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Christian-Muslim Dialogue: Perspectives of Four Lebanese Thinkers - Heidi Hirvonen - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=aTcyAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=%22Faculty+Associate+in+Shi'ite+Islam+and+Christian-Muslim+Relat
This book examines how Christian-Muslim dialogue is envisioned by four present-day Lebanese thinkers: Great Ayatollah Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah, Doctor Mahmoud Ayoub, Metropolitan Georges Khodr and Doctor, Father Mouchir Basile Aoun.
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The Posthumous Career of Emiliano Zapata: Myth, Memory, and Mexico's ... - Samuel Brunk - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=IySJg8q9HpEC&pg=PA67&dq=%22Antonio+R%C3%ADos+Zertuche%22&hl=de&ei=MHZmTMbMKc-E4Ab66pSZBA&sa=X&oi
This is a comprehensive examination of the Zapata legacy which incorporates archival research and wide-ranging cultural issues. It examines all perspectives, from politicized commemorations of Zapata's death to popular stories and corridos.
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Chronologies of Modern Terrorism - Barry M. Rubin, Judith Colp Rubin - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=RIwBFpBi5noC&pg=PA44
Concise yet comprehensive, this one-volume reference examines the history of terrorism in the modern world, including its origins and development, and terrorist acts by groups and individuals from the French Revolution to today.
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Ecological Sustainability: Understanding Complex Issues - Robert B. Northrop, Anne N. Connor - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=3zLYZrmvll0C&pg=PA96#v=onepage
Complex systems is a new field of science studying how parts of a system give rise to the collective behaviors of the system, and how the system interacts with its environment. This book examines the complex systems involved in environmental…
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Sexual violence in German culture: rereading and rewriting the tradition - Sabine H. Smith - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?hl=de&id=4iAhAQAAIAAJ
The project examines fictional and non-fictional texts on sexual violence in German culture between 1774 and 1994. Specifically, it juxtaposes historical and contemporary Penal Codes and statistical records from Germany, theoretical scholarship and applie
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The American Railroad Passenger Car - John H. White - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=bz0OBGxRjjcC&pg=PA524&lpg=PA524&dq=Denney+axle&source=bl&ots=ZKjWBo9zVQ&sig=ZmMliwqOSVfS0H_mC3t
An authoritative history of the American railroad passenger car, illustrated with nearly eight hundred photographs, engravings, and line drawings, examines interior designs and costs and recreates a lost age of elegance in rail travel
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Critical Companion to Kurt Vonnegut - Susan Farrell - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=G9l0LaJlcZkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Vonnegut,+Farrell&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAGoVChMI8_71q93Hy
Examines the life and works of Kurt Vonnegut including detailed synopses of a variety of his works, character descriptions, important places Vonnegut lived and wrote about, biographies of family, friends, and contemporaries, and more.
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Doctors Under Hitler - Michael H. Kater - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=lDMIHDTLEN4C&pg=PA77
In this history of medicine and the medical profession in the Third Reich, Michael Kater examines the career patterns, educational training, professional organization, and political socialization of German physicians under Hitler. His discussion ranges wi
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The Authority of the Word: Reflecting on Image and Text in Northern Europe ... - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=1dQyAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA400
This book examines scriptural authority and its textual and visual instruments, asking how words and images interacted to represent and by representing to constitute authority, both sacred and secular, in Northern Europe between 1400 and 1700.
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John La Farge, a Biographical and Critical Study - James L. Yarnall, John La Farge - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=HezNF8O7OOwC&pg=PA50#v=onepage
This is a biography of the American painter, illustrator, muralist, stained-glass artist, and writer, John La Farge. The book examines La Farge's career from his youth to his late rebound as a decorative artist.