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Constructing Spain the re-imagination of space and place in fiction and film, 1953-2003 / by Richardson, Nathan E., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Spanish territories, global geographies: exploring space and place in a new Spain -- The production of space and place in Franco's Spain, 1953-1970 -- Building beyond Spain: readings from the Spanish novel, 1970-1989 -- Sacred Spain: creative destruction in the Spanish cinema, 1961-2000 -- The world will be redonda, or the dark back of community: the narrative world of Javier Mar�ias, 1989-1996 -- Preserving the house while pursuing the world: Julio Medem's engagement with Basque space, from Vacas to La Pelota Vasca, 1992-2003 -- Afterword: Spanish grammars of creation: re-conceiving, perceiving, and practicing space for the twenty-first century.…”
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Ecospirit religions and philosophies for the earth /

Table of Contents: “…Wallace ; Grounding the spirit : an ecofeminist pneumatology / Sharon Betcher ; Hearing the outcry of mute things : toward a Jewish creation theology / Lawrence Troster ; Creatio ex nihilo, terra nullius, and the erasure of presence / Whitney A. …”
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Making easy listening material culture and postwar American recording / by Anderson, Tim J.

Table of Contents: “…Buried under the fecundity of his own creations : the first strike of the American Federation of Musicians ; Counterreform and resignation : the second strike of the American Federation of Musicians -- Production, reproduction, and the case of My fair lady. …”
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Lost and found in translation contemporary ethnic American writing and the politics of language diversity / by Cutter, Martha J.

Table of Contents: “…An impossible necessity : translation and the re-creation of linguistic and cultural identities in the works of David Wong Louie, Fae Myenne Ng, and Maxine Hong Kingston -- Finding a "home" in translation : John Okada's No-no boy and Cynthia Kadohata's The floating world -- Translation as revelation : the task of the translator in the fiction of N. …”
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John Brown still lives! America's long reckoning with violence, equality, & change / by Gilpin, R. Blakeslee

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : cause and consequence : John Brown in nineteenth-century America -- Some definite plan : the early life of John Brown -- The final arbiter : Bleeding Kansas and the creation of the old hero -- Not buried but planted : cultivating the legend of John Brown -- A saint in suspense : competing visions of John Brown -- Discrimination and destiny : John Brown and the NAACP -- The soul rests : Stephen Vincent Benét and the silencing of John Brown's body -- The fugitive imagination : a John Brown for the old South -- Revising Kansas : John Steuart Curry and the fanaticism of John Brown -- Together under arms : Jacob Lawrence paints Black history -- Epilogue. …”
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Edith Stein and the body-soul-spirit at the center of holistic formation by Maskulak, Marian, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The critique of radical or substance dualism -- Edith Stein and the soul -- Stein's body-soul holism versus dualism -- Holistic anthropology as the basis for holistic spirituality -- Edith Stein the scholar -- Methodology and overview -- Stein's methodology -- Edith Stein the phenomenologist -- The phenomenological approach -- Stein's attitude toward philosophy and theology -- Question of docility -- Stein's ontology and anthropology -- Being, that which is, essence (Sein, Seiende, Wesen) -- Potency and act -- God : pure being, pure act, first existent -- Form and matter -- Ousia, substance -- The "I" and the person -- Physical body and living body (Körper and Leib) -- Animal soul -- Spirit -- Human soul -- Question of the soul at death -- Creation as image of the personal Triune God -- Conclusion.…”
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Plant transposons and genome dynamics in evolution

Table of Contents: “…Gehring -- Transposons and gene creation / Hugo K. Dooner and Clifford F. Weil -- Transposons in plant speciation / Avraham A. …”
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Proceedings of the Scientific-Practical Conference "Research and Development - 2016"

Table of Contents: “…Multimodal Control System of Active Lower Limb Exoskeleton with Feedback -- Investigation and Development of Methods for Improving Robustness of Automatic Speech Recognition Algorithms in Complex Acoustic Environments -- Smart Endoscope—Firmware Complex for Real-Time Analysis and Recognition of Endoscopic Videos -- The Development of Constructive-Technological Decisions on Creation of a Family of Microelectronic Elements on the «Silicon on Insulator» (SOI) Structures to Provide the Ability to Create Sensors of External Influences of a Various Functional Purpose -- Thermopile IR Sensor Arrays -- Development Signal Processing Integrated Circuit for Position Sensors with High Resolution -- Brain-Controlled Biometric Signals Employed to Operate External Technical Devices -- Improving Talent Management with Automated Competence Assessment: Research Summary.…”
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Rabbinic perspectives rabbinic literature and the Dead Sea scrolls : proceedings of the eighth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and...

Table of Contents: “…Schiffman -- Seclusion and exclusion: the rhetoric of separation in Qumran and Tannaitic literature / Adiel Schremer -- The history of the creation of measurements: between Qumran and the Mishnah / Aharon Shemesh -- Oral Torah vs. written Torah(s): competing claims to authority / Cana Werman.…”
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Self-taught African American education in slavery and freedom / by Williams, Heather Andrea

