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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects /

Table of Contents: “…With the world, or bound to face the sky: the postures of the wolf-child of Hesse / Karl Steel -- Animals and the medieval culture of empire / Sharon Kinoshita -- The floral and the human / Peggy McCracken -- Exemplary rocks / Kellie Robertson -- Mineral virtue / Valerie Allen -- You are here: a manifesto / Eileen A. …”
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Cosmopolitan commons sharing resources and risks across borders /

Table of Contents: “…Edwards -- Breeding Europe: crop diversity, gene banks, and commoners / Tiago Saraiva -- Under a common acid sky: negotiating transboundary air pollution in Europe / Arne Kaijser -- Part III: Putting it all together: temporal layering and iInterlinking of cosmopolitan commons in nature's spaces -- Changing technology, changing commons: freight, fish and oil in the North Sea / H�akon With Andersen -- One touch of nature makes the whole world kin: ships, fish, phenol and the Rhine, 1815-2000 / Nil Disco -- Conclusions / Nil Disco and Eda Kranakis.…”
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Cosmopolitan commons sharing resources and risks across borders /

Table of Contents: “…Edwards -- Breeding Europe: crop diversity, gene banks, and commoners / Tiago Saraiva -- Under a common acid sky: negotiating transboundary air pollution in Europe / Arne Kaijser -- Part III: Putting it all together: temporal layering and iInterlinking of cosmopolitan commons in nature's spaces -- Changing technology, changing commons: freight, fish and oil in the North Sea / H�akon With Andersen -- One touch of nature makes the whole world kin: ships, fish, phenol and the Rhine, 1815-2000 / Nil Disco -- Conclusions / Nil Disco and Eda Kranakis.…”
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Social dimensions of climate change equity and vulnerability in a warming world /

Table of Contents: “…Equity and vulnerability in a warming world : introduction and overview / Robin Mearns and Andrew Norton -- Vulnerability does not fall from the sky : toward multiscale, pro-poor climate policy / Jesse Ribot -- Implications of climate change for armed conflict / Halvard Buhaug, Nils Petter Gleditsch, and Ole Magnus Theisen -- Climate change and migration : emerging patterns in the developing world / Clionadh Raleigh and Lisa Jordan -- The gender dimensions of poverty and climate change adaptation / Justina Demetriades and Emily Esplen -- The role of indigenous knowledge in crafting adaptation and mitigation strategies for climate change in Latin America / Jakob Kronik and Dorte Verner -- Local institutions and adaptation to climate change / Arun Agrawal -- Climate change for agrarian societies in drylands : implications and future pathways / Simon Anderson, John Morton, and Camilla Toulmin -- Toward pro-poor adaptation to climate change in the urban centers of low- and middle-income countries / Caroline Moser and David Satterthwaite -- Social policies for adaptation to climate change / Rasmus Heltberg, Paul Bennett Siegel, and Steen Lau Jorgensen -- Seeing people through the trees and the carbon : mitigating and adapting to climate change without undermining rights and livelihoods / Andy White ... …”
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One man's music the life and times of Texas songwriter Vince Bell / by Bell, Vince

Table of Contents: “…Foreword by Kathleen Hudson -- Sorcerers' apprentice -- Look of the loner looking at it -- Sweat like a boxer -- Sinbad and the silver tooth -- Music where the words are the important part -- I'm not this way because I'm a musician, I'm a musician because I'm this way -- Secret mountain laboratory -- Six strings, no kick -- Three-day ride to the kitchen -- The songwriter -- Elastic plastic fork and pitiable paper plate -- Bermuda triangle -- Name unknown -- Rumor of my demise -- Room 933 -- If it was time for the musicians to call, it was time to go home and fix it -- Providence Street -- Even up on Misery Ave., they sometimes dance and sing -- Path of least regret -- Music school -- Edge of the world -- Monday for two years -- Keep your eyes in the sky -- Second Street -- Fate worse than death -- Wizard of odds -- Adrift in paradise -- Give chance a chance -- Prize for not working hard enough -- Phoenix -- Album of a lifetime -- The poetry in the prose -- Play like you practice -- Texas plates -- Say in your owndamnway -- The bottom line -- Live in Texas -- Rough old Texas hands.…”
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Jacob unexpected patriarch / by Zakovitch, Yair

