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The gods of Prophetstown the Battle of Tippecanoe and the holy war for the American frontier / by Jortner, Adam Joseph

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: The eclipse -- Thrown away -- Master of life -- Primogeniture -- Defeat -- The careerist -- Grouseland -- Prophecy -- Witchcraft -- Conspiracies -- Greenville -- The nation of Prophetstown -- The bargain -- The gathering -- Fiasco -- "A war of extirpation" -- Epilogue: The funeral.…”
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First strike America, terrorism, and moral tradition / by Totten, Mark, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…-- Just war at home in America -- Early modern rivals -- Anticipation in a state of nature -- Evolution and eclipse -- Revision -- Behind Webster's rule -- Beyond Webster's rule.…”
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The scandal of having something to say Ricoeur and the possibility of postliberal preaching / by Pape, Lance B., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Scandal of having something to say -- Hans Frei on how to read during an eclipse -- Paul Ricoeur and the world of the text -- Ricoeurian revision of postliberal homiletics -- Preaching as threefold mimesis -- Sermon manuscript: pain turned to newness -- Sermon manuscript: lost.…”
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Admission to the United Nations : Charter Article 4 and the rise of universal organization / by Grant, Thomas D., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…-- The road to universality : the admissions of 1955-6 -- Universality affirmed : the eclipse of substantive admission criteria -- Admission after the package deal -- Universality achieved : micro-states, neutral states, and the residue of empires -- Consequences of admission.…”
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Women with mustaches and men without beards gender and sexual anxieties of Iranian modernity / by Najmabadi, Afsaneh, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Beauty, love, and sexuality: early Qajar -- Beauty, love, and sexuality: nineteenth-century transformations -- The eclipse of the (fe)male sun -- Vatan, the beloved: Vatan, the mother -- Women's veil and unveil -- The tragedy of romantic marriage -- Crafting an educated wife and mother -- Women or wives of the nation? …”
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The publishing history of Uncle Tom's cabin, 1852-2002 by Parfait, Claire

Table of Contents: “…From inception to serialization -- Uncle Tom's cabin : the contract -- "The story of the age" : advertising and promotion -- Uncle Tom's cabin : the book, 1852-1853 -- Distribution and sales, 1852-1863 -- Uncle Tom's cabin, 1863-1893 -- Uncle Tom's cabin, 1893-1930 -- Eclipse and renaissance : Uncle Tom's cabin, 1930-2002.…”
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Virgil, the blind guide marking the way through the Divine Comedy / by Howard, Lloyd

Table of Contents: “…Virgil's taming of Plutus and Capaneus, and the pilgrim's changing perceptions -- The blindness of Virgil in Inferno 8-9, Purgatorio 15-16, and Purgatorio 22-23 -- Encounters with the heavenly beings in Hell and Purgatory -- The eclipse of Virgil and the ascent of Mary after her son -- Virgil, John the Baptist, and the downward journey "di giro in giro."…”
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Lucky planet : why Earth is exceptional--and what that means for life in the universe / by Waltham, David

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: a tale of two planets -- Almost too good to be true -- Mediocrity -- Rarely earth -- Constant change -- Air conditioning -- Snowballs and greenhouses -- Staggering through time -- Music of the spheres -- Force of nature -- Pond weeds and daisies -- Life's big bang -- Eclipse -- The dark side of the moon -- Gaia or Goldilocks? …”
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Growing the game the globalization of major league baseball / by Klein, Alan M., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The crisis at the core -- The Kansas City Royals : shopping without a credit card -- The Los Angeles Dodgers : bright lights, big market -- The Dominican Republic : fishing where the fish are -- Japan : emerging from the feudal eclipse -- Italy, Germany, and the United Kingdom : the European backwater -- South Africa : baseball and the new politics -- When will there be a real world series?…”
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In a shade of blue pragmatism and the politics of Black America / by Glaude, Eddie S., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Tragedy and moral experience : John Dewey and Toni Morrison's Beloved -- "Black and proud" : reconstructing black identity -- "Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands unto God" : the problem of history in black theology -- Agency, slavery, and African American Christianity -- Explicating Black nationalism -- The eclipse of a black public and the challenge of a post-soul politics.…”
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Beginning Android application development by Lee, Wei-Meng

Table of Contents: “…Getting started with Android programming -- Activities and intents -- Getting to know the Android user interface -- Designing your user interface using views -- Displaying pictures and menus with views -- Data persistence -- Content providers -- Messaging and networking -- Location-based services -- Developing Android services -- Publishing Android applications -- Using Eclipse for Android development -- Using the Android emulator -- Answers to exercises.…”
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The microbial models of molecular biology from genes to genomes / by Davis, Rowland H.

