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Imagining Mars a literary history / by Crossley, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Wells and the great disillusionment -- Mars and the paranormal -- Masculinist fantasies -- Quite in the best tradition -- On the threshold of the space age -- Retrograde visions -- Mars remade -- Being there -- Becoming Martian -- Afterword : Mars under construction.…”
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Erotic grotesque nonsense the mass culture of Japanese modern times / by Silverberg, Miriam Rom, 1951-2008

Table of Contents: “…Japanese modern times -- Japanese modern within modernity -- Japanese modern sites -- The modern girl as militant (movement on the streets) -- The café waitress sang the blues -- Friends of the movies (from Ero to empire) -- The household becomes modern life -- Asakusa--honky-tonk tempo -- Asakusa eroticism -- Down-and-out grotesquerie -- Modern nonsense.…”
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Bastards of utopia : living radical politics after socialism / by Razsa, Maple

Table of Contents: “…Grassroots globalization in national soil -- Uncivil society : NGOs, the invasion of Iraq, and the limits of polite protest -- "Feeling the state on your own skin" : direct confrontation and the production of militant subjects -- "Struggling for what is not yet" : the right to the city in Zagreb -- The occupy movement : direct democracy and a politics of becoming -- Conclusion : from critique to affirmation.…”
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Post-capitalist subjectivity in literature and anti-psychiatry : reconceptualizing the self beyond capitalism / by Skott-Myhre, Hans Arthur

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Who are we to become if we are not this? -- Embedded in the Institution: Franco Basaglia and the Monarchs of Misery -- Kafka and Nomad Law -- Basaglia and the Revolt of Living Force -- Kafka and the Subject Who Cannot Belong -- Laing and the Carceral Mystique of the Family -- Gabriel García Márquez and The Rupture of the Marvelous -- Beyond Solitude: Lines of Flight in Marquez and Laing -- Conclusion.…”
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The great stink of Paris and the nineteenth-century struggle against filth and germs by Barnes, David S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- "Not everything that stinks kills" : odors and germs on the streets of Paris, 1880 -- The santiarian's legacy, or how health became public -- Taxonomies of transmission : local etiologies and the equivocal triumph of germ theory -- Putting germ theory into practice -- Toward a cleaner and healthier republic -- Odors and "infection," 1880 and beyond -- The legacy of the twentieth century.…”
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Telling the little secrets American Jewish writing since the 1980s / by Burstein, Janet

Table of Contents: “…Riddling identity : the gates of Roth -- Writing the pathos of belatedness : second generation memoirs -- Voice and mourning in the aftermath : second generation fictions -- Recalling "home" from exile : revisiting the past -- Portnoy's successors : gendered ethnicity and the embodying of Jewish men -- Becoming rubies : engendering Jewish women -- Midrash as undertow : looking back and moving on.…”
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Black Muslim religion in the Nation of Islam, 1960-1975 by Curtis, Edward E., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…What Islam has done for me : finding religion in the Nation of Islam -- Making a Muslim messenger : defending the Islamic legitimacy of Elijah Muhammad -- Black Muslim history narratives : orienting the Nation of Islam in Muslim time and space -- The ethics of the Black Muslim body -- Rituals of control and liberation -- Conclusion : becoming Muslim Again.…”
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Human Rights, Inc the world novel, narrative form, and international law / by Slaughter, Joseph R.

Table of Contents: “…Novel subjects and enabling fictions: the formal articulation of international human rights law -- Becoming plots: human rights, the bildungsroman, and the novelization of citizenship -- Normalizing narrative forms of human rights: the (dys)function of the public sphere -- Compulsory development: narrative self-sponsorship and the right to self-determination -- Clefs à roman: reading, writing, and international humanitarianism.…”
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Noise wars compulsory media and our loss of autonomy / by Freedman, Robert, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Silence at 99 cents a pop -- The new world of captivity -- TV in public spaces -- Outdoor rooms : when memory goes missing -- Boom cars : as funny as a heart attack -- You hear me, therefore I am -- Creating a new world of stress -- What it all boils down to : users vs. stewards.…”
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The story of the New Testament text movers, materials, motives, methods, and models / by Hull, Robert F., 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Paul and Luke become published authors -- The precritical age -- The age of collecting, collating, and classifying -- The age of optimism: the New Testament in the original Greek -- The age of optimism (continued): materials, methods, motives, and models -- The age of the papyri: a harvest of riches -- The age of consensus, the age of doubt -- New directions: expanding the goals of textual criticism -- Reassessing the discipline.…”
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Surface encounters thinking with animals and art / by Broglio, Ron, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: staying on the surface -- Meat matters: distance in Damien Hirst -- Body of thought: immanence and Carolee Schneemann -- Making space for animal dwelling: worlding with Snæbjørnsdøttir/Wilson -- Contact zones and living flesh: touch after Olly and Suzi -- A minor art: becoming-animal of Marcus Coates -- Coda: human, animal, and Matthew Barney.…”
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Facilitative leadership in social work practice by Breshears, Elizabeth M.

