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Stanford in turmoil campus unrest, 1966-1972 / by Lyman, Richard W.

Table of Contents: “…The Sterling-Terman era -- Early Vietnam stirrings, Dean Allen's departure, David Harris's arrival, and Stanford's first sit-in -- How I became provost -- The stage is set -- The Martin Luther King Jr. crisis -- The first Old Union sit-in -- Classified research, SRI, and the coming of Ken Pitzer -- AEL, Encina, and calling the police -- Ken Pitzer's departure -- My presidency begins, and the Franklin Case is initiated -- The Franklin Case and after -- Trying to make sense of the campus unrest.…”
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Yes, but not quite encountering Josiah Royce's ethico-religious insight / by Tunstall, Dwayne A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Encountering Josiah Royce's ethico-religious insight -- Josiah Royce's personalism -- The "conception of God" debate : setting the stage for Royce's personalism -- Haunted by Howison's criticism : the birth of Royce's late philosophy -- Royce's late philosophy -- Royce's personalism -- Extending Royce' s ethico-religious insight : Royce on the beloved community, agape, and human temporality -- Royce's ethico-religious insight : a hypothetical postulate? …”
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Fractured borders reading women's cancer literature / by DeShazer, Mary K.

Table of Contents: “…"The night-side of life" : analyzing cancer literature from feminist perspectives -- "Skinnied on the left side like a girl" : embodying cancer on the feminist stage -- Entering "The house of lightning" : resistance and transformation in U.S. women's breast cancer poetry -- Dying into the lite : popular fiction, cancer, and the romance of women's relationships -- "Floating out on a yacht called Eros" : memory, desire, and death in women's experimental cancer fiction -- "Entering cancerland" : self-representation, commonality, and culpability in women's autobiographical narratives.…”
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Con Thien the Hill of Angels / by Coan, James P.

Table of Contents: “…Roots of conflict -- Before the Americans came -- The generals -- McNamara's wall -- The DMZ war unfolds -- Nguyen of the North versus PFC Jones -- Setting the stage -- The bloody month of May -- Battle for Con Thien -- DMZ invasion -- Summer in hell -- Buffalo -- Running the gauntlet -- General offensive, phase I -- The "Thundering Third" -- Into the valley of death -- The siege -- 3/9's turn in the barrel -- Monsoon misery -- Living in the "V" ring -- The "Magnificent Bastards" -- Kentucky -- Winter battles : 1967-68 -- After Tet -- Parting shots.…”
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Religious free exercise and contemporary American politics the saga of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 / by Waltman, Jerold L., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Dilemmas of free exercise in contemporary America -- Free exercise jurisprudence through 1997: Reynolds to Boerne -- The fine tuned politics of developing a response -- Building a record to meet the demands of section 5 -- The initial opposition to RLPA -- From RLPA to RLUIPA: civil rights versus religious liberty takes center stage -- Aftermath -- Conclusion.…”
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Lloyd George at war, 1916-1918 by Cassar, George H.

Table of Contents: “…Setting the stage -- The home front: The search for a manpower policy ; The challenge of labor ; Controlling shipping and food -- Strategy and the war: The first attempt at a unified command ; Facing the submarine menace ; Prelude to catastrophe ; The horror of Passchendaele ; The peripheral war ; The quest for a negotiated peace ; The creation of the Supreme War Council ; The plans for 1918 ; Before the storm ; Crisis on the western front ; The Maurice Affair ; The origins of intervention in Russia ; The German advance halted ; The turn of the tide ; The road to the armistice -- Conclusion.…”
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Narrative and imperative the first fifty years of Italian Holocaust writing (1944-1994) / by Sodi, Risa B., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: some considerations on Italian Holocaust writing -- Setting the stage: a brief history of the Jews of Italy -- Italian Holocaust testimony -- Primo Levi's Holocaust lexicon -- So that none should forget: Bruno Piazza -- Liana Millu's struggle for a women's Holocaust -- Giuliana Tedeschi: wife, mother, survivor -- Re-imagining the Holocaust: Italian fiction -- First on the scene: Giacomo Debenedetti -- Elsa Morante's questionable history -- "The only real Jew": Giorgio Bassani -- Paolo Maurensig and the "third iteration" -- Conclusion: 1944-1994 and beyond.…”
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How to present at meetings

Table of Contents: “…Sedgwick -- Data projection software: the hard facts / William Harrop-Griffiths -- How to appear on stage / Alan Maryon-Davis -- How to sell a message / Martin Godfrey -- How to present a talk / Charlotte Green -- How to deal with questions / Sir Alexander Macara -- How not to give a presentation / Richard Smith -- How to chair a session / Roger Horton.…”
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The Mapuche in modern Chile a cultural history / by Crow, Joanna

