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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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Lone Parenthood in the Life Course

Table of Contents: “…Demographics/Diversity of Lone Parents: Judit Monostori: The Demographic Determinants of Becoming a Lone Parent -- Sylvia Keim: Are Lone Mothers also Lonely Mothers? …”
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Atomic absorption spectrometry : an introduction / by Sanz-Medel, Alfredo, Pereiro, Rosario

Table of Contents: “…Basic components of atomic absorption spectrometric instruments -- 3.1 Introduction: single-beam and double-beam instruments -- 3.2 Primary radiation sources -- 3.2.1 Hollow cathode lamps -- 3.2.1.1 Details of the components of a HCL -- 3.2.1.2 HCL operation -- 3.2.1.3 Multi-element HCLs -- 3.2.2 Electrodeless discharge lamps -- 3.2.3 Boosted discharge lamps -- 3.2.4 Diode lasers -- 3.2.5 Continuous sources -- 3.3 Atomizers: a general view -- 3.4 Wavelength selectors -- 3.5 Detectors -- 3.6 Background correctors -- 3.6.1 Deuterium background corrector -- 3.6.2 Zeeman correction -- 3.6.3 Smith-Hieftje correction --…”
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The Youth of Early Modern Women / by Reeves, Margaret

Table of Contents: “…Courtship and Becoming Sexual; 13. Straying and Led Astray…”
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The Youth of Early Modern Women / by Reeves, Margaret

Table of Contents: “…Courtship and Becoming Sexual; 13. Straying and Led Astray…”
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Returning to the source : the final stage of the Caribbean migration circuit /

Table of Contents: “…Abenaty -- Building home: being and becoming a return resident / Heather A Horst -- Second-generation "Returnee" migration to Jamaica and Barbados: pursuing Happiness and Mobility / Dwaine E. …”
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Learning cultures in online education

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Mark Warschauer -- Introduction / Robin Goodfellow and Marie-Norëlle Lamy -- When the solution becomes the problem : cultures and individuals as obstacles to online learning / Charles Ess -- Identity, gender, and language in synchronous cybercultures : a cross-cultural study / Charlotte N. …”
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Biocatalysis for green chemistry and chemical process development

Table of Contents: “…Overview of biotechnology tools for green synthesis: enzymes, cells and their tunability by engineering -- How green can the industry become with biotechnology -- Emerging enzymes and their synthetic applications -- Reaction efficiencies and green chemistry metrics of biotransformations -- Application and case studies - pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals -- Biocatalytic routes to chiral intermediates for development of drugs -- Transglutaminase for protein drug modification: pegylation and beyond -- Microbial production of plant-derived pharmaceutical natural products through metabolic engineering: artemisinin and beyond -- Toward greener therapeutic proteins -- Application and case studies ? …”
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The cultural wealth of nations

Table of Contents: “…Wherry -- Bringing together the ideas of Adam Smith and Pierre Bourdieu / Richard Swedberg -- When cultural capitalization became global practice : the 1972 World Heritage Convention / Alexandra Kowalski -- Selling beauty : Tuscany's rural landscape since 1945 / Dario Gaggio -- Impression management of stigmatized nations : the case of Croatia / Lauren A. …”
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Liminal borderlands in Irish literature and culture

Table of Contents: “…Einarsson -- Caught in the liminal: Dorothy Cross's Udder series and Marina Carr's By the bog of cats / Risn O'Gorman -- Transformative spaces in contemporary Irish women's poetry. Identity as becoming: polymorphic female identities in contemporary Irish women's poetry / Katarzyna Poloczek -- Land [. . .] to reclaim?…”
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From the Ground Up A History of Mining in Utah /

