Stalin's wars from World War to Cold War, 1939-1953 / by Roberts, Geoffrey, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Stalin at war -- Unholy alliance : Stalin's pact with Hitler -- Grand illusions : Stalin and 22 June 1941 -- War of annihilation : Stalin versus Hitler -- Victory at Stalingrad and Kursk : Stalin and his generals -- The politics of war : Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt -- Triumph and tragedy : Stalin's year of victories -- Liberation, conquest, revolution : Stalin's aims in Germany and Eastern Europe -- Last battles : Stalin, Truman and the end of the Second World War -- The lost peace : Stalin and the origins of the Cold War -- Generalissimo at home : the domestic context of Stalin's postwar foreign policy -- Cold War confrontations : Stalin embattled -- Conclusion : Stalin in the court of history.…”
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Stolen childhood slave youth in nineteenth-century America / by King, Wilma, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…In the beginning : the transatlantic trade in children of African descent -- "You know I am one man that do love my children" : slave children and youth in the family and community -- "Us ain't never idle" : the work of enslaved children and youth -- "When day is done" : the play and leisure activities of enslaved children and youth -- "Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave" : temporal and spiritual education -- "What has ever become of my presus little girl" : the traumas and tragedies of slave children and youth -- "Free at last" : the quest for freedom -- "There's a better day a-coming" : the transition from slavery to freedom.…”
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Stalin's wars from World War to Cold War, 1939-1953 / by Roberts, Geoffrey, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Stalin at war -- Unholy alliance : Stalin's pact with Hitler -- Grand illusions : Stalin and 22 June 1941 -- War of annihilation : Stalin versus Hitler -- Victory at Stalingrad and Kursk : Stalin and his generals -- The politics of war : Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt -- Triumph and tragedy : Stalin's year of victories -- Liberation, conquest, revolution : Stalin's aims in Germany and Eastern Europe -- Last battles : Stalin, Truman and the end of the Second World War -- The lost peace : Stalin and the origins of the Cold War -- Generalissimo at home : the domestic context of Stalin's postwar foreign policy -- Cold War confrontations : Stalin embattled -- Conclusion : Stalin in the court of history.…”
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Action, art, history engagements with Arthur C. Danto /

Table of Contents: “…Danto -- Danto's action / Donald Davidson -- Response -- Crossing paths / Stanley Cavell -- Response -- For the birds/against the birds: the modernist narratives of Danto and Adorno (and Cage) / Lydia Goehr -- Response -- Photoshop, or, Unhanding art / Gregg Horowitz -- Response -- At the doom of modernism: art and art theory in competition / Hans Belting -- Response -- The sell-by date / Daniel Herwitz -- Response -- Danto on Tansey: the possibilities of appearance / Michael Kelly -- Response -- Danto, history, and the tragedy of human existence / Frank R. Ankersmit -- Response -- History and the sciences / Philip Kitcher and Daniel Immerwahr -- Response.…”
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New stories from the Southwest

Table of Contents: “…Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941 / Alan Cheuse -- The secret heart of Christ / Matt Clark -- Cowboys and Indians / Lorien Crow -- Together we are lost / Kathleen de Azevedo -- Hermano / Alan Elyshevitz -- Looking for eight / Marcela Fuentes -- Dead man's nail / Dennis Fulgoni -- Food stamp / Anna Green -- Guadalupe and the taxman / Donald Lucio Hurd -- At the Powwow Hotel / Toni Jensen -- The fifth daughter / Charles Kemnitz -- What I never said / Elmo Lum -- A tragedy with pigs / Tom McWhorter -- Old Border Road / S.G. …”
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Sound figures of modernity German music and philosophy /

Table of Contents: “…Schelling on the origin of music and tragedy / David Farrell Krell -- The world as will and music : Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of music / Ludger Lütkehaus -- The ring as deconstruction of modernity : reading Wagner with Benjamin / Samuel Weber -- Nietzsche and the problem of life-affirming content in music / Margaret Moore and Rebekah Pryor Paré -- Bloch's dream, music's traces / Gerhard Richter -- Dissonance and aesthetic totality : Adorno reads Schönberg / Beatrice Hanssen -- Thomas Mann : pro and contra Adorno / Hans Rudolf Vaget -- The dialectical thinker as composer : Hanns Eisler's philosophical reflections on music / Albrecht Betz -- Double mimesis : Georg Lukács's philosophy of music / Jost Hermand.…”
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The Blackwell guide to aesthetics

