Forbidden music : the Jewish composers banned by the Nazis by Haas, Michael, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…-- A Question of Musical Potency -- The Resolute Romantics -- Between Hell and Purgatory -- Exile and Worse -- Restitution -- Epilogue -- Notes.…”
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Uncle Will of Wildwood : nineteenth century life in the Bluegrass by McVey, Frances Jewell, 1889-1945, Jewell, Robert Berry, 1896-1986

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Author's Note; 1 In a Hell of a Hurry; 2 Wildwood; 3 You Can't Get to Heaven That Way; 4 Uncle Will, Sarah Eliza, and Their Children; 5 They're Too Damn Good to Sell; 6 Good Friends and Clever Neighbors; 7 This Year- The Beaten Biscuits.…”
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The other Barack : the bold and reckless life of president Obama's father by Jacobs, Sally H., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Title Page; Dedication; Preface; 1 -- THE OLD MAN; 2 -- WINYO PINY KIBORNE; 3 -- A MASENO BOY, ALMOST; 4 -- MISS MOONEY; 5 -- "WHO THE HELL IS THAT?"; 6 -- THE WORLD'S GREATEST UNIVERSITY; 7 -- THE NAIROBI MEN; 8 -- LIONS, TIGERS, AND LIES!…”
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The place to be : Washington, CBS, and the glory days of television news by Mudd, Roger, 1928-2021

Table of Contents: “…-- The Minnesota Twins -- Mister Ev, the talking horse -- "Not while I'm around" -- "Of course, it's a great body" -- "Who the hell is Alexander Kendrick?" -- "How about Bobbsie?" …”
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The collected works of Langston Hughes. Volume 15, The short stories by Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

Table of Contents: “…-- Saratoga Rain -- Spanish Blood -- Heaven to Hell -- Sailor Ashore -- Slice Him Down -- Tain't So -- One Friday Morning -- Professor -- Name in the Papers -- Powder-White Faces -- Rouge High -- On the Way Home -- Mysterious Madame Shanghai -- Never Room with a Couple -- Little Old Spy -- Tragedy at the Baths -- Trouble with the Angels -- On the Road -- Big Meeting -- Something in Common and Other Stories (1963) -- Contents -- Thank You, M'am -- Little Dog -- Rock, Church -- Little Old Spy -- A Good Job Gone -- Who's Passing for Who? …”
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The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film by Tasker, Yvonne

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 5 War, Violence and the American Action Hero: Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and Hell is for Heroes (1962) -- John Wayne, Outsider Masculinity and The Sands of Iwo Jima -- Hell is for Heroes: Violence, Heroism and the "Dirty" War Films of the 1960s -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Violence and Urban Action: Dirty Harry (1971) -- Action and the Urban Environment -- The Vigilante Hero: Myths of Redemptive Violence -- Conclusion: Action Masculinity -- Chapter 7 Nostalgic Adventure and Recycled Culture: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Pirates of the Caribbean (2003)…”
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Multidisciplinary approaches to code switching

Table of Contents: “…Kootstra, Janet G. van Hell, and Ton Dijkstra -- Language interaction as a window into bilingual cognitive architecture / Viorica Marian -- Trying to hit a moving target: on the sociophonetics of code-switching / Barbara E. …”
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Hunter S. Thompson : fear, loathing, and the birth of Gonzo by McEneaney, Kevin T.

Table of Contents: “…Louisville slugger: delinquent to celebrity -- Play it again, Hunter: The rum diary -- Oddball journalism, underclass culture: Hell's Angels -- Who's depraved? champagne powder, sloppy track -- Loathing at the temple: Las Vegas, part I -- Fear in the nation: Las Vegas, part II -- Mythic enigma: the curse of Lono -- Literary addenda: further fictions -- Shot out of a cannon: final assessment.…”
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Neo-Victorianism and the memory of empire by Ho, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Figures; Introduction; Neo-Victorianism and Improper Postcolonialisms; The "N-word" and the "V-word"; Improper Postcolonialisms; Past Recovery: Methods of Remembering; Patel and Pun, or, A Chapter Review; Chapter 1; Neo-Victorianism and "Ripperature": Alan Moore's From Hell; Ripperature and Gender: Margaret Thatcher's "Queenliness"; Ripperature and Heritage: Melancholic Narratives and a Critique of Neo-Victorianism; Post-Imperial Landscapes: Ripperature, Psychogeography, and Englishness; Jack the Rippe; Chapter 2.…”
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Dante and Islam

Table of Contents: “…Stone -- Falconry as a transmutative art: Dante, Frederick II, and Islam / Daniela Boccassini -- Dante's Muhammad: parallels between Islam and Arianism / Maria Esposito Frank -- Muhammad in hell / Karla Mallette -- Mendicants and Muslims in Dante's Florence / John Tolan -- Dante and the three religions / Giorgio Battistoni -- The last Muslims in Italy / David Abulafia.…”
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The Good Place and philosophy

Table of Contents: “…Marginal Comforts Keep Us in Hell / Jake Jackson -- "I Would Refuse to Be a God if It Were Offered to Me" / Kimberly S Engels -- "SEARCHING FOR MEANING IS PHILOSOPHICAL SUICIDE". …”
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Salespeople don't lie by Joseph, Roshan L.

