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Souls with longing representations of honor and love in Shakespeare /

Table of Contents: “…Macbeth's Strange Infirmity: Shakespeare's Portrait of A Demonic Tyranny -- Chapter 9. Beyond Love and Honor: Eros and Will to Power in Richard III -- Chapter 10. …”
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African teachers on the colonial frontier Tswana evangelists and their communities during the nineteenth century / by Volz, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Peculiar strangeness : African evangelists and European colonization -- Native brethren : African agency and the establishment of the first Tswana missions, 1800-1835 -- Influential young men : faith and power in southern Tswana communities, 1830-1860 -- Wagons of God : evangelism and trade among northern Batswana, 1840-1865 -- Smeared with chalk : Tswana conversion to Christianity -- Ecclesiastical tyranny : European colonization and the regulation of Tswana Christianity, 1860-1890.…”
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African teachers on the colonial frontier Tswana evangelists and their communities during the nineteenth century / by Volz, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Peculiar strangeness : African evangelists and European colonization -- Native brethren : African agency and the establishment of the first Tswana missions, 1800-1835 -- Influential young men : faith and power in southern Tswana communities, 1830-1860 -- Wagons of God : evangelism and trade among northern Batswana, 1840-1865 -- Smeared with chalk : Tswana conversion to Christianity -- Ecclesiastical tyranny : European colonization and the regulation of Tswana Christianity, 1860-1890.…”
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Sexual intimacy for women a guide for same-sex couples / by Corwin, Glenda

Table of Contents: “…-- Myths about female sexual desire -- Diving in : swept away by powerful currents -- Midstream drifting -- Secrets of long-term lovers : 24-hour foreplay -- Erotic imagination : a foreplay state of mind -- Orgasm : taking your time -- Body image and the tyranny of weight -- Recovering from sexual trauma -- Sex and aging -- Infidelity : the deepest cut -- Sexually transmitted infections -- Sex and parenthood -- Women who love women of color -- Polyamory -- Sex toys -- Other.…”
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Sexual intimacy for women a guide for same-sex couples / by Corwin, Glenda

Table of Contents: “…-- Myths about female sexual desire -- Diving in : swept away by powerful currents -- Midstream drifting -- Secrets of long-term lovers : 24-hour foreplay -- Erotic imagination : a foreplay state of mind -- Orgasm : taking your time -- Body image and the tyranny of weight -- Recovering from sexual trauma -- Sex and aging -- Infidelity : the deepest cut -- Sexually transmitted infections -- Sex and parenthood -- Women who love women of color -- Polyamory -- Sex toys -- Other.…”
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Our present complaint American medicine, then and now / by Rosenberg, Charles E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the history of our present complaint -- Tyranny of diagnosis: sprecific entities and individual experience -- Contested boundaries: psychiatry, disease, and diagnosis -- Banishing risk: or the more things change, the more they remain the same -- Pathologies of progress: the idea of civilization as risk -- The new enchantment: genetics, medicine, and society -- Alternative to what? …”
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Our present complaint American medicine, then and now / by Rosenberg, Charles E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the history of our present complaint -- Tyranny of diagnosis: sprecific entities and individual experience -- Contested boundaries: psychiatry, disease, and diagnosis -- Banishing risk: or the more things change, the more they remain the same -- Pathologies of progress: the idea of civilization as risk -- The new enchantment: genetics, medicine, and society -- Alternative to what? …”
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American cinema of the 1930s themes and variations /

Table of Contents: “…1930 : Movies and social difference / Aaron Baker -- 1931 : Movies and the voice / Cynthia Erb -- 1932 : Movies and transgression / David Lugowski -- 1933 : Movies and the New Deal in entertainment / Martin Rubin -- 1934 : Movies and the marginalized / Charlene Regester -- 1935 : Movies and the resistance to tyranny / Ina Rae Hark -- 1936 : Movies and the possibility of transcendence / Susan Ohmer -- 1937 : Movies and new constructions of the American star / Allen Larson -- 1938 : Movies and whistling in the dark / Sam B. …”
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Grand theater regional governance in Stalin's Russia, 1931-1941 / by Holmes, Larry E. (Larry Eugene), 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Chernykh -- "My friend, I've hit rock bottom" : politics and friendship -- A tragedy : the terror -- Degeneration of the symbiosis of errors, 1938-1941 -- "Stop this petty tyranny" : letters and the administration of schools in Falenki, 1940-1941 -- Proprietary professionalism : mine by right, 1938-1941.…”
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Grand theater regional governance in Stalin's Russia, 1931-1941 / by Holmes, Larry E. (Larry Eugene), 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Chernykh -- "My friend, I've hit rock bottom" : politics and friendship -- A tragedy : the terror -- Degeneration of the symbiosis of errors, 1938-1941 -- "Stop this petty tyranny" : letters and the administration of schools in Falenki, 1940-1941 -- Proprietary professionalism : mine by right, 1938-1941.…”
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American cinema of the 1930s themes and variations /

