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American madness the rise and fall of dementia praecox / by Noll, Richard, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…The world of the American alienist, 1896 -- Adolf Meyer brings dementia praecox to America -- Emil Kraepelin -- The American reception of dementia praecox and manic -- Depressive insanity, 1896-1905 -- The lost biological psychiatry -- The rise of the mind-twist men, 1903-1913 -- Bayard Taylor Holmes and radically rational treatments -- The rise of schizophrenia in America, 1912-1927.…”
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Aquinas's notion of pure nature and the Christian integralism of Henri de Lubac not everything is grace / by Mulcahy, Bernard, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Pure nature and the challenge of integralism -- Nature and secularity in pre-Thomistic theology -- Thomas Aquinas on mortality, infused virtues, and limbo -- Thomas Aquinas on kingship, natural law, and the sciences -- Pure nature, integralism, and Jansenism -- Henri de Lubac and pure nature in the 20th century -- De Lubac's heirs: radical orthodoxy -- Toward a resolution.…”
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Decreasing oxidative stress and retarding the aging process by Poljsak, Borut

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to the aging process -- Description of the problem -- Metabolic rate and life span -- The evolutionary reasons for not perfecting the prevention of free radical formation -- Methods to decrease oxidative stress and retard the aging process -- How do methods claiming to decrease oxidative stress compare with studies on long-lived populations? …”
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The full severity of compassion : the poetry of Yehuda Amichai / by Kronfeld, Chana

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "Be an other's, be an other" : a personal perspective -- Beyond appropriation : reclaiming the revolutionary Amichai -- "In the narrow between" : Amichai's poetic system -- "I want to mix up the Bible" : intertextuality, agency, and the poetics of radical allusion -- Celebrating mediation : the poet as translator -- Living on the hyphen : the necessary metaphor -- Double agency : Amichai and the problematics of generational literary historiography.…”
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Enabling creative chaos the organization behind the Burning Man event / by Chen, Katherine Kang-Ning

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the perils of under- and overorganizing -- Context: the development of the Burning Man event and organization -- Reflexive organizing: incorporating suggestions and criticisms -- Radical inclusion: attracting and placing members -- No spectators: motivating members to contribute -- Managing relations in the pursuit of legitimacy -- Conclusion: sustaining creative chaos -- Appendix 1. …”
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Executing Race : Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law / by Harris, Sharon M.

Table of Contents: “…Executing race : infanticide narratives -- Belinda : the politics of petitions -- Posthumous constructions : the writings of Ann Eliza Bleecker -- Margaretta Bleecker Faugeres : a post-revolutionary "freedom of mind" -- Lost boundaries : carnivalizing race and sexuality in Tabitha Tenney's Female Quixotism -- Lucy Terry : a life of radical resistance -- Appendix : Lucy Terry's obituary.…”
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Berlin Coquette : Prostitution and the New German Woman, 1890–1933 / by Smith, Jill Suzanne, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Berlin's bourgeois whores -- Sex, money, and marriage : prostitution as an instrument of conjugal critique -- Righteous women and lost girls : radical bourgeois feminists and the fight for moral reform -- Naughty Berlin? …”
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Where have all the flower children gone? by Gurvis, Sandra

Table of Contents: “…The protesters : from Port Huron to Kent State and Jackson State -- Hardliners : the conservatives and the hawks -- Communes and former radicals : selling out or stuck in time? -- And it's one, two, three : draft evaders, expatriates, and conscientious objectors -- Vietnam and Iraq : older and younger generations speak out -- Friends and peers : where have all the flower children gone? …”
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Uncertain path democratic transition and consolidation in Slovenia / by Rizman, Rudi

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: a theoretical understanding of the transition to democracy -- The making of a nation and political pluralism -- From a people to a nation-state -- The emergence of political pluralism -- The actors in democratic transition -- Intellectuals and politics -- The church and religion after communism -- The radical right challenge -- In lieu of a conclusion: toward democratic consolidation -- Appendix: chronology, 1974-2005.…”
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Almost worthy the poor, paupers, and the science of charity in America, 1877-1917 / by Ruswick, Brent

Table of Contents: “…Befriending and measuring the poor -- Opposition, depression, and the rejection of pauperism -- "I see no terrible army": environmental reform and radicalism in the scientific charity movement -- The potentially normal poor: professional social work, psychology, and the end of scientific charity.…”
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Textual Contraception : Birth Control and Modern American Fiction / by Capo, Beth Widmaier, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…"Lewd and lascivious" literature -- "As red and flaming as possible": radical rhetoric of the 1910s -- "For married women only": birth control and modern marriage -- "Conscious makers of people": achieving a free motherhood -- Reading the body, controlling the race: birth control and the eugenic impetus of the 1920s and 1930s -- The economics of desire and despair: birth control and the depression era -- Conclusion: textual contraception.…”
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Into the hearts of the Amazons in search of a modern matriarchy / by DeMott, Tom

