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Witness to Reconstruction Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South, 1873-1894 /

Table of Contents: “…Torsney -- "A shady retreat" : short prose: Geology and genre in Woolson's southern travel sketches / Timothy Sweet ; Reconstructing southern hospitality / Anthony Szczesiul ; Imagining sites of memory in the post Civil War South: the national cemetery in Woolson's "Rodman the keeper" / Martin T. Buinicki ; Poking King David in his imperial eye/"I" : Woolson takes on the white man's burden in the postbellum United States / Carolyn Hall ; Cypresses, chameleons, and snakes : displacement in Woolson's "The South devil" / Kathleen Diffley -- "Burned into us by a red-hot fire" : novels of the South: The portrait of a southern lady in Woolson's For the major / Janet Gabler-Hover ; Northeast angels : Henry James in Woolson's Florida / Geraldine Murphy ; The merits of transit : Woolson's return to Reconstruction in Jupiter lights / Sharon Kennedy-Nolle ; "Pioneers of spoliation" : Woolson's Horace Chase and the role of magazine writing in the Gilded-Age development of the South / Kevin E. …”
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Shifting social imaginaries in the Hellenistic period : narrations, practices, and images /

Table of Contents: “…Baker -- Babylonian, Macedonian, king of the world: the Antiochos cylinder from Borsippa and Seleukid imperial integration / Rolf Strootman -- A religious continuity between the dynastic and Ptolemaic periods? …”
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In the thick of the fight : the writing of Emily Wilding Davison, militant suffragette / by Collette, Carolyn P.

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The Civil War as global conflict : transnational meanings of the American Civil War /

Table of Contents: “…: the politics of slavery in comparative perspective : the United States, Cuba, and Brazil / Edward B. Rugemer -- King Cotton, emperor slavery : antebellum slaveholders and the world economy / Matthew Karp -- "If it is still impossible to advocate slavery it has become a habit persistently to write down freedom" : Britain, the Civil War, and race / Hugh Dubrulle -- "Two irreconcilable peoples?" …”
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Picturing the Bronze Age /

Table of Contents: “…Rodríguez-Rellán -- A rock with a view : new perspectives on Danish rock art / Louise Felding -- Rock art and the alchemy of bronze : metal and images in early Bronze Age Scotland / Andrew Meirion Jones -- The "stranger king" (bull) and rock art / Michael Rowlands and Johan Ling -- Trading images : exchange, transformation and identity in Valcamonica rock-art between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age / Alberto Marretta -- Carl georg brunius : a pioneer in Swedish petroglyph research from the early nineteenth century / Jarl Nordbladh -- The maritime factor in the distribution of Bonze Age rock art in Galicia / Manuel Santos-Estévez and Alejandro Güimil-Fariña -- The alpine and Scandinavian rock art in the Bronze Age : a common cultural matrix in a web of continental influences / Umberto Sansoni -- Rock art as history : representations of human images in a historical perspective / Peter Skoglund -- Sword-wielders and manslaughter : recently discovered images on the rock carvings of Brastad, western Sweden / Andreas Toreld.…”
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Progress in the humanities? comparing the objects of culture and science / by Gay, Volney P. (Volney Patrick), 1948-

Table of Contents: “…-- Progress in Greek philosophy, literature, and mathematics -- Development and progress in Greek sculpture -- Greek literature, more serious than history -- Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus -- Progress in Greek mathematics: incommensurability -- Seven of nine and five of nine -- Science fiction and psychiatry -- Mapping the boundaries of human being -- Diagnosing the borderline personality: five of nine symptoms -- On the pleasures of science fiction: jumping into the abyss -- Progress as development of the self: from Greek cult to Greek theater -- Canals on mars: exploring imaginary worlds -- Virtual civilizations: Percival Lowell and the Martian Canals -- Pathological science: the limits of vision -- ESP at Duke: the story of J. …”
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A companion to Los Angeles

Table of Contents: “…Sanchez -- Gridlock of rage : the Watts and Rodney King riots / Scott Saul -- Contemporary voice : Here, now, I / Angela Oh -- pt. 3. …”
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David and Zion biblical studies in honor of J.J.M. Roberts /