Table of Contents: “…Model systems, model organisms -- Morgan's progeny -- Neurospora -- Aspergillus -- Yeast -- Leaving the fungi -- Escherichia coli -- The T bacteriophages -- Temperate phages and transduction -- DNA -- Prokaryotes take center stage -- Prokaryotes : later contributions -- Cytoplasmic inheritance : the ciliates -- Organelle genetics : yeast and chlamydomonas -- Yeast becomes a supermodel -- The filamentous fungi : eclipse and renewal -- The role of biochemistry -- Genomics -- The age of model organisms.…”
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Spartak Moscow a history of the people's team in the workers' state / by Edelman, Robert, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Spartak's roots : futbol in the 'hood, 1900-1917 -- Before there was Spartak, 1917-1935 -- The battle is joined, 1936-1937 -- On top and bottom, 1937-1944 -- The golden age of Soviet soccer : Spartak in eclipse, 1945-1948 -- Spartak resurgent, 1949-1952 -- Thaw, change, and resurrection, 1953-1956 -- Good-bye, golden age, 1957-1964 -- Uncertainly ever after, 1964-1991.…”
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Fortifying China the struggle to build a modern defense economy / by Cheung, Tai Ming

Table of Contents: “…Bridging the civil-military technological divide in the information age -- Innovation and stagnation during the Maoist era -- The eclipse of the defense economy under Deng Xiaoping -- The revival of the defense economy in the twenty-first century -- Building a dual-use economy -- Can the Chinese defense economy catch up? …”
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Metro movies cinematic urbanism in post-Mao China / by Kuoshu, Harry H., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- X-roads : old and new city films -- Dislocation : Huang Jianxin's urban searching for roots -- No one cheers : the later fifth generation and the urban "situation movie" -- Beijing bastards : century's end rock scenes and China's Generation X -- Captives of love : emotional styles and the new urbanites -- Lunar eclipse: elusive urban realities -- City paradise : urbanization looms over an old land -- Conclusion.…”
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Recovering solidarity lessons from Poland's unfinished revolution / by Beyer, Gerald J. (Gerald John), 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The ethic of solidarity from 1980 to 1989 -- 2. The eclipse of solidarity after 1989 -- 3. Poverty in Poland after 1989 : empirical signs of the failure of the revolution -- 4. …”
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Atheist delusions the Christian revolution and its fashionable enemies / by Hart, David Bentley

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Faith, reason, and freedom : a view from the present -- The gospel of unbelief -- The age of freedom -- The mythology of the secular age : modernity's rewriting of the Christian past -- Faith and reason -- The night of reason -- The destruction of the past -- The death and rebirth of science -- Intolerance and persecution -- Intolerance and war -- An age of darkness -- Revolution : the Christian invention of the human -- The great rebellion -- A glorious sadness -- A liberating message -- The face of the faceless -- The death and birth of worlds -- Divine humanity -- Reaction and retreat : modernity and the eclipse of the human -- Secularism and its victims -- Sorcerers and saints.…”
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Romantic Catholics : France's postrevolutionary generation in search of a modern faith / by Harrison, Carol E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : romantic Catholics and the two Frances -- First communion : the most beautiful day in the lives and deaths of little girls -- The education of Maurice de Guérin -- The dilemma of obedience : Charles de Montalembert, Catholic citizen -- Pauline Craven's holy family : writing the modern saint -- Frédéric and Amélie Ozanam : charity, marriage, and the Catholic social -- A free church in a free state : the Roman question -- Epilogue : the devout woman of the Third Republic and the eclipse of Catholic fraternity.…”
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American Iron, 1607-1900 / by Gordon, Robert B. (Robert Boyd), 1929-

Table of Contents: “…Iron Quality -- 10. Ironmaking Eclipsed, 1860-1900 -- 11. The Industrial Archaeology of Iron -- Appendix A Metallography -- Appendix B Iron Production Data.…”
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The rise and fall of the Caucasian race a political history of racial identity / by Baum, Bruce David, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "Caucasians" and the political history of racial identities -- Before the "Caucasian race" : antecedents of European racialism, ca. 1000-1684 -- Enlightenment science and the invention of the "Caucasian race," 1684-1795 -- Passage into "our ordinary forms of expression" : the "Caucasian race," ca. 1795-1850 -- Racialized nationalism and the partial eclipse of the "Caucasian race," ca. 1840-1935 -- The color line and the "Caucasian race" revival, 1935-51 -- Not-so-benign racialism : the "Caucasian race" after decolonization, 1952-2005 -- "Where Caucasian means black" : "race," nation, and the Chechen wars -- Conclusion : deconstructing "Caucasia," dismantling racism.…”
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