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Living the revolution Italian women's resistance and radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 / by Guglielmo, Jennifer, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Women's cultures of resistance in Southern Italy -- La sartina (the seamstress) becomes a transnational labor migrant -- The racialization of Southern Italian women -- Surviving the shock of arrival and everyday resistance -- Anarchist feminists and the radical subculture -- The 1909-1919 strike wave and the birth of industrial unionism -- Red scare, the lure of fascism, and diasporic resistance -- Community organizing in a racial hall of mirrors.…”
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Succeeding as a documentary filmmaker a guide to the professional world / by Rosenthal, Alan, 1936-

Table of Contents: “…Overview: the route to success -- Making the most of film school -- First steps in the real world -- Vital survival knowledge -- Working for others : finding a job -- Becoming an independent filmmaker -- Writing your winning proposal -- More on proposals : treatments and problems -- Budgeting for survival and profit -- Financing your film -- Production contracts and other agreements -- Making money -- Notes from the front.…”
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The fur trade revisited selected papers of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference, Mackinac Island, Michigan, 1991 /

Table of Contents: “…Native people and changing trade relations -- pt. 3. Becoming a trader : origins, lives, and survival -- pt. 4. …”
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The politics of heritage management in Mali from UNESCO to Djenné / by Joy, Charlotte, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Architecture and the 'creation' of Djenné in the West -- Archaeology and architecture -- UNESCO and becoming a World Heritage Site -- Part II. Life in Djenné. …”
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A cause greater than self the journey of Captain Michael J. Daly, World War II Medal of Honor recipient / by Ochs, Stephen J.

Table of Contents: “…Hero-father -- Born with a silver spoon "slightly bent" -- A disappointment to his family -- Initiation: D-day -- Proving ground: the battle of Normandy -- Becoming an officer -- The Colmar pocket: winter heroism -- The dragon's teeth: assuming command -- "Discipline of kindness" -- Götterdämmerung: the battle for Germany -- Nuremberg and the Medal of Honor -- Escaping the "hero's cage" -- Epilogue: causes greater than self.…”
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What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth : A Memoir of Brotherhood / by González, Rigoberto

Table of Contents: “…Opening Salvo -- Days of Hunger, Days of Want -- The Prisoner of Nahuatzen -- Adelina's Story -- Canto -- Take a Guess -- About Women -- A Complicated Man -- Post Mortem -- When the Hard Times Become Lonely Times -- Greetings From New York City, 1968 -- Brotherly Love -- A Oaxaca Journal -- Family Outing -- The Wondrous Flight of the Hummingbird -- Manpower…”
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Belva Lockwood the woman who would be president / by Norgren, Jill

Table of Contents: “…Early a widow -- In search of a new identity -- Apprenticeship -- Becoming a lawyer -- Notorious ladies -- A tougher fight -- Woman lawyer -- The practice of law -- Lady lobbyist -- Lockwood for president -- Life on the platform -- Lay down your arms -- The power of association -- Pushing for place -- A world's fair and a million dollar case -- Aging soldiers of cause.…”
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The Miller Method developing the capacities of children on the autism spectrum / by Miller, Arnold, 1927-

Table of Contents: “…-- Children as victims or masters of their systems -- Searching for capacity -- Getting started with the Miller Method -- Elevating the special child : creating an enhanced reality -- Exploiting systems to develop social capacity -- Prelude to communication / Kristina Chrétien -- Becoming a child who communicates -- Teaching the child to cope -- Teaching to children's reality -- Research and applications of the Miller Method.…”
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Archaeologies of English Renaissance literature by Schwyzer, Philip

Table of Contents: “…Intimate disciplines : archaeology, literary criticism, and the traces of the dead -- Exhumation and ethnic conflict : colonial archaeology from St Erkenwald to Spenser in Ireland -- Dissolving images : monastic ruins in Elizabethan poetry -- Charnel knowledge : open graves in Shakespeare and Donne -- 'Mummy is become merchandise' : cannibals and commodities in the seventeenth century -- Readers of the lost urns : desire and disintegration in Thomas Browne's Urn-burial.…”
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What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth : A Memoir of Brotherhood / by González, Rigoberto

Table of Contents: “…Opening Salvo -- Days of Hunger, Days of Want -- The Prisoner of Nahuatzen -- Adelina's Story -- Canto -- Take a Guess -- About Women -- A Complicated Man -- Post Mortem -- When the Hard Times Become Lonely Times -- Greetings From New York City, 1968 -- Brotherly Love -- A Oaxaca Journal -- Family Outing -- The Wondrous Flight of the Hummingbird -- Manpower…”
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Islam in Denmark the challenge of diversity /

