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Biosocial Worlds : Anthropology of health environments beyond determinism

Table of Contents: “…Legacies of violence: the communicability of spirits and trauma in NorthernUganda -- 9. Extinction and time amid climate change or, what is a Horizon?…”
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Climate change, ecology and systematics

Table of Contents: “…Adaptation, Speciation and Extinction: 4. Global climate and extinction: evidence from the fossil record P. …”
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The funeral kit mortuary practices in the archaeological record / by Baker, Jill L., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: List of Figures Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Archaeology of Death and Burial: Established Interpretations, Terminologies and Definitions Chapter 3: The Funeral Kit Model Chapter 4: Beyond the Model: The Funeral Kit in Wider Canaan (Middle Bronze IIB/C-Late Bronze Age II) Chapter 5: The Genesis and Extinction of the Funeral Kit in Canaan Chapter 6: Beyond Canaan: The Funeral Kit in Wider Geographical and Chronological Contexts Chapter 7: Theory and Practice Chapter 8: The Ties That Bind References Index About the Author.…”
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SARS-CoV and other emerging coronaviruses

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Nidovirales family -- Coronavirus phylogeny -- Timeline of emerging coronaviruses -- Virus particles and entrance -- Coronavirus structure -- MERS-CoV group 2c betacoronavirus -- Mechanisms of CoV emergence -- Role of cell surface receptors -- Public health preparedness -- Is SARS extinct? -- Pre-pandemic group 2b SARS-like bat coronaviruses -- How to test pre-pandemic potential -- Virus gene organization and replication cycle -- How do coronaviruses cause disease -- SARS coronavirus ORF1 processing -- ORF1B replicase function -- SARS genome replication -- SARS sub-genomic transcription -- Current antiviral therapies.…”
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The climate solutions consensus by Blockstein, David E., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…The dance of the mice and elephants -- Three questions every citizen should ask -- Human carbon as the smoking gun -- Rising carbon, rising oceans -- The five horsemen of extinction -- The cheapest carbon -- No silver bullet, many silver wedges -- Energy in the cycle of material life -- Multiple intensity disorder -- Carbon meets Wall Street -- The climate message starts to stick -- Think globally, incubate locally -- Where the science, policy, and public meet -- Scaling up amidst the curse of knowledge -- All of the above! …”
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Art and nature in the anthropocene : planetary aesthetics / by Ballard, Susan, 1969-

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The peopling of the Americas new insights from genetic studies /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Anthropological background -- Clovis first model -- Pleistocene overkill hypothesis -- Megafauna extinction models -- Cactus Hill -- Topper site -- Monte Verde -- New coastal routes into the New World -- Was Clovis first? …”
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The Church of England and Christian antiquity the construction of a confessional identity in the 17th century / by Quantin, Jean-Louis

Table of Contents: “…The English Reformation and the Protestant view of antiquity -- The Protestant appeal to the Fathers from Cranmer to Jewel -- Sola scriptura -- Patristic orthodoxy -- Unwritten traditions and the consensus of the Fathers -- Witnesses to the truth : the Fathers and the Protestant view of church history -- Augustine, Calvin, and Reformed orthodoxy -- Becoming traditional : the appeal to antiquity in Jacobean controversies -- Primitive episcopacy -- Puritanism -- Christ's descent into hell -- The cessation of miracles -- From distinctiveness to singularity -- Arminianism, Laudianism, and the Fathers -- Theological method -- Augustinism and Calvinism -- The authority of tradition -- The Fathers assaulted -- The survival of Elizabethan theology -- Theological liberalism and the Fathers : the Great Tew circle -- An anti-patristic breviary : Jean Daill'e's use of the Fathers -- The first English fortune of Daill'e's use of the Fathers -- A patristic identity -- Puritan scripturalism -- The extinction of the Great Tew spirit? -- The restoration church between dissenters and papists -- History versus enthusiasm -- Winning the patristic argument -- The case for tradition -- Defending the Fathers -- Hierarchical tradition : the solution of Herbert Thorndike -- Historical tradition : the solution of Henry Dodwell.…”
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Anthropology and cryptozoology : researching encounters with mysterious creatures /