Table of Contents: “…And behold, a stairway was set on the ground and its head reached to the sky: Jacobs dream at bethel -- Chapt. 4. It is not the practice in our place: wives and sons, a mixed blessing -- Chapt. 5. …”
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Social dimensions of climate change equity and vulnerability in a warming world /

Table of Contents: “…Equity and vulnerability in a warming world : introduction and overview / Robin Mearns and Andrew Norton -- Vulnerability does not fall from the sky : toward multiscale, pro-poor climate policy / Jesse Ribot -- Implications of climate change for armed conflict / Halvard Buhaug, Nils Petter Gleditsch, and Ole Magnus Theisen -- Climate change and migration : emerging patterns in the developing world / Clionadh Raleigh and Lisa Jordan -- The gender dimensions of poverty and climate change adaptation / Justina Demetriades and Emily Esplen -- The role of indigenous knowledge in crafting adaptation and mitigation strategies for climate change in Latin America / Jakob Kronik and Dorte Verner -- Local institutions and adaptation to climate change / Arun Agrawal -- Climate change for agrarian societies in drylands : implications and future pathways / Simon Anderson, John Morton, and Camilla Toulmin -- Toward pro-poor adaptation to climate change in the urban centers of low- and middle-income countries / Caroline Moser and David Satterthwaite -- Social policies for adaptation to climate change / Rasmus Heltberg, Paul Bennett Siegel, and Steen Lau Jorgensen -- Seeing people through the trees and the carbon : mitigating and adapting to climate change without undermining rights and livelihoods / Andy White ... …”
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One man's music the life and times of Texas songwriter Vince Bell / by Bell, Vince

Table of Contents: “…Foreword by Kathleen Hudson -- Sorcerers' apprentice -- Look of the loner looking at it -- Sweat like a boxer -- Sinbad and the silver tooth -- Music where the words are the important part -- I'm not this way because I'm a musician, I'm a musician because I'm this way -- Secret mountain laboratory -- Six strings, no kick -- Three-day ride to the kitchen -- The songwriter -- Elastic plastic fork and pitiable paper plate -- Bermuda triangle -- Name unknown -- Rumor of my demise -- Room 933 -- If it was time for the musicians to call, it was time to go home and fix it -- Providence Street -- Even up on Misery Ave., they sometimes dance and sing -- Path of least regret -- Music school -- Edge of the world -- Monday for two years -- Keep your eyes in the sky -- Second Street -- Fate worse than death -- Wizard of odds -- Adrift in paradise -- Give chance a chance -- Prize for not working hard enough -- Phoenix -- Album of a lifetime -- The poetry in the prose -- Play like you practice -- Texas plates -- Say in your owndamnway -- The bottom line -- Live in Texas -- Rough old Texas hands.…”
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Jacob unexpected patriarch / by Zakovitch, Yair

Table of Contents: “…And behold, a stairway was set on the ground and its head reached to the sky: Jacobs dream at bethel -- Chapt. 4. It is not the practice in our place: wives and sons, a mixed blessing -- Chapt. 5. …”
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The Dybbuk Century : The Jewish Play That Possessed the World /

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Myth, media, and culture in Star wars an anthology /

Table of Contents: “…/ Arthur Berger -- From Disneyland to Modesto: George Lucas and Walt Disney / Craig Svonkin -- May the Myth Be with You, Always: Archetypes, Mythic Elements and Aspects of Joseph Campbell's Heroic Monomyth in the Original Star Wars Trilogy / Leah Deyneka -- Not so long ago, not so far away: New Variations on Old Themes: Questioning Star Wars' Revival of Heroic Archetypes / Dan Rubey -- From Sky-Walking to Dark Knight of the Soul: George Lucas' Star Wars Turns to Tragic Drama / John C. …”
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Myth, media, and culture in Star wars an anthology /

