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Imagining creation

Table of Contents: “…Lambert -- Creation stories in ancient Egypt / Stephen Quirke -- You can't get here from there : the logical paradox of ancient Indian creation myths / Wendy Doniger -- Stories of the beginning : origin myths in Africa south of the Sahara / Mineke Schipper -- Modern Jewish attitudes to the concept of myth / Wout Jac. van Bekkum -- Extract from Genesis 1-2 translation and commentary, Norton, NY 1996 / Robert Alter -- The Bible in the making : Slavonic creation stories / Florentina Badalanova -- Arab creation stories beyond the pale / Abdullah al-Udhari -- Lurianic creation myths / Daphne Freedman.…”
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Journeys to war & peace a congressional memoir / by Solarz, Stephen J.

Table of Contents: “…-- Crossing the Allenby Bridge : Israel, the Arabs, and the peace process -- A Jewish agenda : rescue abroad and relief at home -- African encounters : liberation struggles, civil war, corruption, and tyranny -- Indochina : bringing peace to Cambodia, protecting Vietnamese "boat people" -- The Philippines : the impossible dream -- Korea and Taiwan : the struggle for democracy and human rights -- South Asia : the "voice of India in Congress" and "the Lafayette of Pakistani democracy" -- Central America and Cuba : revolutions closer to home -- Encounters in Europe : Turkey, Cyprus, and Poland -- The Gulf War : when evil is on the march, it must be confronted -- The year of the Shlemazel.…”
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Iraq the human cost of history /

Table of Contents: “…Nagy -- The U.S. obsession with Iraq and the triumph of militarism / Stephen Zunes -- Not quite an Arab Prussia : revisiting some myths on Iraqi exceptionalism / Isam al-Khafaji.…”
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Dickinson's misery : a theory of lyric reading / by Jackson, Virginia Walker, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…." -- Lyric context -- Hybrid poems -- Dickinson unbound -- The archive -- 2: Lyric reading -- "My cricket" -- Lyric alienation -- Lyric theory -- Against (lyric) theory -- 3: Dickinson's figure of address -- "The only poets" -- Lyric media -- "The man who makes sheets of paper" -- "You--there--I--here" -- "The most pathetic thing I do" -- 4: "Faith in anatomy" -- Achilles' head -- The interpretant -- "No bird--yet rode in Ether--" -- The queen's place -- 5: Dickinson's misery -- "Misery, how fair" -- "The literature of misery" -- "This chasm" -- "And bore her safe away."…”
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Imagining creation

Table of Contents: “…Lambert -- Creation stories in ancient Egypt / Stephen Quirke -- You can't get here from there : the logical paradox of ancient Indian creation myths / Wendy Doniger -- Stories of the beginning : origin myths in Africa south of the Sahara / Mineke Schipper -- Modern Jewish attitudes to the concept of myth / Wout Jac. van Bekkum -- Extract from Genesis 1-2 translation and commentary, Norton, NY 1996 / Robert Alter -- The Bible in the making : Slavonic creation stories / Florentina Badalanova -- Arab creation stories beyond the pale / Abdullah al-Udhari -- Lurianic creation myths / Daphne Freedman.…”
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Journeys to war & peace a congressional memoir / by Solarz, Stephen J.

Table of Contents: “…-- Crossing the Allenby Bridge : Israel, the Arabs, and the peace process -- A Jewish agenda : rescue abroad and relief at home -- African encounters : liberation struggles, civil war, corruption, and tyranny -- Indochina : bringing peace to Cambodia, protecting Vietnamese "boat people" -- The Philippines : the impossible dream -- Korea and Taiwan : the struggle for democracy and human rights -- South Asia : the "voice of India in Congress" and "the Lafayette of Pakistani democracy" -- Central America and Cuba : revolutions closer to home -- Encounters in Europe : Turkey, Cyprus, and Poland -- The Gulf War : when evil is on the march, it must be confronted -- The year of the Shlemazel.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Iraq the human cost of history /

Table of Contents: “…Nagy -- The U.S. obsession with Iraq and the triumph of militarism / Stephen Zunes -- Not quite an Arab Prussia : revisiting some myths on Iraqi exceptionalism / Isam al-Khafaji.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Dickinson's misery : a theory of lyric reading / by Jackson, Virginia Walker, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…." -- Lyric context -- Hybrid poems -- Dickinson unbound -- The archive -- 2: Lyric reading -- "My cricket" -- Lyric alienation -- Lyric theory -- Against (lyric) theory -- 3: Dickinson's figure of address -- "The only poets" -- Lyric media -- "The man who makes sheets of paper" -- "You--there--I--here" -- "The most pathetic thing I do" -- 4: "Faith in anatomy" -- Achilles' head -- The interpretant -- "No bird--yet rode in Ether--" -- The queen's place -- 5: Dickinson's misery -- "Misery, how fair" -- "The literature of misery" -- "This chasm" -- "And bore her safe away."…”
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Nutritionism : the science and politics of dietary advice / by Scrinis, Gyorgy

