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Refugees in our own land chronicles from a Palestinian refugee camp in Bethlehem / by Hamzeh, Muna, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Checkpoint Jerusalem (1999). The Pope in our midst (2000).…”
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Hey presto! Swift and the quacks / by Ormsby-Lennon, Hugh

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Hey presto! Swift and the quacks / by Ormsby-Lennon, Hugh

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The letters of Jerome asceticism, biblical exegesis, and the construction of Christian authority in late antiquity / by Cain, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 'The voice of one calling in the desert' -- Epistularum ad diversos liber : structure and contents -- Hieronymus eremita : the textualized 'saint' -- Rhetoric and reproach -- An ascetic conversion story in letters -- Introducing ... Jerome -- A pope and his scholar -- Jerome on Damasus on Jerome : revisionist reminiscences --The great commission --The correspondence : 'Hebrew verity' and Ambrosiaster -- Claiming Marcella -- Ad Marcellam epistularum liber : structure and contents -- Hagiography, hermeneutics, Hebrew, and heretics -- Sealing a spiritual and scholarly legacy -- Expulsion from Rome -- Theological controversy -- The gathering storm : Blesilla's death -- The beginning of the end -- The 'disgrace of a false charge' -- Paula's seducer? …”
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The Copts of Egypt challenges of modernisation and identity / by Ibrahim, Vivian

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The perfect lion the life and death of Confederate artillerist John Pelham / by Maxwell, Jerry H. (Jerry Hollis), 1942-

Table of Contents: “…"The most adventuresome member of that adventurous group" -- "We are a class beyond the common ones" -- "Fear God and know no other fear" -- "Madness and fanaticism" -- "We predict for them a brilliant future" -- "War is not glorious" -- "An honour to be one of them" -- "Like a duck on a June bug" -- "We are going to whip the yankees like the mischief" -- "I have had my revenge out of Pope" -- "Who could not conquer with such troops as these" -- "The Lord of Hosts was plainly fighting on our side" -- "The Lord bless your dirty ragged souls" -- "Put on the war paint!" …”
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The Copts of Egypt challenges of modernisation and identity / by Ibrahim, Vivian

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The perfect lion the life and death of Confederate artillerist John Pelham / by Maxwell, Jerry H. (Jerry Hollis), 1942-

Table of Contents: “…"The most adventuresome member of that adventurous group" -- "We are a class beyond the common ones" -- "Fear God and know no other fear" -- "Madness and fanaticism" -- "We predict for them a brilliant future" -- "War is not glorious" -- "An honour to be one of them" -- "Like a duck on a June bug" -- "We are going to whip the yankees like the mischief" -- "I have had my revenge out of Pope" -- "Who could not conquer with such troops as these" -- "The Lord of Hosts was plainly fighting on our side" -- "The Lord bless your dirty ragged souls" -- "Put on the war paint!" …”
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The letters of Jerome asceticism, biblical exegesis, and the construction of Christian authority in late antiquity / by Cain, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 'The voice of one calling in the desert' -- Epistularum ad diversos liber : structure and contents -- Hieronymus eremita : the textualized 'saint' -- Rhetoric and reproach -- An ascetic conversion story in letters -- Introducing ... Jerome -- A pope and his scholar -- Jerome on Damasus on Jerome : revisionist reminiscences --The great commission --The correspondence : 'Hebrew verity' and Ambrosiaster -- Claiming Marcella -- Ad Marcellam epistularum liber : structure and contents -- Hagiography, hermeneutics, Hebrew, and heretics -- Sealing a spiritual and scholarly legacy -- Expulsion from Rome -- Theological controversy -- The gathering storm : Blesilla's death -- The beginning of the end -- The 'disgrace of a false charge' -- Paula's seducer? …”
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The Troubled Origins of the Italian Catholic Labor Movement, 1878-1914 / by Agócs, Sándor, 1932-

