The Howard Factor by Cater, Nick

Table of Contents: “…Intro; THE HOWARD FACTOR; CONTENTS; THE CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; HOW HOWARD GOVERNS; CULTURE WARS; HOWARD'S WAY; TWO HOWARDS; PURPOSE DRIVEN; GETTING PERSONAL; PROSPERITY AND REFORM; THE GOLDEN YEARS; THE CARROT AND THE STICK; TAXING TIMES; UNFINISHED BUSINESS; THE HOME FRONT; PLEASE EXPLAIN; MIXED RACE, MIXED MESSAGES; BEYOND SORRY; THE DOCTRINE OF CHOICE; JUMPING THE WHITE PICKET FENCE; HOWARD ABROAD; ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE; AT WAR WITH TERROR; TEAM AMERICA; HEARTS AND MINDS; LOSING THE PLOT; READ MY LIPS; THE HOWARD IDIOM; HOWARDS SOUTH PARK CONSERVATIVES; THE HOWARD DECADE…”
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On the nature of man by Runes, Dagobert D.

Table of Contents: “…; The Flame; Professionals at the Altar; The Bloody Chain; Shamans and Kings; The Ugly Fence; The Yoke; The Axe and the Scepter; The Many, the Few and the One; Evening Thoughts; The Greater Self; Byways of Reason; Only About God; The Gregarious Creature; Adverse and Universe; Giant Shadows and Small Men; Copyright Page.…”
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Secrets of the oak woodlands : plants and animals among California's oaks by Marianchild, Kate

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Acorn woodpecker -- Big-eared and dusky-footed woodrat -- California bay laurel -- California buckeye -- California chanterelle -- California ground squirrel -- California newt -- California quail -- California sister butterfly -- Common and big-berry manzanita -- Coyote -- Lace lichen -- Miraculous mycorrhizas -- Oak galls -- Oak mistletoe -- Oak titmouse -- Poison oak -- Toyon -- Western bluebird -- Western fence lizard -- Western gray squirrel -- Western scrub-jay.…”
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Elizabeth Seton : American saint by O'Donnell, Catherine (Historian)

Table of Contents: “…Two families -- Betsy Bayley -- A home of one's own -- Courage flies -- Knot of oak -- The other side of the fence -- These dear people -- The battle joined -- This storm -- A convert in New York -- Duty or obedience -- A new being -- Some charitable persons -- Half in the sky -- Endeavor -- Trials of the passage -- Death, judgment, hell, heaven -- War and bustle -- Our meaning -- Swift rolling earth -- Written by herself -- I see my God -- Eternity.…”
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The American Puritan elegy : a literary and cultural study by Hammond, Jeffrey, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Monuments enduring and otherwise; CHAPTER 2 Toward an anthropology of Puritan reading; 3 Weep for yourselves: the Puritan theology of mourning; 4 This potent fence: the holy sin of grief; 5 Lord, is it I?: Christic saints and apostolic mourners; 6 Diffusing all by pattern: the reading of saintly lives; Epilogue: Aestheticizing loss; Notes; Works cited; Index.…”
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The hand & the glove by Machado de Assis, 1839-1908

Table of Contents: “…A Robe; 3. Next to the Fence; 4. Later Anguis; 5. Childhood; 6. The Postscript; 7. …”
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Being human, being migrant : senses of self and well-being.

Table of Contents: “…Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction Being Human, Being Migrant; 1 Fantasy, Subjectivity and Vulnerability through the Story of a Woman Asylum Seeker in Italy; 2 Negotiating the Past, Imagining a Future; 3 Narrating Mobile Belonging; 4 Well-Being and the Implication of Embodied Memory; 5 Towards a 'Re-envisioning of the Everyday' in Refugee Studies; 6 Behind the Iron Fence; Epilogue A Migrant or Circuitous Sensibility; Notes on Contributors; Index.…”
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Converts to Judaism : stories from biblical times to today by Epstein, Lawrence J. (Lawrence Jeffrey)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: welcoming the stranger: the place of converts in Jewish life -- Your people shall be my people: converts in the biblical era -- Over land and sea: the rise of proselytism in the Hellenistic and early Roman period -- A fence around the Torah: converts in the Talmudic era -- The time of religious struggle: converts in the Medieval era -- Leaving the ghetto: converts from the Jewish enlightenment to the present -- The golden land: converts in the United States -- The call of Zion: converts in Israel -- Lessons from the history of conversion to Judaism.…”
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The greening of the U.S. military : environmental policy, national security, and organizational change by Durant, Robert F., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…-- Base cleanups, sovereign impunity, and the expansion of the beaten zone -- Guns, dogs, fences, and base transfers -- Missiles, mayhem, and the munitions rule -- Natural resources management, military training, and the greening of the drone zone -- Safety, security, and chemical weapons demilitarization -- Pollution prevention, energy conservation, and the perils of châteaux generalship -- Avoiding the harder right in the post-Clinton era? …”
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Studies in the history of the English language V : variation and change in English grammar and lexicon : contemporary approaches

