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Medieval education

Table of Contents: “…Bishops, barbarians, and the "Dark Ages": the fate of late Roman educational institutions in early medieval Gaul / Ralph W. …”
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The mind that is Catholic philosophical and political essays / by Schall, James V.

Table of Contents: “…The mind that is Catholic ; Infinitized by the spirit: Maritain and the intellectual vocation ; Chesterton, the real heretic: the outstanding eccentricity of the peculiar sect called Roman Catholics ; The very graciousness of being -- Reckoning with Plato. …”
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Socrates and Jesus the argument that shaped Western civilization / by Hattersley, Michael E.

Table of Contents: “…Socrates and Jesus -- The historical Socrates -- The Socrates legend -- Philosophy -- Science -- The historical Jesus -- The Jesus legend -- The argument between Socrates and Jesus -- Eros -- Agape -- Eros and agape -- Socrates and Jesus fight for the Roman Empire -- The Augustinian synthesis -- Socrates and Jesus in the Middle Ages -- The high Middle Ages and the synthesis of Aquinas -- Dante -- Socrates, Jesus, and the Renaissance -- Cosimo de Medici (1389-1464) -- Lorenzo de Medici (1449-92) -- Savonarola (1452-98) -- Shakespeare -- The resurgence of agape during the Protestant Reformation -- Martin Luther (1483-1546) -- Reformation and revolution -- Reason and nightmare : the Enlightenment -- The Enlightenment -- Descartes (1596-1650) -- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) -- Isaac Newton (1642-1727) -- David Hume (1711-1776) -- Voltaire -- Rousseau -- Romanticism -- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich hegel (1770-1831) -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) -- The twentieth century -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) -- Karl Marx (1818-1883) -- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) -- All along the watchtower -- John Ashbery's last stand for erotic epistemology.…”
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Youth gangs and community intervention research, practice, and evidence /

Table of Contents: “…Butts, Caterina Gouvis Roman -- Taking criminology seriously: narratives, norms, networks, and common ground / David M. …”
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Political Landscapes of Capital Cities /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : The spatial turn and political landscapes of capital cities / Eulogio Guzmán, Jessica Joyce Christie, and Jelena Bogdanović -- Akhenaten's Amarna in new kingdom Egypt : relations of landscape and ideology / Jessica Joyce Christie -- "Memorials of the ability of them all" : tetrarchic displays in the Roman Forum's central area / Gregor Kalas -- The relational spiritual geopolitics of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire / Jelena Bogdanović -- Beyond the ashes : the making of Bangkok as the capital city of Siam / Melody Rod-ari -- Monumental perceptions of the Tiwanaku landscape / Alexei Vranich -- The Inka capital Cusco as the model of an imperial cultural landscape / Jessica Joyce Christie -- Making landfall : anchoring authority in the public and private political sphere of the basin of Mexico / Eulogio Guzmán -- Provincial capital vs. peasant capital : a subaltern perspective on urban rise and fall from grace / Anne Parmly Toxey -- La Parola al Piccone : demonstrations of fascism at the Imperial Fora and the mausoleum of Augustus / Stephanie Zeier Pilat -- Tehran : a revolution in making / Talinn Grigor -- Conclusions : Ontological relations and the spatial politics of capital cities / Jelena Bogdanović, Jessica Joyce Christie, and Eulogio Guzmán.…”
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José Emilio Pacheco : reescritura en movimiento /

Table of Contents: “…Verani -- Jose Emilio Pacheco, poeta elegiaco / Anthony Stanton -- Aproximaciones a poetisas japonesas / Carmen Dolores Carrillo Juárez -- Morirás lejos : la inofensiva y consoladora utilidad de las narraciones / Gabriela Leal -- Jose Emilio Pacheco y el nouveau roman / Luzelena Gutierrez de Velasco -- Huellas del 68 en textos de Jose Emilio Pacheco / Edith Negrín -- A 30 años de la publicación de Las batallas en el desierto / Jose Emilio Pacheco.…”
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Reading La3amon's Brut : approaches and explorations /

Table of Contents: “…Parry -- Lawman, Bede, and the context of slavery / Daniel Donoghue -- Drinking of blood, burning of women / Andrew Breeze -- The coronation of Arthur and Guenevere in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae, Wace's Roman de Brut, and Lawman's Brut / Charlotte A.T. …”
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Ancient tyranny

Table of Contents: “…The making of tyranny -- Kingship and tyranny in archaic Rome / Fay Glinister -- Ducetius and fifth-century Sicilian tyranny / Trinity Jackman -- Adfectatio regni in the Roman Republic / Christopher Smith -- Money and the great man in the fourth century BC : military power, aristocratic connections and mercenary service / Matthew Trundle -- From Agathocles to Hieron II : the birth and development of basileia in Hellenistic Sicily / Efrem Zambon -- pt. 2. …”
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The pseudepigrapha and Christian origins essays from the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas /

