Fundamentals of forensic science by Houck, Max M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Crime scene investigation -- The nature of evidence -- Microscopy -- Spectroscopic techniques -- Separation methods in forensic science -- Pathology -- Anthropology and odontology -- Entomology -- Serology and bloodstain pattern analysis -- DNA analysis -- Forensic hair examinations -- Illicit drugs -- Forensic toxicology -- Textile fibers -- Paint analysis -- Soil and glass -- Fires and explosions -- Friction ridge examination -- Questioned documents -- Firearms and tool marks -- Impression evidence -- Legal aspects of forensic science.…”
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The early Renaissance and vernacular culture by Dempsey, Charles

Table of Contents: “…Sandro Botticelli and Poliziano : humanist learning and the vernacular -- Civic ritual I. Cardinal Orsini's paintings and Baccio Baldini's engravings of the Sibyls : humanist learning and vernacular drama -- Civic ritual II. …”
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Selected writings on aesthetics by Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803

Table of Contents: “…Lessing's Laocoön -- Critical forests: fourth grove, on Riedel's Theory of the beaux arts -- Shakespeare -- The causes of sunken taste among the different peoples in whom it once blossomed -- On the influence of the belles lettres on the higher sciences -- Does painting or music have a greater effect?: a divine colloquy -- On image, poetry, and fable.…”
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Modernist America art, music, movies, and the globalization of American culture / by Pells, Richard H.

Table of Contents: “…Modernism in Europe and America -- Painting modernity -- The globalization of American architecture -- Modernism in the marketplace -- From The rite of spring to Appalachian spring -- All that jazz -- They're writing songs of love -- "I was just making pictures" : from Charlie Chaplin to Charlie Kane -- Night and fog : from German expressionism to film noir -- The new wave abroad -- The new wave at home -- A method they couldn't refuse -- The global popularity of American movies -- Epilogue. …”
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National monuments and nationalism in 19th century Germany by Pohlsander, Hans A., 1927-

Table of Contents: “…-- German nationalism in the 19th century from the beginnings to Ernst Moritz Arndt -- German nationalism in the 19th century from Heinrich von Kleist to "Die Wacht am Rhein" -- The repression of German nationalism -- Monuments to German culture -- Ludwig I of Bavaria , the Walhalla, the Befreiungshalle, and related monuments -- Monuments to German arms -- From Prussia to Germany -- "Heil Dir im Siegerkranz" -- The Iron Chancellor -- Historicizing painting of the 19th century -- Epilogue.…”
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The "it" factor be the one people like, listen to, and remember / by Wiskup, Mark

Table of Contents: “…The elusive "it" factor -- No one is born with the "it" factor : no matter what your parents say -- The enormous value of building connections -- How to turn every conversation into a connection -- How to build instant connections by painting pictures with your words -- How to make boring jargon and stats fascinating -- Preserve your hard-won connections by avoiding patronizing patter -- Perfecting your elevator pitch : how to wow them in just three floors -- How to enhance your connections with meaningful praise and helpful criticism -- How to succeed at "small talk" (it's the only way to get to "big talk") -- How to get noticed at meetings -- The "it" factor five-step implementation program -- The delights of having the "it" factor.…”
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The 3-point therapist for therapists and all those interested in relationships / by Davies, Hilary A.

