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Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest : Black Club Women in Illinois / by Hendricks, Wanda A.

Table of Contents: “…The movement to organize race women -- "Loyalty to women and justice to children": the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs -- Agents of social welfare -- Race riots, the NAACP, and female suffrage: the national movement -- "I am doing it for the future benefit of my whole race": agents of political inclusion -- The Politics of race: Chicago -- "To fill a reported industrial need": the great migration, race women, and the end of an era.…”
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A people's history of the European Court of Human Rights by Goldhaber, Michael D. (Michael Dov)

Table of Contents: “…-- When Irish eyes are crying -- Gay in a time of troubles -- Dudgeon's children -- The greening of Europe? -- Dumb immigrants -- Minos and Jehovah -- Recovered memories -- Mohammed comes to Strasbourg -- The death penalty, mutilation, and the whip -- The original hooded men -- The tortures of Aksoy -- Two faces of Kurdish feminism -- The Chechen challenge -- The Roma challenge -- A constitutional identity for Europe -- Human rights in Europe and America.…”
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Sacred players the politics of response in the Middle English religious drama / by Hill-Vásquez, Heather

Table of Contents: “…Incarnational belief and gender in the Digby Killing of the children ; Reforming religious performance: "feminine" response and "Catholic" behavior.…”
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Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest : Black Club Women in Illinois / by Hendricks, Wanda A.

Table of Contents: “…The movement to organize race women -- "Loyalty to women and justice to children": the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs -- Agents of social welfare -- Race riots, the NAACP, and female suffrage: the national movement -- "I am doing it for the future benefit of my whole race": agents of political inclusion -- The Politics of race: Chicago -- "To fill a reported industrial need": the great migration, race women, and the end of an era.…”
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Chaucer's (Anti-)Eroticisms and the Queer Middle Ages / by Pugh, Tison

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Mutual masochism and the hermaphroditic courtly lady in Chaucer's Franklin's tale -- "For to be sworne bretheren til they deye": satirizing queer brotherhood in the Chaucerian corpus -- Necrotic erotics in Chaucerian romance: loving women, loving death, and destroying civilization in The Knight's tale and Troilus and Criseyde -- Queer families in Tthe Canterbury tales: fathers, children, and abusive erotics -- Chaucer's (anti-) erotic god -- Epilogue: Chaucer's avian amorousness.…”
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Family and empire the Fernández de Córdoba and the Spanish realm / by Liang, Yuen-Gen, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…The Fernández de Córdoba lineage in late medieval Córdoba, 1236-1500 -- The Fernández de Córdoba lineage and early Spanish expansion, 1482-1518 -- The regeneration of monarchy and nobility : Martín de Córdoba in Toledo, 1520-1525 -- Navarre and the imperialization of the House of Alcaudete, 1525-1534 -- The Fernández de Córdoba lineage and the transfer of frontier expertise to Algeria, 1512-1558 -- Epilogue. Children of empire : the latter-day Comares and Alcaudete.…”
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People's livelihood in contemporary China : changes, challenges and prospects /

Table of Contents: “…List of tables -- List of figures -- Introduction: the changing Chinese society / Li Peilin -- Social construction : theory and practices -- The people's livelihood in China / Li Peilin and Li Wei -- China in the mass consumption stage / Tian Feng -- Urban and rural residents' social security / Zhang Liping -- Evolution process and the trend of income differential / Chen Guangjin -- Children of the reform and opening up / Tian Feng -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.…”
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Family and empire the Fernández de Córdoba and the Spanish realm / by Liang, Yuen-Gen, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…The Fernández de Córdoba lineage in late medieval Córdoba, 1236-1500 -- The Fernández de Córdoba lineage and early Spanish expansion, 1482-1518 -- The regeneration of monarchy and nobility : Martín de Córdoba in Toledo, 1520-1525 -- Navarre and the imperialization of the House of Alcaudete, 1525-1534 -- The Fernández de Córdoba lineage and the transfer of frontier expertise to Algeria, 1512-1558 -- Epilogue. Children of empire : the latter-day Comares and Alcaudete.…”
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People's livelihood in contemporary China : changes, challenges and prospects /

