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The Peshiṭta its use in literature and liturgy : papers read at the third Peshiṭta Symposium /

Table of Contents: “…Peter Hayman -- Reworking the biblical text in the dramatic dialogue poems on the Old Testament patriarch Joseph / Kristian Heal -- Old Testament in the new : the Syriac versions of the New Testament as a witness to the text of the Old Testament Peshiṭta / Jan Joosten -- 'Syriac Masora' and the New Testament Peshiṭta / Andreas Juckel -- Four kingdoms in Peshiṭta Daniel 7 in the light of the early history of interpretation / Arie van der Kooij -- Aphrahat's use of his Old Testament / Marinus D. …”
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Experimental Latin American cinema history and aesthetics / by Tompkins, Cynthia, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…The miracle of female bonding in patriarchal society: Carlos Reygadas's Stellet licht (2008) -- Cyclical scapegoating: Inês de Oliveira Cézar's Extranjera -- The irrevocable nature of curses: Inês de Oliveira Cézar's El recuento de Los Daños -- Splintered mirrors, echoes, and reverberations: Fernando Pérez Valdés's Madrigal -- Experimental pseudo-documentary. …”
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Experimental Latin American cinema history and aesthetics / by Tompkins, Cynthia, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…The miracle of female bonding in patriarchal society: Carlos Reygadas's Stellet licht (2008) -- Cyclical scapegoating: Inês de Oliveira Cézar's Extranjera -- The irrevocable nature of curses: Inês de Oliveira Cézar's El recuento de Los Daños -- Splintered mirrors, echoes, and reverberations: Fernando Pérez Valdés's Madrigal -- Experimental pseudo-documentary. …”
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Testosterone dreams rejuvenation, aphrodisia, doping / by Hoberman, John M. (John Milton), 1944-

Table of Contents: “…-- Testosterone as therapy and myth -- "Psychic steroids" : Prozac as a performance-enhancing drug -- Back to the future : the sex hormone market from organotherapy to "andro" -- The aphrodisiac that failed : why testosterone did not become a mass sex therapy -- What they did to women : the origins of sex therapy -- Sex before kinsey : what doctors and patients did not know -- Hormones and the state : sex and marital stability -- Patriarchal sex therapy : curing "frigidity" with hormones -- Reorienting male desire : curing homosexuals with sex hormones -- Aphrodisia for the masses? …”
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Households of faith family, gender, and community in Canada, 1760-1969 /

Table of Contents: “…DRAPER -- Reinventing Christian Masculinity and Fatherhood: The Canadian Protestant Experience, 1900-1920 290 -- PATRICIA DIRKS --MODERNITY, SEXUALITY, AND THE INDIVIDUALIST TEMPER -- The Emergence of Personalist Feminism: Catholicism and the Marriage-Preparation Movement in Quebec, -- 1940-1966 319 -- MICHAEL GAUVREAU -- Sacred Sex: The United Church and the Privatization of the Family in Post-War Canada 348 -- NANCY CHRISTIE -- Conclusion: "Patriarchal Piety" and Canada's Liberal Tradition 377.…”
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In search of the lost feminine decoding the myths that radically reshaped civilization / by Barnes, Craig S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : rewriting the story of western civilization -- Minoan artifacts challenge the inevitability of patriarchy -- The mystery of Minoan civilization -- An expectation of rebirth or immortality -- Time as a circle rather than a line -- The troubling question of war -- Crete and the issue of female sexuality -- The ecstatic and the divine as inseperable -- Five values dramatically at odds with patriarchy -- The collapse of the Minoan world -- The invasions of 1600 BCE : a war culture emerges -- The Theran explosion : the loss of faith in Mother Earth -- The growth of trade : the diminishment of daughters -- The great civil war over marriage : the end of women-centered culture in the eastern Mediterranean -- A warrior civilization emerges -- Four hundred years of chaos sets the stage -- Values shaped by storytellers -- An exaggerated feminine is made monstrous -- Mother Earth is overthrown -- Jason resists the many shapes of seductive women -- Odysseus rejects Calypso -- Homer poses the choice between love and property -- Clytemnestra is sacrificed on the altar of marriage -- Marriage destroys the mother-daughter bond -- Daughters die for civic good -- A multitude of myths to tame, punish, and disparage women -- Oedipus, the lost son -- A glorious monument enshrining the subordination of women -- Biblical patriarchs match the Greek story -- Objections to the warrior civilization -- Jesus carries forward the Eleusian symbolism of grain and wine -- Jesus takes on the threat of military destruction -- Ancient beliefs spring up among the Celts -- A short-lived Islamic challenge -- The metaphor of the holy grail -- Devil talk and witch burnings -- Closing the book on the patriarchy -- History as a choice of stories -- Women coming home to dignity -- The declining utility of war -- Another story all along.…”
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Testosterone dreams rejuvenation, aphrodisia, doping / by Hoberman, John M. (John Milton), 1944-

