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Trinidad carnival the cultural politics of a transnational festival /

Table of Contents: “…Green -- When "natives" become tourists of themselves : returning transnationals and the carnival in Trinidad and Tobago / Philip W. …”
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Politics of touch sense, movement, sovereignty / by Manning, Erin

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: atypical expressions and political inventions -- Bodies on the move-political recompositions -- Negotiating influence: touch and tango -- Gestural politics-touching the impenetrable-te toucher, toi-eventually tender-worlding touch -- Happy together: moving toward multiplicity -- Tango movements-tango friendships-multiple movements of desire-a last tango -- Erring toward experience: violence and touch -- Means without an end-violence-erring-divine violence-return to the garden -- Engenderings: gender, politics, individuation -- Touch-gender-symbiosis-interlude-individuation-politics -- Making sense of the incommensurable: experiencing democracy -- Expressions of the political-thick to think-shifting skinscapes-democracy- making sense of politics -- Sensing beyond security: what a body can do -- Do not touch-tactically untouchable-structurally insecure-of pacts and political becomings-posthuman prosthetics-a touch of insecurity.…”
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New Countries : Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750–1870 / by Tutino, John, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The Americas in the rise of industrial capitalism / John Tutino -- The Cádiz liberal revolution and Spanish American independence / Roberto Breña -- Union, capitalism, and slavery in the "rising empire" of the United States / Adam Rothman -- From slave colony to Black nation : Haiti's revolutionary inversion / Carolyn Fick -- Cuban counterpoint : colonialism and continuity in the Atlantic world / David Sartorius -- Atlantic transformations and Brazil's imperial independence / Kirsten Schultz -- Becoming Mexico : the conflictive search for a North American nation / Alfredo Ávila and John Tutino -- The republic of Guatemala : stitching together a new country / Jordana Dym -- From one patria, two nations in the Andean heartland / Sarah C. …”
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Pacific Strife : The Great Powers and their Political and Economic Rivalries in Asia and the Western Pacific, 1870-1914 / by Dijk, C. van (Cornelis), 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Steam and Istmus canals -- Planters, traders and labour in the South Pacific -- Fiji: the start of Anglo-German rivalry in the Pacific -- The Somoa conflict -- Germany enters the colonial race -- The New Guinea protectorates -- Great Britain, Russia and the Central Asian question -- Samoa remains a source of international tension -- The emerging economic world powers -- Great Britain, France and Southeast Asia -- The French-expansion westwards into Southeast Asia -- Russia, Japan and the Chinese empire -- Thailand and beyond -- The scramble for China: the Bay of Jiaozhou and Port Arthur -- The British reaction: Wei-Hai-Wei -- The scramble for China continues: Guangzhouwan and Tibet -- The failed annexation of Hawaii -- The United States becomes a colonial empire -- The partition of Samoa -- The Russo-Japanese war -- Great Britain's search for secure colonial frontiers -- The United States, Japan and the Pacific Ocean -- Epilogue.…”
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Pediatric cardiac anesthesia /

Table of Contents: “…Lake -- Abnormalities of the atrioventricular valves / Victor C. Baum -- Coronary artery anomalies / Monica A. Stokes -- Cardiomyopathies / Ian M. …”
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The poem of a life a biography of Louis Zukofsky / by Scroggins, Mark, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…A Lower East Side youth, 1904-1920 -- An ernster mensch at Columbia, 1920-1924 -- The lean twenties, 1924-1928 -- A thousand fiddles playing Bach, 1928-1930 -- "A"-1 through "A"-7 -- "Objectivists" : 1930-1931 -- At the helm of an avant-garde, 1932-1933 -- Politics and poetry, 1934-1935 -- Culture and design, 1936-1940 -- "A"-8 and first half of "A"-9 -- The home front, 1940-1945 -- A new life, 1946-1951 -- "A"-9 (second half) through "A"-12 -- The great world, 1952-1957 -- Going westward, 1958-1960 -- The darker world, 1961-1963 -- Short poems : contingencies and sequences -- Becoming a classic, 1964-1966 -- "A"-13 through "A"-20 -- Retiring, 1966-1969 -- At port, 1970-1978 -- "A"-21 through "A"-24 -- 80 flowers and "Gamut, 90 trees" -- Afterword : 1978-1980.…”
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When kids get arrested what every adult should know / by Simkins, Sandra, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…-- Will the juvenile record go away when the child becomes an adult? -- Disposition hearing (sentencing) : asking the court to provide the services the child needs -- How to succeed on probation -- When the child is sent to residential placement -- Transferring children to adult criminal court -- School search issues -- When children get suspended or expelled : school discipline and zero-tolerance policies -- Special education issues -- Does race matter? …”
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The dyadic developmental psychotherapy casebook

Table of Contents: “…/ Geraldine Casswell, M.Sc ClinPsy -- Integration in dyadic developmental psychotherapy : Amran's story / Karen Sik, MClinPsy -- Endings / Sian Phillips, PhD -- The girl who becomes aggressive / Arthur Becker-Weidman, PhD.…”
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Cross-Taiwan straits relations since 1979 policy adjustment and institutional change across the straits /

Table of Contents: “…Tsai -- Cross-Taiwan Straits economic relations and the ECFA / Liou To-hai -- Cross-Taiwan Straits relations and Ma Ying-jeou's policy of diplomatic truce / Lee Ming -- The evolution of the institutional structure of Beijing's Taiwan policy making since the late 1970s / Kevin G. …”
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Samuel Beckett and pain

Table of Contents: “…"Happily melancholy" : pleasure and pain in early Beckett / Mark Nixon ; Mourning becomes electric : mediating loss in Eh Joe / Graley Herren ; Beckettian pain, in the flesh : singularity, community and "the work" / Garin Dowd ; The body in pain and freedom of the mind : performing Beckett and noh / Mariko Hori Tanaka -- II. …”
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How laws are made in the U.S.A.

