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Fifty biblical portraits / by Beauchamp, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Abraham : the chosen one -- Abraham : in the beginning was the plural -- Abraham : life, death -- Abraham : binding and unbinding -- The name of Isaac : "WiIl Laugh" -- Jacob the deceiver -- Jacob, continued -- Jacob the wrestler -- Joseph -- Moses between two peoples -- Moses the visionary -- Moses in the place of God -- Moses and Pharaoh -- Moses in the sin of his people -- The raised-up serpent -- Joshua conquers the Promised Land -- Rahab and the Wall of Jericho -- Samson, or brimming over -- Ruth : bread, flesh, word -- Samuel : a transition -- Samuel executes the King of the Amalekites -- Saul : the elected and rejected king -- David : courage and ability -- David the beloved -- David put to the test -- From David to Jesus -- Solomon and wisdom -- Adam -- Adam and Eve -- After Solomon : Rehoboam -- Jeroboam : the secession of the North -- Elija : like fire -- Another Elija -- Elija, yesterday and tomorrow -- Elisha the disciple -- The prophet Hosea -- Isaiah -- Isaiah : births -- Jeremiah and the end of the kings -- Jeremiah and Moses -- Jeremiah towards the future -- Ezekiel -- An unknown person : the "Servant" -- Nehemiah : the return -- Job : the cry of the leper -- Jonah and the man from everywhere -- Tobit, his son Tobit, and Raphael -- Esther or disguises -- Judith -- Daniel and the end of times -- Appendix. …”
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Surveillance and spies in the Civil War : exposing Confederate conspiracies in America's heartland / by Towne, Stephen E., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Vallandigham, the Ohio gubernatorial election of 1863, and plots to release Confederate POWs in the fall of 1863 -- "It is impossible to doubt this": army intelligence in the Northern Department in early 1864 -- "What I say about secret dangers is well considered and based on fact": how Rosecrans's detectives infiltrated the secret organizations in early 1864 -- "When government determines to act": how Carrington's detectives infiltrated the secret organizations in 1864 -- "I feel provoked beyond measure at the indifference of the president": convincing Lincoln of the danger of insurrection, summer 1864 -- A "narrow escape from a Civil War": the triumph of military intelligence in august 1864 -- "I make no assertions without proof": preserving the northwest in the fall of 1864 -- Postscript: the evidence of conspiracy.…”
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Fifty biblical portraits / by Beauchamp, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Abraham : the chosen one -- Abraham : in the beginning was the plural -- Abraham : life, death -- Abraham : binding and unbinding -- The name of Isaac : "WiIl Laugh" -- Jacob the deceiver -- Jacob, continued -- Jacob the wrestler -- Joseph -- Moses between two peoples -- Moses the visionary -- Moses in the place of God -- Moses and Pharaoh -- Moses in the sin of his people -- The raised-up serpent -- Joshua conquers the Promised Land -- Rahab and the Wall of Jericho -- Samson, or brimming over -- Ruth : bread, flesh, word -- Samuel : a transition -- Samuel executes the King of the Amalekites -- Saul : the elected and rejected king -- David : courage and ability -- David the beloved -- David put to the test -- From David to Jesus -- Solomon and wisdom -- Adam -- Adam and Eve -- After Solomon : Rehoboam -- Jeroboam : the secession of the North -- Elija : like fire -- Another Elija -- Elija, yesterday and tomorrow -- Elisha the disciple -- The prophet Hosea -- Isaiah -- Isaiah : births -- Jeremiah and the end of the kings -- Jeremiah and Moses -- Jeremiah towards the future -- Ezekiel -- An unknown person : the "Servant" -- Nehemiah : the return -- Job : the cry of the leper -- Jonah and the man from everywhere -- Tobit, his son Tobit, and Raphael -- Esther or disguises -- Judith -- Daniel and the end of times -- Appendix. …”
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Prescription for the People : An Activist’s Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All / by Quigley, Fran, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…People everywhere are struggling to get the medicines they need -- The United States has a drug problem -- Millions of people are dying needlessly -- Cancer patients face particularly deadly barriers to medicines -- The current medicine system neglects many major diseases -- Corporate research and development investments are exaggerated -- The current system wastes billions on drug marketing -- The current system compromises physician integrity and leads to unethical corporate behavior -- Medicines are priced at whatever the market will bear -- Pharmaceutical corporations reap history-making profits -- The for-profit medicine arguments are patently false -- Medicine patents are extended too far and too wide -- Patent protectionism stunts the development of new medicines -- Governments, not private corporations, drive medicine innovation -- Taxpayers and patients pay twice for patented medicines -- Medicines are a public good -- Medicine patents are artificial, recent, and government-created -- The United States and big pharma play the bully in extending patents -- Pharma-pushed trade agreements steal the power of democratically elected governments -- Current law provides opportunities for affordable generic medicines -- There is a better way to develop medicines -- Human rights law demands access to essential medicines.…”
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Prescription for the People : An Activist’s Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All / by Quigley, Fran, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…People everywhere are struggling to get the medicines they need -- The United States has a drug problem -- Millions of people are dying needlessly -- Cancer patients face particularly deadly barriers to medicines -- The current medicine system neglects many major diseases -- Corporate research and development investments are exaggerated -- The current system wastes billions on drug marketing -- The current system compromises physician integrity and leads to unethical corporate behavior -- Medicines are priced at whatever the market will bear -- Pharmaceutical corporations reap history-making profits -- The for-profit medicine arguments are patently false -- Medicine patents are extended too far and too wide -- Patent protectionism stunts the development of new medicines -- Governments, not private corporations, drive medicine innovation -- Taxpayers and patients pay twice for patented medicines -- Medicines are a public good -- Medicine patents are artificial, recent, and government-created -- The United States and big pharma play the bully in extending patents -- Pharma-pushed trade agreements steal the power of democratically elected governments -- Current law provides opportunities for affordable generic medicines -- There is a better way to develop medicines -- Human rights law demands access to essential medicines.…”
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Southern political party activists patterns of conflict and change, 1991-2001 /

