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Jewish culture and society in North Africa

Table of Contents: “…Katz -- Jewish-Muslim relations in Tunisia during World War II : propaganda, stereotypes, and attitudes, 1939-1943 / Fayṣal Cherif -- The emigration of Moroccan Jews, 1948-1956 / Jamaâ Baïda -- Zouzef Tayayou (Joseph the Tailor), a Jew from Nedroma, and the others / Belkacem Mebarki -- The real Morocco itself : Jewish saint pilgrimage, hybridity, and the idea of the Moroccan nation / Oren Kosansky.…”
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The girl with the dragon tattoo and philosophy everything is fire /

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The slave trade and the origins of international human rights law by Martinez, Jenny S.

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Deluxe Jim Crow civil rights and American health policy, 1935-1954 / by Thomas, Karen Kruse

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New society models for a new millennium the learning society in Europe and beyond /

Table of Contents: “…New society models for a new millennium : sketching the global discourses about a world vision/ Michael Kuhn -- Inside global learning societies- the "war of ideas" of the good world in the global battle of cultures / Michael Kuhn -- The learning society in Europe : Societies in "old" member states of the European Union -- Lifelong learning and the learning society : the evolution of concepts and research in the UK / John Field -- Knowledge economy, learning society, and lifelong learning : a review of the French literature / Philippe Méhaut -- "Learning society" and "knowledge society" : concepts and controversies in German discourses / Doris Weidemann -- A "blurred" object : the Italian discourses on the concept of the learning society / Paolo Ladri and Domenico Maddaloni -- Education for inclusion in the information society / Esther Oliver & Iolanda Tortajada -- Perspectives on the Finnish learning society / Jari Kolehmainen -- Lifelong learning and the learning society : trends and prospects in Europe / John Field --The learning society in Europe : societies in transition -- The "learning society" in Poland / Ewa Slezak -- Conceptualisation of the learning society in the Czech and Slovak republics / Jaroslav Kalous -- Towards a learning society : the Russian experience / Anna Muraveva -- The learning society beyond Europe -- The learning society in Canada and the US / Daniel Schugurensky -- Globalization, development, and policies of knowledge and learning in the Arab states / André Élias Mazawi -- Towards a learning society : the New Zealand experience / Catherine Casey -- The idea of a learning society : an Australian perspective / Beverley Axford and Terri Seddon -- The lifelong learning society in Korea / Namchul Lee -- The learning society in Japan / Yukiko Sawano -- The learning society in China / Meng HongWei -- Learning society : the East-Asian perspective / Kai-ming Cheng -- Official discourse and challenges of building a learning society in India / Madhu Singh -- Knowledge and the learning society in South African debates / Shirley Walters -- Brazil : the scientific discourse about the information society / Roseli Rodrigues de Mello & Paulo Eduardo Gomes Bento -- Conceptualisation of the "learning society" in South America : official, scientific and civil organization discourses / Donatilla Ferrada.…”
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The end and the beginning the revolutions of 1989 and the resurgence of history /

