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Armed groups : studies in national security, counterterrorism, and counterinsurgency /

Table of Contents: “…Dew -- Knowledge Transfer and Shared Learning among Armed Groups / James J. F. Forest -- The "Memory of War": Tribes and the Legitimate Use of Force in Iraq / Montgomery McFate -- Terrorist or Freedom Fighter? …”
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Armed groups : studies in national security, counterterrorism, and counterinsurgency /

Table of Contents: “…Dew -- Knowledge Transfer and Shared Learning among Armed Groups / James J. F. Forest -- The "Memory of War": Tribes and the Legitimate Use of Force in Iraq / Montgomery McFate -- Terrorist or Freedom Fighter? …”
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Hungry for ecstasy trauma, the brain, and the influence of the sixties / by Farber, Sharon Klayman

Table of Contents: “…-- 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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Hungry for ecstasy trauma, the brain, and the influence of the sixties / by Farber, Sharon Klayman

Table of Contents: “…-- 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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Empire and Identity in Guizhou : Local Resistance to Qing Expansion / by Weinstein, Jodi L.

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Empire and Identity in Guizhou : Local Resistance to Qing Expansion / by Weinstein, Jodi L.

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Globalization policies and issues

Table of Contents: “…Schmukler, Pablo Zoido and Marina Halac -- Neoliberal globailization and politics of institutional change in Turkey : towards a 'strategic-effective state'? / Sadik Ünay -- Globalization, religion, and nonviolence / K.K. …”
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Globalization policies and issues

Table of Contents: “…Schmukler, Pablo Zoido and Marina Halac -- Neoliberal globailization and politics of institutional change in Turkey : towards a 'strategic-effective state'? / Sadik Ünay -- Globalization, religion, and nonviolence / K.K. …”
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Noscendi Nilum cupido imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus / by Manolaraki, Eleni

Table of Contents: “…Egypt and the Nile in Julio-Claudian Rome: Lucan -- Pompey's Nile -- Beyond Pompey's Nile -- Acoreus -- Acoreus, author of the Nile -- Physics: the Nile between earth and sky -- Ethics: Lucan and Seneca on the Nile -- Poetics: the bard's song and the river of poetry -- The bard's song -- The river of poetry -- Flavian Rome: Egypt and the Nile in Flavian Rome -- Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica -- The Nile in Cyzicus -- The Nile in the Bosphorus -- The Nile in Aea -- The Nile on the Danube -- Statius' Thebaid -- The Nile on Perseus' hill -- The Nile on the Langia -- The Nile in Athens -- Statius' Siluae -- Producing Egypt, staging Isis -- Remapping the land: from Egypt to Rome and back again -- Relating to religion: Anubis, Phoenix, and Apis -- Revisiting history: Alexander and Cleopatra -- The Antonine and Severan periods: The Nile and Egypt in the Antonine and Severan periods -- The emperor's Nile: the younger Pliny and Fronto -- Plutarch's On Isis and Osiris -- Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana -- Sage and emperor on the Nile -- Reclaiming the Nile -- Imagining the Nile.…”
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Noscendi Nilum cupido imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus / by Manolaraki, Eleni

Table of Contents: “…Egypt and the Nile in Julio-Claudian Rome: Lucan -- Pompey's Nile -- Beyond Pompey's Nile -- Acoreus -- Acoreus, author of the Nile -- Physics: the Nile between earth and sky -- Ethics: Lucan and Seneca on the Nile -- Poetics: the bard's song and the river of poetry -- The bard's song -- The river of poetry -- Flavian Rome: Egypt and the Nile in Flavian Rome -- Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica -- The Nile in Cyzicus -- The Nile in the Bosphorus -- The Nile in Aea -- The Nile on the Danube -- Statius' Thebaid -- The Nile on Perseus' hill -- The Nile on the Langia -- The Nile in Athens -- Statius' Siluae -- Producing Egypt, staging Isis -- Remapping the land: from Egypt to Rome and back again -- Relating to religion: Anubis, Phoenix, and Apis -- Revisiting history: Alexander and Cleopatra -- The Antonine and Severan periods: The Nile and Egypt in the Antonine and Severan periods -- The emperor's Nile: the younger Pliny and Fronto -- Plutarch's On Isis and Osiris -- Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana -- Sage and emperor on the Nile -- Reclaiming the Nile -- Imagining the Nile.…”
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Is Judaism Democratic? : Reflections from Theory and Practice Throughout the Ages /

