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Women embracing Islam gender and conversion in the West /

Table des matières: “…Conversion and gender, two contested concepts / Willy Jansen -- Gender and conversion to Islam in the West / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- Contextualizing conversion -- The quest for peace in submission: reflections on the journey of American women converts to Islam / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- The shaping of a Scandinavian "Islam": converts and gender equal opportunity / Anne Sofie Roald -- Symbolizing distance: conversion to Islam in Germany and the United States / Monika Wohlrab-Sahr -- Discourses and narratives -- Gender, conversion, and Islam: a comparison of online and offline conversion narratives / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- The shifting significance of the halal/haram frontier: narratives on the hijab and other issues / Stefano Allievi -- Trajectories and paradigms -- Female conversion to Islam: the Sufi paradigm / Haifaa Jawad -- African American Islam as an expression of converts' religious faith and nationalist dreams and ambitions / Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons -- Feminism and conversion: comparing British, Dutch, and South African life stories / Margot Badran -- Transmission and identity -- How Deborah became Aisha: the conversion process and the creation of female Muslim identity / Nicole Bourque -- Keeping the faith: convert Muslim mothers and the transmission of female Muslim identity in the West / Marcia Hermansen.…”
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Frontier Tibet : Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands /

Table des matières: “…Tan -- Money, politics, and local identity : an inside look at the 'diary' of a twentieth-century Khampa trader / Lucia Galli -- The dispute between Sichuan and Xikang over the Tibetan kingdom of Trokyap (1930s-1940s) / Fabienne Jagou -- The rise of a political strongman in Derge in the early twentieth century : the story of Jagö Topden / Yudru Tsomu -- Harnessing the power of the Khampa elites : political persuasion and the consolidation of Communist Party rule in Gyelthang / Dáša Pejchar Mortensen -- Return of the good king : kingship and identity among Yushu Tibetans since 1951 / Maria Turek -- Yachen as process : encampments, nuns, and spatial politics in post-Mao Kham / Yasmin Cho -- Chinese settler colonialism : empire and life in the Tibetan borderlands / Carole McGranahan.…”
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Papa, PhD essays on fatherhood by men in the academy /

Table des matières: “…Leak -- Vocabularies and their subversion: a reminiscence / John Domini -- Balancing diapers and a doctorate: the adventures of a single dad in grad school / Charles Bane -- It's a chapter-book, huh: teaching, writing, and early fatherhood / Alex Vernon -- Pitcher this: an academic dad's award-winning attempt to be in two places at once / Colin Irvine -- Odd quirks / Christopher Gabbard -- The precarious private life of professor father fiction chef and other possible poignancies / Gary McCullough.…”
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Screen Space Reconfigured /

Table des matières: “…Bull -- Surface tension, screen space / Giuliana Bruno -- Knowing not what to believe : digital space and entanglement in Life of Pi , Gravity, and Interstellar / William Brown -- Digital 3D, parallax effects, and the construction of film space in Tangled 3D and Cave of Forgotten Dreams 3D / Kristen Whissel -- Reconfigurations of screen borders : the new or not-so-new aspect ratios / Miriam Ross -- Face, frame, fragment : refiguring space in found-footage cinema / Allan Cameron -- Looking up, looking down : a new vision in motion / Jennifer Pranolo -- Surface explorations : 3D moving images as cartographies of time / Nanna Verhoeff -- Touch/space : the haptic in 21st-century video art / Susanne O. …”
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Stories : Screen Narrative in the Digital Era /

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Culture Clash : Law and Science in America / par Goldberg, Steven, 1947-2010

Table des matières: “…Artificial Life. The Practical Impact of Artificial Intelligence. …”
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Sleep and mental illness

Table des matières: “…Ahmed and Michael J. Thorpy -- Insomnia : a risk for future psychiatric illness / Matthew R. …”
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Hungry for ecstasy trauma, the brain, and the influence of the sixties / par Farber, Sharon Klayman

Table des matières: “…-- Dissociative States -- The History of Altered States in Psychoanalysis -- Altered States can Enrich our Lives -- Chapter 3: The Brain and Altered States of Consciousness -- Ecstasies of Hysteria -- Freud's Victorian Ladies Suffering from Hysteria -- Hysteria and Dissociation -- Fainting, Swooning, and Seizures -- Atiques de Nervois and Other Ecstasies -- The Remarkable, Impressionable Human Brain -- Attachment and the Brain -- The Brain's Plasticity -- Sensitization, Kindling, and Addiction -- Trauma and Altered States of Consciousness -- The Third Eye and Altered States of Consciousness -- The Brain and Ecstasy -- Out of Body Experiences -- Near-Death Experiences -- Religion, Spirituality, and Ecstasy -- Orgasm and Ecstasy -- The Brain During Ecstasy -- I Can't Get No Satisfaction -- Chapter 4: The Sixties: Something is Happening Here -- The Legacy of the Sixties -- Life Should be Ecstasy -- Generations X and Y -- The Culture of Narcissism -- Like a Motherless Child -- Neglected and Unprotected -- Group Initiation Rites and Ecstasy -- When Life Becomes Ecstasy -- Chapter 5: Marketing and Producing Ecstasy -- A Separate Reality -- Pharmaceutical Paradise -- Marketing Religious Ecstasy -- Chapter 6: Cult-Induced Ecstasy and Psychosis -- Extreme Altered States -- You Create Your Own Reality -- Est, Also Known as The Forum and Landmark Forum: It Is What It Is -- Cults, Motivational Seminars, and the Human Potential Movement -- Snapping and Ecstasy -- What Psychotherapists Treating Cult-Involved Patients Need to Know -- Cults and the Consciousness Explosion -- Ecstasies of Cosmic Consciousness -- The Transcendental Meditation Vision of Possibilities -- Soul Murder -- She Saw Me Glowing, Just Like Freedom, Her Guru --…”
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Cocaine : From Coca Fields to the Streets /

