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Conversations with Barry Hannah / by Hannah, Barry

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Artists and intellectuals and the requests of power

Table of Contents: “…Kühn -- East Asia -- Philosophers in Japan in the period of World War II : reflecting the philosophy of Nishida against the background of social phenomena / Hisaki Hashi -- Mao und die Intellektuellen / Harro von Senger -- Two musicians of the twentieth century -- Hans Pfitzner : ein Genie und sein Verhältnis zur Gesellschaft / J.P. …”
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Diotima's children German aesthetic rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing / by Beiser, Frederick C., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- The poets' war -- Leipzig versus Zurich -- Misreadings of the dispute -- The point in dispute -- Baumgarten's science of aesthetics -- The father of aesthetics -- A philosophical poetics -- A science of beauty -- Theory of sensation -- Analysis of beauty -- Status of aesthetics -- An ambiguous legacy -- Winckelmann and neo-classicism -- Winckelmann as philosopher -- Historical influence -- Imitating the ancients -- A neo-classical aesthetic -- Ancients versus moderns -- Aesthetic theory -- Painting and allegory -- Eros and Dionysus -- Mendelssohn's defense of reason -- The guardian of Enlightenment -- The analysis of sensation -- The grin of Silenus -- Second thoughts -- Taming the sublime -- Reckoning with Burke -- Encounter with Jean-Jacques -- The claims of genius -- First clash with Hamann -- Abelard and Fulbert's brief spat -- The three-faculty theory -- Lessing and the Reformation of aesthetic rationalism -- Lessing and the rationalist tradition -- Genius and rules -- The irrationality of genius -- Rationalism and sentimentalism in Lessing's ethics -- Laokoon : thesis and inductive argument -- Laokoon : the deductive argument -- Laokoon : its hidden agenda.…”
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The theory and practice of international criminal law essays in honor of M. Cherif Bassiouni /

Table of Contents: “…Joyner -- Secret detentions, secret renditions, and forced disappearances during the Bush Administration's "War" on Terror / Jordan J. Paust -- Cherif Bassiouni and the 780 commission : the gateway to the era of accountability / Michael P. …”
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Wendell Berry life and work /

Table of Contents: “…/ Ed McClanahan -- Wendell Berry on war and peace ; or, Port William versus the empire / Bill Kauffman -- Words addressed to our condition exactly / Scott Russell Sanders -- The best noise in the world / Donald Hall -- Wendell Berry's political vision / Kimberly K. …”
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On the fringes of diplomacy influences on British foreign policy, 1800-1945 /

Table of Contents: “…Otte -- Services rendered : Arminius Vambéry and British diplomacy / Keith Hamilton -- The double agent's tale : Vincent Kraft and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1915-18 / Antony Best -- Writers, the clergy, and the "diplomatization" of culture : sub-structures of Anglo-American diplomacy, 1820-1914 / Melanie Hall and Erik Goldstein -- "An eagle whose wings are not always easy to clip" : Walter Burton Harris / John Fisher -- Gunboats, independence movements and war : three incidents involving missionaries on the fringes of diplomacy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Hamish Ion -- The cultural diplomacy of Sir James Rennell Rodd / Saho Matsumoto-Best -- Diplomatic light and shade : Sir Eric Phipps and Anglo-French relations, 1922-1928 / Gaynor Johnson -- "An excellent conning-tower" : John Buchan on the fringes of diplomacy / Keith Neilson -- "Miserably kept running in low gear" : Lord Lloyd at the periphery of politics and diplomacy, 1930 to 1940 / Louise Atherton.…”
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African American life in the Georgia lowcountry the Atlantic world and the Gullah Geechee /

Table of Contents: “…Singleton -- A spirit of enterprise : the African American challenge to the Confederate project in Civil War-era Savannah / Jacqueline Jones -- "The great cry of people is land!" …”
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The Russian twentieth-century short story a critical companion /

Table of Contents: “…A Collective Analysis / Robin Milner-Gulland -- Testimony as Art: Varlam Shalamov's "Condensed Milk" / Leona Toker -- The Writer as Criminal: Abram Tertz's "Pkhents" / Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy -- Vasilii Shukshin's "Cut Down to Size" (Srezal) and the Question of Transition / Diane Ignashev Nemec -- Carnivalization of the Short Story Genre and the Künstlernovelle: Tatiana Tolstaia's "The Poet and the Muse" / Erica Greber -- Down the Intertextual Lane: Petrushevskaia, Chekhov, Tolstoy / Lyudmila Parts -- "The Lady with the Dogs," by Lyudmila Petrushevskaia / Translated by Krystyna Anna Steiger -- Russian Postmodernist Fiction and Mythologies of History: Viacheslav Pietsukh's "The Central-Ermolaevo War" and Viktor Erofeev's "Parakeet" / Mark Lipovetsky -- Psychosis and Photography: Andrei Bitov's "Pushkin's Photograph" / Sven Spieker -- The "Traditional Postmodernism" of Viktor Pelevin's Short Story "Nika" / Olga Bogdanova.…”
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Examination of the U.S. Air Force's aircraft sustainment needs in the future and its strategy to meet those needs

