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Mark Twain and metaphor by Bird, John, 1954-

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Unjust sentencing and the California Three Strikes law by Kieso, Douglas W.

Table of Contents: “…. -- U.S. crime in the 1980s and 1990s -- California voters -- California initiatives and the three strikes law -- The three strikers and the counties that created them -- Discretion and the three strikes law -- Los Angeles County -- San Francisco and Alameda Counties -- Kern, Kings, and Del Norte Counties -- Orange County -- Policy research and constitutional analysis -- The element of randomness and lack of democracy -- The politics of three strikes after 1994 -- Justice and democracy -- Recommendations.…”
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Divas and scholars performing Italian opera / by Gossett, Philip

Table of Contents: “…Choosing a version ; Serafin's scissors ; Ornamenting Rossini ; Higher and lower : transposing Bellini and Donizetti ; Words and music : texts and translations ; Instruments old and new ; From the score to the stage -- Coda. Two kings head North : transforming Italian opera in Scandinavia.…”
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Stanford in turmoil campus unrest, 1966-1972 / by Lyman, Richard W.

Table of Contents: “…The Sterling-Terman era -- Early Vietnam stirrings, Dean Allen's departure, David Harris's arrival, and Stanford's first sit-in -- How I became provost -- The stage is set -- The Martin Luther King Jr. crisis -- The first Old Union sit-in -- Classified research, SRI, and the coming of Ken Pitzer -- AEL, Encina, and calling the police -- Ken Pitzer's departure -- My presidency begins, and the Franklin Case is initiated -- The Franklin Case and after -- Trying to make sense of the campus unrest.…”
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Yes, but not quite encountering Josiah Royce's ethico-religious insight / by Tunstall, Dwayne A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Encountering Josiah Royce's ethico-religious insight -- Josiah Royce's personalism -- The "conception of God" debate : setting the stage for Royce's personalism -- Haunted by Howison's criticism : the birth of Royce's late philosophy -- Royce's late philosophy -- Royce's personalism -- Extending Royce' s ethico-religious insight : Royce on the beloved community, agape, and human temporality -- Royce's ethico-religious insight : a hypothetical postulate? -- King's beloved community, Royce' s metaphysics -- Coupling Royce's temporalism with Levinasian insights.…”
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First civilizations ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt / by Chadwick, Robert, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Mesopotamia: Agriculture and the origins of civilization -- The early dynastic period and the Sumerian city-states -- The Akkadians and the Ur III Dynasty -- Mesopotamia in the Second Millennium BC -- The Assyrians -- The last Babylonian dynasty -- Mythology and religion -- Science and nature -- Egypt: Egypt -- The old kingdom and the pyramid age (2572 -2134 BC) -- The middle kingdom -- The Hyksos period and the new kingdom -- Akhenaten and the Amarna period -- The 19th dynasty and the Ramesside kings -- Egypt in the late Second and First Millennium BC -- The Persians.…”
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Race and remembrance a memoir / by Johnson, Arthur L., 1925-

Table of Contents: “…Early years -- Dear old Morehouse -- Detroit NAACP -- Detroit public schools -- Two tragedies, 1967-1968 -- Wayne State University -- President of Detroit NAACP -- Friendship with Damon -- Death of three sons -- Searching for the good life -- Eulogies -- Joseph Hudson new Detroit letter -- William Patrick new Detroit letter -- A commitment to the NAACP -- "Buy Detroit" campaign -- Third term as Detroit NAACP president -- Rodney King verdict and twelve-point plan.…”
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Archbishops Ralph d'Escures, William of Corbeil and Theobald of Bec heirs of Anselm and ancestors of Becket / by Truax, Jean, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the English Church as Anselm left it -- Ralph d'Escures: a different kind of Archbishop -- The road to Rome: Ralph of Canterbury, Thurstan of York, and the primacy dispute -- Roman holiday: William of Corbeil and the Canterbury forgeries -- Securing the future: William of Corbeil and the Anglo-Norman succession crisis -- Juggling act: archbishop, bishop, king, empress and pope -- The limits of power: Archbishop Theobald and his neighbors -- Trouble on the way: Theobald and the new regime -- Conclusion: the world as Becket found it.…”
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This light of ours activist photographers of the civil rights movement /

Table of Contents: “…Meredith march against fear and Black power -- How I first saw King and found the movement / Clayborne Carson -- The photographers : interviews and biographies -- Tamio Wakayama -- Herbert Randall -- Maria Varela -- George Ballis -- Bob Fitch -- Matt Herron -- Bob Fletcher -- David Prince -- Bob Adelman.…”
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Stanford in turmoil campus unrest, 1966-1972 / by Lyman, Richard W.

