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Intro -- Lost & Found - A Memoir of Mothers -- Copyright © 2009 Kate St. Vincent Vogl -- Kate, Jim, and girls. -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Your Call -- Found -- A Silent Vow -- Iceskating with Mom and Aimee. -- What's Up and What's Under -- A Fine Way to Say Thanks -- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? -- Val's first visit. -- All but a Walk in the Park -- In the Flesh -- Thanksgiving in So Many Words -- Denial and Other Holiday Treats -- Shadow of Our Former Selves -- Drawing Lines in Shifting Sand -- The Play's the Thing -- More Is Found -- David when he was about thirty. -- To Give and Give Over -- Covering up, Carrying on -- Mom with Jen at the hospital. -- Baptism by Fire -- The All-New Brady Bunch -- A Wedding Made in Heaven -- For the Cause of the Union -- Teepees set up for the Smith/St. Vincent Family reunion. -- Papa grilling at the reunion. -- A Family by Marriage -- A Family Reception -- Trimmed in Rickrack -- Mother's Day with rickrack flower project. -- By Any Other Name -- Readers Wanted -- Nor and her parents with me and the girls. -- Val and me with the girls. -- Rewrite and Rebirth -- No Place Like Home -- Family Reunion -- Other Sides of the Family -- Last Words -- Additional Resources -- Adoption Groups: -- About the Author

Europe endured such incessant political discord throughout the twentieth century that some historians refer to the period's conflicts as the Long War. During the Balkan wars of 1912--1913, regional fighting in southeastern Europe ignited conflict across the continent that continued through both world wars and the Cold War. In Consumed by War: European Conflict in the 20th Century, Richard C. Hall illuminates the complex diplomatic and military struggles of a region whose instability, rooted in a nineteenth-century nationalistic fervor, provided a catalyst for the political events that ensued. From the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 to the incarceration of Radovan Karadzic in 2008, this narrative history appeals to general readers and scholars interested in a fresh interpretation of a complicated and brutal era.

During the first two-thirds of the 20th century, the themes of sectorial structure and compared performance prevail in Italian economic historiography. This book acts as a bridge between the two approaches, and reconstructs - through an original study based on a plurality of methodologies - the secular journey of Italian industrial enterprise