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Enduring loss in early modern Germany cross disciplinary perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…The Thirty Years' War as experience and memory : contemporary perceptions of a macro-historical event / Hans Medick -- Vanitas, vanitatum, et omnia vanitas : the Baroque transience topos and its structural relation to trauma / Claudia Benthien -- Durer's losses and the dilemmas of being / Jeffrey Chipps Smith -- Memento mori, memento mei : Albrecht Durer and the art of dying / Helmut Puff -- Enduring loss and memorializing women : the cultural role of dynastic widows in early modern Germany / Jill Bepler -- Paper monuments and the creation of memory : the personal and dynastic mourning of Princess Magdalena Sibylle of Saxony / Mara R. …”
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Theorizing Twilight critical essays on what's at stake in a post-vampire world /

Table of Contents: “…The vampire capital of the world: commerce and enchantment in Forks, Washington / Tanya Erzen -- Fanpires: utilizing fan culture in event film adaptations / Maggie Parke -- The hero and the id: a psychoanalytic inquiry into the popularity of Twilight / Heather Anastasiu -- Someday my vampire will come? …”
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Solutions to climate change challenges in the built environment

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: List of ContributorsChapter 1 Introductory Insights to Climate Change ChallengesChapter 2 Climate Change: Nature and Emerging TrendsChapter 3 Regional ImplicationsChapter 4 Urbanization and Climate ChangeChapter 5 Global Political Initiatives and OvertonesChapter 6 Green Economics Dialogue and the Built EnvironmentChapter 7 Strategic Environmental Impact AssessmentChapter 8 Methods for Valuing Preferences for Environmental and Natural Resources: An OverviewChapter 9 Ecological value of Urban EnvironmentsChapter 10 The Pedological Value of Urban LandscapesChapter 11 Insights and Perceptions of Sustainable Design and ConstructionChapter 12 Progress in Eco-and Resilient-Construction Materials DevelopmentChapter 13 Energy Efficiency: Alternative Routes to MitigationChapter 14 The Benefits of Green Infrastructure in Towns and CitiesChapter 15 Particulate Induced Soiling on Historic Limestone Buildings: Insights and the Effects of Climate ChangeChapter 16 Sustainable TransportationChapter 17 Linkages of Waste Management Strategies and Climate Change IssuesChapter 18 Climate Change and the Geotechnical Stability of 'Engineered'Landfill SitesChapter 19 Water Resources Issues and Solutions for the Built Environment: too little versus too muchChapter 20 Organisational Culture and Climate Change Driven ConstructionChapter 21 Preparing for Extreme weather events: A Risk Assessment ApproachChapter 22 The Socio-environmental Vulnerability Assessment Approach to Mapping Vulnerability to ClimateChapter 23 Mitigation via RenewablesChapter 24 Complexities and Approaches to Managing the Adaptation of Climate Change by Coastal CommunitiesChapter 25 Lessons for the FutureIndex.…”
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Narrative, interrupted the plotless, the disturbing and the trivial in literature /

Table of Contents: “…James Phelan: Conversational and authorial disclosure in the dialogue novel: the case of The friends of Eddie Coyle -- Matti Hyvärinen: Resistance to plot and uneven narrativity: a journey from "a boring story" to The rings of Saturn -- Bo Pettersson: What happens when nothing happens: interpreting narrative technique in the plotless novels of Nicholson Baker -- Laura Karttunen: Events can be quoted (and words need not be) -- Samuli Hägg: Pynchon's poetics of boredom: cognitive and textual aspects of novelistic dreariness -- A web of sense: interpreting the disturbing and the difficult. …”
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Grabbing back : essays against the global land grab /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword : Toward socio-ecological self-management / Javier Sethness Castro -- Editor's introduction : The global land grab / Alexander Reid Ross -- Land wars and the great land grab / Vandana Shiva -- Factors shaping the global land rush / Ward Anseeuw and Mike Taylor -- Destructive development and land sales in Ethiopia / Graham Peebles -- Biofuels, land grabs, revolution / Alexander Reid Ross -- Environmental group events in today's China / Yangtze River Delta Earth First! …”
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Thinking in dark times Hannah Arendt on ethics and politics /

