Search Results - "the Troubles"

Culture and PTSD : trauma in global and historical perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Hinton -- Trauma in the lifeworlds of adolescents : hard luck and trouble in the land of enchantment / Janis H. Jenkins and Bridget M. …”
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The serpent's gift gnostic reflections on the study of religion / by Kripal, Jeffrey J. (Jeffrey John), 1962-

Table of Contents: “…The other tree ; The forbidden fruit ; "When He becomes troubled, He will be astonished" ; The flaming sword and the bridal chamber.…”
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On your own without a net the transition to adulthood for vulnerable populations /

Table of Contents: “…Blum -- Youth with special health care needs and disabilities in transition to adulthood / Patience Haydock White and Leslie Gallay -- The transition to adulthood for troubled youth and families : common themes and future directions / E. …”
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In search of the lost feminine decoding the myths that radically reshaped civilization / by Barnes, Craig S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : rewriting the story of western civilization -- Minoan artifacts challenge the inevitability of patriarchy -- The mystery of Minoan civilization -- An expectation of rebirth or immortality -- Time as a circle rather than a line -- The troubling question of war -- Crete and the issue of female sexuality -- The ecstatic and the divine as inseperable -- Five values dramatically at odds with patriarchy -- The collapse of the Minoan world -- The invasions of 1600 BCE : a war culture emerges -- The Theran explosion : the loss of faith in Mother Earth -- The growth of trade : the diminishment of daughters -- The great civil war over marriage : the end of women-centered culture in the eastern Mediterranean -- A warrior civilization emerges -- Four hundred years of chaos sets the stage -- Values shaped by storytellers -- An exaggerated feminine is made monstrous -- Mother Earth is overthrown -- Jason resists the many shapes of seductive women -- Odysseus rejects Calypso -- Homer poses the choice between love and property -- Clytemnestra is sacrificed on the altar of marriage -- Marriage destroys the mother-daughter bond -- Daughters die for civic good -- A multitude of myths to tame, punish, and disparage women -- Oedipus, the lost son -- A glorious monument enshrining the subordination of women -- Biblical patriarchs match the Greek story -- Objections to the warrior civilization -- Jesus carries forward the Eleusian symbolism of grain and wine -- Jesus takes on the threat of military destruction -- Ancient beliefs spring up among the Celts -- A short-lived Islamic challenge -- The metaphor of the holy grail -- Devil talk and witch burnings -- Closing the book on the patriarchy -- History as a choice of stories -- Women coming home to dignity -- The declining utility of war -- Another story all along.…”
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Making sense of AIDS culture, sexuality, and power in Melanesia /

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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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Gender meets genre in postwar cinemas

Table of Contents: “…Deidre Pribram -- 100% pure adrenaline: gender and generic surface in Point break / Luke Collins -- Postfeminism and generic re-inventions. Troubling genre/reconstructing gender / E. Ann Kaplan -- Bodies and genres in transition: girlfight and real women have curves / Yvonne Tasker -- Private femininity, public femininity: tactical aesthetics in the costume film / Samiha Matin -- Generic gleaning: Agnès Varda, documentary, and the art of salvage / Lucy Fischer -- Gender aesthetics in "male" genres. …”
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The harms of crime media essays on the perpetuation of racism, sexism and class stereotypes /

Table of Contents: “…Conners -- "Who are you " shared responsibility and the victims of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation / Katie Foss -- Macho cops, corner boys and soldiers: the construction of race and masculinity on HBO's The wire / Linda Waldron and Cheryl Chambers -- Fictionalized women in trouble: an exploration of the television crime drama CSI: Miami / Sarah Rizun -- Ripped from the headlines: the depiction of sexual orientation-based hate crimes in television crime dramas / Nicholas Guittar -- Crime news sources and crime views: the relationship between news media exposure patterns and whites' opinions about criminal justice issues / Alicia D. …”
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Nigeria in global politics twentieth century and beyond : essays in honor of Professor Olajide Aluko /

Table of Contents: “…Akinsanya -- The dividends of democracy : the Nigeria experience / Mojubàolú Olúfúnké Okome -- Peacekeepers abroad, trouble-makers at home : the Nigerian army, national politics and sub-regional policies in the 1990s / Abiodun Alao -- International constraints on foreign policy formulation : a case of Nigeria and regional security in West Africa / Aderemi Ajibewa -- Restoring democracy in Sierra Leone : Nigeria's hegemonic foreign policy in West Africa, 1993-1998 / Adebayo Oyebade -- Nigeria and southern African liberation struggle / Olayiwola Abegunrin and Olusoji Akomolafe -- Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and Nigeria's foundation of a non-neutralist foreign policy / Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani -- An elusive friendship : Nigerian-Soviet/Russian relations, 1960-2000 / Maxim Matusevich -- Nigeria and Israel : change and continuity in diplomatic relations / Olufolajimi Adejokun -- Nigeria and the European Union : the Lome years and beyond / Victor A.O. …”
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Making sense of AIDS culture, sexuality, and power in Melanesia /

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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! …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Gender meets genre in postwar cinemas

Table of Contents: “…Deidre Pribram -- 100% pure adrenaline: gender and generic surface in Point break / Luke Collins -- Postfeminism and generic re-inventions. Troubling genre/reconstructing gender / E. Ann Kaplan -- Bodies and genres in transition: girlfight and real women have curves / Yvonne Tasker -- Private femininity, public femininity: tactical aesthetics in the costume film / Samiha Matin -- Generic gleaning: Agnès Varda, documentary, and the art of salvage / Lucy Fischer -- Gender aesthetics in "male" genres. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The harms of crime media essays on the perpetuation of racism, sexism and class stereotypes /

