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Empress Wu the Great Tang dynasty China / by Woo, X. L.

Table of Contents: “…Wu's sponsor becomes the second emperor of the tang dynasty -- Empress Changsun and a few of the courtiers -- Miss Wu becomes an imperial concubine -- The sons vie for the succession -- Selecting the crown prince -- Introduction to the crown prince -- Sent to a nunnery -- The new emperor reigns -- Empress Wang gets Wu back to the palace -- Empress Wang and concubine Xiao unite against concubine Wu -- Concubine Wu fights back -- The courtiers take sides -- Empress Wang and her supporters take a mis-step -- Empress Wang and the crown prince are removed -- Wu becomes empress -- From empress to empress dowager -- Advancing supporters and annihilating opponents -- Taking part in politics -- The pleasures of traveling -- Relationship with her children -- The empress dowager consolidates her power -- Standing at the top -- View from the summit -- Rebellions -- The largest rebellion -- The rebellions of the Princes Li -- Other rebellions -- Abuse of power at every level -- Picking favorites -- Naming a successor -- Empress Wu's favorites -- Relations with other nations -- Tibet -- Korea -- The Tujue clan -- Japan and Arabia -- Famous legends about Empress Wu -- Face reading -- Flowers blooming in winter -- Other legends.…”
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Granville Sharp's canon and its kin semantics and significance / by Wallace, Daniel B.

Table of Contents: “…The problem of the construction -- The need for this study -- Methodological considerations -- Limitations in the method and scope of research -- Historical investigation -- Preface : Jesus as [Geovv] in the New Testament -- Granville Sharp and his Remarks on the uses of the definitive article -- A short life of Granville Sharp -- The writings of Granville Sharp -- Sharp's Remarks on the uses of the definitive article -- Two centuries of misunderstanding -- From Wordsworth to Winstanley : early reactions to Sharp's first principle -- From Middleton to Winer : the eclipse of understanding -- The rising misunderstanding, abuse, and neglect of Sharp's canon -- Sharp redivivus? …”
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Injury prevention for children and adolescents research, practice, and advocacy /

Table of Contents: “…Liller, and Elizabeth Bennett -- Child physical abuse and neglect / David DiLillo, Rosalita C. Maldonado, and Laura E. …”
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Wilkie Collins interdisciplinary essays

Table of Contents: “…Too absurdly repulsive : generic indeterminacy and the failure of The fallen leaves / Anne-Marie Beller -- A distaste for matrimonial sauce : the celebration of bachelorhood in the journalism and fiction of Collins and Dickens / Holly Furneaux -- Parallel worlds : Collins's sensationalism and spiritual practice / Tatiana Kontou -- Text and image together : the influence of illustration and the Victorian market in the novels of Wilkie Collins / Clare Douglass -- The face of the adversary in the novels of Wilkie Collins / Aoife Leahy -- Mental states : political and psychological conflict in Antonina / Andrew Mangham -- Reading faces : physiognomy and the depiction of the heroine in the fiction of Wilkie Collins / Jessica Cox -- Questioning moral inheritance in The legacy of Cain / Amanda Mordavsky Caleb -- Habituation and incarceration : mental physiology and asylum abuse in The woman in white and Dracula / William Hughes -- Heart and science and vivisection's threat to women / Greta Depledge -- The Scotch verdict and irregular marriages : how Scottish law disrupts the normative in The law and the lady and Man and wife / Anne Longmuir -- Collins on international copyright : from A national wrong (1870) to Considerations (1880) / Graham Law -- The dangerous brother : family transgression in The haunted hotel / Lynn Parker -- Twin-sisters and theatrical thieves : Wilkie Collins and the dramatic adaptation of The moonstone / Richard Pearson -- Sensation drama? …”
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Play therapy with vulnerable populations : no child forgotten /

Table of Contents: “…Gallagher -- Healing children affected by sexual abuse : therapeutic touchstone / Eileen Prendiville -- Animal-assisted play therapy to empower vulnerable children / Ris�e VanFleet & Tracie Faa-Thompson -- Disaster play therapy with children / Jennifer Baggerly & Marshia Allen-Auguston -- Holistic mental health care & play therapy for hospitalized, chronically ill children / Judith A. …”
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Protest beyond borders contentious politics in Europe since 1945 /

