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European identity and culture narratives of transnational belongings /

Table of Contents: “…Kennedy -- National cultures, social belonging and questions on European identity / Sophie Duchesne -- Modeling the process of political and civic participation in the EU : digital and traditional media in Spain / Homero Gil de Zúñiga y Navajas -- Culture, communication and currency : constructing a public sphere for the euro / Matthias Kaelberer -- The Europeanisation of terror : consuming place, tradition and authenticity / Marion Demossier -- Islamoskepticism and its counter-narratives : transnational identity, cultural wars, and religion's place / Raymond Taras -- Tourism, transnationalism, and the construction of everyday life in Europe / Dario Gaggio -- Conclusion / Rebecca Friedman and Markus Thiel.…”
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European identity and culture narratives of transnational belongings /

Table of Contents: “…Kennedy -- National cultures, social belonging and questions on European identity / Sophie Duchesne -- Modeling the process of political and civic participation in the EU : digital and traditional media in Spain / Homero Gil de Zúñiga y Navajas -- Culture, communication and currency : constructing a public sphere for the euro / Matthias Kaelberer -- The Europeanisation of terror : consuming place, tradition and authenticity / Marion Demossier -- Islamoskepticism and its counter-narratives : transnational identity, cultural wars, and religion's place / Raymond Taras -- Tourism, transnationalism, and the construction of everyday life in Europe / Dario Gaggio -- Conclusion / Rebecca Friedman and Markus Thiel.…”
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings When is Death? /

Table of Contents: “…Investigating Hitler’s Remains and Survival Rumours in Post-War Germany; Caroline Sharples --  Chapter 7. Death’s Impossible Date; Douglas J. …”
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The Workers' Health Fund in Eretz Israel : Kupat Holim, 1911-1937 / by Shvarts, Shifra

Table of Contents: “…Health Funds in the First World War -- 4. The Health System Under British Military Government -- 5. …”
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Jonathan Edwards a life / by Marsden, George M., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…A time to be born -- The overwhelming question -- The Pilgrim's Progress -- The harmony of all knowledge -- Anxieties -- "A low, sunk estate and condition" -- On Solomon Stoddard's stage -- And on a wider stage -- The mighty works of God and of Satan -- The politics of the Kingdom -- "A city set on a hill" -- God "will revive the flame again, even in the darkest times" -- The hands of God and the hand of Christ -- "He that is not with us is against us" -- Heavenly Elysium -- Conservative revolutionary -- A house divided -- A model town no more -- Colonial wars -- Thy will be done -- I am born to be a man of strife -- The crucible -- The mission -- Frontier struggles -- Wartice -- Against an "almost inconceivably pernicious" doctrine -- Original sin "in this happy age of light and liberty" -- Challenging the presumptions of the Age -- The unfinished masterworks -- The transitory and the enduring.…”
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings When is Death? /

Table of Contents: “…Investigating Hitler’s Remains and Survival Rumours in Post-War Germany; Caroline Sharples --  Chapter 7. Death’s Impossible Date; Douglas J. …”
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The Workers' Health Fund in Eretz Israel : Kupat Holim, 1911-1937 / by Shvarts, Shifra

Table of Contents: “…Health Funds in the First World War -- 4. The Health System Under British Military Government -- 5. …”
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The forgotten majority : German merchants in London, naturalization, and global trade, 1660-1815 / by Schulte Beerb�uhl, Margrit

Table of Contents: “…Boom and bankruptcy -- Insurance and trade at London's German trade houses -- London's early insurance business -- Networking Europe with the Americas and Asia -- The bankruptcy trend and the naturalized subjects' bankruptcies -- Waves of bankruptcy during the Coalition Wars -- The size of failed trade houses during the era of the Coalition Wars -- Muilman & Nantes -- Theophilus Blanckenhagen -- Persent & Bodecker -- Oom, Hoolboom, Knoblock & Co. and Hippius & Co. -- Estates of the failed -- Certificate of conformity and the ware broker : starting all over -- Commodity brokers and the freedom of the city -- Conclusion.…”
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The forgotten majority : German merchants in London, naturalization, and global trade, 1660-1815 / by Schulte Beerb�uhl, Margrit