Table of Contents: “…The Vatican Attempts to Reintroduce the Mixed UnionThe Activists' Refusal; Chapter 9: Religion, the Best Custodian of Justice; The Landless Peasants and the Catholic Labor Movement; The Activists Press for Land Reform; Nonunion Economic Institutions; Chapter 10: The Pope Will Remain Silent; The Religious Nature of Catholic Organizations and the Issues of Lay Autonomy; The Reinforcement of Clerical Control over Catholic Action; The Encyclical Singulari quadam and the Last Battle of the Papacy of Pius X; Conclusions; Notes; References; Index…”
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The Troubled Origins of the Italian Catholic Labor Movement, 1878-1914 / by Agócs, Sándor, 1932-

Table of Contents: “…The Vatican Attempts to Reintroduce the Mixed UnionThe Activists' Refusal; Chapter 9: Religion, the Best Custodian of Justice; The Landless Peasants and the Catholic Labor Movement; The Activists Press for Land Reform; Nonunion Economic Institutions; Chapter 10: The Pope Will Remain Silent; The Religious Nature of Catholic Organizations and the Issues of Lay Autonomy; The Reinforcement of Clerical Control over Catholic Action; The Encyclical Singulari quadam and the Last Battle of the Papacy of Pius X; Conclusions; Notes; References; Index…”
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Refugee rights ethics, advocacy, and Africa /

Table of Contents: “…There is more than one way of dying : an Ethiopian perspective on long term stays in refugee camps / Abebe Feyissa with Rebecca Horn -- What we owe to refugees and IDPs : an inquiry into the rights of the forcibly displaced / William O'Neill -- Burundian refugees in western Tanzania : responsibilities for advocacy / Joint Commission for Refugees of the Burundi and Tanzania Episcopal Conferences -- The right to freedom of movement for refugees in Uganda / Lucy Hovil and Moses Chrispus Okello -- The plight of urban refugees in Nairobi, Kenya / John Burton Wagacha and John Guiney -- Protection as capability expansion : practical ethics for assisting urban refugees / Loren Landau -- Sexual violence, gender roles, and displacement / Binaifer Nowrojee -- Justice, women's rights, and forced migration / Susan Martin -- Human rights, the use of force, and displacement in the Great Lakes region : Reflections on a troubling trend / Khoti Kamanga -- Internally displaced people, sovereignty, and the responsibility to protect / David Hollenbach -- Internally displaced persons in northern Uganda : a challenge for peace and reconciliation / Lam Oryem Cosmas -- Justice and peace : reintegration and reconciliation of returning displaced persons in post-conflict situations / Stephen J. Pope -- Key ethical issues in the practices and policies of refugee-serving NGOs and churches / Agbonkhianmeghe E. …”
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Final acts death, dying, and the choices we make /

Table of Contents: “…Oyster -- The family tree / Jean Levitan -- Elegy for an optimist / Mimi Schwartz -- Buddhist reflections on life and death: a personal memoir / Alan Pope -- Death as my colleague / Mary Jumbelic -- The transformation of death in America / Stephen P. …”
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Final acts death, dying, and the choices we make /

Table of Contents: “…Oyster -- The family tree / Jean Levitan -- Elegy for an optimist / Mimi Schwartz -- Buddhist reflections on life and death: a personal memoir / Alan Pope -- Death as my colleague / Mary Jumbelic -- The transformation of death in America / Stephen P. …”
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Refugee rights ethics, advocacy, and Africa /

Table of Contents: “…There is more than one way of dying : an Ethiopian perspective on long term stays in refugee camps / Abebe Feyissa with Rebecca Horn -- What we owe to refugees and IDPs : an inquiry into the rights of the forcibly displaced / William O'Neill -- Burundian refugees in western Tanzania : responsibilities for advocacy / Joint Commission for Refugees of the Burundi and Tanzania Episcopal Conferences -- The right to freedom of movement for refugees in Uganda / Lucy Hovil and Moses Chrispus Okello -- The plight of urban refugees in Nairobi, Kenya / John Burton Wagacha and John Guiney -- Protection as capability expansion : practical ethics for assisting urban refugees / Loren Landau -- Sexual violence, gender roles, and displacement / Binaifer Nowrojee -- Justice, women's rights, and forced migration / Susan Martin -- Human rights, the use of force, and displacement in the Great Lakes region : Reflections on a troubling trend / Khoti Kamanga -- Internally displaced people, sovereignty, and the responsibility to protect / David Hollenbach -- Internally displaced persons in northern Uganda : a challenge for peace and reconciliation / Lam Oryem Cosmas -- Justice and peace : reintegration and reconciliation of returning displaced persons in post-conflict situations / Stephen J. Pope -- Key ethical issues in the practices and policies of refugee-serving NGOs and churches / Agbonkhianmeghe E. …”
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New Zealand's Muslims and multiculturalism by Kolig, Erich

