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Evangelical Christians in the Muslim sahel by Cooper, Barbara MacGowan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: fundamental differences -- Anatomy of a riot -- Love and violence -- From "Satan's masterpiece" to "the social problem of Islam" -- A Hausa spiritual vernacular -- African agency and the growth of the church in the Maradi Region, 1927-1960 -- Disciplining the Christian : defining elderhood, Christian marriage, and "God's work," 1933-1955 -- "An extremely dangerous suspect" : from Vichy-era travails to postwar triumph -- Impasses in vernacular education, 1945-1995 -- Handmaid to the gospel : SIM's medical work in Niger, 1944-1975 -- The tree of life : regenerating and gendering the garden after the fall, 1975-2000 -- Ca̧ bouge : Hausa Christian practice in a Muslim milieu -- Epilogue: SIM's successors and the Pentecostal explosion.…”
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A course in monetary economics sequential trade, money, and uncertainty / by Eden, Benjamin

Table of Contents: “…-- Asset prices and the Lucas' "tree model" -- Part 3: An introduction to uncertain and sequential trade (UST) -- Real models -- A monetary model -- Limited participation, sticky prices, and UST: a comparison -- Inventories and business cycle -- Money and credit in the business cycle -- Evidence from micro data -- The Friedman rule in UST model -- Sequential international trade -- Endogenous information and externalities -- Search and contracts.…”
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Bluebeard a reader's guide to the English tradition / by Hermansson, Casie

Table of Contents: “…Preface: three hundred years of "Bluebeard" in English -- Variants and variations -- Principal variants -- Pirates and true Bluebeards -- Bluebeard in the English eighteenth century -- Found in translation : Charles Perrault's "Bluebeard" in English -- A "tree tail'd bashaw" : Bluebeard takes a Turkish turn -- Bluebeard in the English nineteenth century -- Cheap thrills : Bluebeard in chapbooks and juveniles -- "You outrageous man!" …”
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Flying with the eagle, racing the Great Bear tales from native North America / by Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Northeast -- The dream fast, Anishinabe -- White weasel, Abenaki -- Racing the Great Bear, Iroquois -- Granny squannit and the bad young man, Wampanoag -- The Southeast -- How the game animals were set free, Cherokee -- The wild boy, Caddo -- The underwater lodge, Muskogee (creek) -- The wisdom of the willow tree, Osage -- The Southwest -- The owl-man giant and the monster elk, Apache -- How the hero twins found their father, diné (Navajo) -- The bear boy, Pueblo -- The ghost society, Yuki -- The Northwest -- The light-haired boy, Lakota -- Star boy, Cheyenne -- Salmon boy, Tlingit -- Tommy's whale, Inupiaq.…”
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Cairo histories of a city / by AlSayyad, Nezar

Table of Contents: “…Preamble : reading and writing Cairo -- Memphis : the first Cairo -- From ancient Egypt to the Coptic enclave -- Fustat-Misr : the city of Arab Islam -- Al-Qahira : a Fatimid palatial town -- Fortress Cairo : from Salah Al-Din to the Pearl Tree -- The Bahri Mamluks : the city of the slave sultans -- Governing from the tower : the Burji Mamluks -- A provincial capital under Ottoman rule -- A changing city : from Napoleon to Muhammad Ali -- Modernizing the new, medievalizing the old : the city of the Khedive -- The Arab republic and the city of Nasser -- Escaping the present, consuming the past.…”
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South by Southwest Katherine Anne Porter and the burden of Texas history / by Stout, Janis P.

Table of Contents: “…Callie Russell Porter's Texas : history, geoculture, and the need to escape -- Away and yet not away -- The Mexican dream and its realities -- Recalling childhood : beauty, death, and "The old order" -- Seizing the moment : endless memory and "Noon wine" -- Awakening the Southern belle from her dream of a horse race -- Racial nightmares and "The man in the tree" -- War's alarms : three Texans, two wars -- Two almost-last straws -- Sexual politics and Ship of Fools -- Never reconciled.…”
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Bluebeard a reader's guide to the English tradition / by Hermansson, Casie

