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Illusions in motion media archaeology of the moving panorama and related spectacles / by Huhtamo, Erkki

Table of Contents: “…Preface: The Formation of a Panoramaniac -- Introduction: Moving Panorama - a Missing Medium -- The Incubation Era: Antecedents and Anticipations -- Large as Life, and Moving: The Peristrephic Panorama -- Rolling Across the Stage: The Moving Panorama and the Theatre -- Transformed By The Light: The Diorama and the "dioramas" -- The Panoramania, or The Mid-Century Moving Panorama Craze -- Panoramania in Practice: Albert Smith and his Moving Panoramas -- The Moving Panorama Performance: an Excavation -- Intermedial Tug of War, or Panoramas and Magic Lanterns -- Sensory Bombardment: a Medium's Final Fanfares -- The Discursive Transfiguration of the Moving Panorama -- Conclusion: From Panoramas to Media Culture.…”
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Lupus nephritis frontiers and challenges / by Sheashaa, Hussein A.

Table of Contents: “…Immunopathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus nephritis -- Pathogenicity of autoantibodies -- BK virus and systemic lupus erythematosus -- Diagnosis of SLE -- Histological classification of lupus nephritis lesions -- Classification of lupus glomerulonephritis (LGN) -- Additional pathological features associated with SLE -- Lupus nephritis activity and chronicity indices -- Diagnosis and monitoring of renal disease -- End-stage renal disease and systemic lupus erythematosus -- Treatment of lupus nephritis -- Renal transplantation and SLE summary -- Lupus nephritis in children -- Outcome of LN in children -- Drug-induced lupus erythematosus and LN -- SLE and DILE.…”
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Early modern religious communities in East-Central Europe ethnic diversity, denominational plurality, and corporative politics in the principality of Transylvania, 1526-1691 / by Keul, István

Table of Contents: “…Frameworks -- The region and its inhabitants -- Political and economic developments in the 15th and 16th centuries -- The Reformation : stages and processes -- Under Catholic princes -- Around the turn of the 16th century -- The rule of Gabor Bethlen -- The principality's golden age and decline -- The final years -- Denominational toleration and confessionalization.…”
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A manager's guide to virtual teams by Zofi, Yael S. (Yael Sara)

Table of Contents: “…The three stages of virtual team development -- Setting up your virtual team -- Context communication : definitions and challenges -- Developing accountability in a virtual world -- Defusing conflict and overcoming roadblocks -- Getting deliverables out the door -- Cross-cultural communications and virtual teams -- Virtual teams and the future.…”
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Crime and culture in early modern Germany by Wiltenburg, Joy

Table of Contents: “…List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Crime and society : patterns in deed and word -- Law and the rational hero -- Crime into text -- Crime and Christianity -- Family murders -- Training the imagination : crime and the inner life -- Staging the lamentable theater : crime, reason, and emotion in the seventeenth century -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Shock and awe : American exceptionalism and the imperatives of the spectacle in Mark Twain's A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's court / by Spanos, William V.

Table of Contents: “…American exceptionalism: a genealogy -- A Connecticut Yankee as American Jeremiad: the historical context -- Americanist criticism of A Connecticut Yankee: a critical history -- Staging the spectacle: a contrapuntal reading of A Connecticut Yankee -- A Connecticut Yankee and America's "war on terror": thinking the spectacle.…”
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Shock and Awe : American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court / by Spanos, William V.

Table of Contents: “…American Exceptionalism : A Genealogy -- A Connecticut Yankee as American Jeremiad : The Historical Context -- Americanist Criticism of A Connecticut Yankee : A Critical History -- Staging the Spectacle : A Contrapuntal Reading of A Connecticut Yankee -- A Connecticut Yankee and America’s "War on Terror" : Thinking the Spectacle.…”
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Worldview and mind religious thought and psychological development / by Webb, Eugene, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The power of worldviews -- The idea of a psychology of worldviews -- Jean Piaget and Bernard Lonergan -- From psychological stages to orders of consciousness -- Death anxiety and symbols of immortality -- Mimetic theory -- From psychology to theology -- The dynamic diversity of religious worldviews -- Religion and personhood -- Dialogical faith -- Conclusion: The future of religion.…”
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Art as politics re-crafting identities, tourism, and power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia / by Adams, Kathleen M., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Carvings, Christianity, and CHiPs -- Competing Toraja images of identity -- The carved tongkonan -- Mortuary effigies and identity politics -- Ceremonials, monumental displays, and museumification -- Toraja icons on the national and transnational stage -- Carving new conceptions of community in an era of religious and ethnic violence -- From Toraja heritage to world heritage.…”
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Hey presto! Swift and the quacks / by Ormsby-Lennon, Hugh

