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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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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. …”

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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Race and human rights /

Table of Contents: “…Thomas -- Latino growth and Latino exploitation : more than a passing acquaintance / Robert Aponte -- Race, immigration, and the limits of citizenship / H.L.T. Quan -- African Americans and immigration : the economic, political, and strategic implications / Robert C. …”
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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. …”

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. …”

The Global Horizon : Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Reflections on migratory expectations in Africa and beyond / Knut Graw and Samuli Schielke -- On the cause of migration : being and nothingness in the African-European border zone / Knut Graw -- Bushfalling : the making of migratory expectations in Anglophone Cameroon / Maybritt Jill Alpes -- City on the move : how urban dwellers in Central Africa manage the siren's call of migration / Filip De Boeck -- Spaces in movement : town-village interconnections in West Africa / Denise Dias Barros -- Migration, identity and immobility in a Malian Soninke village / Gunvor Jónsson -- "God's time is the best" : religious imagination and the wait for emigration in The Gambia / Paolo Gaibazzi -- The Eiffel Tower and the eye : actualizing modernity between Paris and Ghana / Ann Cassiman -- Literacy, locality, and mobility : writing practices and 'cultural extraversion' in rural Mali / Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye -- Engaging the world on the Alexandria waterfront / Samuli Schielke -- Afterword / Michael Jackson.…”
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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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Race and human rights /

Table of Contents: “…Thomas -- Latino growth and Latino exploitation : more than a passing acquaintance / Robert Aponte -- Race, immigration, and the limits of citizenship / H.L.T. Quan -- African Americans and immigration : the economic, political, and strategic implications / Robert C. …”
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The Global Horizon : Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Reflections on migratory expectations in Africa and beyond / Knut Graw and Samuli Schielke -- On the cause of migration : being and nothingness in the African-European border zone / Knut Graw -- Bushfalling : the making of migratory expectations in Anglophone Cameroon / Maybritt Jill Alpes -- City on the move : how urban dwellers in Central Africa manage the siren's call of migration / Filip De Boeck -- Spaces in movement : town-village interconnections in West Africa / Denise Dias Barros -- Migration, identity and immobility in a Malian Soninke village / Gunvor Jónsson -- "God's time is the best" : religious imagination and the wait for emigration in The Gambia / Paolo Gaibazzi -- The Eiffel Tower and the eye : actualizing modernity between Paris and Ghana / Ann Cassiman -- Literacy, locality, and mobility : writing practices and 'cultural extraversion' in rural Mali / Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye -- Engaging the world on the Alexandria waterfront / Samuli Schielke -- Afterword / Michael Jackson.…”
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Cancer disparities causes and evidence-based solutions /

Table of Contents: “…Allen -- The North Carolina beauty and health project : preventing cancer in African American beauty salons / Laura Linnan ... …”
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Cancer disparities causes and evidence-based solutions /

Table of Contents: “…Allen -- The North Carolina beauty and health project : preventing cancer in African American beauty salons / Laura Linnan ... …”
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Democracy and elections in Africa by Lindberg, Staffan I., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…; On regimes ; On elections and democracy ; Preindependence and postindependence elections in African nations ; Contemporary Africa's track record ; Outline of the book -- On democracy and elections. …”
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Locating the field space, place and context in anthropology /

Table of Contents: “…Studying down, up, sideways, through, backwards, forwards, away and at home : reflections on the field worries of an expansive discipline / Ulf Hannerz -- Beyond the verandah : fieldwork, locality and the production of knowledge in a South African city / Leslie Bank -- Fieldwork on foot : perceiving, routing, socializing / Jo Lee and Tim Ingold -- Rendering and gendering mobile subjects in a globalized world of mountaineering : between localizing ethnography and global spaces / Susan Frohlick -- Post-diasporic Indian communities : a new generation / Anjoom Mukadam and Sharmina Mawani -- The Internet, cybercafés and the new social spaces of Bangalorean youth / Nicholas Nisbett -- Out of proportion? …”
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The origins of capitalism and the "rise of the West" by Mielants, Eric

Table of Contents: “…Perspectives on the origins of merchant capitalism in Europe -- Orthodox Marxism -- Brennerism (or the Brenner approach) -- The modernization theory -- World-systems analysis -- The inter-city-state system of the Middle Ages -- Tentative conclusions -- The political economies of China and Europe compared -- The Chinese socioeconomic revolution during the Sung dynasty (circa 900-1280) -- China and the Mongols -- Ming China and Europe : divergent paths -- Conclusions vis-á-vis European capitalism -- The political economies of South Asia and Europe compared -- Trade and commodity flows in the South Asian region -- States and state structures in South Asia -- The strategies of elites in South Asia and Europe -- The impact of the perilous frontier -- Conclusions -- The political economies of Western Europe and Northern Africa compared -- Northern Africa and the Sudanic states (circa 1200-1500) -- North African cities, states, and the balance of power in the Mediterranean -- Conclusions -- Conclusion : Was the Western-European city-state in the Middle Ages a European miracle?…”
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Ending Africa's wars progressing to peace /

Table of Contents: “…/ Gerry Cleaver and Simon Massey -- A long prelude to peace : African involvement in ending Burundi's war / Roger Southall -- A sustainable peace? …”
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