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Winning library grants a game plan / by Landau, Herbert B.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Grantsmanship fundamentals, definitions, and rules -- Preproposal market analysis and planning -- Finding grants and granting organizations relevant to libraries -- Initiating contact with grantors -- Obtaining solicited competitive grant application packages -- Preproposal research and fact finding -- Proposal management and project planning -- Proposal writing style -- Proposal writing section by section -- Proposal assembly, editing, review, and submission -- Postproposal preaward marketing -- Contract award and project management -- Writing a request for proposal -- Conclusion : why become a grantsman (or -woman)?.…”
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Collateral damage Sino-Soviet rivalry and the termination of the Sino-Vietnamese alliance / by Khoo, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…China's cold war alliance with Vietnam : historical and theoretical significance -- Breaking the ring of encirclement : Sino-Soviet alliance termination and the Chinese communists' Vietnam policy, 1964-1968 -- A war on two fronts : the Sino-Soviet conflict during the Vietnam War and the betrayal thesis, 1968-1973 -- The politics of victory : Sino-Soviet relations and the road to Vietnamese unification, 1973-1975 -- The end of an "indestructible friendship" : Soviet resurgence and the termination of the Sino-Vietnamese alliance, 1975-1979 -- When allies become enemies.…”
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Godless Shakespeare by Mallin, Eric Scott

Table of Contents: “…Heaven -- Aaron ascendant (Aaron) -- The life to come (Macbeth) -- Dreams of sex and death (Bottom) -- Her becomings (Cleopatra).…”
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Laotian daughters working toward community, belonging, and environmental justice / by Shah, Bindi V., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…From Agent Orange to super fund sites to anti-immigrant sentiments : multiple voyages, on-going challenges -- New immigration and the American nation : a framework for citizenship and belonging in contemporary United States -- The politics of race : political identity and the struggle for social rights -- The politics of race : critical incorporation and inter-minority relations -- Family, culture, gender : narratives of ethnic reconstruction and meaning among second-generation Laotian women -- Building community, crafting belonging -- Conclusion : second-generation Laotians becoming "American".…”
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Unveiling the harem elite women and the paradox of seclusion in eighteenth-century Cairo / by Fay, Mary Ann

Table of Contents: “…Reimagining the harem: from orientalist fantasies to historical reconstruction -- Egypt in the eighteenth century: the transition from the medieval to the early modern -- Slaves in the family: Islam, household slavery, and the construction of kinship -- The Mamluk household: how a house became a home -- Mamluk women and the Egyptian economy: a comparative perspective on women's property rights -- The city as text: space, gender, and power in Cairo -- The architecture of seclusion: in search of the historical harem -- Everyday life in the harem -- Changing the subject: gender and the history of the Mamluk revival -- Epilogue.…”
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An incurable past Nasser's Egypt then and now / by Belli, Mériam N.

Table of Contents: “…The new order -- Part II: Burn, Edmund, burn : the present is everything -- 3. When Edmund Allenby became al-Limby -- 4. Port Said, martyr city -- 5. …”
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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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Language across difference ethnicity, communication, and youth identities in changing urban schools / by Paris, Django

Table of Contents: “…Beginnings: shouts of affirmation from 'our culture'; 2. 'Spanish is becoming famous': youth perspectives on Spanish in a changing youth community; 3. …”
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Colonial citizenship and everyday transnationalism : an immigrant's story / by Innes, Alexandria J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction Part I: Colonial Migration; Becoming Transnational Excerpt 1: The stock I come from 1. …”
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Radical Humanism : Selected Essays / by Amery, Jean

Table of Contents: “…After five thousand newspaper articles : how I became a writer -- Being a Jew : a personal account -- In the waiting room of death : reflections on the Warsaw ghetto -- Antisemitism on the left -- Eternal outcasts : prejudices against emigrants -- The time of rehabilitation : the Third Reich and historical objectivity -- Wasted words : thoughts on Germany since 1945 -- Nietzsche the contemporary : on his essay "Schopenhauer as educator" -- The limits of perspicacity : on Ludwig Wittgenstein's culture and values -- Simone Weil : beyond the legend -- Sartre : greatness and failure -- Enlightenment as philosophia perennis.…”
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Beyond world class building character, relationships and profits / by Ross, Alan M.