Table of Contents: “…Bernstein -- Banality and cleverness : Eichmann in Jerusalem revisited / Peter Baehr -- Judging the events of our time / Jennifer L. Culbert -- Arendt's banality of evil thesis and the Arab-Israeli conflict / Yaron Ezrahi -- Judaism and cosmopolitanism -- Liberating the pariah : politics, the Jews, and Hannah Arendt / Leon Botstein -- Hannah Arendt's Jewish experience : thinking, acting, judging / Jerome Kohn -- The pariah as rebel : Hannah Arendt's Jewish writings / Ron H. …”
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Enduring loss in early modern Germany cross disciplinary perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…The Thirty Years' War as experience and memory : contemporary perceptions of a macro-historical event / Hans Medick -- Vanitas, vanitatum, et omnia vanitas : the Baroque transience topos and its structural relation to trauma / Claudia Benthien -- Durer's losses and the dilemmas of being / Jeffrey Chipps Smith -- Memento mori, memento mei : Albrecht Durer and the art of dying / Helmut Puff -- Enduring loss and memorializing women : the cultural role of dynastic widows in early modern Germany / Jill Bepler -- Paper monuments and the creation of memory : the personal and dynastic mourning of Princess Magdalena Sibylle of Saxony / Mara R. …”
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Theorizing Twilight critical essays on what's at stake in a post-vampire world /

Table of Contents: “…The vampire capital of the world: commerce and enchantment in Forks, Washington / Tanya Erzen -- Fanpires: utilizing fan culture in event film adaptations / Maggie Parke -- The hero and the id: a psychoanalytic inquiry into the popularity of Twilight / Heather Anastasiu -- Someday my vampire will come? …”
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Solutions to climate change challenges in the built environment

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: List of ContributorsChapter 1 Introductory Insights to Climate Change ChallengesChapter 2 Climate Change: Nature and Emerging TrendsChapter 3 Regional ImplicationsChapter 4 Urbanization and Climate ChangeChapter 5 Global Political Initiatives and OvertonesChapter 6 Green Economics Dialogue and the Built EnvironmentChapter 7 Strategic Environmental Impact AssessmentChapter 8 Methods for Valuing Preferences for Environmental and Natural Resources: An OverviewChapter 9 Ecological value of Urban EnvironmentsChapter 10 The Pedological Value of Urban LandscapesChapter 11 Insights and Perceptions of Sustainable Design and ConstructionChapter 12 Progress in Eco-and Resilient-Construction Materials DevelopmentChapter 13 Energy Efficiency: Alternative Routes to MitigationChapter 14 The Benefits of Green Infrastructure in Towns and CitiesChapter 15 Particulate Induced Soiling on Historic Limestone Buildings: Insights and the Effects of Climate ChangeChapter 16 Sustainable TransportationChapter 17 Linkages of Waste Management Strategies and Climate Change IssuesChapter 18 Climate Change and the Geotechnical Stability of 'Engineered'Landfill SitesChapter 19 Water Resources Issues and Solutions for the Built Environment: too little versus too muchChapter 20 Organisational Culture and Climate Change Driven ConstructionChapter 21 Preparing for Extreme weather events: A Risk Assessment ApproachChapter 22 The Socio-environmental Vulnerability Assessment Approach to Mapping Vulnerability to ClimateChapter 23 Mitigation via RenewablesChapter 24 Complexities and Approaches to Managing the Adaptation of Climate Change by Coastal CommunitiesChapter 25 Lessons for the FutureIndex.…”
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Narrative, interrupted the plotless, the disturbing and the trivial in literature /

Table of Contents: “…James Phelan: Conversational and authorial disclosure in the dialogue novel: the case of The friends of Eddie Coyle -- Matti Hyvärinen: Resistance to plot and uneven narrativity: a journey from "a boring story" to The rings of Saturn -- Bo Pettersson: What happens when nothing happens: interpreting narrative technique in the plotless novels of Nicholson Baker -- Laura Karttunen: Events can be quoted (and words need not be) -- Samuli Hägg: Pynchon's poetics of boredom: cognitive and textual aspects of novelistic dreariness -- A web of sense: interpreting the disturbing and the difficult. …”
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Grabbing back : essays against the global land grab /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword : Toward socio-ecological self-management / Javier Sethness Castro -- Editor's introduction : The global land grab / Alexander Reid Ross -- Land wars and the great land grab / Vandana Shiva -- Factors shaping the global land rush / Ward Anseeuw and Mike Taylor -- Destructive development and land sales in Ethiopia / Graham Peebles -- Biofuels, land grabs, revolution / Alexander Reid Ross -- Environmental group events in today's China / Yangtze River Delta Earth First! …”
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Perspectives on European Earthquake Engineering and Seismology Volume 1 /

