A ladder of cranes by Sexton, Tom, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…The Bird Walkers of Roosevelt Park; Pied-billed Grebe on the Concord River; At the Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, Massachusetts; Blueberry Barren at Dusk; Eastport, Maine; Star Marrow; First Anna's Hummingbird Sighted in Newfoundland; Statue of a Union Soldier; A Ladder of Cranes; White-tailed Buck in a Pasture; Winter Thaw; Glass Eels; Po Chü-I's Cook; Mozart's Starling; On the Death of Seamus Heaney; Innisfree, Western Alberta; Mundare, Alberta; The Wolf of Gubbio; Gray Wolf; Medieval Bestiary: The Wolf; Killing the Kenai Peninsula's Wolves; Fall Raspberries; Fireweed; Insomnia.…”
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New labor in New York : precarious workers and the future of the labor movement

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : toward a new labor movement : organizing New York City's precariat / Ruth Milkman -- Taking aim at Target : West Indian immigrant workers confront the difficulties of big-box organizing / Ben Becker -- Organizing immigrant supermarket workers in Brooklyn : a union-community partnership / Ben Shapiro -- Faith, community and labor : challenges and opportunities in the New York City living wage campaign / Jeff Broxmeyer and Erin Michaels -- UNITED New York : fighting for a fair economy in "the year of the protester" / Lynne Turner -- Infusing craft identity into a non-craft industry : the retail action project / Peter Ikeler -- Street vendors in and against the global city : VAMOS Unidos / Kathleen Dunn -- Protecting and representing workers in the new gig economy : the case of the Freelancers Union / Martha King -- The high-touch model : Make the Road New York's participatory approach to immigrant organizing / Jane McAlevey -- Bridging city trenches : the New York Civic Participation Project / Steve McFarland -- Creating open space to promote social justice : the MinKwon Center for Community Action / Susan McQuade -- An appetite for justice : the Restaurant Opportunities center of New York / Marnie Brady -- Not waiting for permission : the New York Taxi Workers Alliance and 21st century bargaining / Mischa Gaus -- Prepare to win : Domestic Workers United's strategic transitions following the passage of the New York Domestic Workers Bill of Rights / Harmony Goldberg -- Afterword : lessons from the new labor movement for the old / Ed Ott.…”
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Sex and the citizen : interrogating the Caribbean

Table of Contents: “…Buyers beware, "hoodwinking" on the rise: epistemologies of consumption in Terry McMillan's Caribbean / Patricia Saunders -- "Nobody ent billing me": a U.S./Caribbean intertextual, intercultural call-and-response / Carmen Gillespie -- Novel insights: sex work, secrets, and depression in Angie Cruz's Soledad / Donette Francis -- Against the rules of blackness: Hilton Als's The women and Jamaica Kincaid's My brother (or how to raise black queer kids) / Rinaldo Walcott -- Francophone Caribbean women writers: rethinking identity, sexuality, and citizenship / Odile Cazenave -- Indian nationalism and female sexuality: a Trinidadian tale / Tejaswini Niranjana -- Caribbean migrations: negotiating borders / Evelyn O'Callaghan -- Reflections on she web / Susan Dayal -- Threatening sexual (mis)behavior: homosexuality in the penal code debates in Trinidad and Tobago, 1986 / Yasmin Tambiah -- Sexual awakenings and malignant fictions of masculinity in Alfonso Cuáron's Y tu mamá también / M.S. …”
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The Maya diaspora : Guatemalan roots, new American lives

Table of Contents: “…George Lovell -- Space and identity in testimonies of displacement: Maya migration to Guatemala City in the 1980s / Antonella Fabri -- Organizing in exile: the reconstruction of community in the Guatemalan refugee camps of Southern Mexico / Deborah L. Billings -- Challenges of return and reintegration / Clark Taylor -- A Maya voice: the Maya of Mexico City / Domingo Hernández Ixcoy -- Becoming Belizean: Maya identity and the politics of nation / Michael C. …”
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Governing immigration through crime : a reader

Table of Contents: “…Chavez -- Bare life : border-crossing deaths and spaces of moral alibi / Roxanne Lynn Doty -- The rise and fall of employer sanctions / David Bacon and Bill Ong Hing -- Arizona's SB 1070 : setting conditions for violations of human rights here and beyond / Rogelio Sáenz, Cecilia Menjívar, and San Juanita Edilia García -- Immigration as local politics : re-bordering immigration through deterrence and incapacitation / Liette Gilbert -- Pursuant to deportation : Latinos and immigrant detention / David Manuel Hernández -- "¿Quien sabe?" …”
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Indigenous pop : Native American music from jazz to hip hop

