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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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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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Rashīd al-Dīn's history of India : collected essays with facsimiles and indices / by Rashīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb, 1247?-1318

Table of Contents: “…--Km̄alashrī--Rashīd al-Dīn's "Life and teaching of Buddha."--An Indian legend on the descent of the Mongols.--A note on Kashmīr and the Mongols.…”
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Rashīd al-Dīn's history of India : collected essays with facsimiles and indices / by Rashīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb, 1247?-1318

Table of Contents: “…--Km̄alashrī--Rashīd al-Dīn's "Life and teaching of Buddha."--An Indian legend on the descent of the Mongols.--A note on Kashmīr and the Mongols.…”
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John Wayne's world transnational masculinity in the fifties / by Meeuf, Russell, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: reexamining John Wayne -- The emergence of "John Wayne": Red River, global masculinity, and Wayne's romantic anxieties -- Exile, community, and wandering: international migration and the spatial dynamics of modernity in John Ford's cavalry trilogy -- John Wayne's cold war: mass tourism and the anticommunist crusade -- John Wayne's body: technicolor and 3-D anxieties in Hondo and the Searchers -- John Wayne's Africa: European colonialism versus U.S. global leadership in Legend of the lost -- John Wayne's Japan: international production, global trade -- And John Wayne's diplomacy in the Barbarian and the Geisha -- Men at work in tight spaces: masculinity, professionalism, and politics in Rio Bravo and the Alamo -- Conclusion: the man who shot Liberty Valance and nostalgia for John Wayne's world.…”
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John Wayne's world transnational masculinity in the fifties / by Meeuf, Russell, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: reexamining John Wayne -- The emergence of "John Wayne": Red River, global masculinity, and Wayne's romantic anxieties -- Exile, community, and wandering: international migration and the spatial dynamics of modernity in John Ford's cavalry trilogy -- John Wayne's cold war: mass tourism and the anticommunist crusade -- John Wayne's body: technicolor and 3-D anxieties in Hondo and the Searchers -- John Wayne's Africa: European colonialism versus U.S. global leadership in Legend of the lost -- John Wayne's Japan: international production, global trade -- And John Wayne's diplomacy in the Barbarian and the Geisha -- Men at work in tight spaces: masculinity, professionalism, and politics in Rio Bravo and the Alamo -- Conclusion: the man who shot Liberty Valance and nostalgia for John Wayne's world.…”
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Framing Africa portrayals of a continent in contemporary mainstream cinema /

Table of Contents: “…the re-presencing of Africa in twenty-first-century film / Nigel Eltringham -- "Print the legend": myth and reality in The last King of Scotland / Mark Leopold -- Black Hawk down: recasting U.S. military history at Somali expense / Lidwien Kapteijns -- Pharma in Africa: health, corruption and contemporary Kenya in The constant gardener / Daniel Branch -- War in the city, crime in the country: Blood diamond and the representation of violence in the Sierra Leone War / Danny Hoffman -- Showing what cannot be imagined: Shooting dogs and Hotel Rwanda / Nigel Eltringham -- Torture, betrayal and forgiveness: Red dust and the search for truth in post-apartheid South Africa / Annelies Verdoolaege -- Go Amabokoboko! …”
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Framing Africa portrayals of a continent in contemporary mainstream cinema /

Table of Contents: “…the re-presencing of Africa in twenty-first-century film / Nigel Eltringham -- "Print the legend": myth and reality in The last King of Scotland / Mark Leopold -- Black Hawk down: recasting U.S. military history at Somali expense / Lidwien Kapteijns -- Pharma in Africa: health, corruption and contemporary Kenya in The constant gardener / Daniel Branch -- War in the city, crime in the country: Blood diamond and the representation of violence in the Sierra Leone War / Danny Hoffman -- Showing what cannot be imagined: Shooting dogs and Hotel Rwanda / Nigel Eltringham -- Torture, betrayal and forgiveness: Red dust and the search for truth in post-apartheid South Africa / Annelies Verdoolaege -- Go Amabokoboko! …”
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Transforming Gender and Emotion : The Butterfly Lovers Story in China and Korea / by Cho, Sookja

Table of Contents: “…Stories in Transit: From Local Legend to Butterfly Lovers -- 2. Adventures in a Male Space: Troubled Gender and Sexuality -- 3. …”
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Radical Humanism : Selected Essays / by Amery, Jean

Table of Contents: “…After five thousand newspaper articles : how I became a writer -- Being a Jew : a personal account -- In the waiting room of death : reflections on the Warsaw ghetto -- Antisemitism on the left -- Eternal outcasts : prejudices against emigrants -- The time of rehabilitation : the Third Reich and historical objectivity -- Wasted words : thoughts on Germany since 1945 -- Nietzsche the contemporary : on his essay "Schopenhauer as educator" -- The limits of perspicacity : on Ludwig Wittgenstein's culture and values -- Simone Weil : beyond the legend -- Sartre : greatness and failure -- Enlightenment as philosophia perennis.…”
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Transforming Gender and Emotion : The Butterfly Lovers Story in China and Korea / by Cho, Sookja

Table of Contents: “…Stories in Transit: From Local Legend to Butterfly Lovers -- 2. Adventures in a Male Space: Troubled Gender and Sexuality -- 3. …”
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Radical Humanism : Selected Essays / by Amery, Jean

Table of Contents: “…After five thousand newspaper articles : how I became a writer -- Being a Jew : a personal account -- In the waiting room of death : reflections on the Warsaw ghetto -- Antisemitism on the left -- Eternal outcasts : prejudices against emigrants -- The time of rehabilitation : the Third Reich and historical objectivity -- Wasted words : thoughts on Germany since 1945 -- Nietzsche the contemporary : on his essay "Schopenhauer as educator" -- The limits of perspicacity : on Ludwig Wittgenstein's culture and values -- Simone Weil : beyond the legend -- Sartre : greatness and failure -- Enlightenment as philosophia perennis.…”
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Comment comprendre l'actualité : Communication et mise en scène / by Stoiciu, Gina

Table of Contents: “…Partie 5_La scene de l'imaginaire nationalChapitre 9_L'imaginaire du pluralisme au Quebec; Chapitre 10_Le nationalisme et la biere; Partie 6_Legendes contemporaines; Chapitre 11_Les funerailles de Lady Diana; Chapitre 12_La legende de Lady Diana; Chapitre 13_Maurice Richard; Conclusion_La reinvention de la vie sociale.…”
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