Table of Contents: “…Frontmatter; Table of Contents; Introduction; Dialogic Contexts as Motivations for Syntactic Change; Whatever Happened to English Sluicing; Notion of Direction and Old English Prepositional Phrases; Survival of the Strongest: Strong Verb Inflection from Old to Modern English; Subject Compounding and a Functional Change of the Derivational Suffix -ing in the History of English; Bad Ideas in the History of English Usage; The State of English Etymology (A Few Personal Observations); From Germanic 'fence' to 'urban settlement': On the Semantic Development of English town.…”
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Philippe de Commynes : Memory, Betrayal, Text. by Kleiman, Irit Ruth

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Black Box of Péronne, or Commynes and the Canon -- 2 Enseignes: What History Writes on the Body -- 3 Enseignes: Crosses and Coins, Bridges and Fences -- 4 The Prince of Talmont -- 5 Paper and Parchment -- 6 The Treasonous Saint-Pol -- 7 The Voice in the Text -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.…”
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Philippe de Commynes : Memory, Betrayal, Text. by Kleiman, Irit Ruth

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Black Box of Péronne, or Commynes and the Canon -- 2 Enseignes: What History Writes on the Body -- 3 Enseignes: Crosses and Coins, Bridges and Fences -- 4 The Prince of Talmont -- 5 Paper and Parchment -- 6 The Treasonous Saint-Pol -- 7 The Voice in the Text -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.…”
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Border culture

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series Foreword by Ilan Stavans; Introduction; Part I: Considerations; La Frontera: The Border as Symbol and Reality in Mexican-American Thought Mario; The Great Wall of Capital; Establishing Shots of the Border: The Fence and the River; Lola Casanova: Tropes of Mestizaje and Frontiers of Race; Serpent Tongues, Social Hierarchies, and National Citizenship: The Splitting of Border Languages and Cultures between Latina/o Youths; Mission Denial: The Development of Historical Amnesia.…”
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The greening of the U.S. military : environmental policy, national security, and organizational change by Durant, Robert F., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…-- Base cleanups, sovereign impunity, and the expansion of the beaten zone -- Guns, dogs, fences, and base transfers -- Missiles, mayhem, and the munitions rule -- Natural resources management, military training, and the greening of the drone zone -- Safety, security, and chemical weapons demilitarization -- Pollution prevention, energy conservation, and the perils of châteaux generalship -- Avoiding the harder right in the post-Clinton era? …”
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Under deadman's skin : discovering the meaning of children's violent play by Katch, Jane

Table of Contents: “…The suicide game -- Murderer -- Rated R -- The party -- Runaways -- Obsessed -- Reserved -- He knows I know he knows -- The F-word -- Anaconda -- Vulnerable bad guys, electric fences, and poisonous snakes -- A vulnerable writer -- Strangled -- The rules of violence -- Girls! …”
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Pastoral practices in High Asia : Agency of 'development' effected by modernisation, resettlement and transformation.