Table of Contents: “…Troutman -- American Indian jazz : Mildred Bailey and the origins of America's most musical art form / Chad Hamill -- Jazz and the politics of identity : the spirit of Jim Pepper / Bill Siegel -- Speaking for the people : the protest music of Buffy Sainte-Marie and Floyd Westerman / Kimberli Lee -- Brothers of the blade : three Native axmen : Link Wray, Robbie Robertson and Jesse Ed Davis / Scott Prinzing -- "We were all wounded at Wounded Knee" : the engaged resistance of folk and rock in the Red Power era / Jan Johnson -- "We'll get there with music" : sonic literacies, rhetorics of alliance, and decolonial healing in Joy Harjo's Winding through the Milky Way / Gabriela R. …”
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Governing immigration through crime : a reader

Table of Contents: “…Chavez -- Bare life : border-crossing deaths and spaces of moral alibi / Roxanne Lynn Doty -- The rise and fall of employer sanctions / David Bacon and Bill Ong Hing -- Arizona's SB 1070 : setting conditions for violations of human rights here and beyond / Rogelio Sáenz, Cecilia Menjívar, and San Juanita Edilia García -- Immigration as local politics : re-bordering immigration through deterrence and incapacitation / Liette Gilbert -- Pursuant to deportation : Latinos and immigrant detention / David Manuel Hernández -- "¿Quien sabe?" …”
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Human cognition and social agent technology

Table of Contents: “…Foner -- The emergence of personality : how to create souls from cells / Steve Grand -- Machine-mediated communication : agents of representation / Bill Vorn -- Agents as artworks and agent design as artistic practice / Simon Penny -- Living with socially intelligent agents : a cognitive technology view / Kerstin Dautenhahn, Chrystopher L. …”
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Advances in Postoperative Pain Management by Buvanendran, Asokumar

Table of Contents: “…Advances in postoperative pain management -- The use of perioperative multimodal analgesia -- The place for melatonin in postoperative analgesic regimens -- Perineural additives for peripheral nerve blocks -- Linking regional anesthesia and analgesia with postoperative anticoagulation -- Parent management of childrenâ#x80;#x99;s postoperative pain -- Billing and compliance for acute interventional perioperative pain -- OLE_LINK1 -- OLE_LINK2 -- OLE_LINK1 -- _ENREF_1 -- _ENREF_2 -- _ENREF_3 -- _ENREF_4 -- _ENREF_5 -- _ENREF_6 -- _ENREF_7 -- _ENREF_8 -- _ENREF_9…”
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With the Hand : a Cultural History of Masturbation by Driel, Mels van, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Sex toys -- Dildos, vibrators and pins -- History -- The vibrator as a medical instrument -- Men on sex aids -- Online shopping -- The Butt plug Gnome -- Horses -- A Good Orgasm is beyond price -- Anal stimulation -- Artificial ejaculation -- the volume, smell and taste of sperm -- Bill Clinton -- Animals. Dr Tatiana -- The zoo director -- Doctors and other scientists. …”
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I Am John Galt : Today's Heroic Innovators Building the World and the Villainous Parasites Destroying It. by Greta, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 4: The Parasite: Angelo Mozilo as James Taggart, the businessman who corrupted government and nearly wrecked the U.S. economy: By Andrew GretaChapter 5: The Persecuted Titan: Bill Gates as Henry Rearden, the businessman who created revolutionary technologies and was criminalized for his success: By Andrew Greta; Chapter 6: The Central Planner: Barney Frank as Wesley Mouch, the politician who meddled in the economy and almost destroyed it: By Andrew Greta…”
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Countering terrorism and violent extremism

Table of Contents: “…Countering violent extremismWhat Australia is doing: current initiatives; National security agencies; Australian national security: what I can do; Australia's counter-terrorism laws: questions and answers; Foreign incursions and recruitment offences; Fact sheet: counter-terrorism laws; Australia's human rights score card: counter-terrorism; Citizenship in an age of home-grown terrorism; Sorting fact from fiction in the citizenship bill debate; Chapter 3 -- Countering extremism and radicalisation; What is violent extremism?…”
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Brill's companion to military defeat in ancient Mediterranean society

