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The new Yoder /

Table of Contents: “…Schlabach -- John Howard Yoder's systematic defense of Christian pacifism / Nancey Murphy -- The war of the Lamb : postmodernity and Yoder's eschatological genealogy of morals / P. …”
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Remembering and Disremembering the Dead Posthumous Punishment, Harm and Redemption over Time / by Tomasini, Floris

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Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe by Skinner, Patricia

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Writing Southern politics contemporary interpretations and future directions /

Table of Contents: “…Moreland -- Southern political party development since World War II / Charles Prysby -- Who wants to party? activists and changing Southern politics / John J. …”
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Youth gangs in literature by Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Hinton's The outsiders -- Vietnam and civil rights : Conroy's The lords of discipline -- Prep schools and Watergate : The chocolate war -- Family disintegration in the 1980's : Myers' Scorpions -- 1960s Los Angeles : Bonham's Durango Street -- South Central Los Angeles : Scott's Monster -- Barrio gangs of the 60s and 70s : Rodriguez' Always running -- Filipino Americans : Ascalon's American son -- Vietnamese gangs and skinheads : Garland's Shadow of the dragon -- Chinese gangs : Mahoney's The two Chinatowns.…”
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The McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona an O. K. Corral obituary / by Johnson, Paul Lee, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Preface: Fame from the barrel of a gun -- The clan McClaughry -- The McLaurys in Iowa -- War and the failed marriage -- William R. McLaury -- Buchanan County, Iowa -- The McLaury brothers in Arizona -- Will McLaury, attorney-at-law -- The Arizona frontier -- "My name is well known in Arizona" -- Border crime -- Politics of Arizona and Tombstone -- "More havoc than Apaches" -- The vexed question -- "The grave situation on the border" -- Vengeful schemes -- Summer storms -- Loss in Fort Worth -- Deadly ambush -- "Glad you are on the alert" -- Open hostilities -- Indian summer -- "Throw up your hands" -- "Hurled into eternity" -- A charge of murder -- "This don't bring back my dead brothers -- "The cause of the murder was this" -- "I do not like your letter" -- "And tales of broken faith" -- "I knew they were all down on you" -- Habeas corpus -- "They would shoot a fellow to see him fall" -- "None of the results is satisfactory" -- Epilogue: Three McLaury brothers.…”
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Demystifying China new understandings of Chinese history /

Table of Contents: “…Imperial China -- China's Age of Seafaring / Ruth Mostern -- Civil Service Examinations / Elif Akcetin -- Xinjiang at the Center / Judd Kinzley -- Tibet / Elliott Sperling -- Modern China's Borders / Andres Rodriguez -- The Opium War and China's "Century of Humiliation" / Julia Lovell -- Part IV. …”
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Signs of power in Habsburg Spain and the New World

Table of Contents: “…Laguna -- Iusgentiumand just war : the problem of representation in Inca Garcilaso's Royal commentaries / Jos�e A. …”
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Sentimentalism in nineteenth-century America literary and cultural practices /

Table of Contents: “…Desired and Imagined Loss as Sympathetic Identification: Bachelor Melancholia in Donald Grant Mitchell's Reveries of a Bachelor / Maglina Lubovich -- The Collaborative Construction of a Death-Defying Cryptext: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass / Adam Bradford -- "Such Verses for My Body Let Us Write": Civil War Song, Sentimentalism, and Whitman's Drum-Taps / Robert Arbour -- Psychological Sentimentalism: Consciousness, Affect, and the Sentimental Henry James / George Gordon-Smith -- Afterword / Mary Louise Kete.…”
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Atlantic Bonds : A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa / by Lindsay, Lisa A.

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Power and Principle : The Politics of International Criminal Courts / by Rudolph, Christopher, 1966-

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Workers' Struggles, Past and Present : A "Radical America" Reader /

Table of Contents: “…Philip Randolph and the foundations of black American socialism -- Organizing against sexual harassment -- Defending the no-strike pledge: CIO politics during World War II -- Holding the line: Miners' militancy and the strike of 1978.…”
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Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered / by Briggs, John Channing, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : The mind of the persuader -- Rhetorical contexts -- The Lyceum address : "On the perpetuation of our political institutions" -- The temperance address : moral reform and emancipation -- The speech on the War with Mexico and the eulogy for Zachary Taylor : " injustice and heroic virtue " -- The eulogy for Henry Clay : persuasion and/or principle -- The Kansas-Nebraska speech : popular sovereignty and self-government -- The "house divided" speech : the logic of hopeful resolve -- Lecture on discoveries and inventions : self-government and inventions : self-government and arts of literacy -- The Milwaukee address : thorough farming and self-government -- The Cooper Union address : the empirical wager -- Presidential eloquence and political religion : governing "in the providence of God" -- The farewell address : "Let us confidently hope" -- The first inaugural, the Gettysburg address, and the second inaugural : providence and persuasion -- Postscript. …”
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Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe / by Grashoff, Udo, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Squats across the Empire: A comparison of squatting movements in post-Second World War UK and Australia -- 11. Failed takeover: The phenomenon of right-wing squatting -- 12. …”
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Eleven days in hell the 1974 Carrasco prison siege in Huntsville, Texas / by Harper, William T., 1929-

