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The shaping of things to come : innovation and mission for the 21st-century church / by Frost, Michael, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…-- The missional church -- The incarnational approach -- The shape of the missional church -- The contextualized church -- Whispering to the soul -- The God of Israel and the renewal of Christianity -- Action as sacrament -- The medium really is the message -- The genius of APEPT --Imagination and the leadership task -- Organizing the revolution.…”

Heretical Hellenism women writers, ancient Greece, and the Victorian popular imagination / by Fiske, Shanyn, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Hellenism and heresy -- Victorian Medea: from sensationalism to subjectivity -- Fragments of genius: Charlotte Brontë and the discourse of popular Greek -- Heretical humanism: Romola and Hellenism's distaff legacy -- The Daimon archives: Jane Harrison and the afterlife of dead languages -- Afterword: the First World War and the death of heresy.…”
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Heretical Hellenism women writers, ancient Greece, and the Victorian popular imagination / by Fiske, Shanyn, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Hellenism and heresy -- Victorian Medea: from sensationalism to subjectivity -- Fragments of genius: Charlotte Brontë and the discourse of popular Greek -- Heretical humanism: Romola and Hellenism's distaff legacy -- The Daimon archives: Jane Harrison and the afterlife of dead languages -- Afterword: the First World War and the death of heresy.…”
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Disseminal Chaucer rereading The nun's priest's tale / by Travis, Peter W.

Table of Contents: “…The nun's priest's body, or Chaucer's sexual genius -- The nun's priest's tale as grammar school primer, Menippean parody, and Ars poetica -- Close reading: beginnings and endings -- Chaucer's heliotropes and the poetics of metaphor -- The noise of history -- Chaucerian horologics and the confounded reader -- The parodistic episteme: learning to behold The fox.…”
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Disseminal Chaucer rereading The nun's priest's tale / by Travis, Peter W.

Table of Contents: “…The nun's priest's body, or Chaucer's sexual genius -- The nun's priest's tale as grammar school primer, Menippean parody, and Ars poetica -- Close reading: beginnings and endings -- Chaucer's heliotropes and the poetics of metaphor -- The noise of history -- Chaucerian horologics and the confounded reader -- The parodistic episteme: learning to behold The fox.…”
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Riot and great anger stage censorship in twentieth-century Ireland / by Dean, Joan Fitzpatrick, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Theatrical censorship and disorder in Ireland -- Theatre, art, and censorship -- The evil genius -- The boom of the ban -- The riot in Westport; or George A. …”
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Riot and great anger stage censorship in twentieth-century Ireland / by Dean, Joan Fitzpatrick, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Theatrical censorship and disorder in Ireland -- Theatre, art, and censorship -- The evil genius -- The boom of the ban -- The riot in Westport; or George A. …”
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Obscure invitations the persistence of the author in twentieth-century American literature / by Widiss, Benjamin Leigh

Table of Contents: “…Toklas (driving) -- See monkey, do monkey : Lolita (aping) -- The gospel according to Dave : A heartbreaking work of staggering genius (imbibing) -- The death of Kevin Spacey : Seven and The usual suspects (envisioning).…”
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Obscure invitations the persistence of the author in twentieth-century American literature / by Widiss, Benjamin Leigh

Table of Contents: “…Toklas (driving) -- See monkey, do monkey : Lolita (aping) -- The gospel according to Dave : A heartbreaking work of staggering genius (imbibing) -- The death of Kevin Spacey : Seven and The usual suspects (envisioning).…”
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Primitive Minds : Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel / by Neill, Anna, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Evolution and the dreamy mind -- Charlotte Brontë's hypochondriacal heroines -- Spirits and seizures in Bleak House and Our mutual friend -- Suspended animation and second sight : Daniel Deronda and Silas Marner -- Dreamy intuition and detective genius : Ezra Jennings and Sherlock Holmes -- The end of the novel : naturalism and reverie in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and The return of the native.…”
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Primitive Minds : Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel / by Neill, Anna, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Evolution and the dreamy mind -- Charlotte Brontë's hypochondriacal heroines -- Spirits and seizures in Bleak House and Our mutual friend -- Suspended animation and second sight : Daniel Deronda and Silas Marner -- Dreamy intuition and detective genius : Ezra Jennings and Sherlock Holmes -- The end of the novel : naturalism and reverie in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and The return of the native.…”
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The last titan a life of Theodore Dreiser / by Loving, Jerome, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Hoosier hard times -- A very bard of a city -- This matter of reporting -- Survival of the fittest -- Editorial days -- The writer -- Sister Carrie -- Down hill and up -- Return of the novelist -- Life after the Titanic -- The genius himself -- Back to the future -- An American tragedy -- Celebrity -- Tragic America -- Facing West -- Selected works of Theodore Dreiser.…”
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William Wordsworth and the ecology of authorship the roots of environmentalism in nineteenth-century culture / by Hess, Scott