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 5 Military Defeat in Fifth-Century Athens: Thucydides and His AudienceChapter 6 Demosthenes, Chaeronea, and the Rhetoric of Defeat; Chapter 7 Spartan Responses to Defeat: From a Mythical Hysiae to a Very Real Sellasia; Chapter 8 "No Strength To Stand": Defeat at Panium, the Macedonian Class, and Ptolemaic Decline; Part 4 The Roman World; Chapter 9 Defeat and the Roman Republic: Stories from Spain; Chapter 10 The Ones Who Paid the Butcher's Bill: Soldiers and War Captives in Roman Comedy; Chapter 11 Defeated by the Forest, the Pass, the Wind: Nature as an Enemy of Rome…”
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Large-scale mines and local-level politics : between New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea

Table of Contents: “…/ Christine Demmer -- Conflict and agreement: the politics of nickel in Thio, New Caledonia / Pierre-Yves Le Meur -- Contesting the Goro Nickel Mining Project, New Caledonia: Indigenous rights, sustainable development and the land issue / Claire Levacher -- Dissecting corporate community development in the large-scale Melanesian mining sector / Glenn Banks, Dora Kuir-Ayius, David Kombako and Bill F. Sagir -- Negotiating community support for closure or continuation of the Ok Tedi Mine in Papua New Guinea / Colin Filer and Phillipa Jenkins -- Disconnected development worlds: responsibility towards local communities in Papua New Guinea / John burton and Joyce Onguglo -- Gender mainstreaming and local politics: women, women's associations and mining in Lihir / Susan R. …”
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Environmental Anthropology Today : Cross-Disciplinary Investigations. by Kopnina, Helen

Table of Contents: “…Environmental Politics and Policy Ambiguities in Environmental Anthropology: Peter Bille Larsen.…”
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John Waters : interviews

Table of Contents: “…/ Danny Fields and Fran Lebowitz/1973 -- The late show presents the divine world of John Waters / Bill George and Martin Falck/1974 -- "A lot of people were upset that we put the baby in the refrigerator …”
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Welfare effects of monetary integration : the Common Monetary Area and beyond by Asonuma, Tamon, Debrun, Xavier, Masson, Paul R.

Table of Contents: “…CMA Countries and Botswana: Central Bank Rates, Treasury Bill Rates, and Inflation Rates; 2. Small CMA Countries: Reserve Adequacy Ratio; 2. …”
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Rape in art cinema

Table of Contents: “…Higgins -- The fault lines of vision: Rashomon and The man left his will on film / Eugenie Brinkema -- Buñuel: storytelling, desire and the question of rape / Dominique Russell -- Materiality and metaphor: rape in Anne Claire Poirier's Mourir à tue-tête and Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend / Shana MacDonald -- Sins of permission: the union of rape and marriage in Die Marquise von O and Breaking the waves / Victoria Anderson -- Rough awakenings: unconscious women and rape in Kill Bill and Talk to her / Adriana Novoa -- English-language independent cinemas. …”
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Social entrepreneurship : new models of sustainable social change

Table of Contents: “…Social business entrepreneurs are the solution / Muhammad Yunus -- The citizen sector transformed / Bill Drayton -- For what it is worth : social value and the future of social entrepreneurship / Rowena Young -- Cultivating the other invisible hand of social entrepreneurship : comparative advantage, public policy, and future research priorities / Geoff Mulgan -- Social entrepreneurship : the structuration of a field / Alex Nicholls and Albert Hyunbae Cho -- Social entrepreneurship : agency in a globalizing world / Paola Greneir -- Rhetoric, reality, and research : building a solid foundation for the practice of social entrepreneurship / Beth Battle Anderson and J. …”
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Handbook of Endovascular Interventions by Kumar, Amit

Table of Contents: “…Crossroads of science and therapy -- Computerized registry for endovascular interventions -- Considerations in evaluating results of endovascular treatments -- Billing and coding – endovascular and related open procedures -- Radiation management – physician and patient -- Hybrid cardiovascular operating room -- Vascular lab – reading in the endovascular era -- Fundamental techniques in endovascular treatment -- Carotid artery disease -- Endovascular treatment of acute ischemic stroke -- Cerebral protection devices -- Vertebral artery disease -- Below the elbow occlusive disease -- Aortic arch – occlusive disease -- Descending thoracic aortic aneurysms -- Descending thoracic aortic dissections & aortic trauma -- Endovascular treatment of symptomatic  abdominal aortic aneurysms -- Fenestrated aortic endografts – juxtarenal and pararenal aortic aneurysms -- Branched aortic endografts – Thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms -- Renal artery disease – stenosis, dissections and aneurysms -- Mesenteric vessels -- Endovascular treatment of infra-renal aortic aneurysms -- Endoleaks – types and management -- Endovascular treatment of iliac artery lesions -- Femoral artery – CFA, SFA, Profunda femoris artery lesions -- Superficial femoral and Popliteal artery disease -- Below the knee occlusive disease -- Caval and iliac vein disease -- Deep venous thrombosis: Upper and Lower extremity -- Pulmonary embolism & SVC syndrome -- Varicose veins – Comprehensive management -- Arteriovenous grafts – stenosis, thrombosis  & aneurysms -- Uterine fibroid embolization -- Intracranial arteriovenous malformations -- Coronary angiography -- Vascular access closure devices -- Endovascular treatments in the field -- Hypercoagulable states -- Simulators in endovascular treatment -- Training paradigms in endovascular Surgery – Australasia, South America, South Africa, Europe.…”
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Parliament, Inventions and Patents : a Research Guide and Bibliography. by Johnson, Phillip

