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Beyond the dot.coms the economic promise of the Internet / by Litan, Robert E., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…-- Why productivity is so important -- Productivity and the internet: what lies ahead? -- Benefits of the Internet that may not show up in the gdp -- Realizing the Internet's potential -- Concluding thoughts.…”
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The Civil War as a theological crisis by Noll, Mark A., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Historical contexts -- The crisis over the Bible -- "The Negro question lies far deeper than the slavery question" -- The crisis over providence -- Opinions of Protestants abroad -- Catholic viewpoints -- Retrospect and prospect.…”
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Devils and rebels the making of Hawthorne's damned politics / by Reynolds, Larry J. (Larry John), 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Revolution and warfare -- Witchcraft and abolitionism -- Racism, slave narratives, and the body as evidence -- Accord in Concord -- Lies, specters, and the "black man" -- Transformative violence at home and abroad -- The stationary "fall" of a public intellectual.…”
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The left side of the screen Communist and left-wing ideology in Hollywood, 1929-2009 / by Herzberg, Bob, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…In the red (1929-1936) -- Old left hook (1937-1941) -- Bodyguard of lies (1942-1945) -- Revolution from above (1946-1951) -- Breaking eggs (1952-1958) -- Containment (1959-2009).…”
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Surprised by Shame : Dostoevsky's Liars and Narrative Explorers / by Martinsen, Deborah A.

Table of Contents: “…Surprised by shame -- Something about lying -- Shame's legacy -- General Ivolgin -- Confessional moments -- Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky -- Divided selves -- Lukian Lebedev -- Metaliterary identity -- Captain Lebiadkin -- Father and son.…”
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Speaking of information the Library juice quotation book / by Litwin, Rory

Table of Contents: “…On libraries -- Information technology -- Information control -- Censorship -- Copyright -- Data, information, knowledge & other wisdom -- Information overload -- On librarians -- Guardians of history -- Social responsibility -- Neutrality -- Liberty or slavery -- Truth & lie -- Secrecy.…”
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This Was Not Our War : Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace / by Hunt, Swanee

Table of Contents: “…Madness -- Hell breaks loose -- Love in the crucible -- Reasons for the war -- The lie of intractable hatreds -- pt. 2. To heal history -- Challenges -- Women transforming -- The road to reconciliation -- Epilogue: The courage to hope -- Profiles -- Closing thoughts.…”
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Poetry into song performance and analysis of lieder / by Stein, Deborah J. (Deborah Jane)

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Joseph Conrad and the anxiety of knowledge / by Freedman, William, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: Ambivalent fabulist, indeterminate fables -- Forbidden knowledge and the saving illusion -- The lie of fiction: Heart of darkness -- The soft spot: Lord Jim -- A more dangerous revolution: Under western eyes -- Drowning in the romance of the shallows: The rescue -- Appendix: Woman and truth, the history of an association.…”
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Critical essays on Michel Butor's L'Emploi du temps by Rangarajan, Sudarsan

Table of Contents: “…Narrative and other beginnings -- Narratees as générateurs de récit -- The journalistic discourse: faits divers, features and interviews -- Heterotopias and collections: museums, monuments and fairs -- Lies and betrayals: rhetoric of fiction -- Hybridity: the detective and the gothic genres -- The flâneur and the ontic city -- A postcolonial reading: the elite and the subaltern.…”
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Queer Roots for the Diaspora : Ghosts in the Family Tree / by Hayes, Jarrod

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Looking for roots among the mangroves -- Queer roots in Africa -- Scandals and lies : the truth about roots -- From roots that uproot to queer diasporas -- The seduction of roots and the roots of seduction -- Booger hollar and other queer sites : ghosts in the family tree -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.…”
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Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama : Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion / by Porter, Chloe

