Memory fitness : a guide for successful aging by Einstein, Gilles O., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…-- Working memory and avoiding distractions: the right time for the right task -- Most memories are there: the trick is finding them -- How to learn and remember complex material: articles, lectures, and textbooks -- Remembering tough things -- Remembering to remember: medications, appointments, things to pack -- Mental exercise and memory: use it or lose it -- Physical exercise and memory: not exercising is risky behavior -- Effects of stress, depression, illness, and medications on memory -- Enhancing memory with nutritional supplements and vitamins -- Alzheimer's disease: the signals and what you can do about it.…”
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Plants, health and healing : on the interface of ethnobotany and medical anthropology

Table of Contents: “…Persons, Plants and Relations: Treating Childhood Illness in a Western Kenyan Village -- Plant Portraits: Editorial Introduction -- 5. …”
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Health Psychology in Global Perspective. by Aboud, Frances E.

Table of Contents: “…; Chapter 2 -- Social Science Measures for Health Research; Chapter 3 -- Family Planning and Contraceptive Use; Chapter 4 -- The AIDS/HIV Pandemic; Chapter 5 -- Community Participation and Agency Involvement; Chapter 6 -- Nutrition for Child Growth and Development; Chapter 7 -- Alcohol Use and Abuse; Chapter 8 -- Health Education and Promotion; Chapter 9 -- Mental Health and Illness; A Final Note: Where Do You Go From Here?; Glossary; References; Author Index; Subject Index; About the Author.…”
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English Benedictine nuns in exile in the seventeenth century : Living spirituality by Lux-Sterritt, Laurence

Table of Contents: “…7 What place for the senses in contemplative life?8 Illness, death and beyond: the body as witness; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Rethinking the medieval legacy for contemporary theology

Table of Contents: “…Min -- Exchanging hearts : a medievalist looks at transplant surgery / Barbara Newman -- Friendliness, divine and human / Marilyn McCord Adams -- Can precritical biblical interpretation cure the ills of the critical? / Kevin Madigan -- Possible absolutum : the theological discovery of the ontological priority of the possibly / Ingolf U. …”
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Marching as to War : Personal Narratives of African American Women's Experiences in the Gulf Wars by Desnoyers-Colas, Elizabeth F.

Table of Contents: “…Marching as to war : personal narratives of African American women's experiences in the Gulf Wars -- Why we serve : an historical overview of African American women's military service from the Revolutionary War through the Gulf Wars -- "Sistahs" of defense : duties and dangers of African American women in service in the Gulf Wars -- My child left behind : the family and child care challenges faced by African American Gulf War servicewomen -- What happens in the desert stays in the desert : African American women confront racism and sexism in the Gulf -- Where my health comes from : African American servicewomen battle Gulf War illnesses.…”
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Rethinking the medieval legacy for contemporary theology

Table of Contents: “…Min -- Exchanging hearts : a medievalist looks at transplant surgery / Barbara Newman -- Friendliness, divine and human / Marilyn McCord Adams -- Can precritical biblical interpretation cure the ills of the critical? / Kevin Madigan -- Possible absolutum : the theological discovery of the ontological priority of the possibly / Ingolf U. …”
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From higher aims to hired hands : the social transformation of American business schools and the unfulfilled promise of management as a profession by Khurana, Rakesh, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…The professionalization project in American business education, 1881-1941 -- An occupation in search of legitimacy -- Ideas of order: science, the professions, and the university in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America -- The invention of the university-based business school -- "A very ill-defined institution": the business school as aspiring professional school -- 2: The institutionalization of business schools, 1941-1970 -- The changing institutional field in the postwar era -- Disciplining the business school faculty: the impact of the foundations -- 3: The triumph of the market and the abandonment of the professionalization project, 1970-the present -- Unintended consequences: the Post-Ford Business School and the fall of managerialism -- Business schools in the marketplace.…”
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Memory fitness : a guide for successful aging by Einstein, Gilles O., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…-- Working memory and avoiding distractions: the right time for the right task -- Most memories are there: the trick is finding them -- How to learn and remember complex material: articles, lectures, and textbooks -- Remembering tough things -- Remembering to remember: medications, appointments, things to pack -- Mental exercise and memory: use it or lose it -- Physical exercise and memory: not exercising is risky behavior -- Effects of stress, depression, illness, and medications on memory -- Enhancing memory with nutritional supplements and vitamins -- Alzheimer's disease: the signals and what you can do about it.…”
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Atlantic American Societies : From Columbus through Abolition 1492-1888. by McNeill, J. R.

