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Russia's steppe frontier : the making of a colonial empire, 1500-1800 / by Khodarkovsky, Michael, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Concepts and policies in the Imperial Borderlands 1690s-1800 -- Representations -- Non-Christians into Russian Orthodox -- Migration of the native elite and commoners -- Colonial contest I: law and administration -- Colonial contest II: land.…”
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Language and memory : aspects of knowledge representation /

Table of Contents: “…Bednarek -- Causality and subjectivity : the causal connectives of modern Greek / Eliza Kitis -- Expression of goals in communication : the case of multifunctional 'try' / Hanna Pishwa -- What psycholinguistic negation research tells us about the nature of the working memory representations utilized in language comprehension / Barbara Kaup -- It utterly boggles the mind : knowledge, common ground and coherence / Wolfram Bublitz -- Remembering another's experience : epistemological stance and evaluation in narrative retelling / Ilana Mushin -- Conversation memory : intentions, politeness, and the social context / Thomas Holtgraves -- Nonliteral language, persuasion, and memory / Roger J. …”
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Asian America forming new communities, expanding boundaries /

Table of Contents: “…Intra-group diversity : Asian American population dynamics and challenges of the 21st century / Min Zhou -- Ethnic solidarity, networks rebound and transnational culture : post-1965 Chinese American family / Haiming Liu -- Beyond a common ethnicity and culture : conflict and compromises in Chicagoland's Chinese American communities since 1945 / Ling Z. …”
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English women, religion, and textual production, 1500-1625

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : women, religious communities, prose genres, and textual production / Micheline White -- Living stones : Lady Elizabeth Russell and the art of sacred conversation / Patricia Phillippy -- Theise dearest offrings of my heart : the sacrifice of praise in Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke's Psalmes / Mary Trull -- Anne Dacre Howard, Countess of Arundel, and Catholic patronage / Susannah Brietz Monta -- Ensigne-bearers of Saint Clare : Elizabeth Evelinge's early translations and the restoration of England franciscanism / Jaime Goodrich -- Lady Anne Clifford and the uses of Christian warfare / Julie Crawford -- Prospecting for common ground in devotion : Queen Katherine Parr's personal prayerbook / Janel Mueller -- "Halff a scrypture woman" : heteroglossia and female authorial agency in prayers by Lady Elizabeth Tyrwhit, Anne Lock, and Anne Wheathill / Susan M. …”
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A poet's revolution the life of Denise Levertov / by Hollenberg, Donna Krolik

Table of Contents: “…"The walls of the garden, the first light": beginnings (1923-1933); "When Anna screamed": Levertov's response to Nazi oppression (1933-1939); The double image: apprenticeship during World War Two (1939-1946); "Recoveries": abortion, adventure, and marriage (1947- 48) -- A common ground (1949-1966). "Dancing edgeways": coming of age as a poet in the new world (1949-1955); "The true artist": Levertov's engagement with tradition (1954-1960) -- "The poem ascends": taking a position (1960-1963) -- "To speak of sorrow": Levertov's emergence as a social poet (1963?…”
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Renaissance cultural crossroads translation, print and culture in Britain, 1473-1640 /

Table of Contents: “…: sixteenth-century english translations of the -- Classics / Fred Schurink -- Cato in England : translating Latin sayings for moral and linguistic instruction / Demmy Verbeke -- John Hester's translations of Leonardo Fioravanti : the literary career of a London distiller / Isabelle Pantin -- 'For the common good and for the national interest' : paratexts in English translations of navigational works / Susanna De Schepper -- Henry Hexham (c.1585-1650), English soldier, author, translator, lexicographer, and cultural mediator in the Low Countries / Paul Hoftijzer -- 'Newes lately come' : European news books in English translation / S.K. …”
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Russia's steppe frontier : the making of a colonial empire, 1500-1800 / by Khodarkovsky, Michael, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Concepts and policies in the Imperial Borderlands 1690s-1800 -- Representations -- Non-Christians into Russian Orthodox -- Migration of the native elite and commoners -- Colonial contest I: law and administration -- Colonial contest II: land.…”
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Language and memory : aspects of knowledge representation /