Table of Contents: “…Stuckenbruck -- The pseudepigrapha and Paul -- Adam and Eve in Romans 1:18-25 and the Greek life of Adam and Eve / John R. …”
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New Zealand's Muslims and multiculturalism by Kolig, Erich

Table of Contents: “…Allah is everywhere, even in New Zealand -- Field research -- Community, identity, diversity -- The beginnings -- Muslim representation -- Organisational functions and aims -- Outreach programmes -- The myth of Muslim unity -- Living among infidels -- Orientalism and Islamophobia -- Converts -- Students -- The right to be different : Muslims in the public sphere -- The New Zealand state and multiculturalism -- Secularisation and the right to religion -- Legal instruments -- 'Racial' harmony through interfaith activity -- Education and policy framework -- Democratic participation and public visibility of Muslims -- The difficulty in standardisation of Islamic exceptionalism -- Rivals for custodianship of public morality -- Integration and conflict discourses -- 'When in Rome do as the Romans do' -- The necessity of minority integration -- Conflict discourses -- Blasphemous libel and Islam -- Danish cartoons rock the world -- The Pope's gaffe -- Gender issues : women are equal but different -- Of gender separation and inequality -- Concepts of decency and modesty -- The Burqa case -- Hijab versus Burqa -- Whose authority? …”
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One Zambia, many histories towards a history of post-colonial Zambia /

Table of Contents: “…: opposition to the Zambian one-party state, 1972-1980 / Miles Larmer -- Legitimizing powers : the political role of the Roman Catholic church, 1972-1991 / Marja Hinfelaar -- Towards a history of the charismatic churches in post-colonial Zambia / Austin M. …”
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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: “…/ Wendy Cotter -- The god transformed : Greco-Roman literary antecedents to the Incarnation / Lawrence DiPaolo, Jr -- The Johannine literature and Gosticism : new light on their relationship / Urban C. von Wahlde -- The Acts of John and the fourth gospel / Harold W. …”
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Variations on the messianic theme a case study of interfaith dialogue / by Wyse, Marion

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Confronting the impasse -- The impasse -- Entering the Jewish-Christian dialogue -- Introduction: Facing the past : Hoshoah as the great divide -- Present repentance : documents of the church -- Roman Catholic documents -- World Council of Churches documents -- Lutheran documents -- Other North American documents -- Dialogue as meta-framework -- Initial Christian attempts to approach Jesus as Jew -- 1965-1974 -- Faith and fratricide -- Conclusion: The dialogue at an impasse -- Exploring some christological paths -- Introduction: Urgency of the question -- John Pawlikowski : Jesus in the pharisaic context -- Paul van Buren : Christ in the Jewish context -- Rosemary Ruether : humanity as the collective Messiah -- Conclusion: Still at an impasse -- A way forward -- Examining the radical empirical method -- Choosing context as primary -- William James -- Alfred North Whitehead -- Empirical theology -- Bernard Lee's appropriation of empiricism -- Lee's retrieval of the Hebraic context : a critique -- Mapping some variations on the messianic theme -- Introduction: Contextualizing concepts -- The Jewish origin and development of the messianic concept -- The Christian shift and development of the messianic concept -- The messianic concept in context of the Jewish-Christian dialogue -- Among Jews -- Among Christians -- Conclusion: A way forward? …”
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The art of veiled speech : self-censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes / by Baltussen, Han, Davis, Peter J.

Table of Contents: “…Diogenes the cynic and the politics of tolerance in Athens / Han Baltussen -- Censorship for the Roman stage? / Gesine Manuwald -- The poet as prince : author and authority under Augustus / Ioannis Ziogas -- "Quae quis fugit damnat" : outspoken silence in Seneca's epistles / Marcus Wilson -- Argo's Flavian politics : the workings of Power in Valerius Flaccus / Peter J. …”
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Civil resistance : comparative perspectives on nonviolent struggle /

Table of Contents: “…Norman -- Nonviolent action as the interplay between political context and Ôinsider's knowledge' : otpor in Serbia / Janjira Sombatpoonsiri -- Youth mobilization before and during the orange revolution : learning from losses / Olena Nikolayenko -- How regimes counter civil resistance movements : the cases of Panama and Kenya / Sharon Erickson Nepstad -- From political jiu-jitsu to the backfire dynamic : how repression promotes mobilization / Brian Martin -- Sources, functions, and dilemmas of external assistance to civil resistance movements / Veronique Dudouet -- Frontiers of civil resistance -- Defending freedom with civil resistance in the early Roman republic / Dustin Ells Howes -- Making sense of civil resistance: from theories and techniques to social movement phronesis / Sean Chabot -- Four dimensions of nonviolent action : a sociological perspective / Stellan Vinthagen -- Overcoming illusory division : between nonviolence as a pragmatic strategy and a principled way of life / Chaiwat Satha-Anand -- Civil resistance in the twenty-first century / Kurt Schock -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index.…”
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The Challenge of Chance A Multidisciplinary Approach from Science and the Humanities /

Table of Contents: “….- Accidental Harm under (Roman) Civil Law (C. Jansen).- Taming Chaos: Chance and Variability in the Language Sciences (R. van Hout, Pieter Muysken) -- & nbsp;Biographies.…”
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Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe : Beyond the Feminization Thesis /

Table of Contents: “…Polemical gender discourse in nineteenth-century Catholicism / Angela Berlis -- The cult of the Virgin Mary, or the feminization of the male element in the Roman Catholic Church? A psycho-historical hypothesis / Jan Art -- The "sportsman" and the "muscular Christian". …”
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The Straits of Malacca gateway or gauntlet? / by Freeman, Donald B.

