Easeful Death : Is There a Case for Assisted Dying?. by Warnock, Mary

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Young people, place and identity by Hopkins, Peter (Peter E.)

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Where have all the nurses gone?

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Who Decides? (Part Two)

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Causes of Disharmony

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Race: challenge to religion : original essays and An appeal to the conscience

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In the Supreme Court of the United States, City of Chicago, Illinois, petitioner, v. Robbin L. Fulton, George Peake, and Timothy Shannon, respondents : on writ of certiorari to the... by Choudhury, Nusrat J.

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Vietnam from Cease-Fire to Capitulation [Illustrated Edition]. by Le Gro, Col. William E.

Table of Contents: “…Thuong DucMang Buk; Plei Me; Duc Duc and Que Son; Hill 1062; Kontum; Chuong Nghia; Quang Ngai; Note on Sources; 12-THE RING TIGHTENS AROUND HUE; Nui Mo Tau, Nui Bong, and Hill 350; Order of Battle; The Railroad; Naval Engagement Off Quang Tri; An Assist From the Hungarians; Infiltration into the Thua Thien Lowlands; The Hills of Phu Loc and Nam Hoa; Note on Sources; 13-THE LAST CHRISTMAS: PHUOC LONG; Phuoc Long-the Setting; Diversions; Binh Tuy-Long Khanh; Tay Ninh; The Last Days of Phuoc Long; Note on Sources; 14-ON THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF THE CEASEFIRE.…”
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Chocolate wars : the 150-year rivalry between the world's greatest chocolate makers by Cadbury, Deborah

Table of Contents: “…A nation of shopkeepers -- Food of the gods -- Wretched little victims of the workhouses -- They did not show us any mercy -- Absolutely pure, therefore the best -- Chocolate that could melt in the mouth -- Machinery creates wealth but destroys men -- Money seems to disappear like magic -- Chocolate empires -- I'll stake everything on chocolate! -- Great wealth is not to be desired -- A serpentine and malevolent cocoa magnate -- The chocolate man's utopia -- That monstrous trade in flesh and blood -- God could have created us sinless -- This company isn't big enough for both of us -- I pray for snickers -- American tanks were on the lawn -- The quaker voice could still be heard -- They'd sell for 20p -- Gone. …”
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The value of victory in Pindar's odes : gnomai, cosmology and the role of the poet by Boeke, Hanna

Table of Contents: “…Gnomai as a source of cosmological reflection -- The nature of gnomai according to modern scholarship -- Ancient thinking on gnomai -- The "true point" of gnomai -- The gnomic expression of cosmology in Pindar -- Definitions and assumptions -- The elemental forces : fate, God, nature and man -- The human condition -- Man in society -- Cosmology in action : an analysis of selected odes -- Olympian 12 : an immigrant and his adopted city -- Isthmian 4 : creating for an ill-favoured victor -- Olympian 13 : praising an ambitious family -- The poet as mediator of cosmology -- Isthmian 4 : the poet modifies a cosmological premise -- Olympian 13 : the poet demonstrates cosmological principles -- Cosmology and the poet in short odes -- Olympian 9 and Nemean 3 : the poet assumes different attitudes to a central cosmological tenet.…”
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De mens is de mens een zorg : opstellen 1871-1981 by Swaan, Abram de, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…10. Het medisch regiem (Ill): uitbreiding en begrenzing van het medisch toezichtVerantwoording; Noten en literatuur…”
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Grandma Gatewood's walk : the inspiring story of the woman who saved the Appalachian Trail by Montgomery, Ben

Table of Contents: “…; 6 Our Fight; 7 Lady Tramp; 8 Attention; 9 Good Hard Life; 10 Storm; 11 Shelter; 12 I'll Get There; 13 Destruction; 14 So Much Behind; 15 All by Myself; 16 Return to Rainbow Lake; 17 Aloneness More Complete than Ever; 18 Again; 19 Pioneer Woman; 20 Blazing; 21 Monuments; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index; About the Author; Back Cover.…”
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Fundamental aspects of long-term conditions : a guide for students of nursing and health

Table of Contents: “…Severe and enduring mental illness ; 12. The weigh forward ; 13. Problem alcohol use ; 14. …”
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Feminine Figurae : Representations of Gender in Religious Texts by Medieval German Women Writers, 1100-1475. by Garber, Rebecca L. R.

