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Redeeming laughter : the comic dimension of human experience / by Berger, Peter L., 1929-

Table of Contents: “…Self-Serving Explanations and Unsolicited Compliments -- The Comic Intrusion -- Philosophers of the Comic, and the Comedy of Philosophy -- Laughing Monks: A Very Brief Sinitic Interlude -- Homo Ridens: Physiology and Psychology -- Homo Ridiculus: Social Constructions of the Comic -- Interlude: Brief Reflections on Jewish Humor -- The Comic as Diversion: Benign Humor -- The Comic as Consolation: Tragicomedy -- The Comic as Game of Intellect: Wit -- The Comic as Weapon: Satire -- Interlude: The Eternal Return of Folly -- The Folly of Redemption -- Interlude: On Grim Theologians -- The Comic as a Signal of Transcendence.…”
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The argumentative theatre of Joe Penhall by Boles, William C., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : from the raves to the stages of London -- Wild turkey and the new man, The new lad and the Penhall male -- Some voices and the failure of care -- Pale horse and the struggle to mourn -- Love and understanding and the demise of relationships -- The bullet and the stigma of redundancy -- Blue/orange and racism within the National Health Service -- Dumb show and Penhall's women -- Landscape with weapon and post-September 11 drama -- Afterword.…”
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Innocent until interrogated the true story of the Buddhist Temple Massacre and the Tucson Four / by Stuart, Gary L., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…A circle of death -- The sheriff's task force -- The man with many names -- A waiting line for confessions -- Recantations and indictments -- The forgotten murder weapon -- Political wrangling -- A murderer ten times over -- Johnathan Doody on trial -- Mitigation, aggravation, and sentencing -- Suing Maricopa County.…”
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The death of the Internet

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Redeeming laughter : the comic dimension of human experience / by Berger, Peter L., 1929-

Table of Contents: “…Self-Serving Explanations and Unsolicited Compliments -- The Comic Intrusion -- Philosophers of the Comic, and the Comedy of Philosophy -- Laughing Monks: A Very Brief Sinitic Interlude -- Homo Ridens: Physiology and Psychology -- Homo Ridiculus: Social Constructions of the Comic -- Interlude: Brief Reflections on Jewish Humor -- The Comic as Diversion: Benign Humor -- The Comic as Consolation: Tragicomedy -- The Comic as Game of Intellect: Wit -- The Comic as Weapon: Satire -- Interlude: The Eternal Return of Folly -- The Folly of Redemption -- Interlude: On Grim Theologians -- The Comic as a Signal of Transcendence.…”
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Defining the peace World War II veterans, race, and the remaking of Southern political tradition / by Brooks, Jennifer E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : World War II veterans and the politics of postwar change in Georgia -- The ballot must be our weapon : Black veterans and the politics of racial change -- The question of majority rule : White veterans and the politics of progressive reform -- Is this what we fought the war for? …”
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Neither Star Wars nor sanctuary constraining the military uses of space / by O'Hanlon, Michael E.

Table of Contents: “…Preserving U.S. dominance while slowing the weaponization of space -- Notes -- Index.…”
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Neither Star Wars nor sanctuary constraining the military uses of space / by O'Hanlon, Michael E.

Table of Contents: “…Preserving U.S. dominance while slowing the weaponization of space -- Notes -- Index.…”
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Clones, cats, and chemicals thinking scientifically about controversial issues / by Slesnick, Irwin L.

Table of Contents: “…Here come the clones -- Cats and their impact on wildlife populations -- Stem cell transplants -- Chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction -- Robotic versus manned space travel -- Genetic screening -- Violence in the media -- Managed retreat -- Should modern man hunt? …”
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Clones, cats, and chemicals thinking scientifically about controversial issues / by Slesnick, Irwin L.

