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The Gulf of California biodiversity and conservation /

Table of Contents: “…Cisneros-Mata -- Sea turtles of the Gulf of California : biology, culture, and conservation / Jeffrey A. Seminoff -- Ospreys of the Gulf of California : ecology and conservation status / Jean-Luc E. …”
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The trickster revisited deception as a motif in the Pentatech / by Nicholas, Dean Andrew, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction ; History of the problem ; Gunkel and the savage mind ; Comparative approach ; Source critical approach ; The trickster in anthropology ; The rise of anthropology and its use in biblical studies ; Cross-cultural uses of the trickster ; Native American usage ; African usage ; African-American usage ; Attempts at universal explanations ; Understanding of trickster in the ancient near east and the Bible ; Tricksters in the ancient near east ; Tricksters in the Hebrew Bible -- The trickster and liminality. …”
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Horror after 9/11 world of fear, cinema of terror /

Table of Contents: “…Black screens, lost bodies: the cinematic apparatus of 9/11 horror / Laura Frost -- Let's roll: Hollywood takes on 9/11 / Elisabeth Ford -- Transforming horror : David Cronenberg's cinematic gestures after 9/11 / Adam Lowenstein -- Horror looks at itself. …”
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Coming in from the margins faculty development's emerging organizational development role in institutional change / by Schroeder, Connie M., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Schroeder -- Getting to the table: planning and developing institutional initiatives / Nancy van Note Chism -- Nurturing institutional change, collaboration, and leadership between upper level administrators and faculty developers / Devorah Lieberman -- Investigating institutional involvement and change agency / Connie M. …”
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The struggle in Black and brown African American and Mexican American relations during the civil rights era /

Table of Contents: “…Behnken -- Complicating the beloved community: the student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the National Farm Workers Association / Lauren Araiza -- The Neighborhood Adult Participation Project: Black-brown strife in the war on poverty in Los Angeles / Robert Bauman -- "Mexican versus negro approaches" to the war on poverty: Black-brown competition and the Office of Economic Opportunity in Texas / William Clayson -- Cesar and Martin, March '68 / Jorge Mariscal -- Black, brown, and poor: civil rights and the making of the Chicano movement / Gordon Mantler -- Brown-eyed soul: popular music and cultural politics in Los Angeles / Luis Alvarez and Daniel Widener -- Raising a neighborhood: informal networks between African American and Mexican American women in South Central Los Angeles / Abigail Rosas -- A new day in Babylon: African American and Mexican American relations at the dawn of the millennium / Matthew C. …”
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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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Not dead things : the dissemination of popular print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820 /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the distribution and dissemination of popular print / Roeland Harms, Joad Raymond and Jeroen Salman -- Print peddling and urban culture in Renaissance Italy / Rosa Salzberg -- Pedlars in the Netherlands from 1600 to 1850 : nuisance or necessity? …”
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Migration and membership regimes in global and historical perspective : an introduction /

Table of Contents: “…: the Venetian republic and the accommodation of Netherlandish merchants in the late 16th and 17th centuries / Maartje van Gelder -- To become Chinese : cultural consciousness and political legitimacy in early medieval China (220-681) / Mu-Chou Poo -- "Becoming Roman, becoming barbarian" : Roman citizenship and the assimilation of barbarians into the late Roman world / Ralph W. …”
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Space shuttle legacy : how we did it and what we learned / by Launius, Roger D., Krige, John, Craig, James I.

Table of Contents: “…Foster -- Wowing the public : the shuttle as a cultural icon / Linda Billings -- Retiring the space shuttle : what next? …”
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Applied sport, exercise, and performance psychology : current approaches to helping clients /

Table of Contents: “…Ronkainen -- Family therapy approaches / Michael Zito -- Cognitive behavioural therapy in performance enhancement: Using exposure and behavioural experiments with elite athletes / Henrik Gustafsson and Carolina Lundqvist -- Brief consultations in sport and performance psychology / Jessyca Arthur-Cameselle and Burt Giges -- Life skills interventions with elite athletes / Adam Miles and Ken Hodge -- Developing an integrated approach / David Tod and Moira Lafferty -- Cultural considerations in practice / Stephanie J. …”
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Shakespeare's audiences /

Table of Contents: “…Low -- The most lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus and audiences from the Inns of Court / Romola Nuttall -- 'Cleave the general ear' : Shakespeare and the cultural bias of early American radio / Miles Drawdy -- Indian Shakespeare cinema and the active audience / Koel Chatterjee -- Gender, aura, and the close-up : broadcasting Shakespeare for female audiences / Pascale Aebischer -- Shakespeare's riotous audiences : Macbeth at Astor Place, 1849 / Edel Lamb -- 'How novelty may move' : play and the boundaries of the play in the New York Shakespeare Festival's Mobile Theatre / Adam Sheaffer -- Imagined theater : why fan audiences matter / Louise Geddes -- 'A vulgar comment will be made of it' : YouTube and Robert Weimann's Platea / Valerie M. …”
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Human-insect interactions / by Govorushko, Sergey, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…part PART 1: Positive Aspects -- chapter 1 1 Ecosystem Services -- chapter 1 2 Use of Insects in Science -- chapter 1 3 Use of Insects in Medicine and the Cosmetics Industry -- chapter 1 4 Use of Insects in Technology (Insect Bionics) -- chapter 1 5 Commercial Use of Insects -- chapter 1 6 The Use of Insects as Food -- chapter 1 7 Use of Insects in Agriculture and Forestry -- chapter 1 8 Insects as a Form of Entertainment -- chapter 1 9 Other Uses of Insects -- chapter 1 10 Businesses Related to Insects -- chapter 1 11 Insects in Culture -- chapter 1 12 Insect Conservation -- part Part 2: Negative Aspects -- chapter 2 1 Insects as Pests -- chapter 2 2 Insects as Vectors of Plant Diseases -- chapter 2 3 Insects as Vectors of Disease in Animals and Humans -- chapter 2 4 Blood-sucking Insects and Ticks -- chapter 2 5 Venomous Insects and Arachnids -- chapter 2 6 Invasions of Insects -- chapter 2 7 Insect Allergy -- chapter Conclusion -- chapter References.…”
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Cerambycidae of the world : biology and pest management /