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Mythical objects and political subjects -- Histories of conquest: the occupation of Araucanía and its consequences, 1862-1910 -- Renewed struggles for survival: national festivities and Mapuche political activism, 1910-1938 -- Caudillos, poets, and sopranos: articulating Mapuche identities on the national and international stage, 1938-1964 -- Revolutionary transformations and new representational challenges, 1964-1973 -- The Pinochet dictatorship: conflicting histories and memories, 1973-1990 -- Claiming historical truth in the era of neoliberal multiculturalism, 1990-2010 -- Conclusion: a defiant history of difference.…”
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Into the red : the birth of the credit card market in postcommunist Russia / by Guseva, Alya, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…The architecture of credit card markets -- Market building in the transitional context -- Setting the stage : consumer credit and banking before and during the transition -- Inner circles : card issuing at the dawn of the market -- The stick but no carrot : disseminating cards through employers -- The carrot, at last : will consumer lending lead the way for Russia's credit card market? …”
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Edo kabuki in transition : from the worlds of the samurai to the vengeful female ghost / by Shimazaki, Satoko

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The birth of Edo kabuki -- Presenting the past: Edo kabuki and the creation of community -- The beginning of the end of Edo kabuki: Yotsuya Kaidan in 1825 -- Overturning the world: the treasury of loyal retainers and Yotsuya Kaidan -- Shades of jealousy: the body of the female ghost -- The end of the world: figures of the ubume and the breakdown of theater tradition -- The modern rebirth of kabuki -- Another history: Yotsuya Kaidan on stage and page.…”
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Pharmaceutical and biomedical project management in a changing global environment

Table of Contents: “…Steven -- 15: Effective Strategies for Project Resource Planning and Utilization / Eduardo Rojas and Scott D. Babler -- 16: Stage Gate Product Development Processes and Lifecycle Management / Karen E. …”
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The Roman Salute : Cinema, History, Ideology / by Winkler, Martin M.

Table of Contents: “…Saluting gestures in Roman art and literature -- Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii -- Raised-arm salutes in the United States before fascism : from the pledge of allegiance to Ben-Hur on stage -- Early cinema : American and European epics -- Cabiria : the intersection of cinema and politics -- Gabriele d'Annunzio and Cabiria -- Fiume : the Roman salute becomes a political symbol -- From D'Annunzio to Mussolini -- Nazi cinema and its impact on Hollywood's Roman epics : from Leni Riefenstahl to Quo vadis -- Visual legacies : antiquity on the screen from Quo vadis to Rome -- Cinema : from Salome to Alexander -- Television : from Star trek to Rome -- Conclusion.…”
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Revising the Clinic : Vision and Representation in Victorian Medical Narrative and the Novel / by Kennedy, Meegan, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Curious observations, curious sights: the eighteenth-century case history -- Staging clinical realism in the Victorian periodical -- The sentimental eye in Dickens and Gaskell -- George Eliot's realist vision: mechanical observation and the production of sympathy -- Speculation and insight: experimental medicine and the expansion of realism -- Mapping an unnavigable river: Freud, Rider Haggard, and the imperial romance.…”
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Performing the Victorian : John Ruskin and Identity in Theater, Science, and Education / by Weltman, Sharon Aronofsky, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Unstable as water -- "Mechanical sheep" and "monstrous powers" : John Ruskin's pantomime reality -- "Pretty Frou-Frou" goes demon dancing : performing species and gender in Ruskin's science -- Playground and playhouse : identity performance in Ruskin's education for girls -- Ruskin and the Wilde life : self and other on the millennial stage -- Conclusion : queering Ruskin.…”
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Psychology of love 101 / by Sternberg, Karin, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Taxonomic approaches -- Cultural theories of love -- A primer on methods: constructing a love scale -- Interpersonal attraction -- Stages of relationships: how relationships are formed, maintained, and ended -- Online dating -- Love and personality -- Relationship challenges: questions and answers.…”
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Design of CMOS operational amplifiers / by Dehghani, Rasoul

Table of Contents: “…CMOS fully differential op amps -- Chapter 6. CMOS output stages -- Chapter 7. CMOS reference generators.…”
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Financing new ventures : an entrepreneur's guide to business angel investment / by Gregson, Geoffrey

Table of Contents: “…Investment management, staged financing, and exits -- 7. Summary and future trends -- Appendices -- Notes -- References -- Index.…”
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On the make the hustle of urban nightlife / by Grazian, David

Table of Contents: “…Friday night in Philadelphia : the art of the hustle -- Dynamic imagineering : the staging of urban nightlife -- Spin control : public relations and reality marketing -- Winning bar : nightlife as a sporting ritual -- In the company of men : the girl hunt and the myth of the pickup -- Hustling the hustlers : challenging the girl hunt -- Where the action is : storytelling and the imagination of risk -- Smoke and mirrors : the experience of urban nightlife.…”
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Mountain of paradise : reflections on the emergence of greater California as a world civilization / by Chytry, Josef

Table of Contents: “…: California as a world civilization -- Bordering the civilization of greater California : an inquiry into genealogy, treaty-making and influence -- The coming of European speculative thought : three stages -- A golden age? : the California fifties as watershed -- California political economy : the emotional environments of Walt Disney -- Metaglobal California : California irredenta -- Epilogue : California and the Paradiso.…”
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