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Diversity in diaspora Hmong Americans in the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…The American experience of the Hmong : a historical review / by Kou Yang -- Hmong Americans : a demographic portrait / by Mark Pfeifer -- An analysis of poverty in Hmong American communities / by Yang Sao Xiong -- Civic values and political engagement in two Hmong American communities / by Carolyn Wong -- Electoral participation in the Hmong American community : an initial analysis / by Stephen Doherty -- Great expectations : the struggles of Hmong American high school boys / by Bic Ngo and Pa Nhia Lor -- Women in the Hmong diaspora / by Dia Cha -- Hmong Americans : the conceptualization and experience of aging in the United States / by Linda Gerdner -- The double diaspora : China and Laos in the folklore of Hmong American refugees / by Jeremy Hein -- "Reharmonizing" the generations : rap, poetry, and Hmong oral tradition / by Nick Poss -- Haunting and inhabitation in Yang's Latehomecomer : a Hmong family memoir / by Monica Chiu -- Hmong American studies : a bibliographic essay / by Mark Pfeifer.…”
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"The useless mouths", and other literary writings / by Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986

Table of Contents: “…/ introduction by Laura Hengehold -- Misunderstanding in Moscow -- introduction by Terry Keefe -- My experience as a writer / introduction by Elizabeth Fallaize -- Short prefaces to literary works / introduction by Eleanore Holveck -- Notes for a novel / introduction by Meryl Altman.…”
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American environmental policy, 1990-2006 beyond gridlock / by Klyza, Christopher McGrory

Table of Contents: “…Environmental policy beyond gridlock -- Creating the current institutional landscape of environmental policymaking -- Regulatory reform, reconciliation, and rough riders : environmental policymaking in Congress -- National monuments, roadless forests, and aging electric utilities : executive policymaking through statutory discretion and rulemaking -- From "who has standing?" …”
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People's Liberation Army Navy combat systems technology, 1949-2010 / by Bussert, James C.

Table of Contents: “…Systems integration and China's naval technology growth, 1949-89 -- Earlier Chinese destroyers -- New-generation destroyers -- Chinese frigates -- PLAN submarines -- Coastal defense and PLAN amphibious capability -- The PLAN Air Force (PLANAF) and China's future aircraft carrier -- Antiair-warfare (AAW) radar and weapon systems -- Antisubmarine-warfare (ASW) sonar and weapon systems -- The South China Sea (SCS) and the mine threat -- Combat system integration, electrical, and training issues -- The PLAN fleet in the twenty-first century -- Appendix : western and plan combat system designations.…”
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Environment, mood disorders and suicide

Table of Contents: “…The work place : a comprehensive environmental perspective -- section 9. The electrical environment of the brain -- section 10. The "environment of the mind" -- section 11. …”
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The early Christian book

Table of Contents: “…Chin -- City of books : Augustine and the world as text / Gillian Clark -- Ceremony and the law -- Judging by the book : Christian codices and late antique legal culture / Caroline Humfress -- The symbolics of bookburning : the establishment of a Christian ritual of persecution / Daniel Sarefield -- Texts and the body -- Engendering palimpsests : reading the textual tradition of the Acts of Paul and Thecla / Kim Haines-Eitzen -- Holy texts, holy men, and holy scribes : aspects of Scriptural holiness in late antiquity / Claudia Rapp -- Theory and the book -- Sanctum, lector, percense volumen : snakes, readers, and the whole text in Prudentius's Hamartigenia / Catherine Conybeare -- Theory, or the dream of the book (Mallarmé to Blanchot) / Mark Vessey.…”
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Liberal faith essays in honor of Philip Quinn /

Table of Contents: “…Weithman -- Part I: Epistemology -- Self-trust and the diversity of religions / Linda Zagzebski -- An epistemology that matters / Richard Foley -- Part II: Philosophy of religion -- Presence and omnipresence / Eleonore Stump -- Self-annihilation or damnation? : a disputable question in Christian eschatology / Paul J. …”
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Energy economics / by Schwarz, Peter M. (Peter Martin)

Table of Contents: “…-- chapter 11 Energy effi ciency: the cheapest fuel? -- part Part IV Electricity -- chapter 12 Traditional elec tri city regu la tion: the calm before the storm -- chapter 13 Electricity restruc tur ing and dereg u la tion: the path forward? …”
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Strings and threads a celebration of the work of Anne Draffkorn Kilmer /

Table of Contents: “…Noegel -- Dug Ubur-Imin : a seven-nipple lid and seven-nipple vessels / Diana Pickworth -- The Discovery of Professor Von Saalbrandt : a Philadelphia story / Eleanor Robson -- Lost : the missing lexical lists of the Archaic period / Jennifer C. …”
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Italy on screen national identity and Italian imaginary /