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Is Judaism Democratic? : Reflections from Theory and Practice Throughout the Ages /

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Au contraire! : figuring out the French / by Asselin, Gilles

Table of Contents: “…. -- With the self -- A cultural approach to the self and individualism -- Important American "self"-related notions and their French equivalents -- Privacy and protection of the self -- With the family -- The family circle -- Child rearing -- Personality development -- With the school -- The French passion for school -- French culture and French schooling -- Les grandes écoles -- With friends -- The language of friendship and love -- Making and being friends -- That's what friends are for -- Friendly suggestions -- With romance -- Lover or friend; The art of seduction -- The dating game and the couple -- You say tomatoes, I say les tomates -- With work -- I work, therefore I am -- My resume, your curriculum vitae -- Dignity and conformity in the workplace -- With politics -- Politics and everyday life -- The political spectrum -- Attitudes toward politicians -- Women in politics -- With religion -- Church and state -- Catholicism a la Francaise -- Other faiths -- French regions -- La Bretagne -- L'Alsace -- Iparralde -- Midi-Pyrénées -- With society -- French and American realities -- To be or not to be...perfect? …”

New Zealand's Muslims and multiculturalism by Kolig, Erich

Table of Contents: “…Allah is everywhere, even in New Zealand -- Field research -- Community, identity, diversity -- The beginnings -- Muslim representation -- Organisational functions and aims -- Outreach programmes -- The myth of Muslim unity -- Living among infidels -- Orientalism and Islamophobia -- Converts -- Students -- The right to be different : Muslims in the public sphere -- The New Zealand state and multiculturalism -- Secularisation and the right to religion -- Legal instruments -- 'Racial' harmony through interfaith activity -- Education and policy framework -- Democratic participation and public visibility of Muslims -- The difficulty in standardisation of Islamic exceptionalism -- Rivals for custodianship of public morality -- Integration and conflict discourses -- 'When in Rome do as the Romans do' -- The necessity of minority integration -- Conflict discourses -- Blasphemous libel and Islam -- Danish cartoons rock the world -- The Pope's gaffe -- Gender issues : women are equal but different -- Of gender separation and inequality -- Concepts of decency and modesty -- The Burqa case -- Hijab versus Burqa -- Whose authority? …”
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New Zealand's Muslims and multiculturalism by Kolig, Erich

