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The AIDS conspiracy science fights back / by Nattrass, Nicoli

Table of Contents: “…The conspiratorial move against HIV science and its consequences -- AIDS origin conspiracy theories in the United States and South Africa -- Who believes AIDS conspiracy theories and why leadership matters -- Science, politics, and credibility : David Gilbert fights AIDS conspiracy beliefs in US prisons -- Science, conspiracy theory, and the South African AIDS policy tragedy -- Hero scientists, cultropreneurs, living icons, and praise-singers : AIDS denialism as community -- Defending the imprimatur of science : Duesberg and the medical hypotheses saga -- The conspiratorial move and the struggle for evidence-based medicine.…”
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The uncensored Boris Godunov the case for Pushkin's original Comedy, with annotated text and translation / by Dunning, Chester S. L., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Reconsidering history and expanding the canon / Caryl Emerson and Chester Dunning -- The problem of Boris Godunov : a review of interpretations and the so-called canonical text / Chester Dunning -- The exiled poet-historian and the creation of his comedy / Chester Dunning -- The tragic fate of Pushkin's comedy / Chester Dunning -- The world of laughter in Pushkin's comedy / Sergei Fomichev -- Tragedy, comedy, carnival, and history on stage / Caryl Emerson -- The ebb and flow of influence : muffling the comedic in the move toward print / Caryl Emerson -- Boris Godunov and the Russian literary canon / Caryl Emerson and Chester Dunning.…”
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The AIDS conspiracy science fights back / by Nattrass, Nicoli

Table of Contents: “…The conspiratorial move against HIV science and its consequences -- AIDS origin conspiracy theories in the United States and South Africa -- Who believes AIDS conspiracy theories and why leadership matters -- Science, politics, and credibility : David Gilbert fights AIDS conspiracy beliefs in US prisons -- Science, conspiracy theory, and the South African AIDS policy tragedy -- Hero scientists, cultropreneurs, living icons, and praise-singers : AIDS denialism as community -- Defending the imprimatur of science : Duesberg and the medical hypotheses saga -- The conspiratorial move and the struggle for evidence-based medicine.…”
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The Robertsons, the Sutherlands, and the making of Texas by Sutherland, Anne H.

Table of Contents: “…Discovering my Texas identity -- Writing as a tradition -- The Robertson papers -- Learning Texas history -- Sterling Clack Robertson, empresario -- The Alabama settlement -- The prayer on the Sabine -- Making a living -- The Comanche, Karankawa, Lipan Apache, and Tonkawa -- Political rumblings in the Alabama settlement -- The Alabama settlement at war -- The Texas revolution as myth and identity ritual -- Aftermath of the war : tragedy and humor -- Getting rid of wildness -- The wild woman of the Navidad -- The civilizing elites : Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson -- The end of slavery -- Remember who you are -- The macaroni road comes to Edna -- The migration to Uvalde -- Getting an education -- Family reunions.…”
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Uprooted how Breslau became Wrocław during the century of expulsions / by Thum, Gregor, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…A note on names -- Prologue: A dual tragedy -- The destruction of Breslau -- Poland's shift to the west -- pt. 1. …”
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The Robertsons, the Sutherlands, and the making of Texas by Sutherland, Anne H.

Table of Contents: “…Discovering my Texas identity -- Writing as a tradition -- The Robertson papers -- Learning Texas history -- Sterling Clack Robertson, empresario -- The Alabama settlement -- The prayer on the Sabine -- Making a living -- The Comanche, Karankawa, Lipan Apache, and Tonkawa -- Political rumblings in the Alabama settlement -- The Alabama settlement at war -- The Texas revolution as myth and identity ritual -- Aftermath of the war : tragedy and humor -- Getting rid of wildness -- The wild woman of the Navidad -- The civilizing elites : Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson -- The end of slavery -- Remember who you are -- The macaroni road comes to Edna -- The migration to Uvalde -- Getting an education -- Family reunions.…”
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Uprooted how Breslau became Wrocław during the century of expulsions / by Thum, Gregor, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…A note on names -- Prologue: A dual tragedy -- The destruction of Breslau -- Poland's shift to the west -- pt. 1. …”
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Action, art, history engagements with Arthur C. Danto /