Table of Contents: “…-- Testosterone as therapy and myth -- "Psychic steroids" : Prozac as a performance-enhancing drug -- Back to the future : the sex hormone market from organotherapy to "andro" -- The aphrodisiac that failed : why testosterone did not become a mass sex therapy -- What they did to women : the origins of sex therapy -- Sex before kinsey : what doctors and patients did not know -- Hormones and the state : sex and marital stability -- Patriarchal sex therapy : curing "frigidity" with hormones -- Reorienting male desire : curing homosexuals with sex hormones -- Aphrodisia for the masses? …”
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Households of faith family, gender, and community in Canada, 1760-1969 /

Table of Contents: “…DRAPER -- Reinventing Christian Masculinity and Fatherhood: The Canadian Protestant Experience, 1900-1920 290 -- PATRICIA DIRKS --MODERNITY, SEXUALITY, AND THE INDIVIDUALIST TEMPER -- The Emergence of Personalist Feminism: Catholicism and the Marriage-Preparation Movement in Quebec, -- 1940-1966 319 -- MICHAEL GAUVREAU -- Sacred Sex: The United Church and the Privatization of the Family in Post-War Canada 348 -- NANCY CHRISTIE -- Conclusion: "Patriarchal Piety" and Canada's Liberal Tradition 377.…”
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In search of the lost feminine decoding the myths that radically reshaped civilization / by Barnes, Craig S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : rewriting the story of western civilization -- Minoan artifacts challenge the inevitability of patriarchy -- The mystery of Minoan civilization -- An expectation of rebirth or immortality -- Time as a circle rather than a line -- The troubling question of war -- Crete and the issue of female sexuality -- The ecstatic and the divine as inseperable -- Five values dramatically at odds with patriarchy -- The collapse of the Minoan world -- The invasions of 1600 BCE : a war culture emerges -- The Theran explosion : the loss of faith in Mother Earth -- The growth of trade : the diminishment of daughters -- The great civil war over marriage : the end of women-centered culture in the eastern Mediterranean -- A warrior civilization emerges -- Four hundred years of chaos sets the stage -- Values shaped by storytellers -- An exaggerated feminine is made monstrous -- Mother Earth is overthrown -- Jason resists the many shapes of seductive women -- Odysseus rejects Calypso -- Homer poses the choice between love and property -- Clytemnestra is sacrificed on the altar of marriage -- Marriage destroys the mother-daughter bond -- Daughters die for civic good -- A multitude of myths to tame, punish, and disparage women -- Oedipus, the lost son -- A glorious monument enshrining the subordination of women -- Biblical patriarchs match the Greek story -- Objections to the warrior civilization -- Jesus carries forward the Eleusian symbolism of grain and wine -- Jesus takes on the threat of military destruction -- Ancient beliefs spring up among the Celts -- A short-lived Islamic challenge -- The metaphor of the holy grail -- Devil talk and witch burnings -- Closing the book on the patriarchy -- History as a choice of stories -- Women coming home to dignity -- The declining utility of war -- Another story all along.…”
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Sexual coercion in primates and humans an evolutionary perspective on male aggression against females /

Table of Contents: “…Hatch -- Human rape : revising evolutionary perspectives / Melissa Emery Thompson -- "Friendship" with males : a female counterstrategy to infanticide in chacma baboons of the Okavango Delta / Ryne Palombit -- The absence of sexual coercion in bonobos / Tommaso Paoli -- Sexual coercion, patriarchal violence, and law / Diane L. Rosenfeld -- Sexual coercion in humans and other primates : the road ahead / Richard W. …”
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Sexual coercion in primates and humans an evolutionary perspective on male aggression against females /

Table of Contents: “…Hatch -- Human rape : revising evolutionary perspectives / Melissa Emery Thompson -- "Friendship" with males : a female counterstrategy to infanticide in chacma baboons of the Okavango Delta / Ryne Palombit -- The absence of sexual coercion in bonobos / Tommaso Paoli -- Sexual coercion, patriarchal violence, and law / Diane L. Rosenfeld -- Sexual coercion in humans and other primates : the road ahead / Richard W. …”
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Echoes of No Thing: Thinking between Heidegger and Dōgen / by Jenkins, Nico, 1970-

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Echoes of No Thing: Thinking between Heidegger and Dōgen / by Jenkins, Nico, 1970-

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Issues in Feminist Film Criticism /

Table of Contents: “…Positive images: screening women's films / Linda Artel and Susan Wengraf -- There's more to a positive image than meets the eye / Diane Waldman -- The place of woman in the cinema of Raoul Walsh / Pam Cook and Claire Johnston -- Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey -- Film and the masquerade: theorizing the female spectator / Mary Ann Doane -- Hitchcock, feminism, and the patriarchal unconscious / Tania Modleski -- Women and representation: Can we enjoy alternative pleasure? …”
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Issues in Feminist Film Criticism /

Table of Contents: “…Positive images: screening women's films / Linda Artel and Susan Wengraf -- There's more to a positive image than meets the eye / Diane Waldman -- The place of woman in the cinema of Raoul Walsh / Pam Cook and Claire Johnston -- Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey -- Film and the masquerade: theorizing the female spectator / Mary Ann Doane -- Hitchcock, feminism, and the patriarchal unconscious / Tania Modleski -- Women and representation: Can we enjoy alternative pleasure? …”
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Toward an ecology of transfiguration orthodox Christian perspectives on environment, nature, and creation /

