Search Results - "legend"

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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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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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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Cutting it out a journey through psychotherapy and self-harm / by Smith, Carolyn, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…-- Is it a bird? -- Rituals and legends -- Let's face the music -- Treacle Tuesday -- Bedrooms and nests -- Well trained -- Dream on -- Timber! …”
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Desiring bodies Ovidian romance and the cult of form / by Heyworth, Gregory, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Hunting for civilization: Marie de France and the sociology of romance -- Economies of romance: systems of value in Chrétien de Troyes -- States of union: maiestas, marriage, and the politics of coercion in the Canterbury tales -- Missing bodies and changed forms: literal metamorphosis in Petrarch's Rime sparse -- Playing for time: generic disunities and ludic dimensions in Romeo and Juliet -- Legends of the fall: epic flights and indecorous descents in Paradise lost.…”
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New light on the discovery of Australia, as revealed by the journal of Captain Don Diego de Prado y Tovar by Prado y Tovar, Diego de, 17th cent

Table of Contents: “…Barwick's translations of the legends on the four Prado maps.…”
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Desiring bodies Ovidian romance and the cult of form / by Heyworth, Gregory, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Hunting for civilization: Marie de France and the sociology of romance -- Economies of romance: systems of value in Chrétien de Troyes -- States of union: maiestas, marriage, and the politics of coercion in the Canterbury tales -- Missing bodies and changed forms: literal metamorphosis in Petrarch's Rime sparse -- Playing for time: generic disunities and ludic dimensions in Romeo and Juliet -- Legends of the fall: epic flights and indecorous descents in Paradise lost.…”
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New light on the discovery of Australia, as revealed by the journal of Captain Don Diego de Prado y Tovar by Prado y Tovar, Diego de, 17th cent

Table of Contents: “…Barwick's translations of the legends on the four Prado maps.…”
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Cutting it out a journey through psychotherapy and self-harm / by Smith, Carolyn, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…-- Is it a bird? -- Rituals and legends -- Let's face the music -- Treacle Tuesday -- Bedrooms and nests -- Well trained -- Dream on -- Timber! …”
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The people's Peking man popular science and human identity in twentieth-century China / by Schmalzer, Sigrid

Table of Contents: “…"From 'dragon bones' to scientific research" : Peking Man and popular paleoanthropology in pre-1949 China -- "A united front against superstition" : science dissemination, 1940-1971 -- "The content of human" : in search of human identity, 1940-1971 -- "Labor created science" : the class politics of scientific knowledge, 1940-1971 -- "Presumptuous guests usurp the hosts" : dissemination and participation, 1971-1978 -- "Springtime for science," but what a garden : mystery, superstition, and fanatics in the post-Máo Era -- "From legend to science," and back again? : Bigfoot, science, and the people in post-Máo China -- "Have we dug at our ancestral shrine?" …”
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Cambodge the cultivation of a nation, 1860-1945 / by Edwards, Penny, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : originations -- The temple complex : Angkor and the archaeology of colonial fantasy, 1860-1906 -- Urban legend : capitalising on Angkor -- Les fidèles cambodgiens and Les khmèrophiles : scripting a Khmer nation, 1870-1935 -- Colonialism and its demerits : bringing Buddhism to book, 1863-1922 -- Violent lives : disengaging Angkor, 1907-1916 -- Copy rites : Angkor and the art of authenticity -- Secularizing the Sangha, 1900-1935 -- Holy trinity : Chuon Nath, Huot Tath, and Suzanne Karpeles -- Traffic : setting Khmerism in motion, 1935-1945 -- Past colonial?…”
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One day that shook the Communist world the 1956 Hungarian uprising and its legacy / by Lendvai, Paul, 1929-

