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Weaving and binding immigrant gods and female immortals in ancient Japan /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Immigrant gods on the road to Jindo -- Karakami and animal sacrifice -- Female rulers and female immortals -- The queen mother of the west and the ghosts of the Buddhist tradition -- Shamanesses, lavatories, and the magic of silk -- Silkworms and consorts -- Silkworm cults in the heavenly grotto : Amaterasu and the children of Ama No -- Hoakari.…”
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Project business management /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…chapter 1 Laying Out the Scenery: The Business Side of Project Management -- chapter 2 The Diffi cult Way to the Contract -- chapter 3 Contracting -- chapter 4 Managing Complex and Dynamic PSNs -- chapter 5 Project Business Management and Crisis Management.…”
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The Saint of Kathmandu and other tales of the sacred in distant lands /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Bori : spirit possession in a Muslim town -- Las tres Marías : the cult of the Virgin in Mexico -- Oborogi : witchcraft in a Kenyan village -- The Saint of Kathmandu : treading where the Buddha trod -- El shaddai : charismatic Christianity in Hong Kong -- Just sitting : Zen in America.…”
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Mao's new world political culture in the early People's Republic /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Tiananmen Square : space and politics -- Ten monumental buildings : architecture of power -- Yangge : the dance of revolution -- Parades -- The red line : the Museum of the Chinese Revolution -- Oil paintings and history -- Devils in the drawings -- New year prints and peasant resistance -- The cult of the red martyr -- The Monument to the People's Heroes.…”
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Subliminal persuasion influence & marketing secrets they don't want you to know /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Creating message contagion -- Leverage applied propaganda -- Position and package your legend -- Control the emotion and the content -- Get a real endorsement -- Understand beliefs and true believers -- Harness the power of the people's media -- Deliver the experience -- The subliminal power of words -- Creating a cult following -- Seduction.…”
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Dark shadows
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Introduction: a cult television show -- Production history -- A necessarily brief synopsis -- Macronarrative: adapting the gothic novel and the horror film -- Micronarrative: television melodrama and episodic structure -- Actor, character, narrative -- Cultural context: camp, reception, and secondary texts -- Legacy -- Fans and fandoms -- Epilogue: Dark shadows 2008.…”
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Plots of epiphany : prison-escape in Acts of the Apostles /
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…Prison-escape and myth-criticism -- Epiphanic rescue from prison in ancient myth and history -- "Beginning from Jerusalem" : prison-escape and the mythopoesis of Christian origins in Acts 1-7 -- Rescue and regicide : the poetics and politics of group validation in Acts 12 -- "A door of faith opened to the Gentiles" : prison epiphany and cult foundation in Acts 16.…”
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The white devil : the werewolf in European culture /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Of man and beast : the prehistoric cults of Europe -- The wolves of Rome : classic accounts of the werewolf myth -- Fists of fury : the wolves of Germania -- The medieval werewolf -- A cruel and savage beast : the werewolf in folklore -- Of wolf and man : werewolf cases from Europe -- Methods to the madness : medical explanations of the werewolf myth -- Evolution creates dissolution : the end of the myth?…”
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The life of Margaret Alice Murray a woman's work in archaeology /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Margaret Murray's India, 1863-1894 -- University College, 1894-1902 -- In the field, 1902-1904 -- The classroom at UCL, 1904-1935 -- Suffrage and the new woman, 1904-1928 -- The classroom-at-large, 1904-1935 -- The witch-cult hypothesis and other adventures on the lunatic fringe, 1911-1935 -- Malta, Minorca, and other archaeology, 1914-1939 -- "Retirement," 1935-1963.…”
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Lake Garda : gateway to D.H. Lawrence's Voyage to the sun /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Lawrence, religion and the cult of the sun -- part VI. Lawrence and dance -- part VII. …”
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Reassembling religion in Roman Italy /
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Reinventing Chinese tradition : the cultural politics of late socialism /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Paper-Cuts in Modern China : The Search for Modernity, Cultural Tradition, and Women's Liberation -- Narrative Battle : Fabricating Folk Paper-Cutting as an Intangible Heritage -- Traditional Revival with Socialist Characteristics : Propaganda Storytelling Turned into Spiritual Service -- Folk Cultural Production with Danwei Characteristics : Folk Storytelling and Public Relations Activities -- Spirit Cults in Yan'an : Surrogate Rural Subjectivity in the Urbanizing Rural -- Glossary.…”
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Trim Tabs investing using liquidity theory to beat the stock market /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…A tale of fortune lost -- The genesis of liquidity theory -- The principles of liquidity theory -- The building blocks of liquidity analysis -- Demolishing the cult of earnings -- The house : secret corporate power -- The players : buying, selling, and borrowing -- The bull market and the bubble -- The aftermath -- Swinging for singles : lower risk strategies -- Swinging for the fences : more aggressive strategies -- Managing difficulties -- New applications -- How liquidity could save the markets.…”
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Atheist universe the thinking person's answer to christian fundamentalism /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…-- "Intelligent design: Christianity's newest cult.…”
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Psychoanalytic mythologies
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Points of view -- Making love to my ego -- The pinball project -- Psychopolitical cults -- The wet group -- Interpersonal skills -- Learn and enjoy -- Another language -- English identity, Ireland and violence -- Racing Diana's subjects -- Personal response under attack -- In Disney"s world -- Looking to the future, and back -- Windows on the mind -- Soap trek -- Clubbing -- E and me -- Garage nightmares -- Helpless in Japan -- Greek chairs -- Open secrets -- Passé.…”
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Stesichoros's Geryoneis
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A prosopography of Stesichoros -- The Geryon myth in the Archaic period -- Historical background -- Performance -- The geryoneis as a choral song -- Cult of Geryon -- Language and phonology -- Metre -- The papyri -- The terminus ad quem of physical texts for The geryoneis -- Order of fragments -- Geryoneis -- Note on the text -- Index criticorum -- Text -- Commentary -- Appendices -- Testimonia -- Additional sources -- Eastern parallels -- Plates -- Bibliography -- Editions -- Commentaries -- Select bibliography -- Tabula comparationis -- Indices.…”
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Saving alma mater a rescue plan for America's public universities /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Where the money comes from -- Market forces in higher education -- Why public universities cannot restrain costs -- The university prime directive -- The faculty are the university -- The cargo cult college -- The blessing and curse of shared governance -- What price shared governance? …”
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Songs of experience modern American and European variations on a universal theme /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…The trial of "experience" : from the Greeks to Montaigne and Bacon -- Experience and epistemology : the contest between empiricism and idealism -- The appeal of religious experience : Schleiermacher, James, Otto, and Buber -- Returning to the body through aesthetic experience : from Kant to Dewey -- Politics and experience : Burke, Oakeshott, and the English Marxists -- History and experience : Dilthey, Collingwood, Scott, and Ankersmit -- The cult of experience in American pragmatism : James, Dewey, and Rorty -- Lamenting the crisis of experience : Benjamin and Adorno -- The poststructuralist reconstitution of experience : Bataille, Barthes, and Foucault.…”
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Liquor in the land of the lost cause southern white evangelicals and the prohibition movement /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…: prohibition and race -- "Let the cowards vote as they will, I'm for prohibition still" : prohibition and the southern cult of honor -- "Some of our best preachers part their hair in the middle" : prohibition and gender -- Conclusion.…”
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Heroes and Revolution in Vietnam, 1948-1964 /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…The Life of the Dead; Chapter 6. The Cult of the New Hero; Chapter 7. Mass Culture and the Patriotic Pantheon; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index…”
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