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Alfonso X, the Learned a biography / by Martínez, H. Salvador

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The "Alfonsine era" -- The apprenticeship of a great king -- A prince's education -- Alfonso King -- The quest for the imperial crown -- Alfonso, King of the Romans -- Gregory X and the end of imperial ambitions -- Illness and intellectual pursuits -- The black decade (1269-1279) -- The nobles' rebellion -- Desnaturación -- The problems of succession -- Don Sancho is declared successor -- Deposition and civil war -- Don Sancho seeks the consolidation of power -- The last wills of Alfonso X -- Conclusion: In praise of knowledge.…”
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Animal sacrifices religious perspectives on the use of animals in science /

Table of Contents: “…David Bleich -- The place of animals in creation / Andrew Linzey -- The relevance of animal experimentation to Roman Catholic ethical methodology / James Gaffney -- Animal experimentation / Al-Hafiz B.A. …”
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The adaptive optics revolution a history / by Duffner, Robert W.

Table of Contents: “…Sputnik, reality, and technology -- Early days : the Romans -- Rome and Itek : first adaptive optics systems -- Laser guide stars -- Fugate's Rayleigh guide star experiments -- Lincoln laboratory -- Sharing the gold : astronomical nuggets -- Strategic defense initiative -- Airborne laser -- 3.5-meter military telescope complex : Starfire Optical Range, New Mexico -- 3.67-meter military telescope complex : Maui, Hawaii -- Sodium guide star laser : the future.…”
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Romantic Catholics : France's postrevolutionary generation in search of a modern faith / by Harrison, Carol E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : romantic Catholics and the two Frances -- First communion : the most beautiful day in the lives and deaths of little girls -- The education of Maurice de Guérin -- The dilemma of obedience : Charles de Montalembert, Catholic citizen -- Pauline Craven's holy family : writing the modern saint -- Frédéric and Amélie Ozanam : charity, marriage, and the Catholic social -- A free church in a free state : the Roman question -- Epilogue : the devout woman of the Third Republic and the eclipse of Catholic fraternity.…”
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What is honor? a question of moral imperatives / by Welsh, Alexander

Table of Contents: “…On moralities of obedience and respect -- Help from anthropology and psychology -- Respect in the ethics of Aristotle -- Cicero's mediation of the same -- Shakespeare's recourse to Roman honor -- His Antony, Cleopatra, and Coriolanus -- Honor by that name in Mandeville and Montesquieu -- Leveling down in Enlightenment fiction -- Coming of age in neoclassical drama -- And how Rousseau's Emile comes of age -- Kant's engagement with honor -- Parallels to Kant's moral philosophy -- Respect and Adam Smith's impartial spectator -- Adam Smith and recent social science -- Coming to terms with honor in philosophy.…”
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Egypt a short history : with a new afterword by the author / by Tignor, Robert L.

Table of Contents: “…The land and people -- Egypt during the Old Kingdom -- The Middle and New Kingdoms -- Nubians, Greeks, and Romans, circa 1200 BCE-632 CE -- Christian Egypt -- Egypt within Islamic empires, 639-969 -- Fatimids, Ayyubids, and Mamluks, 969-1517 -- Ottoman Egypt, 1517-1798 -- Napoleon Bonaparte, Muhammad Ali, and Ismail : Egypt in the nineteenth century -- The British period, 1882-1952 -- Egypt for the Egyptians, 1952-1981 : Nasser and Sadat -- Mubarak's Egypt -- Conclusion : Egypt through the millennia.…”
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Archbishops Ralph d'Escures, William of Corbeil and Theobald of Bec heirs of Anselm and ancestors of Becket / by Truax, Jean, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the English Church as Anselm left it -- Ralph d'Escures: a different kind of Archbishop -- The road to Rome: Ralph of Canterbury, Thurstan of York, and the primacy dispute -- Roman holiday: William of Corbeil and the Canterbury forgeries -- Securing the future: William of Corbeil and the Anglo-Norman succession crisis -- Juggling act: archbishop, bishop, king, empress and pope -- The limits of power: Archbishop Theobald and his neighbors -- Trouble on the way: Theobald and the new regime -- Conclusion: the world as Becket found it.…”
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What is honor? a question of moral imperatives / by Welsh, Alexander

Table of Contents: “…On moralities of obedience and respect -- Help from anthropology and psychology -- Respect in the ethics of Aristotle -- Cicero's mediation of the same -- Shakespeare's recourse to Roman honor -- His Antony, Cleopatra, and Coriolanus -- Honor by that name in Mandeville and Montesquieu -- Leveling down in Enlightenment fiction -- Coming of age in neoclassical drama -- And how Rousseau's Emile comes of age -- Kant's engagement with honor -- Parallels to Kant's moral philosophy -- Respect and Adam Smith's impartial spectator -- Adam Smith and recent social science -- Coming to terms with honor in philosophy.…”
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Egypt a short history : with a new afterword by the author / by Tignor, Robert L.

