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Return to Alexandria an ethnography of cultural heritage, revivalism, and museum memory / by Butler, Beverley

Table of Contents: “…Preludes : founding myth and archive -- The 'Alexandria Project' in the western imagination -- 'On the ruins' : postcolonial heritage metamorphosis -- Contemporary return to Alexandria : international sacred dramas -- 'Revivalism between worlds' : UNESCO and GOAL -- 'Meltdown' : revivalism's 'time of anxiety' -- 'Spirit of aspiration' : archaeological revivalism and recuperation -- Urban shock therapy : Alexandria's 'Las Vegasisation' -- 'Windows onto contemporary worlds'.…”
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Development practitioners and social process artists of the invisible / by Kaplan, Allan

Table of Contents: “…Byond reductionism -- Emergence -- Life's resources -- Intuition : seeing holistically -- Indications for practice -- Revisiting the whole -- Freedom and constraint -- Balancing heaven and earth -- The creative round -- On becoming -- Dancing with shadows -- Paradoxes of power -- The pattern of reversal -- The narrative thread -- Stories from the field -- Metamorphosis -- Guidance -- Rites of passage -- Consolidating change -- Discerning -- Co-creating -- Emptying -- Awakening.…”
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The party of order the conservatives, the state, and slavery in the Brazilian monarchy, 1831-1871 / by Needell, Jeffrey D.

Table of Contents: “…An obscured genesis -- The port and province of Rio de Janeiro -- The threat of revolution and the reactionary mobilization : 1831-1837 -- Political theory, partisan practice, and the emperor's emergence : 1837-1848 -- Provincial politics, foreign affairs, and patronage : 1848-1853 -- The transformation of politics and the state : 1853-1867 -- Abolition, war, and the vindication of constitutional government : 1867-1871 -- The defeat of the party : the political crisis of 1871 -- Legacy and metamorphosis.…”
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The postmodern humanism of Philip K. Dick by Vest, Jason P., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The world Dick made: science fiction, humanism, and postmodern literature -- The metamorphosis of science fiction: Kafka, Dick, and postmodern humanism -- Parallel minds, alternate worlds: Borges, Dick, and the politics of oppression -- Divine textualities: Calvino, Dick, and authoring creation -- Time, love, and narcosis: the importance of now wait for last year -- Conclusion. …”
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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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The postmodern humanism of Philip K. Dick by Vest, Jason P., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The world Dick made: science fiction, humanism, and postmodern literature -- The metamorphosis of science fiction: Kafka, Dick, and postmodern humanism -- Parallel minds, alternate worlds: Borges, Dick, and the politics of oppression -- Divine textualities: Calvino, Dick, and authoring creation -- Time, love, and narcosis: the importance of now wait for last year -- Conclusion. …”
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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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The party of order the conservatives, the state, and slavery in the Brazilian monarchy, 1831-1871 / by Needell, Jeffrey D.

Table of Contents: “…An obscured genesis -- The port and province of Rio de Janeiro -- The threat of revolution and the reactionary mobilization : 1831-1837 -- Political theory, partisan practice, and the emperor's emergence : 1837-1848 -- Provincial politics, foreign affairs, and patronage : 1848-1853 -- The transformation of politics and the state : 1853-1867 -- Abolition, war, and the vindication of constitutional government : 1867-1871 -- The defeat of the party : the political crisis of 1871 -- Legacy and metamorphosis.…”
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Insect media an archaeology of animals and technology / by Parikka, Jussi, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : insects in the age of technology -- Nineteenth-century insect technics : the uncanny affects of insects -- Genesis of form: insect architecture and swarms -- Technics of nature and temporality : Uexkøll's ethology -- Metamorphosis, intensity, and devouring space : elements for an insect game theory -- Intermezzo -- Animal ensembles, robotic affects : bees, milieus, and individuation -- Biomorphs and boids : swarming algorithms -- Sexual selection in the biodigital: teknolust and the weird life of SRAs -- Epilogue : insect media as an art of transmutation.…”
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Insect media an archaeology of animals and technology / by Parikka, Jussi, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : insects in the age of technology -- Nineteenth-century insect technics : the uncanny affects of insects -- Genesis of form: insect architecture and swarms -- Technics of nature and temporality : Uexkøll's ethology -- Metamorphosis, intensity, and devouring space : elements for an insect game theory -- Intermezzo -- Animal ensembles, robotic affects : bees, milieus, and individuation -- Biomorphs and boids : swarming algorithms -- Sexual selection in the biodigital: teknolust and the weird life of SRAs -- Epilogue : insect media as an art of transmutation.…”
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Kafka and Wittgenstein : The Case for an Analytic Modernism / by Schuman, Rebecca

Table of Contents: “…-- Logical modernism: Kafka and the Tractatus logico-philosophicus -- Logic, skepticism, and mysticism -- The trial and the law of logic -- The metamorphosis and the limits of metaphorical language -- "The judgment," ethics, and the ineffable -- Analytic skepticism : Kafka and the philosophical investigations -- Wittgenstein's transition and a more analytic Kafka -- The castle and the paradox of ostensive definition -- Rule-following and failed execution in "The penal colony" -- The private language argument and the undermining of "Josefine the singer" -- Concluding thoughts: the problem with (critical) progress.…”
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Kafka and Wittgenstein : The Case for an Analytic Modernism / by Schuman, Rebecca