Table of Contents: “…19 Company Maketh the Man20 The Devil Made Me Do It; 21 When All Hell Breaks Loose; 22 For Whom the Bell Tolls; 23 Either You Don't Know, or You Are Lying; 24 Tainted by the Company One Keeps; 25 Sales Malpractice; 26 A Sales System, Really?…”
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English noun phrases from a functional-cognitive perspective : current issues

Table of Contents: “…Shell nouns as epistemic stance devices in English: a study of four epistemic modal nouns and four evidential nouns / Marta Carretero -- Constructional variation and change in N-is focaliser constructions / Marianne Hundt -- Premodification in X-is constructions: fact and point / Evelien Keizer -- Binominal constructions. From an icy hell of a night to a hell of a fine story: the development of the English binominal noun phrase and beyond / Elnora ten Wolde -- Time-measurement constructions in English: a corpus-based exploration / Melanie J. …”
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The war criminal's son : the civil war saga of William A. Winder by Singer, Jane, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Bedeviled winter of war -- The double agent and the captain -- Of toil, treason, and the golden land -- A godforsaken fortress -- Treason at Alcatraz -- A rebel cell -- Invasions, arrests, and cannon fire -- The loyal man and the madman -- A slog to hell -- The war criminal's son -- Of resignation, railroads, and exile -- Heal thyself -- The lone and goodly doctor -- Pension or ruination -- Round valley -- Rosebud -- Of lives lost.…”
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Exorcising Devils from the Throne : Sao Tome and Principe. by Francisco, Albertino, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; Part One: Paradise and Hell on Earth; Chapter I: The Promised Land; Chapter 2: The Shrine of Evil: Impressions at a Glance; Part Two: Performing So Badly; Chapter 3: The Clown's Party; Chapter 4: State Bankruptcy; Part Three: Rising From the Dead; Chapter 5: Understanding the Political Class; Chapter 6: The Ultimate Assignment; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Index.…”
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Porcupine, Picayune, & Post : how newspapers get their names by Bernhard, Jim

Table of Contents: “…-- You've got mail -- Gray ladies no more -- "Print the news and raise hell" -- Party time -- Sound the alarm -- Let there be light -- "Advertisements--the life of a paper" -- Flora and Fauna -- Myth-ellaneous -- The wheel and other inventions -- Location, location, location -- Oddities -- The Brute, the beast, and other figments -- All in fun -- So sue me.…”
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Organized crime, drug trafficking, and violence in Mexico : the transition from Felipe Calderón to Enrique Peña Nieto by Rosen, Jonathan D., Zepeda Martínez, Roberto

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: historical context and influential factors -- Felipe Calderón's war on drugs: an examination of the counternacrotics strategies -- The bloodbath: the results of the drug war during the Calderón administration -- The Enrique Peña Nieto government: drug war strategies and their consequences -- Failed states within Mexico: problematic zones for the Peña Nieto government -- Organized crime and the prison system: hell on earth -- Reforms, challenges, and policy proposals.…”
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A Short History of the First World War : Land, Sea and Air, 1914-1918. by Kerr, Gordon

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Blurb; About the Author; Title; By the Same Author; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Chapter One: The Inevitability of War; Chapter Two: 1914 'Home for Christmas'; Chapter Three: 1915 Digging In; Chapter Four: 1916 A New Kind of Hell; Chapter Five: 1917 The Beginning of the End; Chapter Six: 1918 Endgame; Chapter Seven: Peace at a Price; Further Reading; Copyright.…”
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The last Indian war : the Nez Perce story by West, Elliott, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…-- Maneuvering and scrapping -- Ways of life, ways of war -- Leaving home -- Big hole -- Toward Buffalo country -- War in Wonderland -- "The best skirmishers in the world" -- Toward the medicine line -- Under the bear's paw -- Going to hell -- Eeikish Pan and return.…”
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Paranormal America (second edition) : Ghost Encounters, UFO Sightings, Bigfoot Hunts, and Other Curiosities in Religion and Culture. by Bader, Christopher D.

