Search Results - "silver"

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    Worst cases terror and catastrophe in the popular imagination / by Clarke, Lee Ben

    Published 2006
    Table of Contents: “…Power, politics, and panic in worst cases -- 5. Silver linings : the good from the worst -- 6. Living and dying in worst case worlds.…”
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    Worst cases terror and catastrophe in the popular imagination / by Clarke, Lee Ben

    Published 2006
    Table of Contents: “…Power, politics, and panic in worst cases -- 5. Silver linings : the good from the worst -- 6. Living and dying in worst case worlds.…”
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    Revisiting Narnia fantasy, myth, and religion in C.S. Lewis' chronicles /

    Published 2005
    Table of Contents: “…The silver chair and the silver screen / Charlie W. Starr -- On the origins of evil / Lawrence Watt-Evans -- Elusive prey / Natasha Giardina -- God in the details / Naomi Wood -- Coming of age in Narnia / Sam McBride -- The chronicles of Narnia : for adults only? …”
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    The Currency of Empire : Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America / by Barth, Jonathan, 1984-

    Published 2021
    Table of Contents: “…Silver, mercantilism, and the impulse for colonization -- The first decades of English American settlement, 1607- -- Monetary upheaval, recovery and the Dutch infiltration, 1640- -- Mercantilism, mints, clipping, smuggling, and piracy, 1660- -- Empire in crisis and flux, 1670- -- Showdown in English America, 1675- -- Economic rebellion, competition, and growth in English America, 1680- -- Revolutions of 1685- -- Reconstructing a mercantilist empire, the 1690s -- The grand settlement.…”
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    Revisiting Narnia fantasy, myth, and religion in C.S. Lewis' chronicles /

    Published 2005
    Table of Contents: “…The silver chair and the silver screen / Charlie W. Starr -- On the origins of evil / Lawrence Watt-Evans -- Elusive prey / Natasha Giardina -- God in the details / Naomi Wood -- Coming of age in Narnia / Sam McBride -- The chronicles of Narnia : for adults only? …”
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    The Currency of Empire : Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America / by Barth, Jonathan, 1984-

    Published 2021
    Table of Contents: “…Silver, mercantilism, and the impulse for colonization -- The first decades of English American settlement, 1607- -- Monetary upheaval, recovery and the Dutch infiltration, 1640- -- Mercantilism, mints, clipping, smuggling, and piracy, 1660- -- Empire in crisis and flux, 1670- -- Showdown in English America, 1675- -- Economic rebellion, competition, and growth in English America, 1680- -- Revolutions of 1685- -- Reconstructing a mercantilist empire, the 1690s -- The grand settlement.…”
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    A cause greater than self the journey of Captain Michael J. Daly, World War II Medal of Honor recipient / by Ochs, Stephen J.

    Published 2012
    Table of Contents: “…Hero-father -- Born with a silver spoon "slightly bent" -- A disappointment to his family -- Initiation: D-day -- Proving ground: the battle of Normandy -- Becoming an officer -- The Colmar pocket: winter heroism -- The dragon's teeth: assuming command -- "Discipline of kindness" -- Götterdämmerung: the battle for Germany -- Nuremberg and the Medal of Honor -- Escaping the "hero's cage" -- Epilogue: causes greater than self.…”
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    The creation of the cowboy hero : fiction, film and fact / by Agnew, Jeremy

    Published 2015
    Table of Contents: “…There have to be heroes -- The legend begins -- The lure of the dime novels -- The great showman -- Buffalo Bill's Wild West -- More and more wild west shows -- Our cowboy heroes -- Flickering images -- Tom Mix and the flashy showmen -- Pulp magazines and mass-market paperbacks -- Warbling cowboys and the silver screen -- Brooding heroes -- And a suitable heroine -- Violence returns -- The image persists.…”
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    A cause greater than self the journey of Captain Michael J. Daly, World War II Medal of Honor recipient / by Ochs, Stephen J.

    Published 2012
    Table of Contents: “…Hero-father -- Born with a silver spoon "slightly bent" -- A disappointment to his family -- Initiation: D-day -- Proving ground: the battle of Normandy -- Becoming an officer -- The Colmar pocket: winter heroism -- The dragon's teeth: assuming command -- "Discipline of kindness" -- Götterdämmerung: the battle for Germany -- Nuremberg and the Medal of Honor -- Escaping the "hero's cage" -- Epilogue: causes greater than self.…”
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    The creation of the cowboy hero : fiction, film and fact / by Agnew, Jeremy

    Published 2015
    Table of Contents: “…There have to be heroes -- The legend begins -- The lure of the dime novels -- The great showman -- Buffalo Bill's Wild West -- More and more wild west shows -- Our cowboy heroes -- Flickering images -- Tom Mix and the flashy showmen -- Pulp magazines and mass-market paperbacks -- Warbling cowboys and the silver screen -- Brooding heroes -- And a suitable heroine -- Violence returns -- The image persists.…”
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    Electronic eBook
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    Stories about stories : fantasy and the remaking of myth / by Attebery, Brian, 1951-

    Published 2014
    Table of Contents: “…Fantasy as a route to myth -- Taxonomic Interlude: a note on genres -- Make it old: the other mythic method -- Silver lies and spinning wheels: Christian myth in MacDonald and Lewis -- Romance and formula, myth and memorate -- Expanding the territory: colonial fantasy -- Angels, fantasy, and belief -- Literalist Interlude: burning Harry Potter -- The postcolonial fantastic -- Coyote's eyes: situated fantasy.…”
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    Stories about stories : fantasy and the remaking of myth / by Attebery, Brian, 1951-

    Published 2014
    Table of Contents: “…Fantasy as a route to myth -- Taxonomic Interlude: a note on genres -- Make it old: the other mythic method -- Silver lies and spinning wheels: Christian myth in MacDonald and Lewis -- Romance and formula, myth and memorate -- Expanding the territory: colonial fantasy -- Angels, fantasy, and belief -- Literalist Interlude: burning Harry Potter -- The postcolonial fantastic -- Coyote's eyes: situated fantasy.…”
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    The feminine ethos in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia by Hilder, Monika B., 1957-

    Published 2012
    Table of Contents: “…The theological feminism of the "old woman" of Oxford -- True royalty: becoming yourself in The lion, the witch and the wardrobe -- Receiving lion-strength: growing up in Prince Caspian -- Baptized into the light: journeying in The voyage of the "Dawn Treader" -- Guarding the gift of memory in The silver chair -- Flying to freedom in The horse and his boy -- Awakening to life in The magician's nephew -- Fighting the battle of faith in The last battle -- Afterword.…”
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    The feminine ethos in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia by Hilder, Monika B., 1957-

    Published 2012
    Table of Contents: “…The theological feminism of the "old woman" of Oxford -- True royalty: becoming yourself in The lion, the witch and the wardrobe -- Receiving lion-strength: growing up in Prince Caspian -- Baptized into the light: journeying in The voyage of the "Dawn Treader" -- Guarding the gift of memory in The silver chair -- Flying to freedom in The horse and his boy -- Awakening to life in The magician's nephew -- Fighting the battle of faith in The last battle -- Afterword.…”
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    Prenatal mouse brain atlas by Schambra, Uta B.

    Published 2008
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