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The faiths of the postwar presidents from Truman to Obama / by Holmes, David L. (David Lynn)

Table of Contents: “…Kennedy -- Lyndon Baines Johnson -- Richard M. Nixon -- Gerald R. Ford -- James Earl Carter Jr. -- Ronald Wilson Reagan -- George Herbert Walker Bush -- William Jefferson Clinton -- George W. …”
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Southscapes geographies of race, region, and literature / by Davis, Thadious M., 1944-

Table of Contents: “…A map of the territory -- Southscapes : race, region, and reclamation -- Poverty and porches: controversial Mississippi -- Power and profession : Richard Wright's Mississippi and its expatriate legacies -- Politics and paysans : multicultural Louisiana and the space of the Crolit -- Parishes and prisons : Ernest Gaines's Louisiana and its North Carolina kin space -- Alice Walker matters : the fruits of gendered space.…”
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Southscapes geographies of race, region, and literature / by Davis, Thadious M., 1944-

Table of Contents: “…A map of the territory -- Southscapes : race, region, and reclamation -- Poverty and porches: controversial Mississippi -- Power and profession : Richard Wright's Mississippi and its expatriate legacies -- Politics and paysans : multicultural Louisiana and the space of the Crolit -- Parishes and prisons : Ernest Gaines's Louisiana and its North Carolina kin space -- Alice Walker matters : the fruits of gendered space.…”
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Financial services law /

Table of Contents: “…UK financial services reform / George Walker -- Statutory framework for UK financial services regulation / Paul Kennedy -- European financial services / Jane Welch and Peter Parker -- International agreements and supranational bodies / Deborah Sabalot -- The PRA and FCA and the handbooks of rules and guidance / Robert Purves -- Regulatory processes : authorisation, supervison, and enforcement / Simon Gleeson -- Financial redress : complaints, disputes, and compensation / Alex Kuczynski and James Darbyshire -- Listing and public offers / Julia Machin, Clifford Chance -- Market abuse / Jonathan Melrose -- Insider dealing and misleading statements and impressions / Jonathan Melrose and Richard Sims -- Money laudering and financial crime / Jonathan Herbst and Peter Snowdon -- Regulation and financial disputes in the civil courts / Richard Everett -- Banks and banking / George Walker -- Insurance regulation / Laura Hodgson, Noleen John, and Maria Ross -- Wholesale investment firms / Etay Katz -- Retail investment firms / Gerard McMeel -- Home Finance transactions / Robert Purves -- Collective investment schemes / Eva Lomnicka -- Islamic financial services / Andrew Henderson.…”

Financial services law /

Table of Contents: “…UK financial services reform / George Walker -- Statutory framework for UK financial services regulation / Paul Kennedy -- European financial services / Jane Welch and Peter Parker -- International agreements and supranational bodies / Deborah Sabalot -- The PRA and FCA and the handbooks of rules and guidance / Robert Purves -- Regulatory processes : authorisation, supervison, and enforcement / Simon Gleeson -- Financial redress : complaints, disputes, and compensation / Alex Kuczynski and James Darbyshire -- Listing and public offers / Julia Machin, Clifford Chance -- Market abuse / Jonathan Melrose -- Insider dealing and misleading statements and impressions / Jonathan Melrose and Richard Sims -- Money laudering and financial crime / Jonathan Herbst and Peter Snowdon -- Regulation and financial disputes in the civil courts / Richard Everett -- Banks and banking / George Walker -- Insurance regulation / Laura Hodgson, Noleen John, and Maria Ross -- Wholesale investment firms / Etay Katz -- Retail investment firms / Gerard McMeel -- Home Finance transactions / Robert Purves -- Collective investment schemes / Eva Lomnicka -- Islamic financial services / Andrew Henderson.…”

The Obama presidency a preliminary assessment /

Table of Contents: “…Dodds -- Vice president Joe Biden / Richard M. Yon -- First Lady Michelle Obama / Robert P. …”
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The Obama presidency a preliminary assessment /

Table of Contents: “…Dodds -- Vice president Joe Biden / Richard M. Yon -- First Lady Michelle Obama / Robert P. …”
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Colorectal cancer

Table of Contents: “…The clinical presentation of colorectal cancer / Sarah Fisher, Ian Daniels -- Pathology for the radiologist : pathological insights / Philip Quirke -- Screening for colorectal cancer / Steve Halligan -- The surgical approach to colorectal cancer / Ian Daniels, Richard J. …”
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Colorectal cancer

Table of Contents: “…The clinical presentation of colorectal cancer / Sarah Fisher, Ian Daniels -- Pathology for the radiologist : pathological insights / Philip Quirke -- Screening for colorectal cancer / Steve Halligan -- The surgical approach to colorectal cancer / Ian Daniels, Richard J. …”
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Congress and Harry S. Truman : a conflicted legacy /

