Search Results - "mythology"

Not by bread alone social support in the new Russia / by Caldwell, Melissa L., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Transnational soup -- Making do -- Everyday survival in a shortage society -- From hand to hand -- Informal networks -- The forest feeds us -- Organic exchange -- Strategic intimacy -- Communities of assistance -- The mythology of hunger -- Socialism revisited.…”
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Not by bread alone social support in the new Russia / by Caldwell, Melissa L., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Transnational soup -- Making do -- Everyday survival in a shortage society -- From hand to hand -- Informal networks -- The forest feeds us -- Organic exchange -- Strategic intimacy -- Communities of assistance -- The mythology of hunger -- Socialism revisited.…”
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Like sex with gods an unorthodox history of flying / by Singer, Bayla, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Dreams and mythology. Deities aloft. Artificial wings and the imitation of god. …”
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Sacred time, sacred place archaeology and the religion of Israel /

Table of Contents: “…Prayers in clay : a multidisciplinary approach to figurines -- pt. 3. The mythology of sacred space : structure and structuralism -- pt. 4. …”
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Sacred time, sacred place archaeology and the religion of Israel /

Table of Contents: “…Prayers in clay : a multidisciplinary approach to figurines -- pt. 3. The mythology of sacred space : structure and structuralism -- pt. 4. …”
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Like sex with gods an unorthodox history of flying / by Singer, Bayla, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Dreams and mythology. Deities aloft. Artificial wings and the imitation of god. …”
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Languages in America a pluralist view / by Dicker, Susan J.

Table of Contents: “…Language and identity -- The melting-pot mythology -- Common misconceptions about language learning -- Languages in the schools -- The modern official-English movement -- Challenges to language restrictionism -- Lessons in multilingualism beyond the United States -- The possibilities of a pluralistic, multilingual America.…”
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Ruins, revolution, and manifest destiny : John Lloyd Stephens creates the Maya / by Lenz, William E.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: In the footsteps of John Lloyd Stephens -- Personal identity, national mythology -- Reading reviews, reading cultural values -- Appropriating the Maya -- Reading is believing -- Seeing the Maya in the parlor -- Reading Catherwood's views -- Epilogue: The footsteps form a circle.…”
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Ruins, revolution, and manifest destiny : John Lloyd Stephens creates the Maya / by Lenz, William E.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: In the footsteps of John Lloyd Stephens -- Personal identity, national mythology -- Reading reviews, reading cultural values -- Appropriating the Maya -- Reading is believing -- Seeing the Maya in the parlor -- Reading Catherwood's views -- Epilogue: The footsteps form a circle.…”
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Beyond the Lines : Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon / by Parkinson, Sarah E., 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Memories and Mythologies of Militancy -- The Palestine Liberation Organization and the Guerrilla Organizations in Lebanon -- Comparing Violent Repertoires During the 1982 Israeli Invasion -- Beyond the Lines -- Crossing Collaborators -- The Face of the Camps -- "Every Faction for Itself" -- Conclusion : Echoes of Organizations.…”
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Languages in America a pluralist view / by Dicker, Susan J.

Table of Contents: “…Language and identity -- The melting-pot mythology -- Common misconceptions about language learning -- Languages in the schools -- The modern official-English movement -- Challenges to language restrictionism -- Lessons in multilingualism beyond the United States -- The possibilities of a pluralistic, multilingual America.…”
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Beyond the Lines : Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon / by Parkinson, Sarah E., 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Memories and Mythologies of Militancy -- The Palestine Liberation Organization and the Guerrilla Organizations in Lebanon -- Comparing Violent Repertoires During the 1982 Israeli Invasion -- Beyond the Lines -- Crossing Collaborators -- The Face of the Camps -- "Every Faction for Itself" -- Conclusion : Echoes of Organizations.…”
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Communication and the globalization of culture beyond tradition and borders / by Mohammed, S. Nick, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Culture, humankind and society -- The birth of culture -- Conquest, imperialism and culture -- Neo imperialism, media and culture -- New mythology, new media and the globalization of culture -- Corporate domination of cultural product -- Cultural erosion and globalization -- Counterculture and cultural imaginations -- Long live culture?…”
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Communication and the globalization of culture beyond tradition and borders / by Mohammed, S. Nick, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Culture, humankind and society -- The birth of culture -- Conquest, imperialism and culture -- Neo imperialism, media and culture -- New mythology, new media and the globalization of culture -- Corporate domination of cultural product -- Cultural erosion and globalization -- Counterculture and cultural imaginations -- Long live culture?…”
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Religion and the rise of modern culture by Dupré, Louis K., 1925-

Table of Contents: “…Religion and the rise of modern culture -- The form of modernity -- Nature and grace -- The crisis of the Enlightenment -- On the intellectual sources of modern atheism -- God and the poetry of the new age : classicism and romanticism in Germany -- Schelling and the revival of mythology -- The rebirth of theology : Schleiermacher and Kierkegaard -- Religion at the end of the modern age.…”
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Religion and the rise of modern culture by Dupré, Louis K., 1925-

Table of Contents: “…Religion and the rise of modern culture -- The form of modernity -- Nature and grace -- The crisis of the Enlightenment -- On the intellectual sources of modern atheism -- God and the poetry of the new age : classicism and romanticism in Germany -- Schelling and the revival of mythology -- The rebirth of theology : Schleiermacher and Kierkegaard -- Religion at the end of the modern age.…”
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The world of Angela Carter a critical investigation / by Cavallaro, Dani

Table of Contents: “…Angela Carter's vision -- Dark play: the magic toyshop -- Surrealist visions: the infernal desire machines of Doctor Hoffman -- Modern mythologies: the passion of new Eve -- Tradition reimagined: the bloody chamber and other stories -- Beyond gravity: nights at the circus -- Mirror identities: wise children.…”
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The world of Angela Carter a critical investigation / by Cavallaro, Dani

Table of Contents: “…Angela Carter's vision -- Dark play: the magic toyshop -- Surrealist visions: the infernal desire machines of Doctor Hoffman -- Modern mythologies: the passion of new Eve -- Tradition reimagined: the bloody chamber and other stories -- Beyond gravity: nights at the circus -- Mirror identities: wise children.…”
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Reading network fiction by Ciccoricco, David, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…The time and time again of network fiction -- Network vistas : folding the cognitive map -- Returning in twilight : Joyce's Twilight, a symphony -- Tending the garden plot : Moulthrop's Victory garden -- Fluid or overflowing : The unknown and *water writes always in *plural -- Mythology proceeding : Morrissey's The Jew's daughter.…”
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Reading network fiction by Ciccoricco, David, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…The time and time again of network fiction -- Network vistas : folding the cognitive map -- Returning in twilight : Joyce's Twilight, a symphony -- Tending the garden plot : Moulthrop's Victory garden -- Fluid or overflowing : The unknown and *water writes always in *plural -- Mythology proceeding : Morrissey's The Jew's daughter.…”
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