Table of Contents: “…Wallace Gwynn -- Coal industry / Allan Kent Powell -- Uranium boom / Raye C. Ringholz -- Beryllium mining / Debra Wagner -- III. …”
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Citizenship education and the personalization of democracy / by Hermans, H. J. M., Bartels, Rob, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…-- Flexible change of perspective: becoming a dancer -- Meta positions: look at yourself as if from a helicopter in the sky -- Tolerance for uncertainty: helpful or unhelpful? …”
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Old lands : a chorography of the Eastern Peloponnese / by Witmore, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…-- Lines in stone: Roads, canals, walls, faults, and marine terraces -- Ancient Corinth: Descent into memory, ascent into oblivion -- Acrocorinth: From gate to summit -- Along the A7 (Moréas), by car -- Kleonai to Nemea -- Nemea: A transect -- An erstwhile aqueduct: Lucretian flow -- To Mykenes station, by train -- About Mycenae, history and archaeology -- A path to the Heraion -- Through groves of citrus to Argos -- Argos, a democratic polis and Plutarch's Pyrrhus, a synkrisis (comparison) -- Modern spectacle through an ancient theatre -- Argos to Anapli on the hoof, with a stop at Tiryns -- A stroll through Nafplion -- The road to Epidaurus: Frazer and Pausanias -- Paleolithic to Bronze Age amid Venetian: A museum -- To Asine: Legal objects -- To Vivari, by boat -- Into the Bedheni Valley -- Through the Southern Argolid -- Ermioni/Hermion/Kastri: A topology -- Looking southwest, to what has become of an ancient oikos -- Across the Adheres, iterations -- Troizen, verdant and in ruin -- To Methana -- Into the Saronic Gulf -- On chorography.…”
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From the Ground Up : A History of Mining in Utah /

Table of Contents: “…Wallace Gwynn -- Coal industry / Allan Kent Powell -- Uranium boom / Raye C. Ringholz -- Beryllium mining / Debra Wagner -- III. …”
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Afghanistan's Islam : From Conversion to the Taliban /

Table of Contents: “…McChesney -- Transporting knowledge in the Durrani Empire : two manuals of Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Sufi practice -- Waleed Ziad -- Islam, Shari'a and state-building under 'Abd al-Rahman Khan / Amin Tarzi -- Competing views of Pashtun tribalism, Islam & society in the Indo-Afghan borderlands / Sana Haroon -- Nationalism not Islam : the 'Awaken Youth' Party and Pashtun nationalism / Faridullah Bezhan -- Glossy global leadership : unpacking the multilingual religious thought of the Jihad / Simon Wolfgang Fuchs -- Female sainthood between legend and politics : the emergence of Bibi Nushin of Shibirghan / Ingeborg Baldauf -- When Muslims become feminists : Khana-yi Aman, Islam and Pashtunwali / Sonia Ahsan.…”
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The mobilities paradigm : discourses and ideologies / by Endres, Marcel, Manderscheid, Katharina, Mincke, Christophe

Table of Contents: “…From mobility to its ideology: when mobility becomes an imperative / Christophe Mincke -- Identity construction and mobility in pilgrims' and travelers' writings: contemporary reports about the Way of St. …”

The word as scalpel a history of medical sociology / by Bloom, Samuel William, 1921-2006

Table of Contents: “…The Role of NIMH, 1946-1975 155 -- 9. Becoming a Profession: The Role of the Private -- Foundations 181 -- 10. …”
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If these halls could talk a historical tour through San Francisco recording studios / by Johnson, Heather

Table of Contents: “…From Heider to Hyde Street ; A public Fantasy ; Eighties outposts ; San Francisco hills and valleys -- The nineties : from digital boom to dotcom bust. Coast-to-Coast-to...Toast? ; The Plant : 25 years and counting ; Two dotcom storm survivors -- The new millennium : picking up the pieces. …”
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Philosophers without gods meditations on Atheism and the secular life /

Table of Contents: “…Farrell -- Overcoming Christianity / Walter Sinnott-Armstrong -- On becoming a heretic / Edwin Curley -- Mere stranger / Marvin Belzer -- An atheist's fundamentalism / James Tappenden -- Thank goodness! …”
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