Table of Contents: “…Boom and bankruptcy -- Insurance and trade at London's German trade houses -- London's early insurance business -- Networking Europe with the Americas and Asia -- The bankruptcy trend and the naturalized subjects' bankruptcies -- Waves of bankruptcy during the Coalition Wars -- The size of failed trade houses during the era of the Coalition Wars -- Muilman & Nantes -- Theophilus Blanckenhagen -- Persent & Bodecker -- Oom, Hoolboom, Knoblock & Co. and Hippius & Co. -- Estates of the failed -- Certificate of conformity and the ware broker : starting all over -- Commodity brokers and the freedom of the city -- Conclusion.…”
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Red and blue nation? characteristics and causes of America's polarized politics. Vol. 1 /

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Medicine, charity and mutual aid the consumption of health and welfare in Britain, c.1550-1950 /

Table of Contents: “…Pressed down by want and afflicted with poverty, wounded and maimed in war or worn down with age? : cathedral almsmen in England 1538-1914 / Ian Atherton, Eileen McGrath and Alannah Tomkins -- From common rights to cold charity : enclosure and poor allotments in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Sylvia Pinches -- Kinship and welfare in early modern England : sometimes charity begins at home / Sheila Cooper -- Deaf children and charitable education in Britain 1790-1944 / Anne Borsay -- Joseph Townend and the Manchester Infirmary : a plebeian patient in the industrial revolution / Stuart Hogarth -- Investigating the "deserving" poor : charity and the voluntary hospitals in nineteenth-century Birmingham / Jonathan Reinarz -- Choice and the children's hospital : Great Ormond Street Hospital patients and their families 1855-1900 / Andrea Tanner -- Mental health charity for the middling sort : Holloway Sanatorium 1885-1900 / Anne C. …”
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Reinventing foreign aid

Table of Contents: “…Three new insitutions designed to improve aid effectiveness / Steven Radelet and Ruth Levine -- Competing with central planning : marketplaces for international aid / Dennis Whittle and Mari Kuraishi -- Placing enterprise and business thinking at the heart of the war on poverty / Kurt Hoffman -- Avoid hubris: and other lessons for reformers / John McMillan -- Seven deadly sins: reflections on donor fallings / Nancy Birdsall.…”
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The values campaign? the Christian right and the 2004 elections /

Table of Contents: “…Merolla, and David Beer -- Ohio: the Bible and the Buckeye State / John C. Green -- Michigan: a war on the home front? / James M. Penning and Corwin E. …”
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Resentment's virtue Jean Améry and the refusal to forgive / by Brudholm, Thomas, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…-- Anger, Ubuntu, and social harmony -- Boosterism of forgiveness -- Layers and remainders -- Nested resentments -- Acknowledging remainders : the constitutional court -- Tansition to part two -- Jean Améry on resentment and reconciliation -- Contextualizing "ressentiments" -- From South Africa to post-war Germany -- Jean Améry : life and works -- Beyond guilt and atonement -- Germany, 1945-1965 -- Reading "ressentiments" -- Opening moves -- From clarification to justification -- Reimagining ressentiment -- The origins of Améry's ressentiment -- Reforming ressentiment -- Facing the irreversible -- The zustand passage -- The twisted sense of time -- The absurd demand -- Changing the past or its significance--to the present? …”
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Psychological interventions in times of crisis

Table of Contents: “…Alpert -- Psychosocial assistance to civilians in war : the Bosnian experience / Ragnhild Dybdahl -- Play and adaptation in traumatized young children and their caregivers in Israel / Esther Cohen --…”
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Words, worlds, and material girls language, gender, globalization /