Table of Contents: “…Here come the clones -- Cats and their impact on wildlife populations -- Stem cell transplants -- Chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction -- Robotic versus manned space travel -- Genetic screening -- Violence in the media -- Managed retreat -- Should modern man hunt? …”
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Possessors and possessed museums, archaeology, and the visualization of history in the late Ottoman Empire / by Shaw, Wendy M. K., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Moving toward the museum : the collection of antique spolia -- Parallel collections of weapons and antiquities -- The rise of the imperial museum -- The dialectic of law and infringement -- Technologies of collection : railroads and cameras -- Antiquities collections in the imperial museum -- Islamic arts in imperial collections -- Military collections in the late empire -- Islamic and archaeological antiquities after the Young Turk Revolution.…”
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Possessors and possessed museums, archaeology, and the visualization of history in the late Ottoman Empire / by Shaw, Wendy M. K., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Moving toward the museum : the collection of antique spolia -- Parallel collections of weapons and antiquities -- The rise of the imperial museum -- The dialectic of law and infringement -- Technologies of collection : railroads and cameras -- Antiquities collections in the imperial museum -- Islamic arts in imperial collections -- Military collections in the late empire -- Islamic and archaeological antiquities after the Young Turk Revolution.…”
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The weight of their votes southern women and political leverage in the 1920s / by Schuyler, Lorraine Gates

Table of Contents: “…Now you smell perfume : the social drama of politics in the 1920s -- More people to vote : woman suffrage and the challenge to disfranchisement -- Making their bow to the ladies : southern party leaders and the fight for new women voters -- Not bound to any party : the problem of women voters in the solid South -- The best weapon for reform : women lobbying with the vote -- No longer treated lightly : southern legislators and new women voters -- To hold the lady votes : southern politics ten years after suffrage.…”
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Africana critical theory reconstructing the black radical tradition, from W.E.B. Du Bois and C.L.R. James to Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral / by Rabaka, Reiland, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…James: pan-African Marxism beyond all boundaries -- Aimé Césaire and Léopold Senghor: revolutionary negritude and radical new negroes -- Frantz Fanon: revolutionizing the wretched of the earth, radicalizing the discourse on decolonization -- Amilcar Cabral: using the weapon of theory to return to the source(s) of revolutionary decolonization and revolutionary re-Africanization -- Africana critical theory: overcoming the aversion to new theory and new praxis in Africana studies and critical social theory.…”
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Africana critical theory reconstructing the black radical tradition, from W.E.B. Du Bois and C.L.R. James to Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral / by Rabaka, Reiland, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…James: pan-African Marxism beyond all boundaries -- Aimé Césaire and Léopold Senghor: revolutionary negritude and radical new negroes -- Frantz Fanon: revolutionizing the wretched of the earth, radicalizing the discourse on decolonization -- Amilcar Cabral: using the weapon of theory to return to the source(s) of revolutionary decolonization and revolutionary re-Africanization -- Africana critical theory: overcoming the aversion to new theory and new praxis in Africana studies and critical social theory.…”
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The weight of their votes southern women and political leverage in the 1920s / by Schuyler, Lorraine Gates

Table of Contents: “…Now you smell perfume : the social drama of politics in the 1920s -- More people to vote : woman suffrage and the challenge to disfranchisement -- Making their bow to the ladies : southern party leaders and the fight for new women voters -- Not bound to any party : the problem of women voters in the solid South -- The best weapon for reform : women lobbying with the vote -- No longer treated lightly : southern legislators and new women voters -- To hold the lady votes : southern politics ten years after suffrage.…”
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Naked politics nudity, political action, and the rhetoric of the body / by Lunceford, Brett

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: naked in public (for a cause) -- Chained women and running nudes: PETA's body rhetoric -- Weaponizing the breast: lactivism and public breastfeeding -- Can you see me now, driver? …”
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Naked politics nudity, political action, and the rhetoric of the body / by Lunceford, Brett

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: naked in public (for a cause) -- Chained women and running nudes: PETA's body rhetoric -- Weaponizing the breast: lactivism and public breastfeeding -- Can you see me now, driver? …”
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The Future of Just War : New Critical Essays / by Gentry, Caron E., Eckert, Amy

Table of Contents: “…Eckert -- Postheroic U.S. warfare and the moral justification for killing in war / Sebastian Kaempf -- From smart to autonomous weapons : confounding territoriality and moral agency / Brent J. …”
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The Future of Just War : New Critical Essays / by Gentry, Caron E., Eckert, Amy

Table of Contents: “…Eckert -- Postheroic U.S. warfare and the moral justification for killing in war / Sebastian Kaempf -- From smart to autonomous weapons : confounding territoriality and moral agency / Brent J. …”
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