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The changing Spanish family essays on new views in literature, cinema and theater /

Table of Contents: “…Tibbitts -- Parents on stage in contemporary Spanish theater / Candyce Leonard -- Basque identity on stage: history, family constructs, and the troubled mother in Maite Agirre's Bilbao: lauaxeta, tiros y besos and Teresa Calo Fontin's El dia en que invente tu nombre / Tracie Amend -- Mother-daughter relationships in contemporary Spanish theater / Cristina Casado Presa.…”
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The Unfinished Art of Theater : Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil / by Townsend, Sarah J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The uneven stage of the avant-gardes -- Mexico -- Rehearsals of the tragi-co(s)mic race -- Primitivist accumulation and Teatro sintetico -- Radio/puppets, or the institutionalization of a (media) revolution -- Brazil -- Parsifal on the periphery of capitalism -- Phonography, operatic ethnography, and other bad arts -- Total theater and missing pieces -- Postscript: Loose ends.…”
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Repetition, difference, and knowledge in the work of Samuel Beckett, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze by Gendron, Sarah, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…The unthinkable : a history and evolution of repetition in Western thought -- A critical reader : repetition, difference, and genre -- "The text which is not one" : the multiplicity of writing and the singularity of translation -- "The ether of metaphysics" : repetition and presence on stage and page.…”
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Augustine beyond the book intermediality, transmediality, and reception /

Table of Contents: “…Dramatizing Augustine on stage -- pt. 3. Augustine in confessionalized contexts of spirituality and devotion -- pt. 4. …”
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Interaction and mobility language and the body in motion /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- pt. II. Staging and collaborating for mobility -- pt. III. …”
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Mediating culture in the seventeenth-century German novel : Eberhard Werner Happel, 1647-1690 / by Scholz Williams, Gerhild, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…List of Abbreviations -- Setting the Stage -- "The Court of Public Opinion" : Fictionalizing Encounters with Historical Heroes (Imre Thököly and Friedrich von Schomberg) -- Dangerous Passage : Pirates, Robbers, Captives, and Slaves -- Losing Direction : Romance and Gender Confusions.…”
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Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power : Matilda Plantagenet and her Sisters / by Jasperse, Jitske

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : material culture and performance of power -- Staging the bride and her treasure -- Small items making big impressions : coins and seals -- Devotion and dynasty on parchment -- Trappings vested with power -- Epilogue : materializing power and its afterlife.…”
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Rethinking the Western understanding of the self by Steinvorth, Ulrich

Table of Contents: “…Heideggerian and Cartesian self -- Free will -- Cartesian, Lockean, and Kantian self -- Extraordinariness and the two stages of rationality -- The Cartesian self in history. …”
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Theories of development : concepts and applications / by Crain, William C., 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Early theories : preformationism, Locke, and Rousseau -- Gesell's maturational theory -- Ethological theories : Darwin, Lorenz and Tinbergen, and Bowlby and Ainsworth -- Montessori's educational philosophy -- Werner's organismic and comparative theory -- Piaget's cognitive-developmental theory -- Kohlberg's stages of moral development -- Learning theory : Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner -- Bandura's social learning theory -- Vygotsky's social-historical theory of cognitive development -- Freud's psychoanalytic theory -- Erikson and the eight stages of life -- Mahler's separation/individuation theory -- A case study in psychoanalytic treatment : Bettelheim on autism -- Schachtel on childhood experiences -- Jung's theory of adulthood -- Chomsky's theory of language development -- Conclusion : humanistic psychology and developmental theory.…”

Fighting cancer with knowledge & hope a guide for patients, families, and health care providers / by Frank, Richard C., MD

