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Animal behavioral genetics

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Nature vs. nurture behaviors -- Epigenetics -- Innate vs. learned behaviors -- Emotional drivers in the brain -- The seek/fear switch -- Emotional traits have a heritable component -- New things are scary and attractive -- Different types of fear -- Measuring temperament in animals -- Animal welfare and genetics -- Biological systems overload -- An animal is like a country -- Future research -- Don't let bad become normal!.…”
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Animal behavioral genetics

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Nature vs. nurture behaviors -- Epigenetics -- Innate vs. learned behaviors -- Emotional drivers in the brain -- The seek/fear switch -- Emotional traits have a heritable component -- New things are scary and attractive -- Different types of fear -- Measuring temperament in animals -- Animal welfare and genetics -- Biological systems overload -- An animal is like a country -- Future research -- Don't let bad become normal!.…”
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Haiti Unbound : A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon / by Glover, Kaiama L., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Beings without borders -- Zombies become warriors -- Productive schizophrenia -- part III. …”
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La Castañeda Insane Asylum : Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico / by Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Words in a Title -- La Castañeda General Insane Asylum, 1884-1930 -- Entryway: A Mental Health Routine -- The Psychiatric Interview: The Fox and the Goose -- Through My Narrative Was I Born, My Narrative Sustains Me: Women Authoring Selves -- Looking Insane -- The Pain of Becoming Modern: Suffering and Redemption in the Medical Histories of La Castañeda -- Con-juring the Body: Making History and Fiction.…”
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Succeeding with autism hear my voice / by Cohen, Judith H.

Table of Contents: “…Meeting Michael -- So this is college -- From diagnosis through the early childhood years -- The most difficult childhood years -- Childhood after the hospital -- Becoming a "man" at age thirteen -- High school : things greatly improve -- The world of work and the rough road to success -- Adult life -- Being Michael : multiple perspectives -- Being Michael : from Michael -- Reviewing my life for this book : essay from Michael.…”
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Playing America's game baseball, Latinos, and the color line / by Burgos, Adrian, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Latinos play America's game -- A national game emerges -- Early maneuvers -- Holding the line -- Baseball should follow the flag -- "Purest bars of Castilian soap" -- Making Cuban stars -- Becoming Cuban senators -- Playing in the world Jim Crow made -- Latinos and baseball's integration -- Troubling the waters -- Latinos and baseball's global turn -- Saying it is So-sa! …”
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Inside Alabama a personal history of my state / by Jackson, Harvey H.

Table of Contents: “…Back when it belonged to the Indians -- Frontier Alabama -- Becoming a state -- Antebellum Alabama -- Stumbling toward secession -- Secession and Civil War -- After the war that never ended -- A world made by Bourbons, for Bourbons -- White man's Alabama -- Depression and war -- Alabama after the war: "Big Jim" and beyond -- Old times there should not be forgotten -- The age of Wallace -- The age of Wallace and after -- Epilogue : To sum it up.…”
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Race and class matters at an elite college by Aries, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…Becoming a more diverse college : challenges and benefits -- Investigating race and class matters on campus -- First encounters with race and class -- Negotiating class differences -- Relationships across race and class -- Learning from racial diversity -- Learning from class-based diversity -- Negotiating racial issues -- As the year ended -- Meeting the challenges of diversity -- Appendix A. …”
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Animal behavioral genetics

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Nature vs. nurture behaviors -- Epigenetics -- Innate vs. learned behaviors -- Emotional drivers in the brain -- The seek/fear switch -- Emotional traits have a heritable component -- New things are scary and attractive -- Different types of fear -- Measuring temperament in animals -- Animal welfare and genetics -- Biological systems overload -- An animal is like a country -- Future research -- Don't let bad become normal!.…”
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Haiti Unbound : A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon / by Glover, Kaiama L., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Beings without borders -- Zombies become warriors -- Productive schizophrenia -- part III. …”
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La Castañeda Insane Asylum : Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico / by Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Words in a Title -- La Castañeda General Insane Asylum, 1884-1930 -- Entryway: A Mental Health Routine -- The Psychiatric Interview: The Fox and the Goose -- Through My Narrative Was I Born, My Narrative Sustains Me: Women Authoring Selves -- Looking Insane -- The Pain of Becoming Modern: Suffering and Redemption in the Medical Histories of La Castañeda -- Con-juring the Body: Making History and Fiction.…”
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Reforming urban labor routes to the city, roots in the country / by Polasky, Janet L.

