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Jean-Henry D'Anglebert and the Seventeenth-Century Clavecin School / by Jerold, Beverly, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…-Lambert and Rousseau -- Transcriptions, arrangements, and variations -- The organ works -- Classical suite order in France -- The unmeasured preludes -- The keyboard dances -- Appendix 1 : sources and editions -- Appendix 2 : newly discovered pieces by D'Anglebert -- Appendix 3 : transcriptions by D'Anglebert.…”
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Sedimentation engineering

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Web-based instruction a guide for libraries / by Smith, Susan Sharpless

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An ecofeminist perspective on Ash Wednesday and Lent by Sweeney, Sylvia A.

Table of Contents: “…-- Introduction -- Ash Wednesday as a classic -- The historical development of Ash Wednesday -- The wellsprings of Ash Wednesday -- Medieval influences on Ash Wednesday -- Cranmerian influences on Ash Wednesday -- The 1979 BCP Rite -- Ecofeminism on human finitude -- An ecofeminist hermeneutic of mortality -- An ecofeminist hermeneutic of death -- Conversation -- Hearing ecofeminism from a traditional perspective -- Hearing the Ash Wednesday tradition from an ecofeminist perspective.…”
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Formal method industrial use from model to the code /

Table of Contents: “…From classic languages to formal methods -- Formal method in railway, the first complex application : SAET-METEOR -- B method and B tools -- Model-based design using Simulink : modeling, code generation, verification, and validation -- Proof of global properties with the aid of the Simulink Design verifier proof tool -- SCADE : implementation and applications -- GATel : a V & V platform for scade models -- Control build.…”
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The Routledge handbook of critical pedagogies for social work /

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Our Master’s Voice : Advertising / by Rorty, James, 1890-

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Everyone eats understanding food and culture / by Anderson, Eugene N. (Eugene Newton), 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Everyone eats -- Obligatory omnivores -- Human nutritional needs -- More needs than one -- The senses : taste, smell, and the adapted mind -- Basics : environment and economy -- Food as pleasure -- Food classification and communication -- Me, myself, and the others : food as social marker -- Food and traditional medicine -- Food and religion -- Change -- Foods and borders : ethnicities, cuisines, and boundary crossings -- Feeding the world.…”
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Composers in the movies studies in musical biography / by Tibbetts, John C.

Table of Contents: “…The classical style: composers in the studio era -- A song remembered: Frédéric Chopin goes to war -- The new Tin Pan Alley: Hollywood looks at American popular songwriters -- "Just an innocent bystander": the composer films of Ken Russell -- "A long, dark coda into the night": the composer films of Tony Palmer -- Revisionist portraits: a medley of recent composer biopics.…”
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Liberal beginnings making a republic for the moderns / by Kalyvas, Andreas, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Beginnings -- The rhetoric of the market : Adam Smith on recognition, speech, and exchange -- Agonistic liberalism : Adam Ferguson on modern commercial society and the limits of classical republicanism -- After the king : Thomas Paine's and James Madison's institutional liberalism -- Embracing liberalism : Germaine de Staël's farewell to republicanism -- On the liberty of the moderns : Benjamin Constant and the discovery of an immanent liberalism -- After republicanism : a coda.…”
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A religion, not a state Ali Abd al-Raziq's Islamic justification of political secularism / by Ali, Souad T.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Background and overview -- Classical juristic theories of the caliphate : from idealism to accommodationism -- The caliphate in the colonial era -- Ali Abd al-Raziq's intellectual formation and his place among the disciples of Muhammad Abduh -- The central message -- The ruling system in the time of the prophet -- Critiques of Abd al-Raziq's position -- The implications of Abd al-Raziq's study for the debate over Islam and politics.…”
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The missing girls and women of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan a sociological study of infanticide, forced prostitution, political imprisonment, "ghost brides," runaways, and thrownawa... by Huang, Hua-Lun, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Tables and figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- The study of missing females -- Conceptualization of missing females : a classification system -- Missing females at high risk of vanishing permanently -- Female political prisoners -- Slain baby girls -- Ghost brides -- Missing females with some chances to re-emerge -- Comfort women -- Trafficked women and girls -- Runaways/thrownaways -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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A guide to hemorrhoidal disease by Gupta, Pravin Jaiprakash

