The essential cult TV reader

Table of Contents: “…Howard -- Quantum leap / Lynnette Porter -- Red dwarf / Dee Amy-Chinn -- Roswell / Stan Beeler -- The Simpsons / Jonathan Gray -- South Park / Jason Jacobs -- Stargate SG-1 / Angela Ndalianis -- The Star trek franchise / Rhonda V. Wilcox -- Supernatural / Alison Peirse -- This life / Stephen Lacey -- Torchwood / Matt Hills -- 24 / Steven Peacock -- The twilight zone / Jonathan Malcolm Lampley -- Twin peaks / David Bianculli -- Ultraviolet / Stacey Abbott -- Veronica Mars / Sue Turnbull -- Wonderfalls / Stan Beeler -- Xena : warrior princess / Carolyn Skelton -- The X-files / Mikel J. …”
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Inside the Classroom (and Out) : How We Learn Through Folklore. by Untiedt, Kenneth L.

Table of Contents: “…Ghosts, Goblins, Virgins, and Other Supernatural CreaturesPart 5a. Language and Study; Part 5b. …”
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Sinister histories : Gothic novels and representations of the past, from Horace Walpole to Mary Wollstonecraft by Dent, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…Rapin, Walpole and Reeve: the Gothic, providence and the pastSupernatural pasts: providence and Reeve's didactic Gothic; Conflicted pasts: Rapin and Whig history; Historical perils: Whig history, Reeve and the Gothic; Old Whig reform: class and female persecution; Historical nightmares: Rapin and the 'Gothic' constitution; The Old English Baron and fears of constitutional degeneration; 'Gothic times and manners': Reeve, Rapin and military history; The Old English Baron and the nature of the past; The Gothic authoress and history; Notes.…”
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Haints : American ghosts, millennial passions, and contemporary gothic fictions. by Redding, Arthur F., 1964-

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Mongolian Literature Anthology. by Bawden

Table of Contents: “…An Incense-offering to the GunWorship of the Saddle-thongs; A Prayer to Manakhan Tngri; Obtaining a Site for Disposing of the Dead; On the Custom of Begging a Site for Disposing of a Dead Person; From Troubled Years; Ritual for Worshipping the Water-spirits and Local Deities; Shamanistic Incantations; Invocation of Queen Changkhulang; Fragment of an Invocation to the Spirits of the Black Direction; Folk-tales; Mostly Supernatural; Tricksters and Clever Talk; Tales about Balansengge; Mendicant Tales; Tales about Shagdar; Animal Tales; Nonsense Tales; Myths; Triads; Conversations.…”
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Outlaws of the Purple Cow and other stories by Goran, Lester

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King Solomon and the Golden Fish : Tales from the Sephardic Tradition. by Koén-Sarano, Matilda

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preamble; Preface; Introduction; Abbreviations; Part One: Tales of the Supernatural; 1 King Shelomó and the Golden Fish; 2 The Rights of Widows and Orphans; 3 A la Fín Everything Comes to Light; 4 The Fisherman and the Gold Fish; 5 The Wonderful Tendjereniko; 6 The King's Lost Son Transformed to a Dog; 7 When There Were No Mirrors in the World; 8 The Father's Will; Part Two: Tales of Fate; 9 The King's Daughter and the Gardener's Son; 10 The Three Sayings; 11 The Man without Mazál…”
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Collision of Realities : Establishing Research on the Fantastic in Europe. by Schmeink, Lars

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Gender and contemporary horror in film

Table of Contents: “…: critical intertextuality and the female vampire in Byzantium / Matthew Denny -- 'There's a ghost in my house': the female gothic and the supernatural in What Lies Beneath (2000) / Frances A. …”
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The hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer

Table of Contents: “…Bilom in Bashevis's Der knekht (The slave): A khaye hot oykh a neshome (An animal also has a soul) / Leonard Prager ; Art and religion in Der bal-tshuve (The penitent) / Alan Astro ; "Death is the only messiah": three supernatural stories by Yitskhok Bashevis / Jan Schwarz -- pt. 3. …”
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The hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer

