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College algebra : factoring and equations / by Ji, Xiang, Mu, Ge

Table of Contents: “…Understanding factoring -- 1.1 Common factor method -- 1.2 Formula method -- 1.3 Cross product method -- 1.4 Group factoring method --…”
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Orthopaedic pathology / by Vigorita, Vincent J., Ghelman, Bernard, Mintz, Douglas

Table of Contents: “…Lipton -- Osteonecrosis -- Synovium -- Arthritis -- Joint arthroplasty pathology -- Soft tissue pathology -- Commonly performed orthopaedic procedures / Adam Phillip Breceda, Eli Bryk, Vincent Vigorita.…”
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Pragmatism as Post-Postmodernism : Lessons from John Dewey / by Hickman, Larry A., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Postmodernism -- Classical pragmatism : waiting at the end of the road -- Pragmatism, postmodernism, and global citizenship -- Classical pragmatism, postmodernism, and neopragmatism -- Technology -- Classical pragmatism and communicative action : Jürgen Habermas -- From critical theory to pragmatism : Andrew Feenberg -- A neo-Heideggerian critique of technology : Albert Borgmann -- Doing and making in a democracy : John Dewey -- The environment -- Nature as culture : John Dewey and Aldo Leopold -- Green pragmatism : reals without realism, ideals without idealism -- Classical pragmatism -- What was Dewey's magic number? -- Cultivating a common faith : Dewey's religion -- Beyond the epistemology industry : Dewey's theory of inquiry -- The homo faber debate in Dewey and Max Scheler -- Productive pragmatism : habits as artifacts in Peirce and Dewey.…”
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The Reverend Mark Twain : Theological Burlesque, Form, and Content / by Fulton, Joe B., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…"I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian" : conformity and critique in Mark Twain's religious dialogue -- "Prov'dence don't fire no blank ca'tridges, boys" : God, grotesques, and Sunday-school books in Mark Twain's Roughing it -- Mark Twain's hymns in prose : doxology and burlesque in The adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Mark Twain's cruci-fictions : "The second advent" as a burlesque life of Christ -- The morphology of martyrdom : fairy tale, epic, and hagiography in Personal recollections of Joan of Arc -- Q: What do Socrates and the Shorter catechism have in common? A: Dialogic influences on Mark Twain's What is man? …”
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Catholic social teaching and economic globalization the quest for alternatives / by Sniegocki, John, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Overview of the contemporary global context : life stories -- Data on poverty, hunger, and inequality in an age of globalization -- The goals and structure of this book -- Development theory and practice : an overview -- Origins of the concept of development -- Modernization theory -- Modernization theory and U.S. aid policy -- The impact of modernizationist development -- Structuralist economic theories -- Dependency theories -- Basic needs approach -- New international economic order -- Alternative development -- The impact of reformist thought on development policy -- Neoliberal resurgence and structural adjustment policies -- Current debates in development studies -- The failures of modernizationist development : a closer look -- The impacts of colonialism and slavery -- Post-WW II development policies and the third world debt crisis -- Consequences of the debt crisis -- Responses to the debt crisis -- United States opposition to social change in the third world -- Summary of major structural influences on the third world -- Catholic social teaching and development -- CST prior to Pope John XXIII -- Early reflections on development : John XXIII and Vatican II -- The pivotal contributions of Paul VI, the Latin American bishops, and justice in the world -- John Paul II : the centrality of solidarity -- The social ethics of Benedict XVI -- Summary of catholic social teaching on development issues -- Catholic social teaching and political economy : neoconservative and radical critiques -- Neoconservative reflections on CST -- Radical reflections on CST -- Evaluation of neoconservative, radical, and CST views -- Grassroots critics of development -- Rejecting the quest for development - Vandana shiva : the violence of development and reductionist science -- Further issues in the development/globalization debates -- Reclaiming the commons : the positive visions of development critics -- Catholic social teaching, the radical tradition, and development critics -- Grassroots action and policy alternatives -- Grassroots organizations in the third world : an overview -- The impact of grassroots organizations -- Development policies : follow the NIC model? …”
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Catholic social teaching and economic globalization the quest for alternatives / by Sniegocki, John, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Overview of the contemporary global context : life stories -- Data on poverty, hunger, and inequality in an age of globalization -- The goals and structure of this book -- Development theory and practice : an overview -- Origins of the concept of development -- Modernization theory -- Modernization theory and U.S. aid policy -- The impact of modernizationist development -- Structuralist economic theories -- Dependency theories -- Basic needs approach -- New international economic order -- Alternative development -- The impact of reformist thought on development policy -- Neoliberal resurgence and structural adjustment policies -- Current debates in development studies -- The failures of modernizationist development : a closer look -- The impacts of colonialism and slavery -- Post-WW II development policies and the third world debt crisis -- Consequences of the debt crisis -- Responses to the debt crisis -- United States opposition to social change in the third world -- Summary of major structural influences on the third world -- Catholic social teaching and development -- CST prior to Pope John XXIII -- Early reflections on development : John XXIII and Vatican II -- The pivotal contributions of Paul VI, the Latin American bishops, and justice in the world -- John Paul II : the centrality of solidarity -- The social ethics of Benedict XVI -- Summary of catholic social teaching on development issues -- Catholic social teaching and political economy : neoconservative and radical critiques -- Neoconservative reflections on CST -- Radical reflections on CST -- Evaluation of neoconservative, radical, and CST views -- Grassroots critics of development -- Rejecting the quest for development - Vandana shiva : the violence of development and reductionist science -- Further issues in the development/globalization debates -- Reclaiming the commons : the positive visions of development critics -- Catholic social teaching, the radical tradition, and development critics -- Grassroots action and policy alternatives -- Grassroots organizations in the third world : an overview -- The impact of grassroots organizations -- Development policies : follow the NIC model? …”
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The Peri Pascha Attributed to Melito of Sardis: Setting, Purpose, Sources / by Cohick, Lynn H.