Table of Contents: “…Hartmann -- Truman, Congress, and war powers / Louis Fisher -- Truman, Congress, and the military / Burton I. …”
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Congress and Harry S. Truman : a conflicted legacy /

Table of Contents: “…Hartmann -- Truman, Congress, and war powers / Louis Fisher -- Truman, Congress, and the military / Burton I. …”
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Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism : From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku / by Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…The Chicago Renaissance, Theodore Dreiser, and Richard Wright's spatial narrative -- The cross-cultural vision of Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- No name in the street : James Baldwin's exploration of American urban culture -- If Beale Street could talk : Baldwin's search for love and identity -- Jazz and Toni Morrison's urban imagination of desire and subjectivity -- Wright's The outsider and French existentialism -- Pagan Spain : Wright's discourse on religion and culture -- The African "primal outlook upon life" : Wright and Morrison -- The poetics of nature : Wright's haiku, Zen, and Lacan -- Private voice and Buddhist enlightenment in Alice Walker's The color purple -- Cross-cultural poetics : Sonia Sanchez's Like the singing coming off the drums -- James Emanuel's jazz haiku and African American individualism.…”
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Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism : From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku / by Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…The Chicago Renaissance, Theodore Dreiser, and Richard Wright's spatial narrative -- The cross-cultural vision of Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- No name in the street : James Baldwin's exploration of American urban culture -- If Beale Street could talk : Baldwin's search for love and identity -- Jazz and Toni Morrison's urban imagination of desire and subjectivity -- Wright's The outsider and French existentialism -- Pagan Spain : Wright's discourse on religion and culture -- The African "primal outlook upon life" : Wright and Morrison -- The poetics of nature : Wright's haiku, Zen, and Lacan -- Private voice and Buddhist enlightenment in Alice Walker's The color purple -- Cross-cultural poetics : Sonia Sanchez's Like the singing coming off the drums -- James Emanuel's jazz haiku and African American individualism.…”
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Tudor : passion, manipulation, murder : the story of England's most notorious royal family / by De Lisle, Leanda

Table of Contents: “…The elder sister : Margaret, Queen of Scots ; The younger sister : Mary, the French queen ; A family reunion and a royal rival ; Enter Anne Boleyn ; A marriage on trial ; The return of Margaret Douglas ; The terror begins ; The fall of Anne Boleyn ; Love and death ; Three wives ; The last years of Henry VIII ; Elizabeth in danger ; Mary in danger ; The last Tudor king -- Setting sun : the Tudor queens. …”
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Tudor : passion, manipulation, murder : the story of England's most notorious royal family / by De Lisle, Leanda

Table of Contents: “…The elder sister : Margaret, Queen of Scots ; The younger sister : Mary, the French queen ; A family reunion and a royal rival ; Enter Anne Boleyn ; A marriage on trial ; The return of Margaret Douglas ; The terror begins ; The fall of Anne Boleyn ; Love and death ; Three wives ; The last years of Henry VIII ; Elizabeth in danger ; Mary in danger ; The last Tudor king -- Setting sun : the Tudor queens. …”
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Heroes & hero cults in Latin America

Table of Contents: “…/ Ben Fallaw -- Augusto Sandino of Nicaragua : the hero never dies / Richard Grossman -- Frida Kahlo : heroism of private life / Nancy Deffebach -- Haya de la Torre and APRA / David Nugent -- Evita Perón : beauty, resonance, and heroism / Linda B. …”
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Sylvia Plath : New Views on the Poetry /

Table of Contents: “…Process and influence: The shape of the psyche: vision and technique in the late poems of Sylvia Plath / Richard Allen Blessing -- Plath's comedy / J.D. O'Hara -- Medusan imagery in Sylvia Plath / Sister Bernetta Quinn -- Influence and originality in Plath's poems / Gary Lane -- Plath's cosmology and the house of Yeats / Barnett Guttenberg -- 3. …”
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Heroes & hero cults in Latin America

Table of Contents: “…/ Ben Fallaw -- Augusto Sandino of Nicaragua : the hero never dies / Richard Grossman -- Frida Kahlo : heroism of private life / Nancy Deffebach -- Haya de la Torre and APRA / David Nugent -- Evita Perón : beauty, resonance, and heroism / Linda B. …”
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Sylvia Plath : New Views on the Poetry /

Table of Contents: “…Process and influence: The shape of the psyche: vision and technique in the late poems of Sylvia Plath / Richard Allen Blessing -- Plath's comedy / J.D. O'Hara -- Medusan imagery in Sylvia Plath / Sister Bernetta Quinn -- Influence and originality in Plath's poems / Gary Lane -- Plath's cosmology and the house of Yeats / Barnett Guttenberg -- 3. …”
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Evolution a Scientific American reader.

Table of Contents: “…Schramm, Edwin L. Turner and Richard G. Kron -- The first stars in the universe / Richard B. …”
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