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The abacus and the cross : the story of the Pope who brought the light of science to the Dark Ages by Brown, Nancy Marie

Table of Contents: “…A monk of Aurillac -- Of the making of books there is no end -- The ornament of the world -- Schoolmaster of Reims -- The abacus -- Math and the mind of God -- The celestial sphere -- The astrolabe -- Abbot of Bobbio -- Treason and excommunication -- The legend of the last emperor -- Pope of the year 1000 -- The end of the world.…”

Freedom in exile : the autobiography of the Dalai Lama. by Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…Nehru regrets -- Escape into exile -- Desperate year -- 100,000 refugees -- Wolf in monk's roves -- From east to west -- Of "magic and mystery" -- News from Tibet -- Initiatives for peace -- Universal responsibility and the good heart.…”

A Guide to St. Symeon the New Theologian. by Hunt, Hannah

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Lady with the Dog and Other Stories. by Chekhov, Anton

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Page -- CONTENTS -- THE LADY WITH THE DOG -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- A DOCTOR'S VISIT -- AN UPHEAVAL -- IONITCH -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY -- THE BLACK MONK -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- VIII -- IX -- VOLODYA -- AN ANONYMOUS STORY -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- VIII -- IX -- X -- XI -- XII -- XIII -- XIV -- XV -- XVI -- XVII -- XVIII -- THE HUSBAND -- Copyright.…”
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Byzantine authors : literary activities and preoccupations : text and translations dedicated to the memory of Nicolas Oikonomides

Table of Contents: “…An Ekphrasis by Christopher of Mitylene (Poem 42) -- Chapter Two Two Teaching Texts from the Twelfth-Century Orphanotropheion -- Chapter Three Alexander the Monk's Text of Helena's Discovery of the Cross (BHG 410) -- Chapter Four Elias the Monk. …”
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Dying in the law of Moses : crypto-Jewish martyrdom in the Iberian world by Bodian, Miriam, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The historical setting -- The dogmatista crypto-Jewish martyrs -- A conquistador's nephew in New Spain -- A monk of Castanheira -- A Converso surgeon in the Viceroyalty of Peru -- A Hebrew scholar at the University of Salamanca -- Echoes in the Portuguese-Jewish diaspora.…”
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The power of denial : Buddhism, purity, and gender by Faure, Bernard

Table of Contents: “…The myth of Tamayorihime -- The Miko and the monk -- Women on the edge -- Women, dragons, and snakes.…”
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A long way from Tipperary : a memoir by Crossan, John Dominic

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Everything talks by Sampson, Sam, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Climbing BeansWishful Thinking; Milk Station; Gold; Godheads; 5. The Dirty Monk; The Dirty Monk; Encompassed; L'Univers est créé; Landscape without Monkeys; Hearsay; Nave Nave Fenua; The Egyptian; An American President; Cartoons; 6. …”
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A brief history of entrepreneurship : the pioneers, profiteers, and racketeers who shaped our world by Carlen, Joe

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- "One shekel of your private silver" -- The pirates of Phoenicia -- The reluctant Romans -- An enterprising faith -- Flying money and capitalist monks -- Western Europe and a "new world" of profit -- Captains of the revolution -- The land of (entrepreneurial) opportunity -- Flattening the world and colonizing space -- Conclusion.…”
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Letters. by Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379

Table of Contents: “…Admonition to the Young -- 44 (3). To a Fallen Monk -- 45 (4). To a Fallen Monk -- 46 (5). To a Fallen Virgin -- 47 (4). …”
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Valerii Pereleshin : life of a silkworm by Bakich, Olʹga Mikhaĭlovna

