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The golem and the wondrous deeds of the Maharal of Prague by Rozenberg, Yehudah Yudl, 1859-1935

Table of Contents: “…Publisher's preface -- Bill of sale -- The history of the great Gaon, the holy, supernal Maharal of Prague, may the memory of that righteous, saintly man be a blessing for life in the world to come -- The Maharal's battle against the blood libel -- The Maharal's suggestion to have a disputation with the priests -- The disputation -- "A man who excels at his work shall attend upon kings" : this is the Maharal -- How the Maharal created the golem -- How Yossele the golem carried water for Passover -- How Yossele the golem caught fish for Rosh Hashana -- For what purposes the Maharal used the golem -- The Maharal's first miracle with the golem -- The astonishing tale of the healer's daughter -- The wondrous and famous story known as "The daughter's misfortune" -- A very amazing tale about a blood libel by the priest Thaddeus which caused his final downfall and his banishment from Prague -- The marvelous story of the wonder of wonders that the Maharal revealed to the two Berls whose two children were switched by a midwife -- The astounding story of the Torah that fell to the floor on Yom Kippur -- The attack on Yossele the golem -- An awesome tale about the ruin near Prague -- A wondrous tale about Duke Bartholomew -- The last blood libel in Prague during the Maharal's lifetime -- How the Maharal brought about the end of the golem -- The Maharal's remarks concerning the golem -- A miraculous event pertaining to the Maharal's engagement.…”
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Representation matters (re)articulating collective identities in a postcolonal world /

Table of Contents: “…Performative constructions of female identity at a Hindu ritual: some thoughts on the agentive dimension / Beatrix Hauser ; "We are like fish that were reeled in" : peasant understandings of modernity in Zimbabwe / Guy Thompson ; Silence, absence, loss : Chineseness in post-authoritarian Indonesia / Sonja van Wichelen ; Moving identities : mythology and metaphor in André Brink's Praying mantis / Saskia Lourens.…”
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Representation matters (re)articulating collective identities in a postcolonal world /

Table of Contents: “…Performative constructions of female identity at a Hindu ritual: some thoughts on the agentive dimension / Beatrix Hauser ; "We are like fish that were reeled in" : peasant understandings of modernity in Zimbabwe / Guy Thompson ; Silence, absence, loss : Chineseness in post-authoritarian Indonesia / Sonja van Wichelen ; Moving identities : mythology and metaphor in André Brink's Praying mantis / Saskia Lourens.…”
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American Politics and the Environment, Second Edition / by Daynes, Byron W.

Table of Contents: “…The American political setting and the environment -- American federalism and environmental politics -- Case study : climate change and sea- level rise in South Florida -- Personal profile : Mary Nichols and Carb : environmental champions -- Public opinion, interest groups, and the environment -- Case study : interest groups activism and the place of wolves in the Rocky Mountain regions -- Case study : climate change and public opinion -- Personal profile : Robert F Kennedy Jr -- Congress, the legislative process, and the environment -- Case study : cap and trade : failure to pass a climate bill -- Personal profile : Senator Susan Collins: environmental defender -- The environmental presidency -- Personal profile : FDR and the "golden age" -- Case study : leaving a legacy -- Barack Obama and climate change -- Executive agencies and the environment -- Personal profile : Steven Chu : the scientist in charge -- Case study : EPA regulations and carbon emissions -- The environmental court -- Personal profile : the environment : friend and supporter vs. a "slash-and-burn opponent" -- Case study: the court and those dam fish : TVA vs. Hill -- Case study : climate crisis is real, Mr. …”
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The golem and the wondrous deeds of the Maharal of Prague by Rozenberg, Yehudah Yudl, 1859-1935

Table of Contents: “…Publisher's preface -- Bill of sale -- The history of the great Gaon, the holy, supernal Maharal of Prague, may the memory of that righteous, saintly man be a blessing for life in the world to come -- The Maharal's battle against the blood libel -- The Maharal's suggestion to have a disputation with the priests -- The disputation -- "A man who excels at his work shall attend upon kings" : this is the Maharal -- How the Maharal created the golem -- How Yossele the golem carried water for Passover -- How Yossele the golem caught fish for Rosh Hashana -- For what purposes the Maharal used the golem -- The Maharal's first miracle with the golem -- The astonishing tale of the healer's daughter -- The wondrous and famous story known as "The daughter's misfortune" -- A very amazing tale about a blood libel by the priest Thaddeus which caused his final downfall and his banishment from Prague -- The marvelous story of the wonder of wonders that the Maharal revealed to the two Berls whose two children were switched by a midwife -- The astounding story of the Torah that fell to the floor on Yom Kippur -- The attack on Yossele the golem -- An awesome tale about the ruin near Prague -- A wondrous tale about Duke Bartholomew -- The last blood libel in Prague during the Maharal's lifetime -- How the Maharal brought about the end of the golem -- The Maharal's remarks concerning the golem -- A miraculous event pertaining to the Maharal's engagement.…”
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American Politics and the Environment, Second Edition / by Daynes, Byron W.