Table of Contents: “…First visit to the 3-point therapist -- Work of which you are proud -- Starting to focus -- Congratulations on beginning -- I listened -- We have a choice -- Tell me your story -- I'll tell you a story -- Only if they'll meet with you -- Simply respect -- Just think the right language -- In an unexpected way -- Funny that/funny this -- Catch them unawares -- My cat-- -- And the balls -- Practice writes theory -- Mad with my client -- Trust those seeds -- A specific painting in a specific way -- The families' curators -- Last visit to the 3-point therapist.…”
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Catalonia a cultural history / by Eaude, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Birth and rebirth of a nation -- The first town in Spain (Portbou) -- Mediterranean : the center of the earth (Tarragona) -- Romanesque Catalonia : the Pyrenees -- Glory and rapine : Poblet and Athens -- The poet-priest and the indiano (Verdaguer) -- The Lancashire of Spain : Gaudí and Güell, Geniuses -- Fleeing the straight and narrow : Gaudí and Reus -- Modern painting : Rusiñol at Sitges (Picasso) -- The terminal beach : Salvador Dalí -- Feet rooted to the red earth : Joan Miró -- I Come from a silence : Raimon -- Tourism and war -- The sweaty groin, Barcelona's Raval -- The Gothic Quarter, Barcelona -- Mass migration and mass tourism : Lloret -- Plain and river. …”
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Venturing upon dizzy heights lectures and essays on philosophy, literature, and the arts / by Ross, Bruce, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Wordsworth's rainbow and ours : a Kabbalist understanding of beauty -- Being is believing : the underpinnings of Walter Benjamin's deconstruction of historicism -- Dancing cranes and empty mind : the fusion of Wu-Chi and T'ai-Chi in ancient Chinese mountain poetry -- The willing subject and the non-willing subject in the Tao Te Ching and Nietzsche's hyperborean : Taoist and deconstructive challenges to the idea of virtue -- Dances with bears : the beginnings of western art -- Vincent van Gogh's irises : venturing upon dizzy heights -- Figureless landscape : the persistence of the sublime in American landscape painting -- The essence of haiku -- A world out of balance and in balance : urban and nature haiku -- Narratives of the heart : haibun -- On defining haibun to a western audience -- Tanka : celebrating the natural world and the postmodern condition.…”
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Circles where the head should be poems / by Wilkinson, Caki, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Cosmogony -- Lares and Penates -- Bower bird -- Lady on a unicycle -- Same lady, different unicycle -- The truth about effects -- Genealogy -- Girl under bug zapper -- Portrait of the artist with toothpick bridge -- Itinerant -- Mnemosyne -- Fisher King -- Bildungsroman -- The school by the zoo -- Tactics: a short lesson -- Portrait of the artist with paint-by-numbers -- Svengali deck -- Plot twists -- Flea circus -- Felix culpa -- Epithalamium -- Storm and stress -- Aftermath -- Dead matter -- Assisted living -- Miniatures -- The truth about distance -- A correlated history of synchronity.…”
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Go figure energies, forms, and institutions in the early modern world /

Table of Contents: “…Spenser's giant and the new science / Mary Thomas Crane -- The sacramental neuter and the missing body in Robert Southwell's poetics / Lowell Gallagher -- Reconfiguring Figuring: John Donne as Narrative Poet / Heather Dubrow -- The Narrative Turn against Metaphor: Metonymy, Identification, and Roger Boyle's Parthenissa / Amelia Zurcher -- Caterpillage : Death and Truthiness in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life Painting / Harry Berger, Jr. -- Figuring belief : George Herbert's devotional creatures / David Glimp -- Entertaining Friends : Falstaff's Parasitology / Donald Hedrick -- Skin Merchants : Jack Cade's Futures and the Figural Politics of Henry VI, Part II / Julian Yates.…”
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Women, celebrity, and literary culture between the wars by Hammill, Faye

Table of Contents: “…"How to tell the difference between a Matisse painting and a Spanish omelette" : Dorothy Parker, Vogue, and Vanity fair -- "Brains are really everything" : Anita Loos's Gentlemen prefer blondes -- "A plumber's idea of Cleopatra" : Mae West as author -- "Astronomers located her in the latitude of Prince Edward Island" : L. …”
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Red ink native Americans picking up the pen in the colonial period / by Lopenzina, Drew