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Editor's preface; Acknowledgments; THE ATLANTIC WORLD AS A UNIT OF STUDY Alan L. Karras; ILLS Alfred W. Crosby; TRAGEDY AND SACRIFICE IN THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY Patrick Manning; THE LABOR PROBLEM AT JAMESTOWN Edmund Morgan; THE COSMIC ORDER IN CRISIS Nancy M. …”
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Some Corner of a Foreign Field Deaths Behind the Lines in Italy 1942-5. by Dethick, Janet Kinrade

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Title Page -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Copyright Information © -- Acknowledgement -- Prologue -- Chapter One -- Camps and Cemeteries -- Chapter Two -- Friendly Fire -- Chapter Three -- Hospitals and Illness -- Chapter Four -- Special Forces -- Chapter Five -- The Special Operations Executive -- Chapter Six -- Deaths Preceding and Immediately After the Armistice -- Chapter Seven -- Shot, Tricked and Betrayed The Post-Armistice Escapers -- Chapter Eight -- With the Partisans -- Chapter Nine -- Crossing the Alps -- Chapter Ten -- In Transit: The Camps and the Trains…”
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Psychotherapy with Older Adults. by Knight, Dr. Bob G. G.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 -- Gerontology for Psychotherapists: The Contextual, Cohort-Based, Maturity, Specific-Challenge Model; 2 -- Adaptations of Psychotherapy for Older Adults; 3 -- Building Rapport With the Older Client; 4 -- Transference and Countertransference With Older Clients; 5 -- Guidelines for Assessment in the Context of the Practice of Psychotherapy; 6 -- Grief Work With Older Adults; 7 -- Chronic Illness in Later Life; 8 -- Psychotherapy and the Person With Dementia; 9 -- Psychotherapy With Family Caregivers of Frail Older Adults; 10 -- Life Review in Psychotherapy With Older Adults…”
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Healing the body politic : El Salvador's popular struggle for health rights--from civil war to neoliberal peace by Smith-Nonini, Sandra C.

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Terror and Healing in El Salvador -- Introduction: Theorizing the Body and the State -- Part One: Exclusion and the Politics of Bare Life -- 1. Manufacturing Ill-being -- Repression's Repercussions -- Part Two: War Against Health -- 3. …”
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Numerical linear algebra : proceedings of the Conference in Numerical Linear Algebra and Scientific Computation, Kent (Ohio), USA, March 13-14, 1992

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- On propagating orthogonal transformations in a product of 2 x 2 triangular matrices -- A parallel divide and conquer algorithm for the generalized real symmetric definite tridiagonal eigenproblem -- A parallel implementation of the GMRES method -- Optimal semi-iterative methods applied to SOR in the mixed case -- Differential qd algorithms -- Solution of shifted linear systems by quasi-minimal residual iterations -- Implementation details of the coupled QMR algorithm -- Preconditioned iterative regularization for ill-posed problems…”
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The made-up self : impersonation in the personal essay by Klaus, Carl H.

Table of Contents: “…The "person" in a personal essay -- Evocations of consciousness -- Montaigne on "Montaigne": toward a poetics of self -- The mind and the mind's idiosyncrasy: ideas of consciousness in the personal essay -- Discontinuous: form of consciousness -- Evocations of personality -- Voices on voice: the singular "I" and the chameleon "I" -- Elia: pseudonymous self extraordinaire -- Never to be yourself and yet always: Virginia Woolf on the essayist's problem -- Personae and culture -- Difference and "I": cultural consciousness in the personal essay -- Orwell's "A hanging": politics and the first-person singular/plural -- Personae and personal experience -- Illness and "I": malady in the personal essay -- Days into essays: a self for all seasons.…”
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Well-grounded : the neurobiology of rational decisions by Lambert, Kelly

Table of Contents: “…The brain's contingency calculator : the secret of our success -- The brain's output : behavior's many forms -- The human brain : an embarrassment of riches -- Building the brain's contingency circuit -- When life distorts the contingency filters -- Fine-tuning the contingency calculators : well-grounded lessons from rats, comedians, and triple-crown horse owners -- Parenting : time to recalculate life's contingencies -- Calculating effective strategies for treating mental illness -- Getting down to business : putting the contingency calculators to work -- Stretching the contingency limits : new and imagined realities -- Epilogue : redefining prosperity : from strategic champagne bubbles to accurately perceived life affordances.…”
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Psychosocial nursing for general patient care by Gorman, Linda M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to psychosocial nursing for general patient care -- Psychosocial response to illness -- Psychosocial skills -- Nurses' responses to difficult patient behaviors -- Crisis intervention -- Cultural considerations: implications for psychosocial nursing care -- Problems with anxiety -- Problems with anger -- Problems with affect and mood -- Problems with confusion -- Problems with psychotic thought processes -- Problems relating to others -- Problems with substance abuse -- Problems with sexual dysfunction -- Problems with pain -- Problems with nutrition -- Problems within the family -- Problems with spiritual distress -- Nursing management of special populations -- Disaster planning and response-psychosocial impact -- Psychopharmacology: database for patient and family education on psychiatric medications.…”
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Bereavement Issues in Palliative Care