Table of Contents: “…-- Logical modernism: Kafka and the Tractatus logico-philosophicus -- Logic, skepticism, and mysticism -- The trial and the law of logic -- The metamorphosis and the limits of metaphorical language -- "The judgment," ethics, and the ineffable -- Analytic skepticism : Kafka and the philosophical investigations -- Wittgenstein's transition and a more analytic Kafka -- The castle and the paradox of ostensive definition -- Rule-following and failed execution in "The penal colony" -- The private language argument and the undermining of "Josefine the singer" -- Concluding thoughts: the problem with (critical) progress.…”
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Making modern Muslims the politics of Islamic education in Southeast Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Kraince -- Islamic education in Southern Thailand : negotiating Islam, identity, and modernity / Joseph Chinyong Liow -- Muslim metamorphosis : Islamic education and politics in contemporary Cambodia / Bjorn Atle blengsli -- Islamic education in the Philippines : political separatism and religious pragmatism / Thomas M. …”
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Making modern Muslims the politics of Islamic education in Southeast Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Kraince -- Islamic education in Southern Thailand : negotiating Islam, identity, and modernity / Joseph Chinyong Liow -- Muslim metamorphosis : Islamic education and politics in contemporary Cambodia / Bjorn Atle blengsli -- Islamic education in the Philippines : political separatism and religious pragmatism / Thomas M. …”
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The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862

Table of Contents: “…You must either attack Richmond or give up the job and come to the defence of Washington : Abraham Lincoln and the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign / Gary W. Gallagher -- The metamorphosis in Stonewall Jackson's public image / Robert K. …”
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The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862

Table of Contents: “…You must either attack Richmond or give up the job and come to the defence of Washington : Abraham Lincoln and the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign / Gary W. Gallagher -- The metamorphosis in Stonewall Jackson's public image / Robert K. …”
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A house divided Wittelsbach confessional court cultures in the Holy Roman Empire, c. 1550-1650 / by Thomas, Andrew L.

Table of Contents: “…Reflecting dynastic destinies: mirror of prince literature and Wittelsbach education -- Patronage and piety: the confessionalization of Wittelsbach courts in Heidelberg and Munich -- Confessional frontiers and border wars: the confessionalization of Bavaria and the Palatinate -- Wedding bells and cannon fire: Wittelsbach confessional diplomacy -- A winter's tale: the "Winter King" and the court at Prague -- Image-breaking: iconoclasm and identity crisis -- Clarion calls: White Mountain and Wittelsbach legitimacy -- Metamorphosis: the Palatinate in transition and the "Bohemian" court in exile at The Hague -- Appendix A: Wittelsbach genealogy (1300-1550) -- Appendix B: Palatine Wittelsbachs genealogy (1550-1650) -- Appendix C: Bavarian Wittelsbachs genealogy (1550-1650).…”
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A house divided Wittelsbach confessional court cultures in the Holy Roman Empire, c. 1550-1650 / by Thomas, Andrew L.

Table of Contents: “…Reflecting dynastic destinies: mirror of prince literature and Wittelsbach education -- Patronage and piety: the confessionalization of Wittelsbach courts in Heidelberg and Munich -- Confessional frontiers and border wars: the confessionalization of Bavaria and the Palatinate -- Wedding bells and cannon fire: Wittelsbach confessional diplomacy -- A winter's tale: the "Winter King" and the court at Prague -- Image-breaking: iconoclasm and identity crisis -- Clarion calls: White Mountain and Wittelsbach legitimacy -- Metamorphosis: the Palatinate in transition and the "Bohemian" court in exile at The Hague -- Appendix A: Wittelsbach genealogy (1300-1550) -- Appendix B: Palatine Wittelsbachs genealogy (1550-1650) -- Appendix C: Bavarian Wittelsbachs genealogy (1550-1650).…”
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Fama and Fiction in Vergil’s Aeneid / by Syson, Antonia Jane Reobone, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The seams of fiction in epic and novel -- What Turnus sees -- Classifying fama -- Chapter previews -- Monstrous fama -- Fama's tongues -- Jupiter's bargain -- Sinon's fama -- Matter out of place I: across the Styx -- Dirt and disorder -- Daedalean excesses -- Misenus and the substance of fama -- Putting Palinurus in his place -- This and that -- Memories of the harpy -- When "that" becomes "this" -- Recognizing divine authority -- Matter out of place II: Nisus and Euryalus -- Fama evaluated -- Dirty fighting -- The order of metamorphosis -- "Uidi ipse" -- Cybele and Jupiter's order -- Slithery changes -- Venus' fictions -- What Amata sees -- Reading for the novel -- How to do things with birds -- Rumors -- "Accipio agnoscoque deos" -- Juturna's fictional truth -- Afterword: swan song.…”
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Fama and Fiction in Vergil’s Aeneid / by Syson, Antonia Jane Reobone, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The seams of fiction in epic and novel -- What Turnus sees -- Classifying fama -- Chapter previews -- Monstrous fama -- Fama's tongues -- Jupiter's bargain -- Sinon's fama -- Matter out of place I: across the Styx -- Dirt and disorder -- Daedalean excesses -- Misenus and the substance of fama -- Putting Palinurus in his place -- This and that -- Memories of the harpy -- When "that" becomes "this" -- Recognizing divine authority -- Matter out of place II: Nisus and Euryalus -- Fama evaluated -- Dirty fighting -- The order of metamorphosis -- "Uidi ipse" -- Cybele and Jupiter's order -- Slithery changes -- Venus' fictions -- What Amata sees -- Reading for the novel -- How to do things with birds -- Rumors -- "Accipio agnoscoque deos" -- Juturna's fictional truth -- Afterword: swan song.…”
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