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: surivial writing: contesting the pen and ink work of colonialism -- Wussuckwheke or the painted letter: glimpses of native signification acknowledged and unwitnessed (1492-1643) -- Praying Indians, printing devils: centers of indigeniety within colonial containments (1643-1665) -- King Philip's signature: ascribing Philip's name to land, war and history in native New England (1660-1709) -- Beneath the wave: the maintenance of native tradition in hidden transcripts (1709-1768) -- A tale of two settlements; Mohican, Mohegan and the road to Brotherton (1724-1785) -- Afterword: O' Brotherton where art thou.…”
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Fuseli's Milton gallery 'turning readers into spectators' / by Calè, Luisa

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John Brown still lives! America's long reckoning with violence, equality, & change / by Gilpin, R. Blakeslee

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : cause and consequence : John Brown in nineteenth-century America -- Some definite plan : the early life of John Brown -- The final arbiter : Bleeding Kansas and the creation of the old hero -- Not buried but planted : cultivating the legend of John Brown -- A saint in suspense : competing visions of John Brown -- Discrimination and destiny : John Brown and the NAACP -- The soul rests : Stephen Vincent Benét and the silencing of John Brown's body -- The fugitive imagination : a John Brown for the old South -- Revising Kansas : John Steuart Curry and the fanaticism of John Brown -- Together under arms : Jacob Lawrence paints Black history -- Epilogue. Climax and harbinger : a life as a common cause.…”
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Building a small business that Warren Buffett would love by Brownlee, Adam, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: Painting the Picture of the Ideal Business Chapter 1: Buffett and the Fundamental Business Perspective Chapter 2: The Importance of a Consumer Monopoly or Toll Bridge Chapter 3: Strong, Consistent and Growing Earnings Chapter 4: Emphasizing a High Return on Equity Chapter 5: Retained Earnings - The Fuel for the Engine of Compounding Returns Chapter 6: The Tumor of Long-Term Debt Chapter 7: Keeping Up With the Joneses Chapter 8: With Healthy Net and Gross Margins Chapter 9: Building a Small Business That Warren Buffett Would Love - Finishing the Landscape Epilogue Notes About the Author Index.…”
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World cinema and the visual arts

Table of Contents: “…Choy -- The postnational and the aesthetics of the spectral: Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Flight of the red balloon / Je Cheol Park -- The art object as text in the practice of comparative visuality / Jane Chin Davidson -- Exploring in-humanity: Gertrude Stein's Tender buttons and still-life painting / Nandini Ramesh Sankar -- Re-defining art: Manuel Rivas' Mujer en el baño / Ana-María Medina -- Re-envisioning the haunting past: Kara Walker's art and the re-appropriation of the visual codes of the antebellum South / Minna Niemi.…”
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Cleopatra a sphinx revisited /

Table of Contents: “…Rowland -- HRH Cleopatra : the last of the Ptolemies and the Egyptian paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema / Margaret Mary DeMaria Smith -- Glamour girls : Cleomania in mass culture / Maria Wyke and Dominic Montserratá -- Every man's Cleopatra / Giuseppe Pucci -- Cleopatra : the sphinx revisited / Peter Green.…”
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Collecting and appreciating Henry James and the transformation of aesthetics in the age of consumption / by Francescato, Simone, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…The aesthete and the naturalist as cultural commodifiers; The impossible painting and the ugly statuettes -- The princess Casamassima. …”
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Crafting the woman professional in the long nineteenth century artistry and industry in Britain /

Table of Contents: “…: women drawing on wood and the careers of Florence and Adelaide Claxton / Catherine Flood -- The China painter : amateur celebrities and professional status at Howell and James "Royal Academy of China painting" / Anne Anderson -- Creative industry : design, art education and the woman professional / Patricia Zakreski -- Dorothy's career and other cautionary tales / Pamela Gerrish Nunn -- The craft of self-fashioning -- Negotiating fame : mid-Victorian women writers and the romantic myth of the gentlemanly reviewer / Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi -- Towards an iconography of ouida as a woman artist / Andrew King -- "Mady's tightrope walk" : the career of Marian Huxley Collier / Valerie Sanders -- Living art : Michael Field, aestheticism and dress / Ana Parejo Vadillo.…”
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