Table of Contents: “…List of tables -- List of figures -- Introduction: the changing Chinese society / Li Peilin -- Social construction : theory and practices -- The people's livelihood in China / Li Peilin and Li Wei -- China in the mass consumption stage / Tian Feng -- Urban and rural residents' social security / Zhang Liping -- Evolution process and the trend of income differential / Chen Guangjin -- Children of the reform and opening up / Tian Feng -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.…”
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The Real, the True, and the Told : Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation / by Berlatsky, Eric L., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…"Memory as forgetting" : historical reference, ethics, and postmodernist fiction -- The pageantry of the past and the reflection of the present : history, reality, and feminism in Virginia Woolf's Between the acts -- "A knife blade called now" : historiography, narrativity, and the "here and now" in Graham Swift's Waterland -- "What's real and what's true" : metaphors, errata, and the shadow of the real in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children -- "It's enough stories" : truth and experience in Art Spiegelman's Maus -- Expanding the field.…”
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The Real, the True, and the Told : Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation / by Berlatsky, Eric L., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…"Memory as forgetting" : historical reference, ethics, and postmodernist fiction -- The pageantry of the past and the reflection of the present : history, reality, and feminism in Virginia Woolf's Between the acts -- "A knife blade called now" : historiography, narrativity, and the "here and now" in Graham Swift's Waterland -- "What's real and what's true" : metaphors, errata, and the shadow of the real in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children -- "It's enough stories" : truth and experience in Art Spiegelman's Maus -- Expanding the field.…”
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What the Bible is all about for young explorers : based on the best-selling classic by Henrietta Mears / by Blankenbaker, Frances

Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems explorations in learning, self-organization, and adaptive computation / by Liu, Jiming, 1962-

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What the Bible is all about for young explorers : based on the best-selling classic by Henrietta Mears / by Blankenbaker, Frances

Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems explorations in learning, self-organization, and adaptive computation / by Liu, Jiming, 1962-

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Medicine, charity and mutual aid the consumption of health and welfare in Britain, c.1550-1950 /

Table of Contents: “…: cathedral almsmen in England 1538-1914 / Ian Atherton, Eileen McGrath and Alannah Tomkins -- From common rights to cold charity : enclosure and poor allotments in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Sylvia Pinches -- Kinship and welfare in early modern England : sometimes charity begins at home / Sheila Cooper -- Deaf children and charitable education in Britain 1790-1944 / Anne Borsay -- Joseph Townend and the Manchester Infirmary : a plebeian patient in the industrial revolution / Stuart Hogarth -- Investigating the "deserving" poor : charity and the voluntary hospitals in nineteenth-century Birmingham / Jonathan Reinarz -- Choice and the children's hospital : Great Ormond Street Hospital patients and their families 1855-1900 / Andrea Tanner -- Mental health charity for the middling sort : Holloway Sanatorium 1885-1900 / Anne C. …”
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Sing them over again to me hymns and hymnbooks in America /

Table of Contents: “…Dickerson -- Singing pilgrims : hymn narratives of a pilgrim community's progress from this world to that which is to come, 1830-1890 / Candy Gunther Brown -- Children of the Heavenly King : hymns in the religious and social experience of children, 1780-1850 / Heather D. …”
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Twins in African and diaspora cultures double trouble, twice blessed /

Table of Contents: “…Van Beek -- Snake, bush, and metaphor : twinship among Ubangians / Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers -- Fiction and forbidden sexual fantasy in the culture of Temne twins / Frederick John Lamp -- Embodied dilemma : Tabwa twinship in thought and performance / Allen F. Roberts -- Children of the moon : twins in Luba art and ontology / Mary Nooter Roberts -- Two equals three : twins and the trickster in Haitian vodou / Marilyn Houlberg -- Divine children : the ibejis and the erês in Brazilian candomblé / Stefania Capone -- The ambiguous ordinariness of Yoruba twins / Elisha P. …”
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Forgotten voices of Mao's great famine, 1958-1962 : an oral history / by Zhou, Xun, 1968-

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Multilingual aspects of signed language communication and disorder /

Table of Contents: “…Levine -- The acquisition of sign language by deaf children with autism spectrum disorder / Aaron Shield and Richard P. …”
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