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Traditional Micronesian societies adaptation, integration, and political organization / by Petersen, Glenn

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a perspective on traditional Micronesian life -- Micronesia and Micronesians -- The prehistory of Micronesian societies -- Descent and descent groups -- Household and family, land and labor -- Chieftainship and government -- Politics and leadership -- Aesthetics, beliefs, values, and behavior -- Some exceptions to the pan-Micronesian patterns -- Epilogue : traditional Micronesian societies and modern Micronesian history.…”
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Encyclopedia of African history and culture. volume V : independent Africa (1960 to present) / by Davis, R. Hunt

Table of Contents: “…v. 1. Ancient Africa (prehistory to 500 CE) / Willie F. Page -- v. 2. African kingdoms (500 to 1500) / Willie F. …”

Encyclopedia of African history and culture. volume V : independent Africa (1960 to present) / by Davis, R. Hunt

Table of Contents: “…v. 1. Ancient Africa (prehistory to 500 CE) / Willie F. Page -- v. 2. African kingdoms (500 to 1500) / Willie F. …”

Dirty wars landscape, power, and waste in western American literature / by Beck, John, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : dirty wars -- The purloined landscape -- The prehistory of the permanent war economy -- Dust breeding : narratives of inter(n)ment -- Learning from Los Alamos -- Gridlocked and homeless -- Loomings : dread in west Texas -- After nature : gothic contamination -- After nature writing -- The west as Cold War museum -- The fringe of empire -- Conclusion : endless war.…”
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Dirty wars landscape, power, and waste in western American literature / by Beck, John, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : dirty wars -- The purloined landscape -- The prehistory of the permanent war economy -- Dust breeding : narratives of inter(n)ment -- Learning from Los Alamos -- Gridlocked and homeless -- Loomings : dread in west Texas -- After nature : gothic contamination -- After nature writing -- The west as Cold War museum -- The fringe of empire -- Conclusion : endless war.…”
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Human rights without democracy? reconciling freedom with equality / by Haller, Gret, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The prehistory and context of human rights -- First notions of human rights -- Human rights, morals, and law -- From human rights to positive law -- Human rights, the state, and democracy -- Politics and law -- The Cold War -- Moralizing human rights -- Natural right and imposed concepts of man -- Perspectives for democratic legitimacy -- Universality and regionalization -- Repercussions from the Cold War.…”
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World of Patterns : A Global History of Knowledge / by Bod, Rens, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Understanding the world through patterns and principles -- The awareness of patterns : prehistory -- The explosion of patterns and the awareness of principles : early antiquity -- The explosion of principles and the awareness of deductions : classical antiquity -- The reduction of principles : post-classical period -- The discovery of patterns in deductions : the modern era -- Conclusion: The origin, growth, and future of knowledge.…”
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Human rights without democracy? reconciling freedom with equality / by Haller, Gret, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The prehistory and context of human rights -- First notions of human rights -- Human rights, morals, and law -- From human rights to positive law -- Human rights, the state, and democracy -- Politics and law -- The Cold War -- Moralizing human rights -- Natural right and imposed concepts of man -- Perspectives for democratic legitimacy -- Universality and regionalization -- Repercussions from the Cold War.…”
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World of Patterns : A Global History of Knowledge / by Bod, Rens, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Understanding the world through patterns and principles -- The awareness of patterns : prehistory -- The explosion of patterns and the awareness of principles : early antiquity -- The explosion of principles and the awareness of deductions : classical antiquity -- The reduction of principles : post-classical period -- The discovery of patterns in deductions : the modern era -- Conclusion: The origin, growth, and future of knowledge.…”
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Encyclopedia of African history and culture. volume IV : from conguest to colonization (1500 to 1850) / by Davis, R. Hunt

Table of Contents: “…v. 1. Ancient Africa (prehistory to 500 CE) / Willie F. Page -- v. 2. African kingdoms (500 to 1500) / Willie F. …”

Encyclopedia of African history and culture. volume IV : from conguest to colonization (1500 to 1850) / by Davis, R. Hunt

Table of Contents: “…v. 1. Ancient Africa (prehistory to 500 CE) / Willie F. Page -- v. 2. African kingdoms (500 to 1500) / Willie F. …”

A history of installation art and the development of new art forms technology and the hermeneutics of time and space in modern and postmodern art from cubism to installation / by Ran, Faye, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Definitions of modernism and postmodernism in the arts -- Ch. 4. A prehistory of installation art : from tableau object to tableau vivant -- Illustrations -- Ch. 5. …”
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A history of installation art and the development of new art forms technology and the hermeneutics of time and space in modern and postmodern art from cubism to installation / by Ran, Faye, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Definitions of modernism and postmodernism in the arts -- Ch. 4. A prehistory of installation art : from tableau object to tableau vivant -- Illustrations -- Ch. 5. …”
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Encyclopedia of African history and culture. volume 11 : African kingdoms (500 to 1500) / by Page, Willie F., 1929-

Table of Contents: “…v. 1. Ancient Africa (prehistory to 500 CE) / Willie F. Page -- v. 2. African kingdoms (500 to 1500) / Willie F. …”

Encyclopedia of African history and culture. volume 111 : from conguest to colonization (1500 to 1850) / by Page, Willie F., 1929-

Table of Contents: “…v. 1. Ancient Africa (prehistory to 500 CE) / Willie F. Page -- v. 2. African kingdoms (500 to 1500) / Willie F. …”

Encyclopedia of African history and culture. volume 11 : African kingdoms (500 to 1500) / by Page, Willie F., 1929-

Table of Contents: “…v. 1. Ancient Africa (prehistory to 500 CE) / Willie F. Page -- v. 2. African kingdoms (500 to 1500) / Willie F. …”

Encyclopedia of African history and culture. volume 111 : from conguest to colonization (1500 to 1850) / by Page, Willie F., 1929-

Table of Contents: “…v. 1. Ancient Africa (prehistory to 500 CE) / Willie F. Page -- v. 2. African kingdoms (500 to 1500) / Willie F. …”

Goddesses and the divine feminine a Western religious history / by Ruether, Rosemary Radford

Table of Contents: “…Gender and the problem of prehistory -- Goddesses and world renewal in the ancient mediterranean -- The Hebrew God and gender -- Savior goddesses in the mystery religions and gnosticism -- The spiritual feminine in New Testament and patristic Christianity -- Feminine symbols in medieval religious literature -- Tonantzin-Guadalupe : the meeting of Aztec and Christian female symbols in Mexico -- Mary and wisdom in protestant mystical millennialism -- Contested gender status and imagining ancient matriarchy -- The return of the goddess.…”
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Goddesses and the divine feminine a Western religious history / by Ruether, Rosemary Radford

Table of Contents: “…Gender and the problem of prehistory -- Goddesses and world renewal in the ancient mediterranean -- The Hebrew God and gender -- Savior goddesses in the mystery religions and gnosticism -- The spiritual feminine in New Testament and patristic Christianity -- Feminine symbols in medieval religious literature -- Tonantzin-Guadalupe : the meeting of Aztec and Christian female symbols in Mexico -- Mary and wisdom in protestant mystical millennialism -- Contested gender status and imagining ancient matriarchy -- The return of the goddess.…”
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An introduction to rights by Edmundson, William A. (William Atkins), 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The first expansionary era. The prehistory of rights ; The rights of man: the Enlightenment ; "Mischievous nonsense"? …”
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