Table of Contents: “…Conservation Principles and Performance-Based Strengthening of Heritage Buildings in Post-Event Reconstruction -- 16. Earthquake Risk Assessment: Present Shortcomings and Future Directions -- 17. …”
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Meaning Versus Grammar : An Inquiry into the Computation of Meaning and the Incompleteness of Grammar / by Cremers, Christiaan Leonardus Joachim Maria, 1951-, Reckman, Hilletje Gezina Bouwke, 1978-, Hijzelendoorn, Maarten

Table of Contents: “…2.3 Scope and specification2.4 Intensionality and semantic dependency; 2.5 Events and states: reification of predication; 2.6 Exploiting logical form for parsing; 2.7 Generating from logic; 3. …”
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The Aesthetics of Global Protest : Visual Culture and Communication /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the aesthetics of global protest : visual culture and communication / Aidan McGarry, Itir Erhart, Hande Eslen-Ziya, Olu Jenzen, and Umut Korkut -- Queer visual activism in South Africa / Tessa Lewin -- The use of visibility in contentious events in Northern Ireland / Katy Hayward and Milena Komarova -- Maybe, we will benefit from our neighbour's good fortune : an exhibition on collectivity, community, and dialogue in Turkey / Işıl Eğrikavuk -- Political street art in social mobilization : a tale of two protests in Argentina / Holly Eva Ryan -- Archiving dissent : (im)material trajectories of political street art in Istanbul and Athens / Julia Tulke -- The introvert's protest : handwriting the constitution and the performance of politics / Interview with Morgan O'Hara by Aidan McGarry -- Photography and protest in Israel/Palestine : The Activestills Online Archive / Simon Faulkner -- Drones, cinema, and protest in Thailand / Noah Viernes -- Bearing witness to authoritarianism and commoning through video activism and political film-making after the Gezi protests / Özge Özdüzen -- Music videos as protest communication: the Gezi Park protest on YouTube / Olu Jenzen, Itir Erhart, Hande Eslen-Ziya, Derya Güçdemir, Umut Korkut, and Aidan McGarry -- The activist chroniclers of Occupy Gezi : counterposing visibility to injustice / Dan Mercea and Helton Levy -- When Twitter got #woke : Black Lives Matter, DeRay McKesson, Twitter, and the appropriation of the aesthetics of protest / Farida Vis, Simon Faulkner, Safiya Umoja Noble, and Hannah Guy -- Conclusion : reflections on protest and political transformation since 1789 / Jim Aulich.…”
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Distinctiveness and memory

Table of Contents: “…Worthen -- Memory for bizarre and other unusual events : evidence from script research / Denise Davidson -- Conceptual implicit memory and the item-specific relational distinction / Neil W. …”
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Perspectives on European Earthquake Engineering and Seismology Volume 1 /

Table of Contents: “…Conservation Principles and Performance-Based Strengthening of Heritage Buildings in Post-Event Reconstruction -- 16. Earthquake Risk Assessment: Present Shortcomings and Future Directions -- 17. …”
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Meaning Versus Grammar : An Inquiry into the Computation of Meaning and the Incompleteness of Grammar / by Cremers, Christiaan Leonardus Joachim Maria, 1951-, Reckman, Hilletje Gezina Bouwke, 1978-, Hijzelendoorn, Maarten

