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Secularism, education, and emotions : cultural tensions in Hebrew Palestine (1882-1926) / by Seltenreich, Yair, 1949-

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Rachid Ghannouchi a democrat within Islamism / by Tamimi, Azzam

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Makers of contemporary Islam by Esposito, John L.

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Reconsidering No man knows my history Fawn M. Brodie and Joseph Smith in retrospect /

Table of Contents: “…Bringhurst -- Applause, attack, and ambivalence : varied responses to No man knows my history / Newell G. Bringhurst -- Secular or sectarian history? : a critique of No man knows my history / Marvin S. …”
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George Rochberg, American Composer : Personal Trauma and Artistic Creativity / by Wlodarski, Amy Lynn

Table of Contents: “…Rochberg : 1938-48 -- The long road to Ars combinatoria : 1943-63 -- Entropic suffering and Ars combinatoria : 1962-70 -- Jewish secularism as Ars combinatoria : 1954-87 -- A moral education for the future : 1948-2005 -- Afterword : on trauma, moral injuries, and aesthetic recoveries.…”
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Bones of contention the living archive of Vasil Levski and the making of Bulgaria's national hero / by Todorova, Marii͡a Nikolaeva

Table of Contents: “…-- The "making" of Vasil Levski -- A banner for all causes : appropriating the hero -- Contesting the hero -- The literary and visual hypostases of the hero -- From hero for all to dissident and back -- The national hero as secular saint : the canonization of Levski -- The split or how a bicephalous organism functions -- The canonization and its implications -- Levski and the Bulgarian Church : memory and narration -- The orchestration of a grass-roots cultus -- Commemoration, ritual and the sacred -- Heroes and saints : the dialectics of reincarnation.…”
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Juan Bautista Plaza and musical nationalism in Venezuela by Labonville, Marie Elizabeth, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Beginnings; first compositions; vocational indecision; first writings on music (1898-1920) ; Rome; plans for musical renewal in Venezuela (1920-1923) ; Paid to compose : the chapel mastership (1923-1948) ; The educator, part 1 (1923-1928) ; The early secular and nationalist compositions (1924-1929) ; The nascent journalist (1925-1928) ; The founding of the Orfeón Lamas, and Plaza's creative response (1927-1963) ; Plaza and the Orquesta Sinfónica Venezuela (1930-1957) ; The mature journalist; writings on nationalism in music (1929-1948) ; The principal nationalist compositions with instruments (1930-1956) ; The educator, part 2 (1930-1941) ; The musicological pioneer (1936-1964) ; Plaza as the subject of reportage ; The later non-nationalist compositions (1930s-1963) ; The educator, part 3 (1942-1962) ; Retirement : final thoughts on education and culture (1962-1964) ; Plaza in retrospect.…”
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The Universe behind Barbed Wire : Memoirs of a Ukrainian Soviet Dissident / by Marynovych, Myroslav, 1949-

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