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Cold war cultures perspectives on Eastern and Western European societies /

Table of Contents: “…The peace and the war camps : the dichotomous Cold War culture in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1960 / Roman Krakovsky -- Artistic style, canonization, and identity politics in Cold War Germany, 1947-1960 / Joes Segal -- What does democracy look like? …”
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The Planetary Turn : Relationality and Geoaesthetics in the Twenty-First Century /

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Fields of vision essays on the Travels of William Bartram /

Table of Contents: “…Malone -- William Bartram and the forms of natural history / Stephanie Volmer -- Nature, man, and God: the introduction to Bartram's Travels / Burt Kornegay -- Before Bartram: artist-naturalist Mark Catesby / Arlene Fradkin, Mallory McCane O'Connor -- The Bartrams, Clarence B. …”
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Fields of vision essays on the Travels of William Bartram /

Table of Contents: “…Malone -- William Bartram and the forms of natural history / Stephanie Volmer -- Nature, man, and God: the introduction to Bartram's Travels / Burt Kornegay -- Before Bartram: artist-naturalist Mark Catesby / Arlene Fradkin, Mallory McCane O'Connor -- The Bartrams, Clarence B. …”
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Novels of the contemporary extreme

Table of Contents: “…"Right here in nowheres": American psycho and violence's critique / Naomi Mandel -- Telling doubles and literal-minded reading in Bret Easton Ellis's Glamorama / Henrik Skov Nielsen -- Posthumous voice and residual presence in Don DeLillo's The body artist / Mikko Keskinen -- A post-apocalyptic world: the excremental, abject female warriors of Josée Yvon / Paula Ruth Gilbert with Colleen Lester -- On the impossibility of being contemporary in Nelly Arcan's Folle / Martine Delvaux -- Media-portrayed violence in Alberto Fuguet's Tinta roja / Jason Summers -- Part II. …”
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From Jane Austen to Joseph Conrad essays collected in memory of James T. Hillhouse /

Table of Contents: “…Ferris -- Charles Reade's Christie Johnstone : a portrait of the artist as a young pre-Raphaelite / W. Burns -- George Meredith's One of our conquerors / F. …”
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Pure Land Buddhism in modern Japanese culture by Porcu, Elisabetta

Table of Contents: “…Stewart's By the old walls of Kyoto -- The theme of death from the perspective of Jodo Shinshu: Aoki Shinmon's Coffinman: the journal of a Buddhist mortician -- Pure Land Buddhism and creative arts -- Aesthetics and religion in Yanagi Muneyoshi -- Yanagi and cultural nationalism -- The woodblock artist Munakata Shiko and tariki -- Representations of the Pure Land in contemporary visual arts -- Recent trends in contemporary Japanese visual arts: Mori Mariko's Pure land -- Pure Land Buddhism and the tea ceremony -- Images of chanoyu -- Pure Land Buddhism in the tradition of chanoyu -- A connection between the Honganji-ha and chanoyu: the Yabunouchi school of tea -- Traditional culture in a Jodo Shinshu temple: chanoyu at an Otani-ha temple.…”
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Sixties radicalism and social movement activism retreat or resurgence? /

Table of Contents: “…/ Riaz Ahmed Shaikh -- Nineteen sixties radicalism in the United States : its rise, decline and legacy / Mike O'Donnell -- Students, artists and the ICA : the revolution within / Ben Cranfield -- The situationist legacy : revolution as celebration / Eloise Harding -- Habermas on sixties student protests : reflections on collective action and communicative potential / James Driver -- Sixties movements, educational expansion and cognitive mobilisation : postmaterialist values and unconventional political participation in West Germany / Andreas Hadjar and Florian Schlapbach -- Carrying the flame forward : activist legacies of 1968 in life story reflections / Barbara Körner and Rosemary McKechnie -- When the personal become political : a reappraisal of the women's liberation movement's radical idea / Maureen Freely -- Resurgence? …”
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African diaspora in the cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States /

Table of Contents: “…AFRICA IN THE ARTS : MIGRATION, IMPROVISATION, EXCHANGE -- Pearl Fishing in the Caribbean : Early Images of Slavery and Forced Migration in the Americas / Mónica Domínguez-Torres -- Improvisation in the Danzón and its Ties to Early New Orleans Jazz / Robin Moore -- Afrochic : Africa in the Modernist Imagination / Camara Dia Holloway -- True Blood : Colorblindness, Blanqueamiento, and Vampire Ethnicity in Castro's Cuba / Phillip Penix-Tadsen -- Introspection and Projection in Cuban Art / Colette Gaiter -- Hearing Reggaeton's African-American Address / Wayne Marshall -- Black-British and Other African Diaspora Artists Visualizing Slavery / Eddie Chambers -- IV. …”

Pure Land Buddhism in modern Japanese culture by Porcu, Elisabetta

Table of Contents: “…Stewart's By the old walls of Kyoto -- The theme of death from the perspective of Jodo Shinshu: Aoki Shinmon's Coffinman: the journal of a Buddhist mortician -- Pure Land Buddhism and creative arts -- Aesthetics and religion in Yanagi Muneyoshi -- Yanagi and cultural nationalism -- The woodblock artist Munakata Shiko and tariki -- Representations of the Pure Land in contemporary visual arts -- Recent trends in contemporary Japanese visual arts: Mori Mariko's Pure land -- Pure Land Buddhism and the tea ceremony -- Images of chanoyu -- Pure Land Buddhism in the tradition of chanoyu -- A connection between the Honganji-ha and chanoyu: the Yabunouchi school of tea -- Traditional culture in a Jodo Shinshu temple: chanoyu at an Otani-ha temple.…”
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Sixties radicalism and social movement activism retreat or resurgence? /