Table of Contents: “…Intro: Bereavement Issues in Palliative Care: Effective Palliative Care (0:41) -- The Patient - Losses that Contribute to Grief (2:52) -- The Patient - Anger (1:16) -- Basic Tasks of the Dying (0:27) -- The Family - Anticipatory Grief (1:35) -- The Family - Follow, Don't Lead (1:37) -- Children (2:24) -- Siblings of Ill Children (1:22) -- The Loss of a Child (0:56) -- Spirituality (2:25) -- The Health Care Worker (1:49) -- Self-Care (1:23) -- Closure (1:50) -- Credits: Bereavement Issues in Palliative Care: Effective Palliative Care (0:58)…”
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Clinical manual of child and adolescent psychopharmacology

Table of Contents: “….] -- Tic disorders / Lawrence Scahill -- Schizophrenia and psychotic illnesses / Judith Rapoport, Nitin Gogtay, and Phillip Shaw -- Disorders primarily seen in general medical settings / John V. …”
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Gender Scripts in Medicine and Narrative. by Block, Marcelline

Table of Contents: “…Preface / Rita Charon -- Poetry, hysteria and "the complexities of narrative creation" in literature and medicine / Marcelline Block -- Gender at the intersections of medicine and narrative / Angela Laflen -- "See what is beneath your clothes" : the spectacle of public female dissections in early modern Europe / Janine Larmon Peterson -- Medical masculinity and sleeping beauties : identity and sexuality in Henri Gervex's Avant l'opération / Mary Hunter -- Illness and inoculation : narrative strategies in Frances Burney's Camilla / Rebecca Garden -- Aesthetics of female illness and death in Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia and Maurice Blanchot;s L'arrêt de mort / Marcelline Block -- "That means children to me" : the birth control movement in Nella Larsen's Quicksand / Layne Parish Craig -- (Re)conceiving the surrogate : maternity, race, and reproductive technologies in Alfonso Cuar̤ón's Children of men / Sayantani DasGupta -- Writing to heal : narrating trauma in the writings of World War I nurses / Lea M. …”
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Desertion and the American soldier, 1776-2006 by Fantina, Robert

Table of Contents: “…The War of 1812 -- Problems with pay -- Lack of supplies -- Lack of food -- Illness -- Poor leadership -- Inadequate weaponry -- 3. …”
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Care work : dreaming disability justice by Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Russian -- Cripping the apocalypse : some of my wild disability justice dreams -- A modest proposal for a fair trade emotional labor economy (centered by disabled, femme of color, working-class/poor genius) -- Prefigurative politics and radically accessible performance spaces : making the world to come -- Chronically ill touring artist pro tips -- Fuck the "triumph of the human spirit" : on writing Dirty river as a queer, disabled, and femme-of-color memoir, and the joys of saying fuck you to traditional abuse survivor narratives -- Suicidal ideation 2.0 : queer community leadership and staying alive anyway -- So much time spent in bed : a letter to Gloria Anzaludúa on chronic illness, coatlicue, and creativity -- Prince, chronic pain, and living to get old -- Two or three things I know for sure about femmes and suicide : a love letter -- For badass disability justice, working-class and poor-led models of sustainable hustling for liberation -- Protect your heart : femme leadership and hyper-accountability -- Not over it, not fixed, and living a life worth living : towards an anti-ableist vision of survivorhood -- Crip lineages, crip futures : a conversation with Stacey Milbern.…”
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Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 6) : Major Infectious Diseases. by Holmes, King K.

Table of Contents: “…Malaria Control -- 14. Febrile Illness in Adolescents and Adults -- 15. Cost-Effectiveness of Strategies for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Febrile Illness in Children -- 16. …”
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Human Differences. by Aiken, Lewis R.