Table of Contents: “…Conners -- "Who are you " shared responsibility and the victims of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation / Katie Foss -- Macho cops, corner boys and soldiers: the construction of race and masculinity on HBO's The wire / Linda Waldron and Cheryl Chambers -- Fictionalized women in trouble: an exploration of the television crime drama CSI: Miami / Sarah Rizun -- Ripped from the headlines: the depiction of sexual orientation-based hate crimes in television crime dramas / Nicholas Guittar -- Crime news sources and crime views: the relationship between news media exposure patterns and whites' opinions about criminal justice issues / Alicia D. …”
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Nigeria in global politics twentieth century and beyond : essays in honor of Professor Olajide Aluko /

Table of Contents: “…Akinsanya -- The dividends of democracy : the Nigeria experience / Mojubàolú Olúfúnké Okome -- Peacekeepers abroad, trouble-makers at home : the Nigerian army, national politics and sub-regional policies in the 1990s / Abiodun Alao -- International constraints on foreign policy formulation : a case of Nigeria and regional security in West Africa / Aderemi Ajibewa -- Restoring democracy in Sierra Leone : Nigeria's hegemonic foreign policy in West Africa, 1993-1998 / Adebayo Oyebade -- Nigeria and southern African liberation struggle / Olayiwola Abegunrin and Olusoji Akomolafe -- Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and Nigeria's foundation of a non-neutralist foreign policy / Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani -- An elusive friendship : Nigerian-Soviet/Russian relations, 1960-2000 / Maxim Matusevich -- Nigeria and Israel : change and continuity in diplomatic relations / Olufolajimi Adejokun -- Nigeria and the European Union : the Lome years and beyond / Victor A.O. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

On your own without a net the transition to adulthood for vulnerable populations /

Table of Contents: “…Blum -- Youth with special health care needs and disabilities in transition to adulthood / Patience Haydock White and Leslie Gallay -- The transition to adulthood for troubled youth and families : common themes and future directions / E. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

In search of the lost feminine decoding the myths that radically reshaped civilization / by Barnes, Craig S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : rewriting the story of western civilization -- Minoan artifacts challenge the inevitability of patriarchy -- The mystery of Minoan civilization -- An expectation of rebirth or immortality -- Time as a circle rather than a line -- The troubling question of war -- Crete and the issue of female sexuality -- The ecstatic and the divine as inseperable -- Five values dramatically at odds with patriarchy -- The collapse of the Minoan world -- The invasions of 1600 BCE : a war culture emerges -- The Theran explosion : the loss of faith in Mother Earth -- The growth of trade : the diminishment of daughters -- The great civil war over marriage : the end of women-centered culture in the eastern Mediterranean -- A warrior civilization emerges -- Four hundred years of chaos sets the stage -- Values shaped by storytellers -- An exaggerated feminine is made monstrous -- Mother Earth is overthrown -- Jason resists the many shapes of seductive women -- Odysseus rejects Calypso -- Homer poses the choice between love and property -- Clytemnestra is sacrificed on the altar of marriage -- Marriage destroys the mother-daughter bond -- Daughters die for civic good -- A multitude of myths to tame, punish, and disparage women -- Oedipus, the lost son -- A glorious monument enshrining the subordination of women -- Biblical patriarchs match the Greek story -- Objections to the warrior civilization -- Jesus carries forward the Eleusian symbolism of grain and wine -- Jesus takes on the threat of military destruction -- Ancient beliefs spring up among the Celts -- A short-lived Islamic challenge -- The metaphor of the holy grail -- Devil talk and witch burnings -- Closing the book on the patriarchy -- History as a choice of stories -- Women coming home to dignity -- The declining utility of war -- Another story all along.…”
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Confronting genocide Judaism, Christianity, Islam /

Table of Contents: “…Haynes -- Alternative readings of troubling texts : religion as a force against violence -- Getting rid of the G-d of Abraham : a prerequisite for genocide / David Patterson -- The Ten commandments, the Holocaust, and reflections on genocide / Paul R. …”
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A road to nowhere? Jewish experiences in the unifying Europe /

Table of Contents: “…: on dynamics of anti-semitism in post-communist Hungary / András Kovács -- A Mediterranean bridge over troubled water : cultural ideas on how to reconcile Israel with its neighbours and with Europe / David Ohana -- The future of European Jewry : a changing condition in a changing context? …”
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The galaxy is rated G essays on children's science fiction film and television /

Table of Contents: “…Enright -- -- Toys, a t-rex, and trouble: cautionary tales of time travel in children's film -- Kristine larsen -- "manmade mess": the critical dystopia of wall-e / Alexander Charles Oliver Hall -- A Bumbling Bag of Ball Bearings: Lost in Space and the Space Race / Jonathan Cohn.…”
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From Goethe to Novalis : studies in classicism and romanticism : festschrift for Dennis F. Mahoney in celebration of his sixty-fifth birthday /

Table of Contents: “…Jones's The known world -- Romanticizing the everyday: Penelope Fitzgerald's The blue flower -- Double trouble: uncanny secrets in E.T. A. Hoffmann's and Otto Ludwig's Das Fräulein von Scuderi -- List of publications.…”
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