Table of Contents: “…Preface: three hundred years of "Bluebeard" in English -- Variants and variations -- Principal variants -- Pirates and true Bluebeards -- Bluebeard in the English eighteenth century -- Found in translation : Charles Perrault's "Bluebeard" in English -- A "tree tail'd bashaw" : Bluebeard takes a Turkish turn -- Bluebeard in the English nineteenth century -- Cheap thrills : Bluebeard in chapbooks and juveniles -- "You outrageous man!" …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Flying with the eagle, racing the Great Bear tales from native North America / by Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Northeast -- The dream fast, Anishinabe -- White weasel, Abenaki -- Racing the Great Bear, Iroquois -- Granny squannit and the bad young man, Wampanoag -- The Southeast -- How the game animals were set free, Cherokee -- The wild boy, Caddo -- The underwater lodge, Muskogee (creek) -- The wisdom of the willow tree, Osage -- The Southwest -- The owl-man giant and the monster elk, Apache -- How the hero twins found their father, diné (Navajo) -- The bear boy, Pueblo -- The ghost society, Yuki -- The Northwest -- The light-haired boy, Lakota -- Star boy, Cheyenne -- Salmon boy, Tlingit -- Tommy's whale, Inupiaq.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Cairo histories of a city / by AlSayyad, Nezar

Table of Contents: “…Preamble : reading and writing Cairo -- Memphis : the first Cairo -- From ancient Egypt to the Coptic enclave -- Fustat-Misr : the city of Arab Islam -- Al-Qahira : a Fatimid palatial town -- Fortress Cairo : from Salah Al-Din to the Pearl Tree -- The Bahri Mamluks : the city of the slave sultans -- Governing from the tower : the Burji Mamluks -- A provincial capital under Ottoman rule -- A changing city : from Napoleon to Muhammad Ali -- Modernizing the new, medievalizing the old : the city of the Khedive -- The Arab republic and the city of Nasser -- Escaping the present, consuming the past.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

South by Southwest Katherine Anne Porter and the burden of Texas history / by Stout, Janis P.

Table of Contents: “…Callie Russell Porter's Texas : history, geoculture, and the need to escape -- Away and yet not away -- The Mexican dream and its realities -- Recalling childhood : beauty, death, and "The old order" -- Seizing the moment : endless memory and "Noon wine" -- Awakening the Southern belle from her dream of a horse race -- Racial nightmares and "The man in the tree" -- War's alarms : three Texans, two wars -- Two almost-last straws -- Sexual politics and Ship of Fools -- Never reconciled.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Evangelical Christians in the Muslim sahel by Cooper, Barbara MacGowan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: fundamental differences -- Anatomy of a riot -- Love and violence -- From "Satan's masterpiece" to "the social problem of Islam" -- A Hausa spiritual vernacular -- African agency and the growth of the church in the Maradi Region, 1927-1960 -- Disciplining the Christian : defining elderhood, Christian marriage, and "God's work," 1933-1955 -- "An extremely dangerous suspect" : from Vichy-era travails to postwar triumph -- Impasses in vernacular education, 1945-1995 -- Handmaid to the gospel : SIM's medical work in Niger, 1944-1975 -- The tree of life : regenerating and gendering the garden after the fall, 1975-2000 -- Ca̧ bouge : Hausa Christian practice in a Muslim milieu -- Epilogue: SIM's successors and the Pentecostal explosion.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

A course in monetary economics sequential trade, money, and uncertainty / by Eden, Benjamin

Table of Contents: “…-- Asset prices and the Lucas' "tree model" -- Part 3: An introduction to uncertain and sequential trade (UST) -- Real models -- A monetary model -- Limited participation, sticky prices, and UST: a comparison -- Inventories and business cycle -- Money and credit in the business cycle -- Evidence from micro data -- The Friedman rule in UST model -- Sequential international trade -- Endogenous information and externalities -- Search and contracts.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

