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Fictions of Authority : Women Writers and Narrative Voice / by Lanser, Susan Sniader, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Toward a feminist poetics of narrative voice -- The rise of the novel, the fall of the voice: Juliette Catesby's silencing -- In a class by herself: self-silencing in Riccoboni's Abeille -- Sense and reticence: Jane Austen's "Indirections" -- Woman of Maxims: Geoge Eliot and the realist imperative -- Fictions of absence: feminism, modernism, Virginia Woolf -- Unspeakable voice: Toni Morrison's postmodern authority -- Dying for publicity: Mistriss Henley's self-silencing -- Romantic voice: the hero's text -- Jane Eyre's legacy: the powers and dangers of singularity -- African-American personal voice: "her hungriest lack" -- Solidarity and silence: Millenium Hall and The wrongs of woman -- Single resistances: the communal "I" in Gaskell, Jewett, and Audoux -- (Dif)fusions: modern fiction and communal form -- Full circle: Les Guerilleres.…”
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Dependency : exploring the issues (lessons 1 to 16) /

Table of Contents: “…Lesson 1: introduction to dependency: Lesson 2 stories of churches: Lesson 3:characteristic syndrome of dependency: Lesson 4 what should wealthy churches do with their money: Lesson 5: Historical development of the syndrome: Lesson 6 what can missionary do: Lesson 7 what can local church leader do: Lesson 8 miscellaneous issues a historical development of the sydrome,what missionaries do: Lessons 9 three things of importance: Lesson 10 issues among the poor and unemployed: Lesson 11 the joy of giving and the law of tithing: Lesson 12 indigenous church and missionary sending: Lesson 13 christianity in an african context: Lesson 14 conflictting world views: Lesson 15 ethinicity and crosscultural church planting:Lesson 16 the rolw of business people.…”

Ethical choices in long-term care what does justice require?.

Table of Contents: “…Or, I'd rather be some mother's child a reply to Nussbaum and Daniels -- App. D. The African perspective -- App. E. List of participants.…”
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Secret ingredients race, gender, and class at the dinner table / by Inness, Sherrie A.

Table of Contents: “…"More American than apple pie" : modern African-American cookbooks fighting white stereotypes -- 6. …”
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Law and disorder in the postcolony

Table of Contents: “…Comaroff and Jean Comaroff -- The mute and the unspeakable: political subjectivity, violent, crime, and "the sexual thing" in a South African mining community / Rosalind C. Morris -- "I came to sabotage your reasoning!"…”
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Freshwater Microplastics Emerging Environmental Contaminants? /

Table of Contents: “…Microplastics are contaminants of emerging concern in freshwater environments: an overview -- Aquatic ecotoxicity of microplastics and nanoplastics - lessons learned from engineered nanomaterials -- Analysis, Occurrence, and Degradation of Microplastics in the Aqueous Environment -- Sources and fate of microplastics in urban areas: a focus on Paris Megacity -- Microplastic pollution in inland waters focusing on Asia -- Microplastics in inland African waters: presence, sources and fate -- Modelling the fate and transport of plastic debris in fresh waters. …”
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The Obama presidency promise and performance /

Table of Contents: “…Berg -- Shifting global paradigms and Obama's adaptive foreign policy / Lawrence C. Reardon -- African-American perspectives of the Obama presidency / Shayla C. …”
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Sounding the Cape Music, Identity and Politics in South Africa / by Martin, Denis-Constant

Table of Contents: “…Part one: The emergence of Creolised identities: Chapter one: Music and identity: a theoretical prologue -- Chapter two: Cape Town's musics: a legacy of Creolisation -- Part two: The dialectics of separation and interweaving: Chapter three: Separation and interweaving in the 20th century: futile separations; Vincent Kolbe's childhood memories -- Chapter four: Separation and interweaving in the 20th century: fertile intertwining; Chris McGregor talks about the blue notes, jazz and South African society; "Soweto Sun", an interview with Rashid Vally by Denis-Constant Martin -- Chapter five: Two decades of freedom -- Chapter six: The musicians' discourse: Cape Town as a musical Potjiekos -- Conclusion: Recognising Creolisation? …”
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Fictions of Authority : Women Writers and Narrative Voice / by Lanser, Susan Sniader, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Toward a feminist poetics of narrative voice -- The rise of the novel, the fall of the voice: Juliette Catesby's silencing -- In a class by herself: self-silencing in Riccoboni's Abeille -- Sense and reticence: Jane Austen's "Indirections" -- Woman of Maxims: Geoge Eliot and the realist imperative -- Fictions of absence: feminism, modernism, Virginia Woolf -- Unspeakable voice: Toni Morrison's postmodern authority -- Dying for publicity: Mistriss Henley's self-silencing -- Romantic voice: the hero's text -- Jane Eyre's legacy: the powers and dangers of singularity -- African-American personal voice: "her hungriest lack" -- Solidarity and silence: Millenium Hall and The wrongs of woman -- Single resistances: the communal "I" in Gaskell, Jewett, and Audoux -- (Dif)fusions: modern fiction and communal form -- Full circle: Les Guerilleres.…”
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American sanctuary understanding sacred spaces /

Table of Contents: “…Mohr -- The urban practice of Jewish space / Jennifer Cousineau -- Salvage/Salvation: recent African American yark shows / John Beardsley -- Spaces for a new public presence: the Sri Siva Vishnu and Murugan temples in Metropolitan Washington, D.C. / Joanne Punzo Waghorne -- Getting beyond Gothic: challenges for contemporary Catholic church architecture / Paula M. …”
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Worst of the worst dealing with repressive and rogue nations /

