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The casting away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine : with its sequel, The Dusantes / Dusantes by Stockton, Frank R., 1834-1902

Razões pelas quais fui descartado : a jihad da economia. by Sekimonyo, Jo M.

“…Cast away for these reasons.…”
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Empire islands : castaways, cannibals, and fantasies of conquest by Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca

Table of Contents: “…Monarchs of all they survey -- Disciplined islands : white fatherhood, homosocial masculinity, and law -- Voracious cannibals, rapacious pirates, and threats of counterincorporation -- "Falling to the lowest degree of brutishness" : wild men, monsters, and the bestial taint -- Island parodies and Crusoe pantomimes : resistance from within -- The U.S. island fantasy, or cast away with Gilligan.…”
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Empire islands : castaways, cannibals, and fantasies of conquest by Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca

Table of Contents: “…Monarchs of all they survey -- Disciplined islands : white fatherhood, homosocial masculinity, and law -- Voracious cannibals, rapacious pirates, and threats of counterincorporation -- "Falling to the lowest degree of brutishness" : wild men, monsters, and the bestial taint -- Island parodies and Crusoe pantomimes : resistance from within -- The U.S. island fantasy, or cast away with Gilligan.…”
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Moral Theory at the Movies : an Introduction to Ethics. by Kowalski, Dean

Table of Contents: “…Rhetoric, philosophy, and moral reasoning (featured film : Thank you for smoking) -- Simple ethical subjectivism (Match point) -- Moral relativism (Hotel Rwanda) -- Divine command theory ethics (Frailty) -- Ethical objectivism (The Cider House rules) -- Biology, psychology, and ethical theory (Cast away) -- Utilitarianism (Extreme measures) -- Kant and respect for persons ethics (Horton hears a Who!) …”
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Postcolonial Con-Texts : Writing Back to the Canon. by Thieme, John

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: parents, bastards and orphans; 2 Conrad''s ''hopeless'' binaries: Heart of Darkness and postcolonial interior journeys; 3 ''On England''s Desert Island cast away'': protean Crusoes, exiled Fridays; 4 Reclaiming ghosts, claiming ghosts: Caribbean and Canadian responses to the Brontës; 5 Turned upside down? …”
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Memory and movies : what films can teach us about memory by Seamon, John G., 1943-

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Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894

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Biblical Studies and the Failure of History : Changing Perspectives 3. by Lemche, Niels Peter

Table of Contents: “…''Because they have cast away the law of the Lord of Hosts'', or ''We and the rest of the world'': the authors who ''wrote'' the Old TestamentIndex of biblical references; Index of authors.…”
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Sea Changes : Historicizing the Ocean. by Klein, Bernhard

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Sea Changes -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Sea Is History -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Deep Times, Deep Spaces: Civilizing the Sea -- Polyglot Time: Polyglot Space -- Encompassing Oceania -- The Theater of Reenactment -- Observing the Unobservable -- Ocean -- Civilizing the Sea -- Double-Visioned History -- Way-Finding -- Looming -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Costume Changes: Passing at Sea and on the Beach -- Divested of Command -- The Moment of Discovery -- Opposite Camps -- Breeches of Etiquette -- Seeing through Clothes -- "A Proper Sample" -- "A Genteel Dressing" -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The Global Economy and the Sulu Zone: Connections, Commodities, and Culture -- Introduction: Space and Time -- Commodities and the Search for Labor -- Lanun: A Terrifying Presence -- Colonialism's Pirates -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Ahab's Boat: Non-European Seamen in Western Ships of Exploration and Commerce -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Staying Afloat: Literary Shipboard Encounters from Columbus to Equiano -- I -- II -- III -- Notes -- Chapter 6: The Red Atlantic -- or, "A Terrible Blast Swept Over the Heaving Sea" -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Chartless Voyages and Protean Geographies: Nineteenth-Century American Fictions of the Black Atlantic -- Chartless Voyages -- The Grandeur of Egypt -- Hybrid Geographies -- Protean Ships -- Notes -- Chapter 8: "At Sea-Coloured Passenger" -- I -- II -- III -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Slavery, Insurance, and Sacrifice in the Black Atlantic -- In Transit: Insuring Slaves -- Maritime Cannibalism, or Why Eating People Is Wrong -- Notes -- Chapter 10: Cast Away: The Uttermost Parts of the Earth -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.…”
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Conjoined twins in black and white : the lives of Millie-Christine McKoy and Daisy and Violet Hilton

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Utmost gallantry : the U.S. and Royal Navies at sea in the War of 1812 / U.S. and Royal Navies at sea in the War of 1812 by McCranie, Kevin D.