Table of Contents: “…What is the role of the facilitative leader? -- Becoming the facilitative leader -- Leadership theories -- Leadership ethics for social workers -- How groups work -- The facilitative leader's skill set: building competence -- Organizing groups -- Guidelines for group process observation -- Intervening as a group facilitator: addressing voice, privilege, and power -- Evaluating facilitative leadership -- Conclusion and recommendations.…”
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Out of the northwoods the many lives of Paul Bunyan / by Edmonds, M. E.

Table of Contents: “…s origins in fact and fiction -- Lumberjacks and their culture -- How the tales were told -- The earliest surviving versions -- The curious claims of Gene Shepard -- Out of the woods and onto the page -- Stewart and watt, the first careful collectors -- Charles brown gets caught in the middle -- Bunyan becomes a celebrity -- Competing claims to fame.…”
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Hindu gods in West Africa Ghanaian devotees of Shiva and Krishna / by Wuaku, Albert Kafui, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Ghana's Hindu religious landscape -- The Hindu monastery of Africa -- Domesticating Shiva worship in Ghana: rituals of the Hindu monastery of Africa -- The Sri Radha-Govinda temple tradition -- "Hinduizing" from the "top," indigenizing from "below": Krishna devotion in Ghana -- Spreading Krishna and Shiva worship in Ghana -- Why we became Hindus: conversion narratives.…”
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The grandchildren of Solano López : frontier and nation in Paraguay, 1904-1936 / by Chesterton, Bridget María, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introducing the Chaco frontier -- Forgetting Solano López : debating the Paraguayan foundational narrative -- Managing Rojas Silva : rhetoric and inaction -- Comparing eastern and western Paraguay : scientific nationalism -- Civilizing the Chaco : the religious arrive -- Becoming Guaraní : soldiers, agriculturalists, and poets -- Remembering Solano López : the rise of febrerismo -- Reconsidering the frontier : the decades following the war.…”
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Hepatitis B virus (HBV)

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Virus structure and its genome -- Prevention: universal vaccination -- Geographic distribution -- HBV transmission -- Special HBV mechanisms -- The immune reaction and different phases -- Chronic hepatitis B serology -- Viral markers -- Risk of becoming a carrier -- Available treatments and their goals -- Medications -- Reistance to antiviral treatment -- Mutants -- HCC screening -- Survival.…”
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Hepatitis B virus (HBV)

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Virus structure and its genome -- Prevention: universal vaccination -- Geographic distribution -- HBV transmission -- Special HBV mechanisms -- The immune reaction and different phases -- Chronic hepatitis B serology -- Viral markers -- Risk of becoming a carrier -- Available treatments and their goals -- Medications -- Reistance to antiviral treatment -- Mutants -- HCC screening -- Survival.…”
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At War with Women : Military Humanitarianism and Imperial Feminism in an Era of Permanent War / by Greenburg, Jennifer, 1983-

Table of Contents: “…Doctrinal Turning Points in the New Imperial Wars -- The "Social Work" of War : Techniques and Struggles to Remake Military Labor -- Colonial "Lessons Learned" : The Contemporary Soldier Becomes the Historical Colonizer -- Soothing Occupation : Gender and the Strategic Deployment of Emotional Labor -- A New Imperial Feminism : Color-Blind Racism and the Special Operation of Women's Rights.…”
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High-tech fame how to get the top 10 high-tech publications to write about you.

Table of Contents: “…Four inspirational case studies on high-tech companies using clever PR tactics to become more famous -- pt. 3. Top 25 influential high-tech & business journalists reveal how you can plant stories in their publications.…”
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The company they kept migrants and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 / by Putnam, Lara

Table of Contents: “…The evolution of family practice in Jamaica and Costa Rica -- Sojourners and settlers : economic cycles and traveling lives, 1850s-1940s -- Las princesas del dollar : prostitutes and the banana booms, 1890s-1920s -- Compañeros : communities and kinship, 1920s-1950s -- Facety women : rudeness and respectability, 1890s-1930s -- Men of respect : authority and violence, 1890s-1950s.…”
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