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Wrinkled deep in time aging in Shakespeare / by Charney, Maurice

Table of Contents: “…King Lear, Titus Andronicus, and Cymbeline -- The process of growing old, especially in Macbeth -- Time the destroyer -- "Heavy" fathers -- Politic old men: Polonius, Nestor, and Menenius -- Wise old men -- Falstaff -- Othello and Leontes -- Old warriors and statesmen in the English history plays -- Fatal attraction: Antony and Cleopatra -- Strong older women -- Older loving women -- Lusty older women.…”
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Cold War orientalism Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961 / by Klein, Christina, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Sentimental education : creating a global imaginary of integration -- Reader's digest, Saturday review, and the middlebrow aesthetic of commitment -- How to be an American abroad : James Michener's The voice of Asia, and postwar mass tourism -- Family ties as political obligation : Oscar Hammerstein II, South Pacific, and the discourse of adoption -- Musicals and modernization : The king and I -- Asians in America : Flower drum song and Hawaii.…”
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Dew of death the story of lewisite, America's World War I weapon of mass destruction / by Vilensky, Joel A., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Two stars are born -- The poisonous yellow cloud and the American response -- The hunt for a new king -- The American university experimental station -- Willoughby -- The inter-war years -- Military biology and BAL -- World war II -- Lewisite production, use, and sea dumping after World War II -- Lewisite stockpiles and terrestrial residues -- Human and environmental toxicology -- Lewisite, terrorism, and the future.…”
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Liberal beginnings making a republic for the moderns / by Kalyvas, Andreas, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Beginnings -- The rhetoric of the market : Adam Smith on recognition, speech, and exchange -- Agonistic liberalism : Adam Ferguson on modern commercial society and the limits of classical republicanism -- After the king : Thomas Paine's and James Madison's institutional liberalism -- Embracing liberalism : Germaine de Staël's farewell to republicanism -- On the liberty of the moderns : Benjamin Constant and the discovery of an immanent liberalism -- After republicanism : a coda.…”
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Wrinkled deep in time aging in Shakespeare / by Charney, Maurice

Table of Contents: “…King Lear, Titus Andronicus, and Cymbeline -- The process of growing old, especially in Macbeth -- Time the destroyer -- "Heavy" fathers -- Politic old men: Polonius, Nestor, and Menenius -- Wise old men -- Falstaff -- Othello and Leontes -- Old warriors and statesmen in the English history plays -- Fatal attraction: Antony and Cleopatra -- Strong older women -- Older loving women -- Lusty older women.…”
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The realm of St. Stephen a history of medieval Hungary, 895-1526 / by Engel, Pál, 1938-2001

Table of Contents: “…The Age of John Hunyadi (1437-1457) -- Chapter 18. King Matthias Corvinus (1458-1490) -- Chapter 19. …”
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The realm of St. Stephen a history of medieval Hungary, 895-1526 / by Engel, Pál, 1938-2001

Table of Contents: “…The Age of John Hunyadi (1437-1457) -- Chapter 18. King Matthias Corvinus (1458-1490) -- Chapter 19. …”
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William Lowndes Yancey and the coming of the Civil War by Walther, Eric H., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Jordan's stormy banks -- Rebellion and Union -- Flush times and bad times in Alabama and South Carolina -- Politician -- Party and honor -- The Alabama platform -- Secessionist -- Creating the "leaven of disunion" -- Public man, private life -- Yancey and the house divided -- Walker and Walker, the league and the letter -- The conventions of 1860 -- The voice of the South -- The men and the hours -- In King Arthur's court -- Journeys home -- The main pillar of the Confederacy.…”
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Restoring order the Ecole des chartes and the organization of archives and libraries in France, 1820-1870 / by Moore, Lara Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Of kings and charters : restoration politics and the creation of the Ecole des Chartes -- Constructing an authentic national history : archives and libraries under liberal rule -- Putting the past in order : archival classification and the Ecole des chartes in the late July monarchy -- Revolutionary libraries and reactionary archives? …”
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Democracy without politics by Bilakovics, Steven, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: democracy as self-subverting -- "More than kings yet less than men": Tocqueville on the new extremes of democratic society -- Civilization without the discontents: Tocqueville on democracy as the social state of nature -- The regime of revolution: Claude Lefort on history, nature, and convention after the democratic revolution -- Political phoenix: Sheldon Wolin on the limits and limitlessness of democracy -- Conclusion: post-politics: society without argument.…”
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Restoring order the Ecole des chartes and the organization of archives and libraries in France, 1820-1870 / by Moore, Lara Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Of kings and charters : restoration politics and the creation of the Ecole des Chartes -- Constructing an authentic national history : archives and libraries under liberal rule -- Putting the past in order : archival classification and the Ecole des chartes in the late July monarchy -- Revolutionary libraries and reactionary archives? …”
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Democracy without politics by Bilakovics, Steven, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: democracy as self-subverting -- "More than kings yet less than men": Tocqueville on the new extremes of democratic society -- Civilization without the discontents: Tocqueville on democracy as the social state of nature -- The regime of revolution: Claude Lefort on history, nature, and convention after the democratic revolution -- Political phoenix: Sheldon Wolin on the limits and limitlessness of democracy -- Conclusion: post-politics: society without argument.…”
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Understanding Nationalism : On Narrative, Cognitive Science, and Identity / by Hogan, Patrick Colm

