Speak : a short history of languages / Tore Janson. by Janson, Tore, 1936-

Table of Contents: “…; ""Chapter 10: How Languages Are Born -or Made""; ""Slave trade, language mutilation, and language birth""; ""Are creole languages languages?""; ""The remarkable similarities""; ""Creole languages and language change""; ""Afrikaans -- Germanic and African""; ""Afrikaans -- dialect or Creole language?""…”
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British diplomacy in Turkey, 1583 to the present : a study in the evolution of the resident embassy / by G.R. Berridge. by Berridge, Geoff

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Maps -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part A -- Evolution -- Chapter One -- 'The English Palace' -- The early embassy -- Home ownership8212;and its woes -- The difficult birth of the Smith-Barry embassy -- Mixed reviews and another fire -- The embassy 'fleet' -- Chapter Two -- Diplomats -- The ambassador -- The domestic family -- The official family -- The importance of size -- Chapter Three -- Dragomans -- Raising the cry for 'natural-born Englishmen' -- Oriental secretary and fi rst dragoman: "two bad public servants instead of one good one" -- The weakening of the dragomanate -- Levantine rearguard -- No career for the dragomans -- Chapter Four -- Consuls -- Creation of the network -- Trading consuls, and Levantines -- Hornby's Supreme Consular Court -- The founding of the Levant Service -- Political consuls -- The consulate-general: controversy and contraction -- "The step-child of the Foreign Office" -- Chapter Five -- Communications -- "Ye surest, and most speedy conveyance you can" -- The consequences of poor communications -- Reducing the need for good communications -- Searching for improvements -- "The telegraph frenzy" -- Part B -- Twentieth Century Role -- Introduction to Part B -- Chapter Six -- Foreigners and Sailors, 19148211;24 -- The British Section, 19148211;18 -- The British High Commission, 19188211;24 -- Chapter Seven -- Reluctantly to Ankara, 19248211;38 -- A dragomanate by any other name -- An 'embassy' in spite of everything -- Ankara in spite of everything -- Mosul 19268212;"disposing of the Turk" -- Two-centre embassy -- Making bricks without straw -- Political reporting and intelligence gathering -- Losing the monopoly of bilateral agreements -- Chapter Eight -- Embassy at War, 19398211;44 -- Negotiating the Anglo-Turkish alliance -- Following up the treaty -- Militarization of the embassy -- Frustrating SOE -- Struggling to coordinate propaganda -- Juggling high-level visitors -- Scripting a spy fi lm: the 'Cicero' affair -- Chapter Nine -- Business as Usual, 19458211;74 -- Return to peacetime mode -- NATO, payments, and planes -- A typical medium-sized post -- Cyprus: "the main preoccupation of the Embassy" -- Still juggling high-level visitors -- Chapter Ten -- Business above all? …”
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Painting Circles. by Szostak, John

Table of Contents: “…Murakami Kagaku: Painting the Profane and the SacredNonagase Banka: Testing the Limits of Tradition; Results of the 1917 Bunten; The Formation of the Kokuga Society; 5 THE INAUGURAL KOKUTEN EXHIBITION OF 1918: CONTENT AND CONTEXTS; The Kyoto and Tokyo Press Debuts; The Kokuga Society Name, Manifesto, and Statement of Purpose; Management and Organization of the Kokuten Exhibition; The Inaugural Kokuten and its Critical Reception; Bakusen's Bathhouse Maiden; Kagaku's Death of a Saint; Banka's Stream in Early Summer; Chikkyō's Village of Nakiri and Shihō's Early Plums.…”
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The biography of ancient Israel : national narratives in the Bible / Ilana Pardes. by Pardes, Ilana

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Redoubted : Poems By. by Moniz Jr., R. Vincent

