Saint Caesarius of Arles / translated by Sister Mary Magdeleine Mueller.

Table of Contents: “…The Shrines of Idols Should Be Destroyed -- 54. On Omens, Seers, and Fortune-Tellers -- 55. On Sins Resulting from Drunkenness and on Briber -- 55A. …”
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Redefining ancient Orphism : a study in Greek religion / Radcliffe G. Edmonds III. by Edmonds, Radcliffe G., III, 1970-

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Literature And The Irrational; A Study In Anthropological Backgrounds. by Shumaker, Wayne

Table of Contents: “…"Reality" of fictive personagesCharacter motifs as transactional; Fictive time; Dreams, omens, presages; The marvelous; Animals in fiction; Primitive initiations as ancestral to fictive conversions; Summary; Fictions as projected states of mind; 6-The Major Literary Types: Tragedy and Comedy; Origin of tragedy in Greece; Gaps in our knowledge of backgrounds; Anthropological views of Greek tragedy; Ritual and drama outside Greece; Dramatic ritual and the primitive time sense; The form of Greek tragedy; Archaic tendencies in later tragedy; Three modern theories; Lucretius' view.…”
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The Rosh Hashanah Anthology. by Goodman, Philip

Table of Contents: “…The First Day of the Year as the Day of JudgmentThe Righteous and the Wicked; The Sound of the Shofar; Annulling the Harsh Decree; Signs and Omens; God Welcomes Penitents; The Greatness of Repentance; The Timing of Repentance; Ways of Penitence; IV Rosh Hashanah in Medieval Jewish Literature; The Month of Tishri by Judah Al-Harizi; The Day of the Concealed Moon from the Zohar; Shofar and Man bylsaac ben Moses Arama; Reasons for Sounding the Shofar by Saadia Gaon; An Introduction to the Day of the Fast by Moses Maimonides; Judgment and Mercy by Moses Nahmanides.…”
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Classifications in Facial Plastic Surgery. by Oxley, Paul J. (Paul James)

Table of Contents: “…Tanzer Classification of Constricted EarCraniofacial Microsomia; Encephaloceles; Frontoethmoidal Encephalomeningocele; Hemifacial Microsomia-Ear Anomalies; Mandibular Deformity in Hemifacial Microsomia; Hemifacial Microsomia-Multisystem; Unilateral Craniofacial Microsomia; OMENS-Plus; Hypertelorism (Munro); Hypertelorism; Hypertelorism (Tessier); Kernahan Striped-Y; Modified Kernahan Striped-Y; Congenital Nasal Anomalies; Orbitotemporal Neurofibromatosis; Plagiocephaly; Protruding Ears-Pitfalls and Shortcomings; Prominent Ears; Congenital Defects of Scalp and Calvarium.…”
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The Works of William Sanders Scarborough : Black Classicist and Race Leader. by Scarborough, William Sanders

Table of Contents: “…The Negro as a Factor in Business -- 23. What the Omen?.…”
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Latin American folktales : stories from Hispanic and Indian traditions / edited and with an introduction by John Bierhorst.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: early colonial legends -- Montezuma -- The talking stone -- Montezuma's wound -- Eight omens -- The return of Quetzalcoatl -- Is it you? …”

Seasonal works with letters on fire / Brenda Hillman. by Hillman, Brenda

Table of Contents: “…As the Roots Prepare for Literature ; Summer Mountain Lightning & Some Music ; The Elements Are Mixed in Childhood ; At the Snow Line in Summer ; Sky of Omens, Floor of Fragments ; The Seeds Talk Back to Monsanto ; Coda: Suggested Activism for Endangered Seeds ; The Nets Between Solstice & Equinox ; Very Far Back in This Life ; To the Writing Students at Orientation ; The Letters Learn to Breathe Twice ; Local Warming & Early Autumn Butterflies ; Halfway Through Civilization, Late to Another ; Imitating a Squirrel at my Job ; Experiments with Poetry Are Taken Outdoors ; A Short Walk During Late Capitalism ; A Quiet Afternoon at the Office ; A Quiet Afternoon at the Office II ; When the Occupations Have Just Begun ; After the Orionids, Near the Plaza ; From the Dictionary of Indo-European Roots ; Short Anthem for the General Strike ; Mists From People As They Pass ; Types of Fire at the Strike ; o-o-o o-o-o o-o-o o-o-o ; A Brutal Encounter Recollected in Tranquility ; & the Tents Went Back Up ; 2 Journal Entries During Occupy SF ; An Almanac of Coastal Winter Creatures ; The Second Half of the Survey ; Lyrid Meteor Showers During Your Dissertation.…”
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Maurice Blanchot : a Critical Biography. by Bident, Christophe

Table of Contents: “…From Revolution to Literature: Literary Criticism (1930s); 17. Murderous Omens of Times to Come-Writing the Récits: "The Last Word" and "The Idyll" (1935-1936); 18. …”
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Politics, murder, and love in Stalin's Kremlin : the story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina / Paul R. Gregory. by Gregory, Paul R.

Table of Contents: “…January 27, 1934: Courtship, Bad Omens, and Marriage; 23. December 1, 1934: Kirov Is Shot.…”
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An anthology of Chinese literature : beginnings to 1911 / edited and translated by Stephen Owen.

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Tributes to Yuan-Cheng Fung on his 90th birthday : biomechanics : from molecules to man / editors, Shu Chien [and others].

Table of Contents: “…McCulloch and Jeffrey H. Omens -- ch. 8. A novel hemodynamic analysis of echocardiogram / Tin-Kan Hung -- ch. 9. …”
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The Mexico reader : history, culture, politics / edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson.

Table of Contents: “…The origins of the Aztecs / Anonymous -- The cost of courage in Aztec society / Inga Clendinnen -- Popol Vuh / Anonymous -- The meaning of maize for the Maya / J. Eric Thompson -- Omens foretelling the conquest / Anonymous -- Conquest and colony. …”

History of the world, part 1.

13 / Mike Bartlett. by Bartlett, Mike

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The Castle of Otranto : a gothic novel / Horace Walpole. by Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797

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Don't Shoot the Albatross! : Nautical Myths and Superstitions. by Eyers, Jonathan

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The physics of imaginary objects / Tina May Hall. by Hall, Tina May

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The alchemist / Paulo Coelho ; translated by Alan R. Clarke. by Coelho, Paulo