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Litcomix : graphic novels, comix, and literary theory by Geczy, Adam, McBurnie, Jonathan

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Quantum philosophy : understanding and interpreting contemporary science by Omnès, Roland

Table of Contents: “…The legacy -- Classical logic -- Classical physics -- Classical mathematics -- Classical philosophy of knowledge -- Part Two. …”
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The scientific revolution revisited by Teich, Mikuláš

Table of Contents: “…List of illustrations -- Note on terminology and acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. From pre-classical to classical pursuits -- 2. Experimentation and quantification -- 3. …”
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A Student''s Guide to the Core Curriculum. by Henrie, Mark C.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Classics Department: Classical Literature in Translation; Philosophy Department: Introduction to Ancient Philosophy; Religion Department: The Bible; Religion Department: Christian Thought Before 1500; Political Science Department: Modern Political Theory; English Department: Shakespeare; History Department: U.S. …”
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Listen again : a new history of music by Wulstan, David

Table of Contents: “…Some matters of terminology and other preliminaries -- The recognition of key -- Tonal balance and minor tonality : the use of sequences; dissonance -- The rule of the octave : harmony and rhythm -- The enhanced tonic : fugal technique and tonality -- Complex key -- The classical style -- The classical style -- Classical to romantic : Beethoven and Schubert -- The romantic era (1) : Chopin, Brahms and Mendelssohn -- The romantic era (2) : the age of Wagner -- The perception of music -- The twentieth century (1) : the palette of Debussy -- The twentieth century (2) : themes and theories in the music of Stravinsky and some other composers -- The twentieth century (3) : techniques and treatises : Bartók, Hindemith, and others -- Saturday night and Sunday morning -- Two cultures -- Mediæval to Renaissance -- Renaissance to Baroque -- Back to the future.…”
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Augustine and the cure of souls : revising a classical ideal by Kolbet, Paul R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Rhetoric and Christian identity in the Roman Empire : sources and method -- A classical ideal -- Classical therapy : its origins, tasks, and methods -- Psychagogy as a cultural ideal -- Psychagogy in its classical form -- Hellenistic refinements -- Cures for the Roman soul -- The psychagogic value of ancient texts -- Revising and recontextualizing classical therapy -- Augustine's early formation -- An ambitious young orator -- Being healed by beautiful words -- Christianizing classical therapy -- Christian philosophy and the cure of soul -- Christ's inner and outer rhetoric -- A new context for classical therapy -- Ordination crisis -- Controversies over the cure of soul -- Signs eliciting love -- Exegetical integration -- Teaching the uninstructed -- Augustine's homiletical practice -- The Christian rhetor -- Continuity amid discontinuity -- Critical skills -- Constructive guidance -- Therapy and society -- The incarnate word and community.…”
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From traveling show to vaudeville : theatrical spectacle in America, 1830-1910

Table of Contents: “…PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: From Celebration to Show Business; THE DIME MUSEUM; Early Museum Shows; Selling and Seeing Curiosities; Commentary; Dog Days of the Museum; MINSTRELSY; Routines: Songs, Speeches, Dialogue, and Farce; Commentary: Rise and Fall of ''Slave'' Creativity; Reminiscences; Musical Comedy: Harrigan's Mulligan Guard; Confessions of an African American Minstrel; THE CIRCUS; The Circus Debated; The Early Circus; Big Business; The Audience; MELODRAMA; A Plea for an American Drama; Classic Melodrama; Classic Melodrama's Audiences; The Ten-Twenty-Thirty Melodramas.…”
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Einstein's quantum error : an approach to rationality by Altmann, Simon L., 1924-

Table of Contents: “…Brownian motion and EinsteinChapter Six; Classical trajectories; Classical trajectories and existence; Quantum particles: observing the electron; Einstein: a first reaction; Randomness in Quantum Mechanics; Bohr's misguided attempt at epistemology; Einstein's views of quantum mechanics; Uncertainty principle; Entanglement; Superposition principle and the Schrödinger cat; Coda; Chapter Seven; Miracles; The vacuum and the Big Bang; Anthropic principle; Chapter Eight; The anti-rationalists; Detractors of Hume; Mathematical Platonism; Quantum mechanics and the human mind; Cultural relativism…”
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Running with the Devil : Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music. by Walser, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Eruptions: Heavy Metal Appropriations of Classical VirtuosityClassical Prestige and Popular Meanings; Ritchie Blackmore and the Classical Roots of Metal; Edward Van Halen and the New Virtuosity; Randy Rhoads: Metal Gets Serious; Yngwie Malmsteen: Metal Augmented and Diminished; Popular Music as Cultural Dialogue; Photographs follow page; 4. …”
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Reinventing film studies

