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The Copts and the West, 1439-1822 the European discovery of the Egyptian church / by Hamilton, Alastair, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…An ancient church -- Muslim domination -- The Council of Florence -- The first Jesuit mission -- New approaches -- Towards a Coptic Catholic Church -- The first steps -- Confessional clashes I -- Confessional clashes II -- Jansenists and Jesuits -- Protestants and the Enlightenment -- Athanasius Kircher and his shadow -- Grammars, dictionaries, and dialects -- Manuscript collecting -- Biblical studies.…”
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Out of the blue September 11 and the novel / by Versluys, Kristiaan

Table of Contents: “…American melancholia : Don DeLillo's Falling man -- Art Spiegelman's In the shadow of no towers : the politics of trauma -- A rose is not a rose is not a rose : history and language in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely loud and incredibly close -- Exorcising the ghost : irony and spectralization in Frederic Beigbeder's Windows on the world -- September 11 and the other.…”
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Rainbow Bridge / by Hassell, Hank, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…The Rainbow Trail -- The story in the rocks: how Rainbow Bridge came to be -- Navajo mountain religion: Rainbow Bridge through Indian eyes -- From shadow into light: the discovery of Rainbow Bridge -- "Not for many eyes to see": early-day tourism in Rainbow Bridge country -- Echo Park, and beyond -- The Sierra Club goes to war -- Reprise and reflection.…”
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Producing desire changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 / by Zeʼevi, Dror, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The body sexual: medicine and physiognomy -- Regulating desire: sharīʻa and kanun -- Morality wars: orthodoxy, Sufism, and beardless youths -- Dream interpretation and the unconscious -- Boys in the hood: shadow theater as a sexual counter-script -- The view from without: sexuality in travel accounts -- Conclusion: modernity and sexual discourse -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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J.D. Bernal the sage of science / by Brown, Andrew, 1950 Aug. 12-

Table of Contents: “…A long way to go -- Cambridge undergraduate -- Bohemian crystallographer -- Science fantasy -- The new kingdom -- Soviet pilgrims -- The shadow of the hawk's wings -- The entertainment of the scientist -- Scientist at war -- Bombing strategy -- Combined operations -- Overlord -- Lessons of war -- Rebuilding -- Central dogma -- Peace at any price? …”
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The Copts and the West, 1439-1822 the European discovery of the Egyptian church / by Hamilton, Alastair, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…An ancient church -- Muslim domination -- The Council of Florence -- The first Jesuit mission -- New approaches -- Towards a Coptic Catholic Church -- The first steps -- Confessional clashes I -- Confessional clashes II -- Jansenists and Jesuits -- Protestants and the Enlightenment -- Athanasius Kircher and his shadow -- Grammars, dictionaries, and dialects -- Manuscript collecting -- Biblical studies.…”
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Out of the blue September 11 and the novel / by Versluys, Kristiaan

Table of Contents: “…American melancholia : Don DeLillo's Falling man -- Art Spiegelman's In the shadow of no towers : the politics of trauma -- A rose is not a rose is not a rose : history and language in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely loud and incredibly close -- Exorcising the ghost : irony and spectralization in Frederic Beigbeder's Windows on the world -- September 11 and the other.…”
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Rainbow Bridge / by Hassell, Hank, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…The Rainbow Trail -- The story in the rocks: how Rainbow Bridge came to be -- Navajo mountain religion: Rainbow Bridge through Indian eyes -- From shadow into light: the discovery of Rainbow Bridge -- "Not for many eyes to see": early-day tourism in Rainbow Bridge country -- Echo Park, and beyond -- The Sierra Club goes to war -- Reprise and reflection.…”
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Bittersweet Europe : Albanian and Georgian discourses on Europe, 1878-2008 / by Brisku, Adrian

Table of Contents: “…Nationhood and empire: a tale of historical and ethno-cultural similarities and differences -- From empire to independence: Europe as the future -- The nation-state in imperial/supranational shadow: the apparent decline of Europe -- Communist experiences in a divided Europe -- 'Return to Europe', 'closer to Europe': post-communist expectations -- Epilogue: is 'Europe' still the future?…”
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Bittersweet Europe : Albanian and Georgian discourses on Europe, 1878-2008 / by Brisku, Adrian