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Geospatial data science quick start guide : effective techniques for performing smarter geospatial analysis using location intelligence by Hassan, Abdishakur, Vijayaraghavan, Jayakrishnan

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EU-Russian Border Security : Challenges, (Mis)Perceptions and Responses. by Golunov, S. V., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…-- The EU-Russian border -- Existing works on the topic -- Conceptual approach -- Structure of the book -- Border security: towards conceptualization -- Border security agenda in border studies and other disciplines -- Traditional approaches -- Since the end of 1980s: borders challenged -- Practical approaches to border security -- Unilateral fencing off -- Security by common efforts: US-Canada border -- Elimination of barriers and creation of common border space: the EU experience -- "Hybrid" border security policies: the case of Russia -- A way to combine theory with practice: pragmatist-dialogical approach -- EU-Russian border(land): characteristics and representations -- EU-Russian border(land) as objective reality -- The coterminous other in mutual perceptions: acceptance and rejection -- EU and Russia: important but not reliable partners -- Russia and Finland: everything is wonderful, but -- Russia and the Baltic States: slowly fading enmity -- Russia and Poland: going hot and cold by turns -- The border conctructed: representations and projects -- Immigration as a security issue -- Smuggling and grey trade -- Border protection: strategies, achievements, and side effects.…”
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Sports : the complete visual reference

Table of Contents: “…Kendosumo wrestling -- kung fu -- taekwondo -- boxing -- kickboxing and full contact -- fencing -- Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling -- Sports on Wheels -- skateboarding -- roller hockey -- in-line skating -- Motor Sports -- introduction -- Formula 1 -- drag racing -- rallying -- off-road rallying -- motorcycling -- snowmobiling -- powerboat racing -- Sports of Aestheticism -- bodybuilding -- acknowledgments -- index -- photo credits…”
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Lazaretto : how Philadelphia used an unpopular quarantine based on disputed science to accommodate immigrants and prevent epidemics by Barnes, David S. (David Stepanek), 1962-

Table of Contents: “…"This Inhuman Traffic" -- 9. Fencing in Yellow Fever, 1820 -- 10. "Detained on account of her hides" -- 11. …”
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Compelled to write : alternative rhetoric in theory and practice by Wallace, David L., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; 1: Defining Alternative Rhetoric: Embracing Intersectionality and Owning Opacity; Interchapter: Piano Lessons; 2: Sarah Grimké: Breaking the Bonds of Womanhood; Interchapter: Jumper Cables and Double Consciousness as a Habit of Mind; 3: Frederick Douglass: Taking an Ell to Claim Humanity; Interchapter: Pickles; 4: Gloria Anzaldúa: Borderlands and Fences; Literacy and Rhetoric; Interchapter: The Light of the World; 5: David Sedaris: Expanding Epideictic-A Rhetoric of Indirection; Interchapter: Day Four in Paris; 6: Alternative Rhetoric and Marked Writing.…”
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The sphere of birds by Berry, Ciaran, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Cold Pastoral; One; Orchid; For the Birds; Blindness; Foundlings; Topography with Storm Petrels & Arctic Tern; Electrocuting an Elephant; The Parsley Necklace; Two; Harbinger & Ghost; Over By; A Beard of Bees; Donegal Fences; Cuckoo Spit; Oblique Projection; The Sphere of Birds; The Hive; Three; Trajectory; Moving & Storage; April 1941; The Act of Seeing; On the Anatomy of the Horse; Extraction; Two Funerals; Notes; Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry; Back Cover.…”
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The politics of scale : a history of rangeland science by Sayre, Nathan Freeman

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Rangelands, science, and the politics of scale -- Producing the range : extermination and fences -- Fire and climax : bureaucratic divisions of scientific labor -- Squinting at blind spots : Southwestern rangelands and the consolidation of successional theory -- Fixing stocking rates : monitoring and the politics of measurement -- To manage or manipulate : natural versus artificial improvement of depleted rangelands -- The Western range goes global : neo-malthusianism and pastoral development -- Till the cows come home : overseas failures and critiques of range science -- Conclusion: Capital, climate, and community-based conservation.…”
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Compelled to write : alternative rhetoric in theory and practice by Wallace, David L., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; 1: Defining Alternative Rhetoric: Embracing Intersectionality and Owning Opacity; Interchapter: Piano Lessons; 2: Sarah Grimké: Breaking the Bonds of Womanhood; Interchapter: Jumper Cables and Double Consciousness as a Habit of Mind; 3: Frederick Douglass: Taking an Ell to Claim Humanity; Interchapter: Pickles; 4: Gloria Anzaldúa: Borderlands and Fences; Literacy and Rhetoric; Interchapter: The Light of the World; 5: David Sedaris: Expanding Epideictic-A Rhetoric of Indirection; Interchapter: Day Four in Paris; 6: Alternative Rhetoric and Marked Writing.…”
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School of Europeanness : tolerance and other lessons in political liberalism in Latvia by Dzenovska, Dace

