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Reading Sex and the city

Table of Contents: “…'My Manolos, my self' : Manolo Blahnik, shoes and desire /…”
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A Key to the Treasure of the Hakim : Artistic and Humanistic Aspects of Nizami Ganjavi’s Khamsa /

Table of Contents: “…The Hidden Pearls of Wisdom: Desire and Initiation in Laylī u Majnūn / Leili Anvar --…”
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A Key to the Treasure of the Hakim : Artistic and Humanistic Aspects of Nizami Ganjavi’s Khamsa /

Table of Contents: “…The Hidden Pearls of Wisdom: Desire and Initiation in Laylī u Majnūn / Leili Anvar --…”
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A Key to Dutch History : The Cultural Canon of the Netherlands /

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A Key to Dutch History : The Cultural Canon of the Netherlands /

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How the west was won essays on the literary imagination, the canon, and the Christian middle ages for Burcht Pranger /

Table of Contents: “…De obitu Valentiniani : Abelard, Bernard of Clairvaux, and the canonization of Ambrose of Milan on baptism by desire /…”
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Fermentation Microbiology and Biotechnology, Fourth Edition /

Table of Contents: “…Section IFermentation Microbiology and Biotechnology: Central and Modern Concepts Chapter 1 Fermentation Microbiology and Biotechnology: An Historical Perspective Chapter 2 Microbiology of Industrial Fermentation: Central and Modern Concepts Chapter 3 Fermentation Kinetics: Central and Modern Concepts Section IIFermentation Microbiology and Biotechnology: Control of Carbon Flux to Product Formation in Microbial Cell Factories Chapter 4 Microbial Synthesis of Primary Metabolites: Current Trends and Future Prospects Chapter 5 Microbial Synthesis of Secondary Metabolites and Strain Improvement: Current Trends and Future Prospects Chapter 6 Flux Control Analysis and Stoichiometric Network Modeling: Current Trends and Future Prospects Chapter 7 Control of Metabolite Efflux in Microbial Cell Factories: Current Advances and Future Prospects Section IIIFermentation Microbiology and Biotechnology: Metabolic, Enzymatic, and Genetic Engineering of Microorganisms Chapter 8 Increasing Tolerance and Robustness of Industrial Microorganisms: Current Strategies and Future Prospects Chapter 9 Engineering Microorganisms for the Production of Pharmaceutical Biomolecules: Current Trends and Future Prospects Chapter 10 Enzyme and Cofactor Engineering: Current Trends and Future Prospects in the Pharmaceutical and Fermentation Industries Section IV Fermentation Microbiology and Biotechnology: Bioconversion of Renewable Resources to Desirable End Products Chapter 11 Conversion of Renewable Resources to Biofuels and Fine Chemicals: Current Trends and Future Prospects Chapter 12 Biorefineries: Industrial Perspectives and Challenges in Primary and Secondary Metabolism Chapter 13 Solid-State Fermentation: Current Trends and Future Prospects Section V Fermentation Microbiology and Biotechnology: Tools, Monitoring, and Control of Fermentation Processes Chapter 14 Functional Genomics: Current Trends, Tools, and Future Prospects in the Fermentation and Pharmaceutical Industries Chapter 15 Bioreactors: Design, Operation, and Applications Chapter 16 Biosensors in Bioprocess Monitoring and Control: Current Trends and Future Prospects Chapter 17 Cell Immobilization and Its Applications in Biotechnology: Current Trends and Future Prospects Chapter 18 Recent Advances and Impacts of Microtiter Plate-Based Fermentations in Synthetic Biology and Bioprocess Development Chapter 19 Control and Monitoring of Industrial Fermentations: An Industrial Perspective and Recent Trends.…”
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A Feminist Post-transsexual Autoethnography : Challenging Normative Gender Coercion / by Peters, Julie Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- Foreword -- 1 The Gendered Subject in the Social World -- 1.1 Research Themes and Structure of the Work -- 1.2 Methodological Overview -- 1.3 Ethical Considerations -- 1.4 The Exegesis Analysis and Interpretation -- --2 Critical Framing: Literature Review -- 2.1 Sociological Framing of Gendered Subject Formation -- 2.2 The Subject in the Social World -- 2.3 Competing/Intersecting Complexes of Power Constructing Gender -- 2.4 Trans and Gender-Diverse Health and Wellbeing -- 2.5 In Summary A Complex Intersectional Multidisciplinary Framing -- --3 Autoethnography I Peter -- 3.1 Ignorance is Bliss (1951-1958) -- 3.2 Realisations (1958-1962) -- 3.3 Secret Agency (1963-1965) -- 3.4 Puberty Rupture (1965) -- 3.5 My Dark Ages (1966-1971) -- --4 Autoethnography II Ghost -- 4.2 Grasping for Stability (1971-1973) -- 4.2 Transgression and Identity Quest (mid-1973-1990) -- --5 Autoethnography III Julie -- 5.1 Rebirth Transition Work (1990-1992) -- 5.2 The Art of Becoming Myself in a Gendered World -- --6 My Accommodation to the Social World -- 6.1 The Interplay between Desire and Normative Gender Coercion -- 6.2 Agency Grounded in a Transformation of Subjectivity -- 6.3 Agency Grounded in Restructuring Power Relations with Institutions -- 6.4 Political Recognition and Agency -- 6.5 Gendered Identity -- 6.6 Psychological Health -- 6.7 Gendered Embodiment, Habitus and Physical Health -- 6.8 Relationships, Intimacy, Sexuality and Livable Life -- 6.9 Aesthetic Appreciation and Achievement -- 6.10 Becoming Myself -- 7 The Subjects Explication of the Social World -- 7.1 Society Needs Coercion for Gender to be Performed Naturally -- 7.2 Individual, Ascribed Identity and Identity Politics -- 7.3 Disease Models of Gender Nonconformity -- 7.4 A Critique of Complexes of Power on Gender Nonconformity -- 7.5 The Radical Feminist Moral Critique of Transsexuality -- --8 Remaking the Social World -- 8.1 Strategies for Achieving the Necessities in Life -- 8.2 Strategies for a Healthy Life -- 8.2 Strategies for Achieving a Life with Agency -- 8.4 Strategies for Making Ones Life a Work of Art -- 8.5 The Realistic Possibility of Social Change -- --9 Synthesis and Conclusions -- 9.1 A Non-Pathological Schema on the Operation of Gender -- 9.2 Ensuing and Post-Doctoral Research Questions -- 9.3 The Major Themes Considered -- --Index.…”
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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disability : Looking Towards the Future: Volume 2 /

