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The empire of civilization the evolution of an imperial idea / by Bowden, Brett, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…-- The art and science of empire -- The expansion of Europe and the classical standard of civilization -- The burden of civilization and the "art and science of colonization" -- New barbarism, old civilization, revived imperialism -- New barbarism and the test of modernity -- The "new realities" of imperialism -- Conclusion: The future of intercivilizational relations.…”
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Cholera a paradigm for understanding emergence, virulence and temporal patterns of disease /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Vibrio cholerae epidemiology and classification -- Vibrio cholerae and cholera -- Cholera mortality -- The history of V. cholerae research -- Cholera toxin and pathogenesis -- Comparative genomics -- The TCP Island of Vibrio cholerae -- Structure of the CTX prophage -- Vibrio cholerae microarray -- Clinical sample analysis -- Virstatin -- What influences the seasonality and epidemiology of cholera? …”
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Hepatic encephalopathy in cirrhosis a disorder of glial-neuronal signalling /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Classification of hepatic encephalopathy -- Hepatic encephalopathy in cirrhosis -- Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) -- Hepatic encephalopathy post-TIPS -- Neuropathology of hepatic encephalopathy in chronic liver failure -- Cirrhosis-related Parkinsonism -- PET studies in cirrhosis -- Neuroinflammation and hepatic encephalopathy in cirrhosis -- Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) in cirrhosis -- Translocator protein and hepatic encephalopathy in cirrhosis -- Modulatory site for neurosteroids -- Prevention and treatment of hepatic encephalopathy in cirrhosis -- Emerging new therapeutic approaches.…”
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Fatal thirst diabetes in Britain until insulin / by Furdell, Elizabeth Lane

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the "biography" of a disease and its sufferers -- The early history of diabetes from classical times to the Renaissance : diagnoses and descriptions -- Renaissance diabetics and their doctors : changing treatments for revolutionary times -- Early modern medicine in print and diabetes : published advice and imagery -- Diabetes and seventeenth-century medical controversy -- Reconstructing diabetic life in early modern England -- Diabetic specialists and their patients in the long nineteenth century : competition for a cure -- After insulin : the lingering effects of an incurable disease.…”
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A short history of medical genetics by Harper, Peter S.

Table of Contents: “…Before Mendel -- Mendelism and human inherited disease -- The rise of classical genetics -- The beginnings of molecular biology -- Human chromosomes -- Human biochemical genetics -- The human gene map -- Genes, populations, and human inherited disease -- Human genetics as a scientific discipline -- From human to medical genetics -- The elements of medical genetics -- Medical genetics : the laboratory basis -- Human molecular genetics -- The management, treatment, and prevention of genetic disease -- Eugenics -- The tragedy of Russian genetics -- Medical genetics : the ethical dimension -- History in the making.…”
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The Chattahoochee chiefdoms by Blitz, John Howard

Table of Contents: “…Political and social integration in rank societies : a Mississippian case study -- Mississippian political and social integration -- Archaeology of the mound centers -- The cultural chronology, A.D. 1100-1650 -- Archaeological measures of political integration -- Archaeological measures of social integration -- The rise and decline of the Chattahoochee chiefdoms -- Research synopsis and theory synthesis -- Appendix A: The multiple-mound-center excavations -- Appendix B: The single-mound-center excavations -- Appendix C: Pottery classification -- Appendix D: Seriation methods.…”
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Epidemiology kept simple an introduction to traditional and modern epidemiology / by Gerstman, B. Burt

Table of Contents: “…Epidemiology past and present -- Causal concepts -- Epidemiologic measures -- Descriptive epidemiology -- Introduction to epidemiologic study design -- Experimental studies -- Observational cohort studies -- Case control studies -- Error in epidemiologic research -- Screening for disease -- The infectious disease process -- Outbreak investigation -- Confidence intervals and p values -- Mantel/Haenszel methods -- Statistical interaction : effect measure modification -- Case definitions and disease classification -- Survival analysis -- Current life tables -- Random distribution of cases in time and space.…”
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Algorithms for Variable-Size Optimization : Applications in Space Systems and Renewable Energy. by Abdelkhalik, Ossama

Table of Contents: “…Modeling Examples of Variable-Size Design Space Problems. SECTION II: CLASSICAL OPTIMIZATION. Fundamentals and Core Algorithms. …”
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Physics and chemistry of clouds by Lamb, Dennis, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Electrification; Appendix A. Cloud classification; Appendix B. Basics of thermodynamics; Appendix C. …”
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Third-Generation Holocaust Representation Trauma, History, and Memory / by Aarons, Victoria, Berger, Alan L., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…On the periphery : the "tangled roots" of Holocaust remembrance for the third generation -- The intergenerational transmission of memory and trauma : from survivor writing to post-Holocaust representation -- Third-generation memoirs : metonymy and representation in Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost -- Trauma and tradition : changing classical paradigms in third-generation novelists -- Nicole Krauss : inheriting the burden of Holocaust trauma -- Refugee writers and Holocaust trauma -- "There were times when it was possible to weigh suffering" : Julie Orringer's The Invisible Bridge and the extended trauma of the Holocaust.…”
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Third-Generation Holocaust Representation : Trauma, History, and Memory / by Aarons, Victoria, Berger, Alan L., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…On the periphery : the "tangled roots" of Holocaust remembrance for the third generation -- The intergenerational transmission of memory and trauma : from survivor writing to post-Holocaust representation -- Third-generation memoirs : metonymy and representation in Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost -- Trauma and tradition : changing classical paradigms in third-generation novelists -- Nicole Krauss : inheriting the burden of Holocaust trauma -- Refugee writers and Holocaust trauma -- "There were times when it was possible to weigh suffering" : Julie Orringer's The Invisible Bridge and the extended trauma of the Holocaust.…”
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Essays in the History of Ideas / by Lovejoy, Arthur O. (Arthur Oncken), 1873-1962

