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Faith-based war from 9/11 to catastrophic success in Iraq / by Herbert, T. Walter (Thomas Walter), 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Faith-based war -- Catastrophic success -- American blindspot -- Religious trauma -- America the beautiful -- Defending God's chosen -- City on a hill -- Alternative cities -- Amalek -- Limitless divine sanction -- Land of promise -- Wine of astonishment -- Rival traditions -- The fire of freedom -- The shining city as God -- Christian soldiers -- The president as mystic -- Drinking the Kool Aid -- Conquest as liberation -- Saddam as Hitler -- Unreal cities -- Avenging angel -- Saint George -- Christlike sacrifice -- The wrath of the Lamb -- Six-gun saviors -- Make-believe cowboys -- Messiahs on horseback -- Six-gun saviors in the White House -- Moral clarity and moral collapse -- Shock and awe -- Moral clarity in battle -- Dead certainty -- Shaken souls -- A theology of torture -- Advertising the dark side -- A theology of torture -- UnAmerican activities -- Coda: Hooded man.…”
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America, Amerikkka elect nation and imperial violence / by Ruether, Rosemary Radford

Table of Contents: “…Toward a U. S. theology of liberation and letting go.…”
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Journeys to war & peace a congressional memoir / by Solarz, Stephen J.

Table of Contents: “…-- Crossing the Allenby Bridge : Israel, the Arabs, and the peace process -- A Jewish agenda : rescue abroad and relief at home -- African encounters : liberation struggles, civil war, corruption, and tyranny -- Indochina : bringing peace to Cambodia, protecting Vietnamese "boat people" -- The Philippines : the impossible dream -- Korea and Taiwan : the struggle for democracy and human rights -- South Asia : the "voice of India in Congress" and "the Lafayette of Pakistani democracy" -- Central America and Cuba : revolutions closer to home -- Encounters in Europe : Turkey, Cyprus, and Poland -- The Gulf War : when evil is on the march, it must be confronted -- The year of the Shlemazel.…”
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The right to play oneself looking back on documentary film / by Waugh, Thomas, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Preface : of pulses, panaceas, and parallel universes -- Why documentary filmmakers keep trying to change the world, or why people changing the world keep making documentaries (1984) -- Dziga Vertov, 1930s populism, and Three songs of Lenin (1975) -- Bread, water, blood, rifles, planes : documentary imagery of the Spanish Civil War from the North American Popular Front (1990) -- Acting to play oneself : performance in documentary (1990) -- Beyond Vøritø : Emile de Antonio (1977) -- Sufficient virtue, necessary artistry : the shifting challenges of revolutionary documentary history (2006-08) -- Lesbian and gay documentary : minority self-imaging, oppositional film practice, and the question of image ethics (1984) -- Walking on tippy toes : lesbian and gay liberation documentary of the post-stonewall period (1997) -- "Words of command" : cultural and political inflections of direct cinema in Indian independent documentary (1990) -- Joris Ivens and the legacy of committed documentary (1999).…”
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Eccentricity and sameness : discourses on lesbianism and desire between women in Italy, 1860s-1930s / by Ross, Charlotte, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Pathologies and passions in late nineteenth-century medical discourses -- Fatal attractions. troubling desires in the novel -- Flammable proximity: the scuola normale femminile and beyond -- From pathologization to the defence of pleasure: sexology and its parodies -- Literary luxury and cultural calls for female sexual liberation -- The desire without a name: visions of a difference that might have been -- Sexology and the new woman under fascism -- Tales of sexual initiation and sapphic feminism -- Loneliness, disorder and the disappearing lesbian.…”
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Isaiah for everyone / by Goldingay, John

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Contemporary feminist theologies : power, authority, love /

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Visions of empire in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands by Foray, Jennifer L., 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Countering the commonwealth: the center and right enter the fray; 7. 'After our liberation, that of Indonesia': preparing for battle; 8. …”
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Two decades of market reform in India : some dissenting views /

Table of Contents: “…List of tables and figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction : a critical look at two decades of market reform in India / Sudipta Bhattacharyya -- Development planning and the interventionist state versus liberalization and the neoliberal state : India, 1989-1996 / Terence J. …”
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Kenya's quest for democracy : taming leviathan / by Mutua, Makau