Table of Contents: “…Bednarek -- Causality and subjectivity : the causal connectives of modern Greek / Eliza Kitis -- Expression of goals in communication : the case of multifunctional 'try' / Hanna Pishwa -- What psycholinguistic negation research tells us about the nature of the working memory representations utilized in language comprehension / Barbara Kaup -- It utterly boggles the mind : knowledge, common ground and coherence / Wolfram Bublitz -- Remembering another's experience : epistemological stance and evaluation in narrative retelling / Ilana Mushin -- Conversation memory : intentions, politeness, and the social context / Thomas Holtgraves -- Nonliteral language, persuasion, and memory / Roger J. …”
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William Almon Wheeler : political star of the north country / by Hallas, Herbert C., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…For California" -- Spreading "law, order, population, industry and wealth" -- "Common justice" for the south -- Returning the salary grab -- No "unproductive and useless park" -- An "earnest champion of the right" -- The "New York Lincoln" -- "God's hand is in this work" -- "Hayes the true and Wheeler, too!" …”
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Youth gangs and community intervention research, practice, and evidence /

Table of Contents: “…Butts, Caterina Gouvis Roman -- Taking criminology seriously: narratives, norms, networks, and common ground / David M. Kennedy -- Community gang programs: theory, models, and effectiveness / Irving A. …”
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Insult to injury libel, slander, and invasions of privacy / by Jones, William K.

Table of Contents: “…The man who had to leave town -- "Heed their rising voices" -- An uncommon common law -- The First Amendment -- Anything that touches on fitness for office -- The tale of the furtive night watchman -- Into the vortex of public controversy -- The big football fix -- The frame-up of officer nuccio -- The golden fleece of the month award -- The reluctant Soviet agent -- Special cases : unlimited, irrelevant and involuntary public figures -- Strictly business -- Purely private libels -- Group libels -- Looking for love? …”
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The work of the university by Levin, Richard C.

Table of Contents: “…-- The spirit of adventure -- Yale time -- Beginnings -- Welcome to Yale -- The university's role in society -- Universities and our common wealth -- The American university as an engine of economic growth -- Universities as urban citizens -- The global university -- The graduate's role in society -- Education for self and for others -- On controversy -- Taking the next step -- The task of citizenship -- Beyond community service: the nation and the wider world -- Reflections on revolution -- China on my mind -- Thinking about September 11 -- Building a better Yale -- Yale's fourth century -- Yale at 300 -- Honoring schools, teachers, and traditions -- An embryonic democracy -- A salute to Princeton -- Remembering Oxford -- Chasing after society -- James Tobin, scholar-hero -- A devoted mentor -- Shimon Peres -- Blessed is the match -- Reflections on the American economy -- Can America compete in world markets?…”
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To save the land and people a history of opposition to surface coal mining in Appalachia / by Montrie, Chad

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments xi --Abbreviations xiii --Introduction. -- Common People and Private Property 1 --1 Making, Taking, and Stripping the Land 7 --2 Our Country Would BeBetter Fit for Farming: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Ohio 25 --3 Selfish Interests: -- Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Pennsylvania 43 --4 We Feel We Have Been Forsaken: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Kentucky, 1954-1967 61 --5 We Will Stop the Bulldozers: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Kentucky, 1967-1972 85 -- 6 The Dilemma Is a Classic One: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in West Virginia 107 --7 Liberty in a Wasteland Is Meaningless: Strip Mining Opposition at the Federal Level, 1968-1972 127 --8 Getting More and More Cynical: Decline of the Opposition, 1973-1977 155 --9 Against the Little Man Like Me: Legalized Destruction in the SMCRA Era 181 --Conclusion. -- Having to Fight the Whole System 201 --Notes 207 -- Selected Bibliography 235 -- Index 241.…”
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Protecting rights without a Bill of Rights institutional performance and reform in Australia /