Table of Contents: “…A clash of nutritional ideologies -- The nutritionism paradigm : reductive approaches to nutrients, food, and the body -- The era of quantifying nutritionism : protective nutrients, caloric reductionism, and vitamania -- The era of good-and-bad nutritionism : bad nutrients and nutricentric dietary guidelines -- The macronutrient diet wars : from the low-fat campaign to low-calorie, low-carb, and low-GI diets -- Margarine, butter, and the trans-fats fiasco -- The era of functional nutritionism : functional nutrients, superfoods, and optimal dietary patterns -- Functional foods : nutritional engineering, nutritional marketing, and corporate nutritionism -- The food quality paradigm : alternative approaches to food and the body -- After nutritionism.…”
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Nutritionism : the science and politics of dietary advice / by Scrinis, Gyorgy

Table of Contents: “…A clash of nutritional ideologies -- The nutritionism paradigm : reductive approaches to nutrients, food, and the body -- The era of quantifying nutritionism : protective nutrients, caloric reductionism, and vitamania -- The era of good-and-bad nutritionism : bad nutrients and nutricentric dietary guidelines -- The macronutrient diet wars : from the low-fat campaign to low-calorie, low-carb, and low-GI diets -- Margarine, butter, and the trans-fats fiasco -- The era of functional nutritionism : functional nutrients, superfoods, and optimal dietary patterns -- Functional foods : nutritional engineering, nutritional marketing, and corporate nutritionism -- The food quality paradigm : alternative approaches to food and the body -- After nutritionism.…”
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Global media ethics problems and perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Contextual Ethics and Arab Mass Media Ralph Berenger & Mustafa Taha, American University in Sharjah, UAE 6. …”
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Global media ethics problems and perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Contextual Ethics and Arab Mass Media Ralph Berenger & Mustafa Taha, American University in Sharjah, UAE 6. …”
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Old Shanghai and the clash of revolution by Woo, X. L.

Table of Contents: “…Childhood of Genghua in a capitalist family -- Life little Genghua remembered under Japanese occupation -- How Chinese people keep their festivals before 1949 -- Life of Wu family before Communist Party takes over Shanghai -- The first two political movements have no effect on Wu family -- How capitalists get first financial blow & how Genghua fares in middle school -- Genghua's friend returns to Germany & capitalists get second financial blow -- Anti-rightist movement has little effect on Wu family -- The great leap-forward & steel-making movement -- Genghua learns English from some old scholars & makes new friends -- Tours in West-Suburb Park & to Suzhou City -- Genghua makes more friends & Mrs. …”
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Coalition challenges in Afghanistan : the politics of alliance /

Table of Contents: “…Porter -- Jordan and the United Arab Emirates : Arab partners in Afghanistan / Ariel I. …”
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Old Shanghai and the clash of revolution by Woo, X. L.

Table of Contents: “…Childhood of Genghua in a capitalist family -- Life little Genghua remembered under Japanese occupation -- How Chinese people keep their festivals before 1949 -- Life of Wu family before Communist Party takes over Shanghai -- The first two political movements have no effect on Wu family -- How capitalists get first financial blow & how Genghua fares in middle school -- Genghua's friend returns to Germany & capitalists get second financial blow -- Anti-rightist movement has little effect on Wu family -- The great leap-forward & steel-making movement -- Genghua learns English from some old scholars & makes new friends -- Tours in West-Suburb Park & to Suzhou City -- Genghua makes more friends & Mrs. …”
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Coalition challenges in Afghanistan : the politics of alliance /

Table of Contents: “…Porter -- Jordan and the United Arab Emirates : Arab partners in Afghanistan / Ariel I. …”
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Adolescent psychopathology and the developing brain integrating brain and prevention science /

Table of Contents: “….] -- The developing adolescent brain in socioeconomic context / Martha J. Farah, Kimberly G. Noble, and Hallam Hurt -- Brain development as a vulnerability factor in the etiology of substance abuse and addiction / Charles P. …”
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Corporate Data Quality Voraussetzung erfolgreicher Geschäftsmodelle / by Otto, Boris, Österle, Hubert

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Recovering 1940s horror cinema : traces of a lost decade /

Table of Contents: “…Serial killers, deals with the devil and the madness of crowds: the horror film in Nazi-occupied France / David Hanley -- Always hearing voices, never hearing mine: sound and fury in The snake pit / Karen Herland -- The demise of the cinematic zombie: from the golden age of Hollywood to the 1940s / Louise Fenton -- Fears new and old: the post-war American horror film / Gary D. …”
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Printing and Prophecy : Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550 / by Green, Jonathan, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: printing and prophecy -- The Sibyl's book -- Prophets in print -- Prophets and their readers -- Visions of visions: functions of the image in printed prophecy -- Practica teütsch -- Fear, floods, and the paradox of the practica teütsch -- Conclusion: the prophetic reader.…”
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