Table of Contents: “…The Thrill of the Haunt; 5. Round Trip to Hell in a Flying Saucer?; 6. Paranormal Subcultures; 7. …”
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Thought and world : an austere portrayal of truth, reference, and semantic correspondence by Hill, Christopher S.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Truth in the Realm of Thoughts; 3 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Reconciling Deflationary Semantics with Correspondence Intuitions; 4 Indexical Representation and Deflationary Semantics; 5 Why Meaning Matters; 6 Into the Wild Blue Yonder: Nondesignating Concepts, Vagueness, Semantic Paradox, and Logical Paradox; Notes; Index.…”
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The tragic vision of politics : ethics, interests, and orders by Lebow, Richard Ned

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Nixon in hell; 2 Tragedy and politics; 3 Thucydides and war; 4 Thucydides and civilization; 5 Carl von Clausewitz; 6 Hans J. …”
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Artificial intelligence and the environmental crisis : can technology really save the world? by Skene, Keith, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Ethics in AI -- Gender, race, culture and fear -- The thinker : human intelligence -- Other modes of intelligence : thinking outside the human box -- Highway to hell : the existentialist threat facing humankind -- Forget the Romans. …”
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Alone on the Colorado by Leich, Harold H.

Table of Contents: “…The spell of swift water -- Bewitched -- The source -- In the wake of Sam Adams -- Riding the riffles -- Swapping horses in midstream -- Ulysses -- Shipwrecked in the desert -- Afoot and afloat -- Hell or Hanksville -- Farewell to the Colorado -- Appendix : reaction of Hal Leich's parents to his river trips by Jeff Leich and Harry Leich -- Afterword : Hal Leich and his book : a history and a reflection by Jeff Leich and Harry Leich.…”
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Julie and Julia : 365 days, 524 recipes, 1 tiny apartment kitchen ... by Powell, Julie

Table of Contents: “…The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes -- Joy of cooking -- You have to break a few eggs -- Hacking the marrow out of life -- --to make an omelette -- Disaster/dinner party, dinner party/disaster -- The law of diminishing returns -- They shoot lobsters, don't they? …”
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Hungry for ecstasy : trauma, the brain, and the influence of the sixties by Farber, Sharon Klayman

Table of Contents: “…Ecstasy : the falling, the dying, and being born again -- Altered states of consciousness -- The brain and altered states of consciousness -- The sixties : something is happening here -- Marketing and producing ecstasy -- Cult-induced ecstasy and psychosis -- Ecstasies of pain and near-death experiences -- Religious ecstasies -- Killing, cannibalism, and other ecstasies from hell -- Creative ecstasies -- Intervening with those on the road to ecstasy -- Intersubjectivity and the power of the therapist's affective experience.…”
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Disasters and the American state : how politicians, bureaucrats, and the public prepare for the unexpected by Roberts, Patrick S., 1975-

Table of Contents: “…From disaster relief to disaster management -- The origins of the disaster state, 1789-1914 -- Civil defense and the foundations of disaster policy, 1914-1979 -- The rise of emergency management and FEMA, 1979-2001 -- Terrorism and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, 1993-2003 -- "Where the hell is the army?": Hurricane Katrina meets the homeland security era -- Administrative evil and elite panic in disaster management -- Disasters and the American state.…”
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Bones of the Others : the Hemingway Text from the Lost Manuscripts to the Posthumous Novels. by Justice, Hilary K., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…A Pilgrim's Progress into Hell: Death in the Afternoon and the Problem of Authorship; 5. …”
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Mourning headband for Hue : an account of the battle for Hue, Vietnam 1968 by Nhã Ca, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Small preface : writing to take responsibility -- First hours -- The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer -- On a boat trip -- Hodge-podge -- A person from Tu Dam comes back and tells his story -- Going back into the hell of the fighting -- Story from the citadel -- Returning to the old house -- A dog in midstream -- Little child of Hue, little child of Vietnam, I wish you luck.…”
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Technophobia! : science fiction visions of posthuman technology by Dinello, Daniel, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: dreams of techno-heaven, nightmares of techno-hell -- Technology is God: machine transcendence -- Haunted utopias: artificial humans and mad scientists -- Cybernetic slaves: robotics -- Machines out of control: artificial intelligence and androids -- Rampaging cyborgs: bionics -- Infinite cyberspace cages: the internet and virtual reality -- Engineered flesh: biotechnology -- Malevolent molecular machines: nanotechnology -- Technology is a virus: machine plague -- Epilogue: technophobia.…”
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The Protestant interest : New England after Puritanism by Kidd, Thomas S.

