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Bloody Lowndes civil rights and Black power in Alabama's Black Belt / by Jeffries, Hasan Kwame, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Conditions unfavorable to the rise of the Negro : the pursuit of freedom rights before the civil rights era -- I didn't come here to knock : the making of a grassroots social movement -- We ain't going to shed a tear for Jon : school desegregation, White resistance, and the African American response -- I'm going to try to take some of the freedom here back home : the federal government and the fight for freedom rights -- We gonna show Alabama just how bad we are : the birth of the original Black Panther Party and the development of freedom politics -- Tax the rich to feed the poor : Black power and the election of 1966 -- Now is the time for work to begin : Black politics in the post-civil rights era -- Epilogue: That black dirt gets in your soul : the fight for freedom rights in the days ahead.…”
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Systematic and engaging early literacy : instruction and intervention / by Culatta, Barbara, Hall-Kenyon, Kendra, Black, Sharon (Sharon J.)

Table of Contents: “…: print awareness in school, home, and community -- Exploring squiggles on the page: teaching and practicing letter knowledge skills -- Providing children with tools: phonological awareness and accompanying skills -- Using tools to make meaning: phonics and decoding strategies -- Using sounds and letters to form words: developmental spelling -- Bringing stories to life: approaches to understanding and enjoying narratives -- Learning about the world: exploring and comprehending expository texts -- Collaborating with children's first teachers: integral role of parents in children's literacy -- Enriching language and literacy: integrating visual arts, music, dance, and drama -- Assessing students' needs and progress: use of data to adjust instruction -- Learning and improving together: collaborative professional development -- Applying systematic and engaging practices: planning units and lesson activities.…”
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Collaborative intervention in early childhood consulting with parents and teachers of 3- to 7-year-olds / by Hirschland, Deborah

Table of Contents: “…-- Seven building blocks of development: understanding core emotional, behavioral, and social competencies -- The contribution of constitution: understanding a child's temperament and neurodevelopmental profile -- The contribution of family life: understanding a family's history and patterns of interaction -- Setting the stage for mastery: developing a working hypothesis, goals for growth, and a plan of action -- Home-based strategies: helping parents set effective behavioral expectations -- Classroom-based strategies: mentoring teachers in the skills of developmental scaffolding -- Helping the shy, cautious, or withdrawn child -- Helping the child with language and information processing issues -- Helping the high energy and/or inattentive child -- Helping the easily frustrated, impulsive child -- Helping the anxious child -- Helping the disengaged, offbeat, or gifted but rigid child -- Additional issues: addressing trauma and loss, monitoring media choices, providing guidance during crises, and more -- Elementary school and beyond: perspectives for the long haul.…”
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A Force for Change : The Class of 1950 / by Norberg, John

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Teaching the Empire : Education and State Loyalty in Late Habsburg Austria / by Moore, Scott O., 1980-

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Psychology of burnout predictors and coping mechanisms /

Table of Contents: “…[et al.] -- Family violence therapists : personal and social resources, role competence, secondary traumatization, and burnout / Anta Ben-Porat and Haya Itzhaky -- Relationship between desire for control and job control and their effects on job burnout in health-care personnel / Marcel Lourel, Farida Mouda and Sandra Chevaleyre -- Dimensions of teacher burnout and relations with perceived school context / Einar M. Skaalvik and Sidsel Skaalvik -- Hospital pharmacists' job stresses : managerial recommendation for professional work health / Blossom Yen-Ju Lin, Ying-Chen Yeh and Wen-Hung Lin -- 'Male depression' in male adolescents; : a German community study / AM Möller-Leimküher, J Heller and N-C Paulus -- Psychological aspects of burnout among staffs in long-term care homes / Jin Narumoto -- Burnout among French high-school students / Sandra Zakari, Vera Walburg and Henri Chabrol.…”
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American swastika inside the white power movement's hidden spaces of hate / by Simi, Pete

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One man's music the life and times of Texas songwriter Vince Bell / by Bell, Vince

Table of Contents: “…Foreword by Kathleen Hudson -- Sorcerers' apprentice -- Look of the loner looking at it -- Sweat like a boxer -- Sinbad and the silver tooth -- Music where the words are the important part -- I'm not this way because I'm a musician, I'm a musician because I'm this way -- Secret mountain laboratory -- Six strings, no kick -- Three-day ride to the kitchen -- The songwriter -- Elastic plastic fork and pitiable paper plate -- Bermuda triangle -- Name unknown -- Rumor of my demise -- Room 933 -- If it was time for the musicians to call, it was time to go home and fix it -- Providence Street -- Even up on Misery Ave., they sometimes dance and sing -- Path of least regret -- Music school -- Edge of the world -- Monday for two years -- Keep your eyes in the sky -- Second Street -- Fate worse than death -- Wizard of odds -- Adrift in paradise -- Give chance a chance -- Prize for not working hard enough -- Phoenix -- Album of a lifetime -- The poetry in the prose -- Play like you practice -- Texas plates -- Say in your owndamnway -- The bottom line -- Live in Texas -- Rough old Texas hands.…”
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Rereading Heterosexuality : Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction / by Carroll, Rachel