Table of Contents: “…The Bear Nails Are Coming in DifferentGet Back Home; Lost, She Moved; Indian Jesus; The Old Age Home of Stereotypes; An Unedited Round Dance Song Named "Chubby Brown Man's Choice in the Pow Wow of My Heart"; Man of Wood's Lodge; New Migration Ritual; The Power of White; Fast Horse; Celebration of Stillness in the Shark's Heart; Been Thinking about It Forever; Pollen Takers' Return; Dancing and Singing Moon to Bed and Sun to Birth; BiG Word Mom Lets Me Tag Along; Lamb Hearts; 60 Seconds That Never Was; Star Chart; Fata Morgana; The Sacred Convergence; [Day in Sun]; Atewaye Ki (My Father).…”
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Crime and Punishment in Indonesia by Lindsey, Tim

Table of Contents: “…Searches -- Confiscation -- Custody (temporary detention) -- Bail -- Rights of the accused -- Right to silence -- Interrogation and other rights -- Right to counsel -- Challenges to arrest or detention -- Being named a suspect -- Prosecution -- Limitations on prosecution -- Limitation periods -- Double jeopardy -- Trial procedure -- Presumption of innocence -- Evidence and witnesses -- Appeals -- Appeals against acquittals -- Reconsideration -- Compensation and rehabilitation -- KUHAP reform -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References…”
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Oliver Twist. BBC Worldwide Ltd.

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Orthodox Christianity in Imperial Russia : a Source Book on Lived Religion.

Table of Contents: “…Coleman -- Akathist to the most holy birth-giver of god in honor of her miracle-working icon named "Kazan" / Vera Shevzov -- A nineteenth-century life of St. …”
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Breaking the spell : religion as a natural phenomenon / Daniel C. Dennett. by Dennett, D. C. (Daniel Clement)

Table of Contents: “…The Roots of Religion -- 1. The births of religions -- 2. The raw materials of religion -- 3. …”

Designing UX. by Enders, Jessica

Table of Contents: “…; Common Questions; Title; Don't Use Title as a Proxy; Name; Resources About Names; Address; Email; Phone; Date of Birth; Sex and Gender; Credit Card Details; Display Payment Options; Other Words in Forms; Headings; Form Title.…”
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That's what she said : contemporary poetry and fiction by Native American women / edited by Rayna Green.

Table of Contents: “…; Iron-door-woman / Judith Mountain Leaf Volborth -- Coyote brother song ; Naming the rain ; Child poem ; Poem for my father ; Blackbird winter ; Calumet early evening ; glenpool ; salt man / Annette Areketa West -- Beginning the year at Rosebud, S.D. ; Midnight on Front Street ; Lines for marking time ; Star quilt ; Dream of rebirth ; The long parenthesis ; Fire dragon, fall near me again (fiction) / Roberta Hill Whiteman -- Seboyeta Chapel ; Punto Final ; Someday soon I will be ; Le mujey de valor (fiction) / Shirley Hill Witt.…”

The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine : Time, History, and the Fasti. by R?pke, J?rg

Table of Contents: “…The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine: Time, History and the Fasti; Contents; Preface; Map 1: Distribution of preserved calendars (or calendar fragments) of the fasti type from the first century BCE to the fifth century CE; Table 1: List of known copies of fasti; 1: Time's Social Dimension; 2: Observations on the Roman fasti; 2.1 A Republican Version; 2.2 Forms and Functions; 2.3 The fasti and the Birth of Augustan Epigraphy; 2.4 The Question of the Archetype; 3: Towards an Early History of the Roman Calendar; 3.1 Notions of a Prehistoric Calendar; 3.2 The Structure of the Month.…”
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Play-by-Play : Radio, Television, and Big-Time College Sport. by Smith, Ronald A.

