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Pediatric radiation oncology /

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Francis Bacon : the double-edged life of the philosopher and statesman / by Ellis, Robert P. (Robert Patrick), 1935-

Table of Contents: “…Now somewhat ancient -- Like a child following a bird -- Not in the proportion I hoped -- The corner-stone laid -- Prospects and possibilities -- A greater place -- Lord keeper, Lord chancellor -- Still ascending -- A broken reed -- Seeking an otium -- They come home -- An experiment or two.…”
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School choice and the question of accountability the Milwaukee experience / by Van Dunk, Emily, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…The limitations of parental accountability -- Parental choice, parental power, and accountability -- The response of public schools to competition -- What parents know : an examination of informed consumers -- Shopping for schools -- Do the dollars follow the child? -- Choice school accountability : a consensus of views -- Releasing the power of school choice through accountability.…”
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Doctor Who by Leach, Jim

Table of Contents: “…Doctor Who at the BBC -- Who watched Who? an unearthly child -- The Dalek factor: the evil of the Daleks -- Doctor Who and the fantastic: the Daemons -- The formula for Doctor Who: city of death -- Talking about regeneration: the five doctors -- Time television: vengeance on Varos -- That was the future that was: the curse of Fenric -- The return of Doctor Who.…”
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Disposable people new slavery in the global economy / by Bales, Kevin

Table of Contents: “…The new slavery -- Thailand : because she looks like a child -- Mauritania : old times there are not forgotten -- Brazil : life on the edge -- Pakistan : when is a slave not a slave? …”
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The generation of Edward Hyde the animal within, from Plato to Darwin to Robert Louis Stevenson / by Bland, Jay, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…-- The wild man, the noble savage, and the child of nature -- Of apes and peacocks -- Charles Kingsley : the missing link -- Hyde the wild man -- The Darwinian Hyde -- Hyde, Milton, and the Bible -- The Platonic Hyde -- Olalla and Hyde : kinship with the dust.…”
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The rhetoric of remediation : negotiating entitlement and access to higher education / by Stanley, Jane, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…To embrace every child of California -- Honor of the state -- Unfortunate, the lazy, and the feeble-minded -- They can neither read nor write -- Beautiful but dumb -- Hordes-- invade the campus -- Decencies of English -- Tides of the semi-literate -- Viewed as disgraceful by many scholars -- Technically qualified -- Bonehead English -- Below acceptable levels.…”
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Conflict of laws : cases, comments, questions / by Currie, David P.

Table of Contents: “…The traditional approach to choice of law -- Modern approaches to choice of law -- The constitution and choice of law -- Jurisdiction of courts -- Recognition of judgments -- Special problems of choice of law, jurisdiction, and recognition of judgments in divorce, interstate and international child custody, and decedents' estates -- Conflicts between federal and state law -- International conflicts.…”

Pretty creatures children and fiction in the English Renaissance / by Witmore, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Ut pueritas poesis : the child and fiction in the English Renaissance -- Animated children in Elizabeth's coronation pageant of 1559 -- Phatic metadrama and the touch of irony in English children's theater -- Mamillius, The winter's tale, and the impetus of fiction -- The lies children tell : counterfeiting victims and witnesses in early modern English witchcraft trials and possessions.…”
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Parental kidnapping in America an historical and cultural analysis / by Dabbagh, Maureen, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Parental abduction: a timeless tradition -- The progressive era and the family -- Culture, blood and borders -- The military, war, and parental kidnapping -- Religion: motivation for abduction -- Heroes and outlaws -- Nationalism and the Hague -- Domestic violence, child abuse, and alienation -- Law enforcement and parental kidnapping -- Reunification -- Prevention -- Politics of abduction -- Evolution of an epidemic.…”
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Organization in play

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : playing with play -- Child's play : childhood and "the lack" in organizational discourse -- Playful representations of work -- Dance as play and work : images of organization in Irish dance -- Talk and silence : playing with silence as an organizational resource -- Playing the fool : the university as fool -- Play and madness in the market -- Playing business : gambling and "casino capitalism".…”
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Remembering with emotion in dynamic psychotherapy new directions in theory and technique / by Sandler, Steven B., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Emotion : a foundation for dynamic psychotherapy -- Anxiety and depression : adapting to adversity -- Defense mechanisms -- Attachments -- Beginnings -- Case illustration : a motherless child -- A psychodynamic formulation -- Grief -- Anger -- Beyond anger -- Resistance -- The reunion process -- Discovering positive memories -- Moving toward reunion -- Reunion and compassion -- Conclusion.…”
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Race mixture in nineteenth-century U.S. and Spanish American fictions gender, culture, and nation building / by Rosenthal, Debra J., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Race mixture and the representation of Indians in the United States and the Andes -- Temperance and miscegenation in Whitman's Franklin Evans -- Cuban slave fiction : race mixture in Sab -- Floral counterdiscourse : miscegenation, ecofeminism, and hybridity in Lydia Maria Child's Romance of the republic -- The white blackbird : miscegenation, genre, and the tragic mulatta in Howells, Harper, and The babes of romance.…”
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Boundaries of the Educational Imagination / by Hugo, Wayne, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…History of the world in a child -- 6. From one-world classroom to one learning sequence -- 7. …”
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Sister's choice / by Richards, Emilie, 1948-

The true story of Pocahontas the other side of history / by Custalow, Linwood

Table of Contents: “…-- Pocahontas : a favorite child -- Captain John Smith : an English chief -- Pocahontas : the Powhatan peace symbol -- Powhatan rule : not by force -- Danger in Pocahontas's homeland -- Pocahontas comes of age -- Pocahontas kidnapped -- No retaliation -- Marriage in captivity -- The colony saved by the Powhatan -- Pocahontas's revelation -- Murder in England -- In the years that followed.…”
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The last Lincoln conspirator John Surratt's flight from the gallows / by Jampoler, Andrew C. A., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…"On the honor of a lady" -- "Flight is the criminal's inarticulate confession" -- "Such a wretch ought not to escape" -- "The escape of Watson savors of a prodigy" -- "I believe your name is Surratt" -- "Seduced by the instigation of the devil" -- "A new trial will doubtless follow" -- "President Johnson was a drunkard" -- "A verdict of acquittal" -- "Free as an innocent child."…”
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Children during the Holocaust by Heberer, Patricia

Table of Contents: “…Children in the early years of antisemitic persecution -- Children and the war -- Lives in the balance: escape and deportation -- Children in the world of the ghetto -- Children in the concentration camp universe -- Children in the web of racial hygiene policy -- The lives of others: "Aryan" children and the Nazi regime -- The world of the child -- Children and resistance and rescue -- Elsewhere, perhaps? …”
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The grasp that reaches beyond the grave the ancestral call in black women's texts / by Patton, Venetria K., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Revising the legacy of kinlessness through elders and ancestors -- Othermothers as elders and culture bearers in Daughters of the dust and The salt eaters -- Ancestral prodding in Praisesong for the widow -- Ancestral disturbances in Stigmata -- Beloved, a ghost story with an Ogbanje twist -- The child figure as a means to ancestral knowledge in Daughters of the dust and A Sunday in June.…”
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