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Old-time music and dance community and folk revival /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Introduction : conjuring history -- An apocryphal story -- Old-time music revival -- Banjo pedagogy -- Back to the land -- The green house -- The old-time community -- The jukebox -- The orange sheet -- Anne's a bride tonight -- Opening up -- Gardening and dumpstering -- The Bean King -- The Indiana contra dancers' lament -- The Gang of Four -- Easy Street -- Dance camps -- The sovereign self -- Bloomington Quarry Morris -- May Day -- Dare to be square -- The Shuffle Creek Cloggers -- The old library -- Sugar Hill -- Young audiences -- Little Bloomington -- Eight miles from town -- The piano controversy -- The book -- Collection time! …”
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Democracy and public administration
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Marshall -- Citizens, citizenship, and democratic governance / Cheryl Simrell King -- Democracy, public participation, and budgeting : mutually exclusive or just exhausting? …”
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The battle for the soul of capitalism
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…-- What went wrong in investment America? : King Kong, or Mighty Joe Young? -- Why did investment America go wrong? …”
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100 semesters my adventures as student, professor, and university president, and what I learned along the way /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…-- Exchanging reflection for action -- Diversity university -- Marching to a different drummer -- The puzzle of leadership -- Looking at success; looking at failure -- Learning and then leaving -- A school with aspirations -- Being a proprietor -- Real power and imaginary power -- "A king of infinite space."…”
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Framing Africa portrayals of a continent in contemporary mainstream cinema /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…the re-presencing of Africa in twenty-first-century film / Nigel Eltringham -- "Print the legend": myth and reality in The last King of Scotland / Mark Leopold -- Black Hawk down: recasting U.S. military history at Somali expense / Lidwien Kapteijns -- Pharma in Africa: health, corruption and contemporary Kenya in The constant gardener / Daniel Branch -- War in the city, crime in the country: Blood diamond and the representation of violence in the Sierra Leone War / Danny Hoffman -- Showing what cannot be imagined: Shooting dogs and Hotel Rwanda / Nigel Eltringham -- Torture, betrayal and forgiveness: Red dust and the search for truth in post-apartheid South Africa / Annelies Verdoolaege -- Go Amabokoboko! …”
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The House of Death : Messages from the English Renaissance
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Moving beyond symbol and myth understanding the kingship of God of the Hebrew Bible through metaphor /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Kingdom of God as symbol -- From Weiss to Perrin -- Perrin, symbol and myth -- Difficulties with Perrin's methodology -- Moving beyond symbol to metaphor -- The loss of metaphor -- The rediscovery of metaphor -- How to proceed -- 'God is King' in preexilic texts -- Impact of the myth-symbol theory on the dating of texts -- Ps 29:10-11: the significance of literary context -- The shift of focus from origins to redaction -- Isa 6:1-11: the only preexilic text -- Summary and implications -- The exilic foundation of the metaphor -- Exod 15:18 -- Exod 19:6 -- Num 23:21 -- 1 Sam 8:7; 1 2:12 -- Summary of the analysis of the texts -- The function of the metaphor in exilic/postexilic texts -- Prophetic texts -- Jeremiah -- Jer 8:19 -- Jer 10:7, 10 -- Jer 46:18; 48:15; 51:57 -- Summary of the analysis of Jeremiah -- Deutero-Isaiah -- Isa 41:21; 43:15; 44:6 -- Isa 41:21 -- Isa 43:15 -- Isa 44:6 -- Isaiah 40-48 -- Isa 52:7 -- Summary of the analysis of Deutero-Isaiah -- Zephaniah and Micah -- Zeph 3:15 -- Mich 2:13; 4:7 -- Summary of the analysis of Zephaniah and Micah -- Summary of the analysis of the prophetic writings -- Postexilic texts : God as universal suzerain -- Deut 33:2-5, 26-29 -- Mal 1:14 -- Zech 14:9, 16, 17 -- Dan 3:33; 4:31, 34; 6:26-27 -- 1 Chr 16:31/1chr 29:11/ 2 chr 20:6/1chr 28:5; 29:23/2 chr 9:8 -- Summary of the analysis of the postexilic texts -- Psalms : praising yahweh the king -- Dating the psalms -- Complaints and laments -- Ps 5:2 -- Ps 22:3, 27 -- Ps 44:5 -- Ps 74:12 -- Ps 89:14 -- Summary of the analysis of laments and complaints -- Thanksgiving -- Ps 9:4, 7, 11; 10:16 -- Ps 68:24-28 -- Ps 103:19 -- Summary of the analysis of the thanksgiving Psalms -- Hymns or songs of praise -- Ps 24:7, 8, 9, 10 -- Ps 47:3, 7, 8 -- Ps 84:3 -- Ps 93:1 -- Ps 95:3 -- Ps 96:10 -- Ps 97:1 -- Ps 98:6 -- Ps 99:1, 4 -- Ps 145: 1, 11, 12, 13 -- Ps 146:10 -- Ps 149:2 -- Summary of the analysis of the hymns or songs of praise -- New contours for the conversation.…”