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : paradox of Europeanness : the need to exclude and the virtue of inclusion -- Pride and shame : the moral and political landscape of Europe's colonial past in the present -- The state people and their minorities : rebirth of a national state with a minority problem -- Knowing subjects and partial understandings : diagnosis of intolerance and other knowledge practices after socialism -- Building up and tearing down : critical thinking in the context of tolerance promotion -- Language sacred and language injurious : ethical encounters with the other -- Repression and redemption : the tensions of rebordering Europe -- Epilogue : liberalism on the fence.…”
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Ashes to ashes : America's hundred-year cigarette war, the public health, and the unabashed triumph of Philip Morris by Kluger, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Adoring the devil's breath -- The earth with a fence around it -- It takes the hair right off your bean -- The golden age of malarkey -- "Shall we just have a cigarette on it?" …”

The need for "un-consolidating" consolidated banks' stress tests by Cerutti, Eugenio

Table of Contents: “…Partial and Full Ring Fencing Adjustments; References; Annex I -- Mapping Bank Groups.…”
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Harvesting intangible assets : uncover hidden revenue in your company's intellectual property by Sherman, Andrew J.

Table of Contents: “…The intellectual capital agrarian -- Planting the seeds: fostering a culture of innovation -- Irrigating the field: embracing intrapreneurship -- Caring for the fruits of the harvest: intellectual asset management (IAM) -- Building fences to protect your turf: developing a legal strategy -- Separating the wheat from the chaff: readying crops for the market -- Bringing the crops to the marketplace: an overview of strategic alternatives -- Harvesting the power of intellectual capital leveraging: cooperatives, customers, channel partners, licensing, joint ventures, and franchising -- The global intellectual asset frontier -- The future of innovation -- Directory of licensing resources, exchanges, and agents.…”
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Threshold : emergency responders on the US-Mexico border by Jusionyte, Ieva, 1983-

Table of Contents: “…Dead end -- Treacherous Terrain -- First due to the border -- Binational security -- Toxic statecraft -- Politics of wounding and of rescue -- Nogales, Arizona, Mexico -- Fence jumpers -- Tactical infrastructure -- Por otro lado (to the other side) -- Overpaid tomato pickers -- Accidental violence -- Brotherhood -- Red tape -- Maquiladora -- Acid rain -- Road to rocky point -- Staging -- Security of the future -- Load vehicles -- The man in black dress pants -- Bound by law -- Watchouts -- Aid is not a crime -- Land of many uses -- Some pill to help us walk -- Epilogue: the great new wall.…”
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Line in the sand : a history of the western U.S.-Mexico border by St. John, Rachel, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: A New Map for North America: Defining the Border; Chapter Two: Holding the Line: Fighting Land Pirates and Apaches on the Border; Chapter Three: Landscape of Profits: Cultivating Capitalism across the Border; Chapter Four: The Space Between: Policing the Border; Chapter Five: Breaking Ties, Building Fences: Making War on the Border; Chapter Six: Like Night and Day: Regulating Morality with the Border; Chapter Seven: Insiders/Outsiders: Managing Immigration at the Border; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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In chains for my country : crusading for the British Southern Cameroons by Nfor, N. Nfor

Table of Contents: “…The Real World of Bamenda Central Prison; 4. Within the Iron Fence; 5. The Bitter-Sweet; 6. Through The Eye of Prison Detention; 7. …”
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Arts and Humanities Academics in Schools : Mapping the Pedagogical Interface. by Baker, Geoff

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Geoff Baker and Andrew Fisher; Part I Schools Outreach in Context; Chapter 1 Encountering Expertise: The Value and Practice of Academics in Schools Alan Dewar; Chapter 2 Sitting on the Fence or Breaking Through the Hedge?: Risk-Taking, Incentives and Institutional Barriers to Outreach W; Chapter 3 Measuring the Social Impact of Schools Outreach Sharon Clancy; Part II Teaching and Learning in Schools Outreach; Chapter 4 Bridging the Pedagogical Divide Between Universities and Schools Geoff Baker.…”
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Carpentry and Joinery 2. by Porter, Brian