Table of Contents: “…Thomasson -- Evaluating art / Alan Goldman -- Interpretation in aesthetics / Laurent Stern -- Art and the moral realm / Noël Carroll -- Beauty and the critic's judgment : remapping aesthetics / Mary Mothersill -- The philosophy of taste : thoughts on the idea / Ted Cohen -- The emotions in art / Jenefer Robinson -- The philosophy of literature : pleasure restored / Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen -- The philosophy of the visual arts : perceiving paintings / Joseph Margolis -- The philosophy of the movies : cinematic narration / Berys Gaut -- The philosophy of music : formalism and beyond / Philip Alperson -- The philosophy of dance : bodies in motion, bodies at rest / Francis Sparshott -- Tragedy / Susan Feagin -- The aesthetics of nature and the environment / Donald W. …”
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Crises in Russia contemporary management policy and practice from a historical perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Crisis management and mass media in Russia: following the historical perspectives -- Institutional framework and governance model of the Russia crisis policy: disaster focus -- Managing alleviation of the 1995 Neftegorsk earthquake disaster -- Managing the ecological disaster in the town of Karabash -- Communicating tragedy and values through mass media during crises: the lessons of submarine accidents in Russia -- Social security policy for the Chernobyl clean-up and rescue workers: crisis chronology and lessons -- Institutional issues and the management of the creeping crisis in the Kabardina and Balkaria Republic of Russia -- Political and institutional factors of Russian banking crisis 2004 -- Vulnerability and crisis development: lessons from Russia and other emerging economies -- Conclusion: crisis management policy in transitional societies: beyond the Russia experience.…”
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Crises in Russia contemporary management policy and practice from a historical perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Crisis management and mass media in Russia: following the historical perspectives -- Institutional framework and governance model of the Russia crisis policy: disaster focus -- Managing alleviation of the 1995 Neftegorsk earthquake disaster -- Managing the ecological disaster in the town of Karabash -- Communicating tragedy and values through mass media during crises: the lessons of submarine accidents in Russia -- Social security policy for the Chernobyl clean-up and rescue workers: crisis chronology and lessons -- Institutional issues and the management of the creeping crisis in the Kabardina and Balkaria Republic of Russia -- Political and institutional factors of Russian banking crisis 2004 -- Vulnerability and crisis development: lessons from Russia and other emerging economies -- Conclusion: crisis management policy in transitional societies: beyond the Russia experience.…”
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Tocqueville the Ancien R�egime and the French Revolution / by Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859

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The Nibelungenlied Today : Its Substance, Essence, and Significance / by Mueller, Werner A. (Werner Achilles), 1903-1999

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Action, art, history engagements with Arthur C. Danto /

Table of Contents: “…Danto -- Danto's action / Donald Davidson -- Response -- Crossing paths / Stanley Cavell -- Response -- For the birds/against the birds: the modernist narratives of Danto and Adorno (and Cage) / Lydia Goehr -- Response -- Photoshop, or, Unhanding art / Gregg Horowitz -- Response -- At the doom of modernism: art and art theory in competition / Hans Belting -- Response -- The sell-by date / Daniel Herwitz -- Response -- Danto on Tansey: the possibilities of appearance / Michael Kelly -- Response -- Danto, history, and the tragedy of human existence / Frank R. Ankersmit -- Response -- History and the sciences / Philip Kitcher and Daniel Immerwahr -- Response.…”
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New stories from the Southwest

