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Women of the Gulag portraits of five remarkable lives / by Gregory, Paul R.

Table of Contents: “…Terror's human face -- Stalin : struggles and successes -- Agnessa : elite NKVD wife -- Maria : portrait of the new Soviet family -- Evgenia : luxury with a beast -- Adile : princess bride of Abkhazia -- Fekla : child of the kulaks -- Stalin : the storm descends -- Agnessa : crashing a funeral -- Stalin : launching the great terror -- Agnessa : the purge spreads far and wide -- Maria : a narrow escape -- Evgenia : socialist realist -- Adile : the master will not abandon us -- Fekla : becoming a Bolshevik -- Stalin : the master needs a scapegoat -- Agnessa : new year's eve with the Master -- Maria : wife of a traitor to the motherland -- Evgenia : losing everything -- Adile : return and arrest -- Fekla : face of the future -- Aftermath.…”
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Keep on fighting : the life and civil rights legacy of Marian A. Spencer / by Christenson, Dorothy H., 1938-

Table of Contents: “…A remarkable family in twentieth-century Gallipolis, Ohio -- The Alexander family -- Education and voting -- School days -- Part II. Becoming a citizen activist -- Cincinnati, another world -- The University of Cincinnati -- A lifetime partner -- Marriage, family, and the YWCA -- Homeownership, new part-time job -- Woman's city club and fellowship house -- Part III. …”
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Going to Court to Change Japan : Social Movements and the Law in Contemporary Japan /

Table of Contents: “…Steinhoff -- Karōshi activism and recent trends in Japanese civil society : creating credible knowledge and culture / Scott North -- Courting justice, contesting "bureaucratic informality" : the Sayama case and the evolution of Buraku liberation politics / John H. Davis, Jr. -- Becoming unforgettable : leveraging law for labor in struggles for employment security / Christena Turner -- Suing for redress : Japanese consumer organizations and the courts / Patricia L. …”
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Making easy listening material culture and postwar American recording / by Anderson, Tim J.

Table of Contents: “…Buried under the fecundity of his own creations : the first strike of the American Federation of Musicians ; Counterreform and resignation : the second strike of the American Federation of Musicians -- Production, reproduction, and the case of My fair lady. Which voice best becomes the property? stitching the intertext of My fair lady ; Listening to my My fair lady : versioning and the recorded music object -- Stereo, hi-fi, and the modern pleasures of easy listening. …”
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Haunted by parents by Shengold, Leonard

Table of Contents: “…Benjamin Spock -- A clinical illustration of some of my main themes -- Knowing, change, and good and bad expectations -- Beginnings and Wordsworth's "immortality ode" -- Change means loss : spring and summer must become winter -- The myth of Demeter and Persephone -- Another dream of death in a garden -- A clinical and a literary example : Edna St. …”
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Justice and science trials and triumphs of DNA evidence / by Clarke, George, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…The scientist becomes a victim -- A new prosecutor -- The transition to DNA evidence -- The fight for acceptance -- A stranger rapist and a murderer : early sucess with DNA evidence -- A double-edged sword : DNA for and against the prosecution -- A child and a critical nightshirt -- DNA and a football hero collide -- Back home again in San Diego : an unusual rape case -- When a match is not a match -- Exonerations, databases & S.T.R.'…”
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The texture of being essays in first philosophy / by Schmitz, Kenneth L.

Table of Contents: “…. -- The geography of the human person -- Immateriality past and present -- The first principle of personal becoming -- Purity of soul and immortality -- Is liberalism good enough? …”
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Going to Court to Change Japan : Social Movements and the Law in Contemporary Japan /

Table of Contents: “…Steinhoff -- Karōshi activism and recent trends in Japanese civil society : creating credible knowledge and culture / Scott North -- Courting justice, contesting "bureaucratic informality" : the Sayama case and the evolution of Buraku liberation politics / John H. Davis, Jr. -- Becoming unforgettable : leveraging law for labor in struggles for employment security / Christena Turner -- Suing for redress : Japanese consumer organizations and the courts / Patricia L. …”
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Deviancy in early rabbinic literature a collection of socio-anthropological essays / by Fishbane, Simcha

