Double cross -- Deal makers -- Deegan -- Baron's isle -- Ka-boom! -- The lying game -- A murder in the woods -- California dreaming -- The ghost of Joe Barboza -- Where are they now? …”
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A short history of Wisconsin by Janik, Erika

Table of Contents: “…Geography of place -- Fortunes made of fur -- From territory to statehood -- Calling Wisconsin home -- Lead and lumber -- Social and moral improvement -- Civil War Wisconsin -- Becoming America's dairyland -- Manufacturing the future -- The sporting life -- Progressive politics -- World War I -- Changing habits of consumption -- Depression -- World War II -- Culture of fear -- Migration and civil rights -- Vietnam -- Greening Wisconsin -- The changing face of immigration -- Indian treaty rights -- Postwar politics and the conservative revolution -- Conclusion: Creating Wisconsin.…”
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The psychology of coaching, mentoring and learning / by Law, Ho

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The coming of age : coaching psychology, coaching & mentoring -- Philosophy and theories of learning applicable to coaching and mentoring : positive psychology and the learning process -- Definitions : coaching psychology, coaching, mentoring and learning -- Leadership and organizational coaching & mentoring - becoming a learning organization and learning community -- Developing a universal integrative framework for coaching and mentoring -- Techniques and tools -- Continuing professional development, learning resources and practical exercises -- Case studies -- Evaluation -- Conclusion, discussion, future research and development.…”
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The imperialist imaginary : visions of Asia and the Pacific in American culture / by Eperjesi, John R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the American Pacific : an errand into Oceania -- The "superlative and poetry of commerce" : scattered origins of an American Pacific frontier -- An American Pacific Jeremiad : Frank Norris's The octopus and U.S. imperialism -- The American Asiatic association and the imperialist imaginary of the American Pacific -- Becoming Hawaiian : Jack London, cultural tourism, and the myth of Hawaiian exceptionalism -- Maxine Hong Kingston's China men : frontiers of the Chinese American Pacific -- Memories of a forgotten war : a Filipino/American ghost story -- Conclusion : outside in the American Pacific.…”
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Homophobia the state of sexual bigotry today / by Kantor, Martin

Table of Contents: “…General characteristics of homophobes (and other bigots) -- Models of homophobia -- Rationalizations of homophobia -- Homophobia in gays and lesbians (internalized or internal/self-homophobia) -- Heterophobia (excessive or false accusations of homophobia) -- The negative effect of homophobia on gays and lesbians -- Developmental and psychodynamic considerations -- Homophobia as an emotional disorder : paranoid homophobia -- Homophobia as an emotional disorder : passive-aggressive, or subtle, homophobia -- Homophobia as an emotional disorder : other forms -- Homophobic cognitive errors -- Other perspectives -- Helping homophobes become less homophobic -- Handling homophobes.…”
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You're a genius : using reflective practice to master the craft of leadership / by Taylor, Steven S., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…The leadership journey: being curious -- 8. Becoming the leader you want to be -- 9. Working on your craft: an example -- 10. …”
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Child survivors of the Holocaust in Greece : memory, testimony and subjectivity / by Hantzaroula, Pothiti

Table of Contents: “…Meaning, Memory and Archive: The Politics of the Creation of Archival Material on the Holocaust -- The War Became Real -- Trajectories of Escape from the German Persecution of the population of Salonika and Athens -- Hidden Children in Volos: Trajectories and Identities -- Life and Memory of Concentration Camps: The Bergen Belsen Experience -- The Beginning of an Unknown Era: The Role of anti-Semitism in the Construction of Postwar Identities -- Remaking the Meaning of Living Entre Mozotros: Postwar Reconstruction of Jewish Communities -- Family Legacies: Memory, Postmemory and Transgenerational Haunting -- The Legacy of the Holocaust and Beyond.…”
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Graham R Rosamund Marriott Watson, woman of letters / by Hughes, Linda K.

Table of Contents: “…Birth and childhood, 1860-74 -- Marriage, maternity, and first poems : Tares (1884) -- Losing Rosamond Armytage, becoming Graham R. Tomson : 1885-87 -- Making an entrance, 1888-89 -- Impressions of London : 1890-91 -- A presiding poet and critic : 1892 -- Courting danger : 1893-94 -- The woman who did : 1894-96 -- The art of living well : 1897-1902 -- Twilight in the garden : 1903-6 -- The death of Mrs. …”
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Organic coffee sustainable development by Mayan farmers / by Martínez-Torres, Maria Elena

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : understanding the organic coffee boom in Chiapas -- 1. The spread of coffee -- 2. …”
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A world apart a memoir of Jewish life in nineteenth century Galicia / by Margoshes, Joseph, 1866-1955

Table of Contents: “…Family memoirs -- My mother's family -- My father -- Reb Mordecai Peltz -- The Belzer rabbi -- Ignatz Deutsch -- The Krakow rabbi -- The newspaper -- Hospitality -- The Talner rebb -- My father's death -- Yaha"sh -- Jacob Werber, the master of Haivri -- My childhood -- Melamdim -- Gemara melamdim -- My two girlfriends -- Haskalah -- Reb Vovtshi's kloyz -- In Tarnow -- The Tarnow kloyz -- Kloyz-boys -- Reb Naftoli Reb Pesakh's -- Shidukhim -- I become a khosn (groom) -- My wedding -- After the wedding -- Village work -- I get shot -- I get bound -- Riding a horse -- I become a merchant -- Yozefov -- Velvele Damask -- Radomishla -- A fallen takef -- At the rebbe's in Dembitz -- A strike in the Zgursk manor -- Jews and peasants -- Pritsim, gendarmes, and priests -- Pritsim, gendarmes, and priests (continued) -- The wedding -- Shimshen Asheim -- Theft -- Shtsutsin (Szczuczyn) -- The sold-off estate -- Wet and dry years -- The wet year -- The dry year -- Uncle Moyshe Lind -- Out of Yosefov -- The Shtsutsin meadows -- Oshitz -- Uncle Khazkl -- Yitshok Mordkhe Bernstein -- My business ventures in the Shtsutsin meadows -- My father-in-law and his enemies -- Criminal proceedings -- Pikolovka -- The takeover of Pikolovka -- Punishment or coincidence?.…”
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Management : a practical introduction / by Kinicki, Angelo

Table of Contents: “…-- Power, influence, & leadership : from becoming a manager to becoming a -- Leader? -- Interpersonal & organizational communication : mastering the exchange of -- Information? …”

A commonwealth of the people popular politics and England's long social revolution, 1066-1649 / by Rollison, David, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…What came before: antecedent structures and emergent themes -- The formation of a constitutional landscape, c. 1159-1327 -- The power of a common language -- Discords, quarrels and factions of the commonalty: an ensemble of popular demands, 1328-1381 -- The spectre of commonalty: popular rebellion and the commonweal, 1381-1549 -- How trade became an affair of state: the politics of industry, 1381-1640 -- Touching the wires: industry and empire -- 'The first pace that is sick': the revolution of politics in Shakespeare's Coriolanus -- 'Boiling hot with questions': the English Revolution and the parting of the ways.…”
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