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Spider by Michalska, Katarzyna

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : spiders on the wall and elsewhere -- Some basic zoological facts -- Arachnophobia -- Venom and cold intellect : the spider and its web in the European intellectual tradition -- The femme fatale and eroticism -- Oppressive mothers, dreams and Louise Bourgeois -- Spiders in art and caricature -- Myth and folklore -- Urban legends -- Spider goes Hollywood.…”
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Christian fiction and religious realism in the novels of Dostoevsky by Bercken, William Peter van den, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Religious interpretations of Dostoevsky -- The realism of Dostoevsky's fictional christianity -- Christian themes in Crime and punishment -- Religious discussions in The idiot and The adolescent -- Christian voices in The devils -- The spirituality of the Monk Zosima in the Brothers Karamazov -- The legend of the grand inquisitor: literary irony and theological seriousness -- Dostoevsky's 'grand inquisitor' and Vladimir Solovyov's 'antichrist' -- Physical and divine beauty: the aesthetical-ethical dilemma in Dostoevsky's novels.…”
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Christian fiction and religious realism in the novels of Dostoevsky by Bercken, William Peter van den, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Religious interpretations of Dostoevsky -- The realism of Dostoevsky's fictional christianity -- Christian themes in Crime and punishment -- Religious discussions in The idiot and The adolescent -- Christian voices in The devils -- The spirituality of the Monk Zosima in the Brothers Karamazov -- The legend of the grand inquisitor: literary irony and theological seriousness -- Dostoevsky's 'grand inquisitor' and Vladimir Solovyov's 'antichrist' -- Physical and divine beauty: the aesthetical-ethical dilemma in Dostoevsky's novels.…”
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The Nazi symbiosis human genetics and politics in the Third Reich / by Weiss, Sheila Faith

Table of Contents: “…An old legend and a new legacy -- Human heredity and eugenics make their international debut -- The devil's directors at Dahlem -- The Munich pact -- The politics of professional talk -- Politicized pedagogy -- The international human genetics community faces Nazi Germany -- The road not taken elsewhere : was there something unique about human heredity during the Third Reich?…”
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The Persians ancient, mediaeval, and modern Iran / by Katouzian, Homa

Table of Contents: “…Myths, legends and ancient history -- Greeks, Parthians and Persians -- Arabs, Islam and Persians -- Turks and Mongols -- Persian empire again -- Disintegration and reunification -- The dilemma of reform and modernization -- The revolution for law -- Modern arbitrary rule -- Occupation, oil nationalization and dictatorship -- The white revolution -- The revolution of February 1979 -- The Islamic republic -- Iran after Khomeini.…”
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Plotting the prince : Shōtoku cults and the mapping of medieval Japanese Buddhism / by Carr, Kevin Gray, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Ways to tell a sacred life : hagiographic imagination in medieval Japan -- The lives of the prince : Shōtoku across Asia -- Japanese spirit : a new Buddha for troubled times -- Mapping Shōtoku's tale : cultic identities in place -- The birth of a legend : inscribing Shōtoku at Shitennōji and Hōryūji -- Siting Shōtoku : structuring narrative at Hōryūji.…”
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The Nazi symbiosis human genetics and politics in the Third Reich / by Weiss, Sheila Faith

Table of Contents: “…An old legend and a new legacy -- Human heredity and eugenics make their international debut -- The devil's directors at Dahlem -- The Munich pact -- The politics of professional talk -- Politicized pedagogy -- The international human genetics community faces Nazi Germany -- The road not taken elsewhere : was there something unique about human heredity during the Third Reich?…”
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The Persians ancient, mediaeval, and modern Iran / by Katouzian, Homa

Table of Contents: “…Myths, legends and ancient history -- Greeks, Parthians and Persians -- Arabs, Islam and Persians -- Turks and Mongols -- Persian empire again -- Disintegration and reunification -- The dilemma of reform and modernization -- The revolution for law -- Modern arbitrary rule -- Occupation, oil nationalization and dictatorship -- The white revolution -- The revolution of February 1979 -- The Islamic republic -- Iran after Khomeini.…”
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Plotting the prince : Shōtoku cults and the mapping of medieval Japanese Buddhism / by Carr, Kevin Gray, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Ways to tell a sacred life : hagiographic imagination in medieval Japan -- The lives of the prince : Shōtoku across Asia -- Japanese spirit : a new Buddha for troubled times -- Mapping Shōtoku's tale : cultic identities in place -- The birth of a legend : inscribing Shōtoku at Shitennōji and Hōryūji -- Siting Shōtoku : structuring narrative at Hōryūji.…”
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Soul of the Documentary : Framing, Expression, Ethics / by Hongisto, Ilona

