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Sister citizen shame, stereotypes, and Black women in America / by Harris-Perry, Melissa V. (Melissa Victoria), 1973-

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Asian Americans in Dixie : race and migration in the south /

Table of Contents: “…Joshi -- Performing Race, Region, and Nation -- Southern Eruptions in Asian American Narratives / Jennifer Ho -- "A Tennessean in an Unlikely Package": the Stand-Up Comedy of Henry Cho / Jasmine Kar Tang -- "Like We Lost Our Citizenship": Vietnamese Americans, African Americans, and Hurricane Katrina / Marguerite Nguyen.…”
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Sister citizen shame, stereotypes, and Black women in America / by Harris-Perry, Melissa V. (Melissa Victoria), 1973-

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Asian Americans in Dixie : race and migration in the south /

Table of Contents: “…Joshi -- Performing Race, Region, and Nation -- Southern Eruptions in Asian American Narratives / Jennifer Ho -- "A Tennessean in an Unlikely Package": the Stand-Up Comedy of Henry Cho / Jasmine Kar Tang -- "Like We Lost Our Citizenship": Vietnamese Americans, African Americans, and Hurricane Katrina / Marguerite Nguyen.…”
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Henry Clay and the War of 1812 / by King, Quentin Scott, 1924-

Table of Contents: “…Speaker -- Irresolution and intrigue -- Embargo -- Politics and diplomacy -- Coercion charge -- Declaration of war -- War in the west -- Battle action and election -- Political reaction -- War effort adrift -- Remember the River Raisin -- Diplomacy renewed -- The disastrous spring of 1813 -- The congressional summer -- In the eye of a hurricane -- Resignation -- In transit to Europe -- Idling at Gottenburg -- Gathering of the commissioners -- Sine qua non -- Rupture -- Negotiating to negotiate -- Washington under attack -- Washington ablaze -- British policy is delay -- Wellington inserts himself -- Treaty of Ghent -- Post-war contentions -- Battle for New Orleans -- Last days in Europe.…”
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Hazardous future : disaster, representation and the assessment of risk /

Table of Contents: “…: the 2011 Lorca earthquake in the media -- Hurricane Katrina : contesting singularity in treme -- Flooded with memories : risk cultures, the big flood of 1953 and the visual -- Resonance of World War two -- Authors -- Index of names.…”
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Henry Clay and the War of 1812 / by King, Quentin Scott, 1924-

Table of Contents: “…Speaker -- Irresolution and intrigue -- Embargo -- Politics and diplomacy -- Coercion charge -- Declaration of war -- War in the west -- Battle action and election -- Political reaction -- War effort adrift -- Remember the River Raisin -- Diplomacy renewed -- The disastrous spring of 1813 -- The congressional summer -- In the eye of a hurricane -- Resignation -- In transit to Europe -- Idling at Gottenburg -- Gathering of the commissioners -- Sine qua non -- Rupture -- Negotiating to negotiate -- Washington under attack -- Washington ablaze -- British policy is delay -- Wellington inserts himself -- Treaty of Ghent -- Post-war contentions -- Battle for New Orleans -- Last days in Europe.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Hazardous future : disaster, representation and the assessment of risk /

Table of Contents: “…: the 2011 Lorca earthquake in the media -- Hurricane Katrina : contesting singularity in treme -- Flooded with memories : risk cultures, the big flood of 1953 and the visual -- Resonance of World War two -- Authors -- Index of names.…”
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Power and policy America's first steps to superpower, 1889-1922 / by Lenz, Lawrence, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: 1865-1889 : America grows and changes, as do its old foreign, Army, and naval policies -- Samoa, 1889 : how a hurricane built US battleships--and a military-industrial complex -- Appendix: Excerpts from Secretary of Navy report, 1889 -- Hawaiian "revolution" with an American gunboat -- Venezuela, 1895 : Great Britain vs. the United States, with a little help from the Kaiser -- Spanish-American War, 1898 : how a war to liberate Cuba created a worldwide empire -- Appendix: 1898 messages to George Dewey prior to Spanish-American War -- Philippines, 1899-1902 : America's first overseas guerrilla war and the ideas that won it -- Venezuela, 1902-1903 : the Roosevelt corollary, big stick or big bluff? …”
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The Martians have landed! a history of media-driven panics and hoaxes / by Bartholomew, Robert E.

