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The Massachusetts General Hospital handbook of pain management /

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Radiobiology for the radiologist / by Hall, Eric J.

Table of Contents: “…Radiosensitivity and Cell Age in the Mitotic Cycle 5. Fractionated Radiation and the Dose-Rate Effect 6. …”
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Do the Balkans begin in Vienna? : the geopolitical and imaginary borders between the Balkans and Europe / by Foteva, Ana

Table of Contents: “…The Balkans between imagination and geopolitics -- Traditions constituting european identity -- Geographical, geopolitical, and cultural borders of the Balkans -- Colonial/imperial legacies and postcolonial struggles -- Setting the stage for the current project -- 1. Travelogues of war and travelogues of peace -- Black lamb and grey falcon : the south Slavs and the "imperial" West -- Balkan ghosts : the Balkans as a wormhole of space-time -- Milo Dor's larger homeland : a paradigm for an inclusive Europe -- Once again for Thucydides : narrative islands of peace amidst of war -- 2. …”
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The Sasanian world through Georgian eyes : Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian literature / by Rapp, Stephen H.

Table of Contents: “…Historiographical texts -- Early historiography and its corpora -- The Life of the kings -- The Life of the successors of Mirian -- The Life of Vaxtang Gorgasali -- Ps.…”
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We know how this ends : living while dying / by Kramer, Bruce H., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Handbook for the Recently Dis Eased -- 13. Time Traveling -- 14. Tripping the Light Fantastic -- 15. …”
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A history of ALA policy on intellectual freedom : a supplement to The intellectual freedom manual, ninth edition /

Table of Contents: “…Intellectual freedom principles for academic libraries : an interpretation of The library bill of rights -- History. Labeling and rating systems : an interpretation of The library bill of rights -- History. …”
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Jews and Humor /

Table of Contents: “…Humor in the Bible / Charles David Isbell -- Why did the widow have a goat in her bed? : Jewish humor and its roots in the Talmud and Midrash / David Brodsky -- But is it funny? …”
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Public Broadcast in Africa Series: Zimbabwe /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acronyms; Foreword; Introduction; 1 -- Country Facts; 1. …”
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Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God / by Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-

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Order in Disorder : Intratextual Symmetry in Montaigne’s “Essais” / by Runyon, Randolph, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : marginal symmetry -- Of means and ends: I: 1 and I: 57 -- The less said: I: 1 and I: 56 -- Something to hide: I: 3 and I: 55 -- Frivolous and vain: I: 4 and I: 54 -- In or out: I: 5 and I: 53 -- Trouble back home: I: 6 and I: 52 -- Words, in effect: I: 7 and I: 51 -- Of idleness and horses: I: 8 and I: 50 -- Lying, after a fashion: I: 9 and I: 49 -- Excess baggage: I: 10 and I: 48 -- Enough already: I: 11 and I: 47 -- Anagrams: I: 12 and I: 46 -- A waiting game: I: 13 and I: 45 -- More than one port in a storm: I: 14 and I: 44 -- Custom and princely grandeur: I: 15 and I: 43 -- Judging Julian judging: I: 16 and I: 42 -- Glory, given and taken: I: 17 and I: 41 -- Empty signs: I: 18 and I: 40 -- Prolonging life: I: 19 and I: 39 -- Unmasking masks: I: 20 and I: 38 -- Powers of attraction: I: 21 and I: 37 -- Complementarities and buried allusions: I: 22 and I: 36 -- Here and there: I: 23 and I: 35 -- How to paint a dog: I: 24 and I: 34 -- Well-nourished daughters: I: 25 and I: 33 -- God's wrath and the weather: I: 26 and I: 32 -- Things to come: I: 27 and I: 31 -- Of immoderation: I: 28 and I: 30 -- Sorting out the pieces: II: 1 and II: 37 -- Slipping it in: II: 2 and II: 36 -- Suicide is painless: II: 3 and II: 35 -- Caesar the procrastinator: II: 4 and II: 34 -- Suffering innocence: II: 5 and II: 33 -- Parallel deaths: II: 6 and II: 32 -- Rewards and punishments: II: 7 and II: 31 -- Hidden monsters: II: 8 and II: 30 -- Only when you need it: II: 9 and II: 29 -- Act your age: II: 10 and II: 28 -- Doubly cruel: II: 11 and II: 27 -- Opposable thumbs: II: 12 and II: 26 -- Eyes wide shut: II: 13 and II: 25 -- Equivalent equivalents: II: 14 and II: 24 -- Civil war vs. civil war: II: 15 and II: 23 -- Spreading the news: II: 16 and II: 22 -- Spitting images: II: 17 and II: 21 -- Consubstantial consubstantiality: II: 18 and II: 20 -- Distant harmonies: III: 1 and III: 13 -- Distant theft: III: 2 and III: 12 -- Intercourse with the lame: III: 3 and III: 11 -- The little things: III: 4 and III: 10 -- Sexual vanity, vain sex: III: 5 and III: 9 -- Borrowed wealth: III: 5 and III: 8 -- Journey to the center of the book: I: 29, II: 19, and III: 7 -- Epilogue: the playful text.…”
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Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers / by Hagood, Taylor, 1975-

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Contemporary African American Fiction : New Critical Essays /

Table of Contents: “…Mickle -- "When the women tell stories": healing in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory / Tara T. Green -- The coming-of-age of the contemporary African American novel: Olympia Vernon's Eden, Logic, and, A killing in this town / Dana A. …”
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The Novel and the Menagerie : Totality, Englishness, and Empire / by Koenigsberger, Kurt

Table of Contents: “…The novel as zoo: animal stories and English style -- Picturing Britannia's menagerie: the aesthetics of the imperial whole -- Circuses in cabinets: the Victorian novelist as beast tamer -- Elephants in the labyrinth of empire: Arnold Bennett, modernism, and the menagerie -- Monsters on the verandah of realism: Virginia Woolf's empire exhibition -- The "Anglepoised" novel after empire: English creatures and postcolonial exhibition -- Small islands, frozen arks.…”
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Friendship and Politics in Post-Revolutionary France / by Horowitz, Sarah, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : friendship in post-revolutionary France -- The sentimental education of the political -- The politics of anomie -- Friends with benefits -- Post-revolutionary social networks -- The politics of male friendship -- The bonds of concord : women and politics -- Epilogue -- Appendix A : Beranger, Chateaubriand, Guizot, and their friends -- Appendix B : detailed social networks in the 1820s and 1840s.…”
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Insurgent Testimonies : Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature / by Rizzuto, Nicole M.

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A Brief History of Islam in Europe : Thirteen Centuries of Creed, Conflict and Coexistence / by Berger, Maurits

Table of Contents: “…Uncivilized Europe (700-1000 CE). I. Setting the Stage. 1. Europe at the Dawn of the Muslim Conquests -- 2. …”
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Ancient Maya Commerce : Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil /

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China and the West : Music, Representation, and Reception /

Table of Contents: “…Chinese opera percussion from model opera to Tan Dun /…”
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Imperfect Creatures : Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1740 / by Cole, Lucinda

Table of Contents: “…Hoarding, Hunger, and Storage on Crusoe's Island -- Afterword: We Have Never Been Perfect.…”
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African Archaeology Without Frontiers : Papers from the 2014 PanAfrican Archaeological Association Congress /

Table of Contents: “…Archaeology and history in Iron Age settlements in the Congo Basin / Dirk Seidensticker -- 7. …”
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