Table of Contents: “…1934""; ""Tragedy, 1934""; ""3 Harbin: The Poet as a Monk""; ""Love Affair, 1935â€?1936""…”
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Killing from the inside out : moral injury and just war by Meagher, Robert E., Hauerwas, Stanley, 1940-, Shay, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: moral injury then and now -- Ancient Greece: warriors and lovers -- Killing: moral agency and pollution -- Imperial Rome: warriors and believers -- Christian Rome: warriors and saints -- Medieval Christianity: warriors and monks -- Early modern Europe: warriors and lawyers -- Conclusion: beyond just war.…”
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Convulsing bodies : religion and resistance in Foucault by Jordan, Mark D.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : embodied reading or the masked philosopher -- Hunter of the sacred -- The dismembered assassin and the well scrubbed delinquents -- The buffoon-tyrant and the possessed nuns -- Chatting genitals -- The sobbing matron and the loquacious monk -- The artist of pleasures -- The violated mother and the naked philosopher -- Conclusion : Embodied writing or Among the mourners.…”
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Coptic identity and Ayyubid politics in Egypt, 1218-1250 by Werthmuller, Kurt J.

Table of Contents: “…The politics of conversion and apostasy -- 5. Monks and monasticism --- Conclusion --- Appendixes I and II.…”
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The Sabra : the creation of the new Jew by Almog, Oz

Table of Contents: “…The Stamp of His Country 's Landscape; 5. Uri of Arabia; 6. Monks in Khaki; 7. Our Gang; Epilogue; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Antonin Artaud's Alternate Genealogies : Self-Portraits and Family Romances. by Stout, John C.

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Letters 1-50 / Saint Cyril of Alexandria by Cyril, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, approximately 370-444

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Select Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Letters -- 1. Cyril to monks in Egypt -- 2. To Nestorius -- 3. Nestorius to Cyril -- 4. …”
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Talking music : conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and five generations of American experimental composers by Duckworth, William

An Introduction to Medieval Theology. by Van Nieuwenhove, Rik

Table of Contents: “…Augustine of Hippo ; 3. Monks and scholars in the fifth and sixth centuries: John Cassian, Boethius and Pseudo-Dionysius -- Part II. …”
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Principles of environmental chemistry

Table of Contents: “…Chemistry of the atmosphere / P.S. Monks -- Chemistry of freshwaters / M.C. Graham and J.G. …”
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Odoevsky's four pathways into modern fiction : a comparative study by Cornwell, Neil

Table of Contents: “…Musicman : the musical-artistic story from Hoffmann and Odoevsky to Pasternak -- Starman : the rise of the "cosmic traveller" -- Seerman : the rise of the psychic detective -- Monk : duelling confession within the novel -- Conclusion -- Appenix. …”
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Tastes of Byzantium : the cuisine of a legendary empire by Dalby, Andrew, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Foods and Markets of Constantinople; 4. Water and Wine, Monks and Travellers; 5. Rulers of the World; 6. …”
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Humble before the Void : a Western Astronomer, his Journey East, and a Remarkable Encounter Between Western Science and Tibetan Buddhism. by Impey, Chris

Table of Contents: “…The Meaning of Life ; Epilogue: The Seven Ages of Monk ; Afterword ; Index.…”
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Never Turning Back. by Cui, Jian

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Poet; My Last Complaint; Make Me Lose My Mind in the Snow; Dancing Over the 38th Parallel; Greenhouse Girl; The Phony Traveling Monk; Frozen Light; Never Turning Back; A Strip of Red Cloth; About the poet.…”
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How soon is now? medieval texts, amateur readers, and the queerness of time by Dinshaw, Carolyn

Table of Contents: “…Asynchrony stories : monks, kings, sleepers and other time travelers -- Temporally oriented : the book of John Mandeville, British India, philology and the postcolonial medievalist -- In the now : Margery Kempe, Hope Emily Allen and me -- Out of sync in the Catskills : Rip van Winkle, Geoffrey Crayon, James I, and other ghosts.…”
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John Henry Newman : the challenge to evangelical religion by Turner, Frank M. (Frank Miller), 1944-2010

Table of Contents: “…The evangelical impulse -- Men in motion : John Keble, Richard Hurrell Froude, Edward Bouverie Pusey -- John Henry Newman and the call to obedience -- What the early tracts said -- The Hampden case -- The assault on the Protestant -- The pursuit of the Catholic -- Proving the cannon -- In schism with all Christendom -- Monks, miracles, and popery -- Endgame -- Paths taken and not.…”
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John Henry Newman : the challenge to evangelical religion by Turner, Frank M. (Frank Miller), 1944-2010

