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Imperial Matter : Ancient Persia and the Archaeology of Empires / by Khatchadourian, Lori, 1975-

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Women in the Silent Cinema : Histories of Fame and Fate / by Förster, Annette

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Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times by Ivakhiv, Adrian

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Stubborn Weeds : Popular and Controversial Chinese Literature After the Cultural Revolution /

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Daughter Zion her portrait, her response /

Table of Contents: “…Cognitive linguistics and the "idolatry-is-adultery" metaphor of Jeremiah 2-3 / Barbara Green -- Speaking of speaking : the form of Zion's suffering in Lamentations / Jill Middlemas -- Isaiah 40-55 : a Judahite reading drama / Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer -- The fecundity of fair Zion : beauty and fruitfulness as spiritual fulfillment / Stephen L. …”
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Daughter Zion her portrait, her response /

Table of Contents: “…Cognitive linguistics and the "idolatry-is-adultery" metaphor of Jeremiah 2-3 / Barbara Green -- Speaking of speaking : the form of Zion's suffering in Lamentations / Jill Middlemas -- Isaiah 40-55 : a Judahite reading drama / Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer -- The fecundity of fair Zion : beauty and fruitfulness as spiritual fulfillment / Stephen L. …”
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Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850) /

Table of Contents: “…Oyarbide Magaña -- Enemy treasures : the making and marketing of Spanish Comedia in the Amsterdam Schouwburg / Frans Blom -- 'The barke is bad, but the tree good' : hispanophilia, hispanophobia and Spanish honour in English and Dutch plays (c. 1630-1670) / Rena Bood -- James Salgado : anti-Spanish sentiment and the Popish Plot / Antonio Cortijo Ocaña -- From hispanophobia to Quixotephilia : the politics of quixotism in the British long eighteenth century / Pedro Javier Pardo -- Spanish politicking in British periodical reviews, 1808-1814 / Susan Valladares -- Hispanophobia and hispanophilia in the Netherlands : continuities and ruptures in the nineteenth century / Lotte Jensen -- From azoteas to dungeons : Spain as archaeology of the despotism in Alexander Dallas's novel Vargas (1822) / Fernando Durán López -- Discordant visions : Spain and the stages of London in 1823 / Diego Saglia -- Historical fiction, cultural transfer and the recycling of the Black Legend between the Low Countries and Britain : a nineteenth-century case study / Raphaël Ingelbien -- 'Covering the skeletons with flesh and blood' : Spanish Golden Age drama in English and Dutch nineteenth-century literary histories / Yolanda Rodríguez Perez.…”
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Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850) /

Table of Contents: “…Oyarbide Magaña -- Enemy treasures : the making and marketing of Spanish Comedia in the Amsterdam Schouwburg / Frans Blom -- 'The barke is bad, but the tree good' : hispanophilia, hispanophobia and Spanish honour in English and Dutch plays (c. 1630-1670) / Rena Bood -- James Salgado : anti-Spanish sentiment and the Popish Plot / Antonio Cortijo Ocaña -- From hispanophobia to Quixotephilia : the politics of quixotism in the British long eighteenth century / Pedro Javier Pardo -- Spanish politicking in British periodical reviews, 1808-1814 / Susan Valladares -- Hispanophobia and hispanophilia in the Netherlands : continuities and ruptures in the nineteenth century / Lotte Jensen -- From azoteas to dungeons : Spain as archaeology of the despotism in Alexander Dallas's novel Vargas (1822) / Fernando Durán López -- Discordant visions : Spain and the stages of London in 1823 / Diego Saglia -- Historical fiction, cultural transfer and the recycling of the Black Legend between the Low Countries and Britain : a nineteenth-century case study / Raphaël Ingelbien -- 'Covering the skeletons with flesh and blood' : Spanish Golden Age drama in English and Dutch nineteenth-century literary histories / Yolanda Rodríguez Perez.…”
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Handbook of public sociology

Table of Contents: “…Glenn -- On writing public sociology : accountability through accessibility, dialogue, and relevance / Damon Mayrl and Laurel Westbrook -- Recapturing the sociological imagination : the challenge for public sociology / Frank Furedi -- Presenting sociology's four "faces" : problems and prospects for the high school course / Michael DeCesare -- Teaching and public sociology / Caroline Hodges Persell -- From data to drama : returning research to convicted survivors / Elizabeth Dermody Leonard -- Integrating the four sociologies : the "Baigou project" in China / Lina Hu -- Becoming public sociology : indigenous nations, dialogue, and change / Stephen Cornell -- Talking about racial disparities in imprisonment : a reflection on experiences in Wisconsin / Pamela E. …”
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Women writing back/writing women back transnational perspectives from the late Middle Ages to the dawn of the modern era /

Table of Contents: “…Nascent ideas of female bonding in seventeenth-century England / Ina Schabert -- Women and literary sociability in eighteenth-century Lisbon / Vanda Anástacio -- Female writing and the use of literary byways. Pastoral drama by Maddalena Campiglia (1553-1595) / Philiep Bossier -- Prescriptions for women: alchemy, medicine and the renaissance Querelle des femmes / Meredith K. …”
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The metaphysical vision Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of art and life and Samuel Beckett's own way to make use of it / by Pothast, Ulrich

