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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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Monumental Matters : The Power, Subjectivity, and Space of India's Mughal Architecture / by Kavuri-Bauer, Santhi, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Breathing new life into old stones : the poets and artists of the Mughal monument in the eighteenth century -- From Cunningham to Curzon : producing the Mughal monument in the era of high imperialism -- Between fantasy and phantasmagoria : the Mughal monument and the structure of touristic desire -- Rebuilding Indian Muslim space from the ruins of the Mughal "moral city" -- Tryst with destiny : Nehru's and Gandhi's Mughal monuments -- The ethics of monumentality in postindependence India.…”
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Boston Confronts Jim Crow, 1890-1920 / by Schneider, Mark R. (Mark Robert), 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Washington and Boston's Black upper class -- Race, gender, and class: the legacy of Lucy Stone -- William Monroe Trotter -- White into Black: Boston's NAACP, 1909-1920 -- Irish-Americans and the legacy of John Boyle O'Reilly -- Life experience and the law: the cases of Holmes, Lewis, and Storey.…”
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Monumental Matters : The Power, Subjectivity, and Space of India's Mughal Architecture / by Kavuri-Bauer, Santhi, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Breathing new life into old stones : the poets and artists of the Mughal monument in the eighteenth century -- From Cunningham to Curzon : producing the Mughal monument in the era of high imperialism -- Between fantasy and phantasmagoria : the Mughal monument and the structure of touristic desire -- Rebuilding Indian Muslim space from the ruins of the Mughal "moral city" -- Tryst with destiny : Nehru's and Gandhi's Mughal monuments -- The ethics of monumentality in postindependence India.…”
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Boston Confronts Jim Crow, 1890-1920 / by Schneider, Mark R. (Mark Robert), 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Washington and Boston's Black upper class -- Race, gender, and class: the legacy of Lucy Stone -- William Monroe Trotter -- White into Black: Boston's NAACP, 1909-1920 -- Irish-Americans and the legacy of John Boyle O'Reilly -- Life experience and the law: the cases of Holmes, Lewis, and Storey.…”
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Screening the gothic by Hopkins, Lisa, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Gothic revenants : a tale of three Hamlets -- Putting the gothic in : Clarissa, Sense and sensibility, Mansfield Park, and The time machine -- Taking the gothic out : 'tis pity she's a whore, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, The woman in white, and Lady Audley's secret -- Fragmenting the gothic : Jane Eyre and Dracula -- Gothic and the family : The mummy returns, Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone, and The lord of the rings : The fellowship of the ring.…”
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Looking back at al-Andalus the poetics of loss and nostalgia in medieval Arabic and Hebrew literature / by Elinson, Alexander E.

Table of Contents: “…The poetics of loss and nostalgia in Muslim Spain -- Written in stone : the Andalusī rithāʼ al-mudun in the Arabic elegiac tradition -- Weeping over the poetic past : poetry into prose in al-Saraqusṭī's Qayrawan maqāma -- Al-Andalus and Sefarad in the Hebrew qaṣīda -- The view from al-Andalus : looking east, west, and south for Andalusī identity -- A final look back -- Appendix: Select Arabic and Hebrew texts.…”
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At the font of the marvelous exploring oral narrative and mythic imagery of the Iroquois and their neighbors / by Wonderley, Anthony Wayne, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…-- War in the west : nineteenth-century Iroquois legends of conquest -- Killer lizards, Eldritch fish, and horned serpents -- Old good twin : Sky Holder during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The story of Windigo -- The friendly visitor : an Iroquois stone giant goes calling in Algonquian country -- Mythic imagery in Iroquoian archaeology.…”
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Summer lightning : a guide to the second Battle of Manassas / by Spruill, Matt

Table of Contents: “…Prelude: Maneuvering to Battle -- Thursday, August 28, 1862 -- Friday, August 29, 1862 -- Saturday, August 30, 1862 -- The Aftermath -- Appendix I: Union Order of Battle -- Appendix II: Confederate Order of Battle -- Appendix III: Casualties -- Appendix IV: August 30, 1862, South Flank Cavalry Engagement -- Appendix V: The Stone Bridge -- Appendix VI: August 28, 1862, Thoroughfare Gap.…”
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Looking back at al-Andalus the poetics of loss and nostalgia in medieval Arabic and Hebrew literature / by Elinson, Alexander E.

