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Sight unseen how Frémont's first expedition changed the American landscape / by Menard, Andrew, 1948-

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Hidden in plain sight the tragedy of children's rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate / by Woodhouse, Barbara Bennett, 1945-

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Visions of Electric Media : Television in the Victorian and Machine Ages / by Roberts, Ivy, 1982-

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Visions in late medieval England lay spirituality and sacred glimpses of the hidden worlds of faith / by Adams, Gwenfair Walters

Table of Contents: “…Seeing through the surface : vision as supra-sacramental sight --…”
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Negotiating community and difference in medieval Europe gender, power, patronage, and the authority of religion in Latin Christendom /

Table of Contents: “…Abbott Erluin's blindness : the monastic implications of violent loss of sight /…”
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Mary Elizabeth Garrett : society and philanthropy in the Gilded Age / by Sander, Kathleen Waters, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : quiet revolutionary -- Garrett's road -- Ascension -- Expansion and restriction -- After Garrett -- The practical head of the Garrett family -- The scheme -- A pleasure to be bought -- The happiness of getting our work done -- Wise and far-sighted.…”
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Spirits of Defiance : National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature, 1920-1933 / by Drowne, Kathleen Morgan

Table of Contents: “…Remembering the culture of national prohibition -- Outside the law : liquor providers of the Prohibition era -- These wild young people : drinking and youth culture -- Hidden in plain sight : the drinking joints -- "Lets stay in" : the prohibition-era house party.…”
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Lincoln and the politics of Christian love by Havers, Grant N., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The demanding politics of charity -- The concept of charity before Lincoln -- "With charity for all" : Lincoln raises the sights -- Charity and "we, the people" -- Natural right, charity, and political realism -- Charity and chosenness -- Conclusion : the future past of a charitable politics.…”
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Collective killings in rural China during the Cultural Revolution by Su, Yang, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Understanding atrocities in plain sight.…”
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Modern American Grotesque Literature and Photography / by Goodwin, James, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The grotesque -- American traditions of the grotesque -- The modern : depiction and description -- Grotesques in modern America : Sherwood Anderson -- "Elephantine close-ups" : Nathanael West -- All God's grotesques : Flannery O'Connor -- New York sights : Weegee -- Creatural realism : Diane Arbus -- Conclusion. …”
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Modern American Grotesque : Literature and Photography / by Goodwin, James, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The grotesque -- American traditions of the grotesque -- The modern : depiction and description -- Grotesques in modern America : Sherwood Anderson -- "Elephantine close-ups" : Nathanael West -- All God's grotesques : Flannery O'Connor -- New York sights : Weegee -- Creatural realism : Diane Arbus -- Conclusion. …”
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Eric Voegelin's dialogue with the postmoderns searching for foundations /

Table of Contents: “…Voegelin and Ricoeur / Peter A. Petrakis -- Sight, sound, and participatory symbolization / Murray Jardine -- Immanence/transcendence / Jeffrey A. …”
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The Self and Its Pleasures : Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject / by Dean, Carolyn J. (Carolyn Janice), 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Gender complexes -- 3. Sight unseen (reading the unconscious) -- Part two. …”
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Come buy, come buy shopping and the culture of consumption in Victorian women's writing / by Lysack, Krista

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: danger, delight, and Victorian women's shopping -- Goblin markets: women shoppers and the East in London's West End -- Lady Audley's shopping disorders -- Middlemarch and the extravagant domestic spender: managing an epic life -- To those who love them best: the erotics of connoisseurship in Michael Field's Sight and song -- Votes for women and the tactics of consumption -- Afterword: Becoming Elizabeth Dalloway: the future of shopping.…”
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Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind : Medieval Constructions of a Disability / by Wheatley, Edward

Table of Contents: “…Cripping the middle ages, medievalizing disability theory -- Leading the blind : France versus England -- "Blind" jews and blind Christians : the metaphorics of marginalization -- Humoring the sighted : the comic embodiment of blindness -- Blinding, blindness, and sexual transgression -- Instructive interventions : miraculous chastisement and cure -- Medieval science and blindness : case studies of Jean L'Aveugle, Gilles Le Muisit, and John Audelay -- Afterword: the visibility of the blind in England and France.…”
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Acts of conscience World War II, mental institutions, and religious objectors / by Taylor, Steven J., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…"Work of national importance under civilian direction" -- "Religious training and belief" -- "An experiment in democracy" -- "A significant epoch in your life" -- "Detached units" -- "A working compromise between church and state" -- "Out of sight, out of mind" -- "A mind that found itself" -- "They asked for a hard job" -- "Bughousers" and "conchies" -- "The exposé as a progressive tool" -- "They were fighting everybody" -- "Mental hospitals are again under fire" -- "Another growing pain" -- "Scandal results in real reforms."…”
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Spirits unseen the representation of subtle bodies in early modern European culture /

Table of Contents: “…Vapours and veils : the edge of the unseen / Christine Gottler -- Poltergeist the prequel : aspects of other worldly disturbances in early modern times / Wolfgang Neuber -- Fire, smoke and vapour, Jan Brueghel's "poetic hell' : ghespoock in early modern European art / Christine Gottler -- Moveable feasts of reason : description, intelligence, and the excitation of sight / Bret Rothstein -- Images in the air : optical games, magic, and imagination / Sven Dupre -- Material gazes and flying images in Marsilio Ficino and Michelangelo / Berthold Hub -- Spirits of love: Castiglione and Neo-Platonic discourses of vision / Wietse de Boer -- Painting's enchanting poison : artistic eficacy and the transfer of spirits / Thijs Weststeijn -- "Singe the enchantment for sleepe" : music and bewitched sleep in early modern English drama / Sarah F. …”
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Afterimage of empire photography in nineteenth-century India / by Chaudhary, Zahid R.

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The sites of Rome time, space, memory /

Table of Contents: “…Larmour -- Victim and voyeur : Rome as a character in Tacitus' Histories 3 / Rhiannon Ash -- The gates of Janus : Bakhtin and Plutarch's Roman meta-chronotope / Jason Banta -- Staging Rome : the Renaissance, Rome, and humanism's classical crisis / Jacob Blevins -- Sizing up Rome, or theorizing the overview / Caroline Vout -- Ancient Rome for little comrades : the legacy of classical antiquity in Soviet childrens' literature / Marina Balina -- The sites and sights of Rome in Fellini's films : 'not a human habitation but a psychical entity' / Elena Theodorakopoulos.…”
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