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Urban politics and British civil wars Edinburgh, 1617-53 / by Stewart, Laura A. M.

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. The urban community -- pt. 2. Politics and religion.…”
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Responsibility of Intellectuals : Reflections by Noam Chomsky and Others after 50 years /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Contributors; Preface; Introduction: 'The Responsibility of Intellectuals': what it does and does not say; Remarks on the historical context of the essay 'The Responsibility of Intellectuals'; 1 Reflections on Chomsky's 'The Responsibility of Intellectuals'; 2 'I don't want no peace'- a black, Jewish activist's take on the responsibility of intellectuals; 3 The responsibility of intellectuals in the era of bounded rationality and Democracy for Realists; 4 The propaganda model and the British nuclear weapons debate…”
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A companion to the Neronian age

Table of Contents: “…Literature, Art and Architecture -- Seneca, Apocolocyntosis / Christopher L. Whitton -- The Carmina Einsidlensia and Calpurnius Siculus' Eclogues / John Henderson -- Seneca's Philosophical Writings : Naturales Quaestiones, Dialogi, Epistulae Morales / Jonathan Mannering -- Senecan Tragedy / Emma Buckley -- Lucan's Bellum Ciuile / Philip Hardie -- Petronius' Satyrica / Tom Murgatroyd -- Persius / Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols -- Columella, De Re Rustica / Christiane Reitz -- Literature of the World : Seneca's Natural Questions and Pliny's Natural History / Aude Doody -- Greek Literature Under Nero / Dirk Uwe Hansen -- Buildings of an Emperor : how Nero transformed Rome / Heinz-Jürgen Beste and Henner von Hesberg -- Portraits of an Emperor : Nero and the Sun / Marianne Bergmann -- Neronian Wall-Painting : A Matter of Perspective / Katharina Lorenz -- Part IV. …”
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Here on the edge / by McQuiddy, Steve

Table of Contents: “…-- Unscrew the locks from the doors! -- Coda: Let us at least salute it.…”
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The space of crisis : images and ideas of Europe in the age of crisis, 1914-1945 /

“…Europe Intellectual life 20th century.…”
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Ideas, images, and methods of portrayal insights into classical Arabic literature and Islam /

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The romantic national tale and the question of Ireland by Ferris, Ina

Subjects: “…Nationalism and literature Ireland History 19th century.…”
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New Babylonians a history of Jews in modern Iraq / by Bashkin, Orit, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Brothers and others : Iraqi identity and Arab Jewishness -- Nationalism and patriotism : visions of the nation -- The effendia : questions of secularism and Judaism -- Friends, neighbors, and enemies : fascism, anti-Semitism, and enemies -- Red Baghdad : Iraqi Jews and the ICP, 1941-51 -- An end? : Iraqi Jews and the Iraqi state, 1946-51.…”
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The emerging female citizen gender and enlightenment in Spain / by Smith, Theresa Ann, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…: membership in the economic society -- Enacting citizenship -- Negotiating a female public: writers and reformers -- Public works: female citizens as mothers and workers -- Between reason and passion: citizenship in translation.…”
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Networks of stone : sculpture and society in archaic and classical Athens / by Hochscheid, Helle

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Re-forming the nation in literature and film / entwuerfe zur nation in literatur und film : the patriotic idea in contemporary german-language culture / die patriotische idee in der deutschsprachigen kultur der gegenwart /

Subjects: “…Nationalism and literature Europe History 16th century.…”
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The Alexandrian tradition : interactions between science, religion, and literature /

“…Ricerche di cultura europea = Forschungen zur europäischen Kultur,…”
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Queen Liberty the concept of freedom in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth / by Grześkowiak-Krwawicz, Anna

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Eating identities reading food in Asian American literature / by Xu, Wenying

Table of Contents: “…Enjoyment and ethnic identity in No-no boy and Obasan -- Masculinity, food, and appetite in Frank Chin's Donald Duk and "The eat and run midnight people" -- Class and cuisine: David Wong Louie's The barbarians are coming -- Diaspora, transcendentalism, and ethnic gastronomy in the works of Li-Young Lee -- Sexuality, colonialism, and ethnicity in Monique Truong's The book of salt and Mei Ng's Eating Chinese food naked -- Epilogue: eating identities.…”
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Eating Identities : Reading Food in Asian American Literature / by Xu, Wenying

Table of Contents: “…Enjoyment and ethnic identity in No-no boy and Obasan -- Masculinity, food, and appetite in Frank Chin's Donald Duk and "The eat and run midnight people" -- Class and cuisine: David Wong Louie's The barbarians are coming -- Diaspora, transcendentalism, and ethnic gastronomy in the works of Li-Young Lee -- Sexuality, colonialism, and ethnicity in Monique Truong's The book of salt and Mei Ng's Eating Chinese food naked -- Epilogue: eating identities.…”
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Lost and found in translation contemporary ethnic American writing and the politics of language diversity / by Cutter, Martha J.

Table of Contents: “…An impossible necessity : translation and the re-creation of linguistic and cultural identities in the works of David Wong Louie, Fae Myenne Ng, and Maxine Hong Kingston -- Finding a "home" in translation : John Okada's No-no boy and Cynthia Kadohata's The floating world -- Translation as revelation : the task of the translator in the fiction of N. …”
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"Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse" negotiating texts and contexts in contemporary Irish studies / by O'Brien, Eugene, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction negotiating texts and contexts -- Ireland in theory: the influence of French theory on Irish cultural and societal development -- The ethics of translation: Seamus Heaney's Cure at Troy and Beowulf -- The body politic: the ethics of responsibility and the responsibility of ethics in Seamus Heaney's The burial at Thebes -- "You can never know women": framing female identity in Dubliners -- The return and redefinition of the repressed: postcolonial studies and "Eveline" in Dubliners -- "Inner émigr'(s)": Derrida, Heaney, Yeats and the hauntological redefinition of Irishness -- "Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse": Catholicism, deconstruction and postmodernity in contemporary Irish culture -- "Guests (geists) of the nation": a Heimlich (unheimlich) manoeuvre -- Global warnings: towards a deconstruction of the global and the local -- "T siad ag teacht": Guinness as a signifier of Irish cultural transformation.…”
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Postmodern Spiritual Practices : The Construction of the Subject and the Reception of Plato in Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault / by Miller, Paul Allen, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: remaking the soul : antiquity, postmodernism, and genealogies of the self -- The modernist revolt : history, politics, and allegory, or, Classicism in occupied France -- Historicizing transcendence : antigone, the good, and the ethics of psychoanalysis -- Lacan, the Symposium, and transference -- Writing the subject : Derrida asks Plato to take a letter -- The art of self-fashioning, or, Foucault on the Alcibiades : caring for the self and others -- Searching for a usable past.…”
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Before Boas : the genesis of ethnography and ethnology in the German Enlightenment / by Vermeulen, Han F., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Ethnography and Empire : G.F. M�uller and the Description of Siberian Peoples -- 5. …”
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Folklore in New World Black Fiction : Writing and the Oral Tradition Aesthetics / by Ako̥ma, Chiji

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