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The Peri Pascha Attributed to Melito of Sardis: Setting, Purpose, Sources / by Cohick, Lynn H.

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Metapragmatics in use

Table of Contents: “…Janney -- A metapragmatic examination of therapist reformulations / Peter Muntigl -- Building common ground through metapragmatic comments in international project work / Hermine Penz.…”
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A companion to Anabaptism and spiritualism, 1521-1700

Table of Contents: “…Karlstadt, Müntzer, and the Reformation of the commoners, 1521-1525 / Hans-Jürgen Goertz -- Swiss Anabaptism: the beginnings, 1523-1525 / C. …”
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Art, myth, and society in Hegel's aesthetics by James, David, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The symbolic form of art -- Kant's theory of the mathematical sublime and the boundlessness of the symbolic form of art -- The classical sublimity of Judaism -- The classical form of art -- The original epic -- The ideal -- The transition to the revealed religion and the romantic form of art -- The revealed religion -- Representational thought and the romantic form of art -- Traces of left-hegelianism in Hegel's lectures on aesthetics -- The end of mythology -- The significance of Kierkegaard's interpretation of Don Giovanni in relation to Hegel's theory of the end of art -- The end of art -- The opera as a modern art form -- Hegel and Lukács's on the possibility of a modern epic -- The problem of a modern epic -- The modern epic and history -- Civil society as the background to the modern epic -- Myth and society : a common theme in the thought of Hegel and Sorel -- Sorel's myth of the general strike -- Myth and modern ethical life.…”
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Robert K. Merton sociology of science and sociology as science /

Table of Contents: “…On Merton's legacy and contemporary sociology / Craig Calhoun -- Reflections on a common theme : establishing the phenomenon, adumbration, and ideal types / Alejandro Portes -- Mechanisms of the middle range / Charles Tilly -- Eliding the theory/research and basic/applied divides : implications of Merton's middle range / Robert J. …”
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New Bedford's Civil War by Mulderink, Earl F.

Table of Contents: “…"A burning and shining light": prosperity and enlightened governance in antebellum New Bedford -- "The nearest approach to freedom and equality": African Americans in antebellum New Bedford -- "Suppression of an unholy rebellion": wartime mobilization on the home front -- "Citizen-soldiers of Massachusetts": New Bedford's volunteers in the Civil War -- "Boys, I only did my duty": New Bedford's black soldiers in the fifty-fourth Massachusetts -- "Worthy recipients": New Bedford's black veterans and the web of social welfare -- "Business is extremely dull": whaling and manufacturing in wartime New Bedford -- "The position of our city has materially changed": public costs and municipal governance during the Civil War -- "The great hope for the future": New Bedford in the postbellum era -- "On the altar of our common country": contested commemorations of the Civil War.…”
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The Linux command line a complete introduction / by Shotts, William E.