Table of Contents: “…The blue mortuary -- The politician -- Honoring San Vicente -- The apologist -- Lavada -- The Russian -- Quintessential isthmus women -- The kid -- Vela Zandunga -- The spy -- The other city hall -- The princess -- Purse strings -- The blaseña -- Tirada de frutas -- The radical -- Day of the dead -- The Italian -- Bloqueo -- The journalist -- Marketplace Tehuantepec -- The filmmaker -- Inventing Santa Inés -- The grad student -- Green mangos -- The investigator -- The general's daughter.…”
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In the words of our enemies by Babbin, Jed L.

Table of Contents: “…Before September 11 -- The hate factories -- The hate networks -- The hate networks aim at Iraq -- Iran : the central terrorist nation, long before September 11 -- The Taliban, Pakistan, and Southwest Asia -- Radical Islam aims at Turkey -- China : the emerging enemy -- Putin's Russia -- Kim Jong-il's North Korea -- Fidel Castro's Cuba -- Hugo Chavez : Castro on steroids.…”
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William James in focus willing to believe / by Gavin, W. J. (William J.), 1943-

Table of Contents: “…James's life: will to believe as affirmation -- "Will to believe": policing versus free-roaming -- Principles of psychology: consciousness as a constitutive stream -- Varieties of religious experience: mysticism as a vague "exemplar" -- Pragmatism: corridor as "latent" and "the will to believe" -- Metaphysics: radical empiricism and pure experience -- "Pure" versus "impure" experience: examples of pure experience -- Challenges to "the will to believe" -- Conclusion: pragmatism, death, and "the will to believe".…”
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Theoretical and computational aspects of magnetic organic molecules / by Datta, Sambhu N.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to magnetism -- Organic molecules, radicals, and spin states -- Theoretical methodologies -- Molecular orbital description of magnetic organic systems -- Qualitative methods for predicting molecular spin states -- Quantum chemical calculations: structural trends -- Strongly coupled magnetic molecules -- Photomagnetic effects -- Transition metal complexes -- Computational studies of inorganic clusters and solid -- Systems -- A look ahead.…”
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Respiration, reactive oxygen species and uncoupling proteins

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Reactive oxygen species production by mitochondria -- Mitochondrial free radicals and ageing in short-lived and long-lived species -- Topology and sites of ROS production in the electron transport chain -- Regulation of ROS production by mild uncoupling -- Uncoupling of mitochondria by uncoupling proteins -- Superoxide and reactive alkenal activation of UCPs -- A model for UCP activation -- Evidence that UCPs attenuate ROS.…”
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The Sources of Anti-Slavery Constitutionalism in America, 1760-1848 / by Wiecek, William M.

Table of Contents: “…The ambiguous beginnings of antislavery constitutionalism : Somerset -- Antislavery during and after the American Revolution -- Slavery in the making of the Constitution -- Antislavery in the new nation -- Missouri statehood : the second crisis of the union -- The Southern counteroffensive -- Antislavery renascent -- Constitutional sparring -- Moderate constitutional antislavery : abolition manquee -- The Garrisonian critique -- Radical constitutional antislavery : the imagined past, the remembered future -- Epilogue : beyond free soil.…”
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Raging with compassion : pastoral responses to the problem of evil / by Swinton, John, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…: the practice of lament as resistance and deliverance -- Battling monsters and resurrecting persons : practicing forgiveness in the face of radical evil -- Practicing thoughtfulness : what are people for? …”
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We are the revolutionists German-speaking immigrants and American abolitionists after 1848 / by Honeck, Mischa, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…: a transnational abolitionist sisterhood -- Let us break every yoke : Boston's radical democracies -- A revolution half accomplished : building nations, forgetting emancipation.…”
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The making of minjung democracy and the politics of representation in South Korea / by Lee, Namhee

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : minjung, history, and historical subjectivity -- The construction of minjung -- Anticommunism and North Korea -- Anti-Americanism and chuch'e sasang -- The undonggwŏn as a counterpublic sphere -- Between indeterminacy and radical critique : madanggŭk, ritual, and protest -- The alliance between labor and intellectuals -- "To be reborn as revolutionary workers" : Gramscian fusion and Leninist vanguardism -- The subject as the subjected : intellectuals and workers in labor literature -- Conclusion : the minjung movement as history.…”
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