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Shipwrecked : Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World / by Morrison, James V., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Salvation, Power, and Freedom: Saint Paul, Caliban, and Voyages in Outer Space -- 6. Culture and Spiritual Rebirth in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe -- 7. …”
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Shipwrecked : Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World / by Morrison, James V., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Salvation, Power, and Freedom: Saint Paul, Caliban, and Voyages in Outer Space -- 6. Culture and Spiritual Rebirth in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe -- 7. …”
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Thinking on thresholds the poetics of transitive spaces /

Table of Contents: “…Windows: looking in, looking out, breaking through / Gillian Beer; Permeable walls and off-stage spaces / Jean Chothia; The queer part doors play in Nabokov's Laughter in the dark / Beci Dobbin; Invasion from outer space: the threshold of annunciations / Subha Mukherji -- Part II: Lives and narratives, territories and worlds. …”
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Thinking on thresholds the poetics of transitive spaces /

Table of Contents: “…Windows: looking in, looking out, breaking through / Gillian Beer; Permeable walls and off-stage spaces / Jean Chothia; The queer part doors play in Nabokov's Laughter in the dark / Beci Dobbin; Invasion from outer space: the threshold of annunciations / Subha Mukherji -- Part II: Lives and narratives, territories and worlds. …”
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Neuroscience in science fiction films / by Packer, Sharon

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Iron man, "extremis" and analysis -- Neuroscience fiction film in post-psychoanalytic society -- Movies and the mind (and the rebirth of the brain) -- The legacy of 19th century literature -- Automatons, androids, replicants and robocops -- Human-ape brain exchanges, Darwinian debates and the "monkey gland man" -- Sputnik, space aliens and brains from outer space -- Science fiction in social problems films -- Brain drains, brain chips and brain machines -- Flashbacks, flash-forwards and flash drives -- Memory, mentation and medication: before birth and after Alzheimer's -- Dream scenes: from silent cinema to Salvador Dali to CGI -- Video games, virtual reality and "reality testing" -- Drugs, dystopias and utopias -- Computers, consciousness and control -- Conclusion: Hive minds, herds and Jung's collective unconscious.…”
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Neuroscience in science fiction films / by Packer, Sharon

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Iron man, "extremis" and analysis -- Neuroscience fiction film in post-psychoanalytic society -- Movies and the mind (and the rebirth of the brain) -- The legacy of 19th century literature -- Automatons, androids, replicants and robocops -- Human-ape brain exchanges, Darwinian debates and the "monkey gland man" -- Sputnik, space aliens and brains from outer space -- Science fiction in social problems films -- Brain drains, brain chips and brain machines -- Flashbacks, flash-forwards and flash drives -- Memory, mentation and medication: before birth and after Alzheimer's -- Dream scenes: from silent cinema to Salvador Dali to CGI -- Video games, virtual reality and "reality testing" -- Drugs, dystopias and utopias -- Computers, consciousness and control -- Conclusion: Hive minds, herds and Jung's collective unconscious.…”
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Cornerstones of security arms control treaties in the nuclear era / by Graham, Thomas, 1933-

Table of Contents: “…The 1925 Geneva Protocol -- The Antarctic Treaty -- The "Hot line" agreements -- The Limited Test Ban Treaty -- The Outer Space Treaty -- Nuclear-weapon-free-zone treaties : background on nuclear-weapon-free zones Treaty of Tlatelolco -- The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty -- Special non-proliferation treaty safeguards agreements : the U.S. …”
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Cornerstones of security arms control treaties in the nuclear era / by Graham, Thomas, 1933-

Table of Contents: “…The 1925 Geneva Protocol -- The Antarctic Treaty -- The "Hot line" agreements -- The Limited Test Ban Treaty -- The Outer Space Treaty -- Nuclear-weapon-free-zone treaties : background on nuclear-weapon-free zones Treaty of Tlatelolco -- The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty -- Special non-proliferation treaty safeguards agreements : the U.S. …”
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International law / by Klabbers, Jan

Table of Contents: “…The seas, the air and outer space; 14. Protecting the environment; 15. The global economy; Part III. …”

International law / by Klabbers, Jan

Table of Contents: “…The seas, the air and outer space; 14. Protecting the environment; 15. The global economy; Part III. …”

A companion to Eastern European cinemas

Table of Contents: “…Center and periphery, or how Karel Vachek formed a new government / Alice Lovejoy -- The Polish black series documentary and the British Free Cinema movement / Bjorn Sorenssen -- Socialists in outer space: East German film's Venusian adventure / Stefan Soldovieri -- Red Shift: new Albanian cinema and its dialogue with the old / Bruce Williams -- National space, (trans)national cinema: Estonian film in the 1960s / Eva Näripea -- For the peace, for a new man, for a better world! …”
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A companion to Eastern European cinemas

Table of Contents: “…Center and periphery, or how Karel Vachek formed a new government / Alice Lovejoy -- The Polish black series documentary and the British Free Cinema movement / Bjorn Sorenssen -- Socialists in outer space: East German film's Venusian adventure / Stefan Soldovieri -- Red Shift: new Albanian cinema and its dialogue with the old / Bruce Williams -- National space, (trans)national cinema: Estonian film in the 1960s / Eva Näripea -- For the peace, for a new man, for a better world! …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view