Table of Contents: “…Gaudio -- Gender and bilingualism in the new economy / Monica Heller -- African women in Catalan language courses : struggles over class, gender and ethnicity in advanced liberalism / Joan Pujolar -- Gender, multilingualism and the American war in Vietnam / Binh Nguyen -- Shop talk : branding, consumption and gender in American middle-class youth interaction / Mary Bucholtz -- Cosmopolitanism and linguistic capital in China : language, gender and the transition to a globalized market economy in Beijing / Qing Zhang -- Gender and interaction in a globalizing world : negotiating the gendered self in Tonga / Niko Besnier.…”
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Virtue ethics in the Middle Ages commentaries on Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics, 1200 -1500 /

Table of Contents: “…Tracey -- Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas -- In war and peace : the virtue of courage in the writings of Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas / Jörn Müller -- Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas on magnanimity / Tobias Hoffmann -- Aquinas's interpretation of the Aristotelian virtue of justice and his doctrine of natural law / Matthias Perkams -- The late thirteenth century -- Heroic virtue in the commentary tradition on the Nicomachean ethics in the second half of the thirteenth century / Iacopo Costa -- Utrumfelix indigeat amicis : the reception of the Aristotelian theory of friendship at the Arts Faculty in Paris / Marco Toste -- The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries -- The cardinal virtues in medieval commentaries on the Nicomachean ethics, 1250-1350 / István P. …”
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The Heimat abroad the boundaries of Germanness /

Table of Contents: “…Reagin -- Tenuousness and tenacity: the Volksdeutschen of Eastern Europe, World War II and the Holocaust / Doris L. Bergen -- The politics of homeland : irredentism and reconciliation in the policies of German Federal governments and expellee organizations toward ethnic German minorities in Central and Eastern Europe, 1949-99 / Stefan Wolff.…”
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The provisional pulpit modern presidential leadership of public opinion / by Rottinghaus, Brandon, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Questions and quandaries of presidential leadership -- The constrained presidency: a conditional theory of presidential leadership -- Presidential (non-) leadership of public opinion -- Successful presidential leadership of public opinion -- Case studies of successful leadership (domestic policy) -- Nixon implements wage and price controls -- Reagan and the negotiation over the budget -- Clinton and the budget debate -- Case studies of unsuccessful leadership (domestic policy) -- Kennedy's Medicare proposal -- Ford attempts to 'whip inflation now' -- Reagan 'reforms' social security -- Case studies of successful leadership (foreign policy) -- Evolution of Johnson's Vietnam policy -- Carter on the Panama Canal treaties -- Bush and the initiation of the Gulf War -- Case studies of unsuccessful leadership (foreign policy) -- Nixon (temporarily) escalates Vietnam -- Reagan presses for 'contra' funding -- Clinton withdraws from Somalia -- Implications for leadership and the public presidency -- Epilogue: Presidents 43 and 44 -- Appendix A. …”
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The inner quarters and beyond women writers from Ming through Qing /

Table of Contents: “…McLaren -- Retrieving the past: women editors and women's poetry, 1636-1941 / Ellen Widmer -- The unseen hand: contextualizing Luo Qilan and her anthologies / Robyn Hamilton -- From private life to public performances: the constituted memory and (re)writings of the early-Qing woman Wu Zongai / Wei Hua -- Women writers and gender boundaries during the Ming-Qing transition / Wai-yee Li -- Chan friends: poetic exchanges between gentry women and Buddhist nuns in seventeenth-century China / Beata Grant -- War, violence, and the metaphor of blood in Tanci narratives by women authors / Siao-chen Hu -- The lady and the state: women's writings in times of trouble during the nineteenth century / Susan Mann -- Imagining history and the state: Fujian guixiu (genteel ladies) at home and on the road / Guotong Li -- Xue Shaohui and her poetic chronicle of late Qing reforms / Nanxiu Qian -- Conclusion: Literary authorship by late imperial governing-class Chinese women and the emergence of a "minor literature".…”
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