Table of Contents: “…/ Riaz Ahmed Shaikh -- Nineteen sixties radicalism in the United States : its rise, decline and legacy / Mike O'Donnell -- Students, artists and the ICA : the revolution within / Ben Cranfield -- The situationist legacy : revolution as celebration / Eloise Harding -- Habermas on sixties student protests : reflections on collective action and communicative potential / James Driver -- Sixties movements, educational expansion and cognitive mobilisation : postmaterialist values and unconventional political participation in West Germany / Andreas Hadjar and Florian Schlapbach -- Carrying the flame forward : activist legacies of 1968 in life story reflections / Barbara Körner and Rosemary McKechnie -- When the personal become political : a reappraisal of the women's liberation movement's radical idea / Maureen Freely -- Resurgence? …”
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Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam / by Montias, John Michael, 1928-2005

Table of Contents: “…-- Attributions -- Echoes -- Concluding Words on Auctions -- Profiles of Selected Buyers -- Art Dealers I: Artists and Merchants in the Trade -- Art Dealers II: Johannes de Renialme -- Art Dealers III: The Story of a Merchant Who Thought He Could Sell Paintings to a King -- Art Collectors and Painters I: Rubens's Promise to Hans Thijsz -- Art Collectors and Painters II: Jacob Swalmius and Rembrandt -- Art Collectors and Painters III: Marten van den Broeck and Rembrandt's Losses at Sea -- Art Collectors and Painters IV: Jan van Maerlen and His Extended Family -- Art Collectors and Painters V: Jean le Bleu, Francois Venant and Rembrandt's "Feast of Belshazzar" -- A Collector with Connections to Major Cultural Figures: Robbert van der Hoeve and the "Muiden Circle" -- What Santa Claus Brought to the Youth of Amsterdam -- When Sellers and Buyers Were Related: Elbert and Cornelis Symonsz. …”
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African diaspora in the cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States /

Table of Contents: “…AFRICA IN THE ARTS : MIGRATION, IMPROVISATION, EXCHANGE -- Pearl Fishing in the Caribbean : Early Images of Slavery and Forced Migration in the Americas / Mónica Domínguez-Torres -- Improvisation in the Danzón and its Ties to Early New Orleans Jazz / Robin Moore -- Afrochic : Africa in the Modernist Imagination / Camara Dia Holloway -- True Blood : Colorblindness, Blanqueamiento, and Vampire Ethnicity in Castro's Cuba / Phillip Penix-Tadsen -- Introspection and Projection in Cuban Art / Colette Gaiter -- Hearing Reggaeton's African-American Address / Wayne Marshall -- Black-British and Other African Diaspora Artists Visualizing Slavery / Eddie Chambers -- IV. …”

Novels of the contemporary extreme

Table of Contents: “…"Right here in nowheres": American psycho and violence's critique / Naomi Mandel -- Telling doubles and literal-minded reading in Bret Easton Ellis's Glamorama / Henrik Skov Nielsen -- Posthumous voice and residual presence in Don DeLillo's The body artist / Mikko Keskinen -- A post-apocalyptic world: the excremental, abject female warriors of Josée Yvon / Paula Ruth Gilbert with Colleen Lester -- On the impossibility of being contemporary in Nelly Arcan's Folle / Martine Delvaux -- Media-portrayed violence in Alberto Fuguet's Tinta roja / Jason Summers -- Part II. …”
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From Jane Austen to Joseph Conrad essays collected in memory of James T. Hillhouse /

Table of Contents: “…Ferris -- Charles Reade's Christie Johnstone : a portrait of the artist as a young pre-Raphaelite / W. Burns -- George Meredith's One of our conquerors / F. …”
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Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam / by Montias, John Michael, 1928-2005

Table of Contents: “…-- Attributions -- Echoes -- Concluding Words on Auctions -- Profiles of Selected Buyers -- Art Dealers I: Artists and Merchants in the Trade -- Art Dealers II: Johannes de Renialme -- Art Dealers III: The Story of a Merchant Who Thought He Could Sell Paintings to a King -- Art Collectors and Painters I: Rubens's Promise to Hans Thijsz -- Art Collectors and Painters II: Jacob Swalmius and Rembrandt -- Art Collectors and Painters III: Marten van den Broeck and Rembrandt's Losses at Sea -- Art Collectors and Painters IV: Jan van Maerlen and His Extended Family -- Art Collectors and Painters V: Jean le Bleu, Francois Venant and Rembrandt's "Feast of Belshazzar" -- A Collector with Connections to Major Cultural Figures: Robbert van der Hoeve and the "Muiden Circle" -- What Santa Claus Brought to the Youth of Amsterdam -- When Sellers and Buyers Were Related: Elbert and Cornelis Symonsz. …”
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The performer's voice /

Table of Contents: “…Hartnick -- The aging voice / Chad Whited, Jarrod Keeler, Leda Scearce, and Seth Cohen -- Artistic vocal styles and techniques / Sharon L. Radionoff -- Case history, interview and voice handicap assessment / Thomas Murry and Michael S. …”
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The performer's voice /

Table of Contents: “…Hartnick -- The aging voice / Chad Whited, Jarrod Keeler, Leda Scearce, and Seth Cohen -- Artistic vocal styles and techniques / Sharon L. Radionoff -- Case history, interview and voice handicap assessment / Thomas Murry and Michael S. …”
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Cultural Heritage in a Changing World

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Staying Alive: A Survival Manual for the Liberal Arts / by Fradenburg, L. O. Aranye, 1953-

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