Table of Contents: “…Parliament, Inventions and Patents- Front Cover; Parliament, Inventions and Patents; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Journal references; Offices; Introduction; Part 1: Public Acts and Bills; Introduction; Reference number and year; Short title and regnal citation and chapter number; Long title; Table of contents; Journals of the House of Commons and House of Lords; The passage of a Bill and the journals; Votes and Proceedings/House of Lords minutes; Reports of Parliamentary debates; Parliamentary papers; House of Lords papers; Newspaper reports; Notes.…”
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Life in the valley of death : the fight to save tigers in a land of guns, gold, and greed by Rabinowitz, Alan, 1953-2018

Table of Contents: “…Road to nowhere -- Paradise lost -- The valley of death -- Into the Naga hills -- Rolling the dice -- Into the darkness -- Letting go -- Hungry ghosts -- Where there be tigers -- Conservation warfare -- Jungle politics -- Shaping a miracle -- A question of balance -- Burning bright -- Return to the Naga hills -- Spots of time -- Reaching Mr. …”
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Mathematizing Student Thinking Connecting problem solving to everyday life and building capable and confident math learners. by Costello, David

Table of Contents: “…-- Strengthening the Problem -- Finding Problems -- Problems Used in the Classroom -- Defined Problems -- Ill-Defined Problems -- Similarities and Differences between Defined Problems and Ill-Defined Problems -- Importance of Ill-Defined Problems -- Summary -- Chapter 2 Understanding the Different Ways to Problem Solve -- Defining Problem Solving -- The Problem Solving Stages -- Problem Solving Stages in Action -- Problem Solving and Classroom Connections…”
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The maps of First Bull Run : an atlas of the First Bull Run (Manassas) Campaign, including the Battle of Ball's Bluff, June-October 1861 by Gottfried, Bradley M.

Table of Contents: “…Maps of First Bull Run/Manassas -- Preliminary movements -- Skirmish at Blackburn's Ford (July 18) -- Bull Run preliminaries -- Matthews Hill Fight -- Henry Hill Fight -- Chinn Ridge -- Blackburn's Ford -- The federal retreat -- pt. 2. …”
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Lost relations : fortunes of my family in Australia's Golden Age by Davison, Graeme, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Five weddings and a funeral -- 5. Wesley Hill -- 6. The Millers' tale -- 7. Campbell's Creek -- 8. …”
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Concrete and Dust. by Minge, Jeanine Marie

Table of Contents: “…List of images -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Los Angeles river -- Introduction: Los Angeles River, revisited -- Burbank -- Burbank, revisited -- Chatsworth -- Chatsworth, revisited -- Hollywood Hills -- Hollywood Hills, revisited -- West Hollywood -- West Hollywood, revisited -- Topanga -- Topanga, revisited -- Conclusion: here -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index -- Images.…”
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The Vicksburg assaults, May 19-22, 1863

Table of Contents: “…Haste and underestimation: May 19 / J. Parker Hills -- Failure and scapegoat: May 22 / J. Parker Hills -- The assault on the Railroad Redoubt / Steven E. …”
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Food safety what you don't know can hurt you

Table of Contents: “…Food Borne Illness Can Be Avoided (2:43) -- Food Storage Needs Care (2:57) -- Avoiding Illness (-12:0-16)…”
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Health psychology : biopsychosocial interactions by Sarafino, Edward P., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…An introduction: basic issues and processes -- An overview of psychology and health -- The body's physical systems -- pt. II. Stress, illness, and coping -- Stress: its meaning, impact, and sources -- Stress, biopsychosocial factors, and illness -- Coping with and reducing stress -- pt. …”

Pax Romana : war, peace and conquest in the Roman world by Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith

