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The Provocative Joan Robinson : The Making of a Cambridge Economist / by Aslanbeigui, Nahid, 1954-

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Fantastic realities 49 mind journeys and a trip to Stockholm / by Wilczek, Frank

Table of Contents: “…From concept to reality to vision ; Nobel biography ; Asymptotic freedom: from paradox to paradigm ; Advice to students. -- Breaking into verse. …”
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Biblical argument in Manichaean missionary practice the case of Adimantus and Augustine / by Berg, Jacob Albert van den, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Adimantus' identity -- Augustine on Adimantus -- The argument from the Greek abjuration formulae -- The different regions of Adimantus' activity -- The relationship between the names 'Adimantus' and 'Addas -- Adimantus = Pappos? -- Adimantus' biography -- Adimantus' background -- Adimantus as a member of Mani's church -- Adimantus' missionary journeys -- Mani's missionary precepts and Adimantus -- Adimantus' missionary activities -- Provisional conclusions -- Adimantus' Disputationes : a reconstruction. …”
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Biblical argument in Manichaean missionary practice the case of Adimantus and Augustine / by Berg, Jacob Albert van den, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Adimantus' identity -- Augustine on Adimantus -- The argument from the Greek abjuration formulae -- The different regions of Adimantus' activity -- The relationship between the names 'Adimantus' and 'Addas -- Adimantus = Pappos? -- Adimantus' biography -- Adimantus' background -- Adimantus as a member of Mani's church -- Adimantus' missionary journeys -- Mani's missionary precepts and Adimantus -- Adimantus' missionary activities -- Provisional conclusions -- Adimantus' Disputationes : a reconstruction. …”
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Fantastic realities 49 mind journeys and a trip to Stockholm / by Wilczek, Frank

Table of Contents: “…From concept to reality to vision ; Nobel biography ; Asymptotic freedom: from paradox to paradigm ; Advice to students. -- Breaking into verse. …”
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A companion to Sophocles

Table of Contents: “…Finglass -- Sophocles' biography / Ruth Scodel -- Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides / John Davidson -- Antigone / André Lardinois -- Polyphonic Ajax / Peter Burian -- Oedipus Tyrannus / Vayos Liapis -- Electra / Francis Dunn -- The divided worlds of Sophocles' Women of Trachis / Margaret Rachel Kitzinger -- The Philoctetes of Sophocles / Paul Woodruff -- Last things : Oedipus at Colonus and the end of tragedy / Thomas Van Nortwick -- Sophocles' Ichneutai or how to write a satyr play / Willeon Slenders -- Sophoclean fragments / Carolin Hahnemann -- Sophocles Didaskalos / C.W. …”
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A companion to Pedro Almodóvar

Table of Contents: “…Paul Julian Smith Almodóvar's self-fashioning: the economics and aesthetics of deconstructive biography -- Francisco A. Zurián: Creative Beginnings in Almodóvar's Work -- Dona Kercher: Almodóvar and Hitchcock: a sorcerer's apprenticeship -- Alberto Mira: A life, imagined and otherwise: the limits and uses of autobiography in Almodóvar's films -- Spanish Contexts. …”
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A companion to Sophocles

Table of Contents: “…Finglass -- Sophocles' biography / Ruth Scodel -- Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides / John Davidson -- Antigone / André Lardinois -- Polyphonic Ajax / Peter Burian -- Oedipus Tyrannus / Vayos Liapis -- Electra / Francis Dunn -- The divided worlds of Sophocles' Women of Trachis / Margaret Rachel Kitzinger -- The Philoctetes of Sophocles / Paul Woodruff -- Last things : Oedipus at Colonus and the end of tragedy / Thomas Van Nortwick -- Sophocles' Ichneutai or how to write a satyr play / Willeon Slenders -- Sophoclean fragments / Carolin Hahnemann -- Sophocles Didaskalos / C.W. …”
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A companion to Pedro Almodóvar

Table of Contents: “…Paul Julian Smith Almodóvar's self-fashioning: the economics and aesthetics of deconstructive biography -- Francisco A. Zurián: Creative Beginnings in Almodóvar's Work -- Dona Kercher: Almodóvar and Hitchcock: a sorcerer's apprenticeship -- Alberto Mira: A life, imagined and otherwise: the limits and uses of autobiography in Almodóvar's films -- Spanish Contexts. …”
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Integrating Immigrants in Europe Research-Policy Dialogues /

Table of Contents: “…Research-policy dialogues on migrant integration in Europe: Comparison and conclusions: Peter Scholten, Han Entzinger and Rinus Penninx -- Appendix I: Biographies of Authors -- Appendix II: Publications of the DIAMINT Project/IMISCOE Standing Committee on Research-Policy Dialogues.…”
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Integrating Immigrants in Europe Research-Policy Dialogues /