Table of Contents: “…Imitability in Hildegard's Images of Eve and Mary; CHAPTER 3 Invented Communities, Idealizing the Past: Redefining Monastic Ideals in the Dominican Sister-Books; INTERLUDE Personal Revelations: Re-Living the Model, In-Scribing the Self; CHAPTER 4 Margaretha Ebner: Illness in the Service of God; CHAPTER 5 Adelheid Langmann: Bride of God, Beloved of Christ.…”
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Goffman and social organization : studies in a sociological legacy

Table of Contents: “…Chriss -- Sundered selves : mental illness and the interaction order in the work of Erving Goffman / William Gronfein -- Ethnographic coats and tents / Philip Manning -- The omnipotence of the actor : Erving Goffman on 'the definition of the situation' / Wes Sharrock -- Reading Goffman on interaction / Rod Watson -- Non-person and Goffman : sociology under the influence of literature / Andrew Travers -- Claiming the text : parsing the sardonic visions of Erving Goffman and Thorstein Veblen / Gary Alan Fine.…”
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Magic : a theory from the south by De Martino, Ernesto, 1908-1965

Table of Contents: “…Part One: Lucanian Magic -- Chapter 1: Binding -- Chapter 2: Binding and eros -- Chapter 3: The magical representation of illness -- Chapter 4: Childhood and binding -- Chapter 5: Binding and mother's milk -- Chapter 6: Storms -- Chapter 7: Magical life in Albano -- Part Two: Magic, Catholicism, and High Culture -- Chapter 8: The crisis of presence and magical protection -- Chapter 9: The horizon of the crisis -- Chapter 10: De-historifying the negative -- Chapter 11: Lucanian magic and magic in general -- Chapter 12: Lucanian magic and Southern Italian Catholicism -- Chapter 13: Magic and the Neapolitan Enlightenment: The phenomenon of jettatura -- Chapter 14: Romantic sensibility, Protestant polemic, and jettatura -- Chapter 15: The Kingdom of Naples and jettatura.…”
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Breaking Free from Depression : Pathways to Wellness. by Wright, Jesse H.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Front Matter; Contents; Preface; Authors' Note; Acknowledgments; 1 -- Getting Started; 2 -- Medical Illness and Depression; 3 -- Paths to Depression: Paths to Wellness; The Thoughts-Action Pat h; 4 -- Fighting Negative Thinking; 5 -- Restoring Energy and Enjoying Life; 6 -- Building Self-Esteem and Using Strengths; 7 -- Enhancing Well-Being; The Biology Path; 8 -- Getting the Most from Antidepressants; The Relationship Path; 9 -- The People in Your Life; 10 -- Managing Relationship Problems to Improve Depression; The Lifestyle Path; 11 -- Lifestyle Changes; The Spiritual Path; 12 -- Using Spiritual Resources.…”
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Practical guide for clinical neurophysiologic testing. EEG by Yamada, Tōru, 1940-, Meng, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…13 Continuous EEG Monitoring for Critically Ill Patients (CCEEG) -- 14 Benign EEG Patterns -- 15 Artifact Recognition and Technical Pitfalls -- 16 EEG of Premature and Full-Term Infants -- Index…”
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Medicine and the body by Williams, Simon J. (Simon Johnson), 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Thinking through the Boundaries of the Body; Chapter 3 -- 'Structuring' Bodies: Emotions, Inequalities and Health; Chapter 4 -- Children, Ageing and Health: Bodies Across the Lifecourse; Chapter 5 -- Bodily Dys-order: Chronic Illness as Biographical Disruption?; Chapter 6 -- Dormant/Mortal Bodies: Sleep, Death and Dying in Late/Postmodernity.…”
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The Catholic origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, 1931-1970 by Gauvreau, Michael, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Recasting Catholicism's place in modern Quebec -- "The presence of heroism in our lives": youth, catholicism, and the cultural origins of the Quiet Revolution, 1931-1945 -- "Spiritual athletes": elites, masses, and the betrayal of Catholicism, 1945-1958 -- "A new world is born, and with it a new family": Marriage, sexuality, nuclearity, and the reconstruction of the French-Canadian family, 1931-1955 -- "The defeat of the father": the disaggregation and privatization of the French-Canadian family, 1955-1970 -- "The epic of contemporary feminism has unfolded in the church": sexuality, birth control, and personalist feminism, 1931-1971 -- The final concordat: Catholicism and education reform in Quebec, 1960-1964 -- "An old, ill-fitting garment": Fernand Dumont, Quebec's second revolution, and the drama of de-Christianization, 1964-1971.…”
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Suffering and Dignity in the Twilight of Life.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- TOC36;Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Medical Professionals Faced with the End of Life -- CH36;Between abandonment and over45;intensivetreatment -- CH36;Pain and suffering -- CH36;Living the end of life in a hospital58;discourse and reality -- The Legalization of Euthanasia in Comparative Law -- CH36;Assisted suicide in Oregon58; piercing the myth of compassion -- CH36;Euthanasia in The Netherlands46; National legislation and international law -- CH36;The regulation of euthanasia under Belgian law -- A Philosophical Look at the End of Life -- CH36;Can illness deprive a human being of all dignity63; -- CH36;The socio45;political stakes of euthanasia -- Last Page.…”
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Discourses on social software

