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Quantum enigma physics encounters consciousness / by Rosenblum, Bruce

Table of Contents: “…Presenting the enigma -- Einstein called it "Spooky"-and I wish I had known -- The visit to Neg Ahne Poc: a quantum parable -- Our Newtonian worldview: a universal law of motion -- All the rest of classical physics -- Hello quantum mechanics -- How the quantum was forced on physics -- Schrödinger's equation: the new universal law of motion -- One-third of our economy -- Our skeleton in the closet -- Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen -- Schrödinger's controversial cat -- Seeking a real world: EPR -- Spooky interactions: Bell's theorem -- What's going on? …”
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From Judaism to Christianity tradition and transition : a festschrift for Thomas H. Tobin, S.J., on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday /

Table of Contents: “…Collins -- Exegetical building blocks in Philo's interpretation of the patriarchs / Ellen Birnbaum -- Exegetical traditions in Alexandria : Philo's reworking of the letter of Aristeas 145-149 as a case study / Hans Svebakken -- The Second Temple and the arts of resistance / Adela Yarbro Collins -- Mamona iniquitatis : can we make sense of the parable of the dishonest steward? / Edmondo Lupieri -- Galatians 3:28 and the problem of equality in the church and society / David E. …”
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From Judaism to Christianity tradition and transition : a festschrift for Thomas H. Tobin, S.J., on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday /

Table of Contents: “…Collins -- Exegetical building blocks in Philo's interpretation of the patriarchs / Ellen Birnbaum -- Exegetical traditions in Alexandria : Philo's reworking of the letter of Aristeas 145-149 as a case study / Hans Svebakken -- The Second Temple and the arts of resistance / Adela Yarbro Collins -- Mamona iniquitatis : can we make sense of the parable of the dishonest steward? / Edmondo Lupieri -- Galatians 3:28 and the problem of equality in the church and society / David E. …”
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Beyond the back room new perspectives on Carmen Martín Gaite /

Table of Contents: “…Space / Fantasy -- The home as palimpsest: Nubosidad variable, Lo raro es vivir and Irse de casa / Jeanette Pucheu -- Gender and space in Carmen Martín Gaite's: Nubosidad variable and La reina de las nieves / Alison Ribeiro de Menezes -- Back to the local: the representation of Galicia in Carmen Martín Gaite's Retahílas / Pilar Martínez Quiroga -- The gothic in Martín Gaite's El cuarto de atrás: destabilizing the Sección Feminina's myth of la mujer muy mujer / Kathleen Doyle -- La reina de las nieves: retelling Andersen as a parable of the Spanish Republic and desmemoria / Marian Womack -- pt. 3. …”
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Beyond the back room new perspectives on Carmen Martín Gaite /

Table of Contents: “…Space / Fantasy -- The home as palimpsest: Nubosidad variable, Lo raro es vivir and Irse de casa / Jeanette Pucheu -- Gender and space in Carmen Martín Gaite's: Nubosidad variable and La reina de las nieves / Alison Ribeiro de Menezes -- Back to the local: the representation of Galicia in Carmen Martín Gaite's Retahílas / Pilar Martínez Quiroga -- The gothic in Martín Gaite's El cuarto de atrás: destabilizing the Sección Feminina's myth of la mujer muy mujer / Kathleen Doyle -- La reina de las nieves: retelling Andersen as a parable of the Spanish Republic and desmemoria / Marian Womack -- pt. 3. …”
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Fire and Snow : Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones / by Di Paolo, Marc

Table of Contents: “…Lewis, and the Aesthetics of Christian Environmentalism -- The Time Lord, the Daleks, and the Wardrobe -- Noah's Ark Revisited: 2012 and Magic Lifeboats for the Wealthy -- Race and Disaster Capitalism in Parable of the Sower, The Strain, and Elysium -- Eden Revisited: Ursula K. …”
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Fire and Snow : Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones / by Di Paolo, Marc

Table of Contents: “…Lewis, and the Aesthetics of Christian Environmentalism -- The Time Lord, the Daleks, and the Wardrobe -- Noah's Ark Revisited: 2012 and Magic Lifeboats for the Wealthy -- Race and Disaster Capitalism in Parable of the Sower, The Strain, and Elysium -- Eden Revisited: Ursula K. …”
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Land between waters environmental histories of modern Mexico /