Table of Contents: “…Kulkarni); Part Three, Disciplines of Complexity and Innovation; Chapter 12: Complexity and disability: drawing from a complexity approach to think through disability at the intersections (Louisa Smith and Leanne Dowse); Chapter 13: Towards a crip methodology for critical disability studies (Louise Hickman and David Serlin); Chapter 14: Inserting disability pedagogies in mutable configurations of space and interaction (Brian Goldfarb and Suzanne Stolz); Chapter 15: Mobilising historical knowledge: Locating the disability archive (Natalie Spagnuolo); Chapter 16: Cripping immunity: Disability and the immune self (Travis Chi Wing Lau); Chapter 17: Theologising disability: Intersections of critique and collaboration (Sarah Jean Barton); Part Four, Perspectives of Place; Chapter 18: Hello from the other side: Why Iran remains excluded from global disability studies (Negin Hosseini Goodrich); Chapter 19: Misrecognising persons with disabilities in the Global South: The need for a comparative disability studies framework (Stephen Meyers); Chapter 20: An investigation into the social integration of people with disabilities in the European Union using a novel approach to cultural consonance analysis (Mirjam Holleman); Chapter 21: Different, not less: Communicating autism via the internet in Indonesia (Hersinta); Chapter 22: Making the irrelevant relevant: The case of the invisibles with disabilities in the Middle East (Najma Al Zidjaly); Part Five, Perspectives of Experience; Chapter 23: Human doing to human being: Western versus Indigenous views on differences in ability (Jillian Pearsall-Jones, Caris Jalla and George Hayden); Chapter 24: Strange beauty: Aesthetic possibilities for desiring disability into the future (Eliza Chandler and Esther Ignagni); Chapter 25: The Brazilian way: Media coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games (Tatiane Hilgemberg); Chapter 26: I could see the future: An ethnographic study of Deaf childrens transition from an oral school to a signing school (Pamela G Macias); Glossary; Index.…”
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Advanced dynamic-system simulation model replication and Monte Carlo studies / by Korn, Granino A. (Granino Arthur), 1922-