Table of Contents: “…/ Cornel Ban -- Moving away from the Cold War. The demise of the Soviet bloc / Mark Kramer ; Gorbachev and the road to 1989 / Vladislav Zubok ; Success was not an orphan: the battle of the Euromissiles in 1983 and the events of 1989 - 1991 / Jeffrey Herf ; "No one is afraid to talk to us anymore": Radio Free Europe in 1989 / A. …”
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Narratives of French modernity themes, forms and metamorphoses : essays in honour of David Gascoigne /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Lorna Milne and Mary Orr -- A void to avoid a void / Ian Higgins -- Apollinaire's voluptuous calvary: lexical fields, generic conventions and narrative space in Les Onze mille verges / Peter Read -- Céline, invective and the dismantling of narrative: Casse-pipe / Michael Tilby -- Mounier multivocalist: towards a multiple articulation of the French experience of Black Africa / Michael Kelly -- The rhetoric of the border in Julien Gracq's Le Rivage des Syrtes / Robin MacKenzie -- The Mémoires of Doctor Lamballe and Mister Swing Troubadour: echoes of Vidocq and Robert Louis Stevenson in Patrick Modiano's La Ronde de nuit / Alan Morris -- L'Enfance perturbe et fertilise le récit dans la littérature française aise du vingtième siècle: l'exemple de Chamoiseau / Anne Chevalier -- "On transporte avec soi une esapèce de gouffre": textual spaces and literary heritage in Michel Houellebecq's Poésies / David Evans -- Tournier and his intellectual milieu: narratives of modernity / Mairi Maclean -- Footprint in the sand: Tournier's re-writing of Paul Valéry in Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique / Paul Gifford -- "Terre d'asile, terre d'accueil": explorations of the Robinsonade in Pierre Mertens's Terre d'asile / Susan Bainbrigge -- The metamorphoses of forms in Tournier's Roi des Aulnes and Pierrette Fleutiaux's Métamorphoses de la reine / Mary Orr -- Deep space: a sojourn in the salt mines with Michel Tournier and Marie Nimier / Lorna Milne -- Les nuits de Sylvie Germain et le pari de Pascal / Alain Goulet -- Sylvie Germain: fable, cri, echolalia / Toby Garfitt -- Is France post post-war? judging the Nazi past in recent novels by Maud Tabachnik, Michel Rio and Sylvie Germain / Margaret-Anne Hutton -- David Gascoigne: publications.…”
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The Greek polis and the invention of democracy a politico-cultural transformation and its interpretations /

Table of Contents: “…Changing a Way of Life : Democracy's Impact on polis-Society -- The Impact of Democracy on Communal Life / Sara Forsdyke -- The Participation of the demos in Decision-Making : Principles and Reality / Claude Mossé -- Democracy and Religion in Classical Greece / Robin Osborne -- Democracy and War / Lawrence A. Tritle -- Part IV. Political Concepts and Commitments -- Perfecting the Political Creature (z?…”
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The rise of the Chicago police department : class and conflict, 1850-1894 / by Mitrani, Sam

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Black print with a white carnation : Mildred Brown and the Omaha star newspaper, 1938-1989 / by Forss, Amy Helene

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Disability and mothering : liminal spaces of embodied knowledge /

Table of Contents: “…Franits -- Sharing stories: motherhood, autism, and culture / Rachel Robertson -- Nurturing the nurturer: reflections on an experience of breastfeeding, disability, and physical trauma / Heather Kuttai -- Vulnerable subjects: motherhood and disability in Nancy Mairs and Cherríe Moraga / Suzanne Bost -- From surrender to activism: the transformation of disability and mothering at Kew cottages, Australia / Corinne Manning -- History examined: one women's story of disability and advocacy / Marilyn Dolmage -- My mother's mental illness / Whitney Jones-Garcia -- A Schizo-ly situated daughter: a mother's labor / Elizabeth Metcalf -- Motherhood and activism in the dis/enabling context of war: the case of Cindy Sheehan / Abby M. Dubisar -- The political is personal: Mothering at the intersection of acquired disability, gender, and race / Julie E. …”
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The Dred Scott case : historical and contemporary perspectives on race and law /

Table of Contents: “…Constitutional law and the legitimation of history : the enduring force of Roger Taney's opinion of the court / David Thomas Konig -- Dred Scott versus the Dred Scott case : the history and memory of a signal moment in American slavery, 1857-2007 / Adam Arenson -- John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, Dred Scott, and the problem of constitutional evil / Mark Graber -- The legacy of the Dred Scott case : the uncertain course of emancipation in Missouri / Louis Gerteis -- An exaggerated legacy : Dred Scott and substantive due process / Austin Allen -- Emancipation and contract law : litigating human property after the Civil War / Daniel W. Hamilton -- Dred Scott, human dignity, and the quest for a culture of equality / Christopher Alan Bracey -- Dred Scott, racial stereotypes, and the "enduring marks of inferiority" / Leland Ware -- Unmasking the lie : Dred Scott and the antebellum Southern honor culture / Cecil J. …”
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Nature and history in modern Italy /