White collar Zen using Zen principles to overcome obstacles and achieve your career goals / by Heine, Steven, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Game plan -- Mountains are mountains: roots of everyday stress -- Introduction: applying Zen -- Zen and professional leadership -- The power of Zen -- Mountains are not mountains: transforming conflict into opportunity -- Everybody must get foxed -- The greater the doubt, the greater the enlightenment -- Seeing the forest, but not missing the trees -- Mountains are mountains, again: from structure to anti-structure -- Returning to the marketplace -- All's well that ends well -- Coming from nowhere to somewhere -- Glossary -- Appendix: Koan translation ("Te-shan carrying his bundle").…”
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The gender of piety : family, faith, and colonial rule in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe / by Urban-Mead, Wendy

Table of Contents: “…Ndlovu: gendered piety, the new Zimbabwe, and the Gukurahundi, 1980/89 -- Gendered lives of piety -- Ndlovu and Nsimango family tree.…”
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The gender of piety : family, faith, and colonial rule in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe / by Urban-Mead, Wendy

Table of Contents: “…Ndlovu: gendered piety, the new Zimbabwe, and the Gukurahundi, 1980/89 -- Gendered lives of piety -- Ndlovu and Nsimango family tree.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

White collar Zen using Zen principles to overcome obstacles and achieve your career goals / by Heine, Steven, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Game plan -- Mountains are mountains: roots of everyday stress -- Introduction: applying Zen -- Zen and professional leadership -- The power of Zen -- Mountains are not mountains: transforming conflict into opportunity -- Everybody must get foxed -- The greater the doubt, the greater the enlightenment -- Seeing the forest, but not missing the trees -- Mountains are mountains, again: from structure to anti-structure -- Returning to the marketplace -- All's well that ends well -- Coming from nowhere to somewhere -- Glossary -- Appendix: Koan translation ("Te-shan carrying his bundle").…”
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Vonnegut and Hemingway writers at war / by Broer, Lawrence R.

Table of Contents: “…Family secrets: the absent mother and father -- Hemingway's sun, Vonnegut's night: the spoils of war -- Duty dance with death: A farewell to arms and Slaughterhouse-five -- Spiritual manifestos: Breakfast of champions, Death in the afternoon, and Green hills of Africa -- From Jailbird to canary bird: To have and have not and Jailbird -- Anima and animus in For whom the bell tolls and Slapstick -- A soldier's confessions: Across the river and into the trees and Hocus pocus -- Now it's women's turn: The rescue of Eurydice -- A literary farewell: Timequake and Under kilimanjaro.…”
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Forests for the people : the story of America's eastern national forests / by Johnson, Christopher, 1947 September 13-

Table of Contents: “…The disappearing forests of the White Mountains -- Trees to build the Lake States -- A forest crisis in the southern Appalachians -- Building a forest conservation movement -- Legislation at last--the Weeks Act -- Creating the eastern national forests -- Issues facing the eastern national forests today -- Holly Springs National Forest -- Florida's national forests -- Monongahela National Forest -- Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness -- Ottawa and Hiawatha national forests -- Allegheny National Forest -- Michigan's national forests -- National forests of Vermont and North Carolina.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Vonnegut and Hemingway writers at war / by Broer, Lawrence R.

Table of Contents: “…Family secrets: the absent mother and father -- Hemingway's sun, Vonnegut's night: the spoils of war -- Duty dance with death: A farewell to arms and Slaughterhouse-five -- Spiritual manifestos: Breakfast of champions, Death in the afternoon, and Green hills of Africa -- From Jailbird to canary bird: To have and have not and Jailbird -- Anima and animus in For whom the bell tolls and Slapstick -- A soldier's confessions: Across the river and into the trees and Hocus pocus -- Now it's women's turn: The rescue of Eurydice -- A literary farewell: Timequake and Under kilimanjaro.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Forests for the people : the story of America's eastern national forests / by Johnson, Christopher, 1947 September 13-

Table of Contents: “…The disappearing forests of the White Mountains -- Trees to build the Lake States -- A forest crisis in the southern Appalachians -- Building a forest conservation movement -- Legislation at last--the Weeks Act -- Creating the eastern national forests -- Issues facing the eastern national forests today -- Holly Springs National Forest -- Florida's national forests -- Monongahela National Forest -- Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness -- Ottawa and Hiawatha national forests -- Allegheny National Forest -- Michigan's national forests -- National forests of Vermont and North Carolina.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view