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Moving beyond symbol and myth understanding the kingship of God of the Hebrew Bible through metaphor /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Kingdom of God as symbol -- From Weiss to Perrin -- Perrin, symbol and myth -- Difficulties with Perrin's methodology -- Moving beyond symbol to metaphor -- The loss of metaphor -- The rediscovery of metaphor -- How to proceed -- 'God is King' in preexilic texts -- Impact of the myth-symbol theory on the dating of texts -- Ps 29:10-11: the significance of literary context -- The shift of focus from origins to redaction -- Isa 6:1-11: the only preexilic text -- Summary and implications -- The exilic foundation of the metaphor -- Exod 15:18 -- Exod 19:6 -- Num 23:21 -- 1 Sam 8:7; 1 2:12 -- Summary of the analysis of the texts -- The function of the metaphor in exilic/postexilic texts -- Prophetic texts -- Jeremiah -- Jer 8:19 -- Jer 10:7, 10 -- Jer 46:18; 48:15; 51:57 -- Summary of the analysis of Jeremiah -- Deutero-Isaiah -- Isa 41:21; 43:15; 44:6 -- Isa 41:21 -- Isa 43:15 -- Isa 44:6 -- Isaiah 40-48 -- Isa 52:7 -- Summary of the analysis of Deutero-Isaiah -- Zephaniah and Micah -- Zeph 3:15 -- Mich 2:13; 4:7 -- Summary of the analysis of Zephaniah and Micah -- Summary of the analysis of the prophetic writings -- Postexilic texts : God as universal suzerain -- Deut 33:2-5, 26-29 -- Mal 1:14 -- Zech 14:9, 16, 17 -- Dan 3:33; 4:31, 34; 6:26-27 -- 1 Chr 16:31/1chr 29:11/ 2 chr 20:6/1chr 28:5; 29:23/2 chr 9:8 -- Summary of the analysis of the postexilic texts -- Psalms : praising yahweh the king -- Dating the psalms -- Complaints and laments -- Ps 5:2 -- Ps 22:3, 27 -- Ps 44:5 -- Ps 74:12 -- Ps 89:14 -- Summary of the analysis of laments and complaints -- Thanksgiving -- Ps 9:4, 7, 11; 10:16 -- Ps 68:24-28 -- Ps 103:19 -- Summary of the analysis of the thanksgiving Psalms -- Hymns or songs of praise -- Ps 24:7, 8, 9, 10 -- Ps 47:3, 7, 8 -- Ps 84:3 -- Ps 93:1 -- Ps 95:3 -- Ps 96:10 -- Ps 97:1 -- Ps 98:6 -- Ps 99:1, 4 -- Ps 145: 1, 11, 12, 13 -- Ps 146:10 -- Ps 149:2 -- Summary of the analysis of the hymns or songs of praise -- New contours for the conversation.…”
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A house divided Wittelsbach confessional court cultures in the Holy Roman Empire, c. 1550-1650 /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Reflecting dynastic destinies: mirror of prince literature and Wittelsbach education -- Patronage and piety: the confessionalization of Wittelsbach courts in Heidelberg and Munich -- Confessional frontiers and border wars: the confessionalization of Bavaria and the Palatinate -- Wedding bells and cannon fire: Wittelsbach confessional diplomacy -- A winter's tale: the "Winter King" and the court at Prague -- Image-breaking: iconoclasm and identity crisis -- Clarion calls: White Mountain and Wittelsbach legitimacy -- Metamorphosis: the Palatinate in transition and the "Bohemian" court in exile at The Hague -- Appendix A: Wittelsbach genealogy (1300-1550) -- Appendix B: Palatine Wittelsbachs genealogy (1550-1650) -- Appendix C: Bavarian Wittelsbachs genealogy (1550-1650).…”
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A house divided Wittelsbach confessional court cultures in the Holy Roman Empire, c. 1550-1650 /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Reflecting dynastic destinies: mirror of prince literature and Wittelsbach education -- Patronage and piety: the confessionalization of Wittelsbach courts in Heidelberg and Munich -- Confessional frontiers and border wars: the confessionalization of Bavaria and the Palatinate -- Wedding bells and cannon fire: Wittelsbach confessional diplomacy -- A winter's tale: the "Winter King" and the court at Prague -- Image-breaking: iconoclasm and identity crisis -- Clarion calls: White Mountain and Wittelsbach legitimacy -- Metamorphosis: the Palatinate in transition and the "Bohemian" court in exile at The Hague -- Appendix A: Wittelsbach genealogy (1300-1550) -- Appendix B: Palatine Wittelsbachs genealogy (1550-1650) -- Appendix C: Bavarian Wittelsbachs genealogy (1550-1650).…”
