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Cherokee myths and legends : thirty tales retold / by Norton, Terry L., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: considerations in adapting Native American traditional literature -- Guide to the pronunciation of Cherokee words -- Origins -- The three worlds -- Fire -- Corn and game -- Disease and medicine -- The bear and the bear songs -- Tobacco -- The Pleiades and the pine cone -- Killing the great monsters -- The Great Yellow Jacket Ulagu -- The leech place -- The Uktena and the Shawano conjuror -- The red man and the Uktena -- Ustu-tli, the great snake of the Cohutta Mountains -- The great hawks -- The hunter in the Dakwa -- Supernatural and animal adversaries and helpers -- Spear-finger, the Nantahala Ogress -- The Stone Man of the Mountains -- The raven mockers -- The immortals and the water cannibals -- The man who traveled to the world below -- Judaculla, the slant-eyed giant of Tanasee Bald -- Legends of Pilot Knob -- Yahula -- The unseen helpers -- Legends from history by or about the Cherokee -- The lost Cherokee -- Ga'na and the Cherokee -- The Mohawk warriors -- The false warriors -- Jocassee -- Some heroic acts in wars with whites -- Cateechee of Keowee: a ballad of the Carolina backcountry -- Notes on sources used in the retellings.…”
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The stoics a guide for the perplexed / by Holowchak, Mark, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…A cosmic spider's web : the stoic cosmos -- Pulled by the hair : how knowledge is possible -- Virtue and invincibility -- No place to shit : the good and conveniences -- Canonical stoic view of indifferents -- Living in agreement with nature -- Homologia : growing toward the good -- Fate and the lazy argument -- On dry ground : stoic apatheia -- Javelin-throwing : rules of right conduct -- Stoic paradoxes : the stoic lapith -- Useless weapons : knowing oneself -- The stoic progressor -- Stoic cosmopolitanism : standing naked before all -- The good life -- The strong odor of truth -- Freedom : leveling fortune -- Lifting the stone of ajax -- A complete life and a good death -- Oikeiosis : securing one's own in the footrace of life -- Authenticity : living with one's door open -- Virtue as peak-performance -- The invincible apprentice -- Invincibility as cosmic integration -- Equanimity in adversity -- Inconveniences : storm-clouds at sea -- Tela fortunae and life on the Dead Sea -- The troubled sleep of the fearful -- Bravery in bedclothes -- Pain: wiping a runny nose -- Anger and the baying of small dogs -- Grief and the broken crystal goblet -- Foulest death vs. fairest servitude -- Bugbears : removing the mask of ignorance -- Equanimity in prosperity -- Gain and the gold-leaf life -- Benefaction: the cornerstone of justice -- Bacchanalian revelry : birds of the night -- Gormandizing and the soft life -- In the footsteps of hercules -- Books and scholarly self-indulgence -- Friendship and self-sufficiency -- Rest and restlessness : Addamus Calcar! …”
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Nature, environment and culture in East Asia the challenge of climate change /

Table of Contents: “…Sorensen -- PAST -- A Retrospection of Climate Changes and their Impacts in Chinese History / Ts'ui-jung Liu -- Manipulating the Yellow River and the State Formation of theNorthern Song Dynasty / Ling Zhang -- PRESENT -- Water Diversion Between Official Rhetoric and the Drive to Dominate Nature / Miriam Seeger -- Chinese Environmental Movements : Civil Society Discourses on Climate Change and Environmental Protection / Nora Sausmikat -- "From Worse to Better" : Anti-Desertification Policies on the Tibetan Plateau in the Past Decades / Carmen Meinert & Christian Gudehus -- From Ascetic to Activist : Jiyul Sunim's Korean Buddhist Eco movement / Eunsu Cho -- PROSPECTS -- Killing Three Birds with One Stone : Possibilities of Achieving Environmental Success in Conforming Societies : What Japanese Experiences May Suggest to China / Takashi Kanatsu -- Environmental Think Tanks in Japan and South Korea : Trailblazers or Vicarious Agents? …”
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Making the modern world : materials and dematerialization / by Smil, Vaclav

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Africa / by Grosz-Ngaté, Maria Luise, Hanson, John H., 1956-

