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Open up the doors music in the modern church / by Evans, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Contextualising contemporary congregational music -- "Nothing new under the sun" : learning from history -- Ending the corporate worship wars -- Resistance or accommodation : the "world" of quality -- The rise and rise of pentecostal music : history, hillsong, and star texts -- Theomusicological frameworks for congregational song analysis -- Corporate worship gets personal -- Conclusion : "When the music fades".…”
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Distorted mirrors Americans and their relations with Russia and China in the twentieth century / by Davis, Donald E., 1936-

Table of Contents: “…China -- Missionary diplomacy -- Pragmatist in China -- Red star over China -- The novelist and the ambassador -- The president and the generalissimo -- Luce's man in Chungking -- Gurus -- Old conclusions, new beginnings.…”
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Saving Ben a father's story of autism / by Burns, Dan E. (Dan Eric), 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The storm. Wished upon a star ; Quirky Ben ; Diagnosis -- The journey ; Sunrise ; Sunset -- Oz. …”
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In there with the kids crafting lessons that connect with students / by Kobrin, David, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…-- In there with the kids -- Where teaching comes from -- When the teacher presents -- All schoolwork is not created equal -- Why they killed Socrates -- When a teacher's energy isn't enough -- Being critical and thinking critically -- Valuing the feeling person -- How the sports stars get so good -- Rounding the circle of learning.…”
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General relativistic dynamics extending Einstein's legacy throughout the universe / by Cooperstock, F. (Fred)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Essentials of special relativity -- Bondi's K-calculus approach to special relativity -- Essentials of general relativity -- Schwarzschild solution and its consequences -- Gravitational waves -- The normal scales of physics and the Planck scale -- General relativistic cosmology -- Motion of stars in the galaxy -- Clusters of galaxies -- Closed timelike curves and time machines -- The direction of physics research -- Summary and concluding commentary.…”
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Deformed and destructive beings the purpose of horror films / by Ochoa, George

Table of Contents: “…Genres -- History : beginnings to the 1950s -- History : 1960s to the present -- Reputation -- Taxonomy -- Techniques -- Directors -- Stars and DDBs -- Other directions.…”
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Beautiful boys/outlaw bodies devising Kabuki female-likeness / by Mezur, Katherine

Table of Contents: “…Precursors and unruly vanguards -- 4. Star designing and myth making -- 5. Modernity, nation, and eros : boys versus women -- 6. …”
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Judah Halevi and his circle of Hebrew poets in Granada by Brener, Ann, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…First contacts between Judah Halevi and Moses ibn Ezra -- Judah Halevi's letter to Moses ibn Ezra -- First contacts with Judah ibn Ghayyat -- A star is born : Judah Halevi in Granada -- The poetry of wine-drinking parties -- The poet's workshop -- Hebrew boon-companions as poets for Jewish occasions -- "The girl from Granada" : Granada as metaphor and place.…”
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The world in which we occur John Dewey, pragmatist ecology, and American ecological writing in the twentieth century / by Browne, Neil W.

Table of Contents: “…An arc of discovery: John Muir's my first summer in the Sierra -- The form of the new: pragmatist ecology and Sea of Cortez -- Rachel Carson's Marginal world: pragmatist ecology, aesthetics, and ethics -- The coldest scholar on Earth: silence and work in John Haines's The stars, the snow, the fire -- Northern imagination, wonder, politics, and pragmatist ecology in Barry Lopez's Arctic dreams.…”
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Selling teaching hospitals and practice plans George Washington and Georgetown Universities / by Kastor, John A.