Table of Contents: “…Introduction and history -- Causes of hemorrhoids -- Anatomy of hemorrhoids -- Pathophysiology of hemorrhoidal disease -- Clinical presentation of hemorrhoidal disease -- Hemorrhoids presenting with complications -- Diagnosis and classification of hemorrhoids -- Conservative treatment for hemorrhoids -- Office treatment of hemorrhoids -- Surgical treatment of hemorrhoids -- Complications of hemorrhoid surgery -- Hemorrhoids in special situations -- External hemorrhoidal disease -- Frequently asked questions about hemorrhoids -- Hemorrhoids: point to ponder.…”
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A scientific assessment of the validity of mystical experiences : understanding altered psychological and neurophysiological states / by Papanicolaou, Andrew C.

Table of Contents: “…Defining mystical states and experiences -- Unintentional and deliberate methods of attaining mystical states : religious, cultural, and philosophical perspectives -- Mystical states achieved through psychedelics: the origins, classical, and contemporary use of psychedelics -- Questioning the reliability of mystical states : identifying features -- Questioning the validity of mystical states : opinions and objections -- The experiencing subject and mystical object : defining validity of the mystical state.…”
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Overview of Arthropods & their impact on the health of humans & other vertebrates part 1 /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Arthropod significance, characteristics, classification and identification -- Direct (e.g. blood-feeding) and indirect encounters between humans, animals and arthropods -- Arthropods can be direct causes of pathology (e.g. stinging), facilitators of secondary infection and mechanical or biological vectors (transmitters) of pathogens -- Mosquito blood-feeding and pathogen transmission provides a useful example of biological transmission.…”
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Postmodern Spiritual Practices : The Construction of the Subject and the Reception of Plato in Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault / by Miller, Paul Allen, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: remaking the soul : antiquity, postmodernism, and genealogies of the self -- The modernist revolt : history, politics, and allegory, or, Classicism in occupied France -- Historicizing transcendence : antigone, the good, and the ethics of psychoanalysis -- Lacan, the Symposium, and transference -- Writing the subject : Derrida asks Plato to take a letter -- The art of self-fashioning, or, Foucault on the Alcibiades : caring for the self and others -- Searching for a usable past.…”
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Hey presto! Swift and the quacks / by Ormsby-Lennon, Hugh

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Si vulgus vult decipi, decipiatur -- Classis stage-itinerant -- From gabble and harangue to quack's bill -- Universal improvement of mankind -- Ejaculating the soul -- Aping the medicine show: Mencken, Salmon, Yworth -- Doctor and presto -- Dumfounding -- Apollonius of Tyana -- Beginnings and endings, terrae filius on Grub Street.…”
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The sites of Rome time, space, memory /

Table of Contents: “…Larmour -- Victim and voyeur : Rome as a character in Tacitus' Histories 3 / Rhiannon Ash -- The gates of Janus : Bakhtin and Plutarch's Roman meta-chronotope / Jason Banta -- Staging Rome : the Renaissance, Rome, and humanism's classical crisis / Jacob Blevins -- Sizing up Rome, or theorizing the overview / Caroline Vout -- Ancient Rome for little comrades : the legacy of classical antiquity in Soviet childrens' literature / Marina Balina -- The sites and sights of Rome in Fellini's films : 'not a human habitation but a psychical entity' / Elena Theodorakopoulos.…”
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Fundamentals of weed science by Zimdahl, Robert L.

Table of Contents: “…Weeds--the beginning -- Weed classification -- Ethnobotany -- Weed reproduction and dispersal -- Weed ecology -- Invasive plants -- Allelopathy -- The significance of plant competition -- Methods of weed management and control -- Biological weed control -- Introduction to chemical weed control -- Properties and uses of herbicides -- Herbicides and plants -- Herbicides and soil -- Herbicide formulation -- Herbicides and the environment -- Pesticide legislation and registration -- Weed management systems -- Weed science--the future.…”
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Taxi! a social history of the New York City cabdriver / by Hodges, Graham Russell, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The creation of the taxi man, 1907-1920 -- Hack men in the jazz age, 1920-1930 -- The search for order during the Depression, 1930-1940 -- Prosperity during wartime, 1940-1950 -- The creation of the classic cabby, 1950-1960 -- Unionization and its discontents, 1960-1980 -- The lease driver and proletarian, 1980-2005 -- Epilogue -- Appendix. …”
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