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The Brothers Coen unique characters of violence / by Doom, Ryan P.

“…Introduction: violently original -- Murder most simple: Blood simple (1985) -- Babies, bikers, and buffoons: Raising Arizona (1987) -- The professional kill: Miller's crossing (1990) -- Life of the imaginary mind: Barton Fink (1991) -- Reinventing the circle of suicide: The Hudsucker proxy (1994) -- What's the deal with greed and wood chippers?…”
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The Brothers Coen unique characters of violence / by Doom, Ryan P.

“…Introduction: violently original -- Murder most simple: Blood simple (1985) -- Babies, bikers, and buffoons: Raising Arizona (1987) -- The professional kill: Miller's crossing (1990) -- Life of the imaginary mind: Barton Fink (1991) -- Reinventing the circle of suicide: The Hudsucker proxy (1994) -- What's the deal with greed and wood chippers?…”
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Women in Cleveland : An Illustrated History / by Morton, Marian J., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Cultivating the Arts: Practitioners and Patrons, 1880-1930 -- 7. Winning the Ballot: Reformers and Suffragists, 1890-1930 -- 8. …”
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Women in Cleveland : An Illustrated History / by Morton, Marian J., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Cultivating the Arts: Practitioners and Patrons, 1880-1930 -- 7. Winning the Ballot: Reformers and Suffragists, 1890-1930 -- 8. …”
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Teacher's guide for discovering the world through debate a practical guide to educational debate for debaters, coaches and judges / by Claxton, Nancy

Table of Contents: “…Preparation -- Content of the textbook -- The course -- Course requirements -- Terminal course objectives (tcos) -- Weekly topic outline -- Week 1 lesson -- Week 2 lesson -- Week 3 lesson -- Week 4 lesson -- Week 5 lesson -- Week 6 lesson -- Week 7 lesson -- Week 8 lesson -- Week 9 lesson -- Week 10 lesson -- Week 11 lesson -- Week 12 lesson -- Appendix -- Course syllabus -- Worksheets -- Distinguishing between claims, propositions, and evidence -- Karl Popper quotes -- Group discussion questions for Karl Popper debate transcript and commentary reading -- Using the three methods to argue and refute causal relationships -- Building a case for and against a simple value proposition -- Building a case for a comparative value proposition-fact sheet -- Argument flow sheet -- Karl Popper debate ballot.…”
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Politics and the passions, 1500-1850

Table of Contents: “…McCormick -- Difficult engagements : private passion and public service in Montaigne's Essais / Timothy Hampton -- The bachelor state : philosophy and sovereignty in Bacon's New Atlantis / John Guillory -- Hobbes' revolution / Daniela Coli -- Happy tears : baroque politics in Descartes' Passions de l'âme / Victoria Kahn -- The desire to live : Spinoza's Ethics under pressure / Judith Butler -- A mind for passion : Locke and Hutcheson on desire / Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse -- Rousseau's quarrel with gratitude / Patrick Coleman -- Parting with prejudice : Hume, identity, and aesthetic universality / Neil Saccamano -- Vico, "tenderness," and "barbarism" / Riccardo Caporali -- Kant and the relegation of the passions / Howard Caygill -- Beliefs and emotions (from Stanley Fish to Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill) / Frances Ferguson.…”
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Maine an annotated bibliography / by Potholm, Christian P., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…. -- The marvel of Margaret: the persistence of a modern political archetype -- The Muskie revolution -- The high tide of democratic aspirations -- The Cohen counter-revolution -- Maine's independent governors in myth and reality -- Voting patterns: six paradigms, or how "vote the way you shot" became "1/3, 1/3, 1/3" -- Campaigns and candidates: "as Maine goes . . ." -- Ballot measures and participatory democracy: "the sovereign right of the people to legislate" -- Additional topics. -- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the politics of nineteenth-century Maine -- Women of Maine -- The Bowdoin connection -- Visual depictions of Maine -- Primary research opportunities -- Best Maine politics axioms.…”
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Teacher's guide for discovering the world through debate a practical guide to educational debate for debaters, coaches and judges / by Claxton, Nancy

Table of Contents: “…Preparation -- Content of the textbook -- The course -- Course requirements -- Terminal course objectives (tcos) -- Weekly topic outline -- Week 1 lesson -- Week 2 lesson -- Week 3 lesson -- Week 4 lesson -- Week 5 lesson -- Week 6 lesson -- Week 7 lesson -- Week 8 lesson -- Week 9 lesson -- Week 10 lesson -- Week 11 lesson -- Week 12 lesson -- Appendix -- Course syllabus -- Worksheets -- Distinguishing between claims, propositions, and evidence -- Karl Popper quotes -- Group discussion questions for Karl Popper debate transcript and commentary reading -- Using the three methods to argue and refute causal relationships -- Building a case for and against a simple value proposition -- Building a case for a comparative value proposition-fact sheet -- Argument flow sheet -- Karl Popper debate ballot.…”
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Politics and the passions, 1500-1850

