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Catastrophes! : earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, and other earth-shattering disasters / by Prothero, Donald R.

Table of Contents: “…Earthquakes : the Earth in upheaval -- Tsunamis : the sea rises up -- Volcanoes : the Earth's cauldron -- Landslides : gravity always wins -- Floods : raging waters -- Hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons : nature on the rampage -- Tornadoes : funnels of disaster -- Blizzard : white death -- Ice ages : frozen planet -- Greenhouse planet : too hot to handle? -- Mass extinctions : when life nearly died -- Can we survive nature and our own folly?…”
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Digging Miami by Carr, Robert S.

Table of Contents: “…Diggers, scientists, and antiquarians: history of archaeological research -- Prehistoric Miami -- The first people: the Cutler fossil site -- The South Florida archaic -- The perfect balance: adapting to the land and sea -- Sacred geography: the prehistoric settlement system -- Failed settlements: the European legacy -- European contact: the transition to extinction -- The English and Bahamian legacy -- Seminole legacy -- Seminole archaeology -- Stockades and musket balls -- Pioneer Miami -- The archaeology of arrowroot: Miami's first industry -- Tropical homesteads: artifacts of Miami's pioneers -- The Miami circle and beyond.…”
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Digging Miami by Carr, Robert S.

Table of Contents: “…Diggers, scientists, and antiquarians: history of archaeological research -- Prehistoric Miami -- The first people: the Cutler fossil site -- The South Florida archaic -- The perfect balance: adapting to the land and sea -- Sacred geography: the prehistoric settlement system -- Failed settlements: the European legacy -- European contact: the transition to extinction -- The English and Bahamian legacy -- Seminole legacy -- Seminole archaeology -- Stockades and musket balls -- Pioneer Miami -- The archaeology of arrowroot: Miami's first industry -- Tropical homesteads: artifacts of Miami's pioneers -- The Miami circle and beyond.…”
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The fourth ghost white Southern writers and European fascism, 1930-1950 / by Brinkmeyer, Robert H.

Table of Contents: “…Cash -- Pastoralism and extinction: William Alexander Percy -- Georgia on my mind: Lillian Smith -- You can't go to Germany, again: Thomas Wolfe -- Democracy's tall men: William Faulkner -- Something deathly in the air: Katherine Anne Porter -- Dispatches from the home front: Carson McCullers -- Pragmatism, idealism, responsibility: Robert Penn Warren -- Ravagers of the earth: Lillian Hellman -- Coda: the long shadow.…”
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The vegetation of Antarctica through geological time by Cantrill, David J., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Deglaciation and colonization of the South Pole; 4. Mass extinction and life in the Triassic; 5. Continental break up and its impact on Jurassic vegetation; 6. …”
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The fourth ghost white Southern writers and European fascism, 1930-1950 / by Brinkmeyer, Robert H.

Table of Contents: “…Cash -- Pastoralism and extinction: William Alexander Percy -- Georgia on my mind: Lillian Smith -- You can't go to Germany, again: Thomas Wolfe -- Democracy's tall men: William Faulkner -- Something deathly in the air: Katherine Anne Porter -- Dispatches from the home front: Carson McCullers -- Pragmatism, idealism, responsibility: Robert Penn Warren -- Ravagers of the earth: Lillian Hellman -- Coda: the long shadow.…”
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The vegetation of Antarctica through geological time by Cantrill, David J., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Deglaciation and colonization of the South Pole; 4. Mass extinction and life in the Triassic; 5. Continental break up and its impact on Jurassic vegetation; 6. …”
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Break Up the Anthropocene / by Mentz, Steve

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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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Break Up the Anthropocene / by Mentz, Steve

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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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