Table of Contents: “…-- Navigation -- Exploring the System -- Manipulating Files and Directories -- Working with Commands -- Redirection -- Seeing the World as the Shell Sees It -- Advanced Keyboard Tricks -- Permissions -- Processes -- Configuration and the Environment -- The Environment -- A Gentle Introduction to vi -- Customizing the Prompt -- Common Tasks and Essential Tools -- Package Management -- Storage Media -- Networking -- Searching for Files -- Archiving and Backup -- Regular Expressions -- Text Processing -- Formatting Output -- Printing -- Compiling Programs -- Writing Shell Scripts -- Writing Your First Script -- Starting a Project -- Top-Down Design -- Flow Control: Brancing with if -- Reading Keyboard Input -- Flow Control: Looping with while and until -- Troubleshooting -- Flow Control: Branching with case -- Positional Parameters -- Flow Control: Looping with for -- Strings and Numbers -- Arrays -- Exotica.…”
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Other people's pain narratives of trauma and the question of ethics /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Martin Modlinger and Philipp Sonntag -- Trauma and ethics: telling the other's story / Colin Davis -- From collective violence to a common future: four models for dealing with a traumatic past / Aleida Assmann -- Trauma studies: contexts, politics, ethics / Susannah Radstone -- Narrating the Holocaust and its legacy: the complexities of identity, trauma and representation in Art Spiegelman's Maus / María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro -- Zero, a gaping mouth: the discourse of the camps in Herta Müller's Atemschaukel between literary theory and political philosophy / Bettina Bannasch -- Trauma, narrative and ethics in recent American fiction / Hubert Zapf -- Trauma as normalcy: pain in Philip Roth's The human stain / Rudolf Freiburg -- Trauma, shame and ethical responsibility for the death of the other in J. …”
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Creating livable communities for people with disabilities

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Strategy one : agreement on changes in the collection and management of and access to, multiple agency information about programs and benefits in order to be consumer responsive -- Strategy two : utilization of favorable tax treatment (e.g. tax credits) to stimulate change in individual and corporate behavior that encourages investment in livable community objectives -- Strategy three : agreement on common performance measures across multiple federally funded programs -- Strategy four : utilization of private sector match to competitively secure public funding and stimulate public-private sector partnerships -- Strategy five : agreement on changes in infrastructure to consolidate administration of multiple programs and improve ease of access -- Strategy six : utilization of waiver authority to promote state options to advance consumer choice and community participation -- Recommendations for action.…”
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Pollination mechanisms, ecology and agricultural advances /

Table of Contents: “…Pollination strategies: the point of view of plants-personal experiences and review of the literature / Guido Flamini -- Pollination mechanisms in Passiflora species: the common and the rare flowers - ecological aspects and implications for horticulture / M.T. …”
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Art, myth, and society in Hegel's aesthetics by James, David, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The symbolic form of art -- Kant's theory of the mathematical sublime and the boundlessness of the symbolic form of art -- The classical sublimity of Judaism -- The classical form of art -- The original epic -- The ideal -- The transition to the revealed religion and the romantic form of art -- The revealed religion -- Representational thought and the romantic form of art -- Traces of left-hegelianism in Hegel's lectures on aesthetics -- The end of mythology -- The significance of Kierkegaard's interpretation of Don Giovanni in relation to Hegel's theory of the end of art -- The end of art -- The opera as a modern art form -- Hegel and Lukács's on the possibility of a modern epic -- The problem of a modern epic -- The modern epic and history -- Civil society as the background to the modern epic -- Myth and society : a common theme in the thought of Hegel and Sorel -- Sorel's myth of the general strike -- Myth and modern ethical life.…”
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Robert K. Merton sociology of science and sociology as science /

Table of Contents: “…On Merton's legacy and contemporary sociology / Craig Calhoun -- Reflections on a common theme : establishing the phenomenon, adumbration, and ideal types / Alejandro Portes -- Mechanisms of the middle range / Charles Tilly -- Eliding the theory/research and basic/applied divides : implications of Merton's middle range / Robert J. …”
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New Bedford's Civil War by Mulderink, Earl F.

Table of Contents: “…"A burning and shining light": prosperity and enlightened governance in antebellum New Bedford -- "The nearest approach to freedom and equality": African Americans in antebellum New Bedford -- "Suppression of an unholy rebellion": wartime mobilization on the home front -- "Citizen-soldiers of Massachusetts": New Bedford's volunteers in the Civil War -- "Boys, I only did my duty": New Bedford's black soldiers in the fifty-fourth Massachusetts -- "Worthy recipients": New Bedford's black veterans and the web of social welfare -- "Business is extremely dull": whaling and manufacturing in wartime New Bedford -- "The position of our city has materially changed": public costs and municipal governance during the Civil War -- "The great hope for the future": New Bedford in the postbellum era -- "On the altar of our common country": contested commemorations of the Civil War.…”
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