Table of Contents: “…Nationhood and empire: a tale of historical and ethno-cultural similarities and differences -- From empire to independence: Europe as the future -- The nation-state in imperial/supranational shadow: the apparent decline of Europe -- Communist experiences in a divided Europe -- 'Return to Europe', 'closer to Europe': post-communist expectations -- Epilogue: is 'Europe' still the future?…”
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Cross on the star of David the Christian world in Israel's foreign policy, 1948-1967 / by Bialer, Uri

Table of Contents: “…The sense of threat emerges -- The struggle for Jerusalem : the papal connection -- At the gates of the Vatican -- Theology and diplomacy -- Missionary activity -- Goat and chicken diplomacy : Israel and its Christian communities -- Israel and the question of the Russian ecclesiastical assets -- Land in the shadow of the cross : German Lutheran, Catholic, and Greek Orthodox property in Israel -- Epilogue: on viewing the enemy and bridge building.…”
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Condom nation the U.S. government's sex education campaign from World War I to the Internet / by Lord, Alexandra M.

Table of Contents: “…In bed with the Fed -- The people's war, 1918-1926 -- Battling the mad dog, 1927-1940 -- Lifting the shadow from the land, 1941-1945 -- A sense of false security, 1946-1959 -- Making love, not babies or diseases, 1960-1980 -- Telling it like it is, 1981-1988 -- Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder, 1989-2008.…”
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A mathematical nature walk by Adam, John A.

Table of Contents: “…. -- In the "playground" -- In the garden -- In the neighborhood -- In the shadows -- In the sky -- In the nest -- In (or on) the water -- In the forest -- In the national park -- In the night sky -- At the end ... -- Appendix 1: A very short glossary of mathematical terms and functions -- Appendix 2: Answers to questions 1-15 -- Appendix 3: Newton's law of cooling -- Appendix 4: More mathematical patterns in nature.…”
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Trading secrets : spies and intelligence in an age of terror / by Huband, Mark

Table of Contents: “…"Hail the Chief" -- 12. Shadow wars -- Epilogue.…”
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Condom nation the U.S. government's sex education campaign from World War I to the Internet / by Lord, Alexandra M.

Table of Contents: “…In bed with the Fed -- The people's war, 1918-1926 -- Battling the mad dog, 1927-1940 -- Lifting the shadow from the land, 1941-1945 -- A sense of false security, 1946-1959 -- Making love, not babies or diseases, 1960-1980 -- Telling it like it is, 1981-1988 -- Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder, 1989-2008.…”
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A mathematical nature walk by Adam, John A.

Table of Contents: “…. -- In the "playground" -- In the garden -- In the neighborhood -- In the shadows -- In the sky -- In the nest -- In (or on) the water -- In the forest -- In the national park -- In the night sky -- At the end ... -- Appendix 1: A very short glossary of mathematical terms and functions -- Appendix 2: Answers to questions 1-15 -- Appendix 3: Newton's law of cooling -- Appendix 4: More mathematical patterns in nature.…”
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Trading secrets : spies and intelligence in an age of terror / by Huband, Mark

Table of Contents: “…"Hail the Chief" -- 12. Shadow wars -- Epilogue.…”
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Decentering Rushdie : Cosmopolitanism and the Indian Novel in English / by Jani, Pranav, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The multiple cosmopolitanisms of the Indian novel in English -- Dawn of freedom : namak-halaal cosmopolitanisms in A time to be happy and The coffer dams -- Twilight years : women, nation, and interiority in The day in shadow and Clear light of day -- After midnight : class and nation in Midnight's children and Rich like us -- "Naaley. …”
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The Scholar and the State : Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China / by Ge, Liangyan

Table of Contents: “…A rugged partnership: the intellectual elite and the imperial state -- The romance of the three kingdoms: the Mencian view of political sovereignty -- The scholar-lover in erotic fiction: a power game of selection -- The scholars: trudging out of a textual swamp -- The stone in dream of the red chamber: unfit to repair the azure sky -- Coda: Out of the imperial shadow.…”
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Writing Beloveds : Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender / by Feng, Aileen A.

Table of Contents: “…Women of stone : gender and politics in the Petrarchan world -- In Laura's shadow : gendered dialogues and humanist Petrarchism in the fifteenth century -- Laura speaks : sisterhood, amicitia, and marital love in the female Latin Petrarchist writings of the fifteenth century -- Theorizing gender : nation building and female mythology in Ciceronian quarrel -- Politicizing gender : Bembo's private and public Petrarchism.…”
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