Table of Contents: “…Understanding identity : what it is and what it does -- Hierarchizing identities : techniques of nationalization -- Metaphors and selves : forefathers, roots, and the voice of the people -- Emplotting the nation : the narrative structures of patriotism -- Heroic nationalism and the necessity of war from King David to George W. Bush -- Sacrificial nationalism and its victims : sin and death in Germany and India -- Romantic love and the end of nationalism : Walt Whitman and Emma Goldman.…”
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William Lowndes Yancey and the coming of the Civil War by Walther, Eric H., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Jordan's stormy banks -- Rebellion and Union -- Flush times and bad times in Alabama and South Carolina -- Politician -- Party and honor -- The Alabama platform -- Secessionist -- Creating the "leaven of disunion" -- Public man, private life -- Yancey and the house divided -- Walker and Walker, the league and the letter -- The conventions of 1860 -- The voice of the South -- The men and the hours -- In King Arthur's court -- Journeys home -- The main pillar of the Confederacy.…”
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Understanding Nationalism : On Narrative, Cognitive Science, and Identity / by Hogan, Patrick Colm

Table of Contents: “…Understanding identity : what it is and what it does -- Hierarchizing identities : techniques of nationalization -- Metaphors and selves : forefathers, roots, and the voice of the people -- Emplotting the nation : the narrative structures of patriotism -- Heroic nationalism and the necessity of war from King David to George W. Bush -- Sacrificial nationalism and its victims : sin and death in Germany and India -- Romantic love and the end of nationalism : Walt Whitman and Emma Goldman.…”
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CAD fundamentals for architecture / by John, Elys

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CAD fundamentals for architecture / by John, Elys

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Black soldiers of the queen the Natal native contingent in the Anglo-Zulu War / by Thompson, P. S. (Paul Singer)

Table of Contents: “…The coming of war -- Mobilization : the first regiment, pioneers and mounted troops -- Mobilization (continued) : the second and third regiments -- The third regiment in the Zulu country -- Disaster at Isandlwana -- Escape from the Zulu country -- Disbanding of the third regiment -- The second regiment to Eshowe and back -- Remodelling of the contingent -- The relief of Eshowe -- War in the thorns -- War on the plain -- War in the hills -- In the Zulu heartland -- Victory at Ulundi -- The king chase -- The return of peace.…”
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The power of productivity wealth, poverty, and the threat to global stability / by Lewis, William W., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Findings : the global economic landscape -- Japan : a dual economy -- Europe : falling behind -- The United States : consumer is king -- Korea : following Japans path -- Brazil : big government is big problem -- Russia : distorted market economy -- India : bad economic management from democratic government -- Patterns : clear and strong -- Why bad economic policy around the world? …”
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The power of productivity wealth, poverty, and the threat to global stability / by Lewis, William W., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Findings : the global economic landscape -- Japan : a dual economy -- Europe : falling behind -- The United States : consumer is king -- Korea : following Japans path -- Brazil : big government is big problem -- Russia : distorted market economy -- India : bad economic management from democratic government -- Patterns : clear and strong -- Why bad economic policy around the world? …”
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