Table of Contents: “…Danto -- Danto's action / Donald Davidson -- Response -- Crossing paths / Stanley Cavell -- Response -- For the birds/against the birds: the modernist narratives of Danto and Adorno (and Cage) / Lydia Goehr -- Response -- Photoshop, or, Unhanding art / Gregg Horowitz -- Response -- At the doom of modernism: art and art theory in competition / Hans Belting -- Response -- The sell-by date / Daniel Herwitz -- Response -- Danto on Tansey: the possibilities of appearance / Michael Kelly -- Response -- Danto, history, and the tragedy of human existence / Frank R. Ankersmit -- Response -- History and the sciences / Philip Kitcher and Daniel Immerwahr -- Response.…”
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New stories from the Southwest

Table of Contents: “…Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941 / Alan Cheuse -- The secret heart of Christ / Matt Clark -- Cowboys and Indians / Lorien Crow -- Together we are lost / Kathleen de Azevedo -- Hermano / Alan Elyshevitz -- Looking for eight / Marcela Fuentes -- Dead man's nail / Dennis Fulgoni -- Food stamp / Anna Green -- Guadalupe and the taxman / Donald Lucio Hurd -- At the Powwow Hotel / Toni Jensen -- The fifth daughter / Charles Kemnitz -- What I never said / Elmo Lum -- A tragedy with pigs / Tom McWhorter -- Old Border Road / S.G. …”
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Sound figures of modernity German music and philosophy /

Table of Contents: “…Schelling on the origin of music and tragedy / David Farrell Krell -- The world as will and music : Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of music / Ludger Lütkehaus -- The ring as deconstruction of modernity : reading Wagner with Benjamin / Samuel Weber -- Nietzsche and the problem of life-affirming content in music / Margaret Moore and Rebekah Pryor Paré -- Bloch's dream, music's traces / Gerhard Richter -- Dissonance and aesthetic totality : Adorno reads Schönberg / Beatrice Hanssen -- Thomas Mann : pro and contra Adorno / Hans Rudolf Vaget -- The dialectical thinker as composer : Hanns Eisler's philosophical reflections on music / Albrecht Betz -- Double mimesis : Georg Lukács's philosophy of music / Jost Hermand.…”
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The Blackwell guide to aesthetics

Table of Contents: “…Thomasson -- Evaluating art / Alan Goldman -- Interpretation in aesthetics / Laurent Stern -- Art and the moral realm / Noël Carroll -- Beauty and the critic's judgment : remapping aesthetics / Mary Mothersill -- The philosophy of taste : thoughts on the idea / Ted Cohen -- The emotions in art / Jenefer Robinson -- The philosophy of literature : pleasure restored / Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen -- The philosophy of the visual arts : perceiving paintings / Joseph Margolis -- The philosophy of the movies : cinematic narration / Berys Gaut -- The philosophy of music : formalism and beyond / Philip Alperson -- The philosophy of dance : bodies in motion, bodies at rest / Francis Sparshott -- Tragedy / Susan Feagin -- The aesthetics of nature and the environment / Donald W. …”
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Stalin's wars from World War to Cold War, 1939-1953 / by Roberts, Geoffrey, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Stalin at war -- Unholy alliance : Stalin's pact with Hitler -- Grand illusions : Stalin and 22 June 1941 -- War of annihilation : Stalin versus Hitler -- Victory at Stalingrad and Kursk : Stalin and his generals -- The politics of war : Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt -- Triumph and tragedy : Stalin's year of victories -- Liberation, conquest, revolution : Stalin's aims in Germany and Eastern Europe -- Last battles : Stalin, Truman and the end of the Second World War -- The lost peace : Stalin and the origins of the Cold War -- Generalissimo at home : the domestic context of Stalin's postwar foreign policy -- Cold War confrontations : Stalin embattled -- Conclusion : Stalin in the court of history.…”
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Crises in Russia contemporary management policy and practice from a historical perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Crisis management and mass media in Russia: following the historical perspectives -- Institutional framework and governance model of the Russia crisis policy: disaster focus -- Managing alleviation of the 1995 Neftegorsk earthquake disaster -- Managing the ecological disaster in the town of Karabash -- Communicating tragedy and values through mass media during crises: the lessons of submarine accidents in Russia -- Social security policy for the Chernobyl clean-up and rescue workers: crisis chronology and lessons -- Institutional issues and the management of the creeping crisis in the Kabardina and Balkaria Republic of Russia -- Political and institutional factors of Russian banking crisis 2004 -- Vulnerability and crisis development: lessons from Russia and other emerging economies -- Conclusion: crisis management policy in transitional societies: beyond the Russia experience.…”
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Stalin's wars from World War to Cold War, 1939-1953 / by Roberts, Geoffrey, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Stalin at war -- Unholy alliance : Stalin's pact with Hitler -- Grand illusions : Stalin and 22 June 1941 -- War of annihilation : Stalin versus Hitler -- Victory at Stalingrad and Kursk : Stalin and his generals -- The politics of war : Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt -- Triumph and tragedy : Stalin's year of victories -- Liberation, conquest, revolution : Stalin's aims in Germany and Eastern Europe -- Last battles : Stalin, Truman and the end of the Second World War -- The lost peace : Stalin and the origins of the Cold War -- Generalissimo at home : the domestic context of Stalin's postwar foreign policy -- Cold War confrontations : Stalin embattled -- Conclusion : Stalin in the court of history.…”
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Crises in Russia contemporary management policy and practice from a historical perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Crisis management and mass media in Russia: following the historical perspectives -- Institutional framework and governance model of the Russia crisis policy: disaster focus -- Managing alleviation of the 1995 Neftegorsk earthquake disaster -- Managing the ecological disaster in the town of Karabash -- Communicating tragedy and values through mass media during crises: the lessons of submarine accidents in Russia -- Social security policy for the Chernobyl clean-up and rescue workers: crisis chronology and lessons -- Institutional issues and the management of the creeping crisis in the Kabardina and Balkaria Republic of Russia -- Political and institutional factors of Russian banking crisis 2004 -- Vulnerability and crisis development: lessons from Russia and other emerging economies -- Conclusion: crisis management policy in transitional societies: beyond the Russia experience.…”
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Tocqueville the Ancien R�egime and the French Revolution / by Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859

