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Salome's modernity Oscar Wilde and the aesthetics of transgression / by Dierkes-Thrun, Petra, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Dancing on the threshold : Wilde's Salome between symbolist, decadent, and modernist aesthetics -- "The brutal music and the delicate text"? Richard Strauss's operatic modernism in Salome -- Perverts in court : Maud Allan's the vision of Salome and the Pemberton-Billing trial -- Alla Nazimova's Salome : an historical phantasy by Oscar Wilde -- Portraits of the artist as a gay man and Salome as a feminist icon : Wilde and Salome in popular culture since the 1980s.…”
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The Class : Living and Learning in the Digital Age / by Livingstone, Sonia M., Sefton-Green, Julian

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : an invitation to meet the class -- Living and learning in the digital age -- A year of fieldwork -- Networks and social worlds -- Identities and relationships -- Life at school : from routines to civility -- Learning at school : measuring and levelling the self -- Life at home together and apart -- Making space for learning in the home -- Learning to play music : class, culture, and taste -- Life trajectories, social mobility, and cultural capital -- Conclusions : conservative, competitive or connected.…”
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The Place of Devotion : Siting and Experiencing Divinity in Bengal-Vaishnavism / by Sarbadhikary, Sukanya, 1983-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : siting and experiencing divinity in Bengal-Vaishnavism -- Discovering Gupta-Vrindavan : finding selves and places in the storied landscape -- Imagining in Gupta-Vrindvan : experiencing the self and emotions in the mind-heart landscape -- Bodying Gupta-Vrindavan : experiencing the self and emotions in the corporeal space -- Serving Gupta-Vrindavan : devotional service in the physical place and the workings of the "International society" -- Listening to Vrindavan : chanting and musical experience as embodying a devotional soundscape -- Conclusion.…”
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Melodies Unheard : Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry / by Hecht, Anthony, 1923-2004

Table of Contents: “…Paul's Epistle to the Galatians -- On rhyme -- The music of forms.…”
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William Sloane Coffin, Jr a holy impatience / by Goldstein, Warren

Table of Contents: “…The great war, Greenwich Village, and the Upper East Side -- Early years -- Europe : music and war -- Russians, White and Red -- The education of a warrior-priest -- From education to vocation -- "Bus-riding chaplain" -- Preaching the word : Coffin in demand -- Wading into the big muddy -- Moments of truth : civil disobedience and the draft -- Marriage and family life -- Activist episodes -- Interregnum -- Down by the riverside -- "Flunking retirement" -- A holy impatience.…”
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The birthday book by Censorinus

Table of Contents: “…-- Seed and conception -- Pregnancy -- The fetus -- Growth in the womb -- The origins of astrology -- The teachings of the pythagoreans -- Harmony and music -- Harmony in the womb -- Harmony in the mind and body -- Harmony in the universe -- Crisis years and the length of life -- The praise of caerellius -- Time and eternity -- Ages and centuries. the Roman secular games -- The great year -- The year -- The calendar -- The history of the world -- Months -- Days -- Hours.…”
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The Class : Living and Learning in the Digital Age / by Livingstone, Sonia M., Sefton-Green, Julian

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : an invitation to meet the class -- Living and learning in the digital age -- A year of fieldwork -- Networks and social worlds -- Identities and relationships -- Life at school : from routines to civility -- Learning at school : measuring and levelling the self -- Life at home together and apart -- Making space for learning in the home -- Learning to play music : class, culture, and taste -- Life trajectories, social mobility, and cultural capital -- Conclusions : conservative, competitive or connected.…”
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The Place of Devotion : Siting and Experiencing Divinity in Bengal-Vaishnavism / by Sarbadhikary, Sukanya, 1983-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : siting and experiencing divinity in Bengal-Vaishnavism -- Discovering Gupta-Vrindavan : finding selves and places in the storied landscape -- Imagining in Gupta-Vrindvan : experiencing the self and emotions in the mind-heart landscape -- Bodying Gupta-Vrindavan : experiencing the self and emotions in the corporeal space -- Serving Gupta-Vrindavan : devotional service in the physical place and the workings of the "International society" -- Listening to Vrindavan : chanting and musical experience as embodying a devotional soundscape -- Conclusion.…”
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Melodies Unheard : Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry / by Hecht, Anthony, 1923-2004

Table of Contents: “…Paul's Epistle to the Galatians -- On rhyme -- The music of forms.…”
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Informing America's policy on illegal drugs what we don't know keeps hurting us /

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Education and delinquency summary of a workshop /

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Classical and modern thought on international relations from anarchy to cosmopolis / by Jackson, Robert H.

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To kill the king post-traditional governance and bureaucracy / by Farmer, David John, 1935-

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Medicare prospective payment and the shaping of U.S. health care by Mayes, Rick, 1969-

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Cyber racism white supremacy online and the new attack on civil rights / by Daniels, Jessie, 1961-

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Divided by a common language factional conflict in late Northern Song China / by Levine, Ari Daniel

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Law, literature, and the transmission of culture in England, 1837-1925 by Frank, Cathrine O.

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Toxic exposures contested illnesses and the environmental health movement / by Brown, Phil

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Prosperity for all consumer activism in an era of globalization / by Hilton, Matthew

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Beyond friend and foe the politics of critical theory / by Heins, Volker, 1957-

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