Table of Contents: “…A documentary fable; Fabulation: Documentary visions; 3. Making up legends; 4. Acts of resistance; Affection: Documenting the potential; 5. …”
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Soul of the Documentary : Framing, Expression, Ethics / by Hongisto, Ilona

Table of Contents: “…A documentary fable; Fabulation: Documentary visions; 3. Making up legends; 4. Acts of resistance; Affection: Documenting the potential; 5. …”
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Microcosm : an anthology of the short story. / by Gerstenberger, Donna Lorine

Table of Contents: “…--The bound man, by I. Aichinger.--The legend of St Julian Hospitator, by G. Flaubert.--Clay, by J. …”

After the war the lives and images of major Civil War figures after the shooting stopped / by Hardin, David, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Grant -- The diarist : Mary Boykin Chesnut -- The crippled knight : John Bell Hood -- That devil Forrest : Nathan Bedford Forrest -- The mad woman : Mary Todd Lincoln -- The good hater : Joseph E. Johnston -- The legend : Robert E. Lee -- The turncoat : George H. …”
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After the war the lives and images of major Civil War figures after the shooting stopped / by Hardin, David, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Grant -- The diarist : Mary Boykin Chesnut -- The crippled knight : John Bell Hood -- That devil Forrest : Nathan Bedford Forrest -- The mad woman : Mary Todd Lincoln -- The good hater : Joseph E. Johnston -- The legend : Robert E. Lee -- The turncoat : George H. …”
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Microcosm : an anthology of the short story. / by Gerstenberger, Donna Lorine

Table of Contents: “…--The bound man, by I. Aichinger.--The legend of St Julian Hospitator, by G. Flaubert.--Clay, by J. …”

The nonconformists culture, politics, and nationalism in a Serbian intellectual circle, 1944-1991 / by Miller, Nick, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Simina 9a in a new Yugoslavia -- Nonconformist initiations -- Ćosić : engagement and disillusionment, 1956-1966 -- Drama and politics: Mihiz in the sixties -- The suicide and rebirth of the painting: Mića Popović, 1959-1974 -- Fragmented Serbia -- Ćosić and Popović return to Serbia -- From principle to catharsis -- The children of Cain -- The limits of revelation -- The legend of Simina 9a in Serbia's modern history.…”
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Making pictures in stone American Indian rock art of the Northeast / by Lenik, Edward J., 1932-

Table of Contents: “…Algonquian people in the northeast -- Ezra Stiles : pioneer rock art researcher in eighteenth-century New England -- Culturally altered trees -- Nonportable rock art sites -- Landscapes in myths and legends -- Portable rock art -- Pendants and gorgets -- Decorated tablets, pebbles, and cobbles -- Sculpted heads and effigy faces -- Decorated stone tools -- Nonutilitarian effigy stones -- Dreams, visions, and signs.…”
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The creation of the cowboy hero : fiction, film and fact / by Agnew, Jeremy

Table of Contents: “…There have to be heroes -- The legend begins -- The lure of the dime novels -- The great showman -- Buffalo Bill's Wild West -- More and more wild west shows -- Our cowboy heroes -- Flickering images -- Tom Mix and the flashy showmen -- Pulp magazines and mass-market paperbacks -- Warbling cowboys and the silver screen -- Brooding heroes -- And a suitable heroine -- Violence returns -- The image persists.…”
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Building the golden gate bridge / by Schwartz, Harvey

Table of Contents: “…Slim Lambert: Survivor -- Al Zampa: Legend -- Mary Zita Felciano and Patricia Deweese: Nurses -- Walter Vestnys and Joyce "Big J" Harris: Maintenance ironworkers -- Epilogue.…”
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Making pictures in stone American Indian rock art of the Northeast / by Lenik, Edward J., 1932-

Table of Contents: “…Algonquian people in the northeast -- Ezra Stiles : pioneer rock art researcher in eighteenth-century New England -- Culturally altered trees -- Nonportable rock art sites -- Landscapes in myths and legends -- Portable rock art -- Pendants and gorgets -- Decorated tablets, pebbles, and cobbles -- Sculpted heads and effigy faces -- Decorated stone tools -- Nonutilitarian effigy stones -- Dreams, visions, and signs.…”
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