Table of Contents: “…Washington and its academic medical centers -- George Washington University : selling the hospital -- George Washington University : separating the practice plan -- George Washington University : closing the HMO -- George Washington University and its medical school -- Georgetown University : selling the hospital -- Georgetown University : selling the practice plan -- Georgetown University and its medical school -- MedStar Health.…”
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Life in space astrobiology for everyone / by Mix, Lucas John

Table of Contents: “…-- Life in the cosmos -- Life among the stars -- The planetary phenomenon -- The inner solar system -- The outer solar system -- Extrasolar planets -- Life and time -- Making cells from scratch -- Building biospheres -- Molecules -- Metabolism -- The tree of life -- Exceptions -- Intelligence -- The story of life.…”
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Daniel Calparsoro by Davies, Ann, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Najwa Nimri: the interaction of director and star -- pt. II. The films. Salto al vacío: opening up the void -- Pasajes: pathways through nowhere -- A ciegas: the blind side of Basque terrorism -- Asfalto: violence à trois -- Guerreros: Spanish alienation in a foreign landscape -- Ausentes: shining a light on horror -- Conclusion.…”
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The kingdom of the kid growing up in the long-lost Hamptons / by Gehman, Geoff

Table of Contents: “…Special Deliveries -- Keys to the Kingdom -- The Westwoods -- The Beach -- The Settlement -- Haunts -- The Cemetery -- The Dead Store -- The Sweet Spot -- Car Culture -- The Drive-In -- Austie -- The Bridge -- Landmarks -- The Sphinx -- The Star -- Battery Mates -- Mike & Me -- Yaz, Dad & Me -- (Anti-)Heroes -- Truman -- Jake -- Sex, Booze & Barbershop -- Sex -- Booze -- Barbershop -- The Turnaround Years -- The Way of All Bone and Stone.…”
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Dew of death the story of lewisite, America's World War I weapon of mass destruction / by Vilensky, Joel A., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Two stars are born -- The poisonous yellow cloud and the American response -- The hunt for a new king -- The American university experimental station -- Willoughby -- The inter-war years -- Military biology and BAL -- World war II -- Lewisite production, use, and sea dumping after World War II -- Lewisite stockpiles and terrestrial residues -- Human and environmental toxicology -- Lewisite, terrorism, and the future.…”
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The making of saints contesting sacred ground /

Table of Contents: “…Newell -- Spirits of a holy land : place and time in a modern Mexican religious movement / William Breen Murray -- Saints and stars : sainthood for the 21st century / James F. …”
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Fire and Snow : Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones / by Di Paolo, Marc

Table of Contents: “…Reclaiming Enemy-Occupied Territory: Saving Middle-earth, Narnia, Westeros, Panem, Endor, and Gallifrey -- Star Wars, Hollywood Blockbusters, and the Cultural Appropriation of J.R.R. …”
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Fire and Snow : Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones / by Di Paolo, Marc

Table of Contents: “…Reclaiming Enemy-Occupied Territory: Saving Middle-earth, Narnia, Westeros, Panem, Endor, and Gallifrey -- Star Wars, Hollywood Blockbusters, and the Cultural Appropriation of J.R.R. …”
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French theatre today the view from New York, Paris, and Avignon / by Turk, Edward Baron

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- New York. Border-crossings -- Star power, Gallic style -- Three fresh voices -- From dialogue to parole -- Edgy and cool -- Paris. …”
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Black internationalist feminism women writers of the Black left, 1945-1995 / by Higashida, Cheryl

Table of Contents: “…The negro question, the woman question, and the vital link: histories and institutions -- Lorraine Hansberry's existentialist routes to black internationalist feminism -- Rosalind on the black star line: Alice Childress, black minstrelsy, and Garveyite drag -- Rosa Guy, Haiti, and the hemispheric woman -- Audre Lorde revisited: nationalism and second-wave black feminism -- Reading Maya Angelou, reading black internationalist feminism today.…”
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The age of everything how science explores the past / by Hedman, Matthew, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The calendars of the classic Maya -- Precession, polaris, and the age of the pyramids -- The physics of carbon-14 -- Calibrating carbon-14 dates and the history of the air -- Carbon-14 and the peopling of the new world -- Potassium, argon, DNA, and walking upright -- Molecular dating and the many different types of mammals -- Meteorites and the age of the solar system -- Colors, brightness, and the age of stars -- Distances, redshifts, and the age of the universe -- Parameterizing the age of the universe.…”
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