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Imperial desire dissident sexualities and colonial literature /

Table of Contents: “…: adventure, homoeroticism, and divine order in Prester John / Maria Davidis -- Many lips will I kiss : the queer foreplay of "the east" in Russian aestheticism / Dennis Denisoff -- Sex/race wars on the frontier : homosexuality and colonialism in The golden notebook / Joseph A. …”
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Institutional games and the U.S. Supreme Court

Table of Contents: “…Strategic games with Congress and the states -- Statutory battles and constitutional wars : Congress and the Supreme Court / Andrew D. …”
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China's maritime boundaries in the South China Sea : historical and international law perspectives / by Li, Jinming, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…-- A critical review of research on the legal status of the dotted line in the South China Sea -- China's struggle for sovereignty over Xisha and Nansha Islands before and after the Second Sino-Japanese War -- China's dispute with the Philippines over the Nansha Islands : perspective of international law -- Sino-French border demarcation disputes and maritime boundary delimitation in the Gulf of Tonkin -- UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and the South China Sea disputes -- Latest developments in the South China Sea and China's responses -- Current situation in the South China Sea and Vietnamese policy.…”
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Catholics and politics the dynamic tension between faith and power /

Table of Contents: “…Streb and Brian Frederick -- Latino Catholics in U.S. politics / Adrian Pantoja, Matthew Barreto, and Richard Anderson -- Catholics and the federal government -- Catholics in congress : abortion and the emergence of the culture wars / William D'Antonio, Steven Tuch, and John Kenneth White -- Catholics and the Supreme Court : from the Catholic seat to the new majority / Barbara A. …”
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Southern political party activists patterns of conflict and change, 1991-2001 /

Table of Contents: “…Prysby -- Religion : culture wars in the new South / John A. Clark -- The continuing role of race in southern party organizations / Jay Barth -- Population movement and southern party activists / Laurence W. …”
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Themes in Latin American cinema a critical survey / by Richards, Keith John, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…A spectrum of criminality: gangsters, politicians and the military -- Ratas, ratones, rateros (Rodents) -- Perder es cuestión de método (The art of losing) -- Días de Santiago (Days of Santiago) -- Fratricide and neo-imperialism: twentieth-century conflicts. Fratricidal wars and imperialism -- Iluminados por el fuego (Blessed by fire) -- Mi mejor enemigo (My best enemy) -- Hamaca paraguaya (Paraguayan hammock) -- The poet in the city. …”
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Transition and justice : negotiating the terms of new beginnings in Africa /

Table of Contents: “…The Role of Refugee Aid in Shaping New Beginnings in Mauritania Marion Fresia 4 Conflicting Logics of Exceptionality: New Beginnings and the Problem of Police Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa Steffen Jensen 5 The 2011 Toilet Wars in South Africa: Justice and Transition between the Exceptional and the Everyday after Apartheid Steven Robins 6 New Law against an Old State: Land Restitution as a Transition to Justice in Post-Apartheid South Africa? …”
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Exploring grief : towards a sociology of sorrow /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: Towards a sociology of grief -- historical, cultural and social explorations of grief as an emotion; Part I Grief and history; 1 Grief in modern history: an ongoing evolution; 2 Diversity in human grieving: historical and cross-cultural perspectives; 3 The impact of the two world wars on cultures of grieving: grief in England, 1914-1980; Part II Grief and literature…”
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Economic Women Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Dalley and Jill Rappoport -- Gentry, gender, and the moral economy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in provincial England / Kathryn Gleadle -- Women, free trade, and Harriet Martineau's Dawn Island at the 1845 Anti-Corn Law League bazaar / Leslee Thorne-Murphy -- Sacrificial value : beyond the cash nexus in George Eliot's Romola / Ilana M. …”
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Economic Women : Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Dalley and Jill Rappoport -- Gentry, gender, and the moral economy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in provincial England / Kathryn Gleadle -- Women, free trade, and Harriet Martineau's Dawn Island at the 1845 Anti-Corn Law League bazaar / Leslee Thorne-Murphy -- Sacrificial value : beyond the cash nexus in George Eliot's Romola / Ilana M. …”
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The geography of American poverty is there a need for place-based policies? / by Partridge, Mark D.

Table of Contents: “…-- Characteristics of high and low poverty rate rural counties -- Changes in 1989-1999 rural poverty rates -- Rural regression findings -- Rural poverty and proximity to metro areas -- Case study : Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska -- Policy implications for fighting rural poverty -- Summary -- How to win the local poverty war -- Synopsis -- Policy recommendations.…”
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Meet me with your black drawers on my life in music / by Cheatham, Jeannie

Table of Contents: “…Arthur Reginald Riley -- Funerals -- The Reverend Uncle Frank, lessons on men, and finding Jesus -- The coming of the cold -- Summer heat -- Wrong direction -- The new house -- It's an ill wind that don't blow somebody some good -- Yellow cab to the red-light district -- Junkies and jazz -- World War II : let the good times roll -- Just get on the greyhound, girl -- The Evans exodus -- Jailhouse blues -- From hell to heaven blues -- Snowbound -- The song of the Colvinaires -- New baby blues -- A blizzard of birdshit -- The colors of many changes -- Triumph, tragedy, turmoil, and tenor players -- A little love song -- Little Mattie, big mama, and the beautiful Miss M -- The blues and the Buffalo scuffle -- Escape from Buffalo -- New York City, ditty-wah-ditty -- Fatback -- Bronx gulag and agoraphobia -- The light shineth in the darkness -- From hell to academia -- Welcome to Wisconsin -- On the move in Madison -- Movin' an' moanin', groovin' an' groanin' in Madison -- The way west -- Pipe dreamin' in the valley of smoke -- A standing O in San Diego -- Take it! …”
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The Greater Middle East in global politics social science perspectives on the changing geography of the world politics /