Table of Contents: “…A business parable -- Becoming a beyond world class company -- Strategy toward beyond world class -- Building covenantal relationships -- Seeing the customers' future: four power questions -- Covenanting with customers: five significant questions -- Beyond marketing 101: continuous solutions development -- The model of a solution -- Covenanting with employees -- Building a character culture -- Culture character: humility -- Culture character: sponsoring champions -- Culture character: integrity and modeling -- Culture character: fairness and caring -- An uncommon passion.…”
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Cold War holidays American tourism in France / by Endy, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…: French divisions over American tourism -- Making France safe for middle-class Americans -- French hotel industry -- Pleasure with a purpose : the struggle to create an Atlantic community -- The ugly American : the travel boom and the debate over mass culture -- The rude French : modernity and hospitality in De Gaulle's France -- The dollar challenge : the persistence of consumerism in the 1960s.…”
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Mother leads best 50 women who are changing the way organizations define leadership / by Grzelakowski, Moe

Table of Contents: “…The case for motherhood: what moms can teach us about leadership -- The dragon lady syndrome -- The motherhood decision -- Pregnancy : transitioning to a softer, more accountable, more value-conscious style -- Babies : nurturing becomes second nature -- The toddler years : managing chaos -- Elementary school : developing and motivating teams -- Tweens : listening at a higher level -- Teenagers : coaching with unconditional love -- The character of a leader : how motherhood brings out the best in people -- Applying the lessons of maternal leadership.…”
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The Virgin of el barrio Marian apparitions, Catholic evangelizing, and Mexican American activism / by Nabhan-Warren, Kristy

Table of Contents: “…Fe (faith), familia (family), and communidad (community) : Mexican American devotion to the Virgin Mary -- Estela Ruiz and the Virgin of the Americas : an intimate relationship -- From the devil to Mary : the Ruiz family narratives -- Battling satan : the Blessed Mother's messages of healing, hope, and urgency -- "On fire for Mary and Jesus!" : becoming new men and women in Mary's Ministries -- Catholic evangelization : fighting "fire with fire" -- Corporate evangelizers :: a family's "vision" for South Phoenix -- Hope and healing : the dialectics of faith and place -- Conclusion : Grassroots Catholicism.…”
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Away down South a history of Southern identity / by Cobb, James C. (James Charles), 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Cavalier and Yankee : the origins of Southern "otherness" -- The South becomes a cause -- The New South and the old cause -- The Southern Renaissance and the revolt against the New South creed -- Southern writers and "the impossible load of the past" -- The mind of the South -- The South of guilt and shame -- No North, no South? …”
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Wetwares experiments in postvital living / by Doyle, Richard, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Representing life for a living -- Simflesh, simbones : at play in the artificial life ribotype -- Disciplined by the future : the promising bodies of cryonics -- Give me a body, then : corporeal time-images -- Remains to be seen : a self-extracting amalgam -- Uploading anticipation, becoming silicon -- Dot coma : the dead zone of media and the replication of family values -- Take my bone marrow, please : the community in which we have organs in common -- Wetwares ; or, cutting up a few aliens -- Sympathy for the alien : informatic ecologies and the proliferation of abduction.…”
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The connect effect building strong personal, professional, and virtual networks / by Dulworth, Mike, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction: the power of networks -- Becoming a highly effective networker -- What's your networking quotient? …”
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Blue studios poetry and its cultural work / by DuPlessis, Rachel Blau

Table of Contents: “…Reader, I married me : becoming a feminist critic -- F-words : an essay on the essay -- Blue studio : gender arcades -- Manifests -- Marble paper : toward a feminist "history of poetry" -- Propounding modernist maleness : how Pound managed a muse -- Lorine Niedecker, the anonymous : gender, class, genre, and resistances -- The gendered marvelous : Barbara Guest, surrealism, and feminist reception -- "Uncannily in the open" : in light of Oppen -- On Drafts : a memorandum of understanding -- Haibun : "draw your draft" -- Inside the middle of a long poem.…”
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Disunion! the coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 / by Varon, Elizabeth R., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…The language of terrifying prophecy : disunion debates in the early republic -- We claim our rights : the advent of abolitionism -- Ruinous tendencies : the anti-abolition backlash -- The idea will become familiar : disunion in the era of mass party politics -- Oh for a man who is a man : debating slavery's expansion -- That is revolution! …”
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Radical Humanism : Selected Essays / by Amery, Jean

Table of Contents: “…After five thousand newspaper articles : how I became a writer -- Being a Jew : a personal account -- In the waiting room of death : reflections on the Warsaw ghetto -- Antisemitism on the left -- Eternal outcasts : prejudices against emigrants -- The time of rehabilitation : the Third Reich and historical objectivity -- Wasted words : thoughts on Germany since 1945 -- Nietzsche the contemporary : on his essay "Schopenhauer as educator" -- The limits of perspicacity : on Ludwig Wittgenstein's culture and values -- Simone Weil : beyond the legend -- Sartre : greatness and failure -- Enlightenment as philosophia perennis.…”
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