Table of Contents: “…SEX AND GENDERETHNICITY AND CULTURE; SUMMARY; SUGGESTED READINGS; 5 Physical Appearance, Performance, and Health; MEASURING AND DESCRIBING THE HUMAN BODY; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; HEALTH AND ILLNESS; SUMMARY; SUGGESTED READINGS; 6 Theories, Concepts, and Correlates of Cognitive Abilities; THEORIES OF INTELLIGENCE; STABILITY AND CHANGE IN COGNITIVE ABILITIES; GENDER AND ETHNICITY; HOME, SCHOOL, AND WORK; SUMMARY; SUGGESTED READINGS; 7 Exceptional and Special Cognitive Abilities; GENERAL AND SPECIFIC COGNITIVE DISABILITIES; INTELLECTUAL GIFTEDNESS AND CREATIVITY.…”
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ADD and me : forty years in a fog by Patterson, Ken, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; ADD and Me: Forty Years in a Fog; Contents; 1 Introduction: The Fool on the Hill?; 2 The Long and Winding Road; 3 Helter Skelter; 4 Ah, Look at All the Lonely People; 5 Time to Rock the Boat?…”
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Weather Wise : Reading Weather Signs. by Watts, Alan

Table of Contents: “…; 11 Thundery weather; 12 Lightning; 13 Fog, mist and wet air; 14 Sea weather; 15 Hill and mountain weather; 16 Freezing weather; 17 Colours in the sky; 18 What do trails tell us?…”
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People with hyperactivity : understanding and managing their problems

Table of Contents: “…Santosh -- Behavioural and cognitive approaches / Maxine Sinclair -- ADHD and sleep disorders / Paul Gringras, Adam Jaffe and Stephen Sheldon -- Aspects of medical management / Eric Taylor and Peter Hill -- ADHD in preschool children / Margaret Thompson and Edmund Sonuga-Barke -- Hyperactivity disorders in children with mental retardation / Emily Simonoff -- The clinical assessment and treatment of ADHD in adults / Phillip J. …”
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Follow the blackbirds by Westerman, Gwen

Table of Contents: “…Follow the Blackbirds -- A Trade -- School Days -- Innocent Captives -- Mourning Song -- Dying of Thirst -- Linear Process -- Saving Scraps -- Dead End -- Early Freeze -- Henana Epe Kte -- Quantum Theory -- Genetic Code -- Feed Them -- This Is My Explaining Ceremony -- Red Earth Gathering -- Journey -- Flint Hills Release -- First Flight -- Where the Buffalo Roam -- No Contest -- Linear Perspective -- Monet on the Northern Plains -- Road Song -- Delisted -- Root Words -- At Spirit Lake -- He Keya Woabdakedaŋ -- Venetian -- Skin Essentials -- Why He Teaches the Language -- Dakota Odowaŋ -- Morning Song -- Winuna -- Wicaŋhpi Heciya Taŋhaŋ Uŋhipi (We Come from the Stars) -- The Lesson -- Tidal Force -- Owotaŋna Sececa -- Going Back -- Migration -- Wowicak’u -- Below the Surface -- Dakota Alphabet and Orthography.…”
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Jonathan Edwards : a life by Marsden, George M., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…A time to be born -- The overwhelming question -- The Pilgrim's Progress -- The harmony of all knowledge -- Anxieties -- "A low, sunk estate and condition" -- On Solomon Stoddard's stage -- And on a wider stage -- The mighty works of God and of Satan -- The politics of the Kingdom -- "A city set on a hill" -- God "will revive the flame again, even in the darkest times" -- The hands of God and the hand of Christ -- "He that is not with us is against us" -- Heavenly Elysium -- Conservative revolutionary -- A house divided -- A model town no more -- Colonial wars -- Thy will be done -- I am born to be a man of strife -- The crucible -- The mission -- Frontier struggles -- Wartice -- Against an "almost inconceivably pernicious" doctrine -- Original sin "in this happy age of light and liberty" -- Challenging the presumptions of the Age -- The unfinished masterworks -- The transitory and the enduring.…”
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Private equity, corporate governance and the dynamics of capital market regulation

Table of Contents: “…The Dynamics of Capital Market Governance (J O'Brien); Evolving 'Rules of the Game' in Corporate Governance Reform (J Hill); Overlapping Fields and Constructed Legalities: The Endogeneity of Law (L Edelman); The Significance of Relative Autonomy in How Regulation of the Financial Services Sector Evolves (G Gilligan); Enforcement of Capital Markets Regulation: The United Kingdom and Its International Markets (I MacNeil); Why Auditors Don't Find Fraud (N M Hodson); Compliance, Ethics and Responsibility: Emergent Governance Strategies in the US and UK (D McBarnet); Professional Norms (D Cocking); Sarbanes-Oxley and the Search for Accountable Corporate Governance (M J Dubnick); Charting an Icarian Flightpath: The Implications of the Qantas Deal Collapse (J O'Brien); Institutions, Integrity Systems and Market Actors (S Miller).…”
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Cheche : Reminiscences of a Radical Magazine.