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African American urban history since World War II

Table des matières: “…Camarillo -- The young lords and the postwar city: notes on the geographical and structural reconfigurations of contemporary urban life / Johanna Fern�andez -- Great expectations: African American and latino relations in Phoenix since World War II / Matthew Whitaker -- Citizens and workers: African Americans and Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia's regional economy since World War II / Carmen Teresa Whalen -- The second ghetto and the suburb : realtors and racism in working-class Philadelphia, 1945-1970 / David McAllister -- Deadly inequalities: race, illness, and poverty in Washington, D.C., since 1945 / Brett Williams -- "The house I live in": race, class, and African American suburban dreams in the postwar United States / Andrew Wiese -- Harvesting the crisis: the Newark uprising, the Kerner Commission, and writings on riots / Kevin Mumford -- Affirmative action from below: civil rights, the building trades, and the politics of racial equality in the urban north, 1945-1969 / Thomas J. …”
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Musik, Raum, Akkord, Bild Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Dorothea Baumann = Music, space, chord, image : festschrift for Dorothea Baumann's 65th Birthday /

Table des matières: “…/ Guerino Mazzola -- Body percussion performance techniques in male and female song-dances in Aceh and the links around the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean / Margaret Kartomi -- Das spiel mit den 'Drei geschmackvollen Linien' : erotische Implikationen in shamisen-Darstellungen / Silvain Guignard -- Lärm und Musik in der Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España von Bernal Díaz del Castillo / Matthias Stöckli -- Transforming traditional musical cultures : a narrative on safeguarding Brazilian vissungo / Marc-Antoine Camp -- "When I behold my picture" : the negotiation of meaning in Edwaert Collier's Still life with a copy of Wither's "Emblemes" (1696) / Debra Pring -- Francesco Bianchini's Triplex lyra in eighteenth-century music historiography / Zdravko Blažeković -- Musikalisch-organologische "Brosamen" aus den Feuilles d'Avis de la Ville et Canton de Fribourg / Franc̜ois Seydoux -- Die Hanottere : ein Kunstmusikinstrument der Renaissance lebt in der Schweizer Volksmusik weiter / Brigitte Bachmann-Geiser -- Challenging the bounderies of musical iconography : the process of re-signification of Smetak instruments / Pablo Sotuyo-Blanco -- Sozialgeschichte von Musikinstrumenten : Musikalische Spurensuche einer Historikerin / Dorothee Rippmann -- On the issue of connections among the arts / Elena Zinkevych -- Decartes' Töne - Newtons Farben / Daniel Muzzulini -- Wie der Hirsch nach frischer-- : Didaktische Aspekte musikalischer Quellen / Harry Joelson-Strohbach -- The discovery of the A double sharp, or how many notes does the tonal system of western classical music have? …”
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Photography in the Middle: Dispatches on Media Ecologies and Aesthetics / par Coley, Rob, Lockwood, Dean

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The Art of Neighbouring : Making Relations Across China's Borders /

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At the end of the road : Jack Kerouac in Mexico / par García-Robles, Jorge, 1956-

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The path to more sustainable energy systems how do we get there from here? / par Ebenhack, Ben W.

Table des matières: “…Next steps -- 8.1 Entering a new age -- 8.1.1 The transition that brought us here -- 8.2 Petroleum's role in the next transition -- 8.2.1 Petroleum's response to the shortage -- 8.2.2 The time factor -- 8.2.3 Higher prices -- 8.3 Energy poverty's role in the transition -- 8.3.1 The need for an energy labor force -- 8.4 A brief note on climate change's role in the transition -- 8.5 Energy dreams -- 8.5.1 Easy energy transitions -- 8.5.2 Solar -- 8.5.3 Unproven technologies -- 8.5.4 Ridiculous technologies -- 8.6 Comparing the options -- 8.7 New lifestyles around sustainable energy -- 8.8 Optimized energy mixes for space and time -- 8.8.1 Using everything, as we always have -- 8.8.2 Context-based solutions -- 8.8.3 Local, decentralized energy development -- 8.8.4 Conservation -- 8.8.5 Evolving energy mixes -- 8.9 Brief summary of agency and industry forecasts -- 8.10 So, what is the path forward? …”
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