Table of Contents: “…Picturesque vision, photographic subjectivity, and the (un)framing of nature -- Wordsworth country: the Lake District and the landscape of genius -- Wordsworth's environmental protest: the Kendal and Windermere Railroad and the cultural politics of nature -- The Lake District and the museum of nature -- "My endless way": travel, gender, and the imaginative colonization of nature -- Epilogue: the ecology of authorship versus the ecology of community.…”
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William Wordsworth and the ecology of authorship the roots of environmentalism in nineteenth-century culture / by Hess, Scott

Table of Contents: “…Picturesque vision, photographic subjectivity, and the (un)framing of nature -- Wordsworth country: the Lake District and the landscape of genius -- Wordsworth's environmental protest: the Kendal and Windermere Railroad and the cultural politics of nature -- The Lake District and the museum of nature -- "My endless way": travel, gender, and the imaginative colonization of nature -- Epilogue: the ecology of authorship versus the ecology of community.…”
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The last titan a life of Theodore Dreiser / by Loving, Jerome, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Hoosier hard times -- A very bard of a city -- This matter of reporting -- Survival of the fittest -- Editorial days -- The writer -- Sister Carrie -- Down hill and up -- Return of the novelist -- Life after the Titanic -- The genius himself -- Back to the future -- An American tragedy -- Celebrity -- Tragic America -- Facing West -- Selected works of Theodore Dreiser.…”
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Art deco San Francisco the architecture of Timothy Pflueger / by Poletti, Therese, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Origins amid a devastated city -- An apprentice with a trace of genius -- From nickelodeons to movie palaces -- Skyscrapers for the Jazz Age -- Monument to the Crash -- Paradise found at the Paramount -- Finding work during the Great Depression -- Trials and tribulations: the Bay Bridge -- Cocktail lounges and a world's fair -- Feminine mystique -- Epilog: a legacy continues -- List of works.…”
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The man who thought like a ship by Steffy, Loren C.

Table of Contents: “…You'll starve to death" -- The reconstructor -- A dream in jeopardy -- Man's failure as a thinking animal -- Zoe's garage -- Settling into Mecca -- Studies in mud, charcoal, and bronze -- Genius and despair -- The laughter of Aristides -- The voyage ends -- Epilogue.…”
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Art deco San Francisco the architecture of Timothy Pflueger / by Poletti, Therese, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Origins amid a devastated city -- An apprentice with a trace of genius -- From nickelodeons to movie palaces -- Skyscrapers for the Jazz Age -- Monument to the Crash -- Paradise found at the Paramount -- Finding work during the Great Depression -- Trials and tribulations: the Bay Bridge -- Cocktail lounges and a world's fair -- Feminine mystique -- Epilog: a legacy continues -- List of works.…”
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The man who thought like a ship by Steffy, Loren C.

Table of Contents: “…You'll starve to death" -- The reconstructor -- A dream in jeopardy -- Man's failure as a thinking animal -- Zoe's garage -- Settling into Mecca -- Studies in mud, charcoal, and bronze -- Genius and despair -- The laughter of Aristides -- The voyage ends -- Epilogue.…”
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Napalm an American biography / by Neer, Robert M., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- Hero -- Harvard's genius -- Anonymous research no. 4 -- American kamikazes: suicide bomber bats -- We'll fight mercilessly -- The American century -- Soldier -- Freedom's furnace -- Vietnam syndrome -- Seeing is believing -- Indicted -- Pariah -- Baby burners -- Law catches fire -- The third protocol -- Judgment day -- The weapon that dare not speak its name -- Epilogue: the whole world is watching.…”
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