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That eminent tribunal judicial supremacy and the constitution /

Table of Contents: “…Casey / Michael Zuckert -- Antijural jurisprudence : the vices of the judges enter a new stage / Hadley Arkes -- Judicial power and the withering of civil society / George W. …”
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The uncensored Boris Godunov the case for Pushkin's original Comedy, with annotated text and translation / by Dunning, Chester S. L., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Reconsidering history and expanding the canon / Caryl Emerson and Chester Dunning -- The problem of Boris Godunov : a review of interpretations and the so-called canonical text / Chester Dunning -- The exiled poet-historian and the creation of his comedy / Chester Dunning -- The tragic fate of Pushkin's comedy / Chester Dunning -- The world of laughter in Pushkin's comedy / Sergei Fomichev -- Tragedy, comedy, carnival, and history on stage / Caryl Emerson -- The ebb and flow of influence : muffling the comedic in the move toward print / Caryl Emerson -- Boris Godunov and the Russian literary canon / Caryl Emerson and Chester Dunning.…”
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Performance, iconography, reception studies in honour of Oliver Taplin /

Table of Contents: “…: theatre and society in the early fifth-century West / Barbara Kowalzig -- The Odyssey as performance poetry / Oswyn Murray -- Performance and rivalry : Homer, Odysseus, and Hesiod / Adrian Kelly -- Performing the will of Zeus : the [actual symbol not reproducible] and the scope of early Greek epic / William Allan -- Theatrical Furies : thoughts on Eumenides / Pat Easterling -- Aeschylus' Eumenides, chronotopes, and the 'aetiological mode' / Martin Revermann -- Star choruses : Eleusis, Orphism, and new musical imagery and dance / Eric Csapo -- The last word : ritual, power, and performance in Euripides' Hiketides / Athena Kavoulaki -- Intimate relations : children, childbearing, and parentage on the Euripidean stage / Froma I. Zeitlin -- Character and characterization in Greek tragedy / Bernd Seidensticker -- Scenes at the door in Aristophanic comedy / Peter Brown -- The poetics of the mask in old comedy / David Wiles -- Putting performance into focus / Robin Osborne -- The Greek gem : a token of recognition / Alfonso Moreno -- Image and representation in the pottery of Magna Graecia / François Lissarrague -- Wagner's Greeks : the politics of Hellenism / Simon Goldhill -- Resurrecting ancient Greece in Nazi Germany : the Oresteia as part of the Olympic Games in 1936 / Erika Fischer-Lichte -- Can the Odyssey ever be tragic? …”
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A journey into Ireland's literary revival by Felton, R. Todd, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The Irish literary revival : a geography of the public and the private -- County Galway : home among the swallows -- The Aran Islands : a little corner on the face of the world -- County Mayo : a queer lot these times -- County Sligo : the land of heart's desire -- County Wicklow : south and west and south again -- Dublin : the public stage -- Timeline.…”
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Soft power superpowers cultural and national assets of Japan and the United States /

Table of Contents: “…-Japanese relations : a vehicle of soft power in historical perspective / Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu -- American pop culture as soft power : movies and boradcasting / Matthew Fraser -- Wielding soft power : the key stages of transmission and reception / Kondo Seiichi -- Official soft power in practice : U.S. public diplomacy in Japan / William G. …”
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Source code China the new global hub of IT outsourcing / by Eltschinger, Cyrill, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Outsourcing: the most important management trend of the past 75 years -- Outsourcing as a business force -- Made in China -- Setting the stage -- Battle of the titans: the global outsourcing landscape -- North America -- Europe -- South America -- Africa and the Middle East -- Asia-Pacific -- BRIC nations -- China: your essential shore -- Big numbers from a big country -- Government and politics -- Planes, trains, and automobiles -- Educating the masses -- Your essential shore -- The early years -- Made in China -- From pagers to market supremacy -- The Internet arrives -- Not yet a green light -- India outsources to China -- Risks and concerns -- Strategies that work -- What works? …”
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Drive business performance enabling a culture of intelligent execution / by Aziza, Bruno, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…The six stages of performance management -- Managing performance -- Monitor -- Analyze -- Plan -- Pull it all together: what's your organization's stage?…”
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Heart failure a clinical nursing handbook / by Nicholson, Christopher, RGN

Table of Contents: “…Definitions -- Epidemiology -- Causes -- Outcomes -- Physiology -- Clinical assessment -- Investigations -- Treatment exxentials -- Exercise training -- Medicines -- Invasive treatments -- End-stage heart failure -- Policy framework -- Service issues.…”
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In search of the lost feminine decoding the myths that radically reshaped civilization / by Barnes, Craig S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : rewriting the story of western civilization -- Minoan artifacts challenge the inevitability of patriarchy -- The mystery of Minoan civilization -- An expectation of rebirth or immortality -- Time as a circle rather than a line -- The troubling question of war -- Crete and the issue of female sexuality -- The ecstatic and the divine as inseperable -- Five values dramatically at odds with patriarchy -- The collapse of the Minoan world -- The invasions of 1600 BCE : a war culture emerges -- The Theran explosion : the loss of faith in Mother Earth -- The growth of trade : the diminishment of daughters -- The great civil war over marriage : the end of women-centered culture in the eastern Mediterranean -- A warrior civilization emerges -- Four hundred years of chaos sets the stage -- Values shaped by storytellers -- An exaggerated feminine is made monstrous -- Mother Earth is overthrown -- Jason resists the many shapes of seductive women -- Odysseus rejects Calypso -- Homer poses the choice between love and property -- Clytemnestra is sacrificed on the altar of marriage -- Marriage destroys the mother-daughter bond -- Daughters die for civic good -- A multitude of myths to tame, punish, and disparage women -- Oedipus, the lost son -- A glorious monument enshrining the subordination of women -- Biblical patriarchs match the Greek story -- Objections to the warrior civilization -- Jesus carries forward the Eleusian symbolism of grain and wine -- Jesus takes on the threat of military destruction -- Ancient beliefs spring up among the Celts -- A short-lived Islamic challenge -- The metaphor of the holy grail -- Devil talk and witch burnings -- Closing the book on the patriarchy -- History as a choice of stories -- Women coming home to dignity -- The declining utility of war -- Another story all along.…”
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Without precedent the life of Susie Marshall Sharp / by Hayes, Anna R.