Table of Contents: “…Bilom in Bashevis's Der knekht (The slave): A khaye hot oykh a neshome (An animal also has a soul) / Leonard Prager ; Art and religion in Der bal-tshuve (The penitent) / Alan Astro ; "Death is the only messiah": three supernatural stories by Yitskhok Bashevis / Jan Schwarz -- pt. 3. …”
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Surpassing modernity : ambivalence in art, politics and society by McNamara, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…exhibition, Hamburg, 2009-10The irresistibility of the Petty Bourgeoisie and its cloak of invisibility; Marxism and the petty bourgeoisie; Comrades and contemporaries, the 1970s, from the vanguard to intermediaries; From supermarkets to supernatural: Vision, magic, and the mediated; Conclusions: Petty-bourgeois revolutionaries?…”
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Serial Crime Fiction : Dying for More

Table of Contents: “…'Exspecta Inexspectata': The Rise of the Supernatural in Hybrid; Detective Series for Young Readers; Lucy AndrewBibliography.…”
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Vernacular Religion in Everyday Life : Expressions of Belief.

Table of Contents: “…'We, too, have seen a great miracle': Conversations and narratives on the supernatural among Hungarian-speaking Catholics in a Romanian village; PART IV: Creation and Maintenance of Community and Identity; 13. …”
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The House of the Black Ring A Romance of the Seven Mountains. by Pattee, Fred Lewis

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World Cinema Through Global Genres by Costanzo, William V.

Table of Contents: “…Soundless Screams on Silent Screens -- The 1930s: Universal's Classic Monsters -- The 1940s: World War II and Horror Noir -- The 1950s: Creature Features and the Cold War -- The 1960s: Psychos and Zombies, Civil Rights and Vietnam -- The 1970s: Stalking the American Family -- The 1980s: Hauntings and Howlings in the Age of Reagan -- The 1990s: Postmodern Horror and Supernatural Realism at the End of the Millennium -- The New Millennium: Horror to the Extreme -- Filmography -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Deep Focus on Japanese Cinemas -- Early History and Culture -- Genres and Aesthetics -- Anime…”
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Framing law and crime : an interdisciplinary anthology

Table of Contents: “…Picart, Tim Bower Rodriguez -- Globalization and the rise of the behemoth: a study in gothic criminology / Cecil Greek -- A depiction of evil, order and chaos: the symbiotic relationship of law and the supernatural in film and television / Farah Britto and Cecil Greek -- From reel to real: conducting filmic ethnography in criminology / Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Anders Petersen -- Epistemology and ethics in films of law and crime. …”
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Changing women, changing history : a bibliography of the history of women in Canada by Pedersen, Diana L. (Diana Lynn)

Table of Contents: “…Criminal Justice/CrimeEquality Rights -- General -- Legal Profession -- Marriage/Divorce/Custody -- Public Policy/Social Services -- MASS CULTURE/MEDIA -- Consumption/Advertising -- Media/Communications -- Tourism/Leisure -- MATERIAL CULTURE/POPULAR CULTURE -- Material Culture/Museums -- Popular Culture/Folklore -- MILITARY/WAR -- General -- POLITICS -- Biographies/Memoirs -- Political Participation -- RELIGION -- General -- Judaism -- Protestantism -- Roman Catholicism -- Witchcraft/Supernatural -- SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY -- General…”
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How to think like a Neandertal by Wynn, Thomas Grant, 1949-, Coolidge, Frederick L. (Frederick Lawrence), 1948-

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Ecology of a Tool The Ground Stone Axes of Irian Jaya (Indonesia). by Perequin, Pierre

Table of Contents: “…Postface -- Metal versus stone -- Ceramic techniques and acculturation processes -- Supernatural beings and cannibalistic cuisine…”
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More than discourse : symbolic expressions of naturalistic faith by Crosby, Donald A.