Table of Contents: “…Italy and lamerica: the road of remembrance / Cristiana Furlan -- The Italian comedy of the economic miracle: L'italiano medio and strategies of gender exclusion / Sergio Rigoletto -- Family life, Moretti style / Eleanor Andrews -- The Catholic Church. The Catholic Church in Il Bidone: salvation or wwindle? …”
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New directions in developmental psychobiology

Table of Contents: “…/ Anat Scher, Hilla Hammerman, and Eleanor Schneider -- Cortisol circadian rhythms and response to stress in early human development : new directions in studies of social-emotional regulation / Ishien Li -- Women exposed to childhood maltreatment : impact on parenting, emotional well-being, and HPA functioning / Lindsay Bennett ... …”
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Modern girls on the go gender, mobility, and labor in Japan /

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Explorations in Early Southeast Asian History : The Origins of Southeast Asian Statecraft /

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Jurisprudence and political philosophy in the 21st century reassessing legacies /

Table of Contents: “…Hart on the law's assumptions about human nature / Péter Cserne -- Hedgehogs, foxes and Hart's rule of recognition : the concept of law in the post -Westphalian international legal order / Axelle Reiter -- Hans Kelsen's critique of sovereignty / Petra Gümplová -- Why is Rawls's social contract hypothetical / Bojan Vranić -- Future genrations : an almost Rawlsian perspective / Miklós Könczöl -- Electoral quotas and John Rawls's idea of justice and equality / Anna Kalisz & Magdalena Półtorak -- From defending the minimal state to examing the good life : continuity and change in the work fo Robert Nozick / Antonia Geisler -- Amartya Sen's justice : an idea and a proposal / Jakov Bojović.…”
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America at the ballot box : elections and American political history /

Table of Contents: “…Zelizer -- The 1980 election : victory without success / Meg Jacobs -- Beyond the water's edge : foreign policy and electoral politics / Andrew Preston -- From corn to caviar : the evolution of presidential election communications, 1960-2000 / Brian Balogh.…”
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Making medicine scientific John Burdon Sanderson and the culture of Victorian science / by Romano, Terrie M.

Table of Contents: “…From evangelical to medical officer of health -- Choosing medicine -- Medical officer of health -- Making a career in medical research -- Before the germ theory : the cattle plague of 1865-1866 and the state support of pathology -- From clinician-researcher to professional physiologist : making the pulse visible -- Becoming a research pathologist : the rise of laboratory medicine in Britain -- Focusing on physiology : capturing the venus's flytrap's electrical activity -- The medical sciences : critics and allies -- Physicians, antivivisectionists, and the failure of the Oxford School of Physiology -- A corner turned? …”
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Coulomb excitations and decays in graphene-related systems / by Lin, Chiun-Yan, Wu, Jhao-Ying, Chiu, Chih-Wei, Lin, Ming-Fa

Table of Contents: “…Theories for electronic excitations/deexcitations in layered graphenes, 3D graphites and 1D carbon nanotubes: experimental equipments -- Monolayer graphene -- AA-stacked graphenes -- AB-stacked graphenes -- ABC-stacked graphenes -- AAB-stacked graphenes -- Sliding bilayer graphene -- Diversified effects due to a perpendicular electric field -- Magnetoelectronic excitations: monolayer and bilayer graphenes -- 3D Coulomb excitations of simple hexagonal, Bernal and rhombohedral graphites -- 1D electronic excitations in metallic and semiconducting nanotubes -- Electronic excitations in monolayer silicene and germanene -- Coulomb decay rates in graphene -- Concluding remarks and perspectives.…”
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Entrepreneurship skills for new ventures / by Kimball, David Charles, 1959-, Lussier, Robert N.

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From pews to polling places faith and politics in the American religious mosaic /

Table of Contents: “…Green -- Secularists, anti-fundamentalists, and the new religious divide in the American electorate / Louis Bolce and Gerald de Maio -- Religion and American political life : a look forward / J. …”
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Divide and deal the politics of distribution in democracies /

Table of Contents: “…Institutions -- Welfare regimes and redistribution in the South / Jeremy Seekings -- Distributional conflicts in mature welfare states / Isabela Mares -- The politics of tax structure / Steffen Ganghof -- AIDS, inequality, and access to antiretroviral treatment / Nicoli Nattrass -- Distributive politics and formal institutions in new democracies : the effect of electoral rules on budget voting in the Russian state duma, 1994-2003 / Jana Kunicová -- Individuals -- Religion and social insurance : evidence from the United States, 1970-2002 / Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage -- Moral values and distributive politics : an equilibrium analysis of the 2004 U.S. election / Woojin Lee and John Roemer -- Giving the people what they want? …”
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