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Si vulgus vult decipi, decipiatur -- Classis stage-itinerant -- From gabble and harangue to quack's bill -- Universal improvement of mankind -- Ejaculating the soul -- Aping the medicine show: Mencken, Salmon, Yworth -- Doctor and presto -- Dumfounding -- Apollonius of Tyana -- Beginnings and endings, terrae filius on Grub Street.…”
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Increase and multiply governing cultural reproduction in early modern England / by Glimp, David

Table of Contents: “…"Making up people" : the English Commonwealth and the writing of populations -- Defending poetic generation : Sir Philip Sidney and the aesthetics of educational reproduction -- Staging government : Shakespearean theater and the government of cultural reproduction -- The educational genesis of men : puritan reform and John Milton's Of education -- Paradisal arithmetic : Paradise Lost and the genesis of populations.…”
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The cultural politics of slam poetry race, identity, and the performance of popular verse in America / by Somers-Willett, Susan B. A., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…On page and stage: slam poetry as a genre -- Poetry and the people: the cultural tensions of American popular verse in performance -- I sing the body authentic: slam poetry and the cultural politics of performing identity -- "Commercial niggas like me": spoken word poetry, hip-hop, and the racial politics of going mainstream.…”
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The Sound of Innovation : Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution / by Nelson, Andrew J.

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Setting the Stage; 3 The First Movement; 4 Tension and Release; 5 Duet for Stanford and Yamaha; 6 From Exposition to Development; 7 Plucking the Golden Gate Bridge; 8 Recapitulation and Variations; 9 Coda; Appendix: Interviews Conducted by Author; Notes; References; Index.…”
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Becoming sinners Christianity and moral torment in a Papua New Guinea society / by Robbins, Joel, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Part one : becoming sinners -- From salt to the law : contact and the early colonial period -- Christianity and the colonial transformation of regional relations -- Revival, second stage conversion, and the localization of the Urapmin Church -- Part two : living in sin -- Contemporary Urapmin in millennial time and space -- Willfulness, lawfulness, and Urapmin morality -- Desire and its discontents : free time and Christian morality -- Rituals of redemption and technologies of the self -- Millennialism and the contest of values -- Christianity, cultural change, and the moral life of the hybrid.…”
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Colonial rosary the Spanish and Indian missions of California / by Lake, Alison

Table of Contents: “…Native California before the missions -- All the world's a stage for Spain -- Exploration and settlement -- Establishment of the missions -- The messengers of St. …”
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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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Yes, but not quite encountering Josiah Royce's ethico-religious insight / by Tunstall, Dwayne A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Encountering Josiah Royce's ethico-religious insight -- Josiah Royce's personalism -- The "conception of God" debate : setting the stage for Royce's personalism -- Haunted by Howison's criticism : the birth of Royce's late philosophy -- Royce's late philosophy -- Royce's personalism -- Extending Royce' s ethico-religious insight : Royce on the beloved community, agape, and human temporality -- Royce's ethico-religious insight : a hypothetical postulate? …”
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Fractured borders reading women's cancer literature / by DeShazer, Mary K.

Table of Contents: “…"The night-side of life" : analyzing cancer literature from feminist perspectives -- "Skinnied on the left side like a girl" : embodying cancer on the feminist stage -- Entering "The house of lightning" : resistance and transformation in U.S. women's breast cancer poetry -- Dying into the lite : popular fiction, cancer, and the romance of women's relationships -- "Floating out on a yacht called Eros" : memory, desire, and death in women's experimental cancer fiction -- "Entering cancerland" : self-representation, commonality, and culpability in women's autobiographical narratives.…”
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Con Thien the Hill of Angels / by Coan, James P.

Table of Contents: “…Roots of conflict -- Before the Americans came -- The generals -- McNamara's wall -- The DMZ war unfolds -- Nguyen of the North versus PFC Jones -- Setting the stage -- The bloody month of May -- Battle for Con Thien -- DMZ invasion -- Summer in hell -- Buffalo -- Running the gauntlet -- General offensive, phase I -- The "Thundering Third" -- Into the valley of death -- The siege -- 3/9's turn in the barrel -- Monsoon misery -- Living in the "V" ring -- The "Magnificent Bastards" -- Kentucky -- Winter battles : 1967-68 -- After Tet -- Parting shots.…”
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