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30 great myths about the Romantics by Wu, Duncan

Table of Contents: “…Myth 8 Blake wrote `Jerusalem' as an anthem to EnglishnessMyth 9 Lyrical Ballads (1798) was designed to illustrate `the two cardinal points of poetry', using poems about everyday life and the supernatural; Myth 10 Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads was a manifesto for the Romantic revolution; Myth 11 Wordsworth had an incestuous relationship with his sister; Myth 12 Tory Wordsworth; Myth 13 The person from Porlock; Myth 14 Jane Austen had an incestuous relationship with her sister; Myth 15 The Keswick rapist; Myth 16 Byron had an affair with his sister.…”
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After life by Thacker, Eugene

Table of Contents: “…Life and the living (on Aristotelian biohorror) -- Supernatural horror as the paradigm for life -- Aristotle's De anima and the problem of life -- The ontology of life -- The entelechy of the weird -- Superlative life -- Life with or without limits -- Life as time in Plotinus -- On the superlative -- Superlative life I: Pseudo-Dionysius -- Negative vs. affirmative theology -- Superlative negation -- Negation and preexistent life -- Excess, evil, and non-being -- Superlative life II: Eriugena -- Negation in the Periphyseon -- The quaestio de nihilo: on nothing -- The quaestio de nihilo: superlative nothing -- Dark intelligible abyss -- Apophasis -- The apophatic logic -- Negation in Frege and Ayer -- Negation vs. subtraction in Badiou -- Negation and contradiction in Priest -- The dialetheic vitalism of negative theology -- Ellipses: Suhrawardī and the luminous void -- Univocal creatures -- On spiritual creatures -- Life as form in Aristotle -- The concept of the creature -- Univocity I: Duns Scotus vs. …”
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The environment : philosophy, science, and ethics

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Cosmic numbers : the numbers that define our universe by Stein, James D., 1941-

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A theory of Catholic education by Whittle, Sean

Table of Contents: “…How to begin constructing a robust theory of Catholic educationDeficiency 1: The problem of Catholic edu-babble; Deficiency 2: Problems caused by the confessional or catechetical meaning of Catholic education; Deficiency 3: The relationship between theology and education; How to repair the central deficiencies within the theory of Catholic education; Conclusion; 6 Using the Theology of Karl Rahner to Develop the Theory of Catholic Education; Introduction; Karl Rahner; Rahner's methodology; The anthropological turn; The supernatural existential; The transcendental existential.…”
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Exorcism and Its Texts : Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature of England and Spain. by Kallendorf, Hilaire

Table of Contents: “…4 Tragedy As the Absence or Failure of Exorcism -- The Relationship of Satire to Tragedy: Harsnett's Declaration -- Exorcism as Neo-Aristotelian Catharsis: King Lear -- The Demon As Scapegoat: A Yorkshire Tragedy, with a Note on Othello and Macbeth -- Tragedy, Possession, and Performativity: Hamlet -- 5 Self-Exorcism and the Rise of the Novel -- Poltergeists and Wizards: Supernatural Pranks in Part I of Don Quijote -- Mysterious Caves and Flying Horses: Diabolical Humour in Part II of Don Quijote -- Lucid Intervals and a Wise Enchanter: Demonic Possession in Don Quijote -- The Paradox of Self-Exorcism -- Self-Exorcism and the Rise of the Autonomous Novelistic Character -- Conclusion: Liturgy in Literature, or Early Modern Literary Theory and the Christian Legitimate Marvellous -- Epilogue: Problematizing the Category of 'Demonic Possession' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Illustrations.…”
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A Mennonite Family in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789-1923. by Rempel, David G.

