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A distant drummer foreign perspectives on F. Scott Fitzgerald /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Jamal Assadi -- "This tremendous detail" : the Oxford stone in the house of Gatsby / Bonnie Shannon McMullen -- Icons and myths in The great Gatsby / Nicole Guetin -- Translations as instruments of analysis : The great Gatsby in French / Michel Viel -- Of celebrity status, posthumous publications, scholar's choice, and the American novel : a case study of F. …”
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A distant drummer foreign perspectives on F. Scott Fitzgerald /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Jamal Assadi -- "This tremendous detail" : the Oxford stone in the house of Gatsby / Bonnie Shannon McMullen -- Icons and myths in The great Gatsby / Nicole Guetin -- Translations as instruments of analysis : The great Gatsby in French / Michel Viel -- Of celebrity status, posthumous publications, scholar's choice, and the American novel : a case study of F. …”
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The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages / by Reed Doob, Penelope

Table of Contents: “…List of plates -- Acknowledgments: Four labyrinths -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Charting the maze -- The Cretan labyrinth myth -- Part one. The labyrinth in the classical and early Christian periods. …”
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The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages / by Reed Doob, Penelope

Table of Contents: “…List of plates -- Acknowledgments: Four labyrinths -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Charting the maze -- The Cretan labyrinth myth -- Part one. The labyrinth in the classical and early Christian periods. …”
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Exile and suffering a selection of papers read at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Old Testament Society of South Africa OTWSA/OTSSA, Pretoria, August 2007 /

Table of Contents: “…Juliana M. Claassens -- Myth, metaphor or memory? the allusions to Creation and Exodus in Isaiah 51:9-11 as a theological response to suffering during the Exile / Hendrik Bosman -- The assassination of Gedaliah (Jer. 40:7-41:18) / Eric Peels -- Perspective after the Exile : the King, [ʻvdj], 'My servant' in Jeremiah : some reflections on MT and LXX / Raymond de Hoop -- Exile in Hosea 9:3-6 : where and for what purpose? …”
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A Nation of victims? representations of German wartime suffering from 1945 to the present /

Table of Contents: “…and Der Arzt von Stalingrad / Helen Wolfenden -- The German myth of a victim nation : (re-)presenting Germans as victims in the new debate on their flight and explusion from Eastern Europe / Samuel Salzborn -- Implicit equations in constructions of German suffering / Bill Niven -- Dresden and Hamburg : official memory and commemoration of the victims of Allied air raids in the two Germanies / Gilad Margalit -- Regarding and imagining : contrived immediacy of the Allied bombing campaign in photography, novel, and historiography / Heinz-Peter Preusser -- Lost in translations? …”
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Macrofinancial linkages trends, crises, and policies /

Table of Contents: “…: Evidence from emerging Europe / Deniz Igan, Natalia Tamirisa -- Growth dynamics : the myth of economic review / Valerie Cerra, Sweta Chaman Saxena -- From subprime loans to subprime growth? …”
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British and Irish emigrants and exiles in Europe, 1603-1688

Table of Contents: “…Rotterdam's Scots community and the covenanter cause, 1638-1688 / Douglas Catterall -- Special privileges for the Irish in the kingdom of Castile (1601-1680): modern myth or contemporary reality? / Ciaran O'Scea -- Hidden by 1688 and after: Irish Catholic migration to France, 1590-1685 / Éamon Ó Ciosáin -- Murder as a weapon of exile: English politics at the Spanish court (1649-1652) / Igor Pérez Tostado -- Scots in Swedish Bremen and Verden (1645-1712) / Kathrin Zickermann -- The Gordons of Huntly: a Scottish noble household and its European connections, 1603-1688 / Barry Robertson -- "My heart is a Scotch heart": Scottish Calvinist exiles in France in their continental context: 1605-1638 / Siobhan Talbott -- Under the Habsburgs and the Stuarts: the Leslies' Portrait Gallery in Ptuj Castle, Slovenia / Polona Vidmar -- English military émigrés and the Protestant cause in Europe, 1603-c 1640 / David J.B. …”
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The making of the slave class by Carrier, Jerry, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Islam -- Conclusions about class and Christianity -- Class and the military -- Health and the working class -- The geography of class -- Income distribution -- American poverty -- The middle class and the myth of upward class mobility -- Anomie: the price of upward mobility -- Education, intelligence and middle-class bias -- The graying of working-class America -- Class and race -- Gentrification -- Self-cleaning ovens -- A brief history of banking and the working class, no shoes, no shirt, no credit -- The credit union movement -- A sad story -- Nonprofits and the community economic development movement -- More middle-class bias, new urbanism, and more gentrification -- Transportation and class -- In the hood -- Housing, mortgage lending and secondary markets -- Manipulation and madness: the housing bubble and financial crisis -- Greed, stupidity and arrogance -- Conclusion: The Americans slave class.…”
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Marlene Dietrich life and legend / by Bach, Steven

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Shakespeare without boundaries essays in honor of Dieter Mehl /

