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The Civil War as global conflict : transnational meanings of the American Civil War /

Table of Contents: “…Civil War : retaliation and the limits of atrocity / Aaron Sheehan-Dean -- Fulfilling "the president's duty to communicate" : the Civil War and the creation of the Foreign relations of the United States series / Aaron W. Marrs -- "They had heard of emancipation and the enfranchisement of their race" : the African American colonists of Samaná, reconstruction, and the state of Santo Domingo / Christopher Wilkins -- Nurse as icon : Florence Nightingale's impact on women in the American Civil War / Jane E. …”
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The economics of immigration / by Bansak, Cynthia, Simpson, Nicole B., Zavodny, Madeline

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A Comparative Perspective of Women's Economic Empowerment by Yenilmez, Meltem Ince

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Secret wars and secret policies in the Americas, 1842-1929 by Schuler, Friedrich Engelbert, 1960-

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Laotian daughters working toward community, belonging, and environmental justice / by Shah, Bindi V., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…From Agent Orange to super fund sites to anti-immigrant sentiments : multiple voyages, on-going challenges -- New immigration and the American nation : a framework for citizenship and belonging in contemporary United States -- The politics of race : political identity and the struggle for social rights -- The politics of race : critical incorporation and inter-minority relations -- Family, culture, gender : narratives of ethnic reconstruction and meaning among second-generation Laotian women -- Building community, crafting belonging -- Conclusion : second-generation Laotians becoming "American".…”
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Language and society : anthropological issues /

Table of Contents: “…Pascasio and Araceli Hidalgo -- Correlational sociolinguistics and the ethnography of communication / Jacqueline Lindenfeld -- Sociological aspects of Black English dialects in the United States / R.B. Smith -- Communication in culture spaces / Akira Yamamoto -- Sociolinguistic variation and semantic structure : the case of Tamil kaRi / Franklin C. …”
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Transcultural bodies female genital cutting in global context /

Table of Contents: “…: discourses on female circumcision among and about Swedish Somalis / Sara Johnsdotter -- Managing cultural diversity in Australia : legislating female circumcision, legislating communities / Juliet Rogers -- Representing Africa in the Kasinga asylum case / Charles Piot -- Seeking asylum, debating values, and setting precedents in the 1990s : the cases of Kassindja and Abankwah in the United States / Corinne A. Kratz -- Making mandinga or making Muslims? …”
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Journal of Women's History Guide to Periodical Literature / by Fischer, Gayle V.

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Career development, employment, and disability in rehabilitation : from theory to practice /

Table of Contents: “…Conyers, Pia Smal, and Yung-Chen Chiu -- Essential knowledge to improve employment of ethnic minorities with disabilities in the United States / Jennifer L. …”
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Women and inequality in the 21st century /

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Bonica's management of pain /

Table of Contents: “…Intellectual milestones in our understanding and treatment of pain -- Pain terms and taxonomies of pain -- Peripheral pain mechanisms and nociceptor sensitization -- Substrates of spinal cord nociceptive processing -- Modulation of spinal nociceptive processing -- Supraspinal mechanisms of pain and nociception -- Psychological aspects of pain -- Indivdual differences in pain: the roles of gender, ethnicity, and genetics -- Functional neuroanatomy of the nociceptive system -- Clinical trials -- Sociocultural dimensions of pain management -- Ethical issues in pain management -- Ethical issues in the care of dying patients -- Laws and policies affecting pain management -- Litigation involving pain management -- Opioid policy, availability, and access in developing and nonindustrialized countries -- Medical evaluation of the chronic pain patient -- Electrodiagnostic evaluation of acute and chronic pain syndromes -- Diagnostic imaging of pain -- Measurement of pain -- Psychological and psychosocial evaluation -- Disability evaluation in painful conditions -- Multidisciplinary assessment of patients with chronic pain -- Painful neuropathies -- Complex regional pain syndrome -- Phantom pain -- Herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia -- Central pain states -- The psychophysiology of pain -- Pain and learning -- Psychiatric illness, depression, anxiety, and somatoform pain syndromes -- The psychology of addiction -- The doctor-patient relationship in pain management: dealing with difficult clinician-patient interactions -- Joint pain -- Myofascial pain syndrome -- Fibromyalgia -- Pain of dermatologic disorders -- Pain due to vascular causes -- Pain due to thoracic outlet syndrome -- Pain following spinal cord injury -- Epidemiology, prevalence, and cancer pain syndromes -- Mechanisms, assessment, and diagnosis of pain due to cancer -- Cancer pain: principles of management and pharmacotherapy -- Interventional pain therapies -- Pain caused by cancer of the head and neck and oral mucositis --…”
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