Table of Contents: “…Early modern English drama and visual culture -- 'In the keeping of Paulina': the unknowable image in The Winter's tale -- 'But begun for others to end': the ends of incompletion -- 'The brazen head lies broken': divine destruction in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay -- Going unseen: invisibility and erasure in The Two merry milkmaids.…”
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Lowering the bar lawyer jokes and legal culture / by Galanter, Marc, 1931-

Table of Contents: “…Lies and strategems : the corruption of discourse -- The lawyer as economic predator -- Playmates of the devil -- Conflict : lawyers as fomenters of strife -- The demography of the world of lawyer jokes -- Betrayers of trust -- The lawyer as morally deficient -- Lawyers as objects of scorn -- "A good start!" …”
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Social selves and political reforms five visions in contemporary Christian ethics / by Snarr, C. Melissa

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Politics and Christianizing the social self -- Walter Rauschenbusch and organizing the social -- Reinhold Niebuhr and social anxiety -- Stanley Hauerwas and the church social -- Beverly Harrison and radical sociality -- Emilie Townes and the socially resilient self -- Conclusion: Socializing Christian political ethics -- Postscript: The work that lies ahead.…”
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Liberation historiography African American writers and the challenge of history, 1794-1861 / by Ernest, John

Table of Contents: “…The theater of history -- Scattered lives, scattered documents : writing liberation history -- Multiple lives and lost narratives : (auto)biography as history -- The assembly of history : orations and conventions -- Our warfare lies in the field of thought : the African American -- Press and the work of history -- Epilogue : William Wells Brown and the performance of history.…”
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Pretty creatures children and fiction in the English Renaissance / by Witmore, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Ut pueritas poesis : the child and fiction in the English Renaissance -- Animated children in Elizabeth's coronation pageant of 1559 -- Phatic metadrama and the touch of irony in English children's theater -- Mamillius, The winter's tale, and the impetus of fiction -- The lies children tell : counterfeiting victims and witnesses in early modern English witchcraft trials and possessions.…”
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Beyond crisis achieving renewal in a turbulent world / by Ringland, Gill

Table of Contents: “…A short history of the crisis -- The new operating environment demographics -- What lies ahead? -- Organisational design -- The foxes and hedgehogs of renewal -- The importance of purpose -- Five qualities for renewal --The structure of renewal -- Managing renewal -- Values -- Insight -- Generating options -- Narrative -- Machinery -- Conclusion : a purposeful self-renewing organisation.…”
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Inconceivable effects ethics through twentieth-century German literature, thought, and film / by Blumenthal-Barby, Martin

Table of Contents: “…"The odium of doubtfulness" : or, the vicissitudes of Arendt's metaphorical thinking -- Why does Hannah Arendt lie? : or, the vicissitudes of imagination -- "A peculiar apparatus" : Kafka's thanatopoetics -- A strike of rhetoric : Benjamin's paradox of justice -- Pernicious bastardizations : Benjamin's ethics of pure violence -- The return of the human : Germany in autumn -- A politics of enmity : Müller's Germania death in Berlin.…”
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Difficult women on television drama : the gender politics of complex women in serial narratives / by Pinedo, Isabel Cristina, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Female Sexual Pleasure and Freedom: Outlander and Westworld -- Violence Against Women and Women Who Kill: Big Little Lies, Orange is the New Black, and Wentworth -- Intersectionality: Beyond the White Female Subject -- Conclusion.…”
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Inconceivable Effects : Ethics through Twentieth-Century German Literature, Thought, and Film / by Blumenthal-Barby, Martin

Table of Contents: “…"The odium of doubtfulness" : or, the vicissitudes of Arendt's metaphorical thinking -- Why does Hannah Arendt lie? : or, the vicissitudes of imagination -- "A peculiar apparatus" : Kafka's thanatopoetics -- A strike of rhetoric : Benjamin's paradox of justice -- Pernicious bastardizations : Benjamin's ethics of pure violence -- The return of the human : Germany in autumn -- A politics of enmity : Müller's Germania death in Berlin.…”
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