Table of Contents: “…Allah is everywhere, even in New Zealand -- Field research -- Community, identity, diversity -- The beginnings -- Muslim representation -- Organisational functions and aims -- Outreach programmes -- The myth of Muslim unity -- Living among infidels -- Orientalism and Islamophobia -- Converts -- Students -- The right to be different : Muslims in the public sphere -- The New Zealand state and multiculturalism -- Secularisation and the right to religion -- Legal instruments -- 'Racial' harmony through interfaith activity -- Education and policy framework -- Democratic participation and public visibility of Muslims -- The difficulty in standardisation of Islamic exceptionalism -- Rivals for custodianship of public morality -- Integration and conflict discourses -- 'When in Rome do as the Romans do' -- The necessity of minority integration -- Conflict discourses -- Blasphemous libel and Islam -- Danish cartoons rock the world -- The Pope's gaffe -- Gender issues : women are equal but different -- Of gender separation and inequality -- Concepts of decency and modesty -- The Burqa case -- Hijab versus Burqa -- Whose authority? …”
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New Zealand's Muslims and multiculturalism by Kolig, Erich

Table of Contents: “…Allah is everywhere, even in New Zealand -- Field research -- Community, identity, diversity -- The beginnings -- Muslim representation -- Organisational functions and aims -- Outreach programmes -- The myth of Muslim unity -- Living among infidels -- Orientalism and Islamophobia -- Converts -- Students -- The right to be different : Muslims in the public sphere -- The New Zealand state and multiculturalism -- Secularisation and the right to religion -- Legal instruments -- 'Racial' harmony through interfaith activity -- Education and policy framework -- Democratic participation and public visibility of Muslims -- The difficulty in standardisation of Islamic exceptionalism -- Rivals for custodianship of public morality -- Integration and conflict discourses -- 'When in Rome do as the Romans do' -- The necessity of minority integration -- Conflict discourses -- Blasphemous libel and Islam -- Danish cartoons rock the world -- The Pope's gaffe -- Gender issues : women are equal but different -- Of gender separation and inequality -- Concepts of decency and modesty -- The Burqa case -- Hijab versus Burqa -- Whose authority? …”
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Ideas of power in the late Middle Ages, 1296-1417 by Canning, Joseph, 1944-

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Ideas of power in the late Middle Ages, 1296-1417 by Canning, Joseph, 1944-

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The role of parliament in curbing corruption

Table of Contents: “…Soares -- Political will / Sahr Kpundeh and Phyllis Dininio -- Parliament and anti-corruption legislation / Jeremy Pope -- Case study on the role of Parliament in the fight against corruption : the case of the Kenyan Parliament / Fred Matiangi -- Effective financial scrutiny / Joachim Wehner -- Case study on the performance of public accounts committees : a review of the Canadian PAC, 37th Parliament / Martin Ulrich -- Parliament and supreme audit institutions / Rick Stapenhurst and Jack Titsworth -- The role of the media in curbing corruption / Rod Macdonell and Melica Pesic -- Case study on the role of Parliament and the media in the fight against corruption / John Smith -- Anti-corruption commissions / John Heilbrunn -- Case sutdy : the European Parliaments's role in the resignation oft the Santer Commission / Katia Stasinopoulou -- Building coalitions : parliaments, civil society, and corruption control / Michael Johnston -- Political parties / Riccardo Pelizzo -- Party political funding / Michael Pinto-Duschinsky -- Legislative ethics and codes of conduct / Rick Stapenhurst and Riccardo Pelizzo -- Case study of the House Of Commons : how can Parliamentary codes and registers of member's interests help? …”
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