Table of Contents: “…Research-policy dialogues on migrant integration in Europe: Comparison and conclusions: Peter Scholten, Han Entzinger and Rinus Penninx -- Appendix I: Biographies of Authors -- Appendix II: Publications of the DIAMINT Project/IMISCOE Standing Committee on Research-Policy Dialogues.…”
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Edith Wharton in context

Table of Contents: “…Chronology: Wharton in cultural and historical context Pamela Knights and Laura Rattray; 3. Biography Melanie Dawson; 4. Composition and publication Sharon Kehl Califano; 5. …”
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Edith Wharton in context

Table of Contents: “…Chronology: Wharton in cultural and historical context Pamela Knights and Laura Rattray; 3. Biography Melanie Dawson; 4. Composition and publication Sharon Kehl Califano; 5. …”
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Jewish Thought Adrift : Max Wiener / by Schine, Robert S.

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Jewish Thought Adrift : Max Wiener / by Schine, Robert S.

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Situating Children of Migrants across Borders and Origins A Methodological Overview /

Table of Contents: “…Theoretical and Methodological Issues: Claudine Attias-Donfut and Joanne Cook -- 7: Using a Cohort Survey to Track the Entry into Adult Life of Young People from Immigrant Backgrounds: Emmanuelle Santelli -- 8: Combining in-depth Biographical Interviews with the LIVES History Calendar in Studying the Life Course of Children of Immigrants: Andrés Gomensoro and Raúl Burgos Paredes -- 9: Participatory Qualitative Methodology: a promising Pathway for the Study of Intergenerational Relations within Migrant Families: Michèle Vatz Laaroussi -- Part III The Biography and the Identity of Immigrant Descendants as a Negotiation Process -- 10: Studying Second-Generation Transitions into Adulthood in Switzerland: a Biographical Approach: Eva Mey -- 11: National Identity and the Integration of the Children of Immigrants: Rosa Aparicio and Andrés Tornos -- Part IV Transnational Approach and Children of Migrants: Beyond Methodological Nationalism -- 12: Beyond Home and Return: Negotiating Religious Identity across Time and Space Through the Prism of the American Experience: Peggy Levitt, Kristen Lucken, Melissa Barnett -- 13: Following People, Visiting Places, and Reconstructuring Networks. …”
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Situating Children of Migrants across Borders and Origins A Methodological Overview /

Table of Contents: “…Theoretical and Methodological Issues: Claudine Attias-Donfut and Joanne Cook -- 7: Using a Cohort Survey to Track the Entry into Adult Life of Young People from Immigrant Backgrounds: Emmanuelle Santelli -- 8: Combining in-depth Biographical Interviews with the LIVES History Calendar in Studying the Life Course of Children of Immigrants: Andrés Gomensoro and Raúl Burgos Paredes -- 9: Participatory Qualitative Methodology: a promising Pathway for the Study of Intergenerational Relations within Migrant Families: Michèle Vatz Laaroussi -- Part III The Biography and the Identity of Immigrant Descendants as a Negotiation Process -- 10: Studying Second-Generation Transitions into Adulthood in Switzerland: a Biographical Approach: Eva Mey -- 11: National Identity and the Integration of the Children of Immigrants: Rosa Aparicio and Andrés Tornos -- Part IV Transnational Approach and Children of Migrants: Beyond Methodological Nationalism -- 12: Beyond Home and Return: Negotiating Religious Identity across Time and Space Through the Prism of the American Experience: Peggy Levitt, Kristen Lucken, Melissa Barnett -- 13: Following People, Visiting Places, and Reconstructuring Networks. …”
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Things that Travelled : Mediterranean Glass in the First Millennium CE by ROSENOW, Phelps

Table of Contents: “…6 Trading North: Glass-working beyond the edge of the empireIntroduction; Materials and analytical methods; Results and discussion; Opaque red glass; Opaque yellow glass; Blue glass; Clear glass; Other colours; Bead fabrication; Discussion and conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; 7 Into Africa: The biography of Roman vessel glass in the Sahara Desert; Introduction; Manufacture and provenance; Trade and transport; Use and re-use; Curation, fetishism and discard; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 8 HIMT, glass composition and commodity branding in the primary glass industry…”
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Things that Travelled : Mediterranean Glass in the First Millennium CE by ROSENOW, Phelps

Table of Contents: “…6 Trading North: Glass-working beyond the edge of the empireIntroduction; Materials and analytical methods; Results and discussion; Opaque red glass; Opaque yellow glass; Blue glass; Clear glass; Other colours; Bead fabrication; Discussion and conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; 7 Into Africa: The biography of Roman vessel glass in the Sahara Desert; Introduction; Manufacture and provenance; Trade and transport; Use and re-use; Curation, fetishism and discard; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 8 HIMT, glass composition and commodity branding in the primary glass industry…”
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Making things 21st century manufacturing and design : summary of a forum /

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