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101 Chambers : Congress, State Legislatures, and the Future of Legislative Studies / by Squire, Peverill

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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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101 Chambers : Congress, State Legislatures, and the Future of Legislative Studies / by Squire, Peverill

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Willie Wells "El Diablo" of the Negro Leagues / by Luke, Bob

Table of Contents: “…He could pick it -- I never went for anything crooked -- Family -- Leaving home to play ball -- The "devil" -- You had to do all kinds of things -- They treat me like a man -- My contract said "ballplayer" -- We'll talk -- He has slowed up afield -- A mind-set put to rest -- Any players with hall of fame credentials? …”
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Bastide on religion the invention of candomblé / by Despland, Michel

Table of Contents: “…An intellectual biography -- Breaking the glass and striking the rock -- Symbols, memory and anticipation : sociology from Durkheim to Gurvitch -- Civilizations neither meet nor clash, people do -- The three books on Afro-Brazilian religions -- The Paris career : the world of French ethnologists -- Leaving safe ground : acknowledging the fluidity of human interaction -- Candomblé as paradigm for translocal religion -- O sagrado selvagem as corner stone of a theory of religion -- Study of religion and sociology of knowledge -- The aesthetic dimension, or the black hen lays white eggs.…”
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In the gray area a Marine advisor team in Iraq / by Folsom, Seth W. B., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : nightmare -- Advisor duty -- Contractors -- Training -- Gear -- Transit -- Cop south -- Arrival -- Humvees -- Introductions -- IAs -- Growing pains -- Storms -- Outside the wire -- Matters of importance -- Backing the wrong horse -- Al Gabaa -- Mistakes and mistrust -- Eye-opening reality -- Jibab Peninsula -- Personalities and paradigms -- Terps and tensions -- Uglat il Bushab -- Fear and paranoia -- Gifts and free lunches -- Abandonment issues -- Running out of patience -- Holding down the spring -- Critters -- A change of plans -- Leaving -- Dogs -- A way forward.…”
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Chicago's Irish Legion the 90th Illinois Volunteers in the Civil War / by Swan, James B.

Table of Contents: “…The raising of the Irish Legion -- Attention from two generals -- Life on one cracker a day -- The father of waters unvexed -- The march to Chattanooga -- The Battle of Chattanooga -- The winter of their discontent -- The Atlanta Campaign: approach to Atlanta -- The Atlanta Campaign: battles around Atlanta -- Hazen's summer camp and a stern chase -- An armed picnic -- The handsomest thing I have seen in this war -- Rocking the cradle of secession -- Hail Columbia, happy land -- Leaving the cradle -- Touring tarheel country -- Like the lords of the world -- Epilogue.…”
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Bastide on religion the invention of candomblé / by Despland, Michel

Table of Contents: “…An intellectual biography -- Breaking the glass and striking the rock -- Symbols, memory and anticipation : sociology from Durkheim to Gurvitch -- Civilizations neither meet nor clash, people do -- The three books on Afro-Brazilian religions -- The Paris career : the world of French ethnologists -- Leaving safe ground : acknowledging the fluidity of human interaction -- Candomblé as paradigm for translocal religion -- O sagrado selvagem as corner stone of a theory of religion -- Study of religion and sociology of knowledge -- The aesthetic dimension, or the black hen lays white eggs.…”
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In the gray area a Marine advisor team in Iraq / by Folsom, Seth W. B., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : nightmare -- Advisor duty -- Contractors -- Training -- Gear -- Transit -- Cop south -- Arrival -- Humvees -- Introductions -- IAs -- Growing pains -- Storms -- Outside the wire -- Matters of importance -- Backing the wrong horse -- Al Gabaa -- Mistakes and mistrust -- Eye-opening reality -- Jibab Peninsula -- Personalities and paradigms -- Terps and tensions -- Uglat il Bushab -- Fear and paranoia -- Gifts and free lunches -- Abandonment issues -- Running out of patience -- Holding down the spring -- Critters -- A change of plans -- Leaving -- Dogs -- A way forward.…”
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Chicago's Irish Legion the 90th Illinois Volunteers in the Civil War / by Swan, James B.