Table of Contents: “…Seow -- Theological anthropology at a fulcrum: Isaiah 55:1/5, Psalm 89, and second stage traditio in the royal psalms / Scott R.A. Starbuck -- King Yahweh as the good shepherd: taking another look at the image of God in Psalm 23 / Beth Tanner -- The crux of Psalm 22:17c: solved at long last? …”
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Witness to Reconstruction Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South, 1873-1894 /

Table of Contents: “…Torsney -- "A shady retreat" : short prose: Geology and genre in Woolson's southern travel sketches / Timothy Sweet ; Reconstructing southern hospitality / Anthony Szczesiul ; Imagining sites of memory in the post Civil War South: the national cemetery in Woolson's "Rodman the keeper" / Martin T. Buinicki ; Poking King David in his imperial eye/"I" : Woolson takes on the white man's burden in the postbellum United States / Carolyn Hall ; Cypresses, chameleons, and snakes : displacement in Woolson's "The South devil" / Kathleen Diffley -- "Burned into us by a red-hot fire" : novels of the South: The portrait of a southern lady in Woolson's For the major / Janet Gabler-Hover ; Northeast angels : Henry James in Woolson's Florida / Geraldine Murphy ; The merits of transit : Woolson's return to Reconstruction in Jupiter lights / Sharon Kennedy-Nolle ; "Pioneers of spoliation" : Woolson's Horace Chase and the role of magazine writing in the Gilded-Age development of the South / Kevin E. …”
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Shifting social imaginaries in the Hellenistic period : narrations, practices, and images /

Table of Contents: “…Baker -- Babylonian, Macedonian, king of the world: the Antiochos cylinder from Borsippa and Seleukid imperial integration / Rolf Strootman -- A religious continuity between the dynastic and Ptolemaic periods? …”
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In the thick of the fight : the writing of Emily Wilding Davison, militant suffragette / by Collette, Carolyn P.

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The Civil War as global conflict : transnational meanings of the American Civil War /

Table of Contents: “…: the politics of slavery in comparative perspective : the United States, Cuba, and Brazil / Edward B. Rugemer -- King Cotton, emperor slavery : antebellum slaveholders and the world economy / Matthew Karp -- "If it is still impossible to advocate slavery it has become a habit persistently to write down freedom" : Britain, the Civil War, and race / Hugh Dubrulle -- "Two irreconcilable peoples?" …”
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Picturing the Bronze Age /

Table of Contents: “…Rodríguez-Rellán -- A rock with a view : new perspectives on Danish rock art / Louise Felding -- Rock art and the alchemy of bronze : metal and images in early Bronze Age Scotland / Andrew Meirion Jones -- The "stranger king" (bull) and rock art / Michael Rowlands and Johan Ling -- Trading images : exchange, transformation and identity in Valcamonica rock-art between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age / Alberto Marretta -- Carl georg brunius : a pioneer in Swedish petroglyph research from the early nineteenth century / Jarl Nordbladh -- The maritime factor in the distribution of Bonze Age rock art in Galicia / Manuel Santos-Estévez and Alejandro Güimil-Fariña -- The alpine and Scandinavian rock art in the Bronze Age : a common cultural matrix in a web of continental influences / Umberto Sansoni -- Rock art as history : representations of human images in a historical perspective / Peter Skoglund -- Sword-wielders and manslaughter : recently discovered images on the rock carvings of Brastad, western Sweden / Andreas Toreld.…”
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Public cowboy no. 1 the life and times of Gene Autry / by George-Warren, Holly

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Parenting the custodial grandchild implications for clinical practice /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Grandchildren's difficulties and strengths impact the mental health of their grandparents / Bert Hayslip, Jr., Jennifer K. King and Jane L. Jooste -- Promoting health for grandmothers parenting young children / Karen A. …”
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Handbook of adult development and learning

Table of Contents: “…Willis -- Development of reflective judgment in adulthood / Karen Strohm Kitchener, Patricia M. King, and Sonia DeLuca -- Intellectual development across adulthood / K. …”
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The golem and the wondrous deeds of the Maharal of Prague by Rozenberg, Yehudah Yudl, 1859-1935