Table of Contents: “…Allah is everywhere, even in New Zealand -- Field research -- Community, identity, diversity -- The beginnings -- Muslim representation -- Organisational functions and aims -- Outreach programmes -- The myth of Muslim unity -- Living among infidels -- Orientalism and Islamophobia -- Converts -- Students -- The right to be different : Muslims in the public sphere -- The New Zealand state and multiculturalism -- Secularisation and the right to religion -- Legal instruments -- 'Racial' harmony through interfaith activity -- Education and policy framework -- Democratic participation and public visibility of Muslims -- The difficulty in standardisation of Islamic exceptionalism -- Rivals for custodianship of public morality -- Integration and conflict discourses -- 'When in Rome do as the Romans do' -- The necessity of minority integration -- Conflict discourses -- Blasphemous libel and Islam -- Danish cartoons rock the world -- The Pope's gaffe -- Gender issues : women are equal but different -- Of gender separation and inequality -- Concepts of decency and modesty -- The Burqa case -- Hijab versus Burqa -- Whose authority? …”
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Given world and time temporalities in context /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Tyrus Miller -- Temporality in the long run -- Walking backwards into the future : the conception of time in the ancient Near East / Stefan Maul -- Epic remains : seeing and time in the odyssey / Karen Bassi -- Fourier and the Saint-Simonians on the shape of history / Jonathan Beecher -- World history according to Katrina / Wai Chee Dimocl -- Historical figures : mediations, citations, narrations -- The transfiguration of proper and improper sounds from Christian to Jewish environments / Ruth Ha Cohen -- Quoting from the past, or dealing with temporality / Britta Duelke -- Taking time : temporal representations and cultural politics / Richard Terdiman -- Image-times, image-histories, image-thinking / Richard Terdiman -- Documentary reenactments : a paradoxical temporality that is not one shapes of modernity / Bill Nichols -- Time and progress time as progress : an enlightened sermon by William Robertson / László Kontler -- Religious revivals : modernity and religion in Friedrich Nietzsche's anti-Christ and Richard Wright's the outsider / Andrew Wegley -- Hetero-temporalities of post-socialism / Lisa Rofel -- The politics of temporality Heidegger, Bourdieu, Benjamin, Derrida to the planetarium : from cosmos to history and back / David Hoy -- Eternity no more : Walter Benjamin on the eternal return / Tyrus Miller -- A microscope for time : what Benjamin and Klages, Einstein and the movies owe to distant stars / Karl Clausberg.…”
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Given world and time temporalities in context /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Tyrus Miller -- Temporality in the long run -- Walking backwards into the future : the conception of time in the ancient Near East / Stefan Maul -- Epic remains : seeing and time in the odyssey / Karen Bassi -- Fourier and the Saint-Simonians on the shape of history / Jonathan Beecher -- World history according to Katrina / Wai Chee Dimocl -- Historical figures : mediations, citations, narrations -- The transfiguration of proper and improper sounds from Christian to Jewish environments / Ruth Ha Cohen -- Quoting from the past, or dealing with temporality / Britta Duelke -- Taking time : temporal representations and cultural politics / Richard Terdiman -- Image-times, image-histories, image-thinking / Richard Terdiman -- Documentary reenactments : a paradoxical temporality that is not one shapes of modernity / Bill Nichols -- Time and progress time as progress : an enlightened sermon by William Robertson / László Kontler -- Religious revivals : modernity and religion in Friedrich Nietzsche's anti-Christ and Richard Wright's the outsider / Andrew Wegley -- Hetero-temporalities of post-socialism / Lisa Rofel -- The politics of temporality Heidegger, Bourdieu, Benjamin, Derrida to the planetarium : from cosmos to history and back / David Hoy -- Eternity no more : Walter Benjamin on the eternal return / Tyrus Miller -- A microscope for time : what Benjamin and Klages, Einstein and the movies owe to distant stars / Karl Clausberg.…”
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The Oxford illustrated history of medieval England /

Table of Contents: “…Nelson -- Conquered England, 1066-1215 / George Garnett -- Late medieval England, 1215-1485 / Chris Given-Wilson -- The economy and society / Christopher Dyer -- Piety, religion, and the church / Henrietta Leyser -- The visual arts / Nicola Coldstream -- Language and literature / Derek Pearsall.…”

The Oxford illustrated history of medieval England /

Table of Contents: “…Nelson -- Conquered England, 1066-1215 / George Garnett -- Late medieval England, 1215-1485 / Chris Given-Wilson -- The economy and society / Christopher Dyer -- Piety, religion, and the church / Henrietta Leyser -- The visual arts / Nicola Coldstream -- Language and literature / Derek Pearsall.…”

Opening doors gender equality and development in the Middle East and North Africa /

Table of Contents: “…-- Women in the workforce -- Women in business -- Women in politics -- What explains the mena puzzle? -- Religion is too simplistic an explanation -- Oil endowments alone cannot explain the paradox either -- Social norms and the legal framework limit women's agency -- Social and cultural norms constrain women's roles outside the home -- Evolving norms and the invisible hand of marriage -- Equality under the law and its enforcement is critical for women's agency -- Legal systems differ widely and derive from multiple sources -- Legal constraints to women's agency in MENA -- Economic incentives dampen participation in the workforce -- A social contract underpinned by a generous but costly welfare state -- Extensive public sector employment with generous compensation -- Generous subsidies encourage women to stay at home -- State regulation and intervention in the market -- Heavy investment in education, but not the kind that businesses want -- Unequal access to entrepreneurship opportunities -- The time for reform is now -- Aspirations are changing -- As education levels increase, female labor force participation will likely increase -- A demographic gift? …”
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