Table of Contents: “…A day that shook the Communist world -- The road to revolution -- A night of cataclysmic decisions -- The legend of the corvinists -- Wrestling for the soul of Imre Nagy -- Deadlocked -- A turnaround with a question mark -- The general, the colonel, and the adjutant -- The dams are breaking -- The condottiere, the "Uncle," and the romantics -- Decision in the Kremlin: the end of patience -- Double dive into darkness -- The puppeteers and the Kádár Enigma -- Operation whirlwind and Kádár phantom government -- The Yugoslav-Soviet conspiracy -- The second revolution -- The moral bankruptcy of the U.S. liberation theory -- Worldwide reactions -- The barbarous vendetta of the victors -- 1956-1989: victory in defeat?.…”
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Sixty to zero an inside look at the collapse of General Motors, and the Detroit auto industry / by Taylor, Alex, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…GM at the peak -- Growing up in the car-crazy fifties -- Cracks in GM's edifice -- Insecure colossus: the Roger Smith era -- Ford speeds up -- The Saturn moonshot -- Lee Iacocca, blemishes and all -- Bob Stempel and the crisis of '92 -- Jack Smith's unfinished revolution -- Bob Eaton's big score -- GM on cruise control -- Succession battles at Ford -- Wagoner takes over -- Nasser, Ford, and Mulally -- The legend of Lutz -- The uneven legacy of Lee -- GM's inexorable collapse -- The end of the road.…”
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Muḥammad is not the father of any of your men the making of the last prophet / by Powers, David Stephan

Table of Contents: “…Fathers and sons -- The foundation narratives of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- Adoption in the Near East: from antiquity to the rise of Islam -- The abolition of adoption in early Islam -- Pt. II. From sacred legend to sacred history -- The repudiation of the beloved of the messenger of God -- The battle of Mu'ta -- The martyrdom of the beloved of the messenger of God -- Pretexts and intertexts -- Pt. …”
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Cambodge the cultivation of a nation, 1860-1945 / by Edwards, Penny, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : originations -- The temple complex : Angkor and the archaeology of colonial fantasy, 1860-1906 -- Urban legend : capitalising on Angkor -- Les fidèles cambodgiens and Les khmèrophiles : scripting a Khmer nation, 1870-1935 -- Colonialism and its demerits : bringing Buddhism to book, 1863-1922 -- Violent lives : disengaging Angkor, 1907-1916 -- Copy rites : Angkor and the art of authenticity -- Secularizing the Sangha, 1900-1935 -- Holy trinity : Chuon Nath, Huot Tath, and Suzanne Karpeles -- Traffic : setting Khmerism in motion, 1935-1945 -- Past colonial?…”
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One day that shook the Communist world the 1956 Hungarian uprising and its legacy / by Lendvai, Paul, 1929-

Table of Contents: “…A day that shook the Communist world -- The road to revolution -- A night of cataclysmic decisions -- The legend of the corvinists -- Wrestling for the soul of Imre Nagy -- Deadlocked -- A turnaround with a question mark -- The general, the colonel, and the adjutant -- The dams are breaking -- The condottiere, the "Uncle," and the romantics -- Decision in the Kremlin: the end of patience -- Double dive into darkness -- The puppeteers and the Kádár Enigma -- Operation whirlwind and Kádár phantom government -- The Yugoslav-Soviet conspiracy -- The second revolution -- The moral bankruptcy of the U.S. liberation theory -- Worldwide reactions -- The barbarous vendetta of the victors -- 1956-1989: victory in defeat?.…”
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Sixty to zero an inside look at the collapse of General Motors, and the Detroit auto industry / by Taylor, Alex, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…GM at the peak -- Growing up in the car-crazy fifties -- Cracks in GM's edifice -- Insecure colossus: the Roger Smith era -- Ford speeds up -- The Saturn moonshot -- Lee Iacocca, blemishes and all -- Bob Stempel and the crisis of '92 -- Jack Smith's unfinished revolution -- Bob Eaton's big score -- GM on cruise control -- Succession battles at Ford -- Wagoner takes over -- Nasser, Ford, and Mulally -- The legend of Lutz -- The uneven legacy of Lee -- GM's inexorable collapse -- The end of the road.…”
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Muḥammad is not the father of any of your men the making of the last prophet / by Powers, David Stephan

Table of Contents: “…Fathers and sons -- The foundation narratives of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- Adoption in the Near East: from antiquity to the rise of Islam -- The abolition of adoption in early Islam -- Pt. II. From sacred legend to sacred history -- The repudiation of the beloved of the messenger of God -- The battle of Mu'ta -- The martyrdom of the beloved of the messenger of God -- Pretexts and intertexts -- Pt. …”
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