Table of Contents: “…An Era of Global Turbulence; 2. Activism at the Hill; 3. The Spark Is Kindled; 4. Tribulations of An Independent Magazine; 5. …”
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Jonathan Edwards : a life by Marsden, George M., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…A time to be born -- The overwhelming question -- The Pilgrim's Progress -- The harmony of all knowledge -- Anxieties -- "A low, sunk estate and condition" -- On Solomon Stoddard's stage -- And on a wider stage -- The mighty works of God and of Satan -- The politics of the Kingdom -- "A city set on a hill" -- God "will revive the flame again, even in the darkest times" -- The hands of God and the hand of Christ -- "He that is not with us is against us" -- Heavenly Elysium -- Conservative revolutionary -- A house divided -- A model town no more -- Colonial wars -- Thy will be done -- I am born to be a man of strife -- The crucible -- The mission -- Frontier struggles -- Wartice -- Against an "almost inconceivably pernicious" doctrine -- Original sin "in this happy age of light and liberty" -- Challenging the presumptions of the Age -- The unfinished masterworks -- The transitory and the enduring.…”
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Lonesome melodies : the lives and music of the Stanley Brothers by Johnson, David W. (David William), 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. The Hills of Home; 2. Many Days of My Childhood; 3. Brothers in Arms; 4. …”
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World film locations : Florence

Table of Contents: “…FrontCover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Maps/Scenes; Essays; Backpages; Florence: City of the Imagination; Views from the Grand Tour(ist): Florence and Foreign Consumption; Scenes 1-8 1924 -- 1954; Florentine Artists on Film: Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci; Scenes 9-15 1955 -- 1962; Florence after Dark: Cops, Crime and Serial Killers; Scenes 16-22 1964 -- 1977; Rolling Hills, Scorching Sun: Filming the Tuscan Countryside; Scenes 23-29 1978 -- 1985; Bread, Wine and Celluloid: Tuscan Cuisine at the Movies; Scenes 30-36 1990 -- 2001…”
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Letters from Gallipoli : New Zealand Soldiers Write Home. by Harper, G. (Glyn)

Table of Contents: “…Cover Page; Title Page; Contents; Foreword Major General Rhys Jones; Preface The Collection; Acknowledgements; Introduction The Gallipoli Campaign; One Waiting to Go; Two The Landing: 25 April 1915; Three The Fighting: 26-30 April 1915; Four The Assault across the Daisy Patch: 8 May 1915; Five Turkish Counterattacks: May-June 1915; Six The Burial Truce: 24 May 1915; Seven Quinn's Post; Eight Living Conditions: April-August 1915; Nine The August Offensive: Chunuk Bair and Hill 60; Ten Living Conditions: September-December 1915; Eleven The Evacuation: December 1915; Twelve Last Post.…”
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Retirement communities : an American original

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Retirement Community Phenomenon; Chapter 2 Retirement New Towns; Rossmoor Leisure World, Laguna Hills, California; Sun City, Arizona; Chapter 3 Retirement Villages; Hawthorne, Leesburg, Florida; Leisure Village West, Manchester Township, New Jersey; Chapter 4 Retirement Subdivisions; Orange Gardens, Kissimmee, Florida; Trailer Estates, Manatee County, Florida; Chapter 5 Retirement Residences; Baptist Gardens, Long Beach, California.…”
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On Form : Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word. by Leighton, Angela

Table of Contents: “…Forms of Elegy: Stevenson, Muldoon, Hill, Fisher; 11. Elegies of Form: Bishop, Plath, Stevenson; 12. …”
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Corruption: Expanding the Focus by Barcham, Manuhuia

Table of Contents: “…Saxonhouse -- Rule by natural reason: late medieval and early Renaissance conceptions of political corruption / Manuhuia Barcham -- Changing contours of corruption in Western political thought, c. 1200-1700 / Bruce Buchan -- Ideas of corruption in the eighteenth century: the competing conceptions of Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith / Lisa Hill -- Corruption, development, chaos and social disorganisation: sociological reflections on corruption and its social basis / John Clammer -- Professionalising corruption? …”
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Rome and Environs : an Archaeological Guide. by Coarelli, Filippo

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Ukraine : A Nation on the Borderland by Schlögel, Karl

Table of Contents: “…Czernowitz: City Upon A Hill -- 11. Lviv: Capital of Provincial Europe -- 12. …”
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