Table of Contents: “…; THE QUEEN; TAXES AND ILL -TREATMENT; WINNING AND LOSING A PROVINCE; A STRONGER SENSE OF IDENTITY?…”
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The indicted South : public criticism, southern inferiority, and the politics of whiteness by Maxwell, Angie, 1978-

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Neurogenic communication disorders : life stories and the narrative self by Shadden, Barbara B. (Barbara Bennett), Koski, Patricia R., Hagstrom, Fran

Table of Contents: “…Neurogenic Communication Disorders; The Illnesses and Associated Communication Impairment.…”
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Understanding the essentials of critical care nursing by Perrin, Kathleen Ouimet

Table of Contents: “…Care of the patient with a cerebral or cerebrovascular disorder -- Care of the critically ill patient experiencing alcohol withdrawal and/or liver failure -- Care of the patient with an acute gastrointestinal bleed or pancreatitis -- Care of the patient with endocrine disorders -- Care of the patient with acute renal failure -- Care of the organ donor and transplant recipient -- Care of the acutely ill burn patient -- Care of the patient with sepsis -- Caring for the ICU patient at the end of life.…”
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Spearheading environmental change : the legacy of Indiana congressman Floyd J. Fithian by May, Jill P., May, Robert E.

Table of Contents: “…From Vesta, Nebraska to Capitol Hill -- Heartland politician -- On Capitol Hill -- Environmental awakenings -- The Dunes -- Save the Dunes -- America's first urban national park -- The dam -- An Army Corps proposition -- Reservoir vexations -- The river -- Crosscurrents on the Kankakee -- The Indiana-Illinois tangle -- Political and personal provenances -- Political and personal provenances -- Life after Congress -- Afterword.…”
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The Fallible Body by Twohig, Peter L.

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- The Fallible Body: Narratives of Health, Illness & Disease -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: Memori and Personal Illness Narratives -- The Illness Community: Uses of Community in Australian Health Services, Support Resources and Illness Memoir -- The Discovered Self: Dying and Death in the Shaping of Character -- You Have Cancer -- PART II: Addiction -- 'I use drugs, but I am not a drug addict': How Heroin and Cocatine Users Make Sense of their Practice as a Healthy Behaviour -- Addictions as a Disease, Identity and Normality…”
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Current diagnosis & treatment. Geriatrics

Table of Contents: “…Transforming the care of older persons -- Overview of geriatric assessment -- The interprofessional team -- Goals of care & consideration of prognosis -- Functional assessment & functional decline -- Falls & mobility impairment -- Managing vision impairment -- Managing hearing impairment -- Cognitive impairment & dementia -- Urinary incontinence -- Sexual health & dysfunction -- Depression & other mental health issues -- Defining adequate nutrition -- Principles of prescribing & adherence -- Addressing multimorbidity -- Atypical presentations of illness -- Caregiving & caregiving support -- The social context of older adults -- Detecting, assessing, & responding to elder mistreatment -- Prevention & health promotion -- Ethics & informed decision making -- Geriatric palliative care -- Geroscience: the biology of aging as a therapeutic target -- Applying evidence-based care to older persons -- Section II: Care settings. …”
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Comprehensive handbook of pediatric audiology

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Changing Faces of Economic Insecurity. by Turnbull, John G.

Table of Contents: “…TABLE OF CONTENTS; ECONOMIC INSECURITY: ITS NATURE AND SCOPE; PREMATURE DEATH; OLD AGE; UNEMPLOYMENT; OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS AND ACCIDENTS; NONOCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS; SOME SPECIAL ISSUES AND CONCLUSIONS; INDEX.…”
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Changing Faces of Economic Insecurity. by Turnbull, John G.

Table of Contents: “…TABLE OF CONTENTS; ECONOMIC INSECURITY: ITS NATURE AND SCOPE; PREMATURE DEATH; OLD AGE; UNEMPLOYMENT; OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS AND ACCIDENTS; NONOCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS; SOME SPECIAL ISSUES AND CONCLUSIONS; INDEX.…”
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Dangerous or Endangered? : Race and the Politics of Youth in Urban America. by Tilton, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…; CHAPTER 1 Back in the Day; Disciplining Youth and Families in the Flatlands; CHAPTER 2 Trying to Get up the Hill; Dangerous Times: Reconstructing Childhood in a Volunteer State; CHAPTER 3 Protecting Children in the Hills; Youth in a "Private Estate" in the Oakland Hills; CHAPTER 4 Cruising down the Boulevard; Potential Thugs and Gangsters: Youth and the Spatial Politics of Urban Development; CHAPTER 5 What Is "the Power of the Youth"?…”
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