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The Arab world facing the challenge of the new millenium by Azzam, Henry T., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 1 The Arab world: preparing for a new era of growth 1 -- 2 Challenges and opportunities in the new millennium 13 -- 3 The new economy and its impact on the Arab region 36 -- 4 Arab bond markets: moving from the embryonic stage to the take-off stage 50 -- 5 Arab stock markets: facing up to new challenges 64 -- 6 Drivers of change affecting Arab banks 79 -- 7 Arab currencies: fix or float? …”
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Against their will the history and geography of forced migrations in the USSR / by Poli͡an, P. M.

Table of Contents: “…Forced migrations within the USSR -- Forced migrations before the Second World War (1919-1939) -- First Soviet deportations and resettlements in 1919-1929 -- Dekulakization and kulak exile in 1930-1931 -- Kulak exile and famine repercussions in 1932-1934 -- Frontier zone cleansing and other forced migrations in 1934-1939 -- Forced migrations during and after the Second World War (1939-1953) -- Selective deportations from the annexed territories of Poland, Baltic Republics and Romania in 1939-1941 -- Total preventive deportation of Soviet Germans, Finns and Greeks in 1941-1942 -- Retributive total deportations of the peoples of the North Caucasus and Crimea in 1943-1944 -- Preventive forced deportations from the Transcaucasia, and other deportations during the last stage of the war in 1944-1945 -- Compensatory forced migrations in 1941-1946 -- Ethnic and other deportations after the Second World War, 1949-1953 -- Patterns of deported peoples settlement, and rehabilitation process -- Patterns of deported peoples settlement at the destinations -- Rehabilitation and internal repatriation of Kalmyks and peoples of the North Caucasus -- Rehabilitation of Germans -- Rehabilitation of the Crimean Tatars -- Rehabilitation of Meshketian Turks -- Repressed peoples and ethnic conflicts on the territory of the USSR in the 1990s -- Part II. …”
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Journey of song public life and morality in Cameroon / by Ignatowski, Clare A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Maïtené's modern life : song as negotiation of public morality -- "Better than family, better than girls" : the Tupuri Gurna Society -- Defying the modern : play of identities in Gurna dance exhortation ([b,hooked][o]'ge f[o]g[e]) -- "Telephone of the dance" : circulation of Gurna song discourse -- "Rise up, gather like storm clouds" : poetics of Gurna song (si[ng] gurna) -- "I become your boy" : power, legitimacy and magic in song composition -- Staging conflict through insult : competing systems of justice -- Multipartyism and nostalgia for the unified past : discourses of democracy in Gurna politics -- Conclusion.…”
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Fanny Brice the original funny girl / by Goldman, Herbert G.

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Ethnicity and social work practice by Cox, Carole B.

Table of Contents: “…1. Setting the Stage: Ethnicity in American Society -- 2. Ethnicity and Social Work Practice with Individuals -- 3. …”
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Admitting the Holocaust collected essays / by Langer, Lawrence L.

Table of Contents: “…The Americanization of the Holocaust on Stage and Screen -- 14. What More Can Be Said About the Holocaust?…”
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Acting for singers creating believable singing characters / by Ostwald, David, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Being believable in any role on any stage : heightening -- Getting the part : auditioning -- Getting good : rehearsing -- Delivering a believable character: performing.…”
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Women, development, and the UN a sixty-year quest for equality and justice / by Jain, Devaki, 1933-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Women, development, and equality : history as inconclusive dialogue -- Setting the stage for equality, 1945-1965 -- Inscribing development into rights, 1966-1975 -- Questioning development paradigms, 1976-1985 -- Development as if women mattered, 1986-1995 -- Lessons from the UN's sixth decade, 1996-2005.…”
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Yellowface creating the Chinese in American popular music and performance, 1850s-1920s / by Moon, Krystyn R., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Imagining China: early nineteenth-century writings and musical productions -- Towards exclusion: American popular songs on Chinese immigration, 1850-1882 -- Chinese and Chinese immigrant performers on the American stage, 1830s-1920s -- The sounds of Chinese otherness and American popular music, 1880s-1920s -- From aversion to fascination: new lyrics and voices, 1880s-1920s -- The rise of Chinese and Chinese American vaudevillians, 1900s-1920s.…”
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Increase and multiply governing cultural reproduction in early modern England / by Glimp, David