Table of Contents: “…Metaphysical vision -- Schopenhauer out of fashion : Beckett his student -- Intentions and limits -- Metaphysics of art and life -- On Schopenhauer's aesthetics and world view -- Premises from Schopenhauer's theory of knowledge and metaphysics -- Dissolution of self and creation of art -- The truly metaphysical activity of this life -- Idea and sensory perception -- Symbols trivial -- Realism vulgar -- Every thing beautiful -- Genius objective -- Bliss, not just pleasure -- Will-less, not just disinterested -- Music -- Tragedy and the vanity of life -- Denial of the will-to-live -- Affirmation of the will-to-live -- Happiness negative -- Suffering productive -- The metaphysical drama -- Timeless present, no ending - Life pensum, suicide no escape -- The primacy of nothingness -- Beckett's philosophical view of art and life in Proust -- True reality and caricature of reality -- Idea versus concept -- Causality, time, will -- Habit -- Two kinds of memory -- Vulgarity -- Death of habit: waking madness -- Purity, impurity -- The necessity of art -- Schopenhauer made use of -- Schopenhauer altered -- The proustian equation, the proustian solution -- Affirmation of the will, voluntarily tantalus -- Desert of loneliness, no morality -- Existence of the artist -- On some details in Beckett's literary work -- Murphy -- I am not of the big world, I am of the little world -- Vision -- Will-lessness, yearning for nothing -- Moran -- Remnants of a pensum -- A work which will subsist -- Finality without end -- Images of that kind the will cannot revive -- Dispossessed of self -- The unnamable -- What if we were one and the same after all -- There is no pronoun for me -- I have a pensum to discharge -- I'm all these words -- I am doing my best and failing : new thoughts about art and the artist -- Gogo and Didi, Hamm and Clov -- In a cage out of time and space -- In a single night -- You pollute the air -- Is it not time for my pain-killer? …”
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Screwball television critical perspectives on Gilmore girls /

Table of Contents: “…"Impossible girl": Amy Sherman-Palladino and television creativity / David Lavery -- Branding the family drama: genre formations and critical perspectives on Gilmore girls / Amanda R. …”
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Among the Garifuna : family tales and ethnography from the Caribbean coast / by Wells, Marilyn McKillop

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Handbook of public sociology

Table of Contents: “…Glenn -- On writing public sociology : accountability through accessibility, dialogue, and relevance / Damon Mayrl and Laurel Westbrook -- Recapturing the sociological imagination : the challenge for public sociology / Frank Furedi -- Presenting sociology's four "faces" : problems and prospects for the high school course / Michael DeCesare -- Teaching and public sociology / Caroline Hodges Persell -- From data to drama : returning research to convicted survivors / Elizabeth Dermody Leonard -- Integrating the four sociologies : the "Baigou project" in China / Lina Hu -- Becoming public sociology : indigenous nations, dialogue, and change / Stephen Cornell -- Talking about racial disparities in imprisonment : a reflection on experiences in Wisconsin / Pamela E. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Women writing back/writing women back transnational perspectives from the late Middle Ages to the dawn of the modern era /

Table of Contents: “…Nascent ideas of female bonding in seventeenth-century England / Ina Schabert -- Women and literary sociability in eighteenth-century Lisbon / Vanda Anástacio -- Female writing and the use of literary byways. Pastoral drama by Maddalena Campiglia (1553-1595) / Philiep Bossier -- Prescriptions for women: alchemy, medicine and the renaissance Querelle des femmes / Meredith K. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The metaphysical vision Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of art and life and Samuel Beckett's own way to make use of it / by Pothast, Ulrich

Table of Contents: “…Metaphysical vision -- Schopenhauer out of fashion : Beckett his student -- Intentions and limits -- Metaphysics of art and life -- On Schopenhauer's aesthetics and world view -- Premises from Schopenhauer's theory of knowledge and metaphysics -- Dissolution of self and creation of art -- The truly metaphysical activity of this life -- Idea and sensory perception -- Symbols trivial -- Realism vulgar -- Every thing beautiful -- Genius objective -- Bliss, not just pleasure -- Will-less, not just disinterested -- Music -- Tragedy and the vanity of life -- Denial of the will-to-live -- Affirmation of the will-to-live -- Happiness negative -- Suffering productive -- The metaphysical drama -- Timeless present, no ending - Life pensum, suicide no escape -- The primacy of nothingness -- Beckett's philosophical view of art and life in Proust -- True reality and caricature of reality -- Idea versus concept -- Causality, time, will -- Habit -- Two kinds of memory -- Vulgarity -- Death of habit: waking madness -- Purity, impurity -- The necessity of art -- Schopenhauer made use of -- Schopenhauer altered -- The proustian equation, the proustian solution -- Affirmation of the will, voluntarily tantalus -- Desert of loneliness, no morality -- Existence of the artist -- On some details in Beckett's literary work -- Murphy -- I am not of the big world, I am of the little world -- Vision -- Will-lessness, yearning for nothing -- Moran -- Remnants of a pensum -- A work which will subsist -- Finality without end -- Images of that kind the will cannot revive -- Dispossessed of self -- The unnamable -- What if we were one and the same after all -- There is no pronoun for me -- I have a pensum to discharge -- I'm all these words -- I am doing my best and failing : new thoughts about art and the artist -- Gogo and Didi, Hamm and Clov -- In a cage out of time and space -- In a single night -- You pollute the air -- Is it not time for my pain-killer? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Screwball television critical perspectives on Gilmore girls /

Table of Contents: “…"Impossible girl": Amy Sherman-Palladino and television creativity / David Lavery -- Branding the family drama: genre formations and critical perspectives on Gilmore girls / Amanda R. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Among the Garifuna : family tales and ethnography from the Caribbean coast / by Wells, Marilyn McKillop

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Too hot to touch the problem of high-level nuclear waste / by Alley, William M.

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Reading Death in Ancient Rome / by Erasmo, Mario

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