Table of Contents: “…: the politics of reform -- "With morality brimming forth" : rooted workers and their families -- "To live like everyone else" : commuting labor, 1918-2010.…”
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The clash of generations saving ourselves, our kids, and our economy / by Kotlikoff, Laurence J.

Table of Contents: “…-- The war on our children -- Unsafe at any speed -- Getting to yes -- There must be some way out of here -- Time to retire -- Becoming our own solution -- The power of ordinary living -- Conclusion -- the coming generational storm -- Bibliographical references -- Index.…”
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The Cramoisy queen a life of Caresse Crosby / by Hamalian, Linda

Table of Contents: “…Spunky little rich girl -- Polly meets Harry -- How Polly became Caresse -- A woman of many trades -- Treasures for the Black Sun Press -- The death of Harry Crosby -- Business or pleasure -- Atlantic crossings -- Mind over matter -- Old friends, new friends -- A woman of influence -- Back in the avant-garde -- Mondialization -- Fame -- A thirty-year plan -- How to run a castle -- Keeping the faith.…”
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Lingua barbara, or, The mystery of the other otherness and exteriority in modern European poetry / by Buisson, Johanna Marie, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Pre-song: "barbare" -- Introduction -- Going barbaric language: myth and regeneration -- Lyric esperanto and the myth of babel: Michaux, Celan and Hughes -- Michaux: turning cratylistic -- Hughes: rough and mimologic barbarism, primitivism and myth -- Centre-fugue: from centre to centre -- On the centre and the barbarian -- Michaux: in search of a centre -- Celan: edgeward -- Hughes: a world of inclusion -- Becoming other -- Out and raucous -- Metamorphoses -- The mystical journey -- Conclusion.…”
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Watching the world screen documentary and audiences / by Austin, Thomas, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Continuity and change : the documentary 'boom' -- Seeing, feeling, knowing : Entre et avoir -- 'Suspense, fright, emotion, happy ending' : documentary form and audience response to Touching the void -- 'The most confusing tears' : home video, sex crime and indeterminacy in Capturing the Friedmans -- Approaching the invisible centre : middle-class identity and documentary film -- 'Our planet reveals its secrets' : wildlife documentaries on television -- Conclusion : documentary world views.…”
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Red-hot cold call selling : prospecting techniques that really pay off / by Goldner, Paul S.

Table of Contents: “…-- The Power of Prospecting -- Becoming Rejection-Proof -- Smart Prospecting -- The Ten Commandments of Prospecting -- Anatomy of a Cold Call -- Your Prospecting and Business Development Strategy -- Handing Objections -- Working With Voice Mail, Administrative Assistants, and Secretaries -- Public Relations: How to Make Your Prospects Come to You -- How to Leverage Your Success -- Tracking Your Progress.…”
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The making of the first Korean president : Syngman Rhee's quest for independence, 1875-1948 / by Yu, Young Ick

Table of Contents: “…Birth of a Christian reformer -- Diplomacy with a U.S. president and Ivy League education in America -- Christian education and evangelism in Korea and Japan -- Early life in Hawaiʻi -- President of the Korean provisional governments -- Fall from power in Shanghai and Hawaiʻi -- Solo drive for Korean independence in Europe and marriage to Francesca Donner -- In pursuit of diplomatic recognition during the Pacific war -- New rivals and detractors -- Becoming the president of the Republic of Korea.…”
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William James on the Courage to Believe / by O'Connell, Robert J.

Table of Contents: “…The Metaphors of Belief -- Epilogue: On Becoming Humanly Wise -- App. A. "The Will to Believe" and James's "Deontological Streak" -- App. …”
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William James on the Courage to Believe / by O'Connell, Robert J.

Table of Contents: “…The Metaphors of Belief -- Epilogue: On Becoming Humanly Wise -- App. A. "The Will to Believe" and James's "Deontological Streak" -- App. …”
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