Table of Contents: “…McCormick -- Difficult engagements : private passion and public service in Montaigne's Essais / Timothy Hampton -- The bachelor state : philosophy and sovereignty in Bacon's New Atlantis / John Guillory -- Hobbes' revolution / Daniela Coli -- Happy tears : baroque politics in Descartes' Passions de l'âme / Victoria Kahn -- The desire to live : Spinoza's Ethics under pressure / Judith Butler -- A mind for passion : Locke and Hutcheson on desire / Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse -- Rousseau's quarrel with gratitude / Patrick Coleman -- Parting with prejudice : Hume, identity, and aesthetic universality / Neil Saccamano -- Vico, "tenderness," and "barbarism" / Riccardo Caporali -- Kant and the relegation of the passions / Howard Caygill -- Beliefs and emotions (from Stanley Fish to Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill) / Frances Ferguson.…”
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Maine an annotated bibliography / by Potholm, Christian P., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…. -- The marvel of Margaret: the persistence of a modern political archetype -- The Muskie revolution -- The high tide of democratic aspirations -- The Cohen counter-revolution -- Maine's independent governors in myth and reality -- Voting patterns: six paradigms, or how "vote the way you shot" became "1/3, 1/3, 1/3" -- Campaigns and candidates: "as Maine goes . . ." -- Ballot measures and participatory democracy: "the sovereign right of the people to legislate" -- Additional topics. -- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the politics of nineteenth-century Maine -- Women of Maine -- The Bowdoin connection -- Visual depictions of Maine -- Primary research opportunities -- Best Maine politics axioms.…”
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Our Appalachia : an oral history /

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Our Appalachia : an oral history /

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Diálogos sobre religión natural / by Hume, David, 1711-1776

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Diálogos sobre religión natural / by Hume, David, 1711-1776

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Traditions of the Osage stories collected and translated by Francis la Flesche /

Table of Contents: “…Allegorical story of tribal organziation -- Origin story of the Wolf Clan (Pah-nee-wah-with-ta) -- Origin story of the Black Bear Clan (Bacon Rind) -- Creation of the house of mystery (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Earth names and sky names (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Origin story of the Sho'-ka (Saucy Calf) -- The tattooing custom (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Haircut of the gentle sky clan (Shun-kah-mo-lah) -- Finding of the four colors (Hlu-ah-wah-tah) -- What to dream of (Saucy Calf) -- Instructions to the mother (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Instructions to the wife of a priest (Saucy Calf) -- Instructions in the painting of the sacred robes (Hlu-ah-wah-tah) -- Counting the O'don (Shun-kah-mo-lah) -- Tradition of the Omaha departure form the Osage (Pah-nee-wah-with-tah) -- Making the Buffalo come (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Deer-hunting stories -- The vision of a war leader (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Death of an old warrior -- Origin of the hair bundle (Me-ke-wah-ti-an-kah) -- Origin of the whistle bundle -- Origin of the mourning dance (Black Dog) -- The lost warrior (Saucy Calf) -- Captive of the Pawnee -- The boy driven from home -- The woman war leader (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The youngest wife -- The unfaithful wife (Pah-nee-wah-with-tah) -- Mourning dance for yellow ears (Saucy Calf) -- The two young men who mourned their living fater (Andrew Jackson) -- The wa-kon'-da-gi, or medicine men -- Strange medicine man -- The death of Village Maker -- Big Bear and Runs-to-meet-men -- The cruel medicine man and the orphan -- Wah-ti-an-kah (Bacon Rind) -- Dreamers (Shun-kah-mo-lah) -- The woman dreamer -- Spirit woman (Hlu-ah-wah-tah) -- The flute ghost story (Ben Wheeler) -- The young warrier and his dead wife -- Return of the dead (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- The little people (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The demon animal (Ben Wheeler) -- The squirrel maidens -- The hawk and the horned owl (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The four coyotes and the persimmons (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The coyote and the woodpecker -- The coyote and the fawn.…”
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Traditions of the Osage stories collected and translated by Francis la Flesche /

