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Witchcraft and magic in the Nordic Middle Ages by Mitchell, Stephen A. (Stephen Arthur), 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Witchcraft and the past -- Magic and witchcraft in daily life -- Narrating magic, sorcery, and witchcraft -- Medieval mythologies -- Witchcraft, magic, and the law -- Witchcraft, sorcery, and gender -- Epilogue: the medieval legacy.…”
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The archaeology of violence indeterdisciplinary approaches /

Table of Contents: “…Sanctified violence -- section 4. Epilogue.…”
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Slavery and American economic development by Wright, Gavin

Table of Contents: “…-- Slavery, geography, and commerce -- Property and progress in antebellum America -- Property rights, productivity, and slavery -- Epilogue : the legacy of slavery.…”
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The oracle and the curse a poetics of justice from the Revolution to the Civil War / by Smith, Caleb, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The poetics of Justice -- Oracles of Law -- Oracles of God -- Blasphemy "at the court of Hell" -- Evil Speaking, "a bridle for the unbridled tongue" -- The Curse of Slavery -- Words of Fire -- Epilogue: The Curse at Sea.…”
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The pulpit and the press in Reformation Italy by Michelson, Emily

Table of Contents: “…Where sermons mattered -- Mendicants -- Sermons and diocesan reform -- Treatises -- The generation after Trent -- Epilogue: sermons and their reception.…”
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Sovereignty and its other toward the dejustification of violence / by Vardoulakis, Dimitris

Table of Contents: “…Democracy and its other: biopolitical sovereignty -- Epilogue: a relational ontology of the political.…”
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Sites and politics of religious diversity in southern Europe the best of all gods /

Table of Contents: “…(Re)claiming space -- pt. 3. An epilogue.…”
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How literature plays with the brain the neuroscience of reading and art / by Armstrong, Paul B., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- The brain and aesthetic experience -- How the brain learns to read and the play of harmony and dissonance -- The neuroscience of the hermeneutic circle -- The temporality of reading and the de-centered brain -- The social brain and the paradox of the alter ego -- Epilogue.…”
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Walking on fire Haitian women's stories of survival and resistance / by Bell, Beverly, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Resistance in survival -- Resistance as expression -- Resistance for political and economic change -- Resistance for gender justice -- Resistance transforming power -- Epilogue: resistance as solidarity.…”
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After anarchy legitimacy and power in the United Nations Security Council / by Hurd, Ian

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A theory of legitimacy -- Legitimacy, rationality, and power -- San Francisco, 1945 -- Blue helmets and white trucks -- Libya and the sanctions -- Legitimacy and sovereignty -- Epilogue.…”
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Fireflies, honey, and silk by Waldbauer, Gilbert

Table of Contents: “…Insects people like -- The silk we wear -- Dyeing the cloth -- Baubles, bracelets, and anklets -- Candles, shellac, and sealing wax -- Paper and ink -- Butterflies in your tummy -- Satisfying the sweet tooth -- Cures and nostrums -- Insect pets and performers -- Epilogue : the ecological context.…”
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How women got their curves and other just-so stories evolutionary enigmas / by Barash, David P.

Table of Contents: “…-- Invisible ovulation -- Breasts and other curves -- The enigmatic orgasm -- The menopause mystery -- Epilogue: The lure of the Limpopo.…”
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Recognizing Persius by Reckford, Kenneth J., 1933-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : in search of Persius -- Performing privately -- Seeking integrity -- Exploring freedom -- Life, death, and art -- Epilogue : from Persius to Juvenal.…”
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From villain to hero Odysseus in ancient thought / by Montiglio, Silvia, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…": Antisthenes' defense of an abused hero -- Plato's Odysseus: a soldier in the soul -- Yearning for excellence: Odysseus in cynic and stoic thought -- King, friend, and flatterer: Odysseus in epicureanism and beyond -- Between contemplation and action -- Epilogue: Odysseus' virtus and thirst for knowledge in the Renaissance.…”
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Washed in blood male sacrifice, trauma, and the cinema / by King, Claire Sisco

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Reel presence, sacrifice, and the cinema -- Unhinged heroes and alpha traumas -- Free falls in the American nineties -- Remakes, resurrections, and sacrificial returns -- Epilogue: big screen memories.…”
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Friendship as a way of life Foucault, AIDS, and the politics of shared estrangement / by Roach, Tom

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : between friends -- A letter and its implications -- An ethics of discomfort -- Ontology matters -- Labors of love : biopower, AIDS, and the buddy system -- Common sense and a politics of shared estrangement -- Epilogue : whatever friends.…”
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Burdens of proof cryptographic culture and evidence law in the age of electronic documents / by Blanchette, Jean-François

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Communication in the presence of adversaries -- On the brink of a revolution -- The equivalent of a written signature -- Written proof -- Paper and state -- The Cryptographic imagination -- Epilogue.…”
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Leadership responsibility ethical and organizational considerations / by Robinson, Simon, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…-- Moral leadership -- Virtuous leadership -- Taking responsibility -- Dirty hands -- Leadership and religion -- Fat cats and dirty rats: leadership in business -- Leadership and higher education -- Epilogue: are we still the good guys?.…”
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The great Manchurian plague of 1910-1911 the geopolitics of an epidemic disease / by Summers, William C.

Table of Contents: “…Plague comes to Manchuria -- The Manchurian question -- The plague -- The international plague conference and its aftermath -- The plague's origin : disease ecology -- Plague and politics -- Epilogue : a century later.…”
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Toni Morrison an ethical poetics / by Christiansë, Yvette

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- From witnessing to death dealing: on speaking of and for the dead -- Burnt offerings: law and sacrifice -- Time out of joint: the temporal logic of Morrison's modernist apocalyptics -- Beginning and ending, part one: old languages/new bodies -- Beginnings and endings, part two: the poetics of similitude and disavowal at utopia's gates -- Epilogue.…”
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