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Cherokee myths and legends : thirty tales retold / by Norton, Terry L., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: considerations in adapting Native American traditional literature -- Guide to the pronunciation of Cherokee words -- Origins -- The three worlds -- Fire -- Corn and game -- Disease and medicine -- The bear and the bear songs -- Tobacco -- The Pleiades and the pine cone -- Killing the great monsters -- The Great Yellow Jacket Ulagu -- The leech place -- The Uktena and the Shawano conjuror -- The red man and the Uktena -- Ustu-tli, the great snake of the Cohutta Mountains -- The great hawks -- The hunter in the Dakwa -- Supernatural and animal adversaries and helpers -- Spear-finger, the Nantahala Ogress -- The Stone Man of the Mountains -- The raven mockers -- The immortals and the water cannibals -- The man who traveled to the world below -- Judaculla, the slant-eyed giant of Tanasee Bald -- Legends of Pilot Knob -- Yahula -- The unseen helpers -- Legends from history by or about the Cherokee -- The lost Cherokee -- Ga'na and the Cherokee -- The Mohawk warriors -- The false warriors -- Jocassee -- Some heroic acts in wars with whites -- Cateechee of Keowee: a ballad of the Carolina backcountry -- Notes on sources used in the retellings.…”
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Healing with Poisons : Potent Medicines in Medieval China / by Liu, Yan, Liu, Yan

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The Late Archaic across the Borderlands from foraging to farming /

Table of Contents: “…Roney -- Late Archaic stone tool technology across the Borderlands / Bradley J. …”
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Healing with Poisons : Potent Medicines in Medieval China / by Liu, Yan, Liu, Yan

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Paging New Jersey a literary guide to the Garden State / by Broderick, James F., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Philip Freneau -- James Fenimore Cooper -- Mary Griffith -- Walt Whitman -- Mary Mapes Dodge -- Thomas Nast -- Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Stephen Crane -- Albert Payson Terhune -- William Carlos Williams -- Joyce Kilmer -- Allen Ginsberg -- Mary Higgins Clark -- Toni Morrison -- Amiri Baraka -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Peter Benchley -- Anna Quindlen -- Cheaper by the dozen -- Goodbye, Columbus -- The Pine Barrens -- Eddie and the Cruisers -- Jersey luck -- Rosamund's vision -- Laying down the law -- One for the money -- Our guys -- Lost legends of New Jersey -- Searching for Captain Kidd's treasure -- Burr, Hamilton, and the duel of history in Weehawken -- The Lindbergh baby kidnapping -- The Hindenburg disaster -- The trials of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter -- Mobbed in New Jersey -- On the (paper) trail of the New Jersey Devil -- Dodge Poetry Festival -- The New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame -- Stages of greatness: a survey of the history of theater in New Jersey -- Reaching critical mass in the Garden State -- Stoned in New Jersey.…”
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Writing and cultural influence studies in rhetorical history, orientalist discourse, and post-colonial criticism / by Ezzaher, Lahcen E., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Writing in Exile: Constructing Audiences and Identities in Foreign Lands -- Manoucher Parvin's Cry for My Revolution, Iran -- Hala Deeb Jabbour's A Woman of Nazareth -- Taghi Modarressi's The Pilgrim's Rules of Etiquette -- Marwan Hassan's The Confusion of Stones.…”
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Catholics in the movies

Table of Contents: “…Kane -- America's favorite priest : Going my way (1944) / Anthony Burke Smith -- God and guns : Seven cities of gold (1955) / Theresa Saunders -- Life on the frontier : Lilies of the field (1963) / Jeffrey Marlett -- Praying for stones like this : The Godfather trilogy (1972, 1974, 1990) / Carlo Rotella -- Catholic horror :The exorcist (1973) / Colleen McDannell -- Cops, priests, and the decline of Irish America : True confessions (1981) / Timothy J. …”
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Language without soil Adorno and late philosophical modernity /