Table of Contents: “…1930 : Movies and social difference / Aaron Baker -- 1931 : Movies and the voice / Cynthia Erb -- 1932 : Movies and transgression / David Lugowski -- 1933 : Movies and the New Deal in entertainment / Martin Rubin -- 1934 : Movies and the marginalized / Charlene Regester -- 1935 : Movies and the resistance to tyranny / Ina Rae Hark -- 1936 : Movies and the possibility of transcendence / Susan Ohmer -- 1937 : Movies and new constructions of the American star / Allen Larson -- 1938 : Movies and whistling in the dark / Sam B. …”
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What hath God wrought the transformation of America, 1815-1848 / by Howe, Daniel Walker

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: The defeat of the past -- The continental setting -- From the jaws of defeat -- An era of good and bad feelings -- The world that cotton made -- Awakenings of religion -- Overthrowing the tyranny of distance -- The improvers -- Pursuing the millennium -- Andrew Jackson and his age -- Battles over sovereignty -- Jacksonian democracy and the rule of law -- Reason and revelation -- Jackson's third term -- The new economy -- The Whigs and their age -- American renaissance -- Texas, Tyler, and the telegraph -- Westward the star of empire -- The war against Mexico -- The revolutions of 1848 -- Finale: A vision of the future.…”
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What hath God wrought the transformation of America, 1815-1848 / by Howe, Daniel Walker

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: The defeat of the past -- The continental setting -- From the jaws of defeat -- An era of good and bad feelings -- The world that cotton made -- Awakenings of religion -- Overthrowing the tyranny of distance -- The improvers -- Pursuing the millennium -- Andrew Jackson and his age -- Battles over sovereignty -- Jacksonian democracy and the rule of law -- Reason and revelation -- Jackson's third term -- The new economy -- The Whigs and their age -- American renaissance -- Texas, Tyler, and the telegraph -- Westward the star of empire -- The war against Mexico -- The revolutions of 1848 -- Finale: A vision of the future.…”
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American anarchism / by Shone, Steve J.

Table of Contents: “…Jun -- Introduction -- Anarchism, tyranny, and despair / Benjamin R. Tucker -- More of an anarchist than a feminist? …”
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American anarchism / by Shone, Steve J.

Table of Contents: “…Jun -- Introduction -- Anarchism, tyranny, and despair / Benjamin R. Tucker -- More of an anarchist than a feminist? …”
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Humanitarian intervention in the long nineteenth century : Setting the precedent / by Heraclides, Alexis, Dialla, Ada

Table of Contents: “…Introduction ; The origins of the idea of humanitarian intervention : just war and against tyranny ; Eurocentrism, 'civilization' and the 'barbarians' ; International law and humanitarian intervention ; Intervention and non-intervention in international political theory -- Practice. …”
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Humanitarian intervention in the long nineteenth century : Setting the precedent / by Heraclides, Alexis, Dialla, Ada

Table of Contents: “…Introduction ; The origins of the idea of humanitarian intervention : just war and against tyranny ; Eurocentrism, 'civilization' and the 'barbarians' ; International law and humanitarian intervention ; Intervention and non-intervention in international political theory -- Practice. …”
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Foreign-language learning with digital technology

Table of Contents: “…Digital technology and language learning : a review of policy and research evidence / Michael Evans -- The potential of the Internet as a language-learning tool / Iain Mitchell -- Trainee teachers' perceptions of the use of digital technology in the languages classroom / Linda Fisher -- Digital technology as a tool for active learning in MFL : engaging language learners in and beyond the secondary classroom / Rachel Hawkes -- Engaging pupils in bilingual, cross-cultural online discourse / Michael Evans -- SIDE by side : pioneers, inventors and the tyranny of educational distance / Cal Durrant -- Teacher and student perceptions of e-learning in EFL / Miranda Hamilton -- From textbook to online materials : the changing ecology of foreign-language publishing in the era of ICT / Carl Blyth.…”
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Foreign-language learning with digital technology

Table of Contents: “…Digital technology and language learning : a review of policy and research evidence / Michael Evans -- The potential of the Internet as a language-learning tool / Iain Mitchell -- Trainee teachers' perceptions of the use of digital technology in the languages classroom / Linda Fisher -- Digital technology as a tool for active learning in MFL : engaging language learners in and beyond the secondary classroom / Rachel Hawkes -- Engaging pupils in bilingual, cross-cultural online discourse / Michael Evans -- SIDE by side : pioneers, inventors and the tyranny of educational distance / Cal Durrant -- Teacher and student perceptions of e-learning in EFL / Miranda Hamilton -- From textbook to online materials : the changing ecology of foreign-language publishing in the era of ICT / Carl Blyth.…”
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Managing white supremacy race, politics, and citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia / by Smith, J. Douglas

Table of Contents: “…: Hampton Institute and the divided mind of white Virginians -- Little tyrannies and petty skullduggeries -- A melancholy distinction : Virginia's response to lynching -- The erosion of paternalism : confronting the limits of managed race relations -- Travelling in opposite directions -- Too radical for us : the passing of managed race relations -- Epilogue : the making of massive resistance.…”
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