Table of Contents: “…The poetics of loss and nostalgia in Muslim Spain -- Written in stone : the Andalusī rithāʼ al-mudun in the Arabic elegiac tradition -- Weeping over the poetic past : poetry into prose in al-Saraqusṭī's Qayrawan maqāma -- Al-Andalus and Sefarad in the Hebrew qaṣīda -- The view from al-Andalus : looking east, west, and south for Andalusī identity -- A final look back -- Appendix: Select Arabic and Hebrew texts.…”
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At the font of the marvelous exploring oral narrative and mythic imagery of the Iroquois and their neighbors / by Wonderley, Anthony Wayne, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…-- War in the west : nineteenth-century Iroquois legends of conquest -- Killer lizards, Eldritch fish, and horned serpents -- Old good twin : Sky Holder during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The story of Windigo -- The friendly visitor : an Iroquois stone giant goes calling in Algonquian country -- Mythic imagery in Iroquoian archaeology.…”
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Summer lightning : a guide to the second Battle of Manassas / by Spruill, Matt

Table of Contents: “…Prelude: Maneuvering to Battle -- Thursday, August 28, 1862 -- Friday, August 29, 1862 -- Saturday, August 30, 1862 -- The Aftermath -- Appendix I: Union Order of Battle -- Appendix II: Confederate Order of Battle -- Appendix III: Casualties -- Appendix IV: August 30, 1862, South Flank Cavalry Engagement -- Appendix V: The Stone Bridge -- Appendix VI: August 28, 1862, Thoroughfare Gap.…”
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Screening the gothic by Hopkins, Lisa, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Gothic revenants : a tale of three Hamlets -- Putting the gothic in : Clarissa, Sense and sensibility, Mansfield Park, and The time machine -- Taking the gothic out : 'tis pity she's a whore, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, The woman in white, and Lady Audley's secret -- Fragmenting the gothic : Jane Eyre and Dracula -- Gothic and the family : The mummy returns, Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone, and The lord of the rings : The fellowship of the ring.…”
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Andrea Cochran landscapes / by Myers, Mary, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Preface / Henry Urbach -- Intentional landscapes : the designs of Andrea Cochran / Mary Myers -- Walden Studios -- Brookvale Residence -- Children's Garden -- Perry Residence -- Curran House -- Hayes Valley Roof Garden -- Ward Residence -- Portland Art Museum -- Ross Residence -- Peninsula Residence -- Stone Edge Vineyard -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A. …”
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Andrea Cochran landscapes / by Myers, Mary, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Preface / Henry Urbach -- Intentional landscapes : the designs of Andrea Cochran / Mary Myers -- Walden Studios -- Brookvale Residence -- Children's Garden -- Perry Residence -- Curran House -- Hayes Valley Roof Garden -- Ward Residence -- Portland Art Museum -- Ross Residence -- Peninsula Residence -- Stone Edge Vineyard -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A. …”
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Classic Maya provincial politics Xunantunich and its hinterlands /

Table of Contents: “…Theodore Neff -- Integration and interdependence : the domestic chipped-stone economy of the Xunantunich polity / Jon C. …”
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Classic Maya provincial politics Xunantunich and its hinterlands /

Table of Contents: “…Theodore Neff -- Integration and interdependence : the domestic chipped-stone economy of the Xunantunich polity / Jon C. …”
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Understanding marijuana a new look at the scientific evidence / by Earleywine, Mitchell

Table of Contents: “…Cannabis use and misuse -- 3. Stepping stones, gateways, and the prevention of drug problems -- 4. …”
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Thin places a pilgrimage home / by Armbrecht, Ann, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Growing rice -- Seeds -- Conserving the land -- The books -- The black box -- The Barun Festival -- The bamboo bridge -- Stories as boundaries -- Gold earrings -- Thin places -- The sacred spring -- Kelekpa the shaman -- Mapping power -- Lost souls -- Leaving -- Baiseti Thuma -- A far-off place -- Absence -- Manguhang -- Birth -- Sage Mountain -- Sacred stories -- Listening -- The healing stone -- The black bag -- Voices in the land -- The waterfall -- Bare feet on wet earth.…”
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