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Borealis poems / by Humphries, Jefferson, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction et allegro -- Voyageurs -- The lake -- Northern pike -- Frogs -- The merganser -- Moose -- Osprey -- Jack pine -- Beaver -- Bald eagle -- Alexander MacKenzie -- The bear -- Hummingbird -- Porcupine -- Red squirrel -- Maple -- Ruffed grouse -- Marten -- Lake trout -- Raven -- The drowned man -- Stone -- Saw-whet owl -- The wolf -- Song sparrow -- Walleye -- Birches -- The lynx and the snowshoe hare -- Red-backed vole -- Loons laughing -- The geologist.…”
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Borealis poems / by Humphries, Jefferson, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction et allegro -- Voyageurs -- The lake -- Northern pike -- Frogs -- The merganser -- Moose -- Osprey -- Jack pine -- Beaver -- Bald eagle -- Alexander MacKenzie -- The bear -- Hummingbird -- Porcupine -- Red squirrel -- Maple -- Ruffed grouse -- Marten -- Lake trout -- Raven -- The drowned man -- Stone -- Saw-whet owl -- The wolf -- Song sparrow -- Walleye -- Birches -- The lynx and the snowshoe hare -- Red-backed vole -- Loons laughing -- The geologist.…”
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Five fictions in search of truth by Jehlen, Myra

Table of Contents: “…A real madeleine is a work of art -- Salammbo : three rough stones beneath a rainy sky -- The sacred fount : the case of the man who became extraordinarily -- Amusing -- The ambassadors : what he saw was exactly the right thing -- Lolita : a beautiful, banal, eden-red apple -- A simple heart : Felicite and the holy parrot.…”
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Fossil legends of the first Americans / by Mayor, Adrienne, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Marsh monsters of big bone lick -- The northeast: giants, great bears, and grandfather of the buffalo -- New Spain: bones of fear and birds of terror -- The southwest: fossil fetishes and monster slayers -- The prairies: fossil medicine and spirit animals -- The high plains: thunder birds, water monsters, and buffalo-calling stones -- Common ground -- Fossil frauds and specious legends.…”
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Five fictions in search of truth by Jehlen, Myra

Table of Contents: “…A real madeleine is a work of art -- Salammbo : three rough stones beneath a rainy sky -- The sacred fount : the case of the man who became extraordinarily -- Amusing -- The ambassadors : what he saw was exactly the right thing -- Lolita : a beautiful, banal, eden-red apple -- A simple heart : Felicite and the holy parrot.…”
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Fossil legends of the first Americans / by Mayor, Adrienne, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Marsh monsters of big bone lick -- The northeast: giants, great bears, and grandfather of the buffalo -- New Spain: bones of fear and birds of terror -- The southwest: fossil fetishes and monster slayers -- The prairies: fossil medicine and spirit animals -- The high plains: thunder birds, water monsters, and buffalo-calling stones -- Common ground -- Fossil frauds and specious legends.…”
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Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy / by Widerquist, Karl, McCall, Grant S.

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Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy / by Widerquist, Karl, McCall, Grant S.

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The politically incorrect guide to the Bible by Hutchinson, Robert J.

Table of Contents: “…Why do the heathens rage?-- The stones cry out -- All Scripture is God-breathed -- In the beginning -- Be fruitful and multiply -- In the image and likeness of God -- Keep my commandments -- Sodom and Gomorrah -- The heavens declare the glory of God -- You were called to freedom -- Endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights -- Put not your trust in Princes -- Who do you say that I am?…”
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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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The politically incorrect guide to the Bible by Hutchinson, Robert J.

Table of Contents: “…Why do the heathens rage?-- The stones cry out -- All Scripture is God-breathed -- In the beginning -- Be fruitful and multiply -- In the image and likeness of God -- Keep my commandments -- Sodom and Gomorrah -- The heavens declare the glory of God -- You were called to freedom -- Endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights -- Put not your trust in Princes -- Who do you say that I am?…”
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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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Traps : African American Men on Gender and Sexuality / by Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850

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Traps : African American Men on Gender and Sexuality / by Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850

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Transcribing class and gender masculinity and femininity in nineteenth-century courts and offices / by Srole, Carole, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Performing independence : male clerks, bookkeepers, and stenographers from 1820 to 1870 -- Treasury girls and the masses : from degraded women workers to employees -- Stepping-stones and short ladders : men's faltering independence -- The male stenographers' solution : the language of professionalism -- Typewriter girls and lady stenographers : the challenges of respectability -- "My fondest hopes will have been realized" : independence, ambition, and the new woman -- Performances of professionalism.…”
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City fictions language, body, and Spanish American urban space / by Holmes, Amanda, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- By fire, water, or stone : the destruction of imagery in Octavio Paz's "Ciudad de México" series -- Aesthetics, politics, and the urban in Julio Cortázar's short stories -- Uncanny dispersions in Cristina Peri Rossi's La nave de los locos -- Scripting the city : Diamela Eltit's Lumpérica and Vaca sagrada -- The spectacle as metaphor : urban disorder in Carlos Monsiváis's Los rituales del caos -- Conclusion.…”
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With what persuasion an essay on Shakespeare and the ethics of rhetoric / by Crider, Scott F. (Scott Forrest)

Table of Contents: “…-- One scene comes near the circumstance: Hamlet, mimesis, and ethics -- The power of rhetorical care -- Our boundary stones: comic torture in All's well that ends well -- Iago's sophistry and the tragedy of careless rhetoric -- Eros and accidental rhetoric in Measure for measure -- A romance of rhetoric: the animate influence of The winter's tale -- Epilogue: liberal multiculturalism and Shakespeare's ethics of rhetoric.…”
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Listening to the logos speech and the coming of wisdom in ancient Greece / by Johnstone, Christopher Lyle, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- The Greek stones speak: toward an archaeology of consciousness -- Singing the muses' song: myth, wisdom, and speech -- Physis, kosmos, logos : presocratic thought and the emergence of nature-consciousness -- Sophistical wisdom, Socratic wisdom, and the political life -- Civic wisdom, divine wisdom : Isocrates, Plato, and two visions for the Athenian citizen -- Speculative wisdom, practical wisdom: Aristotle and the culmination of Hellenic thought -- Epilogue.…”
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Transcribing class and gender masculinity and femininity in nineteenth-century courts and offices / by Srole, Carole, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Performing independence : male clerks, bookkeepers, and stenographers from 1820 to 1870 -- Treasury girls and the masses : from degraded women workers to employees -- Stepping-stones and short ladders : men's faltering independence -- The male stenographers' solution : the language of professionalism -- Typewriter girls and lady stenographers : the challenges of respectability -- "My fondest hopes will have been realized" : independence, ambition, and the new woman -- Performances of professionalism.…”
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City fictions language, body, and Spanish American urban space / by Holmes, Amanda, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- By fire, water, or stone : the destruction of imagery in Octavio Paz's "Ciudad de México" series -- Aesthetics, politics, and the urban in Julio Cortázar's short stories -- Uncanny dispersions in Cristina Peri Rossi's La nave de los locos -- Scripting the city : Diamela Eltit's Lumpérica and Vaca sagrada -- The spectacle as metaphor : urban disorder in Carlos Monsiváis's Los rituales del caos -- Conclusion.…”
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