Table of Contents: “…The historiography of ideas -- The supposed primitivism of Rousseau's Discourse on inequality -- Monboddo and Rousseau -- "Pride" in eighteenth century thought -- "Nature" as aesthetic norm -- The parallel of deism and classicism -- The Chinese origin of a romanticism -- The first Gothic revival and the return to nature -- Herder and the Enlightenment philosophy of history -- The meaning of "romantic" in early German romanticism -- Schiller and the genesis of German romanticism -- On the discrimination of romanticisms -- Coleridge and Kant's two worlds -- Milton and the paradox of the fortunate fall -- The communism of St. …”
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Multiple sclerosis the history of a disease / by Murray, T. J.

Table of Contents: “…Charcot, 1868 -- The medical reports after Charcot -- Clarifying the pathology : James Dawson -- The journal of a disappointed man -- Experimentation, meetings, reviews, and symposia, 1920-1960 -- Searching for a cause of MS -- Classifying and measuring MS -- The nature of the MS plaque -- Investigations -- Searching for therapy -- Multiple sclerosis and the public: societies, narratives and the media.…”
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Structural identification of constructed systems : approaches, methods, and technologies for effective practice of St-Id /

Table of Contents: “…Experimental Considerations -- Classification of Experiments Based On Input -- Sensors and Sensor Classification -- Data Transmission -- Data Acquisition and Management -- Use of Non-Destructive Evaluation for Structural Identification -- 4. …”
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The horror readers' advisory the librarian's guide to vampires, killer tomatoes, and haunted houses / by Spratford, Becky Siegel

Table of Contents: “…The evolution of horror literature and film -- The readers' advisory interview : matching horror novels with readers -- The classics : time-tested tales of terror -- Ghosts and haunted houses : home, scream, home -- Mummies, zombies, and golems : the walking dead under wraps -- Vampires : Dracula will never die -- Werewolves and animals of terror : the beast walks among us -- Maniacs and other monsters : the killer lurking in the corner -- Black magic, witches, warlocks, and the occult : double, double, toil, and trouble -- Demonic possession and Satanism : the Devil inside -- Scientific and biomedical horror : the doctor will see you now -- Psychological horror : mental mayhem -- Splatterpunk or extreme horror : horror's cutting edge -- Horror resources : how to hunt for the haunted -- Collection development : cultivating the seeds of fear -- Marketing your horror collection : make them come back to your lair of horror.…”
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Some liked it hot jazz women in film and television, 1928-1959 / by McGee, Kristin A.

Table of Contents: “…Phil Spitalny's Musical Queens -- The "blonde bombshell of swing": Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears -- Soundies and features during the 1940s. Swinging the classics: Hazel Scott and Hollywood's musical-racial matrix -- Pinups, patriotism, and feminized genres -- Swing-centered films and the hour of charm -- The International Sweethearts of Rhythm and independent black sound film -- Variety television and the 1950s. …”
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Is Taiwan Chinese? the impact of culture, power, and migration on changing identities / by Brown, Melissa J.

Table of Contents: “…: reinstating plains aborigines in Taiwan's history -- "We savages didn't bind feet" : culture, colonial intervention, and long-route identity change -- "Having a wife is better than having a god" : ancestry, governmental power, and short-route identity change -- "They came with their hands tied behind their backs" : forced migrations, identity changes, and state classification in Hubei -- Theory and politics : understanding choices at the border to Han.…”
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Critical thinking for addiction professionals by Taleff, Michael J.

Table of Contents: “…-- A crash course in fallacies -- Fallacies that appeal to authority and irrelevant fallacies -- Causal fallacies and weak inductions -- Fallacies that presume a conclusion before it is proven and classification fallacies -- Fallacies caused by perception problems and fallacies of manner and style -- The ethics of using critical thinking -- What price critical thinking?.…”
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Exploring the spiritualities of the world religions the quest for personal, spiritual and social transformation / by Ferguson, Duncan S. (Duncan Sheldon), 1937-

Table of Contents: “…The spiritual quest -- The spiritual pathways rooted in nature and culture -- Indigenous wisdom tradtions -- Classical expressions of culture-based religions -- Current expressions of nature/culture religion -- The spiritual pathways of transcendent monism -- Spiritual pathways within hinduism -- Spiritual pathways within buddhism -- Spiritual pathways within confucianism and taoism -- The spiritual pathways of the abrahamic monotheistic religions -- Spiritual pathways within judaism -- Spiritual pathways within christianity -- Spiritual pathways within islam -- The common elements of life-giving spiritualities -- Finding a spiritual pathway.…”
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Dynamical symmetry by Wulfman, Carl

Table of Contents: “…Physical symmetry and geometrical symmetry -- On symmetries associated with Hamiltonian dynamics -- One-parameter transformation groups -- Everywhere : local invariance -- Lie transformation groups and Lie algebras -- Dynamical symmetry in Hamiltonian mechanics -- Symmetries of classical Kepler motion -- Dynamical symmetry in Schrödinger quantum mechanics -- Spectrum-generating Lie algebras and groups admitted by Schröedinger equations -- Dynamical symmetry of regularized hydrogen-like atoms -- Uncovering approximate dynamical symmetries : examples from atomic and molecular physics -- Rovibronic systems -- Dynamical symmetry of Maxwell's equations.…”
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