Table of Contents: “…Clapp -- Winning the African prize for repression : Zimbabwe / Robert I. …”
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Patenting lives life patents, culture and development /

Table of Contents: “…: an ethic of patents on genetically modified organisms / Kathryn Garforth -- The right to development, African countries and the patenting of living organisms : a human rights dilemma / Adejoke Oyewunmi -- The genetic sequence right : a sui generis alternative to the patenting of biological materials / Luigi Palombi -- Forfeited consent : body parts in eminent domain / Angela A . …”
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Private guns, public health by Hemenway, David

Table of Contents: “…-- Guns in the home -- Guns in schools -- Guns in public -- Young children -- Adolescents and young adults -- Women -- African Americans -- Manufacturers -- Licensed dealers -- The unregulated market -- The second amendment -- Public opinion -- Evaluating regulation -- The wrong arguments -- Lessons from other products -- Lessons from other countries -- International effects of our permissive policies -- A brief history of firearms law -- Reasonable policies -- Public health surveillance.…”
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Apocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction by Leigh, David J.

Table of Contents: “…Miller, Jr -- The ultimate self: death and dying in John Updike and Charles Williams -- The ultimate challenge: apocalyptic liberation and transformation in African-American writing: Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison -- The ultimate way: apocalypse and pluralism in the postcolonial fiction of Salman Rushdie and Shusaku Endo.…”
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New Atlantis musicians battle for the survival of New Orleans / by Swenson, John

Table of Contents: “…Voice of the wetlands -- African Americans and Indians -- The Constantinople of the New World -- Sad night in Jackson Square -- Return of the spirits -- Let it go -- Don't let them wash us away -- Reality check -- Don't take my picture -- Musicians strike back at violence -- I am New Orleans -- Shorty on the block -- The Armstrong legacy -- Cold in the trailer -- If I can help somebody -- Baghdad on the Mississippi -- Brown baby dead in the water -- On the fringes -- City that care forgot -- Wild and free -- Saving at the bank of soul -- It ain't just the suit -- Bourbon Street blues -- Snooks flies away -- Ghosts of traditional jazz -- New blood -- Jazz fest turns 40 -- New Atlantis -- Mcdermott's duets -- Cyril's nightmare -- The wizard of Piety Street -- Blues come down like rain -- Cyril comes full circle -- Marching in.…”
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Divine love perspectives from the world's religious traditions /

Table of Contents: “…: exploring divine love in African religion / John S. Mbiti -- "In the beginning, love entered that one" : divine love from a perspective informed by Vedic Hindu thought / William K. …”
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The glass slipper : women and love stories / by Weisser, Susan Ostrov

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence -- Why Charlotte Bronte despised Jane Austen (and what that tells us about the modern meaning of love) -- The true and real thing: Victorian and modern magazine cultures of romance -- Victorian desires and modern romances: Pocahontas on a bridge in Madison County -- For the love of mermaids, beasts, and vampires (and ghosts, robots, monsters, witches, and aliens): romancing the other -- Women who love too much ... or not enough...or the wrong way: the tragedy and comedy of romantic love in modern movies -- Feminism and Harlequin romance: the problem of the love story -- A genre of one's own: African American romance imprints and the "universality" of love -- Is female to romance as male is to porn? …”
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Manuscript cultures : mapping the field /

Table of Contents: “…Scribal annotation as evidence of learning in manuscripts from the first Byzantine humanism : the "philosophical collection" / Christian Brockmann -- Writing, copying, translating : Ethiopia as a manuscript culture / Alessandro Bausi -- Arabic manuscripts on the periphery : Northwest Africa, Yemen and China / Florian Sobieroj -- Multiglossia in West African manuscripts : the case of Borno, Nigeria / Dmitry Bondarev -- Indian manuscripts / Dominik Wujastyk -- Gandharan scrolls : rediscovering an ancient manuscript type / Stefan Baums -- A palaeographic study of a Buddhist manuscript from the Gilgit region / Gudrun Melzer -- Tibetan manuscripts : between history and science / Agnieszka Helman-Ważny -- Towards a Tibetan palaeography : developing a typology of writing styles in early Tibet / Sam van Schaik -- Punctuation marks in medieval Chinese manuscripts / Imre Galambos -- The archive inside : manuscripts found within Chinese religious statues / James Robson.…”
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Private guns, public health by Hemenway, David

Table of Contents: “…-- Guns in the home -- Guns in schools -- Guns in public -- Young children -- Adolescents and young adults -- Women -- African Americans -- Manufacturers -- Licensed dealers -- The unregulated market -- The second amendment -- Public opinion -- Evaluating regulation -- The wrong arguments -- Lessons from other products -- Lessons from other countries -- International effects of our permissive policies -- A brief history of firearms law -- Reasonable policies -- Public health surveillance.…”
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Apocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction by Leigh, David J.

Table of Contents: “…Miller, Jr -- The ultimate self: death and dying in John Updike and Charles Williams -- The ultimate challenge: apocalyptic liberation and transformation in African-American writing: Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison -- The ultimate way: apocalypse and pluralism in the postcolonial fiction of Salman Rushdie and Shusaku Endo.…”
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