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A Wise and Discerning Mind : Essays in Honor of Burke O. Long /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Cheryl Exum -- The gift: world alteration and obligation in 2 Kings 4:8-37 / Danna Nolan Fewell -- Contextual theologies in the Old Testament? …”
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A Wise and Discerning Mind : Essays in Honor of Burke O. Long /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Cheryl Exum -- The gift: world alteration and obligation in 2 Kings 4:8-37 / Danna Nolan Fewell -- Contextual theologies in the Old Testament? …”
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Creative state forty years of migration and development policy in Morocco and Mexico /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Introduction : interpretive engagement in Morocco and Mexico -- Discretionary state seeing : emigration policy in Morocco and Mexico until 1963 -- Reaching out : beginning a conversation with Moroccan emigrants, 1963-1973 -- Relational awareness and controlling relationships : Moroccan state engagement with Moroccan emigrants, 1974-1990 -- Practice and power : emigrants and development in the Moroccan Souss -- Process as resource : two kings and the politics of rural development -- The reluctant conversationalist : the Mexican government's discontinuous engagement with Mexican Americans, 1968-2000 -- From interpretation to political movement : state-migrant engagement in Zacatecas -- The relationship between "seeing" and "interpreting" : the Mexican government's interpretive engagement with Mexican migrants -- Conclusion : creating the creative state.…”
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Maimonides as biblical interpreter
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Maimonides' interpretation of Jacob's dream of the ladder -- Maimonides' strategy for interpreting "woman" in the Guide for the perplexed -- Maimonides and esotericism. King Solomon and metaphysical esotericism according to Maimonides -- Maimonides' exoteric and esoteric biblical interpretations in the Guide for the perplexed -- Appendix: Abraham Bar Ḥiyya's interpretation of the story of the creation of man and the story of the Garden of Eden.…”
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Creative state forty years of migration and development policy in Morocco and Mexico /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Introduction : interpretive engagement in Morocco and Mexico -- Discretionary state seeing : emigration policy in Morocco and Mexico until 1963 -- Reaching out : beginning a conversation with Moroccan emigrants, 1963-1973 -- Relational awareness and controlling relationships : Moroccan state engagement with Moroccan emigrants, 1974-1990 -- Practice and power : emigrants and development in the Moroccan Souss -- Process as resource : two kings and the politics of rural development -- The reluctant conversationalist : the Mexican government's discontinuous engagement with Mexican Americans, 1968-2000 -- From interpretation to political movement : state-migrant engagement in Zacatecas -- The relationship between "seeing" and "interpreting" : the Mexican government's interpretive engagement with Mexican migrants -- Conclusion : creating the creative state.…”
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Maimonides as biblical interpreter
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Maimonides' interpretation of Jacob's dream of the ladder -- Maimonides' strategy for interpreting "woman" in the Guide for the perplexed -- Maimonides and esotericism. King Solomon and metaphysical esotericism according to Maimonides -- Maimonides' exoteric and esoteric biblical interpretations in the Guide for the perplexed -- Appendix: Abraham Bar Ḥiyya's interpretation of the story of the creation of man and the story of the Garden of Eden.…”
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Narrative Middles : Navigating the Ninteenth-Century British Novel /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Schor -- Before and afterwardsness in Henry James / Kent Puckett -- Everyday life in Anne Brontë / Amanda Claybaugh -- The clerk's tale : characterizing the middle in Dombey and son / Suzanne Daly -- Pendennis's stasis and journalism's work / Amanpal Garcha -- Dilatory description and the pleasures of accumulation : toward a history of novelistic length / Amy M. King -- An anatomy of suspense : the pleasurable, critical, ethical, erotic middle of The woman in white / Caroline Levine -- The latent middle in Morris's News from nowhere / Mario Ortiz-Robles.…”
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