Table of Contents: “…Kelley -- The idiom of crisis : on the historical immanence of language in Adorno / Neil Larsen -- Aesthetic theory and nonpropositional truth content in Adorno / Gerhard Richter -- The homeland of language : a note on truth and knowledge in Adorno / Mirko Wischke -- Of stones and glass houses : minima moralia as critique of transparency / Eric Jarosinski -- The polemic of the late work : Adorno's Hölderlin / Robert Savage -- Twelve anacoluthic theses on Adorno's "Parataxis : on Hölderlin's late poetry" / David Farrell Krell -- The ephemeral and the absolute : provisional notes to Adorno's Aesthetic theory / Peter Uwe Hohendahl.…”
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Language without soil Adorno and late philosophical modernity /

Table of Contents: “…Kelley -- The idiom of crisis : on the historical immanence of language in Adorno / Neil Larsen -- Aesthetic theory and nonpropositional truth content in Adorno / Gerhard Richter -- The homeland of language : a note on truth and knowledge in Adorno / Mirko Wischke -- Of stones and glass houses : minima moralia as critique of transparency / Eric Jarosinski -- The polemic of the late work : Adorno's Hölderlin / Robert Savage -- Twelve anacoluthic theses on Adorno's "Parataxis : on Hölderlin's late poetry" / David Farrell Krell -- The ephemeral and the absolute : provisional notes to Adorno's Aesthetic theory / Peter Uwe Hohendahl.…”
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Paging New Jersey a literary guide to the Garden State / by Broderick, James F., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Philip Freneau -- James Fenimore Cooper -- Mary Griffith -- Walt Whitman -- Mary Mapes Dodge -- Thomas Nast -- Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Stephen Crane -- Albert Payson Terhune -- William Carlos Williams -- Joyce Kilmer -- Allen Ginsberg -- Mary Higgins Clark -- Toni Morrison -- Amiri Baraka -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Peter Benchley -- Anna Quindlen -- Cheaper by the dozen -- Goodbye, Columbus -- The Pine Barrens -- Eddie and the Cruisers -- Jersey luck -- Rosamund's vision -- Laying down the law -- One for the money -- Our guys -- Lost legends of New Jersey -- Searching for Captain Kidd's treasure -- Burr, Hamilton, and the duel of history in Weehawken -- The Lindbergh baby kidnapping -- The Hindenburg disaster -- The trials of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter -- Mobbed in New Jersey -- On the (paper) trail of the New Jersey Devil -- Dodge Poetry Festival -- The New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame -- Stages of greatness: a survey of the history of theater in New Jersey -- Reaching critical mass in the Garden State -- Stoned in New Jersey.…”
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Writing and cultural influence studies in rhetorical history, orientalist discourse, and post-colonial criticism / by Ezzaher, Lahcen E., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Writing in Exile: Constructing Audiences and Identities in Foreign Lands -- Manoucher Parvin's Cry for My Revolution, Iran -- Hala Deeb Jabbour's A Woman of Nazareth -- Taghi Modarressi's The Pilgrim's Rules of Etiquette -- Marwan Hassan's The Confusion of Stones.…”
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Catholics in the movies

Table of Contents: “…Kane -- America's favorite priest : Going my way (1944) / Anthony Burke Smith -- God and guns : Seven cities of gold (1955) / Theresa Saunders -- Life on the frontier : Lilies of the field (1963) / Jeffrey Marlett -- Praying for stones like this : The Godfather trilogy (1972, 1974, 1990) / Carlo Rotella -- Catholic horror :The exorcist (1973) / Colleen McDannell -- Cops, priests, and the decline of Irish America : True confessions (1981) / Timothy J. …”
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The archaeology of hybrid material culture /

Table of Contents: “…Lyons -- Small beginnings: experimental technologies and implications for hybridity / Katherine Hayes -- Set in stone: on hybrid images and social relationships in prehistoric and Roman Europe / Christopher M. …”
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The archaeology of hybrid material culture /

Table of Contents: “…Lyons -- Small beginnings: experimental technologies and implications for hybridity / Katherine Hayes -- Set in stone: on hybrid images and social relationships in prehistoric and Roman Europe / Christopher M. …”
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Palaeolithic cave art at Creswell Crags in European context

Table of Contents: “…Yalden -- Cave archaeology and palaeontology in the Creswell region / Andrew T. Chamberlain -- The Stone Age archaeology of Church Hole, Creswell Crags, Nottinghamshire / R. …”
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