Table of Contents: “…López -- Besieged Forests at Century's End : Industry, Speculation, and Dispossession in Tlaxcala's La Malintzin Woodlands, 1860-1910 / José Juan Juárez Flores -- Water and Revolution in Morelos, 1850-1915 / Alejandro Tortolero Villaseñor -- King Henequen : Order, Progress, and Ecological Change in Yucatán, 1850-1950 / Sterling Evans -- Class and Nature in the Oil Industry of Northern Veracruz, 1900-1938 / Myrna I. Santiago -- Parables of Chapultepec : Urban Parks, National Landscapes, and Contradictory Conservation in Modern Mexico / Emily Wakild -- The Illusion of National Power : Water Infrastructure in Mexican Cities, 1930-1990 / Luis Aboites Aguilar -- Episodes of Environmental History in the Gulf of California : Fisheries, Commerce, and Aquaculture of Nacre and Pearls / Mario Monteforte and Micheline Cariño -- Conclusion: Of the "Lands in Between" and the Environments of Modernity / Cynthia Radding.…”
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Land between waters environmental histories of modern Mexico /

Table of Contents: “…López -- Besieged Forests at Century's End : Industry, Speculation, and Dispossession in Tlaxcala's La Malintzin Woodlands, 1860-1910 / José Juan Juárez Flores -- Water and Revolution in Morelos, 1850-1915 / Alejandro Tortolero Villaseñor -- King Henequen : Order, Progress, and Ecological Change in Yucatán, 1850-1950 / Sterling Evans -- Class and Nature in the Oil Industry of Northern Veracruz, 1900-1938 / Myrna I. Santiago -- Parables of Chapultepec : Urban Parks, National Landscapes, and Contradictory Conservation in Modern Mexico / Emily Wakild -- The Illusion of National Power : Water Infrastructure in Mexican Cities, 1930-1990 / Luis Aboites Aguilar -- Episodes of Environmental History in the Gulf of California : Fisheries, Commerce, and Aquaculture of Nacre and Pearls / Mario Monteforte and Micheline Cariño -- Conclusion: Of the "Lands in Between" and the Environments of Modernity / Cynthia Radding.…”
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On Self-Translation : Meditations on Language / by Stavans, Ilan

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Preface; Part I: Meeting The "I"; On Self-Translation; Part II: Meditations; Alphabetizing; As It Were; Parable of Don Quixote; Finger Snapping; The Tenure Code; Transadaptation; Ellipses and I; On Clarity; Auto-corrected; Part III: Beyond Words; On Being Misunderstood; Part I: The Lecture; Part II: The Response; Against Representation; The Monkey Grammarian; Midrash on Truth; Don Quixote in Schlemieland; Dying in Hebrew; The Reading Life of Ricardo Piglia; Adiós, Chespirito; Part IV: On Fútbol; "Sudden Death"; Van Persie's Goal; Box of Resonance…”
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On Self-Translation : Meditations on Language / by Stavans, Ilan

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Preface; Part I: Meeting The "I"; On Self-Translation; Part II: Meditations; Alphabetizing; As It Were; Parable of Don Quixote; Finger Snapping; The Tenure Code; Transadaptation; Ellipses and I; On Clarity; Auto-corrected; Part III: Beyond Words; On Being Misunderstood; Part I: The Lecture; Part II: The Response; Against Representation; The Monkey Grammarian; Midrash on Truth; Don Quixote in Schlemieland; Dying in Hebrew; The Reading Life of Ricardo Piglia; Adiós, Chespirito; Part IV: On Fútbol; "Sudden Death"; Van Persie's Goal; Box of Resonance…”
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The pseudepigrapha and Christian origins essays from the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas /

Table of Contents: “…Oegema -- The pseudepigrapha and the revelation of John -- The apocalypse of John and Palestinian Jewish apocalyptic / David E. Aune -- The parables of Enoch and the apocalypse of John / James H. …”
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The pseudepigrapha and Christian origins essays from the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas /

Table of Contents: “…Oegema -- The pseudepigrapha and the revelation of John -- The apocalypse of John and Palestinian Jewish apocalyptic / David E. Aune -- The parables of Enoch and the apocalypse of John / James H. …”
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Bodyminds Reimagined : (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction / by Schalk, Samantha Dawn

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Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene / by Dionne, Craig

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Bodyminds Reimagined : (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction / by Schalk, Samantha Dawn

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Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene / by Dionne, Craig

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Swedenborg explorer's guidebook a research manual for inquiring new readers, seekers of spiritual ideas, and writers of Swedenborgian treatises / by Woofenden, William Ross

Table of Contents: “…Swedenborg's writings -- Chronology of published works and unpublished documents -- Alphabetical listing of Swedenborg's writings -- Classification by subject of Swedenborg's writings -- Annotated bibliography of Swedenborg's writings by year -- Published and unpublished writings -- Works of uncertain authorship and projected works that were never written -- Lost works -- Selected collateral literature -- Concordances and compendiums -- Indexes -- Dictionaries -- Documentary collections -- Bibliographies -- Doctrinal summaries -- A. basic reference -- B. general -- The lord -- The word -- E. humankind -- F. love, faith, use -- G. creation, providence, freedom -- H. sex and marriage -- Regeneration -- J. life after death, the spiritual world -- Exegetical works -- A. old testament -- B. new testament -- Studies in correspondences, parables, etc -- Major biographies of Swedenborg -- Historical studies -- A. church history -- B. church polity -- Autobiographies and biographies -- Of prominent swedenborgians -- Metaphysics -- Critical studies -- A. published works -- B. theses and dissertations -- Periodicals -- A. current periodicals -- B. former periodicals -- Indexes to periodicals -- Digests, outlines, and synopses -- Studies in science and religion -- Religious education materials -- Prayer and other devotional materials -- Literature for children -- Miscellaneous -- Glossary -- Selected list of key Swedenborgian concepts -- Pre-theological concepts relevant to the history of science and philosophy -- Concepts bridging the pre-theological and theological concepts -- Revelations about humankind and our intended destiny -- Major documentary collections and booksellers.…”
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Swedenborg explorer's guidebook a research manual for inquiring new readers, seekers of spiritual ideas, and writers of Swedenborgian treatises / by Woofenden, William Ross

Table of Contents: “…Swedenborg's writings -- Chronology of published works and unpublished documents -- Alphabetical listing of Swedenborg's writings -- Classification by subject of Swedenborg's writings -- Annotated bibliography of Swedenborg's writings by year -- Published and unpublished writings -- Works of uncertain authorship and projected works that were never written -- Lost works -- Selected collateral literature -- Concordances and compendiums -- Indexes -- Dictionaries -- Documentary collections -- Bibliographies -- Doctrinal summaries -- A. basic reference -- B. general -- The lord -- The word -- E. humankind -- F. love, faith, use -- G. creation, providence, freedom -- H. sex and marriage -- Regeneration -- J. life after death, the spiritual world -- Exegetical works -- A. old testament -- B. new testament -- Studies in correspondences, parables, etc -- Major biographies of Swedenborg -- Historical studies -- A. church history -- B. church polity -- Autobiographies and biographies -- Of prominent swedenborgians -- Metaphysics -- Critical studies -- A. published works -- B. theses and dissertations -- Periodicals -- A. current periodicals -- B. former periodicals -- Indexes to periodicals -- Digests, outlines, and synopses -- Studies in science and religion -- Religious education materials -- Prayer and other devotional materials -- Literature for children -- Miscellaneous -- Glossary -- Selected list of key Swedenborgian concepts -- Pre-theological concepts relevant to the history of science and philosophy -- Concepts bridging the pre-theological and theological concepts -- Revelations about humankind and our intended destiny -- Major documentary collections and booksellers.…”
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The historical Jesus in recent research

Table of Contents: “…. -- From allegorizing to allegorizing : a history of the interpretation of the parables of Jesus / Klyne R. Snodgrass -- Jesus and the Jewish Nation / B. …”
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