Table of Contents: “…/ Arthur Berger -- From Disneyland to Modesto: George Lucas and Walt Disney / Craig Svonkin -- May the Myth Be with You, Always: Archetypes, Mythic Elements and Aspects of Joseph Campbell's Heroic Monomyth in the Original Star Wars Trilogy / Leah Deyneka -- Not so long ago, not so far away: New Variations on Old Themes: Questioning Star Wars' Revival of Heroic Archetypes / Dan Rubey -- From Sky-Walking to Dark Knight of the Soul: George Lucas' Star Wars Turns to Tragic Drama / John C. …”
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Sisters in Science : Conversations with Black Women Scientists on Race, Gender, and Their Passion for Science /

Table of Contents: “…Dixon : one of our own -- Elvira Doman : a class act -- Georgia Dunston : it's in my genes -- Evelyn Boyd Granville : destined to greater heights -- Shirley Ann Jackson : the sky is the limit -- Lynda M. Jordan : an unlikely scientist -- Shelia McClure : a woman's place -- Etheleen McGinnis-Hill : it's a good thing -- Jennie R. …”
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Sisters in Science : Conversations with Black Women Scientists on Race, Gender, and Their Passion for Science /

Table of Contents: “…Dixon : one of our own -- Elvira Doman : a class act -- Georgia Dunston : it's in my genes -- Evelyn Boyd Granville : destined to greater heights -- Shirley Ann Jackson : the sky is the limit -- Lynda M. Jordan : an unlikely scientist -- Shelia McClure : a woman's place -- Etheleen McGinnis-Hill : it's a good thing -- Jennie R. …”
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Fantastic realities 49 mind journeys and a trip to Stockholm / by Wilczek, Frank

Table of Contents: “…; Dreams of a final theory ; Shadows of the mind ; The inflationary universe ; Is the sky made from Pi? -- Big ideas. Quantum field theory ; Some basic aspects of fractional quantum numbers. -- Grand occasions. …”
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The Martians have landed! a history of media-driven panics and hoaxes / by Bartholomew, Robert E.

Table of Contents: “…The London Riot hoax -- Radio daze-the martian invasion broadcast -- The martians return -- Infamous disc jockey hoaxes -- Playing with fire: nuclear scares -- It came from the small screen-television -- "This just in-- " NBC frightens viewers -- "Look! up in the sky!" asteroid panic -- Pokemon panics and creepy crawley scares -- The "documentary" that fooled England -- Hurricane Katrina mythmaking -- Chicken little and the Bird Flu panic -- The Russians are coming! …”
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Jews in the East European borderlands essays in honor of John D. Klier /

Table of Contents: “…Violence and the migration of Ashkenazi Jews to Eastern Europe / Shaul Stampfer -- Uses and abuses: "pogrom" in the Anglo-American imagination, 1881 - 1919 / Sam Johnson -- Jews in the East European borderlands. Look! Up there in the sky: it's a vulture, it's a bat . . . It's a Jew. …”
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Fizzics : the science of bubbles, droplets, and foams / by Young, F. Ronald

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The Martians have landed! a history of media-driven panics and hoaxes / by Bartholomew, Robert E.

Table of Contents: “…The London Riot hoax -- Radio daze-the martian invasion broadcast -- The martians return -- Infamous disc jockey hoaxes -- Playing with fire: nuclear scares -- It came from the small screen-television -- "This just in-- " NBC frightens viewers -- "Look! up in the sky!" asteroid panic -- Pokemon panics and creepy crawley scares -- The "documentary" that fooled England -- Hurricane Katrina mythmaking -- Chicken little and the Bird Flu panic -- The Russians are coming! …”
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