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Glamour in a golden age movie stars of the 1930s /

Table of Contents: “…Lugowski -- Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland: romancing through history / Ina Rae Hark -- Jean Harlow: tragic blonde / Susan Ohmer -- Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers: modernizing class / Adam Knee -- Myrna Loy and William Powell : the perfect screen couple / James Castonguay -- Clark Gable: the king of Hollywood / Christine Becker -- In the wings / Adrienne L. …”
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The Objectionable Li Zhi : Fiction, Criticism, and Dissent in Late Ming China /

Table of Contents: “…Lee -- Performing Authenticity: Li Zhi, Buddhism, and the Rise of Textual Spirituality in Early Modern China / Jiang Wu -- Afterlives. Performing as Li Zhi / Robert E. …”
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Professional surveyors and real property descriptions composition, construction, and comprehension / by Estopinal, Stephen V. (Stephen Vincent)

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What's the use of art? Asian visual and material culture in context /

Table of Contents: “…McGowan -- Conclusion -- Ways of experiencing art: art history, television, and Javanese wayang / Jan Mrázek -- Contributors.…”
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Criminal punishment and human rights : convenient morality / by Sattar, Adnan

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The new Black gods Arthur Huff Fauset and the study of African American religions /

Table of Contents: “…Curtis IV and Danielle Brune Sigler -- New religious movement(s) of the great migration era -- Fauset's (missing) Pentecostals : church mothers, remaking respectability, and religious modernism / Clarence E. Hardy III -- "Grace has given God a vacation" : the history and development of the theology of the United House of Prayer of All People / Danielle Brune Sigler -- "Chased out of Palestine" : Prophet Cherry's Church of God and early Black Judaisms in the United States / Nora L. …”
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Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University / by Hampton, Rosalind, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Trying to Keep Canada White and the Power to Write History ; McGill and the Modernization of Quebec ; Anticolonial Resistance and Black Power ; "That ... …”
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META-NET Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe 2020

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Is there a Middle East? the evolution of a geopolitical concept /

Table of Contents: “…: surveying the Middle East as sacred geography / Daniel Martin Varisco -- The river's edge : the steppes of the Oxus and the boundaries of the Near/Middle East and Central Asia, c.1500-1800 / Arash Khazeni -- An Islamicate Eurasia : vernacular perspectives on the early modern world / Gagan D.S. Sood -- Scorched earth : the problematic environmental history that defines the Middle East / Diana K. …”
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When mayors take charge school governance in the city /

Table of Contents: “…Wong -- City case studies -- Governing the Boston public schools : lessons in mayoral control / John Portz and Robert Schwartz -- Updating tradition : the institutional underpinnings of modern mayoral control in Chicago's public schools / Dorothy Shipps -- Who's afraid of a mayoral takeover of Detroit public schools? …”
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Old lands : a chorography of the Eastern Peloponnese / by Witmore, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…-- Lines in stone: Roads, canals, walls, faults, and marine terraces -- Ancient Corinth: Descent into memory, ascent into oblivion -- Acrocorinth: From gate to summit -- Along the A7 (Moréas), by car -- Kleonai to Nemea -- Nemea: A transect -- An erstwhile aqueduct: Lucretian flow -- To Mykenes station, by train -- About Mycenae, history and archaeology -- A path to the Heraion -- Through groves of citrus to Argos -- Argos, a democratic polis and Plutarch's Pyrrhus, a synkrisis (comparison) -- Modern spectacle through an ancient theatre -- Argos to Anapli on the hoof, with a stop at Tiryns -- A stroll through Nafplion -- The road to Epidaurus: Frazer and Pausanias -- Paleolithic to Bronze Age amid Venetian: A museum -- To Asine: Legal objects -- To Vivari, by boat -- Into the Bedheni Valley -- Through the Southern Argolid -- Ermioni/Hermion/Kastri: A topology -- Looking southwest, to what has become of an ancient oikos -- Across the Adheres, iterations -- Troizen, verdant and in ruin -- To Methana -- Into the Saronic Gulf -- On chorography.…”
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PROBABILITY AND STATISTICAL INFERENCE; FROM BASIC PRINCIPLES TO ADVANCED MODELS by Mavrakakis, Miltiadis C., Penzer, Jeremy

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Edith Wharton in context

Table of Contents: “…: The early critical responses Melissa M. Pennell; 9. Modern critical receptions Jessica Schubert McCarthy; Part III. …”
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Strategic Imaginations : Women and the Gender of Sovereignty in European Culture /

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The New Real : Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji / by Abel, Jonathan E., 1971-

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On Style: An Atelier /

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Journey of the universe by Swimme, Brian

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Current and Future Perspectives of Ethnomathematics as a Program by Rosa, Milton, D’Ambrosio, Ubiratan, Orey, Daniel Clark, Shirley, Lawrence, Alangui, Wilfredo V., Palhares, Pedro, Gavarrete, Maria Elena

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thN Lng Folk 2go: Investigating Future Premoderns™ / by Mulholland, Neil, Hogg, Norman

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The psychology of gratitude

Table of Contents: “…Roberts -- Part II: Social, personality and developmental approaches to gratitude -- Gratitude in modern life : its manifestations and development / Dan P. …”
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