Table of Contents: “…Allegorical story of tribal organziation -- Origin story of the Wolf Clan (Pah-nee-wah-with-ta) -- Origin story of the Black Bear Clan (Bacon Rind) -- Creation of the house of mystery (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Earth names and sky names (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Origin story of the Sho'-ka (Saucy Calf) -- The tattooing custom (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Haircut of the gentle sky clan (Shun-kah-mo-lah) -- Finding of the four colors (Hlu-ah-wah-tah) -- What to dream of (Saucy Calf) -- Instructions to the mother (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Instructions to the wife of a priest (Saucy Calf) -- Instructions in the painting of the sacred robes (Hlu-ah-wah-tah) -- Counting the O'don (Shun-kah-mo-lah) -- Tradition of the Omaha departure form the Osage (Pah-nee-wah-with-tah) -- Making the Buffalo come (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Deer-hunting stories -- The vision of a war leader (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Death of an old warrior -- Origin of the hair bundle (Me-ke-wah-ti-an-kah) -- Origin of the whistle bundle -- Origin of the mourning dance (Black Dog) -- The lost warrior (Saucy Calf) -- Captive of the Pawnee -- The boy driven from home -- The woman war leader (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The youngest wife -- The unfaithful wife (Pah-nee-wah-with-tah) -- Mourning dance for yellow ears (Saucy Calf) -- The two young men who mourned their living fater (Andrew Jackson) -- The wa-kon'-da-gi, or medicine men -- Strange medicine man -- The death of Village Maker -- Big Bear and Runs-to-meet-men -- The cruel medicine man and the orphan -- Wah-ti-an-kah (Bacon Rind) -- Dreamers (Shun-kah-mo-lah) -- The woman dreamer -- Spirit woman (Hlu-ah-wah-tah) -- The flute ghost story (Ben Wheeler) -- The young warrier and his dead wife -- Return of the dead (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- The little people (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The demon animal (Ben Wheeler) -- The squirrel maidens -- The hawk and the horned owl (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The four coyotes and the persimmons (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The coyote and the woodpecker -- The coyote and the fawn.…”
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Conflict, social capital, and managing natural resources a West African case study /

Table of Contents: “…Moore, and Charlene Brewster -- Landscape and soil characteristics of Madiama Commune / Oumarou Badini and Lassana Dioni -- Investigation into the movements of cattle, sheep, and goat herds through the Commune of Madiama / Adama Ballo and Abdoul Karim Ouattara -- Land use changes in Madiama Commune / Randolph H. …”
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Digital books competition and commerce /

Table of Contents: “…Yeh, Legislative Attorney -- Statement of Paul Aiken on the Google Book Settlement (Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives) -- Statement of Marybeth Peters, The Register of Copyrights, before the Committee on the Judiciary hearing on "Competition and Commerce in Digital Books" -- Competition that Works : Why the Google Books Project is Good for Consumers and Competitors / Testimony of David A. Balto, before the House Judiciary Committee, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Action Fund, Hearing on "Competition and Commerce in Digital Books" -- Testimony of David Drummond, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer, Google Inc., before the House Committee on the Judiciary, hearing on "Competition and Commerce in Digital Books" -- Statement of Paul Misener, Vice President, Global Public Policy, Amazon.com, before the Committee on the Judiciary, hearing on "Competition and Commerce in Digital Books" -- Written Testimony of Randal C. …”
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The Greek polis and the invention of democracy a politico-cultural transformation and its interpretations /

Table of Contents: “…Ways of Polis-making : Grasping the Novelty of the Political -- To Act with Good Advice : Greek Tragedy and the Democratic Political Sphere / Egon Flaig -- Democracy and Dissent : The Case of Comedy / Lucio Bertelli -- Democracy, Oratory, and the Rise of Historiography in Fifth-century Greece / Jonas Grethlein -- Political Uses of Rhetoric in Democratic Athens / Harvey Yunis -- Law and Democracy in Classical Athens / Adriaan Lanni -- Democracy and Political Philosophy : Influences, Tensions, Rapprochement / Ryan Balot -- Inscriptions and the City in Democratic Athens / Elizabeth Meyer -- Part III. …”
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Digital books competition and commerce /

Table of Contents: “…Yeh, Legislative Attorney -- Statement of Paul Aiken on the Google Book Settlement (Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives) -- Statement of Marybeth Peters, The Register of Copyrights, before the Committee on the Judiciary hearing on "Competition and Commerce in Digital Books" -- Competition that Works : Why the Google Books Project is Good for Consumers and Competitors / Testimony of David A. Balto, before the House Judiciary Committee, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Action Fund, Hearing on "Competition and Commerce in Digital Books" -- Testimony of David Drummond, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer, Google Inc., before the House Committee on the Judiciary, hearing on "Competition and Commerce in Digital Books" -- Statement of Paul Misener, Vice President, Global Public Policy, Amazon.com, before the Committee on the Judiciary, hearing on "Competition and Commerce in Digital Books" -- Written Testimony of Randal C. …”
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