Table of Contents: “…(Ted) Morton -- The performance of Australian legislatures in protecting rights / John Uhr -- Improving legislative scrutiny of proposed laws to enhance basic rights, parliamentary democracy, and the quality of law-making / Bryan Horrigan -- The performance of administrative law in protecting rights / Robin Creyke -- Australia's constitutional rights and the problem of interpretive disagreement / Adrienne Stone -- Rights and citizenship in law and public discourse / Helen Irving -- Chained to the past : the psychological terra nullius of Australia's public institutions / Megan Davis -- Constitutional property rights in Australia : reconciling individual rights and the common good / Simon Evans -- American judicial review in perspective / Robert Nagel -- The unfulfilled promise of dialogic constitutionalism : judicial-legislative relationships under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms / Christopher Manfredi -- A modest (but robust) defence of statutory bills of rights / Jeremy Webber -- Australia's first Bill of Rights : the Australian Capital Territory's Human Rights Act / Hilary Charlesworth -- An Australian rights council / George Winterton -- Human rights strategies : an Australian alternative / Tom Campbell.…”
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Youth gangs and community intervention research, practice, and evidence /

Table of Contents: “…Butts, Caterina Gouvis Roman -- Taking criminology seriously: narratives, norms, networks, and common ground / David M. Kennedy -- Community gang programs: theory, models, and effectiveness / Irving A. …”
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William Almon Wheeler : political star of the north country / by Hallas, Herbert C., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…For California" -- Spreading "law, order, population, industry and wealth" -- "Common justice" for the south -- Returning the salary grab -- No "unproductive and useless park" -- An "earnest champion of the right" -- The "New York Lincoln" -- "God's hand is in this work" -- "Hayes the true and Wheeler, too!" …”
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Critical social psychology /

Table of Contents: “…/ Wendy Stainton Rogers and Rex Stainton Rogers -- Laying the ground for a common critical psychology / Stephen Reicher -- Postmodernism, postmodernity and social psychology / Martin Roiser -- And so say all of us? …”

Are you being served? new tools for measuring service delivery /

Table of Contents: “…Qualitative research to prepare quantitative analysis: absenteeism among health workers in two African countries -- Use of vignettes to measure the quality of health care -- Client satisfaction and the perceived quality of primary health care in Uganda -- Health facility and school surveys in the Indonesia family life surveys -- Collecting data from service providers within the living standards measurement study -- Sharing the gain: some common lessons on measuring service delivery.…”
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Art in the lives of immigrant communities in the United States

Table of Contents: “…Seifert, and Domenic Vitiello -- A howl to the heavens: art in the life of first- and second-generation Cuban Americans / Patricia Fernández-Kelly -- Inside and outside the box: the politics of Arab American identity and artistic representations / Amaney Jamal -- Desis in and out of the house: South Asian youth culture in the United States before and after 9/11 / Sunaina Maira -- The intimate circle: finding common ground in mariachi and norteña music / Clifford R. …”
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Backyard poultry medicine and surgery : a guide for veterinary practitioners /

Table of Contents: “…Laws and regulations governing backyard poultry in the US / Bruce Nixon -- Common breeds of backyard poultry / Lillian Gerhardt -- Basic housing and management / Darrin Karcher -- Anseriforme husbandry and management / Scott Echols -- Backyard poultry nutrition / Todd Applegate -- Parasitic diseases / Richard Gerhold -- Physical examination, anatomy, and physiology / Josep Rutllant-Labeaga, Wael Khamas, and Cheryl Greenacre -- Biosecurity and zoonotic diseases / Teresa Morishita, Cheryl Greenacre, and Marcy Souza -- Avian influenza and viscerotropic velogenic (exotic) Newcastle disease / Richard Fulton -- Respiratory diseases / Richard Fulton -- Musculoskeletal diseases / Cheryl Greenacre -- Dermatological diseases / Angela Lennox -- Reproductive diseases / Eric Gingerich and Daniel Shaw -- Gastrointestinal and hepatic diseases / Teresa Morishita, Robert Porter, Jr. -- Cardiovascular diseases / Hugues Beaufrere, Nobuko Wakamatsu -- Soft tissue surgery / Scott Echols -- Egg diagnostics / Teresa Morishita, Josep Rutllant-Labeaga, and Darrin Karcher -- Diagnostic lab sampling / Rocio Crespo and H.L. …”
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