Table of Contents: “…The case of the modified mamzer in early rabbinic texts -- "As the vows of the evil folk" : the structure and implicit message of Mishnah's tractate Nazir -- "In the case of women-any hand which makes many examinations is to be praised" : niddah as viewed by the rabbis of the Mishnah -- "Most women engage in sorcery" : an analysis of female sorceresses in the Babylonian Talmud -- "Go and enjoy your acquisition" : the prostitute in the Babylonian Talmud -- "Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil" : the physically handicapped in the Mishnah -- Toward an understanding of the methodology of Mishnah : the case of kutim -- Descriptive or prescriptive : the case of the gentile in Mishnah -- Deviancy in battle : rituals and the Israelite soldier in the Torah and the Mishnah : an anthropological understanding -- "Every dream becomes valid only by its interpretation" : dreams, dream interpretations and dream interpreters in the Babylonian Talmud.…”
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Growing good things to eat in Texas profiles of organic farmers and ranchers across the state / by Walker, Pamela, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Fruit and vegetables -- South Tex organics: Dennis Holbrook's journey from pharmaceutical to organic farming -- Boggy Creek Farm: the art of urban farming -- Tecolote Farm: where the South meets the West -- Animal farm: how Gita Vanwoerden accidentally became a vegetable farmer -- Home sweet farm: making American dreams come true -- Shrimp and meat -- Permian Sea Organics: aquaculture in the desert -- Rehoboth Ranch and Windy Meadows Farm: for the love of god and family -- Ross Farm: learning to listen to the whispers of nature -- Dairy and cheese -- Pure Luck Farm and Dairy: from the first generation to the second -- Full Quiver Farm and Dairy: how the Sams family saved its farm and sustained a way of life.…”
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Just transitions explorations of sustainability in an unfair world / by Swilling, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: on becoming visible -- Part I. Complexity, sustainability and transition. …”
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Madame Wu Chien-Shiung : the first lady of physics research / by Tsai-Chien, Chiang

Table of Contents: “…A young Wu Chien-Shiung became the favorite student of Hu Shih -- ch. 3. Choice of future -- ch. 4. …”
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Fama and Fiction in Vergil’s Aeneid by Syson, Antonia Jane Reobone, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The seams of fiction in epic and novel -- What Turnus sees -- Classifying fama -- Chapter previews -- Monstrous fama -- Fama's tongues -- Jupiter's bargain -- Sinon's fama -- Matter out of place I: across the Styx -- Dirt and disorder -- Daedalean excesses -- Misenus and the substance of fama -- Putting Palinurus in his place -- This and that -- Memories of the harpy -- When "that" becomes "this" -- Recognizing divine authority -- Matter out of place II: Nisus and Euryalus -- Fama evaluated -- Dirty fighting -- The order of metamorphosis -- "Uidi ipse" -- Cybele and Jupiter's order -- Slithery changes -- Venus' fictions -- What Amata sees -- Reading for the novel -- How to do things with birds -- Rumors -- "Accipio agnoscoque deos" -- Juturna's fictional truth -- Afterword: swan song.…”
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A pinch of culinary science : boiling an egg inside out and other kitchen tales / by Hopia, Anu Inkeri, Fooladi, Erik Cyrus

Table of Contents: “…: the chemistry and psychology of an apple pie -- Boiling an egg from the inside out -- In the beginning there was an egg -- Mussels on acid -- Sausage engineering -- Mustard, fiercely yours -- The potatoes that refused to become tender -- Gravlax and a pinch of salt chemistry -- The art of heating -- Cold skillet : juicy fish -- Tempering the meat before cooking, ...or maybe not -- Cooking pits : prehistoric cooking meets science -- White wine in cooking should always be dry, right? …”
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Fama and Fiction in Vergil’s Aeneid / by Syson, Antonia Jane Reobone, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The seams of fiction in epic and novel -- What Turnus sees -- Classifying fama -- Chapter previews -- Monstrous fama -- Fama's tongues -- Jupiter's bargain -- Sinon's fama -- Matter out of place I: across the Styx -- Dirt and disorder -- Daedalean excesses -- Misenus and the substance of fama -- Putting Palinurus in his place -- This and that -- Memories of the harpy -- When "that" becomes "this" -- Recognizing divine authority -- Matter out of place II: Nisus and Euryalus -- Fama evaluated -- Dirty fighting -- The order of metamorphosis -- "Uidi ipse" -- Cybele and Jupiter's order -- Slithery changes -- Venus' fictions -- What Amata sees -- Reading for the novel -- How to do things with birds -- Rumors -- "Accipio agnoscoque deos" -- Juturna's fictional truth -- Afterword: swan song.…”
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Remains of the Social : Desiring the post-apartheid /