Table of Contents: “…The evangelical impulse -- Men in motion : John Keble, Richard Hurrell Froude, Edward Bouverie Pusey -- John Henry Newman and the call to obedience -- What the early tracts said -- The Hampden case -- The assault on the Protestant -- The pursuit of the Catholic -- Proving the cannon -- In schism with all Christendom -- Monks, miracles, and popery -- Endgame -- Paths taken and not.…”
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John Henry Newman : the challenge to evangelical religion by Turner, Frank M. (Frank Miller), 1944-2010

Table of Contents: “…The evangelical impulse -- Men in motion : John Keble, Richard Hurrell Froude, Edward Bouverie Pusey -- John Henry Newman and the call to obedience -- What the early tracts said -- The Hampden case -- The assault on the Protestant -- The pursuit of the Catholic -- Proving the cannon -- In schism with all Christendom -- Monks, miracles, and popery -- Endgame -- Paths taken and not.…”

The past is always present : the revival of the Byzantine musical tradition at Mount Athos by Lind, Tore Tvarnø, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : toward an ethnomusicological study of Byzantine chant 1 -- Musical blossom -- Sacred musical transorthography -- Producing Mount Athos : Byzantine chant, pilgrimage and tourism -- "The monks have prayer" : on the Athonite style of chanting -- Spiritual silence, sacred sound -- Conclusion -- Greek glossary -- Appendix A: Chain of psáltes : musical genealogy at Vatopaidi.…”
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Miracles of Our Lady by Berceo, Gonzalo de, active 13th century

Table of Contents: “…Saint Peter and the Proud Monk; 8. The Pilgrim Deceived by the Devil; 9. The Simple Cleric; 10. …”
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Rethinking Authority in the Carolingian Empire by Kramer, Rutger

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The globaliztion of music in history by Wetzel, Richard D.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction -- The Origins of Music -- Rivers, Oceans, Emperors, and Music -- Singing Popes, Monks, and Pilgrims -- The Movement of Song: Troubadours and Crusaders -- Out of Africa, One More Time! …”
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Tian di ying xiong = Warriors of heaven and earth

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Italian folktales in America : the verbal art of an immigrant woman by Mathias, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…The Good Priest and the Rich Stranger -- 17. The Monk and His Cloak -- 18. The Monk and the Mason -- 19. …”
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Capture of Constantinople : the Hystoria Constantinopolitana of Guntherof Pairis.

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Original Face. by Jose, Nicholas

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Modern spiritual masters : writings on contemplation and compassion

Table of Contents: “…Thomas Merton : contemplation and compassion -- Mother Teresa : serving Jesus in his distressing disguise -- Mahatma Gandhi : great soul of India -- Madeline Delbril : missionary without a boat -- Oscar Romero : voice of the voiceless -- Catherine de Hueck Doherty : the Gospel without compromise -- Howard Thurman : good news for the disinherited -- Mother Maria Skobtsova : a monk in the world -- Dom Helder Camara : mystic and prophet -- Thea Bowman : a gift to the church -- Henri Nouwen : a wounded healer -- Dorothy Day : a new kind of holiness.…”

Burma's mass lay meditation movement : Buddhism and the cultural construction of power by Jordt, Ingrid

Table of Contents: “…The Double Order of Law -- Monks, Gender, and Resistance; Five. From Relations of Power to Relations of Authority -- The Dynamics of Symbolic Legitimacy; Epilogue; Notes; Glossary; References; Index.…”
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Nothing like a dame : conversations with the great women of musical theater by Shapiro, Eddie, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Elaine Stritch -- Carol Channing -- Chita Rivera -- Donna McKechnie -- Angela Lansbury -- Leslie Uggams -- Betty Buckley -- Patti Lupone -- Bebe Neuwirth -- Donna Murphy -- Lillias White -- Tonya Pinkins -- Karen Ziemba -- Debra Monk -- Victoria Clark -- Audra McDonald -- Kristin Chenoweth -- Idina Menzel -- Sutton Foster -- Laura Benanti.…”
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