Table of Contents: “…The raising of the Irish Legion -- Attention from two generals -- Life on one cracker a day -- The father of waters unvexed -- The march to Chattanooga -- The Battle of Chattanooga -- The winter of their discontent -- The Atlanta Campaign: approach to Atlanta -- The Atlanta Campaign: battles around Atlanta -- Hazen's summer camp and a stern chase -- An armed picnic -- The handsomest thing I have seen in this war -- Rocking the cradle of secession -- Hail Columbia, happy land -- Leaving the cradle -- Touring tarheel country -- Like the lords of the world -- Epilogue.…”
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Jewish Poland-Legends of Origin : Ethnopoetics and Legendary Chronicles / by Bar-Yitsḥaḳ, Ḥayah

Table of Contents: “…The Geography of the Jewish Imagination: Po-Lin among Trees with Leaves from the Gemara; 2. Legends of Acceptance: Segregation versus Involvement; 3. …”
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South Station Hoard: Imagining, Creating and Empowering Violent Remains / by Bradbury, Carlee A., Weida, Courtney, Sickman, Katie, Lustig, Debra, Edwards, Karie

Table of Contents: “…Weida -- Closing the book, leaving the locker open / Carlee A. Bradbury.…”
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Willie Wells "El Diablo" of the Negro Leagues / by Luke, Bob

Table of Contents: “…He could pick it -- I never went for anything crooked -- Family -- Leaving home to play ball -- The "devil" -- You had to do all kinds of things -- They treat me like a man -- My contract said "ballplayer" -- We'll talk -- He has slowed up afield -- A mind-set put to rest -- Any players with hall of fame credentials? …”
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Jewish Poland-Legends of Origin : Ethnopoetics and Legendary Chronicles / by Bar-Yitsḥaḳ, Ḥayah

Table of Contents: “…The Geography of the Jewish Imagination: Po-Lin among Trees with Leaves from the Gemara; 2. Legends of Acceptance: Segregation versus Involvement; 3. …”
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South Station Hoard: Imagining, Creating and Empowering Violent Remains / by Bradbury, Carlee A., Weida, Courtney, Sickman, Katie, Lustig, Debra, Edwards, Karie

Table of Contents: “…Weida -- Closing the book, leaving the locker open / Carlee A. Bradbury.…”
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In Africa's forest and jungle six years among the Yorubas / by Stone, R. H. (Richard Henry)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Along the coast -- Up the Ogun -- In native homes -- The story of Crowther -- In a native caravan -- An African despot -- Our first dwelling -- Some beasts and insects -- Life and language -- Superstitions -- Polygamy -- Some African maladies -- Hunting -- Mental solitude -- Waylaid and captured -- Flight from Ebaddan -- Home again -- Opening battles around Ejahyay -- Worshipping the dead prince -- Leaving the doomed city -- Partial civilization -- Love letters -- A narrow escape -- The human sacrifice -- The stolen child -- Improvements -- Cast among robbers -- The colony of Lagos.…”
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Fifties ethnicities : the ethnic novel and mass culture at midcentury / by Floreani, Tracy

Table of Contents: “…Lee's The Flower Drum Song and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita -- What's for sale: consumer fantasy, American women, and narratives of social mobility in Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha and The I Love Lucy Show -- The celluloid fantasy: negotiating the ethnic male star image in William Saroyan's Rock Wagram -- Leaving the dark room in a lighter mood: narrating invisibility in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.…”
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In Africa's forest and jungle six years among the Yorubas / by Stone, R. H. (Richard Henry)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Along the coast -- Up the Ogun -- In native homes -- The story of Crowther -- In a native caravan -- An African despot -- Our first dwelling -- Some beasts and insects -- Life and language -- Superstitions -- Polygamy -- Some African maladies -- Hunting -- Mental solitude -- Waylaid and captured -- Flight from Ebaddan -- Home again -- Opening battles around Ejahyay -- Worshipping the dead prince -- Leaving the doomed city -- Partial civilization -- Love letters -- A narrow escape -- The human sacrifice -- The stolen child -- Improvements -- Cast among robbers -- The colony of Lagos.…”
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Fifties ethnicities : the ethnic novel and mass culture at midcentury / by Floreani, Tracy

Table of Contents: “…Lee's The Flower Drum Song and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita -- What's for sale: consumer fantasy, American women, and narratives of social mobility in Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha and The I Love Lucy Show -- The celluloid fantasy: negotiating the ethnic male star image in William Saroyan's Rock Wagram -- Leaving the dark room in a lighter mood: narrating invisibility in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.…”
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The freedom schools : student activists in the Mississippi civil rights movement / by Hale, Jon N.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Mississippi Freedom Schools -- "The pathway from slavery to freedom" : the origins of education and the ideology of liberation in Mississippi -- "There was something happening" : the early education and politicization of the freedom school students -- "The student as a force for social change" : the politics and organization of the Mississippi Freedom Schools -- "We will walk in the light of freedom" : attending and teaching in the freedom schools -- "I can't leave" : educational activism and reconceptualizing freedom after the summer campaign -- Carrying forth the struggle : freedom schools and contemporary educational policy -- Epilogue: Remembering the freedom schools during the contemporary civil rights movement.…”
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