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Trinity of discord the hymnal and poetic innocations of Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, and William Cowper / by Arnold, Richard, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…"Controversie of singing" : historical sketch of the English hymn to 1707 -- "Sight thro' a glass" : Isaac Watts -- "I see Thee face to face" : Charles Wesley -- "The hidden life" of hymnody : William Cowper -- Paradox of contemporary response : critical reaction, artistic influence.…”
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Divining without seeds the case for strengthening laboratory medicine in Africa / by Okeke, Iruka N., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The power of sight -- Fever : is it malaria? -- Fever : beyond malaria -- Drug resistance -- Viral hemorrhagic fevers -- Detecting covert infection ahead of the final diagnosis -- Diagnostic certainty and disease control -- Origins and outlook of diagnostic insufficiency in Africa -- Conclusion : the feasibility of laboratory diagnosis in African settings.…”
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"No one helped" : Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the myth of urban apathy / by Gallo, Marcia M.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: A New York story -- Urban villages in the big city -- Hidden in plain sight -- Thirty-eight witnesses -- The metropolitan brand of apathy -- The city responds -- Surviving new city streets -- Challenging the story of urban apathy -- Epilogue: Kitty, fifty years later.…”
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Divining without Seeds : The Case for Strengthening Laboratory Medicine in Africa / by Okeke, Iruka N., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The power of sight -- Fever: is it malaria? -- Fever: beyond malaria -- Drug resistance -- Viral hemorrhagic fevers -- Detecting covert infection ahead of the final diagnosis -- Diagnostic certainty and disease control -- Origins and outlook of diagnostic insufficiency in Africa -- Conclusion: the feasibility of laboratory diagnosis in African settings.…”
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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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Lydia's open door inside Mexico's most modern brothel / by Kelly, Patty, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Modern sex in a modern city -- Hidden in plain sight: street prostitution -- Inside the Galactic Zone: regulating sex, regulating women -- Convergence: Panistas, prostitutes, and peasants -- "It began innocently": women of the ambiente -- Sellers and buyers -- The secrets we keep: sex, work, stigma -- Final thoughts.…”
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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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Shamanism, racism, and hip-hop culture essays on white supremacy and Black subversion / by Perkinson, James W.

Table of Contents: “…The gift/curse of "second sight" -- 4. Constructing the break -- 5. Rap rapture and manic mortality -- 6. …”
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Taxidermic signs reconstructing aboriginality / by Wakeham, Pauline, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Curtis's experiments with photography and film -- Salvaging sound at last sight : Marius Barbeau and the anthropological rescue of Nass River Indians -- Repatriation's remainders : Kennewick man, Kwädāy dän ts'ínchhi, and the reinvention of "race".…”
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Vanities of the eye vision in early modern European culture / by Clark, Stuart

Table of Contents: “…Species : visions and values -- Fantasies : seeing without what was within -- Prestiges : illusions in magic and art -- Glamours : demons and virtual worlds -- Images : the reformation of the eyes -- Apparitions : the discernment of spirits -- Sights : King Saul and King Macbeth -- Seemings : philosophical scepticism -- Dreams : the epistemology of sleep -- Signs : vision and the new philosophy.…”
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Embodiment, identity and disability sport : an ethnography of elite visually impaired athletes / by Powis, Ben

Table of Contents: “…An introduction to visually impaired cricket : the opening delivery -- Disability, sport and social theory -- The sensuous experiences of visually impaired cricket -- Elite disability sport and empowerment : from the playground to the oval -- Classification, valorisation and the hierarchy of sight -- Identity formation through elite disability sport -- Embodiment, identity and disability sport : the close of play.…”
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Fighting windmills encounters with Don Quixote / by Durán, Manuel, 1925-

Table of Contents: “…Cervantes -- Experimenting with existing narrative tools -- Constructing Don Quixote -- A look into Cervantes' masterpiece -- Cervantine sallies into eighteenth-century France and England -- An abbreviated look at Cervantes in nineteenth-century France, Russia, and Spain -- Don Quixote and the New World : two American perspectives -- Sightings of Cervantes and his knight in the twentieth century.…”
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Primitive Minds Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel / by Neill, Anna, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Evolution and the dreamy mind -- Charlotte Brontë's hypochondriacal heroines -- Spirits and seizures in Bleak House and Our mutual friend -- Suspended animation and second sight : Daniel Deronda and Silas Marner -- Dreamy intuition and detective genius : Ezra Jennings and Sherlock Holmes -- The end of the novel : naturalism and reverie in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and The return of the native.…”
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Primitive Minds : Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel / by Neill, Anna, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Evolution and the dreamy mind -- Charlotte Brontë's hypochondriacal heroines -- Spirits and seizures in Bleak House and Our mutual friend -- Suspended animation and second sight : Daniel Deronda and Silas Marner -- Dreamy intuition and detective genius : Ezra Jennings and Sherlock Holmes -- The end of the novel : naturalism and reverie in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and The return of the native.…”
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Revising the Clinic : Vision and Representation in Victorian Medical Narrative and the Novel / by Kennedy, Meegan, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Curious observations, curious sights: the eighteenth-century case history -- Staging clinical realism in the Victorian periodical -- The sentimental eye in Dickens and Gaskell -- George Eliot's realist vision: mechanical observation and the production of sympathy -- Speculation and insight: experimental medicine and the expansion of realism -- Mapping an unnavigable river: Freud, Rider Haggard, and the imperial romance.…”
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The medieval Haggadah : art, narrative, and religious imagination / by Epstein, Marc Michael, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Jewish visual culture as memory's mirror -- The Birds' Haggadah -- Birds' Head revisited -- Socioreligious stratification -- Narrative sequence -- Eucharistic polemics -- Metahistorical connections -- Eschatological hopes -- The Golden Haggadah -- Silence is golden -- Women hidden in plain sight -- The Rylands and "Brother" Haggadot -- Siblings : identical or fraternal? …”
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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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The right and wrong of compulsion by the state, and other essays by Herbert, Auberon, 1838-1906

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Eric Mack -- Selective bibliography -- The choices between personal freedom and state protection -- State education: help or hindrance? -- A politician in sight of haven -- The right and wrong of compulsion by the state -- The ethics of dynamite -- Salvation by force -- Lost in the region of phrases -- Mr. …”
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