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On foot a history of walking / by Amato, Joseph Anthony

Table of Contents: “…Introduction, walking is talking -- In the beginning was the foot : walking from the origins of bipedal man to marching Roman legions -- Along the road : Medieval pilgrims, beggars, mounted warriors, and the early city walkers -- Put your best foot forward : the rise of upper-class promenading and strolling -- Mind over foot : Romantic walking and rambling -- North American walking : exploring the continent on foot -- City walking : the genesis of the urban pedestrian in nineteenth-century London -- A new footing for the nation : taming and cleaning up revolutionary Paris -- Getting in step : disciplining the mob and marching the masses off to war -- Wheels and cars : the eclipse of the American walker by the motorist -- Conclusion, choose your steps : reflections on the transformation of walking from necessity to choice.…”
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Bought & sold living and losing the good life in socialist Yugoslavia / by Patterson, Patrick Hyder, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : the good life and the Yugoslav dream -- Introduction : getting it : making sense of socialist consumer culture -- Living it : Yugoslavia's economic miracle -- Making it : building a socialist brand of market culture -- Selling it : legitimizing the appeal of market culture -- Fearing it : the values of Marxism and the contradictions of consumerism -- Taming it : the party-state establishment and the perils of pleasure -- Fighting it : New Left attacks on the consumerist establishment and the Yugoslav dream -- Loving it : ordinary people, everyday life, and the power of consumption -- Needing it : the eclipse of the dream, the collapse of communism, and the death of Yugoslavia -- Epilogue : missing it : Yugo-nostalgia and the good life lost.…”
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Spain, Europe & the wider world, 1500-1800 by Elliott, John Huxtable

Table of Contents: “…A Europe of composite monarchies -- Learning from the enemy : early modern Britain and Spain -- The general crisis in retrospect : a debate without end -- A non-revolutionary society : Castile in the 1640's -- Europe after the Peace of Westphalia -- The seizure of overseas territories by the European powers -- Illusion and disillusionment : Spain and the Indies -- Britain and Spain in America : colonists and colonised -- King and patria in the Hispanic world -- The same world, different worlds -- Starting afresh? : the eclipse of empire in British and Spanish America -- El Greco's Mediterranean : the encounter of civilisations -- Court society in seventeenth-century Europe : Madrid, Brussels, London -- Appearance and reality in the Spain of Velázquez.…”
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Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment by Smith, James M., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the politics of sexual knowledge: the origins of Ireland's containment culture and the Carrigan Report (1931) -- The Magdalen asylum and history: mining the archive -- The Magdalen in nineteenth-century Ireland -- The Magdalen asylum and the state in twentieth-century Ireland -- The Magdalen Laundry in cultural representation: memory and storytelling in contemporary Ireland -- Remembering Ireland's architecture of containment: "telling" stories on stage, Patricia Burke Brogan's Eclipsed and Stained glass at Samhain -- (Ef)facing Ireland's Magdalen survivors: visual representations and documentary testimony -- The Magdalene sisters: film, fact and fiction -- Monuments, Magdalens, memorials: art installations and cultural memory -- Conclusion: history, cultural representation, ... action? …”
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Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the evolution of the casebook novel by Emrys, A. B., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Framed: a brief history of documents as narrative frames -- How he wrote his books: the apprentice years of framing testimony -- The woman in white: Collins launches the casebook novel -- Counterpoint witnessing in No name and Armadale -- The moonstone: Collins eclipses his first casebook -- Framed testimony in Collins's later novels -- The casebook after Collins -- Before Laura: Vera Caspary's early career and novels -- Laura: sensation roots of a noir novel -- Laura and Bedelia: "new woman" noir -- After Laura: Caspary's other casebook novels -- Caspary continues multiple focus -- Reframed: multiple focus in popular and literary texts -- Conclusion.…”
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The moral virtues and theological ethics by Cessario, Romanus

