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BRICS and the New American Imperialism : Global rivalry and resistance /

Table of Contents: “…Fossil capital, imperialism, and the global corporate elite / William K. Carroll -- Water wars in the world and South Africa / Ferrial Adam -- Subimperial BRICs enter the Bolsonaro-Putin-Modi-Xi-Ramaphosa era / Patrick Bond -- A road to development?…”
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Events that changed Great Britain, from 1066 to 1714

Table of Contents: “…Mitchell -- The rise of Parliament, 1295-c.1461 / by Mark Vaughn -- The Hundred Years' War, 1337-1453 / by Doug Biggs -- The War of the Roses, 1455-1485 / by Kristen Walton -- The English Reformation, 1529-1536 / by Kenneth Campbell -- Elizabethan England, 1558-1603 / by Connie Evans -- The Civil War and Restoration, 1642-1660 / by William T. Walker -- The plague and the fire, 1665-1666 / by Robert Landrum -- The Glorious Revolution and aftermath, 1688-1689 / by Steven E. …”
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The underdevelopment of development : essays in honor of Andre Gunder Frank /

Table of Contents: “…Wolf -- Underdevelopment : culture and geography / Philip Wagner -- The debt crisis revisited / Otto Kreye -- Developmentalism : an eurocentric hoax, delusion, and chicanery / Herb Addo -- Latin American underdevelopment : past, present, and future / Theotonio Dos Santos -- Asia in the world-system / George Aseniero -- On the origins of the economic catastrophe in Africa / Samir Amin -- How to think about world history / William H. …”

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Ecological Form : System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire /

Table of Contents: “…Electric Dialectics: Delany's Atlantic Materialism; 11. Satire's Ecology; Afterword: They Would Have Ended by Burning Their Own Globe; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Index.…”
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The French right between the wars : political and intellectual movements from conservatism to fascism /

Table of Contents: “…: a study of the reception of the 1930s dictatorships in three French periodicals / Laurent Kestel -- Salvation, satire, and solidarity : right-wing culture in interwar France / Jessica Wardhaugh -- Beyond left and right, and the politics of the Third Republic : a conversation / William D. …”
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Preferential trade agreements a law and economics analysis /

Table of Contents: “…Marchetti -- A model article XXIV : are there realistic possibilities to improve it? / William J. Davey.…”
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Borrowing to live consumer and mortgage credit revisited /

Table of Contents: “…Barr, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Eldar Shafir -- Interventions in mortgage default : policies and practices to prevent home loss and lower costs / Amy Crews Cutts and William A. …”
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The Obama presidency a preliminary assessment /

Table of Contents: “…Watson -- Rhetoric and image / Casey Malone Maugh -- Obama's Lincoln: image to ideology / William D. Pederson -- The optimist and the realist / R. …”
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The drama of possibility experience as philosophy of culture / by McDermott, John J. (John Joseph), 1932-

Table of Contents: “…: the philosophy of William James -- Environing -- Poem : professional tin cup -- A relational world : the significance of the thought of William James and John Dewey for global culture -- Nature nostalgia and the city : an American dilemma -- Space, time, and touch : philosophical dimensions of urban consciousness -- Glass without feet : dimensions of urban aesthetics -- Turning -- Poem : waiting -- Why bother : is life worth living? …”
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Regionalism and the humanities

Table of Contents: “…Kinbacher -- Architecture crosses region : building in the Grecian style / Patrick Lee Lucas -- Societies and soirees : musical life and regional character in the South Atlantic / Michael Saffle -- List of contributors -- Index.…”
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Empirical theology in texts and tables qualitative, quantitative and comparative perspectives /

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Tropical visions in an age of empire

Table of Contents: “…Views and visions of the tropical world / Felix Driver, Luciana Martins -- "On the spot": traveling artists and the iconographic inventory of the world, 1769-1859 / Claudio Greppi -- The stimulations of travel: Humboldt's physiological construction of the tropics / Michael Dettelbach -- "The struggle for luxuriance": William Burchell collects tropical nature / Luciana Martins, Felix Driver -- Dominica and Tahiti: tropical islands compared / Peter Hulme -- Imagining the tropical colony: Henry Smeathman and the termites of Sierra Leone / Starr Douglas, Felix Driver -- Matthew Fontaine Maury's "sea of fire": hydrography, biogeography, and providence in the tropics / D. …”
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White scholars/African American texts

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Crucibles of hazard : mega-cities and disasters in transition /

Table of Contents: “…Parker -- Lima, Peru : underdevelopment and vulnerability to hazards in the city of the kings / Anthony Oliver-Smith -- Social vulnerability to disasters in Mexico : an assessment method / Sergio Puente -- Natural hazards of the San Francisco Bay mega-city : trial by earthquake, wind, and fire / Rutherford H. Platt -- There are worse things than earthquakes : hazard vulnerability and mitigation capacity in Greater Los Angeles / Ben Wisner -- Environmental hazards and interest group coalitions : Metropolitan Miami after hurricane Andrew / William D. …”

The uncollected Baudrillard by Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007

Table of Contents: “…Young Baudrillard -- The Novels of Italo Calvino -- Review of William Styron's Set This House on Fire -- Germany: Is it a New World? …”
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Open spaces : voices from the Northwest /

Table of Contents: “…Groundtruthing: an introduction / Penny Harrison -- Writing West / John Daniel -- Otey Island / William Kittredge -- Rhapsody for blackberries / Sandra Dorr -- Ballet in bifocals / Linda Besant -- How do musicians do what they do? …”
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Physiology and biochemistry of extremophiles

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Trophic cascades predators, prey, and the changing dynamics of nature /

Table of Contents: “…[et al.] -- Consumer control by megafauna and fire / William Bond -- Alternative states in ecosystems / Marten Scheffer -- Theoretical perspectives on trophic cascades : current trends and future directions / Robert D. …”
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Folklore in all of us, in all we do /

Table of Contents: “…Mosel-Talavera -- Madame Blackley : seer of south Texas / Henry Wolff, Jr -- La Llorona's ancestry : crossing cultural boundaries / Gloria Duarte -- Burning brightly : the Easter fires of maternal necessity / Donna Melitio -- Five stands off bottom / Lew Schnitz -- Dispatches from the electronic front lines / Charles Williams -- A rural mail carrier / Milt McAfee (as told by Ben Mead) -- The trials and tribulations of a dirt road country doctor / Mildred Boren Sentell -- Joe Fitzgerald, nurseryman and philosopher / Mary Joe (Fitzgerald) Clendenin -- Water woes and water ways : tales of Texas engineer John B. …”
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