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Action, art, history engagements with Arthur C. Danto /

Table of Contents: “…Danto -- Danto's action / Donald Davidson -- Response -- Crossing paths / Stanley Cavell -- Response -- For the birds/against the birds: the modernist narratives of Danto and Adorno (and Cage) / Lydia Goehr -- Response -- Photoshop, or, Unhanding art / Gregg Horowitz -- Response -- At the doom of modernism: art and art theory in competition / Hans Belting -- Response -- The sell-by date / Daniel Herwitz -- Response -- Danto on Tansey: the possibilities of appearance / Michael Kelly -- Response -- Danto, history, and the tragedy of human existence / Frank R. Ankersmit -- Response -- History and the sciences / Philip Kitcher and Daniel Immerwahr -- Response.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

New stories from the Southwest

Table of Contents: “…Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941 / Alan Cheuse -- The secret heart of Christ / Matt Clark -- Cowboys and Indians / Lorien Crow -- Together we are lost / Kathleen de Azevedo -- Hermano / Alan Elyshevitz -- Looking for eight / Marcela Fuentes -- Dead man's nail / Dennis Fulgoni -- Food stamp / Anna Green -- Guadalupe and the taxman / Donald Lucio Hurd -- At the Powwow Hotel / Toni Jensen -- The fifth daughter / Charles Kemnitz -- What I never said / Elmo Lum -- A tragedy with pigs / Tom McWhorter -- Old Border Road / S.G. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Sound figures of modernity German music and philosophy /

Table of Contents: “…Schelling on the origin of music and tragedy / David Farrell Krell -- The world as will and music : Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of music / Ludger Lütkehaus -- The ring as deconstruction of modernity : reading Wagner with Benjamin / Samuel Weber -- Nietzsche and the problem of life-affirming content in music / Margaret Moore and Rebekah Pryor Paré -- Bloch's dream, music's traces / Gerhard Richter -- Dissonance and aesthetic totality : Adorno reads Schönberg / Beatrice Hanssen -- Thomas Mann : pro and contra Adorno / Hans Rudolf Vaget -- The dialectical thinker as composer : Hanns Eisler's philosophical reflections on music / Albrecht Betz -- Double mimesis : Georg Lukács's philosophy of music / Jost Hermand.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The Blackwell guide to aesthetics

Table of Contents: “…Thomasson -- Evaluating art / Alan Goldman -- Interpretation in aesthetics / Laurent Stern -- Art and the moral realm / Noël Carroll -- Beauty and the critic's judgment : remapping aesthetics / Mary Mothersill -- The philosophy of taste : thoughts on the idea / Ted Cohen -- The emotions in art / Jenefer Robinson -- The philosophy of literature : pleasure restored / Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen -- The philosophy of the visual arts : perceiving paintings / Joseph Margolis -- The philosophy of the movies : cinematic narration / Berys Gaut -- The philosophy of music : formalism and beyond / Philip Alperson -- The philosophy of dance : bodies in motion, bodies at rest / Francis Sparshott -- Tragedy / Susan Feagin -- The aesthetics of nature and the environment / Donald W. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view