Table of Contents: “…Publisher's preface -- Bill of sale -- The history of the great Gaon, the holy, supernal Maharal of Prague, may the memory of that righteous, saintly man be a blessing for life in the world to come -- The Maharal's battle against the blood libel -- The Maharal's suggestion to have a disputation with the priests -- The disputation -- "A man who excels at his work shall attend upon kings" : this is the Maharal -- How the Maharal created the golem -- How Yossele the golem carried water for Passover -- How Yossele the golem caught fish for Rosh Hashana -- For what purposes the Maharal used the golem -- The Maharal's first miracle with the golem -- The astonishing tale of the healer's daughter -- The wondrous and famous story known as "The daughter's misfortune" -- A very amazing tale about a blood libel by the priest Thaddeus which caused his final downfall and his banishment from Prague -- The marvelous story of the wonder of wonders that the Maharal revealed to the two Berls whose two children were switched by a midwife -- The astounding story of the Torah that fell to the floor on Yom Kippur -- The attack on Yossele the golem -- An awesome tale about the ruin near Prague -- A wondrous tale about Duke Bartholomew -- The last blood libel in Prague during the Maharal's lifetime -- How the Maharal brought about the end of the golem -- The Maharal's remarks concerning the golem -- A miraculous event pertaining to the Maharal's engagement.…”
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Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam / by Montias, John Michael, 1928-2005

Table of Contents: “…-- Attributions -- Echoes -- Concluding Words on Auctions -- Profiles of Selected Buyers -- Art Dealers I: Artists and Merchants in the Trade -- Art Dealers II: Johannes de Renialme -- Art Dealers III: The Story of a Merchant Who Thought He Could Sell Paintings to a King -- Art Collectors and Painters I: Rubens's Promise to Hans Thijsz -- Art Collectors and Painters II: Jacob Swalmius and Rembrandt -- Art Collectors and Painters III: Marten van den Broeck and Rembrandt's Losses at Sea -- Art Collectors and Painters IV: Jan van Maerlen and His Extended Family -- Art Collectors and Painters V: Jean le Bleu, Francois Venant and Rembrandt's "Feast of Belshazzar" -- A Collector with Connections to Major Cultural Figures: Robbert van der Hoeve and the "Muiden Circle" -- What Santa Claus Brought to the Youth of Amsterdam -- When Sellers and Buyers Were Related: Elbert and Cornelis Symonsz. …”
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Frontier Tibet : Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands /

Table of Contents: “…Tan -- Money, politics, and local identity : an inside look at the 'diary' of a twentieth-century Khampa trader / Lucia Galli -- The dispute between Sichuan and Xikang over the Tibetan kingdom of Trokyap (1930s-1940s) / Fabienne Jagou -- The rise of a political strongman in Derge in the early twentieth century : the story of Jagö Topden / Yudru Tsomu -- Harnessing the power of the Khampa elites : political persuasion and the consolidation of Communist Party rule in Gyelthang / Dáša Pejchar Mortensen -- Return of the good king : kingship and identity among Yushu Tibetans since 1951 / Maria Turek -- Yachen as process : encampments, nuns, and spatial politics in post-Mao Kham / Yasmin Cho -- Chinese settler colonialism : empire and life in the Tibetan borderlands / Carole McGranahan.…”
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The golem and the wondrous deeds of the Maharal of Prague by Rozenberg, Yehudah Yudl, 1859-1935

Table of Contents: “…Publisher's preface -- Bill of sale -- The history of the great Gaon, the holy, supernal Maharal of Prague, may the memory of that righteous, saintly man be a blessing for life in the world to come -- The Maharal's battle against the blood libel -- The Maharal's suggestion to have a disputation with the priests -- The disputation -- "A man who excels at his work shall attend upon kings" : this is the Maharal -- How the Maharal created the golem -- How Yossele the golem carried water for Passover -- How Yossele the golem caught fish for Rosh Hashana -- For what purposes the Maharal used the golem -- The Maharal's first miracle with the golem -- The astonishing tale of the healer's daughter -- The wondrous and famous story known as "The daughter's misfortune" -- A very amazing tale about a blood libel by the priest Thaddeus which caused his final downfall and his banishment from Prague -- The marvelous story of the wonder of wonders that the Maharal revealed to the two Berls whose two children were switched by a midwife -- The astounding story of the Torah that fell to the floor on Yom Kippur -- The attack on Yossele the golem -- An awesome tale about the ruin near Prague -- A wondrous tale about Duke Bartholomew -- The last blood libel in Prague during the Maharal's lifetime -- How the Maharal brought about the end of the golem -- The Maharal's remarks concerning the golem -- A miraculous event pertaining to the Maharal's engagement.…”
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