Table of Contents: “…Nielsen -- Denmark, Islam and Muslims : socio-economic dynamics and the art of becoming / Jørgen Bæk Simonsen -- Muslims in Denmark : a critical evaluation of estimation / Brian Arly Jacobsen -- Religion and state : recognition of Islam and related legislation / Lisbet Christoffersen -- Mosques and organizations / Lene Kühle -- Nørrebro and "Muslimness" : a neighborhood caught between national mythscapes and local engagement / Garbi Schmidt -- How did "the Muslim pupil" become Muslim? …”
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From fidelity to history film adaptations as cultural events in the twentieth century / by Scholz, Anne-Marie

Table of Contents: “…"Jane-mania": the Jane Austen film boom in the 1990s -- Thelma and sense and Louise and sensibility: challenging dichotomies in women's history through film and literature -- "Jamesian proportions": the Henry James film boom in the 1990s -- Conclusion -- A case for the "case study": the future of adaptation studies as a branch of transnational film history.…”
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Oilfield trash life and labor in the oil patch / by Weaver, Bobby D. (Bobby Dearl), 1936-

Table of Contents: “…The oil boom, 1901-1905 -- The drillers, 1901-1910 -- The other hands, 1901-1910 -- Moving on up north, 1910-1922 -- The Panhandle-populating cow country, 1919-1930 -- East Texas--changes in the patch, 1930-1935 -- Way out west, 1923-1940 -- Change comes to the oil patch, 1941-1960 -- The making of an oilfield culture, 1901-1960 -- A language of their own.…”
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Mad for Foucault rethinking the foundations of queer theory / by Huffer, Lynne, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Preface: Why we need Madness -- Introduction: Mad for Foucault -- How we became queer -- First interlude : Nietzsche's dreadful attendant -- Queer moralities -- Second interlude: wet dreams -- Unraveling the queer psyche -- Third interlude: of meteors and madness -- A queer nephew -- Fourth interlude: a shameful lyricism -- A political ethic of Eros -- Postlude: A fool's laughter.…”
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The people's courts pursuing judicial independence in America / by Shugerman, Jed Handelsman, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Declaring judicial independence -- Judicial elections as separation of powers -- The calm before the storm -- Panic and trigger -- The American revolutions of 1848 -- The boom of judicial review -- Reconstructing independence -- The progressives' failed solutions -- Earl Warren, crime, and the revival of appointment -- The Missouri plan -- Exporting judicial elections -- The puzzling rise of merit -- Merit's stumble and surge, 1960s-70s -- Judicial plutocracy from 1980 to the present.…”
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The future of Christian theology by Ford, David, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…A cry for wisdom : theology for the twenty-first century -- Drama in Bible, theology, and life -- A dramatic code for twenty-first century theology -- Desire above all -- Belonging : church, collegiality, conversation -- Church and society -- Inter-faith blessing -- New theology and religious studies : shaping, teaching and funding a field -- Becoming a theologian : the apprentice -- The Bible : creative source of theology.…”
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The feminine ethos in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia by Hilder, Monika B., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The theological feminism of the "old woman" of Oxford -- True royalty: becoming yourself in The lion, the witch and the wardrobe -- Receiving lion-strength: growing up in Prince Caspian -- Baptized into the light: journeying in The voyage of the "Dawn Treader" -- Guarding the gift of memory in The silver chair -- Flying to freedom in The horse and his boy -- Awakening to life in The magician's nephew -- Fighting the battle of faith in The last battle -- Afterword.…”
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Student activism and civil rights in Mississippi protest politics and the struggle for racial justice, 1960-1965 / by Marshall, James P., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…The incipient movement -- The decision to go into voter registration -- Warming up Mississippi : the movement becomes a local thing -- Commitment aborted -- The stalemated movement -- The birth of protest politics -- Freedom summer, part I -- Freedom summer, part II -- The political organization of protest politics, part I -- The political organization of protest politics, part II -- Appendix: The power of protection : the federal government.…”
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Hard times in the hometown : a history of community survival in modern Japan / by Dusinberre, Martin, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…The silk road of the sea : a beginning -- Edo period riches -- Murotsu and the Meiji Revolution, 1868 -- The political culture of the Meiji village -- Ritual culture and political power -- Overseas migration at the turn of the twentieth century -- The transnational hometown : zenith and decline -- Bridging the postwar divide -- Furusato boom, Kaminoseki bust -- Nuclear decision -- Atomic power, community fission -- The silk road of the sea : an ending.…”
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Gram positive bacterial microbiota Yin & Yang of infectious disease /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Important Gram-positive bacterial species -- How the human environment influence the Gram + microbiome -- Bifidobacterium defends against Gram-negative pathogens -- Antibiotic therapy induces disease -- Intestine microbiota induced biochemical changes -- Fecal transplants cure C. difficile infections -- The genetic plasticity of the Gram-positive with regard to disease potential -- Gram-positive acquire genes to become pathogens.…”
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