Table of Contents: “…Eric Petersen -- Enrollment of legislation : relevant congressional procedures / Valerie Heitshusen -- Legislative process : how a Senate bill becomes a law -- Introducing a House bill or resolution / Betsy Palmer -- Introducing a Senate bill or resolution / Betsy Palmer -- Office of Legislative Counsel : House / Matthew E. …”
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A class with Drucker : the lost lessons of the world's greatest management teacher / by Cohen, William A., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…How I became the student of the father of modern management -- Drucker in the classroom -- What everybody knows is frequently wrong -- Self-confidence must be built step-by-step -- If you keep doing what worked in the past you're going to fail -- Approach problems with your ignorance--not your experience -- Develop expertise outside your field to be an effective manager -- Outstanding performance is inconsistent with fear of failure -- The objective of marketing is to make selling unnecessary -- Ethics, honor, integrity and the law -- You can't predict the future, but you can create it -- We're all accountable -- You must know your people to lead them -- People have no limits, even after failure -- A model organization that Drucker greatly admired -- The management control panel -- Base your strategy on the situation, not on a formula -- How to motivate the knowledge worker -- Drucker's principles of self-development.…”
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The afterlife of Adam Smith : the influence, interpretation and misinterpretation of his economic philosophy, 1760s-2010s / by Farina, William, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Businessmen become revolutionaries (1764/1777) -- A new republic grapples with old issues (1778/1790) -- The british empire makes war against its offspring (1791/1815) -- Almost free labor (1816/1837) -- Might makes right (1838/1850) -- Northern industry tames southern agriculture (1851/1865) -- More competition, more oppression (1866/1877) -- The great american relocation (1878/1890) -- A clumsy foray into colonialism (1891/1901) -- Trustbuster (1901/1913) -- Anglo-american power shift (1914/1921) -- Ascendant consumerism (1922/1928) -- The implosion of ?…”
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Pentecostalism and Witchcraft Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia /

Table of Contents: “…German Pentecostal Witches and Communists: The Violence of Purity and Sameness --  3. Becoming Witches: Sight, Sin, and Sociality in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.- 4. …”
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Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews in America

Table of Contents: “…Naar ; Diasporic Reunions: Sephardi/Ashkenazi Tensions in Historical Perspective / Aviva Ben-Ur ; Negotiating Exile: An Arab Jew in America / David Suissa ; Becoming American / Gina Nahai ; Iranian Jewish Art Today: What Cultural Legacy Are We Handing Down? …”
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Rereading Heterosexuality : Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction / by Carroll, Rachel

Table of Contents: “…COVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: feminism, queer theory and heterosexuality; Part One: Revisiting the spinster; Chapter 1 'Becoming my own ghost': spinsterhood and the 'invisibility' of heterosexuality in Sarah Waters' Affinity; Chapter 2 Telling tales out of school: spinsters, scandals and intergenerational heterosexuality in Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal; Part Two: Transgressive female heterosexuality; Chapter 3 Queering Alice, killing Lolita: feminism, queer theory and the politics of child sexuality in A.M. …”
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Colleagues in organization : the social construction of professional work /

Table of Contents: “…Manning, P. K. Talking and becoming. Blankenship, R. L. Organizational careers.…”

Science in the service of children, 1893-1935 by Smuts, Alice Boardman

Table of Contents: “…Stanley Hall and the child study movement -- Scientific child rearing, organized motherhood, and parent education -- Social welfare reformers and reform-minded scientists -- The Children's Bureau under Julia Lathrop : government at its best -- From juvenile delinquency research to child guidance -- Better crops, better pigs, better children : the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station -- The children's decade -- Child development research : preventive politics -- Out of step with his times : Arnold Gesell and the Yale Clinic -- The child guidance movement : another approach to preventive politics -- Child guidance becomes child psychiatry -- The Children's Bureau under Grace Abbott : uphill all the way -- Epilogue: What happened to the early movements? …”
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Asset prices and monetary policy

Table of Contents: “…Measuring the macroeconomic risks posed by asset price booms / Stephen G. Cecchetti -- Expectations, asset prices, and monetary policy : the role of learning / Simon Gilchrist and Masashi Saito -- Optimal monetary policy with collateralized household debt and borrowing constraints / Tommaso Monacelli -- Inflation illusion, credit, and asset prices / Monika Piazzesi and Martin Schneider -- Learning, macroeconomic dynamics, and the term structure of interest rates / Hans Dewachter and Marco Lyrio -- Revealing the secrets of the temple : the value of publishing central bank interest rate projections / Glenn D. …”
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Prosecuting heads of state

Table of Contents: “…Lutz -- Prosecutions of heads of state in Latin America / Naomi Roht-Arriaza -- The multiple prosecutions of Augusto Pinochet / Naomi Roht-Arrizaz -- A leader takes flight : the indictment of Alberto Fujimori / Ronald Gamarra -- Charm and punishment : how the Philippines' leading man became its most famous prisoner / Abby Wood -- Shifting legitimacy : the trials of Frederick Chiluba / Paul Lewis -- A justice "trickle-down" : Rwanda's first post-genocide president on trial / Lars Waldorf -- Justice squandered? …”
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