Table of Contents: “…Winson; Preface; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER ONE SITE SETTING-OUT; CHAPTER TWO FENCES AND HOARDING; CHAPTER THREE FORMWORK (TEMPORARY WORK); CHAPTER FOUR TURNING PIECES AND ARCHED CENTRES UP TO 1-M SPAN; CHAPTER FIVE GROUND FLOORS; CHAPTER SIX SINGLE UPPER FLOORS; CHAPTER SEVEN SINGLE TIMBER FLAT ROOFS; CHAPTER EIGHT ROOFS OF EQUAL PITCH; CHAPTER NINE PARTITIONS (NON-LOAD BEARING); CHAPTER TEN SCAFFOLDING; Volumes and Chapters; Index.…”
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Racing in place : collages, fragments, postcards, ruins by Martone, Michael

Table of Contents: “…In the Middle of Things: An Introduction or an Afterword -- Racing in Place: 33 Hoosier Haiku -- City Light and Power: Views of My Grandfather Walking -- Fore -- What I Want to Tell: A Sequence of Rooms -- Going Up -- Still Life of Sidelines with Bob -- My Father Has Been Turned into a Monstrous Vermin -- Ephemera -- Country Roads Lined with Running Fences: A Dozen Story Problems about the Place of Place -- Sympathetic Pregnancies -- Seven Dwarf Essays -- Sixteen Postcards from Terra Incognita -- Views of My Glasses -- Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Moon Winx -- On Being.…”
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Multilingual Lexicon for Universiade Sports. by Busch, R.

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Cemeteries of Illinois : a Field Guide to Markers, Monuments, and Motifs. by Hassen, Hal

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Visas and walls : border security in the age of terrorism by Avdan, Nazli

Table of Contents: “…Terrorism, Trade, and Border Fences; Chapter 5. Turkey's Migration Policy: An Illustrative Case Study; Conclusion: Improving Theory and Policy; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z; Acknowledgments…”
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Terrier Town : Summer of '49. by Menary, David

Table of Contents: “…Terrier Town-Summer of '49; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Game Seven; A Time and a Place; Beginnings; Twinkletoes; Winter and Spring; Waiting for Warren; Tom Padden; Friends; The Red Sox; Pennell and the Prime Minister; Rivalry and Legends; Born of the Spring; May Day; Summer Day at Mill Creek; The Dog Days; More Dog Days; Summer Days, Summer Nights; Lefty Comes to Town; Honus and the Boys; The Glovebox; Hustlin' Gus; The Race; Tex; Only the Ball Was White; Young Blood; Murderer's Row; The Hodge Boys; Downfall; Billy Gibbs; Across the River; Hitting the Fence; Back Door into the Playoffs.…”
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Text and Act : Essays on Music and Performance. by Taruskin, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Cover page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Author's Note; INTRODUCTION; Last Thoughts First: Wherein the Author Gently Replies to a Few of His Critics and Takes Tender Leave of the Topic; How Works Work; IN THEORY; 1: On Letting the Music Speak for Itself; Postscript, 1994; 2: The Limits of Authenticity: A Contribution; Postscript, 1994; 3: Down with the Fence; 4: The Pastness of the Present and the Presence of the Past; I; II; III; IV; 5: What-or Where-Is the Original?…”
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The Mirror Crack'd : When Good Enough Therapy Goes Wrong and Other Cautionary Tales for the Humanistic Practitioner. by Kearns, Anne

Table of Contents: “…COVER; THE MIRROR CRACK'D; CHAPTER ONE: The mirror crack'd; CHAPTER TWO: The therapeutic frame: "Good fences make good neighbours" (Robert Frost); CHAPTER THREE: Assessment and risk-management; CHAPTER FOUR: Love and hate in the in-between; CHAPTER FIVE: Working through an impasse; CHAPTER SIX: Where there's smoke there's fire; CHAPTER SEVEN: The courage to be human: A humanistic approach to conflict resolution; CHAPTER EIGHT: "Everything's fine here"-or is it? …”
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