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The courtesan's arts cross-cultural perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…/ Lesley Downer -- In the service of the nation : geisha and Kawabata Yasunari's Snow country / Miho Matsugu -- Going to the courtesans : transit to the pleasure district of Edo Japan / Timon Screech -- Who's afraid of Giulia Napolitana? Pleasure, fear, and imagining the arts of the Renaissance courtesan / Guido Ruggiero -- The twentieth-century "disappearance" of the Gisaeng during the rise of Korea's modern sex-and-entertainment industry / Joshua D. …”
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Desertion and the American soldier, 1776-2006 by Fantina, Robert

Table of Contents: “…The Revolutionary War -- Corporal punishment -- Arduous military duty -- Lack of food -- Lack of clothing and related provisions -- Illness -- Lack of pay -- Homesickness -- Economic need -- British enticement -- British prisoners of war -- Bounty-jumping -- Ambivalence to the cause -- Fear -- Self-preservation -- 2. The War of 1812 -- Problems with pay -- Lack of supplies -- Lack of food -- Illness -- Poor leadership -- Inadequate weaponry -- 3. …”
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Invitation to an execution a history of the death penalty in the United States /

Table of Contents: “…Mallicoat -- Conflicts of interest: business, death, and the bird court / Michael A. Pierson -- Fear, capital punishment, and order: the construction and use of capital punishment statutes in early modern England and seventeenth-century New England / Patrick Callaway -- Murder most foul: Native Americans and the evolution of the death penalty / Vanessa Gunther -- The death penalty in federal law / Lonnie Wilson -- Ovines and bovines / Ion Puschila -- Amnesty International and the death penalty: toward global abolition / Alexander Karn -- The celluloid execution: Hollywood films and capital punishment / Susanne Teepe Gaskins -- The death penalty in the south / Michael A. …”
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Place and displacement in the narrative worlds of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar by Tcherepashenets, Nataly

Table of Contents: “…Place in Borges's stories and the irony of revelation -- Familiar places, hidden challenges : revelation present and dissipated in "El Aleph" -- Dreaming in circles, facing the ruins : the mystery and limitations of the human self in "Las ruinas circulares" -- The illusion of power : the magic disc, human vulnerability, and the divine presence in "El disco" -- The infinite book : fear and longing -- Place as displacement in Cortázar's Hopscotch -- Towards the challenge and the refuge : Oliveira's Paris and the capital cities in nineteenth century novels -- Borges's voice in Cortázar's Buenos Aires -- Talita's dream : between Borgesean and Carnivalesque worlds -- The Carnivalesque city and the anxiety of alienation -- Oliveira's homelessness : displacement as "no placement" -- Fictional and 'real' places : convergences and divergences -- The 'exotic' or/and the 'familiar' : "Someone's land" and the traditions of literary utopia -- Challenging conventions and breaking illusions : the city and the language in 62 : modelo para armar -- Revisiting the Minotaur : heterotopia as place and mode of representation in Borges's "La casa de Asterion" -- Boarding the ship: the unresolved mystery of Cortázar's "Malcolm" -- Displacement, dreams and archive in Borges's essays -- Dreaming with Freud : displacement, art and magic in "El sueño de Coleridge" -- The repression of archive and the archivization of repression in "La muralla y los libros" -- Shaping the word : displacement and dialogical discourse in Borges's "La muralla y los libros" and in Kafka's "The Great Wall of China" -- Displacement and the divided self in Cortázar's stories -- Crossing the bridge : psychological division and the writing of discontent -- Beyond the door : rediscovering the multiple self -- Divided lives, overlapping spaces, and the impossibility of self-deception.…”
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True stories of censorship battles in America's libraries

Table of Contents: “…/ Susanne Caro -- Developing the public library's genealogy Euchee/Yuchi collection / Cathlene Myers Mattix -- The respect of fear / Amy Crump -- Sweet movie / Sydne Dean -- Censorship avoided : student activism in a Texas school district / Robert Farrell -- I read it in the paper / Hollis Helmeci -- Uncle Bobby's wedding / James LaRue -- A community divided / Kristin Pekoll -- The author visit that should have been / Karin Perry -- One of those not so hideous stories of a book challenge / Kathryn Prestidge -- A serial killer visits the library / Paul Hawkins -- Books, bars, and behavior : censorship in correctional libraries / Erica MacCreaigh -- The ghost of Halloween past / Kathy Barco -- The neophyte in the new age / Rosemary J. …”
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The courtesan's arts cross-cultural perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…/ Lesley Downer -- In the service of the nation : geisha and Kawabata Yasunari's Snow country / Miho Matsugu -- Going to the courtesans : transit to the pleasure district of Edo Japan / Timon Screech -- Who's afraid of Giulia Napolitana? Pleasure, fear, and imagining the arts of the Renaissance courtesan / Guido Ruggiero -- The twentieth-century "disappearance" of the Gisaeng during the rise of Korea's modern sex-and-entertainment industry / Joshua D. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Desertion and the American soldier, 1776-2006 by Fantina, Robert

Table of Contents: “…The Revolutionary War -- Corporal punishment -- Arduous military duty -- Lack of food -- Lack of clothing and related provisions -- Illness -- Lack of pay -- Homesickness -- Economic need -- British enticement -- British prisoners of war -- Bounty-jumping -- Ambivalence to the cause -- Fear -- Self-preservation -- 2. The War of 1812 -- Problems with pay -- Lack of supplies -- Lack of food -- Illness -- Poor leadership -- Inadequate weaponry -- 3. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Invitation to an execution a history of the death penalty in the United States /

