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Venus and Adonis by Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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The triumph of Venus the erotics of the market / by Schroeder, Jeanne Lorraine

Table of Contents: “…Pandora's amphora: the eroticism of contract and gift -- Orpheus's desire: the end of the market -- Narcissus's death: the Calabresi-Melamed trichotomy -- The Midas touch: the lethal effect of wealth maximization -- The Eumenides' return: the founding of law through the repression of the feminine -- Epilogue: The birth of Venus.…”
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Venus on wheels two decades of dialogue on disability, biography, and being female in America / by Frank, Gelya, 1948-

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Venus' owne clerk Chaucer's debt to the Confessio amantis / by Lindeboom, B. W. (Benjamin Willem)

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Venus seen on the sun the first observation of a transit of Venus / by Horrocks, Jeremiah, 1617?-1641

“…Venus in sole visa.…”
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Venus and Mercury, and how to observe them by Grego, Peter

“…Venus (Planet) Observations.…”
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Robert Duncan, the Ambassador from Venus a biography / by Jarnot, Lisa, 1967-

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Pioneer Venus case study in spacecraft design

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The moon that wasn't the saga of Venus' spurious satellite / by Kragh, Helge, 1944-

“…Venus (Planet)…”
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Three plays the political theater of Howard Zinn : Emma, Marx in Soho, Daughter of Venus / by Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010

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Shakespeare and Spenser attractive opposites /

Table of Contents: “…Lethbridge -- Beyond binarism : Eros/death and Venus/Mars in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Spenser's Faerie Queene / Judith H. …”
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Horizon's lens my time on the turning world / by Dodd, Elizabeth Caroline, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Solstitial -- The here and now -- Belt of Venus -- Geochronicity -- Assemblage -- Standstill -- Ruin -- Megalithic north -- The middle fork -- Sinuous -- Long count -- Isogloss -- Constellation.…”
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The Augustinian epic, Petrarch to Milton by Warner, J. Christopher (James Christopher), 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Petrarch's Culpa and Augustine's counsel -- Petrarch's Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa -- Renaissance allegories of the Aeneid: the doctrine of the two Venuses and the epic of the two cities -- Petrarch's Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata -- The epic imitation of Christ: Marco Girolamo Vida's Christiad -- Vergil the evangelist: the Christiad of Alexander Ross -- Augustinian epic in Paradise lost -- Augustinian epic in romance epic: the example of Spenser's Faerie queene.…”
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Before Victoria extraordinary women of the British Romantic era / by Denlinger, Elizabeth Campbell

Table of Contents: “…Mary Robinson, eighteeth-century romantic -- Exemplary women : Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, and their worlds -- Not quite good enough : three imperfect lives -- The modern Venus, or improper ladies, and others -- Strong passions of the mind : women in literature and the visual arts -- Rational dames and ladies on horseback : scientists and travelers -- The youngest romantics -- The Pforzheimer Collection and its female inhabitants : an afterword.…”
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The secret Gospel of Mark unveiled imagined rituals of sex, death, and madness in a biblical forgery / by Jeffery, Peter, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…"A discovery of extraordinary importance" -- Questions -- The secret gospel and the origins of Christian liturgy -- The secret gospel and the Alexandrian lectionaries -- A gospel in fragments -- Hypnotic hymns -- The happiness of the dead: Morton Smith on Christian morality -- Hellenistic homosexualities -- Uranian Venus: a homoerotic subculture in English universities -- The wisdom of Salome -- The one who knows -- Appendix: Morton Smith's translation of the Mar Saba letter of Clement.…”
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Traumatic possessions the body and memory in African American women's writing and performance / by Griffiths, Jennifer L., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…"The quick gasp of sympathy": trauma and interracial witnessing in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose -- Betrayal trauma and the test of complicity in Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus -- Between women: trauma, witnessing, and the legacy of interracial rape in Robbie Mccauley's Sally's rape -- Uncanny spaces: trauma, cultural memory, and female body in Gayl Jones's Corregidora -- "I have never seen a movie like that": traumatic memory and the "acceleration of history" in Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.…”
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Classical sculpture and the culture of collecting in Britain since 1760 by Coltman, Viccy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Lord Lansdowne's Wounded Amazon -- 'The loving labours of a learned German' : Adolf Michaelis and the historiography of classical sculpture in Britain -- 'The spoils of Roman grandeur' : correspondence collecting and the market in Rome -- The operations of sculpture : (Re) writing restoration -- Collecting and global politics : the export of marbles from Rome and their transport to Britain -- 'The lecture on Venus's arse' : Richard Cosway's Charles Townley with a group of connoisseurs, c.1771-5 -- 'Placed with propriety' : the display and viewing of ancient sculpture -- 'Casting a lustful eye' : Charles Townley as collector and cataloguer -- Conclusion : Joseph Nollekens' The judgement of Paris.…”
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Making medicine scientific John Burdon Sanderson and the culture of Victorian science / by Romano, Terrie M.

Table of Contents: “…From evangelical to medical officer of health -- Choosing medicine -- Medical officer of health -- Making a career in medical research -- Before the germ theory : the cattle plague of 1865-1866 and the state support of pathology -- From clinician-researcher to professional physiologist : making the pulse visible -- Becoming a research pathologist : the rise of laboratory medicine in Britain -- Focusing on physiology : capturing the venus's flytrap's electrical activity -- The medical sciences : critics and allies -- Physicians, antivivisectionists, and the failure of the Oxford School of Physiology -- A corner turned? …”
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Dreams, visions, and realities

Table of Contents: “…The mandrake Venus / George Egerton -- A white night / Charlotte Mew -- The city of blood / Anna Kingsford -- Dream life and real life / Olive Schreiner -- An engagement / Ella D'Arcy -- The hour of her life / Mabel E. …”
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Satiric advice on women and marriage from Plautus to Chaucer /

Table of Contents: “…Smith -- In a different guise : Roman education and Greek rhetorical thought on marriage / Richard Hawley -- Marriage, adultery, and divorce in Roman comic drama / Susanna Morton Braund -- The cold cares of Venus : Lucretius and anti-marriage literature / Warren S. …”
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