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Antigone, in her unbearable splendor new essays on Jacques Lacan's The ethics of psychoanalysis / by Freeland, Charles, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introductory remarks -- Towards an ethics of psychoanalysis -- Philosophy's preparation for death -- The "truth about truth" -- The knots of moral law and desire -- Antigone, in her unbearable splendor -- The desire for happiness and the promise of analysis: Aristotle and Lacan on the ethics of desire -- To conclude/not to conclude.…”
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Sexuality and gender now : moving beyond heteronormativity /

Table of Contents: “…Sex and the consulting room -- Homophobia, heteronormativity and shame -- Working with sameness and difference: reflections on supervision with diverse sexualities -- Desire -- Losing the internal Oedipal mother and loss of sexual desire -- The primary maternal Oedipal situation and female homoerotic desire -- Mending the symbolic, when a place for male same-sex desire is not found -- Perspectives on gender -- From bisexuality to intersexuality: rethinking gender categories -- Notes on a crisis of meaning in the care of gender diverse children -- Crossing over -- Gender now -- Anonymous: a person beyond gender.…”
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Literary passports the making of modernist Hebrew fiction in Europe / by Pinsker, Shachar

Table of Contents: “…-- Homel and Lvov : the significance of the frontiers -- London : a foggy day in Whitechapel -- Vienna : "this mocking and innocent city" -- Berlin : between the Scheunenviertel and the Romanisches café -- The sexual turn in modernist fiction of fin de siècle Europe -- I am so weak and my desire is so strong : the crisis of (Jewish) masculinity -- In the house and in the gardens : erotic triangulations and homosocial desire -- Writing, masculinity and sexual desire -- Imagining the beloved : the new Jewish woman -- Old wine in new flasks : the reinvention of Jewish traditions -- In the shadow of God : the quest for new religiosity in European and Hebrew modernism -- Mysterium tremendum : the varieties of religious experience in Hebrew modernism -- Out of the depths : visions and guiding spirits -- Appendix : the meaning of Hasidism and its echoes in modern Hebrew literature (1906) / Yosef Chaim Brenner.…”
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Divided highways building the interstate highways, transforming American life / by Lewis, Tom

Table of Contents: “…The chief -- Mastering nature -- The dreamway -- The GI and the general -- A grand plan -- The great puzzle -- Lines of desire -- Revolt -- Busting the trust -- New rules -- Continental drift -- The greatest of improvements -- Buried desires.…”
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Reasons without rationalism by Setiya, Kieran, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…"Squeezing the good into the right through the tubes of imperfection" -- The relevance of action theory -- A puzzle about intention -- The belief-desire model -- Acting for reasons -- Solving the puzzle -- A causal theory of action? …”
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Repeating ourselves American minimal music as cultural practice / by Fink, Robert

Table of Contents: “…The culture of eros : repetition as desire creation -- Do it ('til you're satisfied) : repetitive musics and recombinant desires -- "A colorful installment in the twentieth-century drama of consumer subjectivity" : minimalism and the phenomenology of consumer desire -- The media sublime : minimalism, advertising, and television -- The culture of Thanatos : repetition as mood regulation -- "A pox on Manfredini" : the long-playing record, the baroque revival, and the birth of ambient music -- "I did this exercise 100,000 times" : zen, minimalism, and the Suzuki method.…”
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Abandoned to lust sexual slander and ancient Christianity / by Knust, Jennifer Wright, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…: sex talk, power, and resistance -- Sexual slander and ancient invective -- Paul, the slaves of desire, the the saints of God -- Sexual vice and Christian Apologia -- The false teachers of the end time -- Illicit sex, wicked desire, and the demonized heretic.…”
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Modal subjectivities self-fashioning in the Italian madrigal / by McClary, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Night and deceit : Verdelot's Machiavelli -- The desiring subject, or subject to desire : Arcadelt -- Radical inwardness : Willaert's Musica nova -- The prisonhouse of mode : Cipriano de Rore -- The Coney Island of the madrigal : Wert and Marenzio -- The luxury of solipsism : Gesualdo -- The Mirtillo/Amarilli controversy : Monteverdi -- I modi.…”
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Nine plays / by O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953

Table of Contents: “…The Emperor Jones -- The Hairy ape -- All God's chillun got wings -- Desire under the elms -- Marco Millions -- The Great god Brown -- Lazarus laughed -- Strange interlude -- Mourning becomes Electra.…”

Intimate encounters Filipina women and the remaking of rural Japan / by Faier, Lieba

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Figures of desires -- pt. 2. Terms of relations.…”
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