Table of Contents: “…Eisenstadt -- Iranian foreign policy since the Iranian Islamic Revolution : 1979-2006 / Eva Patricia Rakel -- The Middle East's democracy decit in comparative perspective / Mehran Kamrava -- The challenges of modernity : the case of political Islam / Mehdi Parvizi Amineh -- The Turkish political economy : globalization and regionalism / Nilgun Onder -- The Maghreb : social, political, and economic developments / Louisa Dris-Ait-Hamadouche and Yahia Zoubir -- From Soviet Republics to independent countries : challenges of transition in Central Asia / Mirzohid Rahimov -- Central Asia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union : economic reforms and their impact on state-society relations / Richard Pomfret -- New twists, more intricate congurations : the changing Israel-Palestinian regional security complex / Fred Lawson -- The politics of oil and major power rivalry in the post-cold war Greater Middle East. Global energy security and its geopolitical impediments : the case of the Caspian Region / Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and Henk Houweling -- China and the Greater Middle East : globalization no longer equals westernization / Kurt W. …”
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Corruption, global security, and world order

Table of Contents: “…The role of the multi-national corporation in the long war against corruption / Ben W. Heineman, Jr. -- The organization of anti-corruption : getting incentives right / Johann Graff Lambsdorff -- 16. …”
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Hired guns views about armed contractors in Operation Iraqi Freedom /

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Tradition und Erneuerung mediale Strategien in der Zeit der Flavier /

Table of Contents: “…/ Volker Michael Strocka -- Mythenbilder in Pompeji während der Regierungszeit Vespasians im Vergleich zur neronischen Epoche / Jürgen Hodske -- Kinder statt Legionen : Die Vorbereitung der Nachfolge Vespasians : Der Befund der Münzen und methodische Bemerkungen zum Umgang mit den literarischen Quellen / Gunnar Seelentag -- The Other Side of the Coin : the Women of the Flavian Imperial Family / Annetta Alexandridis -- Flauius ultimus, caluus Nero : einige Betrachtungen zu Herrscherbild und Panegyrik unter Domitian / Ruurd Nauta -- Ägypten in der Selbstdarstellung der Flavier / Stefan Pfeiffer -- Der Kaiser als Wundertäter : Kaiserheil als neue Form der Legitimation / Dorit Engster -- Die Flavier und das Reich / Norbert Kramer -- Das Bild Vespasians und Titus' in den Städten des römischen Imperiums : Öffentliches Bauwesen und öffentliche Ehrungen : Epigraphische Beweise / Javier Andreu -- "Im Theater erkennt man das Wesen eines Volkes" : Dion von Prusa und die symbolische Kommunikation in den Städten des Reiches / Jan Stenger -- "War-epic for a new era : Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica" / Emma Buckley -- Parthersieg und cista mystica : "Tradition" und "Reduktion" in Münzbildern unter Vespasian und Titus : Zwei Fallbeispiele / Lorenz Winkler-Horaček -- Auftritt auf einer bedeutungsschweren Bühne : Wie sich die Flavier im öffentlichen Zentrum der Stadt Rom inszenieren / Susanne Muth -- Ein epigrammatisches Weltwunder : Martial über das Amphitheatrum Flavium / Markus Mülke -- Angemessene Bilder und praktischer Sinn der Kunst : Griechische Bildwerke im Templum Pacis / Alessandra Bravi.…”
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The book triumphant print in transition in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries /

Table of Contents: “…/ Jurgen Beyer -- The printed book on the Iberian peninsula, 1500-1540 / Alexander Wilkinson -- The vanishing press : printing in provincial France in the early sixteenth century / Malcolm Walsby -- Turning Luther's weapons against him : the birth of Catholic propaganda in Saxony in the 1520s / Christoph Volkmar -- Preaching and printing in Germany on the eve of the Thirty Years' War / Amy Nelson Burnett -- Pamphlets in the theological debates of the later sixteenth century : the Mainz editorial project 'Controversia et Confessio' / Johannes Hund and Henning P. …”
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Darwin's pharmacy sex, plants, and the evolution of the noosphere / by Doyle, Richard, 1963-

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English and German nationalist and anti-semitic discourse, 1871-1945

Table of Contents: “…Wallis -- "Good" Germans, "bad" Nazis and British reactions to the Holocaust / Egbert Klautke -- Perfidious Albion: Wilhelm Wundt's Völkerpsychologie and anti-English propaganda during World War I.…”
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Cuba in a global context : international relations, internationalism, and transnationalism /

Table of Contents: “…Murphy -- Cuban-Chinese relations after the end of the cold war / Carlos Alzugaray Treto -- "Complicated and far-reaching": the historical foundations of Canadian policy toward Cuba / Asa McKercher -- Internationalism -- The Cuba-Venezuela alliance and its continental impact / Max Azicri -- Santeria commerce and the unofficial networks of interpersonal internationalism / Kevin M. …”
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