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Cross-cultural servanthood : serving the world in Christlike humility / by Elmer, Duane, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Servanthood : basic perspectives -- Servanthood : its burden and challenge -- Servanthood : choosing the towel or the robe -- Humility : posture of the servant -- Part II: Servanthood : the process -- Openness : welcoming others into your presence -- Acceptance : communicating respect for others -- Trust : building confidence in relationships -- Learning : seeking information that changes you -- Learning : biblical foundations for change -- Understanding : seeing through the other's eyes -- Serving : becoming like Christ to others -- Part III: Servanthood : the challenges -- The servant and leadership -- The servant and power -- The servant and mystery -- The servant model : Joseph.…”
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Communication between cultures / by Samovar, Larry A.

Table of Contents: “…Venturing into a new culture: Becoming competent.…”

Communication between cultures / by Samovar, Larry A.

Table of Contents: “…Venturing into a new culture: Becoming competent.…”

Taking science to the moon lunar experiments and the Apollo Program / by Beattie, Donald A.

Table of Contents: “…-- Astronaut training and mission simulation -- Studying the moon from orbit -- On to the moon-science becomes the focus -- The J missions-we almost achieve our early dreams -- The legacy of Apollo.…”
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Tough calls AT&T and the hard lessons learned from the telecom wars / by Martin, Dick, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Don't dance to the music of your own buzz -- Understand the power of symbols -- Take control -- Complete the CEO -- Expect the dumbing down of reality -- Work inside out toward your customers -- Don't let plugging leaks become an obsession -- Casting is everything -- Pay attention to the power of the few -- Don't confuse politics and public relations -- Say good-bye to the rah-rah brother- and sisterhood -- Stay off the treadmill of expectations -- It's okay to change your mind -- Credibility breaks all ties -- Reimagine your company's mission -- Practice ambidextrous leadership.…”
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The making of a bestseller success stories from authors and the editors, agents, and booksellers behind them / by Hill, Brian E. (Brian Edward), 1955-

Table of Contents: “…The incomparable thrill -- Making the list : how they work -- What causes a book to become successful? -- Reviews : the good, the bad, and the ugly -- Changes in reader taste -- Editors and publishers -- Literary agents -- Getting the books on the shelves and out the door -- Establishing a brand image with readers -- Promotion : publishers' and publicists' efforts--and of course bookstores -- Climbing the marketing mountain -- Building a career -- From the bookshelf to the silver screen -- Where does the idea come from? …”
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Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute the memoirs of George A. Cowan / by Cowan, G. A. (George A.), 1920-2012

Table of Contents: “…Joint Working Group for Radiochemistry -- International symposium, heavy ion physics, Dubna, Russia -- Photo gallery II -- A trip to the North Pole -- Down the Aleutian Islands to Amchitka -- The Oklo natural reactor -- Disposal of high-level radioactive wastes -- The solar neutrino program -- Atmospheric dynamics around Antarctica -- The White House Science Council -- Simplicity and complexity -- Photo gallery III -- The Santa Fe Institute : its intellectual origins -- SFI becomes operational -- Behavioral science -- My interest in early mental development -- What have I learned? …”
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Professional nursing concepts, issues, and challenges /

Table of Contents: “…Cody -- Making the transition to professional nursing : becoming a lifelong learner / Jane Conway and Margaret McMillan.…”
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Rebellion now and forever Mayas, Hispanics, and caste war violence in Yucatán, 1800-1880 / by Rugeley, Terry, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the caste war uncrossed -- Men newly powerful : how Pueblo politics became a caste war -- The extremes of death or triumph : a society goes to war, 1847-1851 -- Nothing more than a new conquest : a world catches its breath -- The roar of a terrible tempest : liberal reform and the civil wars, 1855-1863 -- The empire comes to Mayab -- A world (mostly) restored : the paradoxes of the republic -- Peace, Porfirian-style : East meets West, and a people contort the past -- Conclusion : violence and the ghost of Santiago Imán.…”
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The invention of the Jewish gaucho Villa Clara and the construction of Argentine identity / by Freidenberg, Judith

Table of Contents: “…Social memory as part of Villa Clara's history -- Entre Ríos, mi pais : immigrants becoming Argentine in a province -- Colonia Clara and the emergence of the "Jewish gauchos" (1892-1902) -- From Jewish gauchos to gaucho Jews : regional economic development and intercultural relations at the end of the nineteenth century -- The rise and demise of Jewish Villa Clara (1902-1930s) -- Rural depopulation and the emergence of a multiethnic and socially stratified landscape in Villa Clara (1940s-1990s) -- The present as politicized past : legitimizing social structure through heritage (1990s-2000s) -- Epilogue: The Jewish gaucho revisited.…”
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Beyond expulsion Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg / by Kaplan, Debra