Table of Contents: “…2.3 Scope and specification2.4 Intensionality and semantic dependency; 2.5 Events and states: reification of predication; 2.6 Exploiting logical form for parsing; 2.7 Generating from logic; 3. …”
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The Aesthetics of Global Protest : Visual Culture and Communication /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the aesthetics of global protest : visual culture and communication / Aidan McGarry, Itir Erhart, Hande Eslen-Ziya, Olu Jenzen, and Umut Korkut -- Queer visual activism in South Africa / Tessa Lewin -- The use of visibility in contentious events in Northern Ireland / Katy Hayward and Milena Komarova -- Maybe, we will benefit from our neighbour's good fortune : an exhibition on collectivity, community, and dialogue in Turkey / Işıl Eğrikavuk -- Political street art in social mobilization : a tale of two protests in Argentina / Holly Eva Ryan -- Archiving dissent : (im)material trajectories of political street art in Istanbul and Athens / Julia Tulke -- The introvert's protest : handwriting the constitution and the performance of politics / Interview with Morgan O'Hara by Aidan McGarry -- Photography and protest in Israel/Palestine : The Activestills Online Archive / Simon Faulkner -- Drones, cinema, and protest in Thailand / Noah Viernes -- Bearing witness to authoritarianism and commoning through video activism and political film-making after the Gezi protests / Özge Özdüzen -- Music videos as protest communication: the Gezi Park protest on YouTube / Olu Jenzen, Itir Erhart, Hande Eslen-Ziya, Derya Güçdemir, Umut Korkut, and Aidan McGarry -- The activist chroniclers of Occupy Gezi : counterposing visibility to injustice / Dan Mercea and Helton Levy -- When Twitter got #woke : Black Lives Matter, DeRay McKesson, Twitter, and the appropriation of the aesthetics of protest / Farida Vis, Simon Faulkner, Safiya Umoja Noble, and Hannah Guy -- Conclusion : reflections on protest and political transformation since 1789 / Jim Aulich.…”
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Interpretation and method empirical research methods and the interpretive turn /

Table of Contents: “…interroating criteria for knowledge claims in interpretive science / Dvora Yanow -- Judging quality : evaluative criteria and epistemic communities / Peregrine Schwartz-Shea -- Talking our way to meaningful explanations : a practice-centered view of interviewing for interpretive research / Joe Soss -- Ordinary language interviewing / Frederic Charles Schaffer -- Seeing with an ethnographic sensibility : explorations beneath the surface of public policies / Ellen Pader -- High politics and low data : globalization discourses and popular culture / Jutta Weldes -- The numeration of events : studying political protest in India / Dean E. …”
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Criticism of religion on Marxism and theology, II / by Boer, Roland, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…-- By way of conclusion : Marxism as a secular and anti-secular project -- The stumbling block of Fredric Jameson -- Supersession versus a dialectic of ideology and utopia -- Sidestepping religion -- Magic and fantasy -- Feuerbach versus Marx -- The politics of fantasy -- Apocalyptic -- By way of conclusion : towards a dialectic of religion -- The Christian communism of Rosa Luxemburg -- Tactics -- A reformer's zeal -- Betraying the spirit -- A little church history -- Anti-clericalism -- Christian communism -- Consumption versus production -- Completing Cristian communism -- Freedom of conscience -- The enticements of Karl Kautsky -- Text, history, context -- The slipperiness of sacred texts -- The Bible as a cultural product -- Reconstructing economic history -- Differentiation and slaves -- Slaves and other modes of production -- The sacred economy : prolegomena to a reconstruction -- Transitions -- Christian communism -- The forgetfulness of Julia Kristeva -- Flushing out Marx -- Monocausality, or, the taboo of the mother -- The apostle, both ways -- Other-than-human love -- Crucifying the pathologies -- Collectives -- The fables of Alain Badiou -- Banishing the one -- Theology and the event -- A generic procedure of religion? -- Pascal's miracle -- Kierkegaard's encounter -- Paul's fable -- Conclusion : necessary fables -- The conundrums of Giorgio Agamben -- The search for Paul -- Christology, or the problem of Jesus Messiah -- Faith, law and grace as placeholder of the void -- Pre-law, or trying to make sense of Paul -- Conclusion : relativising theology -- The self-exorcism of Georg Lukács -- A world abandoned by God -- Leap-frogging Christianity -- Autobiographical exorcism -- The Bible and the beekeeper's manual -- An apparent absence? …”
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