Table of Contents: “…Breaux -- Party activists in election campaigns / Robert E. Hogan -- Communication patterns and party integration / John M. …”
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The Obama presidency a preliminary assessment /

Table of Contents: “…Brattebo -- The 2010 midterm election / Matthew N. Green -- The u.s. auto industry rescue / Steven A. …”
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Southern political party activists patterns of conflict and change, 1991-2001 /

Table of Contents: “…Breaux -- Party activists in election campaigns / Robert E. Hogan -- Communication patterns and party integration / John M. …”
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The Obama presidency a preliminary assessment /

Table of Contents: “…Brattebo -- The 2010 midterm election / Matthew N. Green -- The u.s. auto industry rescue / Steven A. …”
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Between worlds the age of the Jagiellonians /

Table of Contents: “…. / Johannes Preiser Kapeller -- Crusading at the time of the Hungarian royal elections of 1490 : -- Between Matthias Corvinus' succession and John Albert's Moldavian campaign / Alexandru Simon -- Catastrophe or consolidation : Sigismund's response to defeat after the crusade of Nicopolis (1396) / Mark Whelan.…”
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Unreliable narration and trustworthiness : intermedial and interdisciplinary perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Beatrice Dernbach / (Un)reliable narration in journalism: the fine line between fact and fiction; Andreas Elter; Unreliable narratives in the US elections: how much reliability can a campaign take?…”
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Between worlds the age of the Jagiellonians /

Table of Contents: “…. / Johannes Preiser Kapeller -- Crusading at the time of the Hungarian royal elections of 1490 : -- Between Matthias Corvinus' succession and John Albert's Moldavian campaign / Alexandru Simon -- Catastrophe or consolidation : Sigismund's response to defeat after the crusade of Nicopolis (1396) / Mark Whelan.…”
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Unreliable narration and trustworthiness : intermedial and interdisciplinary perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Beatrice Dernbach / (Un)reliable narration in journalism: the fine line between fact and fiction; Andreas Elter; Unreliable narratives in the US elections: how much reliability can a campaign take?…”
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Girls of Liberty : The Struggle for Suffrage in Mandatory Palestine / by Shilo, Margalit

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Girls of Liberty : The Struggle for Suffrage in Mandatory Palestine / by Shilo, Margalit

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The war on terror and American popular culture September 11 and beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Embracing the complexity: deconstructing the war on terror: A day that will live in irony: September 11 and the war on humor / Sean Zwagerman; "I could smell the dawn of Armageddon when this dick was elected": hip-hop's oppositional voices in the war on terror / Paul Williams; Attack of the livid dead: recalibrating terror in the post-September 11 zombie film / Nick Muntean and Matthew Thomas Payne; Interrogating the manipulation of fear: V for vendetta, Batman begins, Good night, & good luck, and America's "war on terror" / Andrew Schopp.…”
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The war on terror and American popular culture September 11 and beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Embracing the complexity: deconstructing the war on terror: A day that will live in irony: September 11 and the war on humor / Sean Zwagerman; "I could smell the dawn of Armageddon when this dick was elected": hip-hop's oppositional voices in the war on terror / Paul Williams; Attack of the livid dead: recalibrating terror in the post-September 11 zombie film / Nick Muntean and Matthew Thomas Payne; Interrogating the manipulation of fear: V for vendetta, Batman begins, Good night, & good luck, and America's "war on terror" / Andrew Schopp.…”
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Fact and Fiction : Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain /

Table of Contents: “…: narrating nature in Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden (1791) / Ann Shteir -- Elective affinities/Wahlverwandtschaften : the career of a metaphor / Christian P. …”
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Fact and Fiction : Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain /

Table of Contents: “…: narrating nature in Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden (1791) / Ann Shteir -- Elective affinities/Wahlverwandtschaften : the career of a metaphor / Christian P. …”
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Repenser la légitimité de l'État africain à l'ère de la gouvernance partagée /

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