Table of Contents: “…Beyond expulsion : a paradigm shift -- The superiority of the city of Strasbourg : the city and its reformation -- Without trees, the fire will be extinguished : reinventing Jewish life in the rural sphere -- Shared spaces : social interactions in the countryside -- Creating Jewish space in the Christian city : the Jews and Strasbourg's markets -- As is also apparent in the old chronicles and history books : magisterial laws, confession building, and Reformation era tolerance -- I listened to the account of a Jew : Christian Hebraism in Strasbourg -- Constructing Jewish memory : self-texts, the Reformation, and narratives of Jewish history -- Becoming French : Alsatian Jews in the wake of confession building.…”
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Hijab & the republic uncovering the French headscarf debate / by Winter, Bronwyn, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…A fifteen-year saga: 1989 : three little girls and a great big "psychodrama" ; 1990-1995 : from psychodrama to saga ; 1995-2004 and beyond : how ostentatiousness became conspicuous -- pt. 3. Feminists caught in the contradictions: The politics of hijabization ; Co-optations and instrumentalizations ; Feminist confusions and confrontations -- Conclusion : French lessons for the West? …”
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Arizona a history / by Sheridan, Thomas E.

Table of Contents: “…Incorporation -- The Native Americans -- The arrival of the Europeans -- Mexican Arizona and the Anglo frontier -- Early Anglo settlement and the beginning of the Indian wars -- The military conquest of Indian Arizona -- Extraction -- The freighters and the railroads -- Cattle -- Silver and gold -- Copper -- Oases in the desert -- Water and cotton -- Transformation -- Climate -- The Depression and the New Deal -- World War II and the postwar boom -- The other Arizona -- From the Southwest to the Sunbelt -- Arizona in the twenty-first century -- The political ecology of a desert state -- Reference material -- Bibliographic essays -- Index -- Political map of Arizona -- Physiographic map of Arizona -- Indian reservations in Arizona -- Federal lands in Arizona.…”
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Female hepatology favorable role of female factors in chronic liver disease / by Shimizu, Ichiro, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Liver cancer is predominant in men and postmenopausal women -- Chronic hepatitis C and B progress more slowly in females than males -- Hepatic fibrosis and oxidative stress -- Female sex hormones in hepatic fibrosis -- Ms, you can never become an 'iron lady' -- Immune response is affected by estrogens, progesterone and testosterone -- Females and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease -- 'Female paradox' in alcoholic liver disease -- Autoimmune liver diseases in females -- Are estrogens useful as a therapeutic drug for chronic liver disease? …”
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Ringlingville USA the stupendous story of seven siblings and their stunning circus success / by Apps, Jerold W., 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The idea for a circus, 1848-1881 -- Hall shows and an overland circus, 1882-1884 -- Establishing a reputation, 1885-1889 -- Taking to the rails and growing, 1890-1894 -- A giant emerges, 1895-1899 -- Facing a new century, 1900-1901 -- Making money and pleasing people, 1902-1903 -- Keeping the lead, 1904-1905 -- Becoming even larger, 1906-1907 -- Managing two big shows, 1908-1909 -- Doing the impossible, 1910-1911 -- Tax woes, 1912-1914 -- The effects of war, 1915-1918 -- Epilogue, after Ringlingville.…”
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Communities of imagination : contemporary Southeast Asian theatres / by Diamond, Catherine

Table of Contents: “…-- Singapore's cosmopolitan identity and its theatrical sideshow -- Dancing with the censors : Burmese performing arts keep time -- The Philippine theatre's quest for a hero(ine) -- From Fa Ngoum to hip-hop boom : the faces of Lao performance -- Durians, diversity, and fifty years of independence : Malaysian theatre stages its multiethnic heritage.…”
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Public housing that worked : New York in the twentieth century / by Bloom, Nicholas Dagen, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Defining a housing crisis; Three programs are better than one; High-rise public housing begins; Model tenants for model housing; Tightly managed communities -- Transforming postwar New York. 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. …”
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Gay, lesbian, bisexual & transgender aging : challenges in research, practice, and policy /

Table of Contents: “…Rodriguez Rust -- Transgender and aging : beings and becomings / Tarynn M. Witten and A. Evan Eyler -- Intersex and aging : a (cautionary) research agenda / Monica J. …”
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Disability identity and marriage in rural China / by Yang, Jing, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Grounded theory method and married women with disabilities in Bai Township -- chapter 2 Disability identity in the village environment -- chapter 3 Disabled matching: the process of mate selection -- chapter 4 Being daughters-in-law with disabilities -- chapter 5 Becoming wives with disabilities -- chapter 6 Being mothers with disabilities -- chapter 7 Towards a conceptualization of compensating for disability identity through marriages for women in rural areas of China The village context: the environment in which the -- chapter 8 Integrating compensating for disability identity with the literature -- chapter 9 Conclusions.…”
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Making medicine scientific John Burdon Sanderson and the culture of Victorian science / by Romano, Terrie M.

Table of Contents: “…From evangelical to medical officer of health -- Choosing medicine -- Medical officer of health -- Making a career in medical research -- Before the germ theory : the cattle plague of 1865-1866 and the state support of pathology -- From clinician-researcher to professional physiologist : making the pulse visible -- Becoming a research pathologist : the rise of laboratory medicine in Britain -- Focusing on physiology : capturing the venus's flytrap's electrical activity -- The medical sciences : critics and allies -- Physicians, antivivisectionists, and the failure of the Oxford School of Physiology -- A corner turned? …”
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