Table of Contents: “…Il bel paese : an introduction / Marco Armiero and Marcus Hall -- Foundations -- The distinctive character of Italian environmental history / Piero Bevilacqua -- Upside-down landscapes : seismicity and seismic disasters in Italy / Emanuela Guidoboni -- Moving ground : Vesuvius and the Nola mudslides of the nineteenth century / Walter Palmieri -- Environmental imperialism in Sardinia : pesticides and politics in the struggle against malaria / Marcus Hall -- Commons and forests -- The decline of the commons and the environmental balance in early modern Italy / Gabriella Corona -- Forest visions in early modern Italy / Bruno Vecchio -- Environmental heritage of a past cultural landscape : alder woods in the upper Aveto Valley of the northwestern Apennines / Roberta Cevasco -- Act locally, think nationally : a brief history of access rights and environmental conflicts in Fascist Italy / Wilko Graf von Hardenberg -- Pollution, industry, and urban environment -- Dealing with industrial pollution in Italy, 1880-1940 / Simone Neri Serneri -- Petrochemical modernity in Sicily / Salvatore Adorno -- The Seveso disaster legacy / Laura Centemeri -- Landscape, culture, and environmentalism -- A "natural" capitalism : water and the making of the Italian industrial landscape / Stefania Barca -- Nationalizing the mountains : natural and political landscapes in World War I / Marco Armiero -- Nature preservation and protection in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy, 1880-1950 / Luigi Piccioni.…”
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Captured peace : elites and peacebuilding in El Salvador / by Wade, Christine J.

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Invisible sovereign : imagining public opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction / by Schmeller, Mark G., 1967-

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Junge Perspektiven der Türkeiforschung in Deutschland Band 1 /

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Portrayals of children in popular culture : fleeting images /

Table of Contents: “…: girl power and commodification in teen magazines / Caryn Murphy -- Children and media in parenting magazines / Amy Franzini -- Making kids sexy : sexualized youth, adult anxieties and Abercrombie and Fitch / Stephen Gennaro -- Configuring childhood on the web / Katie Elson Anderson -- Television -- Pearly whites : the imagery of teeth in Peter Pan, elite figure skating, gymnastics, and toddler beauty pageants / Beth Nardella -- Conceptualizing childhood in the Korean education the korean education broadcasting system (EBS) : a critical analysis of Pororo / LENA LEE -- Accidental deaths : the violence of representing childhood in law & order : special victims unit / MORGAN GENEVIEVE BLUE -- Better multiculturalism through technology : Dora the explorer and the training of the preschool viewer(s) / Drew Chappell -- Film -- Making mischief of one kind or another : turning literary rebellion into film reminiscence in where the wild things are / Michelle Ann Abate -- They don't really care what happens to me : divorce, family life and children's emotional worlds in 1950s' British cinema / Janet Fink -- Representations of children in Pixar films : / 1995-2008 / Iris Shepard -- Little Burton Blue : Tim Burton and the product(ion) of color in the fairy tale films the nightmare before Christmas (1993) and the corpse bride (2005) / Debbie Olson -- Childhood in war and violence : turtles can fly and the kite runner / Lan Dong -- Spelling out racial difference : moving beyond the inspirational discourses in Akeelah and the bee / Kathryn E. …”
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Engaging the spirit world popular beliefs and practices in modern southeast Asia /

Table of Contents: “…: rethinking the four palaces' spirit representations in the context of social and political changes in northern Vietnam / Claire Chauvet -- Gods, gifts, markets, and superstition : spirited consumption from Korea to Vietnam / Laurel Kendall -- Contests of commemoration : virgin war martyrs, state memorials, and the invocation of the spirit world in contemporary Vietnam / Kirsten W. …”
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Intercultural communication for managers / by Goodman, Michael B.

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After Testimony : The Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Narrative for the Future /

Table of Contents: “…Storeide -- Moving testimonies : "unhomed geography" and the Holocaust documentary of return / Janet Walker -- From Auschwitz to the Temple Mount : binding and unbinding the Israeli narrative / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi -- The melancholy generation : Grossman's Book of interior grammar / Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan -- Fractured relations : the multidirectional Holocaust memory of Caryl Phillips / Michael Rothberg -- Hiroshima and the Holocaust : tales of war and defeat in Japan and Germany-a contrastive perspective / Anne Thelle.…”
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