Table of Contents: “…Natural enemies and biological control of cerambycid pests / Timothy D. Paine -- 9. Cultural control of cerambycid pests / Qiao Wang -- 10. …”
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Child's Play : Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan /

Table of Contents: “…: childhood and relative autonomy in medieval Japanese monasteries / Or Porath -- Growing up manly : male Samurai childhood in late Edo Era Tosa / Luke Roberts -- For the love of children : practice, affect, and subjectivities in Hirata Atsutane's household / Anne Walthall -- Consumer consumption for children : conceptions of childhood in the work of Taish' period designers / Jinno Yuki -- 'Children in the wind': reexamining the golden age of childhood film in interwar and wartime Japan / Harald Salomon -- Children and the founding of Manchukuo : young girl and women ambassadors from Manchukuo and the Concordia society / Koresawa Hiroaki -- Reversing the gaze : the construction of 'adulthood' in the wartime diaries of Japanese children and youths / Aaron Moore -- Outdoor play in wartime Japan / Halliday Piel -- ' ... and my heart screams' : children and the war of emotions / Sabine Frühstück -- From grade school to great star : childhood development and the 'golden age' in the world of Japanese soccer / Elise Edwards -- Treatment and intervention for children with developmental disabilities / Junko Teruyama -- Food and affect : constituting a 'household-like' child welfare institution in Japan / Kathryn Goldfarb -- Monju-kun : children's culture as protest / Noriko Manabe.…”
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The Elusive Covenant : A Structural-Semiotic Reading of Genesis / by Prewitt, Terry J. (Terry James), 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Structural hermeneutics -- Rhetorical structures and cultural themes -- Structural patterns in Genesis 1-14 -- Genesis 1 and 14 -- Genesis 2 and 13 -- Genesis 3 and 12 -- Adam and Abraham -- Genesis 4 and 11 -- Genesis 5 and 10 -- Genesis 6 and 9 -- Genesis 7 and 8 -- Adam, Noah, and Abram -- Toward a unified Genesis structure -- Themal analysis -- Holism and reductionism as hermeneutic principles -- IV. …”
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Africa and change / by Turnbull, Colin M.

Table of Contents: “…Improvement associations among the Ibo.--Family, cultural relativism, and self-criticism: Jahoda, G. …”

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Personal, portable, pedestrian mobile phones in Japanese life /

Table of Contents: “…Discourses of keitai in Japan / Misa Matsuda -- Youth culture and the shaping of Japanese mobile media: personalization and the keitai internet as multimedia / Tomoyuki Okada -- A decade in the development of mobile communications in Japan (1993-2002) / Kenji Kohiyama -- The third-stage paradigm: territory machines from the girls' pager revolution to mobile aesthetics / Kenichi Fujimoto -- Japanese youth and the imagining of keitai / Haruhiro Kato -- Mobile communication and selective sociality / Misa Matsuda -- The mobile-izing Japanese: connecting to the internet by pc and webphone in Yamanashi / Kakuko Miyata, ...…”
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Boys and their toys understanding men by understanding their relationship with gadgets / by Adler, Bill, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- How to pick (or adapt to) your man based on what kind of toy he wants -- Toys lure in women, just like good worms lure in fish -- Toys prevent boredom and thus prevent insanity (on the part of everyone that bored guys come into contact with) -- Men need to be spontaneous, and toys offer a safe way to maintain their youthful spontaneity -- Gadgets prevent infidelity -- Men hate ambiguity -- Protector toys: how guys expose their nurturing side through technology, even if they don't know it -- Toys help relieve stress in men - they really do -- The whole midlife crisis thing and gadgets -- Girls and their curls: women like stuff, too, and what this means for men -- The dark side: men use gadgets to fend off meaningful conversations and emotional entanglements -- For some men, gadgets are a substitute for watching sports 24/7: there really is no such thing as a non-gadget guy (and you should be so lucky to be married to this kind of man) -- The meaning of BlackBerry -- The Wile E. …”
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Patient safety principles and practice /

Table of Contents: “…White -- Evidence-based practice to promote patient safety / Jacqueline Fowler Byers -- Putting patients in charge of their health care to promote patient safety / Tania Daniels -- Impact of nurse staffing on patient safety / Lynn Unruh -- Improving the nursing work culture / Jo Ann Miller & Mary Lou Brunell -- Using technology to improve patient safety / Debra S. …”
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