Table of Contents: “…Mallicoat -- Conflicts of interest: business, death, and the bird court / Michael A. Pierson -- Fear, capital punishment, and order: the construction and use of capital punishment statutes in early modern England and seventeenth-century New England / Patrick Callaway -- Murder most foul: Native Americans and the evolution of the death penalty / Vanessa Gunther -- The death penalty in federal law / Lonnie Wilson -- Ovines and bovines / Ion Puschila -- Amnesty International and the death penalty: toward global abolition / Alexander Karn -- The celluloid execution: Hollywood films and capital punishment / Susanne Teepe Gaskins -- The death penalty in the south / Michael A. …”
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Place and displacement in the narrative worlds of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar by Tcherepashenets, Nataly

Table of Contents: “…Place in Borges's stories and the irony of revelation -- Familiar places, hidden challenges : revelation present and dissipated in "El Aleph" -- Dreaming in circles, facing the ruins : the mystery and limitations of the human self in "Las ruinas circulares" -- The illusion of power : the magic disc, human vulnerability, and the divine presence in "El disco" -- The infinite book : fear and longing -- Place as displacement in Cortázar's Hopscotch -- Towards the challenge and the refuge : Oliveira's Paris and the capital cities in nineteenth century novels -- Borges's voice in Cortázar's Buenos Aires -- Talita's dream : between Borgesean and Carnivalesque worlds -- The Carnivalesque city and the anxiety of alienation -- Oliveira's homelessness : displacement as "no placement" -- Fictional and 'real' places : convergences and divergences -- The 'exotic' or/and the 'familiar' : "Someone's land" and the traditions of literary utopia -- Challenging conventions and breaking illusions : the city and the language in 62 : modelo para armar -- Revisiting the Minotaur : heterotopia as place and mode of representation in Borges's "La casa de Asterion" -- Boarding the ship: the unresolved mystery of Cortázar's "Malcolm" -- Displacement, dreams and archive in Borges's essays -- Dreaming with Freud : displacement, art and magic in "El sueño de Coleridge" -- The repression of archive and the archivization of repression in "La muralla y los libros" -- Shaping the word : displacement and dialogical discourse in Borges's "La muralla y los libros" and in Kafka's "The Great Wall of China" -- Displacement and the divided self in Cortázar's stories -- Crossing the bridge : psychological division and the writing of discontent -- Beyond the door : rediscovering the multiple self -- Divided lives, overlapping spaces, and the impossibility of self-deception.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

True stories of censorship battles in America's libraries

Table of Contents: “…/ Susanne Caro -- Developing the public library's genealogy Euchee/Yuchi collection / Cathlene Myers Mattix -- The respect of fear / Amy Crump -- Sweet movie / Sydne Dean -- Censorship avoided : student activism in a Texas school district / Robert Farrell -- I read it in the paper / Hollis Helmeci -- Uncle Bobby's wedding / James LaRue -- A community divided / Kristin Pekoll -- The author visit that should have been / Karin Perry -- One of those not so hideous stories of a book challenge / Kathryn Prestidge -- A serial killer visits the library / Paul Hawkins -- Books, bars, and behavior : censorship in correctional libraries / Erica MacCreaigh -- The ghost of Halloween past / Kathy Barco -- The neophyte in the new age / Rosemary J. …”
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Cancer, Research, and Educational Film at Midcentury : The Making of the Movie <i>Challenge: Science Against Cancer</i> / by Cantor, David, 1957-

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Policemen of the Tsar : Local Police in an Age of Upheaval / by Abbott, Robert J. (Robert James), 1945-

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Wealth and poverty in early church and society /

Table of Contents: “…Hasselhoff -- Wealth, poverty, and the value of the person : some notes on the hymn of the pearl and its early Christian context / Edward Moore -- Egypt in late antiquity -- Widening the eye of the needle : wealth and poverty in the works of Clement of Alexandria / Annewies van den Hoek -- Care for the poor, fear of poverty, and love of money : Evagrius Ponticus on the monk's economic vulnerability / David Brakke -- Wine for widows : papyrological evidence for Christian charity in late antiquity Egypt / Adam Serfass -- Rich and poor in sophronius of Jerusalem's Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John / Susan R. …”
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International handbook of penology and criminal justice /

Table of Contents: “…Schafer and Clemens Bartollas -- What can police do to reduce crime, disorder, and fear? / David Weisburd and John E. Eck -- When states do not extradite : gaps in the global web of formal social control / William F. …”
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Policemen of the Tsar : Local Police in an Age of Upheaval / by Abbott, Robert J. (Robert James), 1945-

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Cancer, Research, and Educational Film at Midcentury : The Making of the Movie <i>Challenge: Science Against Cancer</i> / by Cantor, David, 1957-

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Treatment of childhood disorders

Table of Contents: “…Wells and Julie S. Kotler -- Fears and anxieties / Bruce F. Chorpita and Michael A. …”
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Religion and diversity in Canada

Table of Contents: “…Beaman and Peter Beyer -- From far and wide : Canadian religious and cultural diversity in global/local context / Peter Beyer -- Québec and reasonable accommodation : uses and misuses of public consultation / Pauline Côté -- Fearing planes, trains, and automobiles : sociophobics and the disincentive to religious diversity / Douglas E. …”
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Religion and diversity in Canada

Table of Contents: “…Beaman and Peter Beyer -- From far and wide : Canadian religious and cultural diversity in global/local context / Peter Beyer -- Québec and reasonable accommodation : uses and misuses of public consultation / Pauline Côté -- Fearing planes, trains, and automobiles : sociophobics and the disincentive to religious diversity / Douglas E. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view