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Break Up the Anthropocene / by Mentz, Steve

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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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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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Eruptions that shook the world by Oppenheimer, Clive

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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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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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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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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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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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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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The age of irreverence : a new history of laughter in China / by Rea, Christopher G.

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

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Clio and the poets Augustan poetry and the traditions of ancient historiography /

Table of Contents: “…: Ovid's Fasti and Plutarch's -- Life of N uma291 -- Molly Pasco-Pranger -- 16. The Extinction of the Potitii and the Sacred History of -- Augustan Rome313 -- Hans-Friedrich Mueller -- 17. …”
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Historicizing Fear : Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering /

Table of Contents: “…They'll Take Away Our Birthrights": How White-Power Musicians Instill Fear of White Extinction / Kirs ten Dyck -- 5."... or Suffer the Consequences of Staying": Terror and Racial Cleansing in Arkansas / Guy Lancaster -- 6.Making "The Case against the `Reds'": Racializing Communism, 1919 -- 1920 / Julie M. …”
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Clio and the poets Augustan poetry and the traditions of ancient historiography /

Table of Contents: “…: Ovid's Fasti and Plutarch's -- Life of N uma291 -- Molly Pasco-Pranger -- 16. The Extinction of the Potitii and the Sacred History of -- Augustan Rome313 -- Hans-Friedrich Mueller -- 17. …”
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