Table of Contents: “…The American political setting and the environment -- American federalism and environmental politics -- Case study : climate change and sea- level rise in South Florida -- Personal profile : Mary Nichols and Carb : environmental champions -- Public opinion, interest groups, and the environment -- Case study : interest groups activism and the place of wolves in the Rocky Mountain regions -- Case study : climate change and public opinion -- Personal profile : Robert F Kennedy Jr -- Congress, the legislative process, and the environment -- Case study : cap and trade : failure to pass a climate bill -- Personal profile : Senator Susan Collins: environmental defender -- The environmental presidency -- Personal profile : FDR and the "golden age" -- Case study : leaving a legacy -- Barack Obama and climate change -- Executive agencies and the environment -- Personal profile : Steven Chu : the scientist in charge -- Case study : EPA regulations and carbon emissions -- The environmental court -- Personal profile : the environment : friend and supporter vs. a "slash-and-burn opponent" -- Case study: the court and those dam fish : TVA vs. Hill -- Case study : climate crisis is real, Mr. …”
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Chinese Circulations : Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia by Wen-chin Chang

Table of Contents: “…: Javanese cotton trade industry from the seventeenth to the eighteenth centuries / Kwee Hui Kian -- The power of culture and its limits : Taiwanese merchants' Asian commodity flows, 1895-1945 / Lin Man-houng -- Rice trade and Chinese rice millers in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries : the case of British Malaya / Wu Xiao An -- Tonle sap processed fish: from Khmer subsistence staple to colonial export commodity / Nola Cooke -- Moses' rod: the Bible as a commodity in Southeast Asia and China / Jean DeBernardi -- Market price, labor input, and relation of production in Sarawak's edible birds' nest trade / Bien Chiang -- A Sino-Southeast Asian circuit : ethnohistories of the marine goods trade / Eric Tagliacozzo -- From a Shiji episode to the forbidden jade trade during the socialist regime in Burma / Wen-Chin Chang -- Conflict timber along the China-Burma border : connecting the global timber consumer with violent extraction sites / Kevin Woods.…”
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Chinese Circulations : Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia by Wen-chin Chang

Table of Contents: “…: Javanese cotton trade industry from the seventeenth to the eighteenth centuries / Kwee Hui Kian -- The power of culture and its limits : Taiwanese merchants' Asian commodity flows, 1895-1945 / Lin Man-houng -- Rice trade and Chinese rice millers in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries : the case of British Malaya / Wu Xiao An -- Tonle sap processed fish: from Khmer subsistence staple to colonial export commodity / Nola Cooke -- Moses' rod: the Bible as a commodity in Southeast Asia and China / Jean DeBernardi -- Market price, labor input, and relation of production in Sarawak's edible birds' nest trade / Bien Chiang -- A Sino-Southeast Asian circuit : ethnohistories of the marine goods trade / Eric Tagliacozzo -- From a Shiji episode to the forbidden jade trade during the socialist regime in Burma / Wen-Chin Chang -- Conflict timber along the China-Burma border : connecting the global timber consumer with violent extraction sites / Kevin Woods.…”
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King Hussein of Jordan a political life / by Ashton, Nigel John

Table of Contents: “…The tragedy of King Talal -- Breaking the British connection, 1953-6 -- To hold a throne, 1956-7 -- A dynasty under threat, 1957-61 -- Arab Cold War and détente, 1962-6 -- The path to disaster, 1966-7 -- Lost in a sandstorm: Hussein and the peace process, 1967-8 -- 'Seven questions of Israel': the September 1970 crisis -- The October war -- Disengagement and disillusionment, 1973-7 -- The Camp David disaster, 1977-9 -- The Iran-Iraq war, 1980-88 -- Fishing in the Dead Sea: King Hussein and the peace process, 1980-89 -- Between Iraq and a hard place: King Hussein and the Gulf Crisis, 1990-91 -- From Madrid to Oslo: King Hussein and the peace process, 1991-3 -- The best of enemies, the best of friends: Hussein, Rabin and the Jordanian, Israeli peace treaty -- The bitter aftertaste of peace -- The liberation of Iraq, 1995-7 -- A destiny fulfilled?…”
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Jimmy Buffett and philosophy the porpoise driven life /