Table of Contents: “…In secret places : acquiring literacy in slave communities -- A coveted possession : literacy in the first days of freedom -- The men are actually clamoring for books : African American soldiers and the educational mission -- We must get education for ourselves and our children : advocacy for education -- We are striving to do business on our own hook : organizing schools on the ground -- We are laboring under many difficulties : African American teachers in freedpeople's schools -- A long and tedious road to travel for knowledge : textbooks and freedpeople's schools -- If anybody wants an education, it is me : students in freedpeople's schools -- First movings of the waters : the creation of common school systems for Black and White students -- Epilogue -- Appendix : African Americans, literacy, and the law in the antebellum South.…”
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The Quaker community on Barbados challenging the culture of the planter class / by Gragg, Larry Dale, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…"From darkness to light" : the emergence of the Society of Friends in England -- "A little England" : the development of Barbados as England's most prosperous colony -- "Many people convinced" : establishing the Quaker community on Barbados -- "Amongst them called Quakers in this island" : the people attracted to the Quaker community -- "Kept in the heavenly awe of God" : the creation of a Quaker counter-culture on Barbados -- "Uncharitably pursued and anathematized with words, and execrations, and bitter invectives, by a base sort of phanatick people, commonly termed Quakers" : the Quaker critique of the dominant culture -- "Thou hast no right to reign over their conscience in matters of worship of the living God" : the Quaker challenge to slavery on Barbados -- "We are reduced to a very small number" : the decline of the Quaker community on Barbados -- Epilogue.…”
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Musical theatre, realism and entertainment by Taylor, Millie

Table of Contents: “…Musical characterisation in HMS Pinafore and the Rocky horror show -- Encoding the voice : Show boat, Guys and dolls, and musical theatre post-1960 -- Integration and distance in musical theatre : the case of Sweeney Todd -- Layers of representation and the creation of irony : Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, Merrily we roll along and The last 5 years -- Alternatives to linearity : Cabaret, Kiss of the spider woman and Assassins -- Illusions of realism in West Side story and actor-musician performances -- Experiencing live musical theatre performance : La Cage aux Folles and Priscilla, queen of the desert -- I've heard that song before : the jukebox musical and entertainment in Jersey boys, Rock of ages, Mamma mia and We will rock you.…”
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On opera by Williams, Bernard Arthur Owen

Table of Contents: “…-- Don Giovanni as an idea -- Passion and cynicism : remarks on Così fan tutte -- Rather red than black : Verdi, Don Carlos and the passion for freedom -- Tristan and time -- The elusiveness of pessimism : responding to the Ring -- Wagner and the transcendence of politics -- L'envers des destinées : remarks on Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande -- Manifest artifice : the ingenuity of Puccini -- Comments on Opera and ideas : from Mozart to Strauss / by Paul Robinson -- The Marriage and the Flute : Tippett and Mozart -- Janáček's modernism : doing less with more in music and philosophy -- Authenticity and re-creation : musicology, performance and production -- Naïve and sentimental opera lovers.…”
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Brenda is in the room & other poems / by Teicher, Craig Morgan, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…A cure for childhood -- Only son -- The last minutes -- A cure for dead dogs -- One to another: a creation myth -- I am a father's son -- Ten movies and books -- 4. …”
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Same-sex marriage in Latin America promise and resistance /

Table of Contents: “…LGBT rights and the Latin American Left today / Shawn Schulenberg -- Support for same-sex marriage in Latin America / Germ�an Lodola and Margarita Corral -- Variations in the judicialization of same-sex marriage politics in Latin America / Jason Pierceson -- Same-sex partnership rights in Central America: the case of Panama / Shawn Schulenberg -- The creation of civil partnerships in Uruguay / Diego Sempol -- Same-sex couples in Colombia: three models for their legal and political recognition / Daniel Bonilla -- Legal mobilization and the road to same-sex marriage in Argentina / Maria Gracia And�ia -- The battle for marriage equality in Mexico, 2001-2011 / Genaro Lozano.…”
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Once Upon A Virus by Goldstein, Diane E.

Table of Contents: “…: contemporary legend, scientific speculation, and the politics of blame in the search for AIDS origins -- Welcome to the innocent world of AIDS : cultural viability, localization, and contemporary legend -- "Billy Ray virus" : the folk creation and official maintenance of a public health scapegoat -- "Banishing all the spindles from the kingdom" : reading needle-prick narratives as resistance -- Once upon a virus : public health and narrative as a proactive form.…”
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Once Upon A Virus / by Goldstein, Diane E.

Table of Contents: “…: contemporary legend, scientific speculation, and the politics of blame in the search for AIDS origins -- Welcome to the innocent world of AIDS : cultural viability, localization, and contemporary legend -- "Billy Ray virus" : the folk creation and official maintenance of a public health scapegoat -- "Banishing all the spindles from the kingdom" : reading needle-prick narratives as resistance -- Once upon a virus : public health and narrative as a proactive form.…”
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Integrating Islam political and religious challenges in contemporary France / by Laurence, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…Liberté, égalité-- laïcité : creation of the French Council of the Muslim Religion ; 6. …”
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A place of our own the rise of Reform Jewish camping : essays honoring the fiftieth anniversary of Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute, Union for Reform Judaism, in Oconomowoc, Wisconsi...

Table of Contents: “…Sarna -- The beginnings of Union Institute in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, 1952-1970 : creation and coalescence of the first UAHC camp / Michael M. …”
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The world as active power studies in the history of European reason /

Table of Contents: “…Plato's dualism : the cosmos as active and passive power / Juhani Pietarinen -- The active principle in stoic philosophy / Havard Lokke -- Plotinus on act and power / Eyjolfur Kjalar Emilsson -- Power and activity in early medieval philosophy / Tomas Ekenberg -- Power and possibility in Thomas Aquinas / Andreas Schmidt -- Causal power in Descartes' mind-body union / Juhani Pietarinen -- De novo creat : Descartes on action, interaction, and continuous creation / Timo Kajamies -- Motion and reason : Hobbes's difficulties with the idea of active power / Juhani Pietarinen -- Spinoza's actualist model of power/ valtteri viljanen -- Leibniz on force, activity, and passivity / Arto Repo and Valtteri Viljanen -- Kant on force and activity / Arto Repo and Hemmo Laiho -- Differences that are none : Hegel's theory of force in the phenomenology of spirit / Andreas Schmidt -- Schopenhauer's twofold dynamism / Valtteri Viljanen.…”
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