Table of Contents: “…-- ch. 11: Dynamic epistemic logic for protocol analysis -- ch. 12: Battle of the logics -- ch. 13: Eating from the tree of ignorance -- ch. 14: On collective rational action -- ch. 15: Social software and the ills of society.…”
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A history of everyday life in Scotland 1600 to 1800

Table of Contents: “…Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Acknowledgements; Series Editors' Foreword; Introduction Recovering the Everyday in Early Modern Scotland; Chapter 1 Everyday Structures, Rhythms and Spaces of the Scottish Countryside; Chapter 2 Improvement and Modernisation in Everyday Enlightenment Scotland; Chapter 3 Death, Birth and Marriage in Early Modern Scotland; Chapter 4 Illness, Disease and Pain; Chapter 5 Necessities: Food and Clothing in the Long Eighteenth Century; Chapter 6 Communicating; Chapter 7 Order and Disorder; Chapter 8 Sensory Experiences: Smells, Sounds and Touch.…”
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The nature of disease : pathology for the health professions by McConnell, Thomas H.

Table of Contents: “…The nature of disease : how to think about illness -- Cell injury, adaptation, and death -- Inflammation : the reaction to injury -- Repair : recovery from injury -- Disorders of fluid balance and blood flow -- Neoplasms -- Developmental, genetic, and pediatric disease -- Diseases of the immune system -- Infectious diseases -- Disorders of daily life and diet -- Diseases of blood cells and blood coagulation -- Diseases of blood vessels -- Diseases of the heart -- Diseases of the respiratory system -- Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract -- Diseases of the liver and biliary tract -- Diseases of the pancreas -- Diseases of endocrine glands -- Diseases of the kidney -- Diseases of the lower urinary tract and male genitalia -- Diseases of the female genital tract and breast -- Diseases of bones, joints, and skeletal muscle -- Diseases of the nervous system -- Diseases of the skin -- Diseases of the eye and ear.…”
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The American Revolution : a historical guidebook

