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Constructing China's Jerusalem Christians, power, and place in contemporary Wenzhou / by Cao, Nanlai

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : putting Christianity and capitalism in their place -- The rise of "boss Christians" and their engagements with state power -- Of manners, morals and modernity : cosmopolitan desires and the remaking of Christian identity -- The business of religion in the "Wenzhou model" of Christian revival -- Gendered agency, gender hierarchy and religious identity making -- Conversion to urban citizenship : rural migrant workers' participation in Wenzhou Christianity -- Conclusion : religious revivalism as a moral discourse of modernity.…”
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Widowhood in early modern Spain protectors, proprietors, and patrons / by Fink De Backer, Stephanie

Table of Contents: “…Widows and the literary imagination -- Subjects of counsel -- Objects of desire -- Sex in the city -- To her alone pertains the governance of all her house (Gaspar Astete) -- Master and mistress of the household -- Father and mother of their children -- A widow's work is never done -- Worthy recipients and pious donors -- Widowhood, poverty, and charity -- Family, memory, and the sacralization of urban space -- Coda. …”
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Writing the ghetto class, authorship, and the Asian American ethnic enclave / by Chang, Yoonmee, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Writing the ghetto -- "Like a slum": ghettos and ethnic enclaves, ghetto and genre -- The Japanese American internment : master narratives and class critique -- Chinese suicide: political desire and queer exogamy -- Ethnic entrepreneurs: Korean American spies, shopkeepers, and the 1992 Los Angeles riots -- Indian Edison: the ethnoburbian paradox and corrective ethnography -- Conclusion : A fork in the road: the post-racial aesthetic and class visibility.…”
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Dark matter : invisibility in drama, theater, and performance / by Sofer, Andrew, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…How to do things with demons: conjuring performatives in Doctor Faustus -- Quantum mechanicals: desiring bottom in A midsummer night's dream -- Unmasking women: The rover and sexual signification on the Restoration stage -- Unbecoming acts: power, performance, and the self-consuming body in Tennessee Williams's Suddenly last summer -- Bugs in the mind: The archbishop's ceiling and Arthur Miller's prismatic drama -- Invisible wounds: rehearsing trauma on the contemporary stage.…”
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Machiavelli and the Politics of Democratic Innovation / by Holman, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part one: Methodology -- Machiavelli and the constellative move of historical appropriation -- Part two: Philosophical Anthropology -- The contingency of being: on worldly and human indetermination -- Politics and the human essence: The prince as a model of human subjectivity -- Part three: Political Ontology -- Ambition and the people: the popular form of the desire for creation -- Social equality and the contingent being of the great -- Institutionalizing ambitious expression: the republic as the self-overcoming regime.…”
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Extending the supply chain how cutting-edge companies bridge the critical last mile into customers' homes / by Boyer, Kenneth Karel, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- the great divide between customers and retailers -- Decoupled extenaed supply chains -- Semi: Exteneded supply chains -- Fully extended supply chains -- Centralized extended supply chains -- Strategy : meshing operational and marketing goals -- Marketing : tapping customers' latent desires -- Supply chain design : how to bridge the last mile -- Information technology : facilitating learning and streamlining transactions -- The future of the extended supply chain.…”
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Machiavelli and the Politics of Democratic Innovation / by Holman, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part one: Methodology -- Machiavelli and the constellative move of historical appropriation -- Part two: Philosophical Anthropology -- The contingency of being: on worldly and human indetermination -- Politics and the human essence: The prince as a model of human subjectivity -- Part three: Political Ontology -- Ambition and the people: the popular form of the desire for creation -- Social equality and the contingent being of the great -- Institutionalizing ambitious expression: the republic as the self-overcoming regime.…”
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On monsters an unnatural history of our worst fears / by Asma, Stephen T.