Table of Contents: “…Vasudevan -- Reception theory and audience research: the mystery of the vampire's kiss / Henry Jenkins -- Re-examining stardom: questions of texts, bodies and performance / Christine Geraghty -- After the classic, the classical and ideology: the differences of realism / Christopher Williams -- Rethinking genre / Christine Gledhill -- Judging audiences: the case of the trial movie / Carol J. …”

Classics in post-colonial worlds / Classics in postcolonial worlds by Hardwick, Lorna, Gillespie, Carol

Table of Contents: “…: About the "use and abuse" of theory in constructing the classical tradition / Freddy Decreus -- From the Peloponnesian War to the Iraq War : a post-liberal reading of Greek tragedy / Michiel Leezenberg -- Western classics, Indian classics : postcolonial contestations / Harish Trivedi -- Shades of multi-lingualism and multi-vocalism in modern performances of Greek tragedy in post-colonial contexts / Lorna Hardwick -- The empire never ended / Ika Willis -- Another architecture / David Richards.…”
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A Companion to Classical Receptions. by Hardwick, Lorna

Table of Contents: “…Chapter Six: 'Our Debt to Greece and Rome': Canon, Class and IdeologyNote; Further Reading; Chapter Seven: Gladstone and the Classics; The Classics and Gladstone; The Classics and Gladstonian Conservatism; The Classics and Gladstonian Liberalism; Further Reading; Chapter Eight: Between Colonialism and Independence: Eric Williams and the Uses of Classics in Trinidad in the 1950s and 1960s; Classics as the Height of Foolishness; The Aristotle Debate; Democracy and Elitist Knowledge; Conclusion; Further Reading; Chapter Nine: Virgilian Contexts; Virgil and the Victorians.…”
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Kitchen and Bath Design Principles Elements, Form, Styles. by Wolford, Nancy

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER 5 HISTORIC STYLE INFLUENCES TO THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- Establishing a Historic Theme for a Kitchen or Bathroom Project -- Ancient/Classical Period -- Classical-Inspired Kitchens and Bathrooms -- Middle Ages/Gothic Period -- Gothic-Inspired Kitchens and Bathrooms -- Renaissance -- Renaissance-Inspired Kitchens and Bathrooms -- Baroque Period -- Baroque-Inspired Kitchens and Bathrooms -- Rococo and French Provincial/Country Periods -- Rococo/French Provincial-Inspired Kitchens and Bathrooms -- Georgian Period -- Georgian-Inspired Kitchens and Bathrooms…”
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Postcolonial sociologies : a reader

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover; Postcolonial Sociologies: A Reader; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Senior Editorial Board; Student Editorial Board; Editorial Statement; Introduction: Sociology and Postcoloniality; "Postcolonial Theory" and Sociology; Engaging Postcolonial Theory; Letting the Subaltern Speak; Overcoming Analytic Bifurcations; Sociology's Standpoint and the Limits of Knowledge; The Present Collection; Notes; References; The colonial unconscious of classical sociology; Classical sociology and empire; Marx; Durkheim; Weber; Orientalism and the disavowal of empire.…”
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Commonwealth principles : republican writing of the English revolution by Scott, Jonathan, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: English republicanism -- Historiography -- Long-term contexts: intellectual and practical -- Intellectual content: ends and means -- Ideas and events: the impact of the republican experiment in practice -- Part I Contexts -- Chapter 1 Classical republicanism -- 'Classical republicanism' -- Commonwealth principles -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 The cause of God -- Introduction -- Christian humanism -- Anti-popery, anti-clericalism, liberty of conscience -- Reformation of manners -- Theology -- Enlightenment -- Chapter 3 Discourses of a commonwealth -- The english commonwealth -- The military-fiscal state -- The social state -- Discourses of a commonwealth -- Chapter 4 Old worlds and new -- Introduction: the question of modernity -- The context of time -- Political economy -- The context of space -- Part II Analysis -- Chapter 5 The political theory of rebellion -- Introduction: the law of war -- Milton and nedham -- Streater and sexby -- Harrington and neville -- Restoration, 1660-1680 -- Sidney's discourses -- Chapter 6 Constitutions -- Introduction: the empire of laws and not of men -- Popular unicameralism, 1623-1654 -- The mixed constitution, 1653-1658 -- The mariners and the ship, 1659-1660 -- Restoration -- Chapter 7 Liberty -- Introduction -- Milton -- Nedham -- Streater and vane -- Harrington -- Sidney -- Chapter 8 Virtue -- Milton and plato -- Nedham and machiavelli -- Streater and aristotle -- Harrington -- 'Cleave, saw and cut:' sidney, vane and the rhetoric of puritan magistracy -- Chapter 9 The politics of time -- The politics of the ancient constitution -- The politics of change -- Chapter 10 Empire -- Introduction -- Milton and the empire of the self -- Nedham, streater, harrington -- Sidney and neville -- Part III Chronology -- Chapter 11 Republicans and Levellers, 1603-1649 -- 1603-1641: commonwealth principles and practice -- 'Two and fifty degrees of northern latitude' -- Tribune of the plebs -- The political theory of the english revolution -- Chapter 12 The English republic, 1649-1653 -- 'A new order in the state'? …”
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A Companion to Anthropological Genetics by O'Rourke, Dennis H.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 9 Human Population Structure and HistoryIntroduction; Studies of Human Population Structure; Global Human Population History; Studies of Regional Human Population History; Conclusion; Chapter 10 Regional Patterns of Variation: Concepts and Applications; Introduction; Concepts and Definitions; Classic Models; Classic Models: General Issues for Real (Versus Theoretical) Modern and Past Contexts; Regional Patterned Variation: Two Examples; Conclusion; Chapter 11 Genetic Variation and the Colonization of Eurasia; Early and Middle Pleistocene Background to the Peopling of Eurasia…”
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Contemporary Mise en Scène : Staging Theatre Today. by Pavis, Patrice

