Search Results - "The Epilogue"

Charles Darwin the concise story of an extraordinary man / by Berra, Tim M., 1943-

Table of Contents: “…An admirable pedigree -- A privileged youth -- Exploration -- Discovery -- Maturity -- A proposal -- Life at down house -- Correspondence -- Daily routine -- Taxonomy and selection -- Alfred Russel Wallace and The Origin -- What Darwin said -- Darwin's bulldog -- A man of enlarged curiosity -- Darwin's death -- Epilogue.…”
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Princes of cotton four diaries of young men in the South, 1848-1860 /

Table of Contents: “…John Dixon -- Henry Hughes -- John Albert Feaster Coleman -- Henry Craft -- Epilogue.…”
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Inventing Jewish ritual by Ochs, Vanessa L.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : becoming a ritual innovator -- Democracy, open access, and Jewish feminism -- The narrative approach -- Material culture : new rituals and ritual objects -- Stretched by innovation -- Change : resisting and acclimating -- Case study 1 : Miriam's tambourine -- Case study 2 : the Holocaust Torah -- Case study 3 : the wedding booklet -- Epilogue : inheriting invented traditions.…”
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Lost illusions the politics of publishing in nineteenth-century France / by Haynes, Christine

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the dawn of the information marketplace -- The birth of the publisher -- The battle between corporatists and liberals -- Laurent-Antoine Pagnerre and the publishing coterie -- The Cercle de la librairie -- Louis Hachette and the defense of the publisher -- The divorce between state and market -- Epilogue : the effects of liberalization.…”
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The rake's progress by Fisher, Burton D.

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Bitter knowledge learning Socratic lessons of disillusion and renewal / by Eisele, Thomas D., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Socrates recounts his conversations in the Protagoras -- The poverty of Socratic questioning : asking and answering in the Meno -- The labor of Socratic inquiry : learning in the Theaetetus to give an account of oneself -- Learning to find ourselves at a loss : how does philosophy begin? -- Epilogue: Realities of the classroom.…”
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Lost bodies prostitution and masculinity in Chinese fiction / by Zamperini, Paola

Table of Contents: “…Paradise lost : the fantastic childhood of a courtesan to be -- Lost and found : the socialization of the prostituted body -- Family matters : patterns of solidarity and discord in the brothel -- Nobody's son : prostitution and the disintegration of the family romance -- Taking flight poverty, sickness, and death -- Epilogue : back to the future : nostalgia and prostitution.…”
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Oprah the gospel of an icon / by Lofton, Kathryn

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Practicing purchase : the prosperity gospel of a spiritual capitalism -- Celebrity spirit : the incorporation of your best life -- Diverting conversions : the makeover as social rite -- Preacher queen : the race and gender of America's confessor -- Reading religiously : the reformations of Oprah's Book Club -- Missionary gift : the globalization of inspiration -- Conclusion -- Epilogue : political spirituality, or the Oprahfication of Obama.…”
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Laboratories of faith mesmerism, spiritism, and occultism in modern France / by Monroe, John Warne, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Interpreting the tables tournantes, 1853-1856 -- Mesmerism and the challenge of spiritualism, 1853-1859 -- The invention and development of spiritism, 1857-1869 -- Spiritism on trial, 1870-1880 -- Confronting the multivalent self, 1880-1914 -- Epilogue : the emergence of a new heterodoxy.…”
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Communities of the converted Ukrainians and global evangelism / by Wanner, Catherine

Table of Contents: “…Spiritual seekers in a secularizing state, 1905-1941 -- Enlightening the faithful, 1941-1988 -- The rewards of suffering : the last Soviet refugees -- Missionizing, converting, and remaking the moral self -- God is love : new bonds, new communities -- Ambassadors of God -- Epilogue : religion as portal to the world.…”
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Reimagining politics after the Terror the republican origins of French liberalism / by Jainchill, Andrew J. S.

Table of Contents: “…: debate on expansion, 1794-99 -- Liberal authoritarianism and the Constitution of the Year VIII -- Liberal republicanism and dissent against Bonaparte -- Epilogue : the fate of French liberal republicanism.…”
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A splurch in the kisser the movies of Blake Edwards / by Wasson, Sam

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: Breaking in, 1922-1955 -- Blake begins, 1955-1959 -- Blake builds, 1959-1962 -- Blake blossoms, 1963-1968 -- Blake burns, 1968-1974 -- Panther pictures (Blake banks) -- Blake booms, 1979-1982 -- Blake breaks, 1983-1988 -- Blake bows, 1988-1991 -- Epilogue: Making out, October 24, 1993.…”
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Post-Soviet social neoliberalism, social modernity, biopolitics / by Collier, Stephen J.

Table of Contents: “…-- Soviet social modernity -- The birth of Soviet biopolitics -- City-building -- City-building in Belaya Kalitva -- Consolidation, stagnation, breakup -- Neoliberalism and social modernity -- Adjustment problems -- Budgets and biopolitics : on substantive provisioning and formal -- Rationalization -- The intransigence of things -- Epilogue : an ineffective controversy.…”
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Denman Ross and American design theory by Frank, Marie Ann

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Formative years -- The theory of pure design -- Science, psychology, and formalist aesthetics -- Geometry, pure design, and dynamic symmetry -- Ross's course at Harvard -- Teaching the theory of pure design : art educators, artisans, and the public -- Epilogue -- Appendix. Letter from Denman Waldo Ross to John Walker.…”
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What is a Palestinian state worth? by Nusseibeh, Sari

Table of Contents: “…-- How can we move the world? -- Epilogue: what should we educate for? -- Notes.…”
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Inside and outside liquidity by Holmström, Bengt

Table of Contents: “…-- Financial muscle and overhoarding of liquidity -- Specialized inputs and secondary markets -- Epilogue: summary and concluding thoughts on the subprime crisis.…”
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The railroad that never was Vanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad / by Harwood, Herbert H.

Table of Contents: “…-- Vanderbilt takes charge -- The spoilers -- The syndicate forms -- A rugged route -- Building a mountain railroad -- The second front -- Cooler heads and colder feet emerge -- A summer cruise on the Hudson -- Not quite dead -- The end -- Railroad to superhighway, more or less-- -- Epilogue : ghost hunting along the South Penn.…”
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In the lion's den an eyewitness account of Washington's battle with Syria / by Tabler, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…The Arab world's twilight zone -- The great unraveling -- Paradise lost -- Pressure yields results -- The enemy of my enemy is my friend -- No voice louder than the cry of battle -- Fire in the orchard -- Weathering the storm -- Epilogue : the expectations gap.…”
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Population, family and society in pre-modern Japan collected papers of Akira Hayami. by Hayami, Akira

Table of Contents: “…Family and household -- pt. 5. Epilogue.…”
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An uncommon man the life & times of Senator Claiborne Pell / by Miller, G. Wayne

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : A cold winter day -- The most unlikely candidate -- Only child -- Land and sea -- Vision -- History making -- Heart and soul -- Foreign relations -- Life after -- Epilogue : The shade of a copper beech.…”
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