Table of Contents: “…An anthropologist's role in preventing the extinction of the New Jersey sea monster / Tanya J. …”
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The ends of satire : legacies of satire in postwar German writing / by Bowles, Daniel James, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Satire around 1800: Jean Paul -- Prolegomena -- The case of Jean Paul: unreadable writing, unwritable readings 16 -- Part One: Inversion -- The carnivalesque in Mikhail Bakhtin's Rabelais and his World (1965) -- Perspective and repetition in Thomas Bernhard's Woodcutters (1984) -- Destructive negativity: Thomas Bernhard and Extinction (1986) -- Part Two: Mythification -- Between theory and literature: Roland Barthes' Mythologies (1957) -- Elfriede Jelinek's Mythic Lust (1989) -- Viennese paradigms in Elfriede Jelinek's The Piano Teacher (1983) -- Part Three: Citation -- From stage to page: Judith Butler and Gender Trouble (1990) -- Performing theory in literature: Thomas Meinecke's Tomboy (1998) -- Infinite Paradise of the Infinite Text: Thomas Meinecke's Music (2004) -- Conclusion: Satire after Satire.…”
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Birth of a market the U.S. Treasury securities market from the Great War to the Great Depression / by Garbade, Kenneth D.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : before the Great War -- The payments system before World War I -- Treasury debt management before World War I : financing the Great War -- Treasury finance during World War I -- Designing the liberty loans -- Marketing the liberty loans -- Treasury cash management : certificates of indebtedness -- Treasury cash management : war loan deposit accounts -- Federal Reserve support of the treasury market during World War I -- Coda on treasury debt management during World War I : paying down the war debt -- Treasury finance during the 1920s -- Paying down the war debt -- Revival of the over-the-counter market -- Evolution of the primary market and the introduction of treasury bills -- Coda on treasury debt management during the 1920s : the Great Depression -- Treasury finance during the Great Depression -- Non-marketable treasury debt -- Treasury debt management during the great contraction -- Treasury debt management during the new deal -- The primary market during the Great Depression -- Statutory control of treasury indebtedness -- The brief revival and subsequent extinction of national bank notes -- Coda on treasury debt management during the Great Depression -- Treasury debt management since 1939.…”
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The legacy of the Mastodon the golden age of fossils in America / by Thomson, Keith Stewart

Table of Contents: “…Peale's Mastodon -- Pt. two: Fossils and geology -- Fossils and extinction: dangerous ideas -- Mary Anning's world -- An American natural science -- An American geology -- Bad lands: no time for ideas -- Dr. …”
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Break Up the Anthropocene / by Mentz, Steve

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Eruptions that shook the world by Oppenheimer, Clive

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Evolving principles of international law studies in honour of Karel C. Wellens /

Table of Contents: “…/ Frans A. Nelissen -- The extinction of states / Mariano J. Aznar-Gomez -- The principle of approximate treaty application / Eric Myjer -- Mr. …”
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Assumptions inhibiting progress in comparative biology /

Table of Contents: “…Epistemological concern for estimating extinction : introducing a new model for comparing phylogenies / Prosanta Chakrabarty and Subir Shakya -- Chapter 10. …”
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Ecological Form : System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire /

Table of Contents: “…Mourning Species: In Memoriam in an Age of Extinction; 3. Signatures of the Carboniferous: The Literary Forms of Coal; Part II FORM; 4. …”
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The age of irreverence : a new history of laughter in China / by Rea, Christopher G.

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Between Species/Between Spaces : Art and Science on the Outer Cape /

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Literature and sustainability : Exploratory essays /

Table of Contents: “…The millers' tales: sustainability, the arts and the watermill / Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Howard Thomas and Richard Marggraf Turley -- Sustenance from the past: precedents to sustainability in nineteenth-century literature and culture / John Parham -- Deep sustainability: ecopoetics, enjoyment and ecstatic hospitality / Kate Rigby -- Recycling materials, recycling lives: cardboard publishers in Latin America / Lucy Bell -- Sustainability after extinction: on last animals and future bison / Joshua Schuster -- The twilight of the Anthropocene: sustaining literature / Claire Colebrook -- Collapse, resilience, stability and sustainability in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy / Dana Phillips -- "The shadow of the future made all the difference": sustainability in Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital trilogy / Chris Pak -- The unsustainable aesthetics of sustainability: the sense of an ending in Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods / Adeline Johns-Putra -- A modest proposal for a less natural lifestyle: the paradoxes of sustainability and Michel Houellebecq's The Possibility of an Island / Hannes Bergthaller -- Jorie Graham's Sea Change: the poetics of sustainability and the politics of what we're sustaining / Matthew Griffiths -- Circles unrounded: sustainability, subject and necessity in Yann Martel's Life of Pi / Louise Squire.…”
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