Table of Contents: “…"If We Could Take One or Two of These D--d Frigates": Reassessment of Britain's Naval Objectives, 1812-13; 5. "Cast Away ... or Taken": American Naval Failure and Reassessment, June 1812-Early 1813.…”
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Outrageous seas : shipwreck and survival in the waters off Newfoundland, 1583-1893

Table of Contents: “…CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 The Casting Away of the Delight (1583) -- 2 The Shipwreck of Father Charles Lalemant, Philibert Noyrot, and Others, Off Cape Breton (1629) -- 3 Shipwreck and Distress Suffer'd Near the Coast of Newfoundland: The Anne (1704) -- 4 Account of A Wonderful Escape From the Effects of a Storm in a Journey Over the Frozen Sea in North America (1782) -- 5 Vessels in the Service of the Moravian Mission on the Coast of Labrador, and Some Shipwrecks (1770-1877)…”
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Coffins of the brave : lake shipwrecks of the War of 1812

Table of Contents: “…Crisman -- "We have met the enemy and they are ours": the US Navy brig Niagara / Walter Rybka -- "Cast away on the Canadian shore": the British brig General Hunter / Kenneth Cassavoy -- "A perfect masterpiece of workmanship": His Majesty's hired transport schooner Nancy / Christopher R. …”
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The Lives of Campus Custodians Insights into Corporatization and Civic Disengagement in the Academy. by Magolda, Peter M.

Table of Contents: “…Clean -- An All-Purpose Cleaner -- The Grim Sweeper -- Grime Scenes -- Chapter 6: The Supervising Life -- The Clean Team -- The Buffer -- Worker-Manager Strife -- Chapter 7: Fear the Worst -- Primal Fear -- Fear Factors -- Caste-Away Fears -- Chapter 8: Family Matters -- Family Feuds -- The CU Family -- The HU Family…”
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A companion to reality television by Ouellette, Laurie

Table of Contents: “…; References; 3: When Everyone Has Their Own Reality Show; Getting Real; The Work of the Real; Experimental Reality; Productive Surveillance; "Attention Capital" in the Information Economy; Total Information Awareness Resurrected; References; 4: Cast-aways: The Plights and Pleasures of Reality Casting and Production Studies; The Labor of Studying Reality Labor; Casting Work and Commodity Exchange; Casting in "New Economy" Contexts; Cultural Dynamics in Emotion Work; Unwrapping the Wrap; References.…”
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Beginning C++ Programming. by Grimes, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Accessing runtime type informationDetermining type limits; Converting between types; Type conversions; Promoting conversions; Narrowing conversions; Narrowing to bool; Converting signed types; Casting; Casting away const-ness; Casting without runtime checks; Casting pointers without runtime checks; Casting with runtime checks; Casting with list initializer; Using C casts; Using C++ types; Summary; Chapter 4: Working with Memory, Arrays, and Pointers; Using memory in C++; Using C++ pointer syntax; Using null pointers; Types of memory; Pointer arithmetic; Using arrays; Function parameters.…”
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The Days Between : Blessings, Poems, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season. by Falk, Marcia

Table of Contents: “…Opening the HeartIntroduction to Un'taneh Tókef K'dushat Hayom: We Declare the Utter Sanctity of This Day; Un'taneh Tókef K'dushat Hayom: We Declare the Utter Sanctity of This Day; Introduction to Shofarot, Zikhronot, Malkhuyot: Calls, Recalling, Callings; Shofarot: Calls; Zikhronot: Recalling; Malkhuyot: Callings; May It Be So; We Cast into the Depths of the Sea (Tashlikh Ritual); Introduction; Casting Away; Poems of the River and the Sea; Facing the Sea; The Blade of Grass Sings to the River; The Tree Sings to the River; From Today Is Forever; Two | Window, Bird, Sky; Introduction.…”
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