Table of Contents: “…Homes's The End of Alice.…”
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Autism through a sensory lens : sensory assessment and strategies / by Beaney, Joy

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South Korean Migrants in China : An Ethnography of Education, Desire, and Temporariness / by Ma, Xiao

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Mama, PhD women write about motherhood and academic life /

Table of Contents: “…a life I never planned / Rosemarie Emanuele -- Coming to terms at full term / Natalie Kertes Weaver -- One mamá's dispensable myths and indispensable machines / Angelica Duran -- That mommy thing / Alissa McElreath -- Failure to progress : what having a baby taught me about Aristotle, advanced degrees, developmental delays, and other natural disasters / Irena Auerbuch Smith -- Infinite calculations / Della Fenster -- I stand here teaching : Tillie Olsen and maternity in the classroom / Julia Lisella -- The facts, the stories / Leah Bradshaw -- I am not a head on a stick : on being a teacher and a doctor and a mommy / Elisabeth Rose Gruner -- Lip service / Jennifer Cognard-Black -- Body double / Leslie Leyland Fields -- The long and winding road / Jean Kazez -- The bags I carried / Caroline Grant -- Of the boys / Martha Ellis Crone -- Free to be-- mom and me : finding my complicated truth as an academic daughter / Megan Pincus Kajitani -- Nontraditional academics : at home with children and a PhD / Susan Bassow, Dana Campbell, Liz Stockwell -- A great place to have a baby / Rebecca Steinitz -- Recovering academic / Jennifer Margulis -- The orange kangaroo / Nicole Cooley and Julia Spicher Kasdorf -- Ideal mama, ideal worker : negotiating guilt and shame in academe / Jean-Anne Sutherland -- In theory/in practice : on choosing children and the academy / Lisa Harper -- Motherhood is easy; graduate school is hard / Tedra Osell -- Momifesto : affirmations for the academic mother / Cynthia Kuhn ... …”
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Fernando Alonso the father of Cuban ballet / by Singer, Toba

Table of Contents: “…-- 17. Constructing ballet schools, extending the revolution -- 18. International recognition abroad, at home, on film, and in print -- 19. …”
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Injury prevention for children and adolescents research, practice, and advocacy /

Table of Contents: “…Scholl -- Injuries in the school environment / Ellen R. Schmidt, Susan Wooley, and Stephanie Bryn -- Childhood agricultural injuries / Barbara C. …”
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Learning disabilities sourcebook basic consumer health information about dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, speech and communication disorders, auditory and visual processing disor...

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Medical microbiology for the new curriculum a case-based approach / by Carey, Roberta B.

Table of Contents: “…Case one : boy with acute pharyngitis -- Case two : student with dysuria -- Case three : boy with vomiting and diarrhea after a school picnic -- Case four : chronic diarrhea in a traveler -- Case five : boy with skin lesions -- Case six : student with a skin lesion following a trip to India -- Case seven : man with a surgical wound after a prosthetic hip placement -- Case eight : boy with fever and right leg pain following a canoe accident -- Case nine : woman with acute abdominal pain and cervical discharge -- Case ten : woman with acute fever and productive cough -- Case eleven : nursing home resident with fever, cough, and myalgias -- Case twelve : baby with fever, rhinitis and bronchiolitis -- Case thirteen : woman with fever, cough, and weight loss -- Case fourteen : student with chronic fever, dry cough and pneumonia -- Case fifteen : bone marrow transplant recipient with nodular pneumonia -- Case sixteen : boy with acute fever, headache, and confusion -- Case seventeen : woman with lymphocytic meningitis -- Case eighteen : neonate with fever and vesicular rash -- Case nineteen : renal transplant recipient with chronic meningitis -- Case twenty : man with acute fever and periumbilical pain -- Case twenty one : man with two weeks of fever and a systolic murmur -- Case twenty two : young man with fatigue and an abnormal liver test -- Case twenty three : fever of unknown origin in a traveler -- Case twenty four : student with fever, lymphadenopathy and hepatosplenomegaly.…”
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