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Prefatory Letter by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew -- Foreword by Bill McKibben -- Introduction: "The Sweetness of Heaven Overflows onto the Earth": Orthodox Christianity and Environmental Thought -- John Chryssavgis and Bruce V. …”
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Toward an ecology of transfiguration orthodox Christian perspectives on environment, nature, and creation /

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Prefatory Letter by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew -- Foreword by Bill McKibben -- Introduction: "The Sweetness of Heaven Overflows onto the Earth": Orthodox Christianity and Environmental Thought -- John Chryssavgis and Bruce V. …”
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Reframing Latin America a cultural theory reading of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / by Ching, Erik Kristofer

Table of Contents: “…Connell -- Identity Construct #4: Nation -- The Inequality of Human Races / Arthur de Gobineau -- On Becoming Cuban / Louis Perez -- Identity Construct #5: Latin America -- Journeys Through the Labyrinth / Gerald Martin -- The Search for Cultural Identity / Leslie Bary -- Local Histories, Global Designs / Walter Mignolo -- Reading(s) -- Civilized Folk Defeat the Barbarians: The Liberal Nation -- Facundo / Domingo Sarmiento -- Civilized Folk Marry the Barbarians: The Nationalist Nation -- Introduction to Doña Barbára by Rómulo Gallegos -- Doña Barbára / Rómulo Gallegos -- Introduction to Doris Sommer's Foundational Fictions -- Foundational Fictions / Doris Sommer -- Introduction to José Martí's "Our America" -- Our America / José Martí -- Film Foray: Los tres caballeros -- Don (Juanito) Duck and the Imperial Patriarchal Discourse / Julianne Burton -- The Socialist Utopia: Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution -- Analyzing The Motorcycle Diaries -- Film Analysis: The Motorcycle Diaries -- Introduction to Alma Guillermoprieto's "The Harsh Angel" -- The Harsh Angel / Alma Guillermoprieto -- Film Analysis: Soy Cuba/Ya Kuba (I Am Cuba) -- Boom Goes the Literature: Magical Realism as the True Latin America? …”
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Reframing Latin America a cultural theory reading of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / by Ching, Erik Kristofer

Table of Contents: “…Connell -- Identity Construct #4: Nation -- The Inequality of Human Races / Arthur de Gobineau -- On Becoming Cuban / Louis Perez -- Identity Construct #5: Latin America -- Journeys Through the Labyrinth / Gerald Martin -- The Search for Cultural Identity / Leslie Bary -- Local Histories, Global Designs / Walter Mignolo -- Reading(s) -- Civilized Folk Defeat the Barbarians: The Liberal Nation -- Facundo / Domingo Sarmiento -- Civilized Folk Marry the Barbarians: The Nationalist Nation -- Introduction to Doña Barbára by Rómulo Gallegos -- Doña Barbára / Rómulo Gallegos -- Introduction to Doris Sommer's Foundational Fictions -- Foundational Fictions / Doris Sommer -- Introduction to José Martí's "Our America" -- Our America / José Martí -- Film Foray: Los tres caballeros -- Don (Juanito) Duck and the Imperial Patriarchal Discourse / Julianne Burton -- The Socialist Utopia: Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution -- Analyzing The Motorcycle Diaries -- Film Analysis: The Motorcycle Diaries -- Introduction to Alma Guillermoprieto's "The Harsh Angel" -- The Harsh Angel / Alma Guillermoprieto -- Film Analysis: Soy Cuba/Ya Kuba (I Am Cuba) -- Boom Goes the Literature: Magical Realism as the True Latin America? …”
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Hostile intent and counter-terrorism : human factors theory and application /

Table of Contents: “…Carley, Mia Bloom and Kurt Braddock -- Evaluating emergency preparedness: using responsibility models to identify vulnerabilities / Gordon Baxter and Ian Sommerville -- Socio-cultural factors -- Unintended consequences of the "War on terror": home-grown terrorism and conflict engaged citizens returning to civil society / John Parkinson OBE and Andrew Staniforth -- Parasites, energy and complex systems: generating novel intervention options to counter recruitment to suicide terrorism / Mils Hills and Ashwin Mehta -- Terrorist targeting of schools and educational establishments / Emma Bradford and Margaret A Wilson -- Female suicide terrorism as a function of patriarchal societies / Tanya Dronzina -- Strategies and approaches for counter-terrorism -- Designing visible counter-terrorism interventions in public spaces / Ben Dalton, Karen Martin, Claire McAndrew, Marialena Nikolopoulou and Teal Triggs -- A macro-ergonomics perspective on security: a rail case study / Rose Saikayasit, Alex Stedmon and Glyn Lawson -- Deception and speech: a theoretical overview to inform future research / Christin Kirchhübel, David M Howard and Alex Stedmon -- Evaluating counter-terrorism training using behavioural measures and theory / Joan H. …”
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