Table of Contents: “…Transnational approaches to social mobilization in Europe since 1945 : an introduction / Hara Kouki and Eduardo Romanos -- Extraparliamentary entanglements : framing peace in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1974 / Andrew Oppenheimer -- The Prague Spring and the 'Gypsy question' : a transnational challenge to the socialist state / Celia Donert -- Human rights as a transnational vocabulary of protest : campaigning against the political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union / Hara Kouki -- Stairway to heaven or highway to hell? …”
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Reforming welfare by rewarding work one state's successful experiment / by Hage, Dave

Table of Contents: “…Welfare 101 : a new approach to public assistance : introducing Patty, Lucille, and Meg -- Reality check (1986) : a crash course in poverty for a divided legislature -- Real life, fall 2001 : Patty leaves an abusive boyfriend, Lucille moves north for a fresh start, Meg abandons her dream of medical school -- Remaking welfare (1987-1994) : making work pay -- Real life, winter 2001-2002 : Meg chooses school over a dead-end job, Patty fights for child support, Lucille pursues her GED -- A new federal challenge (1997) : the Personal Responsibility Act threatens Minnesota's innovations -- Real life, spring 2002 : Lucille escapes a violent neighborhood, surgery for her boys sidetracks Meg, Patty's choice: mother or breadwinner -- Making welfare work (1998-2000) : Minnesota attracts national attention -- Real life, summer 2002 : Patty becomes engaged, Lucille returns south to care for her mother, Meg is back on track -- The limits of Welfare reform (2000-2001) : when work isn't the answer -- Real life, fall 2002 : Lucille wins disability benefits, Patty goes back to square one, Meg finds the perfect job -- Unfinished business : what the nation can learn from Minnesota's experiment.…”
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Protest beyond borders contentious politics in Europe since 1945 /

Table of Contents: “…Transnational approaches to social mobilization in Europe since 1945 : an introduction / Hara Kouki and Eduardo Romanos -- Extraparliamentary entanglements : framing peace in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1974 / Andrew Oppenheimer -- The Prague Spring and the 'Gypsy question' : a transnational challenge to the socialist state / Celia Donert -- Human rights as a transnational vocabulary of protest : campaigning against the political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union / Hara Kouki -- Stairway to heaven or highway to hell? …”
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Play therapy with vulnerable populations : no child forgotten /

Table of Contents: “…Gallagher -- Healing children affected by sexual abuse : therapeutic touchstone / Eileen Prendiville -- Animal-assisted play therapy to empower vulnerable children / Ris�e VanFleet & Tracie Faa-Thompson -- Disaster play therapy with children / Jennifer Baggerly & Marshia Allen-Auguston -- Holistic mental health care & play therapy for hospitalized, chronically ill children / Judith A. …”
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The new science of the mind from extended mind to embodied phenomenology / by Rowlands, Mark

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The new science of the mind from extended mind to embodied phenomenology / by Rowlands, Mark

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Five Strands of Fictionality : The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Fiction / by Punday, Daniel

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Darkly Perfect World : Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir / by Orr, Stanley, 1967-

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Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory /

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Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene /

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Five Strands of Fictionality : The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Fiction / by Punday, Daniel

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Darkly Perfect World : Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir / by Orr, Stanley, 1967-

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Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene /

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Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory /

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Modern girls on the go gender, mobility, and labor in Japan /

Table of Contents: “…Tipton -- Elevator girls moving in and out of the box / Laura Miller -- Sweat, perfume, and tobacco : the ambivalent labor of the dance hall girl / Vera Mackie -- "Flying geisha" : Japanese stewardesses with Pan American World Airways / Christine R. Yano -- Bus guides tour national landscapes, pop culture, and youth fantasies / Alisa Freedman -- The modern girl as militarist : female soldiers in and beyond Japan's self-defense forces / Sabine Frühstück -- The promises and possibilities of the pitch : 1990s Ladies League soccer players as fin de siècle modern girls / Elise Edwards -- Miss Japan on the global stage : the journey of Ito Kinuko / Jan Bardsley -- Traveling to learn, learning to lead : Japanese women as American college students, 1900-1941 / Sally A. …”
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