Table of Contents: “…-- "I could have grabbed his gun" -- "Meet my demands or prepare for war" -- "I'm the executioner." -- "I demand that an armored truck be waiting" -- "If he'd only send out Linda Woodman. -- "I'll see y'all soon" -- "It's over" -- Epilogue.…”
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Climate dependence and food problems in Russia, 1900-1990 the interaction of climate and agricultural policy and their effect on food problems / by Dronin, N. M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: climate and agriculture in Russia -- The availability and reliability of statistical agricultural data for Russia -- The pre-revolutionary period (before 1916) -- The post-revolutionary decade (1917-1928) -- The Stalin era (1929-1953) -- The post-Stalin period (after 1953) -- Summary -- The pre-revolutionary period (1900-1916) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The post-revolutionary period (1917-1928) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The collectivization of Soviet agriculture (1929-1940) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The post-war recovery period (1945-1954) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The virgin lands campaign (1955-1964) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The period of agricultural intensification (1965-1975) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The period of agricultural stagnation (1976-1990) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary.…”
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Dystopian fiction east and west universe of terror and trial / by Gottlieb, Erika

Table of Contents: “…The answers of utopia, tragedy, and dystopia -- Nineteenth-century precursors of the dystopian vision -- The dictator behind the mask : Zamiatin's We, Huxley's Brave new world, and Orwell's Ninteenth eighty-four -- Dictatorship without a mask : Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Vonnegut's Player piano, and Atwood's The handmaid's tale -- The writer on trial: socialist realism and the exile of speculative fiction -- The dystopia of revolutionary justice : Serge's Conquered city, Zazubrin's "The chip," and Rodionov's Chocolate -- The legalization of terror: Platonov's The foundation pit, Ribakov's Children of the Arbat, and Koestler's Darkness at noon -- Terror in war, terror in peace: Grossman's Life and fate, Tertz Sinyavski's The trial begins, and Daniel's This is Moscow speaking -- Collective paranoia: the persecutor and the persecuted: Andzrejewski, Déry, Fuks, Hlasko, Örkény, Vaculik, and Mrozek -- Kafka's ghost: The trial as theatre: Klima's The castle, Karvas's The big wig, and Havel''s Memorandum -- From terror to entropy : the downward spiral: Konwicki's A minor apocalypse, Déry's Mr G.A. in X and Zinoviev's The radiant future -- Speculative fiction returns from exile : Dystopian vision with a sneer: Voinovich's Moscow 2042, Aksyonov's The island of Crimea, Dalos's 1985, and Moldova's Hitler in Hungary -- Dystopia East and West: conclusion.…”
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Lyrics and borrowed tunes of the American temperance movement

Table of Contents: “…Home, sweet home ; Long, long ago ; A life on the ocean wave ; Old Dan Tucker ; The old oaken bucket ; Wait for the wagon ; Additional lyrics -- Civil War songs. My Maryland ; The battle hymn of the republic ; Dixie land ; When Johnny comes marching home ; Battle cry of freedom ; Tramp! …”
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Faulkner and his contemporaries

Table of Contents: “…Kenneth Holditch -- Cather's war and Faulkner's peace : a comparison of two novels, and more / Merrill Maguire Skaggs -- "Getting good at doing nothing" : Faulkner, Hemingway, and the fiction of gesture / Donald M. …”
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North Korea the politics of regime survival /

Table of Contents: “…Scalapino -- Japanese-North Korean relations under the Koizumi government / Hong Nack Kim -- Sino-North Korean relations in the post-Cold War world / Samuel S. Kim -- Russo-North Korean relations under Kim Jong Il / Peggy Falkenheim Meyer -- North Korea-South Korea relations in the Kim Jong Il era / Seongji Woo -- (Bi-) multilateral approaches to defusing nuclear crisis: beyond the six-party talks as peace strategy / Young Whan Kihl -- Why hasn't North Korea collapsed? …”
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