Table of Contents: “…Smith -- The problematization of generic boundaries : lyrical inroads into Shakespeare's dramatic dialogue / Alexander Shurbanov -- William and Geoffrey / Catherine Belsey -- "It will have blood they say; blood will have blood" : proverb usage and the vague and undetermined places of Macbeth / Martin Orkin -- The fall of a sparrow : Shakespearean tragedy and the Bible / Piero Boitani -- Foundational myth in Cymbeline / David Bevington -- Shakespeare and Velázquez / Hugh Macrae Richmond -- Crossing the dotted line : Shakespeare and geography / Chee-Seng Lim -- "There's the rub" : translating Hamlet's thought process / Werner Habicht -- "Bottom, thou art translated" : translation as a boundary and a bridge / Marta Gibinska -- Hamlet across boundaries of language and genre in Jacinto Benavente's comedy Hamlet's jester / Jesús Tronch -- Hamlet's furniture : Shakespeare sat here / Catherine M.S. …”
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Trauma, resistance, reconstruction in post-1994 South African writing

Table of Contents: “…Mut(e)ilations: the loss of voice and the voice of loss: memory, reconstruction and reconciliation in South African literature / Deborah Donig -- Secrets and lies: trauma, resistance and reconciliation postponed in Zoë Wicombs David's story / Jane Poyner -- Driving the devil into the ground: settler myth in André Brink's Devil's Valley / John Highfield -- Trauma, confession and autobiographies. …”
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Tudor : passion, manipulation, murder : the story of England's most notorious royal family / by De Lisle, Leanda

Table of Contents: “…; The mysterious quarrel between Henry VIII and Margaret Douglas ; Guildford and Jane Dudley ; The myth of Frances Brandon, the child abuser ; The obscure Margaret Clifford, heir to the throne, 1578-96.…”
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Intelligently designed : how creationists built the campaign against evolution / by Caudill, Edward

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Exile and suffering a selection of papers read at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Old Testament Society of South Africa OTWSA/OTSSA, Pretoria, August 2007 /

Table of Contents: “…Juliana M. Claassens -- Myth, metaphor or memory? the allusions to Creation and Exodus in Isaiah 51:9-11 as a theological response to suffering during the Exile / Hendrik Bosman -- The assassination of Gedaliah (Jer. 40:7-41:18) / Eric Peels -- Perspective after the Exile : the King, [ʻvdj], 'My servant' in Jeremiah : some reflections on MT and LXX / Raymond de Hoop -- Exile in Hosea 9:3-6 : where and for what purpose? …”
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A Nation of victims? representations of German wartime suffering from 1945 to the present /

Table of Contents: “…and Der Arzt von Stalingrad / Helen Wolfenden -- The German myth of a victim nation : (re-)presenting Germans as victims in the new debate on their flight and explusion from Eastern Europe / Samuel Salzborn -- Implicit equations in constructions of German suffering / Bill Niven -- Dresden and Hamburg : official memory and commemoration of the victims of Allied air raids in the two Germanies / Gilad Margalit -- Regarding and imagining : contrived immediacy of the Allied bombing campaign in photography, novel, and historiography / Heinz-Peter Preusser -- Lost in translations? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Macrofinancial linkages trends, crises, and policies /

Table of Contents: “…: Evidence from emerging Europe / Deniz Igan, Natalia Tamirisa -- Growth dynamics : the myth of economic review / Valerie Cerra, Sweta Chaman Saxena -- From subprime loans to subprime growth? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

British and Irish emigrants and exiles in Europe, 1603-1688

Table of Contents: “…Rotterdam's Scots community and the covenanter cause, 1638-1688 / Douglas Catterall -- Special privileges for the Irish in the kingdom of Castile (1601-1680): modern myth or contemporary reality? / Ciaran O'Scea -- Hidden by 1688 and after: Irish Catholic migration to France, 1590-1685 / Éamon Ó Ciosáin -- Murder as a weapon of exile: English politics at the Spanish court (1649-1652) / Igor Pérez Tostado -- Scots in Swedish Bremen and Verden (1645-1712) / Kathrin Zickermann -- The Gordons of Huntly: a Scottish noble household and its European connections, 1603-1688 / Barry Robertson -- "My heart is a Scotch heart": Scottish Calvinist exiles in France in their continental context: 1605-1638 / Siobhan Talbott -- Under the Habsburgs and the Stuarts: the Leslies' Portrait Gallery in Ptuj Castle, Slovenia / Polona Vidmar -- English military émigrés and the Protestant cause in Europe, 1603-c 1640 / David J.B. …”
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The making of the slave class by Carrier, Jerry, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Islam -- Conclusions about class and Christianity -- Class and the military -- Health and the working class -- The geography of class -- Income distribution -- American poverty -- The middle class and the myth of upward class mobility -- Anomie: the price of upward mobility -- Education, intelligence and middle-class bias -- The graying of working-class America -- Class and race -- Gentrification -- Self-cleaning ovens -- A brief history of banking and the working class, no shoes, no shirt, no credit -- The credit union movement -- A sad story -- Nonprofits and the community economic development movement -- More middle-class bias, new urbanism, and more gentrification -- Transportation and class -- In the hood -- Housing, mortgage lending and secondary markets -- Manipulation and madness: the housing bubble and financial crisis -- Greed, stupidity and arrogance -- Conclusion: The Americans slave class.…”
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Marlene Dietrich life and legend / by Bach, Steven

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