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Intro -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Acronyms -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2: Assessment of Warming Projections and Probabilities for Brazil -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Climate Modelling and Climate Scenarios Used -- 2.3 Region Analysed, Models and Data Used -- 2.4 Long-Term Projections for Brazil: Analysis of Air Temperature Projections -- 2.5 Probabilities of Warming Exceeding the Limits of 2 °C to 4 °C -- 2.6 Probability of Warming Exceeding 4°C or More (RCP 8.5) -- 2.7 Warming Risks for Brazil during the Twenty-First Century -- 2.8 Final Remarks -- References -- Chapter 3: Assessments and How an Increase in Temperature may Have an Impact on Agriculture in Brazil and Mapping of the Current and Future Situation -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Methodology -- 3.3 Assessment of Possible Impacts Due to Temperature Increase: Projections for 2020, 2050 and 2080 -- 3.4 Assessment of Possible Impacts Due to Temperature Increase: Projections for Different Crops -- 3.4.1 Sugarcane -- 3.4.2 Cotton -- 3.4.3 Rice -- 3.4.4 Potato -- 3.4.5 Cassava -- 3.4.6 Coffee -- 3.4.7 Beans -- 3.4.8 Sunflower -- 3.4.9 Maize -- 3.4.10 Second-Crop Corn -- 3.4.11 Soybean -- 3.4.12 Wheat -- 3.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4: A Review of the Health Sector Impacts of 4 °C or more Temperature Rise -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Material and Methods -- 4.2.1 Methodological Considerations -- 4.2.2 Data Sources -- 4.3 Analysis of Studies and Presentation of Results -- 4.4 Direct Impacts of Climate Change on the Health Sector as a Response to Exposure to a Warming of 4 °C or More -- 4.4.1 Heat Stress -- 4.5 Extreme Events -- 4.5.1 Mortality by Heat Waves -- 4.5.2 Natural Disasters and their Impacts on Human Health.

"Coming Out, Moving Forward, the second volume in R. Richard Wagner's groundbreaking work on gay history in Wisconsin, outlines the challenges that LGBT Wisconsinites faced in their efforts to right past oppressions and secure equality in the post-Stonewall period between 1969 and 2000"--

"Much of gay history as recorded and written appears to happen only on the coasts. Without denying the significance of developments in major cities on the coasts, there remains a largely untold story of gay history in the upper Midwest. And the Wisconsin gay community's roots extend back to the pre-Stonewall era. Positive identity affirmation and the establishing of social networks during that time would lead to astounding accomplishments in both state and national gay rights after Stonewall. In 1982 the state would pass the nation's first gay rights bill, the result of decades of activism, nonpartisan political efforts, and the support of the church. This first volume in a two-book history tells the stories of those pre-Stonewall efforts"--