Table of Contents: “…Understanding cancer -- Diagnosis, staging, curability -- Understanding specific cancers -- Why cancer develops -- How cancer grows : the basis of cancer treatments -- Cancer treatments revolve around metastasis -- Cancer treatments at work -- Get prepared to survive.…”
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Medea's Daughters : Forming and Performing the Woman Who Kills / by Jones, Jennifer, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Female offenders and offensive females -- Petty (t)reasons for killing her lord and master -- Absence of (m)alice on the Victorian stage -- A jury of her peers -- Totaled women: the battered wife defense -- Medea returns -- Narratives of resistance.…”
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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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Kidnapped how irresponsible marketers are stealing the minds of your children / by Acuff, Dan S., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…The state of the state of being a kid -- Classifying good, neutral, and dangerous products and programs -- The three dimensions of development -- The innocent years : birth to age three -- The impressionable years : ages 3 to 7 -- The "rule-role" stage of development : ages 8 to 12 -- Early adolescence - ages 13 to 15 -- Late adolescence : ages 16 to 19.…”
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The microbial models of molecular biology from genes to genomes / by Davis, Rowland H.

Table of Contents: “…Model systems, model organisms -- Morgan's progeny -- Neurospora -- Aspergillus -- Yeast -- Leaving the fungi -- Escherichia coli -- The T bacteriophages -- Temperate phages and transduction -- DNA -- Prokaryotes take center stage -- Prokaryotes : later contributions -- Cytoplasmic inheritance : the ciliates -- Organelle genetics : yeast and chlamydomonas -- Yeast becomes a supermodel -- The filamentous fungi : eclipse and renewal -- The role of biochemistry -- Genomics -- The age of model organisms.…”
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The corporate free-speech movement cognitive feudalism and the endangered marketplace of ideas / by Kerr, Robert L.

Table of Contents: “…The age of cognitive feudalism -- Setting the stage -- An ideology blossoms -- Pottersville, Inc -- Adam Smith in the marketplace of ideas -- The rationale of the rehnquist doctrine -- Incorporating Meiklejohn's model more faithfully -- A jurisprudence on the brink -- Dagger at the throat of the news media -- Cloaking the commercial as political -- An age still in spin.…”
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Without precedent the life of Susie Marshall Sharp / by Hayes, Anna R.

Table of Contents: “…Family -- Formative years -- University of North Carolina School of Law -- False start -- Sharp & Sharp -- Politics and public life -- Appointment to Superior Court -- Judge Sharp, presiding -- Ambition -- Theory and practice -- The road to the Supreme Court -- Taking the veil -- Opinions -- Federal job proposals -- Out of court -- Chief justice election -- Chief justice -- Equal rights amendment -- Stepping off the stage.…”
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Constitution making under occupation the politics of imposed revolution in Iraq / by Arato, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…The externally imposed revolution and its destruction of the Iraqi State -- Postsovereign constitution making : the new paradigm (and Iraq) -- Sistani versus Bremer : the emergence of the two-stage model in Iraq -- Imposition and bargaining in the making of the interim constitution -- The making of the "permanent" constitution.…”
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MuzikMafia from the local Nashville scene to the national mainstream / by Pruett, David B.

Table of Contents: “…The Nashville scene -- The birth of the MuzikMafia -- August 2002 to March 2004 : growing popularity in Nashville and beyond -- April through December 2004 : the MuzikMafia takes the national stage -- Interlude : meet the MuzikMafia of 2004 -- 2005 : the second wave -- The beginning of the end.…”
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Nietzsche and the Anglo-Saxon tradition by Mabille, Louise

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the English type -- Englishmen underground ; or, The case of the abdicated playwright -- Hobbes against the world -- Locke, life, language -- Hume on the use and abuse of scepticism for life -- "Some have suspected me of Darwinism" -- The impossible John Stuart Mill -- How Monsieur George Eliot added insult to injury -- Wrong but romantic -- Shakespeare, Sterne, and stage -- The great American who loved the world.…”
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Rival queens actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater / by Nussbaum, Felicity

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: at stage's edge -- The economics of celebrity -- Real, beautiful women: rival queens -- Actresses' memoirs: exceptional virtue -- Actresses and patrons: the theatrical contract -- The actress and performative property: Catherine Clive -- The actress, travesty, and nation: Margaret Woffington -- The actress and material femininity: Frances Abington -- Epilogue: contracted virtue.…”
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