Table of Contents: “…Alexander fights monsters in India ; Monsters are nature's playthings ; Hermaphrodites and man-headed oxen ; Monstrous desire -- Medieval monsters : messages from God. Biblical monsters ; Do monsters have souls? …”
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Fictions of dignity embodying human rights in world literature / by Anker, Elizabeth S. (Elizabeth Susan), 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Coetzee's Disgrace : the rights of desire and the embodied lives of animals -- Arundhati Roy's "return to the things themselves" : phenomenology and the challenge of justice -- Coda : small places, close to home.…”
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Reading Hegel's Phenomenology by Russon, John Edward, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Sense, time, and my meaning -- From perception to philosophy -- Understanding : things, forces, and the body -- Death and desire in Hegel's epistemology : the form of Hegel's argument -- Reading and the body -- Hermeneutical pressure : intersubjectivity and objectivity -- The "freedom of self-consciousness" and early modern epistemology -- Reason and dualism -- Spirit and skepticism -- The contradictions of moral life : Hegel's critique of Kant -- Selfhood, conscience, and dialectic -- The ritual basis of self-identity -- Vision and image in Hegel's system -- Deciding to read : on the horizon (of Christianity) -- Absolute knowing : the structure and project of Hegel's system of science.…”
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Situating semantics essays on the philosophy of John Perry /

Table of Contents: “…Situating semantics: an overview of the philosophy of John Perry -- Prospects for a naturalization of practical reason: instrumentalism and the normative authority of desire -- Mathematical objects and identity -- Substitution, identity, and the subject-predicate structure -- Relativized propositions -- Understanding temporal indexicals -- Is there a problem of the essential indexical? …”
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Complex ethics consultations cases that haunt us /

Table of Contents: “…The most vulnerable of us : pediatrics -- pt. 3. Diversity of desires and limits of liberty : psychiatric and psychological issues -- pt. 4. …”
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The economics and politics of high-speed rail lessons from experiences abroad / by Albalate, Daniel, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Development of the high speed rail in the world -- High speed rail in the us: an overview of the debate -- High speed rail: the analytical framework -- Japan: Shinkansen -- France: Train �a Grande Vitesse (TGV) -- Germany: Neubaustrecken -- Spain: Alta Velocidad Espa�nola (AVE) -- China: Zhonggu�o gaos�u tiel�u -- Other experiences: Italy, Korea, and Taiwan -- Lessons from international experiences -- Conclusions: desires, beliefs, and reality.…”
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Fractured borders reading women's cancer literature / by DeShazer, Mary K.

Table of Contents: “…"The night-side of life" : analyzing cancer literature from feminist perspectives -- "Skinnied on the left side like a girl" : embodying cancer on the feminist stage -- Entering "The house of lightning" : resistance and transformation in U.S. women's breast cancer poetry -- Dying into the lite : popular fiction, cancer, and the romance of women's relationships -- "Floating out on a yacht called Eros" : memory, desire, and death in women's experimental cancer fiction -- "Entering cancerland" : self-representation, commonality, and culpability in women's autobiographical narratives.…”
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Deformed and destructive beings the purpose of horror films / by Ochoa, George

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Poetry in the Song of songs a literary analysis / by Hunt, Patrick

Table of Contents: “…Focus, history of the book, hermeneutics and its influence -- The figurative language of desire : "your lovemaking is better than wine" -- Subtle wordplay : concealed paronomasia and secrets -- Sensory imagery : "he shall lie between my breasts" -- The lovers' garden : fertility imagery as eroticism in flowers, fruit and spices -- Animal imagery : stags, gazelles and flocks as virility and wealth -- The lovers' banquet : "feed me sweet cakes" -- The lovers' dualisms : binary language in poetic parallelisms -- Protection, power and priceless worth : love's safeguards -- The lovers' transformations : similes -- The lovers' synthesis : metaphors.…”
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Emotions and health, 1200-1700

Table of Contents: “…MacLehose -- Anger and the mind-body connection in medieval and early modern medicine / Elena Carrera -- Non-natural love : coitus, desire, and hygiene in medieval and early modern Spain / Michael R. …”
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Leadership / by Tracy, Brian

Table of Contents: “…Leaders are made, not born -- A sense of mission -- Action orientation -- The quality of courage -- The leader as strategist -- The ability to inspire and motivate -- Commit to winning -- The leader as communicator -- Learn from adversity -- Build a championship team -- Focus on results -- The desire to lead -- The role of self-esteem in leadership -- Lead by example -- Self-motivation for leaders -- Develop leadership qualities -- Power through cooperation -- Lead by consensus -- Leaders are listeners -- Live like a leader -- Integrity : the essential quality of leadership.…”
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Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics a critical guide /

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Queer Velocities : Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage / by Row, Jennifer Eun-Jung

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