Table of Contents: “…The Sterling-Terman era -- Early Vietnam stirrings, Dean Allen's departure, David Harris's arrival, and Stanford's first sit-in -- How I became provost -- The stage is set -- The Martin Luther King Jr. crisis -- The first Old Union sit-in -- Classified research, SRI, and the coming of Ken Pitzer -- AEL, Encina, and calling the police -- Ken Pitzer's departure -- My presidency begins, and the Franklin Case is initiated -- The Franklin Case and after -- Trying to make sense of the campus unrest.…”
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Yes, but not quite encountering Josiah Royce's ethico-religious insight / by Tunstall, Dwayne A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Encountering Josiah Royce's ethico-religious insight -- Josiah Royce's personalism -- The "conception of God" debate : setting the stage for Royce's personalism -- Haunted by Howison's criticism : the birth of Royce's late philosophy -- Royce's late philosophy -- Royce's personalism -- Extending Royce' s ethico-religious insight : Royce on the beloved community, agape, and human temporality -- Royce's ethico-religious insight : a hypothetical postulate? -- King's beloved community, Royce' s metaphysics -- Coupling Royce's temporalism with Levinasian insights.…”
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First civilizations ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt / by Chadwick, Robert, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Mesopotamia: Agriculture and the origins of civilization -- The early dynastic period and the Sumerian city-states -- The Akkadians and the Ur III Dynasty -- Mesopotamia in the Second Millennium BC -- The Assyrians -- The last Babylonian dynasty -- Mythology and religion -- Science and nature -- Egypt: Egypt -- The old kingdom and the pyramid age (2572 -2134 BC) -- The middle kingdom -- The Hyksos period and the new kingdom -- Akhenaten and the Amarna period -- The 19th dynasty and the Ramesside kings -- Egypt in the late Second and First Millennium BC -- The Persians.…”
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Race and remembrance a memoir / by Johnson, Arthur L., 1925-

Table of Contents: “…Early years -- Dear old Morehouse -- Detroit NAACP -- Detroit public schools -- Two tragedies, 1967-1968 -- Wayne State University -- President of Detroit NAACP -- Friendship with Damon -- Death of three sons -- Searching for the good life -- Eulogies -- Joseph Hudson new Detroit letter -- William Patrick new Detroit letter -- A commitment to the NAACP -- "Buy Detroit" campaign -- Third term as Detroit NAACP president -- Rodney King verdict and twelve-point plan.…”
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Archbishops Ralph d'Escures, William of Corbeil and Theobald of Bec heirs of Anselm and ancestors of Becket / by Truax, Jean, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the English Church as Anselm left it -- Ralph d'Escures: a different kind of Archbishop -- The road to Rome: Ralph of Canterbury, Thurstan of York, and the primacy dispute -- Roman holiday: William of Corbeil and the Canterbury forgeries -- Securing the future: William of Corbeil and the Anglo-Norman succession crisis -- Juggling act: archbishop, bishop, king, empress and pope -- The limits of power: Archbishop Theobald and his neighbors -- Trouble on the way: Theobald and the new regime -- Conclusion: the world as Becket found it.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

This light of ours activist photographers of the civil rights movement /

Table of Contents: “…Meredith march against fear and Black power -- How I first saw King and found the movement / Clayborne Carson -- The photographers : interviews and biographies -- Tamio Wakayama -- Herbert Randall -- Maria Varela -- George Ballis -- Bob Fitch -- Matt Herron -- Bob Fletcher -- David Prince -- Bob Adelman.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Unjust sentencing and the California Three Strikes law by Kieso, Douglas W.

Table of Contents: “…. -- U.S. crime in the 1980s and 1990s -- California voters -- California initiatives and the three strikes law -- The three strikers and the counties that created them -- Discretion and the three strikes law -- Los Angeles County -- San Francisco and Alameda Counties -- Kern, Kings, and Del Norte Counties -- Orange County -- Policy research and constitutional analysis -- The element of randomness and lack of democracy -- The politics of three strikes after 1994 -- Justice and democracy -- Recommendations.…”
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Divas and scholars performing Italian opera / by Gossett, Philip

Table of Contents: “…Choosing a version ; Serafin's scissors ; Ornamenting Rossini ; Higher and lower : transposing Bellini and Donizetti ; Words and music : texts and translations ; Instruments old and new ; From the score to the stage -- Coda. Two kings head North : transforming Italian opera in Scandinavia.…”
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Visualizing the sacred cosmic visions, regionalism, and the art of the Mississippian world /

Table of Contents: “…Garber -- Raptor imagery at Etowah : the raptor is the path to power / Adam King and F. Kent Reilly III.…”
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A companion to Sophocles

Table of Contents: “…Rose -- Sophocles and contemporary politics / Robin Osborne -- Sophocles and Athenian law / Edward Harris -- The necessity and limits of deliberation in Sophocles' Theban plays / Edith Hall -- Heroic pharmacology : Sophocles and the metaphors of Greek medical thought / Robin Mitchell-Boyask -- Sophocles and hero cult / Bruno Currie -- Cutting to the bone : recalcitrant bodies in Sophocles / Nancy Worman -- Staging mothers in Sophocles' Electra and Oedipus the King / Laura McClure -- Marriage in Sophocles : a problem for social history / Cynthia Patterson -- Masculinity and freedom in Sophocles / Bruce King -- Aristotle on Sophocles / John Kirby -- Sophocles and Homer / Seth L. …”
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Leaders and legacies in Assyriology and Bible the collected essays of David B. Weisberg / by Weisberg, David B.

Table of Contents: “…Loyalty and death : some ancient near eastern metaphors -- Zabaya, an early king of the Larsa dynasty -- Rib-Hadda's urgent tone : a note on EA 74:50 -- The length of the reign of Hallusu-Insusinak -- Esarhaddon and Egypt : a preliminary investigation -- A sale of property from the time of Esarhaddon, "king of lands" -- The neo-Babylonian empire -- The "antiquarian" interests of the neo-Babylonian kings -- Royal women of the neo-Babylonian period -- A "dinner at the palace" during Nebuchadnezzar's reign -- Notes on Nebuchadnezzar's 37th year -- Polytheism and politics : some comments on Nabonidus' foreign policy -- The impact of Assyriology on Biblical studies -- An old Babylonian forerunner to Summa Alu -- The R. …”
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