Table of Contents: “…Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941 / Alan Cheuse -- The secret heart of Christ / Matt Clark -- Cowboys and Indians / Lorien Crow -- Together we are lost / Kathleen de Azevedo -- Hermano / Alan Elyshevitz -- Looking for eight / Marcela Fuentes -- Dead man's nail / Dennis Fulgoni -- Food stamp / Anna Green -- Guadalupe and the taxman / Donald Lucio Hurd -- At the Powwow Hotel / Toni Jensen -- The fifth daughter / Charles Kemnitz -- What I never said / Elmo Lum -- A tragedy with pigs / Tom McWhorter -- Old Border Road / S.G. …”
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Sound figures of modernity German music and philosophy /

Table of Contents: “…Schelling on the origin of music and tragedy / David Farrell Krell -- The world as will and music : Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of music / Ludger Lütkehaus -- The ring as deconstruction of modernity : reading Wagner with Benjamin / Samuel Weber -- Nietzsche and the problem of life-affirming content in music / Margaret Moore and Rebekah Pryor Paré -- Bloch's dream, music's traces / Gerhard Richter -- Dissonance and aesthetic totality : Adorno reads Schönberg / Beatrice Hanssen -- Thomas Mann : pro and contra Adorno / Hans Rudolf Vaget -- The dialectical thinker as composer : Hanns Eisler's philosophical reflections on music / Albrecht Betz -- Double mimesis : Georg Lukács's philosophy of music / Jost Hermand.…”
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The Blackwell guide to aesthetics

Table of Contents: “…Thomasson -- Evaluating art / Alan Goldman -- Interpretation in aesthetics / Laurent Stern -- Art and the moral realm / Noël Carroll -- Beauty and the critic's judgment : remapping aesthetics / Mary Mothersill -- The philosophy of taste : thoughts on the idea / Ted Cohen -- The emotions in art / Jenefer Robinson -- The philosophy of literature : pleasure restored / Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen -- The philosophy of the visual arts : perceiving paintings / Joseph Margolis -- The philosophy of the movies : cinematic narration / Berys Gaut -- The philosophy of music : formalism and beyond / Philip Alperson -- The philosophy of dance : bodies in motion, bodies at rest / Francis Sparshott -- Tragedy / Susan Feagin -- The aesthetics of nature and the environment / Donald W. …”
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Tocqueville the Ancien R�egime and the French Revolution / by Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859

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The Nibelungenlied Today : Its Substance, Essence, and Significance / by Mueller, Werner A. (Werner Achilles), 1903-1999

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Challenge accepted a Finnish immigrant response to industrial America in Michigan's copper country / by Kaunonen, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Finnish immigration and settlement in a Hancock, Michigan neighborhood -- Finnish immigrant cultural organizations and the "Finn Hall" -- Finnish immigrant socialist-unionists in Hancock -- The early existence of the Työmies Publishing Company, 1904-09 -- The Työmies Publishing Company reaches maturity, 1910-1913 -- The 1913-14 copper country strike -- Gun hounds, scabs, and tragedy -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Työmies Publishing Company staff and contributors, 1909 -- Appendix 2: Työmies Publishing Company interior use of space, 1913 -- Appendix 3: Copper territory strikers' march, 1913 -- Appendix 4: Työmies Publishing Company's composite list of Italian Hall deceased, 1913.…”
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Challenge accepted a Finnish immigrant response to industrial America in Michigan's copper country / by Kaunonen, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Finnish immigration and settlement in a Hancock, Michigan neighborhood -- Finnish immigrant cultural organizations and the "Finn Hall" -- Finnish immigrant socialist-unionists in Hancock -- The early existence of the Työmies Publishing Company, 1904-09 -- The Työmies Publishing Company reaches maturity, 1910-1913 -- The 1913-14 copper country strike -- Gun hounds, scabs, and tragedy -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Työmies Publishing Company staff and contributors, 1909 -- Appendix 2: Työmies Publishing Company interior use of space, 1913 -- Appendix 3: Copper territory strikers' march, 1913 -- Appendix 4: Työmies Publishing Company's composite list of Italian Hall deceased, 1913.…”
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Justice and self-interest two fundamental motives / by Lerner, Melvin J., 1929-

Table of Contents: “…Bringing it closer to home: justice in another 'American tragedy'; 10. Emotional aftereffects: some negative consequences and thoughts on how to avoid them.…”
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