Table of Contents: “…Traversing the social / Maurits van Bever Donker [and three others] -- The Mandela imaginary : reflections on post-reconciliation libidinal economy / Derek Hook -- The return of empathy : postapartheid fellow feeling / Ross Truscott -- The ethics of precarity : Judith Butler's reluctant universalism / Mari Ruti -- Hannah Arendt's work of mourning : the politics of loss, 'the rise of the social' and the ends of apartheid / Jaco Barnard-Naud{acute}e -- Souvenir / Annemarie Lawless -- Re-cover : Afrikaans rock, apartheid's children and the work of the cover / Aiden Erasmus -- The graves of Dimbaza : temporal remains / Gary Minkley and Helena Pohlandt-McCormick -- The principle of insufficiency : ethics and community at the edge of the social / Maurits van Bever Donker -- The Trojan Horse and the 'becoming technical of the human' / Premesh Lalu.…”
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Bodily citations religion and Judith Butler /

Table of Contents: “…Hornsby -- Embodying identities -- Disturbingly Catholic : thinking the inordinate body / Karen Trimble Alliaume -- Unconforming becomings : the significance of Whitehead's novelty and Butler's subversion for the repetitions of lesbian identity and the expansion of the future / Christina K. …”
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Fama and Fiction in Vergil’s Aeneid / by Syson, Antonia Jane Reobone, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The seams of fiction in epic and novel -- What Turnus sees -- Classifying fama -- Chapter previews -- Monstrous fama -- Fama's tongues -- Jupiter's bargain -- Sinon's fama -- Matter out of place I: across the Styx -- Dirt and disorder -- Daedalean excesses -- Misenus and the substance of fama -- Putting Palinurus in his place -- This and that -- Memories of the harpy -- When "that" becomes "this" -- Recognizing divine authority -- Matter out of place II: Nisus and Euryalus -- Fama evaluated -- Dirty fighting -- The order of metamorphosis -- "Uidi ipse" -- Cybele and Jupiter's order -- Slithery changes -- Venus' fictions -- What Amata sees -- Reading for the novel -- How to do things with birds -- Rumors -- "Accipio agnoscoque deos" -- Juturna's fictional truth -- Afterword: swan song.…”
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Remains of the Social : Desiring the post-apartheid /

Table of Contents: “…Traversing the social / Maurits van Bever Donker [and three others] -- The Mandela imaginary : reflections on post-reconciliation libidinal economy / Derek Hook -- The return of empathy : postapartheid fellow feeling / Ross Truscott -- The ethics of precarity : Judith Butler's reluctant universalism / Mari Ruti -- Hannah Arendt's work of mourning : the politics of loss, 'the rise of the social' and the ends of apartheid / Jaco Barnard-Naud{acute}e -- Souvenir / Annemarie Lawless -- Re-cover : Afrikaans rock, apartheid's children and the work of the cover / Aiden Erasmus -- The graves of Dimbaza : temporal remains / Gary Minkley and Helena Pohlandt-McCormick -- The principle of insufficiency : ethics and community at the edge of the social / Maurits van Bever Donker -- The Trojan Horse and the 'becoming technical of the human' / Premesh Lalu.…”
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Facing racial revolution eyewitness accounts of the Haitian Insurrection /

Table of Contents: “…Becoming a slavemaster -- The Ogé Insurrection -- The first days of the slave insurrection -- A poet in the midst of insurrection : Amon Odyssée -- An expedition against the insurgents in November 1791 -- Inside the insurgency : Gross Historick recital -- Prisoners of the insurgents in 1792 -- Fighting and atrocities in the South Province in 1792-1793 -- Masters and their slaves during the insurrection -- The destruction of Cap Français in June 1793 -- A colonist at sea, 1793 -- Imagining the motives behind the insurrection -- A colonist among the Spanish and the British -- A white captive in the struggle against the Leclerc Expedition -- A family reunion and a religious conversion -- A woman's view of the last days of Cap Français -- A child's memories of the last days of Saint-Domingue -- A survivor of Dessalines's massacres in 1804 -- The story of the last French survivors in Saint-Domingue.…”
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