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Gender meets genre in postwar cinemas

Table of Contents: “…/ Adam Segal -- Up close and personal: faces and names in Casualties of war / Deborah Thomas -- Gender hyperbole and the uncanny in the horror film: The shining / Katie Model -- Genre and gender transnational. …”
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Celebrating insurrection the commemoration and representation of the nineteenth-century Mexican pronunciamiento /

Table of Contents: “…Warren -- Refrescos, iluminaciones, and te deums : celebrating pronunciamientos in Jalisco in 1823 and 1832 / Rosie Doyle -- The political life of executed pronunciados : the representation and memory of José Márquez and Joaquín Gárate's 1830 pronunciamiento of San Luis / Kerry McDonald -- Memory and manipulation : the lost cause of the Santiago Imán pronunciamiento / Shara Ali -- Salvas, cañonazos, y repiques : celebrating the pronunciamiento during the U.S.-Mexican War / Pedro Santoni -- Contemporary verdicts on the pronunciamiento during the early national period / Melissa Boyd -- The crumbling of a "hero" : Ignacio Comonfort from Ayutla to Tacubaya / Antonia Pi-Suñer Llorens -- Porfirio Díaz and the representations of the second of April / Verónica Zárate Toscano -- Juan Bustamante's pronunciamiento and the civic speeches that condemned it : San Luis Potosí, 1868-1869 / Flor de María Salazar Mendoza -- "As empty a piece of gasconading stuff as I ever read" : the pronunciamiento through foreign eyes / Will Fowler.…”
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Gambling on ore the nature of metal mining in the United States, 1860-1910 / by Curtis, Kent A.

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Localizing transitional justice : interventions and priorities after mass violence /

Table of Contents: “…: ex-combatants and the Sierra Leone experiment / Rosalind Shaw -- Reconciliation grown bitter? : war, retribution, and ritual action in northern Uganda / Sverker Finnström -- Silence and dialogue : Burundians' alternatives to transitional justice / Ann Nee and Peter Uvin -- "Like Jews waiting for Jesus" : posthumous justice in post-genocide Rwanda / Lars Waldorf -- Weaving a braid of histories : local post-armed conflict initiatives in Guatemala / Laura Arriaza and Naomi-Roht-Arriaza -- Dealing with the past when the conflict is still present : civil society truth-seeking initiatives in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Ron Dudai and Hillel Cohen -- Afterword : elevating transitional local justice or crystallizing global governance? …”
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Hazardous future : disaster, representation and the assessment of risk /

Table of Contents: “…: the 2011 Lorca earthquake in the media -- Hurricane Katrina : contesting singularity in treme -- Flooded with memories : risk cultures, the big flood of 1953 and the visual -- Resonance of World War two -- Authors -- Index of names.…”
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Conversations with Barry Hannah / by Hannah, Barry

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Pentecostalism and Witchcraft Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia /

Table of Contents: “…Turning the Tide: Visionary Children and Spiritual War on a Vanuatu Island.- 10. Learning to Believe in Papua New Guinea -- 11. …”
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Routes into abyss : coping with the crises in the 1930s /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Helmut Konrad and Wolfgang Maderthaner -- Crisis and workers' movements / Ferdinand Lacina -- The significance of February, 1934 in Austria in both national and international context / Helmut Konrad -- Avalanches of spring : the Great War, modernism, and the rise of Austro-fascism / Roger Griffin -- Der italienische Faschismus im Spannungsfeld zwischen Reaktion und Moderne / Karin Priester -- Hitler's dictatorship : his role as "leader" in the Nazi regime / Hans Mommsen -- The Second Spanish Republic : the challenges facing a democracy in troubled times / Vicent San Rozal�en -- The crisis in the 19301/2s and the rise to power of the Swedish social democrats / Bengt Sch�ullerqvist -- The United States in the Great Depression : was the fascist door open? …”
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Born from lament : the theology and politics of hope in Africa / by Katongole, Emmanuel, 1960-

Born from lament : the theology and politics of hope in Africa / by Katongole, Emmanuel, 1960-

Historicizing Fat in Anglo-american Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Huff -- "As Horace fat" in a thin land : Ben Jonson's experience and strategy / Anne Brumley -- American excess : cultural representations of Lillian Russell in turn-of-the-century America / Cookie Woolner -- Greedy bastards : fat kids, class war, and the ideology of classlessness / Alex Evans -- Resisting fatphobia in the critical tradition of Venus and Adonis / Elena Levy-Navarro -- "It's not over till the fat lady sings" : the weight of the opera diva / Serena Guarracino -- Fat's no four-letter word : fat feminism and identity politics in the 1970s and 1980s / Greta Rensenbrink.…”
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