Table of Contents: “…Rea -- A feminist looks at Jimmy Buffett / Erin McKenna -- Fruitcakes / John Kaag -- The American west as a coral reef / Duke Richey -- Fly-fishing and the ecology of music / Scott L. Pratt -- Dead reckoning and tacking in the winds of fortune and fate / Randall E. …”
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King Hussein of Jordan a political life / by Ashton, Nigel John

Table of Contents: “…The tragedy of King Talal -- Breaking the British connection, 1953-6 -- To hold a throne, 1956-7 -- A dynasty under threat, 1957-61 -- Arab Cold War and détente, 1962-6 -- The path to disaster, 1966-7 -- Lost in a sandstorm: Hussein and the peace process, 1967-8 -- 'Seven questions of Israel': the September 1970 crisis -- The October war -- Disengagement and disillusionment, 1973-7 -- The Camp David disaster, 1977-9 -- The Iran-Iraq war, 1980-88 -- Fishing in the Dead Sea: King Hussein and the peace process, 1980-89 -- Between Iraq and a hard place: King Hussein and the Gulf Crisis, 1990-91 -- From Madrid to Oslo: King Hussein and the peace process, 1991-3 -- The best of enemies, the best of friends: Hussein, Rabin and the Jordanian, Israeli peace treaty -- The bitter aftertaste of peace -- The liberation of Iraq, 1995-7 -- A destiny fulfilled?…”
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Jimmy Buffett and philosophy the porpoise driven life /

Table of Contents: “…Rea -- A feminist looks at Jimmy Buffett / Erin McKenna -- Fruitcakes / John Kaag -- The American west as a coral reef / Duke Richey -- Fly-fishing and the ecology of music / Scott L. Pratt -- Dead reckoning and tacking in the winds of fortune and fate / Randall E. …”
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Carotenoids properties, effects and diseases /

Table of Contents: “…Sachindra -- Extraction of carotenoids from food processing by-products / Ezio Riggi -- Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) apocarotenoids : a review of their biomolecular features and biological activity perspectives / Laura Siracusa, Fabio Gresta, Giuseppe Ruberto -- Role of plant based natural carotenoids on feeding, growth, and colouration of fish : a case study / Arunava Mukherjee, Banani Mandal, Samir Banerjee -- Carotenoids and health signaling in animals / Michal Vinkler ... …”
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Carotenoids properties, effects and diseases /

Table of Contents: “…Sachindra -- Extraction of carotenoids from food processing by-products / Ezio Riggi -- Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) apocarotenoids : a review of their biomolecular features and biological activity perspectives / Laura Siracusa, Fabio Gresta, Giuseppe Ruberto -- Role of plant based natural carotenoids on feeding, growth, and colouration of fish : a case study / Arunava Mukherjee, Banani Mandal, Samir Banerjee -- Carotenoids and health signaling in animals / Michal Vinkler ... …”
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Mercury pollution : a transdisciplinary treatment /

Travel sketches from Liberia Johann Büttikofer's 19th century rainforest explorations in West Africa : annotated English edition / by Büttikofer, Johann, 1850-1928

Table of Contents: “…Reptiles and amphibians. Fish. Invertebrate -- Appendices: Zoological publications on our collections from Liberia (notes from the Leyden Museum) -- List of the Liberian animals specimens elaborated to date.…”
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Industrial waste environmental impact, disposal and treatment /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Using learning machines more intelligently and rigorously for the ground-level ozone prediction / Wei-Zhen Lu, Dong Wang -- Profiling the implementing of product stewardship: a case study of some chemical industries in Germany / Dieudonne Alemagi -- Bioactive substances derived from fish processing wastes and their biotechnological applications / Se-Kwon Kim, Y. …”
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Nature & history in the Potomac country : from hunter-gatherers to the age of Jefferson / by Rice, James D., 1963-

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Travel sketches from Liberia Johann Büttikofer's 19th century rainforest explorations in West Africa : annotated English edition / by Büttikofer, Johann, 1850-1928

Table of Contents: “…Reptiles and amphibians. Fish. Invertebrate -- Appendices: Zoological publications on our collections from Liberia (notes from the Leyden Museum) -- List of the Liberian animals specimens elaborated to date.…”
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Industrial waste environmental impact, disposal and treatment /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Using learning machines more intelligently and rigorously for the ground-level ozone prediction / Wei-Zhen Lu, Dong Wang -- Profiling the implementing of product stewardship: a case study of some chemical industries in Germany / Dieudonne Alemagi -- Bioactive substances derived from fish processing wastes and their biotechnological applications / Se-Kwon Kim, Y. …”
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