Table of Contents: “…-- Moral virtue and the theological life -- Virtues in nature -- Acquired virtue -- Infused virtue -- How to distinguish infused from acquired virtue -- Dynamics of infused virtues -- Characteristics of the virtues -- Distinctiveness of Christian teaching -- The mean of virtue -- Connection of the virtues -- Equality of the virtues -- After veritatis splendor : the moral virtues and Catholic moral thought -- Miraculous herrings -- The casuist eclipse -- The Thomist influence on magisterial teaching -- Allergy to imposed moral obligation -- Classical teaching on the Christian virtues.…”
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The noetics of nature : environmental philosophy and the holy beauty of the visible / by Foltz, Bruce V.

Table of Contents: “…Natural Beauty and the Eclipse of the Holy -- 2. Nature's Other Side: The Demise of Nature and the Phenomenology of Givenness -- 3. …”
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Granville Sharp's canon and its kin semantics and significance / by Wallace, Daniel B.

Table of Contents: “…The problem of the construction -- The need for this study -- Methodological considerations -- Limitations in the method and scope of research -- Historical investigation -- Preface : Jesus as [Geovv] in the New Testament -- Granville Sharp and his Remarks on the uses of the definitive article -- A short life of Granville Sharp -- The writings of Granville Sharp -- Sharp's Remarks on the uses of the definitive article -- Two centuries of misunderstanding -- From Wordsworth to Winstanley : early reactions to Sharp's first principle -- From Middleton to Winer : the eclipse of understanding -- The rising misunderstanding, abuse, and neglect of Sharp's canon -- Sharp redivivus? …”
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Mad men, women, and children essays on gender and generation /

Table of Contents: “…Dole -- Mad Men's Epoch-Eclipse: Marking Time with Sally Draper / Nancy Batty.…”
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Written culture in a colonial context Africa and the Americas, 1500-1900 /

Table of Contents: “…Culpin -- Written culture and the Cape Khoikhoi: from travel writing to Kolb's 'full description' / Nigel Penn -- Nothing new under the sun: anatomy of a literary-historical polemic in colonial Cape Town circa 1800-1910 / Peter Merrington -- Mapuche-Tehuelche Spanish writing and Argentinian-Chilean expansion during the 19th century / Julio Esteban Vezub -- To my dear minister: official letters of African Wesleyan evangelists in the late 19th-century Transvaal / Lize Kriel -- Literacy and land at the Bay of Natal: documents and practices across spaces and social economics / Mastin Prinsloo -- The 'painting' of Black history: the Afro-Cuban codex of José Antonio Aponte (Havana, Cuba, 1812) / Jorge Pavez Ojeda -- On not spreading the Word: ministers of religion and written culture at the Cape of Good Hope in the 18th century / Gerald Groenewald -- Occurrences and eclipses of the myth of Ulysses in Latin American culture / José Emilio Burucúa.…”
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Taking liberties the war on terror and the erosion of American democracy / by Herman, Susan N.

Table of Contents: “…-- PART III: RESTORING CHECKS AND BALANCES -- Chapter 11 American Democracy - The President, the Congress, and the Courts -- The View from the Oval Office - From Bush to Obama and Beyond -- The Sleeping Watchdog -- Secrecy and the Courts -- The Eclipse of the Courts -- Conclusion -- Ordinary Americans -- Restoring Balance.…”
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Castles and colonists an archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland / by Klingelhöfer, Eric C.

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Patrick Moore's data book of astronomy by Moore, Patrick

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United States and Mexico ties that bind, issues that divide /

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The Rise of Euroskepticism : Europe and Its Critics in Spanish Culture / by Martín-Estudillo, Luis

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Sacred Rivals : Catholic Missions and the Making of Islam in Nineteenth-Century France and Algeria / by Peterson, Joseph W.

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Voices in the Band : A Doctor, Her Patients, and How the Outlook on AIDS Care Changed from Doomed to Hopeful / by Ball, Susan C., 1957-

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