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The reconstruction of the African state -- Africa and post-colonial trauma -- The constitutional history of Kenya -- The liberal democratic consensus -- The quest for a democratic constitution -- The institution of the review commission -- The national conference as process -- Matters of convergence -- Things fall apart -- The end game -- What must be done.…”
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Emotions, values, and the law by Deigh, John

Table of Contents: “…Emotions : the legacy of James and Freud -- Primitive emotions -- Cognitivism in the theory of emotion -- Emotions and values -- The politics of disgust and shame -- Emotions and the authority of law : variations on themes from Bentham and Austin -- All kinds of guilt -- Promises under fire -- Moral agency and criminal insanity -- Liberalism and freedom.…”
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The health care dilemma a comparison of health care systems in three European countries and the US /

Table of Contents: “…Germany : solidarity and cradle to grave health care -- pt. 3. Sweden : liberal political climate and comprehensive health care -- pt. 4. …”
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John Henry Newman on the nature of the mind reason in religion, science, and the humanities / by Rupert, Jane, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…The closing of the mind: empirical philosophy and science -- Expansion of mind: reason in religious belief in contrast to science -- Mind in the meditative and contemplative life: the magisterial imagination and the affections -- The cultivation of the mind in liberal education: Greek sources and historical practice -- Mind and soul: intellect and sanctity at the Catholic University of Ireland.…”
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Nils Petter Gleditsch: Pioneer in the Analysis of War and Peace by Gleditsch, Nils Petter

Table of Contents: “…Double-blind but More Transparent -- The Liberal Moment Fifteen Years on -- Whither the Weather? …”
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From positivism to idealism a study of the moral dimensions of legality / by Coyle, Sean

Table of Contents: “…Reflection on law's nature -- Reason, will and law -- Doctrinal scholarship and the science of right -- Legal positivism, doctrinal science and statist conceptions of law -- The changing face of positivism : from Hobbes to Hart -- The limits of legal positivism -- Beyond positivism and idealism -- Liberal politics and private law -- The moral nature of law.…”
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Vietnam the (last) war the U.S. lost / by Allen, Joe, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…From the French conquest to the overthrow of Diem -- From the overthrow of Diem to the Tet Offensive -- Cold War liberalism and the roots of the antiwar movement -- Black America and Vietnam -- From the birth of the antiwar movement to 1968 -- The U.S. working class and the war -- From quagmire to defeat -- From Watergate to the fall of Saigon.…”
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An ethics of interrogation by Skerker, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Interrogation in domestic law enforcement -- Autonomy, rights, and coercion -- The liberal state and police powers -- Plotting, suspicion, and the rights to privacy and silence -- The privilege against compelled self-incrimination -- Police interrogation -- Interrogation in international contexts -- Prisoners of war and other martial detainees -- Noncoercive interrogation -- Coercive interrogation.…”
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Doctoring medical governance medical self-regulation in transition / by Chamberlain, John M.

Table of Contents: “…From ancient beginnings to the 1858 Medical Act -- From club governance to stakeholder regulation -- The sociological analysis of the principle of medical self-regulation -- The restratification thesis and challenges to medical autonomy in the UK -- Performance appraisal inside the medical club -- The governance of doctors under neo-liberal mentalities of rule.…”
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Corruption in Argentina : Towards an Institutional Approach / by Volosin, Natalia A.

Table of Contents: “…From State Building to State Capture 4. From Liberal Democracy to Kleptocracy 5. Modern Kleptocracy (2003-2015) 6. …”
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Citizenship and its discontents an Indian history / by Jayal, Niraja Gopal

Table of Contents: “…The subject-citizen: a colonial anomaly -- Legal citizenship and the long shadow of the partition -- Aspirational citizenship: migrants and emigrants -- Pedagogies of duty, protestations of rights -- The unsocial compact -- Social citizenship in neo-liberal times -- Genealogies of mediated citizenship -- Passages from backwardness to citizenship -- The future of the civic community.…”
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