Table of Contents: “…Independence Hall and Yard, Pennsylvania -- 13. Bunker Hill, Massachusetts -- 14. Old Cambridge, Massachusetts -- 15. …”
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Central Cambridge : a guide to the university and colleges by Taylor, Kevin, 1961 September 9-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 King's Parade and Trinity Street; King's College; Clare College; Trinity Hall; Old Schools; Cockerell Building; Senate-House; Cambridge University Press Bookshop; Great St Mary's (the University Church); Gonville and Caius College; Michaelhouse Chapel; Trinity College; St John's College; Round Church (Holy Sepulchre); Union Society; 2 St Edward's Passage to Trumpington Street; St Edward's Church; Peas Hill and market area; Arts Theatre; St Bene't's Church; Corpus Christi College; St Catharine's College; St Botolph's Church; Pitt Building.…”
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Time full of trial : the Roanoke Island freedmen's colony, 1862-1867 by Click, Patricia Catherine

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Supervised Machine Learning with Python : Develop Rich Python Coding Practices While Exploring Supervised Machine Learning. by Smith, Taylor, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright and Credits; About Packt; Contributor; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: First Step Towards Supervised Learning; Technical requirements; An example of supervised learning in action; Logistic regression; Setting up the environment; Supervised learning; Hill climbing and loss functions; Loss functions; Measuring the slope of a curve; Measuring the slope of an Nd-curve; Measuring the slope of multiple functions; Hill climbing and descent; Model evaluation and data splitting; Out-of-sample versus in-sample evaluation; Splitting made easy; Summary…”
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The New York Intellectuals, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition : the Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to The 1980s. by Wald, Alan M.

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Bonds of alliance : Indigenous and Atlantic slaveries in New France by Rushforth, Brett

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Social Class and Stratification : Classic Statements and Theoretical Debates. by Levine, Rhonda

Table of Contents: “…14 The Declining Significance of Race: From Racial Oppression to Economic Class Subordination William Julius Wilson15 Racial Formation Michael Omi and Howard Winant; 16 Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection Patricia Hill Collins; Related Readings; Conclusion; Index; About the Editor.…”
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Understanding Built Environment Proceedings of the National Conference on Sustainable Built Environment 2015.

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Acknowledgement; Contents; About the Editors; Part I: Land, Housing, and Real Estate; Chapter 1: Accessibility to€Health Infrastructure in€Hill Settlements: A€Case of€Shimla; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Shimla: An€Introduction; 1.3 Health Infrastructure in€Hill Areas; 1.4 Accessibility: Literature; 1.5 Methodology of€Accessibility Analysis; 1.5.1 Road Network; 1.5.2 Residential Cluster; 1.5.3 Hospital Locations; 1.6 Analysis; 1.6.1 Proximity Analysis; 1.6.2 Catchment Area Analysis; 1.6.3 Unallocated Areas; 1.7 Conclusion; References.…”
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Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets, Vol 3 by Goodridge, John

Table of Contents: “…December, 1784 -- On Mrs. Montagu -- Clifton Hill. Written in January 1785 -- From Poems, on Several Occasions (fourth edition, 1786) -- [Mrs Yearsley's Narrative] -- From Poems, on Various Subjects (1787) -- [Dedication] -- To Mr. ****, an Unlettered Poet, On Genius Unimproved…”
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Allende's Chile and the Inter-American Cold War by Harmer, Tanya

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Caught in the Middle East : U.S. policy toward the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1945-1961 by Hahn, Peter L.

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Closing the gate : race, politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act by Gyory, Andrew

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Channels of discourse, reassembled : television and contemporary criticism

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Growing up Jim Crow : how Black and White southern children learned race by Ritterhouse, Jennifer, 1970-

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Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan. Vol. 2. by Sheridan, Philip H.

Table of Contents: “…""; ""Pursuing Early""; ""A Secret March""; ""Fisher's Hill""; ""A Great Success""; ""Removal of Averell""; ""The Retreat""; ""Capturing an Old Comrade""; ""The Murder of Lieutenant Meigs""…”
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War! what is it good for? : Black freedom struggles and the U.S. military from World War II to Iraq by Phillips, Kimberley L. (Kimberley Louise), 1960-

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