Table of Contents: “…"Making up people" : the English Commonwealth and the writing of populations -- Defending poetic generation : Sir Philip Sidney and the aesthetics of educational reproduction -- Staging government : Shakespearean theater and the government of cultural reproduction -- The educational genesis of men : puritan reform and John Milton's Of education -- Paradisal arithmetic : Paradise Lost and the genesis of populations.…”
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Pacification in Algeria, 1956-1958 by Galula, David, 1919-1967

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. The stage: i. The background -- ii. Insurgency and counterensurgency in Algeria -- iii. …”
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Colonial rosary the Spanish and Indian missions of California / by Lake, Alison

Table of Contents: “…Native California before the missions -- All the world's a stage for Spain -- Exploration and settlement -- Establishment of the missions -- The messengers of St. …”
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Understanding colon cancer by Adrouny, A. Richard, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Who gets colon cancer and why -- The colon -- How colon cancer develops -- The "look" of colon cancer -- The "feel" of colon cancer -- Stages and prognosis of colon cancer -- Surgical treatment of colon cancer -- Treatment of later stages of colon cancer -- Prevention -- The future.…”
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The Peninsula Campaign of 1862 a military analysis / by Dougherty, Kevin

Table of Contents: “…The stage is set -- Opening moves -- The plan begins to unravel -- The tide turns -- So what?…”
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The New Grove guide to Wagner and his operas by Millington, Barry

Table of Contents: “…Chronology of Wagner's life and operas -- Life -- Works -- The operas -- Bayreuth / by Geoffrey Skelton -- Gesamtkunstwerk -- Leitmotif / by Arnold Whittall -- Staging Wagner from 1876 to the present day.…”
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Fine & dandy the life and work of Kay Swift / by Ohl, Vicki, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Prelude -- Professional and personal choices -- Highbrow/lowbrow in New York City -- Fine and dandy -- Stagestruck : the ballet to Radio City -- Gershwin obsession -- New frontiers -- She'll have Manhattan -- Challenges -- The show won't fold in Philadelphia -- Keep on keepin' on -- Finale.…”
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Jonathan Edwards a life / by Marsden, George M., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…A time to be born -- The overwhelming question -- The Pilgrim's Progress -- The harmony of all knowledge -- Anxieties -- "A low, sunk estate and condition" -- On Solomon Stoddard's stage -- And on a wider stage -- The mighty works of God and of Satan -- The politics of the Kingdom -- "A city set on a hill" -- God "will revive the flame again, even in the darkest times" -- The hands of God and the hand of Christ -- "He that is not with us is against us" -- Heavenly Elysium -- Conservative revolutionary -- A house divided -- A model town no more -- Colonial wars -- Thy will be done -- I am born to be a man of strife -- The crucible -- The mission -- Frontier struggles -- Wartice -- Against an "almost inconceivably pernicious" doctrine -- Original sin "in this happy age of light and liberty" -- Challenging the presumptions of the Age -- The unfinished masterworks -- The transitory and the enduring.…”
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Treating alcohol and drug problems in psychotherapy practice doing what works / by Washton, Arnold M.

Table of Contents: “…Nature, course, and diagnosis of substance use disorders -- Pharmacology and overview of psychoactive substances -- Ingredients of the integrated approach: doing what works -- Considerations in addressing concurrent psychiatric and substance use disorders -- The role of medications -- Assessment -- Individualized goal setting and treatment planning: meeting patients "where they are" -- Taking action -- Preventing relapse -- Psychotherapy in ongoing and later-stage recovery -- Group therapy -- Facilitating participation in self-help programs.…”
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Personal, portable, pedestrian mobile phones in Japanese life /

Table of Contents: “…Discourses of keitai in Japan / Misa Matsuda -- Youth culture and the shaping of Japanese mobile media: personalization and the keitai internet as multimedia / Tomoyuki Okada -- A decade in the development of mobile communications in Japan (1993-2002) / Kenji Kohiyama -- The third-stage paradigm: territory machines from the girls' pager revolution to mobile aesthetics / Kenichi Fujimoto -- Japanese youth and the imagining of keitai / Haruhiro Kato -- Mobile communication and selective sociality / Misa Matsuda -- The mobile-izing Japanese: connecting to the internet by pc and webphone in Yamanashi / Kakuko Miyata, ...…”
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Uncertainty underground Yucca Mountain and the nation's high-level nuclear waste /

Table of Contents: “…Nuclear waste story : setting the stage / Thomas A. Cotton -- Regulating the geologic disposal of high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain / William M. …”
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