Table of Contents: “…The land and people -- Egypt during the Old Kingdom -- The Middle and New Kingdoms -- Nubians, Greeks, and Romans, circa 1200 BCE-632 CE -- Christian Egypt -- Egypt within Islamic empires, 639-969 -- Fatimids, Ayyubids, and Mamluks, 969-1517 -- Ottoman Egypt, 1517-1798 -- Napoleon Bonaparte, Muhammad Ali, and Ismail : Egypt in the nineteenth century -- The British period, 1882-1952 -- Egypt for the Egyptians, 1952-1981 : Nasser and Sadat -- Mubarak's Egypt -- Conclusion : Egypt through the millennia.…”
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Archbishops Ralph d'Escures, William of Corbeil and Theobald of Bec heirs of Anselm and ancestors of Becket / by Truax, Jean, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the English Church as Anselm left it -- Ralph d'Escures: a different kind of Archbishop -- The road to Rome: Ralph of Canterbury, Thurstan of York, and the primacy dispute -- Roman holiday: William of Corbeil and the Canterbury forgeries -- Securing the future: William of Corbeil and the Anglo-Norman succession crisis -- Juggling act: archbishop, bishop, king, empress and pope -- The limits of power: Archbishop Theobald and his neighbors -- Trouble on the way: Theobald and the new regime -- Conclusion: the world as Becket found it.…”
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Asia del Pacífico y los acuerdos bilaterales de libre comercio /

Table of Contents: “…Los acuerdos de libre comercio: una nueva práctica de regionalismo en Asia del Pacífico / Juan Jose Ramírez Bonilla -- Las dimensiones de los acuerdos de libre comercio de Japón / Alfredo Román Zavala -- Apertura de Corea del Sur y el TLC con Japón / Juan Felipe López Aimez -- Singapur: una nueva concepción de los acuerdos económicos intergubernamentales / Juan Jose Ramírez Bonilla.…”
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Asia del Pacífico y los acuerdos bilaterales de libre comercio /

Table of Contents: “…Los acuerdos de libre comercio: una nueva práctica de regionalismo en Asia del Pacífico / Juan Jose Ramírez Bonilla -- Las dimensiones de los acuerdos de libre comercio de Japón / Alfredo Román Zavala -- Apertura de Corea del Sur y el TLC con Japón / Juan Felipe López Aimez -- Singapur: una nueva concepción de los acuerdos económicos intergubernamentales / Juan Jose Ramírez Bonilla.…”
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Law in the documents of the Judaean desert

Table of Contents: “…The documents of the Judean desert in the light of the papyri from Egypt / Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski -- Roman officials in Judaea and Arabia and civil jurisdiction / Hannah M. …”
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Paul and scripture extending the conversation /

Table of Contents: “…Greenspoon -- Identity, memory and scriptural warrant: arguing Paul's case / Jeremy Punt -- Paul among the storytellers: reading Romans 11 in the context of rewritten Bible / Bruce N. …”
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Paul and scripture extending the conversation /

Table of Contents: “…Greenspoon -- Identity, memory and scriptural warrant: arguing Paul's case / Jeremy Punt -- Paul among the storytellers: reading Romans 11 in the context of rewritten Bible / Bruce N. …”
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Law in the documents of the Judaean desert

Table of Contents: “…The documents of the Judean desert in the light of the papyri from Egypt / Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski -- Roman officials in Judaea and Arabia and civil jurisdiction / Hannah M. …”
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Valentinian ethics and paraenetic discourse determining the social function of moral exhortation in Valentinian Christianity / by Tite, Philip L., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Constructing social identity through discourse : a socio-rhetorical approach for the study of Valentinian paraenesis -- Defining paraenesis I : historical phases within the academic study of paraenesis -- Defining paraenesis II : towards a functional understanding of paraenesis -- Literary aspects of paraenesis : indicators of moral exhortation from the Greco-Roman world within Valentinianism -- Two schools and the call to reconciliation : literary and social aspects of moral exhortation in the Interpretation of knowledge -- Existing in error : literary and social aspects of moral exhortation in the Gospel of truth -- Conclusion.…”
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Valentinian ethics and paraenetic discourse determining the social function of moral exhortation in Valentinian Christianity / by Tite, Philip L., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Constructing social identity through discourse : a socio-rhetorical approach for the study of Valentinian paraenesis -- Defining paraenesis I : historical phases within the academic study of paraenesis -- Defining paraenesis II : towards a functional understanding of paraenesis -- Literary aspects of paraenesis : indicators of moral exhortation from the Greco-Roman world within Valentinianism -- Two schools and the call to reconciliation : literary and social aspects of moral exhortation in the Interpretation of knowledge -- Existing in error : literary and social aspects of moral exhortation in the Gospel of truth -- Conclusion.…”
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The story of civilization. by Durant, Will, 1885-1981

Table of Contents: “…Caesar and Christ, a history of Roman civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to A.D. 325.--4. …”

The reception of Bodin /

Table of Contents: “…Braun -- The reception of Bodin in the Holy Roman Empire and the making of the territorial state / Robert von Friedeburg -- Sovereignty and reason of state : Bodin, Botero, Richelieu and Hobbes / Luc Foisneau -- The Italian "readers" of Bodin, 17th-18th centuries : readers of Bodin in Italy, from Albergati to Filangieri / Vittor Ivo Comparato -- The Italian "readers" of Bodin, 17th-18th centuries : the Italian "readers" out of Italy-Alberico Gentili (1522-1608) / Diego Quaglioni -- Bodin in the English Revolution / Glenn Burgess.…”
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