Table of Contents: “…asteroid panic -- Pokemon panics and creepy crawley scares -- The "documentary" that fooled England -- Hurricane Katrina mythmaking -- Chicken little and the Bird Flu panic -- The Russians are coming! …”
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Power and policy America's first steps to superpower, 1889-1922 / by Lenz, Lawrence, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: 1865-1889 : America grows and changes, as do its old foreign, Army, and naval policies -- Samoa, 1889 : how a hurricane built US battleships--and a military-industrial complex -- Appendix: Excerpts from Secretary of Navy report, 1889 -- Hawaiian "revolution" with an American gunboat -- Venezuela, 1895 : Great Britain vs. the United States, with a little help from the Kaiser -- Spanish-American War, 1898 : how a war to liberate Cuba created a worldwide empire -- Appendix: 1898 messages to George Dewey prior to Spanish-American War -- Philippines, 1899-1902 : America's first overseas guerrilla war and the ideas that won it -- Venezuela, 1902-1903 : the Roosevelt corollary, big stick or big bluff? …”
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The Martians have landed! a history of media-driven panics and hoaxes / by Bartholomew, Robert E.

Table of Contents: “…asteroid panic -- Pokemon panics and creepy crawley scares -- The "documentary" that fooled England -- Hurricane Katrina mythmaking -- Chicken little and the Bird Flu panic -- The Russians are coming! …”
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Rising waters the causes and consequences of flooding in the United States / by Brody, Samuel David

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Rising waters the causes and consequences of flooding in the United States / by Brody, Samuel David

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Reducing global poverty the case for asset accumulation /

Table of Contents: “…Carter -- The stages-of-progress methodology and results from five countries / Anirudh Krishna -- Asset accumulation policy and poverty reduction / Caroline Moser -- Addressing vulnerability through asset building and social protection / Sarah Cook -- Social protection and asset accumulation by the middle class and the poor in Latin America / Andres Solimano -- Building natural resource-based assets in southern Africa : workable scenarios / Paula Nimpuno-Parente -- Protecting land rights in post-tsunami and postconflict Aceh, Indonesia / Lilianne Fan -- Hurricane Katrina : impact on assets and asset-building approaches to poverty reduction / Amy Liu -- Gangs, violence, and asset building / Dennis Rodgers -- Beyond microfinance / Vijay Mahajan -- Using microinsurance and financial education to protect and accumulate assets / Monique Cohen and Pamela Young -- Migrant foreign savings and asset accumulation / Manuel Orozco -- Transnational communities of the United States and Latin America / Hector Cordero-Guzman and Victoria Quiroz-Becerra -- Gender and transnational asset accumulation in El Salvador / Sarah Gammage -- Claiming rights : citizenship and the politics of asset distribution / Clare Ferguson, Caroline Moser, and Andy Norton.…”
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Social change, resistance and social practices

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Social change, resistance and social practices

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Reducing global poverty the case for asset accumulation /

Table of Contents: “…Carter -- The stages-of-progress methodology and results from five countries / Anirudh Krishna -- Asset accumulation policy and poverty reduction / Caroline Moser -- Addressing vulnerability through asset building and social protection / Sarah Cook -- Social protection and asset accumulation by the middle class and the poor in Latin America / Andres Solimano -- Building natural resource-based assets in southern Africa : workable scenarios / Paula Nimpuno-Parente -- Protecting land rights in post-tsunami and postconflict Aceh, Indonesia / Lilianne Fan -- Hurricane Katrina : impact on assets and asset-building approaches to poverty reduction / Amy Liu -- Gangs, violence, and asset building / Dennis Rodgers -- Beyond microfinance / Vijay Mahajan -- Using microinsurance and financial education to protect and accumulate assets / Monique Cohen and Pamela Young -- Migrant foreign savings and asset accumulation / Manuel Orozco -- Transnational communities of the United States and Latin America / Hector Cordero-Guzman and Victoria Quiroz-Becerra -- Gender and transnational asset accumulation in El Salvador / Sarah Gammage -- Claiming rights : citizenship and the politics of asset distribution / Clare Ferguson, Caroline Moser, and Andy Norton.…”
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Growth management in Florida planning for paradise /

Table of Contents: “…: an evaluation of Florida's hurricane hazard mitigation planning mandates / Robert E. …”
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Growth management in Florida planning for paradise /

Table of Contents: “…: an evaluation of Florida's hurricane hazard mitigation planning mandates / Robert E. …”
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