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- List of Maps and Genealogical Figures -- Background of This Book -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Two Russian Mennonite Families -- PART ONE: Father's Ancestral Family: The Rempels -- 2 Cherkessy with Broken-Tipped Knives: The Rempel Clan -- 3 The First Three Generations of Rempels -- 4 A 'Better' Class of Rempels: The Maternal Lineage -- 5 Tribulations: My Paternal Grandparents -- 6 Father and His First Wife -- PART TWO: Mother's Ancestral Families: The Höppners, Hildebrands, Kovenhovens, and Paulses -- 7 Unjust Charges: The Fate of Jacob Höppner -- 8 Mennonite Service and Supernatural Tales: The Hildebrands -- 9 Piety and Pain: Mother's Paternal Ancestors -- 10 A Burdened Life: Grandfather Heinrich Pauls -- 11 Equanimity: Grandmother Pauls, 1901-1917 -- PART THREE: Boyhood -- 12 Life at Home -- 13 Father's Occupations -- 14 Apprehension Following the 1905 Revolution: Premonition of Chaos to Come -- 15 Class Conflicts within the Khortitsa Settlement -- 16 Growing Interest in Education -- PART FOUR: Fading Hopes: War and Revolution -- 17 The Outbreak of War -- 18 Harassment and the Confiscation of Property -- 19 Revolution and Reform: Challenges to the Old Guards -- PART FIVE: From Dream to Nightmare: Civil War and Makhnovite Terror (Makhnovshchina) -- 20 The First Phase of the Civil War, January to March 1918 -- 21 Nominal Security under Foreign Occupation, April to November 1918 -- 22 A Short Respite: Two Celebrations -- 23 The Civil War Deepens, November 1918 to September 1919 -- 24 Makhnovite Terror (Makhnovshchina): The Initial Stage, 21 September to 23 October 1919 -- 25 The Height of the Makhnovite Terror, 23 October to 23 December 1919 -- 26 Hostages -- 27 Typhus: The Nightmare Legacy of Makhnovite Terror, December 1919 to March 1920 -- 28 More Desperate Years: A Sketch -- Epilogue.…”
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Landfall 237 by Neale, Emma

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Charles Brasch Young Writers' Competition 2019: Judge's Report, Emma Neale -- The Taniwha, Moderation of Our Human Pursuits, Jack McConnell -- Bad Girls, Sam Keenan -- The Three Visible Photographs in the House of Old Don Wilkins, Aaron Horrell -- Pudding, Tina Makereti -- On Spinning, Leanne Radojkovich -- Breakages, Claire Orchard -- Petrichor, Art Nahill -- Alterations, Joan Fleming -- Papunya is Gorgeous Dirty and I Second-guess my Purposes, Joan Fleming -- The Vitruvian Baby, Maris O'Rourke -- The Swimmer, Laura Borrowdale -- Allegrophobia, Joanna Preston -- Lady with Lizard Tongue, Robynanne Milford -- ART PORTFOLIO, Sharon Singer -- The Supernatural Frame, Rachel O'Neill -- The Hungry Virgins, Rachel O'Neill -- Winter Swimmers, Carolyn DeCarlo -- Ruth Dallas-Turning, John Geraets -- Section 11, New Zealand Mental Health Act, Sarah Shirley -- echidna gets a name change, essa may ranipiri -- echidna thinks about the future, essa may ranipiri -- The Neverbird, Anna Woods -- Outside, 3 Years Old, Michael Hall -- Before I Was a Shepherd, Bill Bradford -- An excerpt from 'A Gift to Their Daughters', Claudia Jardine -- Lost Boat, Tom Weston -- Be Still, Jasmine Gallagher -- The Orchid Lovers, Kavita Nandan -- Lifting the Island, David Eggleton -- The Caravan Behind the Plum Tree, Catherine Trundle -- Ghosts, Kirsteen Ure -- Trial, Kerrin P. …”
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French and Italian Lexical Influences in German-speaking Switzerland : (1550-1650). by Rash, Felicity J.

Table of Contents: “…Ecclesiastical Vocabulary ""; ""Miscellaneous Vocabulary Attested In An Ecclesiastical Context ""; ""Suspicion And The Supernatural ""; ""2. Administrative And Legal Terminology ""; ""2.A Offices And Titles ""; ""2.B Groups Of Officials, Councils, Assemblies Etc…”
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Out of the blue : new short fiction from Iceland

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Mastery of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder : a Cognitive-Behavioral Approach Therapist Guide. by Foa, Edna B.

