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The Age of Entrepreneurship : Business Proprietors, Self-employment and Corporations Since 1851 / by Bennett, Robert J.

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Repentance for the Holocaust : Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past / by Chung, C. K. Martin

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Handbook of forensic statistics /

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Written in Blood : Fatal Attraction in Enlightenment Amsterdam / by Spierenburg, Petrus Cornelis

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Discord and Consensus in the Low Countries, 1700-2000 /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: discord and consensus in the Low Countries, 1700-2000 / Ulrich Tiedau -- 1. Pre-modern Dutch identity and the peace celebrations of 1748 / Lotte Jensen -- 2. …”
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Handbook of Mixture Analysis

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Rethinking the Western understanding of the self by Steinvorth, Ulrich

Table of Contents: “…Is the core idea of modernity realizable at all? -- Harnessing extraordinariness -- Cartesian modernity -- The undivided, universally developed individual -- The end of history?…”
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Not just a soccer game colonialism and conflict among Palestinians in Israel / by Shihade, Magid

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a soccer game turns violent -- Violent encounters under the eyes of state authorities -- Explaining conflict and violence : a theoretical framework -- Anatomy of communities : tradition and history -- Anatomy of the state : modernity and structure -- Conclusion : violence, modernity and culture revisited.…”
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The postmodern imagination of Russell Kirk by Russello, Gerald J., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Russell Kirk today -- Life and thought -- Participant knowledge and history -- Kirk's politics and the role of the statesman -- The jurisprudence of Russell Kirk -- Conservatism, modernity, and the postmodern.…”
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Qatar small state, big politics / by Kamrava, Mehran, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Setting the stage -- The subtle powers of a small state -- Foreign policy and power projection -- The stability of royal autocracy -- State capacity and high modernism -- Qatar's moment in history.…”
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Having visions the Book of Mormon translated and exposed in plain English / by Wolverton, Susan Stansfield

Table of Contents: “…Content : a modern language translation of The Book of Mormon.…”
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The pearl of Dari : poetry and personhood among young Afghans in Iran / by Olszewska, Zuzanna, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Border Crossings and Fractured Selves : A History of the Afghan Presence in Iran -- The Melancholy Modern : The Rise of a Refugee Intelligentsia -- Afghan Literary Organizations in Postrevolutionary Iran -- The Social Lives of Poets and Poetry -- Modern Love : Poetry, Companionate Marriage, and Recrafting the Self -- "When Your Darun Speaks to You" : Ethics of Revelation and Concealment in Lyric Poetry.…”
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The political philosophy of Zhang Taiyan the resistance of consciousness / by Murthy, Viren

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Zhang Taiyan and Chinese modernity -- Zhang's critique of Kang Youwei : anti-Manchuism, the national essence, and revolution -- Buddhist epistemology and modern self-identity : Zhang Taiyan's "On establishing religion" -- Transfiguring modern temporality : Zhang Taiyan's critique of evolutionary history -- Daoist equalization against the universal principle : Zhang Taiyan's critique of late Qing political theory -- Conclusion : Zhang Taiyan, Lu Xun and Wang Hui : the politics of imagining a better future.…”
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Beyond Texas through time breaking away from past interpretations /

Table of Contents: “…race, gender, and the "other Texans" / Michael Phillips -- Deconstructing Texas: the diversity of people, place, and historical imagination in recent Texas history / Carlos Kevin Blanton -- Beyond parochialism: modernization and Texas historiography / Nancy Beck Young.…”
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Doing time feminist theory and postmodern culture / by Felski, Rita, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Nothing to declare : identity, shame, and the lower middle class -- New cultural theories of modernity -- The invention of everyday life -- Judith Krantz, author of The cultural logics of late capitalism -- The doxa of difference -- Fin de siècle, fin de sexe : transsexuality and the death of history -- Images of the intellectual : from philosophy to cultural studies -- Why feminism doesn't need an aesthetic (and why it can't ignore aesthetics) -- Feminism, postmodernism, and the critique of modernity.…”
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Pests in the city : flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats / by Biehler, Dawn

Table of Contents: “…History, ecology, and the politics of pests -- The promises of modern pest control -- Flies : agents of interconnection in progressive era cities -- Bedbugs : creatures of community in modernizing cities -- German cockroaches : permeable homes in the postwar era -- Norway rats : back-alley ecology in the chemical age -- Persistence and resistance in the age of ecology -- The ecology of injustice : rats in the civil rights era -- Integrating urban homes : cockroaches and survival -- Epilogue: the persistence and resurgence of bedbugs.…”
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Biodefense challenges

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Understanding biodefense history, threats and preparedness -- Brief history of modern biological warfare programs -- Development of the principles of biosafety -- Relationship to emerging infectious disease -- Impact of the biotech revolution -- Dual-use research -- The anthrax letters and safety lapses -- Enhanced regulation of infectious disease research -- Education and awareness for safety and security -- The public health approach to preparedness -- Leadership and healthy laboratory organizational cultures -- Global science collaboration.…”
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The multivoiced body society and communication in the age of diversity / by Evans, Fred J., 1944-

Table of Contents: “…The age of diversity -- History of the dilemma : cosmos, chaos, chaosmos -- Society as a multivoiced body -- Modernism and subjectivity -- Postmodernism and language -- The primacy of voices -- Communication and an ethics for the age of diversity -- The social unconscious -- Globalization, resistance, and the new solidarity -- Democracy and justice in the multivoiced body.…”
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Osogbo and the art of heritage by Probst, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Heritage as source : histories and images of Osun Osogbo -- Heritage as novelty : revitalizing Yoruba art in the spirit of modernism -- Heritage as project : hybridity and the reauthentication of the Osun Grove -- Heritage as style : travel, interaction, and the branding of Osogbo art -- Heritage as spectacle : image and attention in the Osun Osogbo Festival -- Heritage as remembrance : history, photography, and styles of imagination -- Heritage as control : from art and religion to media and mediation -- Coda : A final note on heritage as presence.…”
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The creolizing subject race, reason, and the politics of purity / by Monahan, Michael J.

Table of Contents: “…Contingency, history, and ontology : on abolishing whiteness -- Turbulent and dangerous spirits : Irish servitude in Barbados -- Race and biology : scientific reason and the politics of purity -- "Becoming" white : race, reality, and agency -- The politics of purity : colonialism, reason, and modernity -- Creolizing subjects : antiracism and the future of philosophy.…”
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