Table of Contents: “…Family -- Formative years -- University of North Carolina School of Law -- False start -- Sharp & Sharp -- Politics and public life -- Appointment to Superior Court -- Judge Sharp, presiding -- Ambition -- Theory and practice -- The road to the Supreme Court -- Taking the veil -- Opinions -- Federal job proposals -- Out of court -- Chief justice election -- Chief justice -- Equal rights amendment -- Stepping off the stage.…”
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Queens & power in medieval and early modern England

Table of Contents: “…Elston -- "Most godly heart fraight with al mercie" : queens' mercy during the reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth I / Sarah Duncan -- Princess Elizabeth travels across her kingdom : in life, in text, and on stage / Carole Levin -- Marriage à la mode, 1559 : Elisabeth de Valois, Elizabeth I, and the changing practice of dynastic marriage / John Watkins -- Queen Solomon : an international Elizabeth I in 1569 / Linda S. …”
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Providence lost by Lloyd, Genevieve

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Euripides, philosopher of the stage -- The world of men and gods -- Agreeing with nature : fate and providence in stoic ethics -- Augustine : divine justice and the "ordering" of evil -- The philosopher and the princess : Descartes and the philosophical life -- Living with necessity : Spinoza and the philosophical life -- Designer worlds -- Providence as progress -- Providence lost.…”
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Nature and history in American political development a debate / by Ceaser, James W.

Table of Contents: “…Rakove -- Replacing foundations with staging: "second-story" concepts and American political development / Nancy L. …”
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Biliary tract and gallbladder cancer diagnosis and therapy /

Table of Contents: “…Smith -- Pathological staging of gallbladder and biliary tract cancer / Chen Liu and James M. …”
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Rethinking the Western understanding of the self by Steinvorth, Ulrich

Table of Contents: “…The cause and content of modernity -- The second-stage rationality in history -- Economic rationality -- The Cartesian self in the twentieth century -- Value spheres. …”
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From hot war to cold the U.S. Navy and national security affairs, 1945-1955 / by Barlow, Jeffrey G., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Wartime organizational changes in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations -- Initial challenges : postwar and demobilization planning -- The Navy and unification -- The National Security Act achieved -- Preparing for a new enemy -- War ends in the Pacific -- Troubles emerge in postwar China, 1945-1946 -- Assessing and responding to the Soviet naval threat -- Adjusting to the National Military Establishment -- Living in "interesting times" -- Slugging it out on Capitol Hill -- Events in the western Pacific -- Troubles on the Korean Peninsula -- Deciding to fight -- Defending NATO Europe : planning during the initial stages -- The Eisenhower national security structure -- Rethinking national strategy -- Coping with the new look -- A crisis abroad and a CNO's departure.…”
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Stanford in turmoil campus unrest, 1966-1972 / by Lyman, Richard W.

Table of Contents: “…The Sterling-Terman era -- Early Vietnam stirrings, Dean Allen's departure, David Harris's arrival, and Stanford's first sit-in -- How I became provost -- The stage is set -- The Martin Luther King Jr. crisis -- The first Old Union sit-in -- Classified research, SRI, and the coming of Ken Pitzer -- AEL, Encina, and calling the police -- Ken Pitzer's departure -- My presidency begins, and the Franklin Case is initiated -- The Franklin Case and after -- Trying to make sense of the campus unrest.…”
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From despair to hope HOPE VI and the new promise of public housing in America's cities /

Table of Contents: “…Baron -- HOPE VI and the new urbanism / Peter Calthorpe -- HOPE VI and the deconcentration of poverty / Alexander Polikoff -- Setting the stage : early HOPE VI redevelopments -- An overview of HOPE VI revitalization grant projects / Lora Engdahl -- New Holly, Seattle / Lora Engdahl -- The villages of Park DuValle, Louisville / Lora Engdahl -- Broader impacts of the model -- The Atlanta blueprint : transforming public housing citywide / Renée Lewis Glover -- HOPE VI, neighborhood recovery, and the health of cities / Margery Austin Turner -- Has HOPE VI transformed residents' lives? …”
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Bluebeard a reader's guide to the English tradition / by Hermansson, Casie

Table of Contents: “…: Bluebeard on the comic stage -- Bluebeard in Victorian arts and letters -- Bluebeard in the English twentieth century -- Bluebeard in crisis -- Modernist Bluebeard -- Contemporary Bluebeard -- Epilogue: Bluebeard today.…”
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Troubling violence a performance project / by Carver, M. Heather

Table of Contents: “…Act I. The academic stage -- Character development -- First run -- Breaking the fourth wall -- Performing violence -- Act II. …”
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