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Waging war : alliances, coalitions, and institutions of interstate violence / by Weitsman, Patricia A.

Table of Contents: “…Fighting with friends -- Operations Desert Storm and Desert Shield -- Operation Allied Force -- Operation Enduring Freedom and the International Security Assistance Force -- Operation Iraqi Freedom and the war in Iraq -- Operation Odyssey Dawn and Operation Unified Protector.…”
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Green plans blueprint for a sustainable earth / by Johnson, Huey D.

Table of Contents: “…A commitment to change -- Sustainability: a modern odyssey -- Health plus environment equals security -- A green plan predecessor: California's investing for prosperity program -- The Netherlands -- New Zealand -- Toward a sustainable Singapore -- European Union environmental policy.…”
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It was a long time ago, and it never happened anyway Russia and the communist past / by Satter, David, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Petersburg -- The appeal of communism -- The responsibility of the state -- The trial of the communist party -- Moral choice under totalitarianism -- The roots of the communist idea -- Symbols of the past -- History -- The shadow of Katyn -- Vorkuta -- The odyssey of Andrei Poleshchuk.…”
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It was a long time ago, and it never happened anyway Russia and the communist past / by Satter, David, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Petersburg -- The appeal of communism -- The responsibility of the state -- The trial of the communist party -- Moral choice under totalitarianism -- The roots of the communist idea -- Symbols of the past -- History -- The shadow of Katyn -- Vorkuta -- The odyssey of Andrei Poleshchuk.…”
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Green plans blueprint for a sustainable earth / by Johnson, Huey D.

Table of Contents: “…A commitment to change -- Sustainability: a modern odyssey -- Health plus environment equals security -- A green plan predecessor: California's investing for prosperity program -- The Netherlands -- New Zealand -- Toward a sustainable Singapore -- European Union environmental policy.…”
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A class of their own Black teachers in the segregated South / by Fairclough, Adam

Table of Contents: “…The odyssey of black teachers -- Freedom's first generation -- Black teachers for black children -- Missionaries to the dark South -- White supremacy and black teachers -- The founders -- The faith of women -- The city and the country -- Teachers organize -- Black teachers and the civil rights movement -- Integration: loss and profit.…”
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The task of the critic poetics, philosophy, and religion / by Sussman, Henry

Table of Contents: “…The task of the critic : a game of registers -- Prolegomena to any present and future language poetry -- Walter, the critic -- Between the registers : The Arcades Project, the Talmud, and Glas -- Deterritorializing the text : flow theory and deconstruction -- Derrida as critic : a Joycean odyssey -- The fourth Abrahamic religion?…”
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A class of their own Black teachers in the segregated South / by Fairclough, Adam

Table of Contents: “…The odyssey of black teachers -- Freedom's first generation -- Black teachers for black children -- Missionaries to the dark South -- White supremacy and black teachers -- The founders -- The faith of women -- The city and the country -- Teachers organize -- Black teachers and the civil rights movement -- Integration: loss and profit.…”
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The task of the critic poetics, philosophy, and religion / by Sussman, Henry

Table of Contents: “…The task of the critic : a game of registers -- Prolegomena to any present and future language poetry -- Walter, the critic -- Between the registers : The Arcades Project, the Talmud, and Glas -- Deterritorializing the text : flow theory and deconstruction -- Derrida as critic : a Joycean odyssey -- The fourth Abrahamic religion?…”
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Character, narrator, and simile in the Iliad by Ready, Jonathan L., 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Similes in the narrator-text; Conclusion: The Odyssey compared.…”
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Character, narrator, and simile in the Iliad by Ready, Jonathan L., 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Similes in the narrator-text; Conclusion: The Odyssey compared.…”
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Writing back American expatriates and narratives of return / by Winnett, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Stearns -- Wo Mama war, soll Dada werden : Malcolm Cowley's odyssey of legitimation -- Everybody's autobiography : the remaking of an American -- Postcript.…”
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Writing back American expatriates and narratives of return / by Winnett, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Stearns -- Wo Mama war, soll Dada werden : Malcolm Cowley's odyssey of legitimation -- Everybody's autobiography : the remaking of an American -- Postcript.…”
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Mysteriously Meant : The Rediscovery of Pagan Symbolism and Allegorical Interpretation in the Renaissance by Allen, Don Cameron, 1903-1972

Table of Contents: “…Pagan myth and Chri̤̤̤stian apologetics -- The Renaissance search for Christian origins: the philosophers -- The Renaissance search for Christian origins: the sacred history -- Undermeanings in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey -- The symbolic wisdom of the Ancient Egyptians -- Undermeanings in Virgil's Aeneid -- Undermeanings in Ovid's Metamorphoses -- The allegorical interpretation of the Renaissance mythographers -- The symbolic interpretations of Renaissance antiquarians -- The rationalization of myth and the end of allegory.…”
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Mysteriously Meant : The Rediscovery of Pagan Symbolism and Allegorical Interpretation in the Renaissance by Allen, Don Cameron, 1903-1972

Table of Contents: “…Pagan myth and Chri̤̤̤stian apologetics -- The Renaissance search for Christian origins: the philosophers -- The Renaissance search for Christian origins: the sacred history -- Undermeanings in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey -- The symbolic wisdom of the Ancient Egyptians -- Undermeanings in Virgil's Aeneid -- Undermeanings in Ovid's Metamorphoses -- The allegorical interpretation of the Renaissance mythographers -- The symbolic interpretations of Renaissance antiquarians -- The rationalization of myth and the end of allegory.…”
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35 miles from shore the ditching and rescue of ALM flight 980 / by Corsetti, Emilio

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35 miles from shore the ditching and rescue of ALM flight 980 / by Corsetti, Emilio

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Tools of the imagination drawing tools and technologies from the eighteenth century to the present /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Circles and spheres -- The line -- The lead pencil: lever of the architect's imagination -- The geometry of art -- Light and shadow -- Perspective -- Design tools: a collector's perspective and an architect's odyssey -- Copying -- From model to drawing to building -- Erasing or deleting -- Imagination and building beyond tools -- Conclusion: improvisations, instruments, and algorithms -- Bibliography and additional sources -- Contributor biographies.…”
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Tools of the imagination drawing tools and technologies from the eighteenth century to the present /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Circles and spheres -- The line -- The lead pencil: lever of the architect's imagination -- The geometry of art -- Light and shadow -- Perspective -- Design tools: a collector's perspective and an architect's odyssey -- Copying -- From model to drawing to building -- Erasing or deleting -- Imagination and building beyond tools -- Conclusion: improvisations, instruments, and algorithms -- Bibliography and additional sources -- Contributor biographies.…”
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Voices from the global margin confronting poverty and inventing new lives in the Andes / by Mitchell, William P., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: A personal and intellectual odyssey -- Pablo and Claudia : peasant farming -- Horacio and Benjamina : gender, race, ethnicity, and class -- Horacio and Benjamina : confronting village poverty -- Martín : confronting migrant poverty -- Valentina : from bride by capture to international migrant -- Triga : guerrilla war, cocaine, and commerce -- El Comandante Tigre : the peasant patrols and war -- Anastasio : fleeing shining path -- At the margin of the shifting world.…”
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