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- The Media and Early College Sport -- Chapter 2 -- Marconi, the Wireless, and Early Sports Broadcasting -- Chapter 3 -- The Broadcasters -- Chapter 4 -- Graham McNamee and Ted Husing Dominate the Airwaves -- Chapter 5 -- The Radio Threat to College Football Attendance -- Chapter 6 -- In the Image of Rockne: Notre Dame and Radio Policy -- Chapter 7 -- Radio Goes “Bowlingâ€?…”
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World War II in Medina County, Ohio : At Home & Overseas. by Beachy, Eli R.

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Approaching the Ancient Artifact : Representation, Narrative, and Function, a festschrift in honor of H. Alan Shapiro / edited by Amalia Avramidou and Denise Demetriou.

Table of Contents: “…Courting Scene for Alan: The Spitzer Amphora at Bryn Mawr College; A Lazy Afternoon; Narrative Strategies; A Matter of Style/Why Style Matters: A Birth of Athena Revisited; Story and Status: The François Vase and the Krater from Vix; A Frame for Names: The Case of the Hydria Louvre F 287; Composition and Narrative on Skyphoi of the Penelope Painter…”
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The highway of the atom / Peter C. van Wyck. by Van Wyck, Peter C.

Table of Contents: “…-- Cargo cult -- Magic -- Field note : Two contrasting figures, May 2003 -- Field note : Tulite, 6 August 2003 -- The idea of north -- Naming -- Field note : Yellowknife, Explorer Hotel, August 2003 -- Field note : Northern metaphor, Norway Point, February 2005 -- Field note : Landscape, Yellowknife, August 2007 -- Field note : Tigullapaa, Nuuk, Greenland, 25 August 2008 -- Field note : Norway Point, April 2009 -- Abduction -- Birth order -- Vision -- Meanwhile -- Radium -- Sum and remainder -- Finding aids -- Field note : Cobalt-bloom and copper-green : Echo Bay, 2003 -- Pitchblende -- Congo -- White myth -- Oh Canada : More silence -- Field note : Cameron Bay, August 2003 -- Field note : Bewilderment, Déline, 2003 -- Field note : Grey Goose Inn, Déline, 25 July 2003 -- Field note : Arctic Circle (66 [degrees] 32)́ : 1 August 2005 -- Chorography -- Field note : Port Radium, 30 July 2003 -- Field note : Déline, August 2003 -- The stones are speaking now -- Phantoms -- Alibi -- Lieux de Mémoire ; A mnemonics of catastrophe -- Abduction and the accident -- Shipwreck with raven -- Field note : New Mexico, February 2004 -- From figure to metaphor -- Spectator -- Ecology -- Story -- Erasure, redux -- Equivalence -- Field note : Black River, 3 August 2005 -- Field note : Mackenzie River, 3 August 2005 -- Field notes in the margins -- Field note : Tulita (Fort Norman), 6 August 2005 -- Field note : Tsiigehtchic (Arctic Red River), 6 August 2005 -- Problems -- Field note : (The Gift) Déline, February 2003.…”
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Claude before time and space : poems / Claudia Emerson. by Emerson, Claudia, 1957-2014

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The Duchess of Padua / Oscar Wilde. by Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900

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Sovereign erotics : a collection of two-spirit literature / edited by Qwo-Li Driskill [and others].

Table of Contents: “…O'Brien -- The door of the devil / Janet McAdams -- Jerry, Sheree, and the eel / Dan Taulapapa McMullin -- Gray's sea change / Daniel David Moses -- Regent's Canal / James Thomas Stevens -- Absorbing light / Kim Shuck -- A drag queen named Pipi / Dan Taulapapa McMullin -- Ander's awakening / Daniel Heath Justice -- My mom names us / Louis Esmé Cruz -- Kid / Carrie House -- Pedagogy / Qwo-Li Driskill -- Plaza Bocanegra / Janet McAdams -- The ends of a picnic / Daniel David Moses -- Where I want them / Cheryl Savageau -- Remember : she bought those panties for you / M. …”

James Van Allen : the first eight billion miles / Abigail Foerstner. by Foerstner, Abigail, 1949-

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