Table of Contents: “…Andromaque on the cutting edge: Michel Liard's art of looking and listeningLes ephémères du soleil: inventing collectively; 11 The splendour and the misery of interpreting the classics; The 'classical effect'; A tricky typology; The end of the radical, fascination with the present; New forms for old questions; A new relationship with tradition; Operating on the classics; A few signs of the times; General conclusions; 12 Staging calamity: mise en scène and performance at Avignon 2005; L'histoire des larmes; Je suis sang; Dieu et les esprits vivants; B.#03 Berlin; Anathème; Puur; Mue…”
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Edgar Allan Poe in Context. by Hayes, Kevin J.

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER 20 The Art of ReviewingNOTES; CHAPTER 21 The Politics of Publishing; NOTES; PART FOUR: Literary Contexts; CHAPTER 22 Ancient Classics; A CLASSICAL EDUCATION; CREATIVE WORKS; NOTES; CHAPTER 23 Rabelais and Lesage; RABELAISIAN CARNIVAL REPRESENTATIONS IN POE'S SHORT STORIES; THE DEVIL THEME IN LESAGE AND POE; CONCLUSION; NOTES; CHAPTER 24 The Gothic Movement; NOTES; CHAPTER 25 Byron; NOTES; CHAPTER 26 Folk Narrative; NOTES; CHAPTER 27 Transcendentalism; NOTES; CHAPTER 28 Charles Dickens; NOTES; Chapter 29 Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Art of the Tale; NOTES.…”
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Musical rhetoric : foundations and annotation schemes by Saint-Dizier, Patrick

Table of Contents: “…A few historical references for classical rhetoric; Classical period; Medieval; Renaissance; Eighteenth century; 2: Language, Music and the Rhetoric Discourse; 2.1. …”
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An encyclopedia of macroeconomics

Table of Contents: “…. -- Calibration -- Capital Account -- Capital-Labour Ratio -- Capital-Output Ratio -- Capital-stock Adjustment Principle -- Catching Up and Convergence -- Central Bank -- Central Bank Accountability and Transparency -- Central Bank Independence -- Central Parity -- Classical Dichotomy -- Classical Economics -- Classical Model -- Clean Float -- Clower, Robert W. -- Coddington, Alan -- Cold Turkey -- Comparative Advantage.…”
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Methods of statistical physics by Tanaka, Tomoyasu, 1919-

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K'oben : 3,000 years of the Maya hearth / K'oben : by O'Connor, Amber M., Anderson, Eugene Newton, Jr., 1941-

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Ireland and the classical world by Freeman, Philip, 1961-

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Variation and Change in Ancient Greek Tense, Aspect and Modality : Language Variation and Change. by Bentein, Klaas

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Son of classics and comics

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Greek mythography in the Roman world by Cameron, Alan, 1938-2017

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