Table of Contents: “…Fidelity to Christ and to the Protestant succession": Benjamin Colman and the Protestant interest -- Let Hell and Rome do their worst": World news the Catholic threat, and international Protestantism -- Protestants, Popery and prognostications: New England almanacs -- "The devil and the Father Ralee": narrating Father Rale's war -- The madness of the Jacobite Party": imagining a high church Jacobite threat -- The dawning of the sabbath of rest promised to the people of God: eschatology and identity.…”
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The accidental revolutionary : George Whitefield and the creation of America by Mahaffey, Jerome Dean

Table of Contents: “…-- Between two extremes -- Good king, bad king -- Church and state -- France, Rome, and hell -- Reprisal from the Church of England -- The deep laid plot -- Preaching himself to death -- Whitefield's legacy -- A political man.…”
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The Battle of Verdun by Axelrod, Alan, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…-- Driant's last stand -- The third day -- Imperfect storm -- The fall of Fort Douaumont -- "Now everything is going to be all right" -- Reversals of fortune -- Fight for a dead man -- "They shall not pass!" -- A regular hell -- "The first offensive Battle of Verdun" -- Epilogue.…”
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A deed so accursed : lynching in Mississippi and South Carolina, 1881-1940 by Finnegan, Terence, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- "Strictly a white man's country, with a white man's civilization" : lynching in Mississippi -- "To hell with the constitution" : lynching in South Carolina -- "No rights for the negro which a white man is bound to respect" : lynching and political power in Mississippi and South Carolina -- "The equal of some white men and the superior of others" : African American victims of lynching -- "An example must be made" : lynch mobs and the response of African Americans.…”
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A deed so accursed : lynching in Mississippi and South Carolina, 1881-1940 by Finnegan, Terence, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- "Strictly a white man's country, with a white man's civilization" : lynching in Mississippi -- "To hell with the constitution" : lynching in South Carolina -- "No rights for the negro which a white man is bound to respect" : lynching and political power in Mississippi and South Carolina -- "The equal of some white men and the superior of others" : African American victims of lynching -- "An example must be made" : lynch mobs and the response of African Americans.…”
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Christ our hope : an introduction to eschatology by O'Callaghan, Paul, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…The Christian virtue of hope and the epistemological underpinnings of Christian eschatology -- Parousia : the future coming of the Lord Jesus in glory -- The resurrection of the dead -- The new heavens and the new earth -- Final judgment -- Heaven : eternal life in the glory of Christ -- Hell : the perpetual retribution of the sinner -- The living presence of the Parousia -- Death, the end of the human pilgrimage -- Purgatory : the purification of the elect -- The implications of an "intermediate eschatology " -- The central role of Christian eschatology in theology.…”
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Technophobia! : science fiction visions of posthuman technology by Dinello, Daniel, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: dreams of techno-heaven, nightmares of techno-hell -- Technology is God: machine transcendence -- Haunted utopias: artificial humans and mad scientists -- Cybernetic slaves: robotics -- Machines out of control: artificial intelligence and androids -- Rampaging cyborgs: bionics -- Infinite cyberspace cages: the internet and virtual reality -- Engineered flesh: biotechnology -- Malevolent molecular machines: nanotechnology -- Technology is a virus: machine plague -- Epilogue: technophobia.…”
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Mad cows and mother's milk : the perils of poor risk communication by Leiss, William, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…-- A diagnostic for risk communication failures -- Dioxins, or chemical stigmata -- Hamburger hell -- Silicone breasts -- Lost in regulatory space : rBST -- Gene escape -- Mother's milk -- Ten lessons -- Two stinking cows : the mismanagement of BSE risk in North America -- A night at the climate casino : Canada and the Kyoto quagmire -- Life in the fast lane : an introduction to genomics risks.…”
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Transhumanist dreams and dystopian nightmares : the promise and peril of genetic engineering by Mehlman, Maxwell J.

Table of Contents: “…-- Visions of Heaven and Hell -- Thinking about the Unthinkable -- Part 2. …”
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The Protestant interest : New England after Puritanism by Kidd, Thomas S.

Table of Contents: “…Fidelity to Christ and to the Protestant succession": Benjamin Colman and the Protestant interest -- Let Hell and Rome do their worst": World news the Catholic threat, and international Protestantism -- Protestants, Popery and prognostications: New England almanacs -- "The devil and the Father Ralee": narrating Father Rale's war -- The madness of the Jacobite Party": imagining a high church Jacobite threat -- The dawning of the sabbath of rest promised to the people of God: eschatology and identity.…”
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