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Ritual Embodiment in Modern Western Magic : Becoming the Magician. by Lycourinos, Damon Zacharias

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The bleeding edge : why technology turns toxic in an unequal world by Hughes, Bob, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Enclosure in the computer age: the magic of control; The supernatural enters everyday life: the magic of commodities; Power over the future: the magic of intellectual property; Computers and the making of money; The world gets smaller and hotter; Closing the technological frontier (or trying to); Other routines are possible!…”
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There's Something about Gödel The Complete Guide to the Incompleteness Theorem. by Berto, Francesco

Table of Contents: “…-- 8 Bits of Turing machine -- 9 G1 and G2 in general -- 10 Unexpected fish in the formal net -- 11 Supernatural numbers -- 12 The culpability of the induction scheme -- 13 Bits of truth (not too much of it, though)…”
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Reportatio IV-A. by Bychkov, Oleg

Table of Contents: “…Question 4: Are the sacraments of the New Law endowed with some supernatural power which is in some way the cause of the creation of grace in the soul?…”
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A Mennonite Family in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789-1923. by Rempel, David G.

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- List of Maps and Genealogical Figures -- Background of This Book -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Two Russian Mennonite Families -- PART ONE: Father's Ancestral Family: The Rempels -- 2 Cherkessy with Broken-Tipped Knives: The Rempel Clan -- 3 The First Three Generations of Rempels -- 4 A 'Better' Class of Rempels: The Maternal Lineage -- 5 Tribulations: My Paternal Grandparents -- 6 Father and His First Wife -- PART TWO: Mother's Ancestral Families: The Höppners, Hildebrands, Kovenhovens, and Paulses -- 7 Unjust Charges: The Fate of Jacob Höppner -- 8 Mennonite Service and Supernatural Tales: The Hildebrands -- 9 Piety and Pain: Mother's Paternal Ancestors -- 10 A Burdened Life: Grandfather Heinrich Pauls -- 11 Equanimity: Grandmother Pauls, 1901-1917 -- PART THREE: Boyhood -- 12 Life at Home -- 13 Father's Occupations -- 14 Apprehension Following the 1905 Revolution: Premonition of Chaos to Come -- 15 Class Conflicts within the Khortitsa Settlement -- 16 Growing Interest in Education -- PART FOUR: Fading Hopes: War and Revolution -- 17 The Outbreak of War -- 18 Harassment and the Confiscation of Property -- 19 Revolution and Reform: Challenges to the Old Guards -- PART FIVE: From Dream to Nightmare: Civil War and Makhnovite Terror (Makhnovshchina) -- 20 The First Phase of the Civil War, January to March 1918 -- 21 Nominal Security under Foreign Occupation, April to November 1918 -- 22 A Short Respite: Two Celebrations -- 23 The Civil War Deepens, November 1918 to September 1919 -- 24 Makhnovite Terror (Makhnovshchina): The Initial Stage, 21 September to 23 October 1919 -- 25 The Height of the Makhnovite Terror, 23 October to 23 December 1919 -- 26 Hostages -- 27 Typhus: The Nightmare Legacy of Makhnovite Terror, December 1919 to March 1920 -- 28 More Desperate Years: A Sketch -- Epilogue.…”
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Sick planet : corporate food and medicine by Cox, Stan

Table of Contents: “…Down-to-a-trickle economics -- Dimming, global and local -- Dark horizon -- The 66,000-lb gorilla in the living room -- 8. Supernatural food -- Goliath junior vs. Goliath senior -- Shop where you work? …”
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Changing identities in modern Southeast Asia

Table of Contents: “…Kalab -- Yao (Iu mien) supernaturalism, language, and ethnicity / Peter K. Kandre -- Malay migration to Kuala Lumpur City : individual adaptation to the city / T.G. …”
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Fairy and folk tales of the Irish peasantry by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939

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