Table of Contents: “…The geographic importance of the Straits of Malacca -- Monsoonal circulation and revolutions in shipping and navigation -- Economic-geographic concepts of long-distance trade, spatial duopoly, and network structures -- Concepts and perspectives from political economy -- Practical incentives and the organization of early long-distance trade -- Asian-European trading systems in the Greco-Roman era : the beginnings of monsoon trade -- Monsoon trade in the early fifteenth century : the Empire of Melaka (Malacca) and its precursors -- The Portuguese trading system in monsoon Asia -- The Dutch trading system and Hollands' ascendancy in the Straits of Malacca -- The British East India Company trading system -- Contemporary trading systems : Japan, oil, and the Straits of Malacca -- Controlling transit trade : the entrepot of Melaka -- The founding of British Penang (Pulau Pinang) -- The rise of Singapore as a global entrepot -- Changing local hinterlands and products in the straits region : Sumatran trade -- Local trader hinterlands and products on the Malay coast of the straits -- Natural hazards and navigation in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore -- Piracy in the Straits of Malacca and surrounding seas -- Twentieth-century military conflicts in the straits area -- Traffic congestion, hazardous cargoes, and pollution in the straits in the contemporary period -- Twenty-first-century trade and globalization : the Asia-Pacific region -- Emerging roles of the straits in global and regional commerce -- Conclusion.…”
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AIDS and religious practice in Africa

Table of Contents: “…The rise of occult powers, AIDS and the Roman Catholic church in western Uganda / Heike Behrend -- Christian salvation and Luo tradition : arguments of faith in a time of death in western Kenya / Ruth Prince -- The new wives of Christ : paradoxes and potentials in the remaking of widow lives in Uganda / Catrine Christiansen -- AIDS and the power of God : narratives of decline and coping strategies in Zanzibar / Nadine Beckmann -- Competing explanations and treatment choices : Muslims, AIDS and ARVs in Tanzania / Felicitas Becker -- 'Muslims have instructions' : HIV/AIDS, modernity and Islamic religious education in Kisumu, Kenya / Jonas Svensson -- 'Keeping up appearances' : sex and religion amongst university students in Uganda / Jo Sadgrove -- Healing the wounds of modernity : salvation, community and care in a Neo-Pentecostal church in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania / Hansjörg Dilger -- Gloves in times of AIDS : Pentecostalism, hair and social distancing in Botswana / Rijk van Dijk -- Leprosy of a deadlier kind : Christian conceptions of AIDS in the South African Lowveld / Isak Niehaus -- Subjects of counselling : religion, HIV/AIDS and the management of everyday life in South Africa / Marian Burchardt -- Therapeutic evangelism : confessional technologies, antiretrovirals and biospiritual transformation in the fight against AIDS in West Africa / Vinh-Kim Nguyen.…”
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Recentring Asia histories, encounters, identities /

Table of Contents: “…The dark passage : history, piracy and the Melaka Strait / Barbara Andaya -- In interesting times : Northeast Asia's tipping-point and its implications for the southern hemisphere / Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- Indians in the South Pacific : recentred diasporas / Jacqueline Leckie -- The legend of Minamoto no Tametomo : controversy and connections between Ryukyuan/Okinawan and Japanese histories / Ito Yushi -- Dislocated location and impersonal : the object of contemporary Chinese poetry / Jacob Edmond -- The city as a contact zone : Shanghai as a crossroad between China and Japan / Hasegawa Eiko -- From diasporic communities to "abandoned people" (kimin) / Roman Rosenbaum -- Hiding behind ambiguity : identifying an ethnicity / Anthony Shome -- Supporting foreigners in Japan : NGOs and advocacy / Nanami Akiko -- Indecent intimacies : Chinese men as sexual predators in New Zealand fiction, 1934 to 2006 / Kathy Ooi -- The trope of the ghost and cultural hybridity in Kim Sok Pom's Mandogi yurei kitan (The extraordinary ghost story of Mandogi) (1971) / Elise Foxworth -- Wartime tanka poetry : writing in extremis / Leith Morton -- Reaching out with chimugukuru : positioning Okinawan identity at the Fourth Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival and beyond / Miyahira Katsuyuki and Peter Petrucci -- Musical moves and transnational grooves : education, transplantation and Japanese taiko drumming at the International Pacific College, New Zealand / Henry Johnson.…”
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