Russia before the "radiant future" : essays in modern history, culture, and society / by Confino, Michael, 1926-2010

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Russia before the "radiant future" : essays in modern history, culture, and society / by Confino, Michael, 1926-2010

Amenhotep III : Egypt's radiant pharaoh / by Kozloff, Arielle P., PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Cover; AMENHOTEP III: EGYPT'S RADIANT PHARAOH; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; AMENHOTEP III AS HE IS VIEWED TODAY; GEOGRAPHIC, CULTURAL, AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND; The Serpentine Nile; Egypts Early History: From the Unification to the First Intermediate Period (ca. 3000-2040 B.C.); The Middle Kingdom, the Rise of Amun, and the Second Intermediate Period (ca. 2040-1550 B.C.); The Early New Kingdom: Dynasty 18, Amenhotep III's Ancestral Line, and the Rise of Thebes (ca. 1550-1411 B.C.); A NOTE ON THE SPELLINGS OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN NAMES.…”
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Amenhotep III : Egypt's radiant pharaoh / by Kozloff, Arielle P.

Afghanistan, non-alignment and the super powers / by Wakman, Mohammad Amin

India and South Asia since 1971 / by Paranjpe, Shrikant

Unresolved conflict, China and India / by Sandhu, Bhim

Red Britain : the Russian Revolution in mid-century culture / by Taunton, Matthew, Oxford Scholarship Online

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The radiant future -- Two and two make five -- Crime and punishment -- Homestead versus Kolschoz -- The compensations of illiteracy -- Conclusion.…”
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Private face of a public person : a study of Jawaharlal Nehru / by Asaf Ali, Aruna, 1909-, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library

Indian foreign policy : the Indira Gandhi years / by Nehru Memorial Museum and Library

China South Asian relations, 1947-1980 /

Making war, forging revolution : Russia's continuum of crisis, 1914-1921 / by Holquist, Peter, ACLS Humanities Ebook

Table of Contents: “…Russia at War-- "Radiant Days of Freedom" -- Persuasion and Force -- Toward Civil War -- Forging a Social Movement -- "We Will Have to Exterminate the Cossacks" --"Psychological Consolidation" -- The Revolution as Orthodoxy Conclusion: The Emergence of the Soviet State.…”
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City of heavenly tranquility : Beijing in the history of China / by Becker, Jasper

Table of Contents: “…In Xanadu -- The emperor of perpetual happiness -- Madness in the Forbidden City -- On the wild wall -- The Ming tombs -- In the garden of perfect brightness -- The broken bowl tea house -- The last sanctuary of the unknown and marvellous -- The last manchus -- In search of the golden flower -- Mao and Beijing -- History in stone -- The strange death of Lao She -- The red maid's tale -- The last playboy of Beijing -- The protectress of flowers -- Radiant city of the future -- Destroy! -- The eternal present.…”

From She-Wolf to Martyr : the reign and disputed reputation of Johanna I of Naples / by Casteen, Elizabeth, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…The murder of Andrew of Hungary and the making of a Neapolitan she-wolf -- From she-wolf to radiant queen : the reign of Louis of Taranto and the rehabilitation of Johanna of Naples -- A most loving daughter : filial piety and the apogee of Johanna's reign -- An especially good friend to saints : friendship, politics, and the performance of sovereignty -- The schism of the western church and the division of Johanna of Naples.…”
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Shimmering screens making media in an aboriginal community / by Deger, Jennifer, ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions, ProQuest (Firm)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Culture and complicities : an indigenous media research project -- (In)visible difference : framing questions of culture, media, and technology -- Tuning in : mediated imaginaries and problems of deafness and forgetting -- On the "mimetic faculty" and the refractions of culture -- Taking pictures : media technologies and a Yolngu politics of presencing -- Flowers and photographs : death, memory, and techno mimetics -- Technology, techne, and Yolngu videomaking -- Shimmering verisimilitudes : making video, managing images, manifesting truths -- Worlding a Yolngu world : radiant visions and the flash of recognition -- Conclusion.…”
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The British way of war : Julian Corbett and the battle for a national strategy / by Lambert, Andrew D., 1956-, JSTOR books

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Victorian Empire -- CHAPTER 2 Making Waves -- CHAPTER 3 Finding an Audience -- CHAPTER 4 Politics and Policy -- CHAPTER 5 England in the Mediterranean -- CHAPTER 6 The Naval War Course -- CHAPTER 7 Strategy, Culture and History -- CHAPTER 8 Shaping the 'British Way' -- CHAPTER 9 'Radiant with the Genius of a Maritime State' -- CHAPTER 10 Policy, Strategy and International Law -- CHAPTER 11 Imperial Pageantry -- CHAPTER 12 Tactics, Signals and Trafalgar…”
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Showa : an Inside History of Hirohito's Japan. by Morris-Suzuki, Tessa, PALCI EBSCO books

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Alexandria in late antiquity : topography and social conflict / by Haas, Christopher, PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Urban Topography and Late Antique PaganismThe Sociology of Paganism in Late Antique Alexandna; The Downfall of Serapis; The Pagans of Fifth-Century Alexandria; Six: The Christian Community: The Interior Landscape and the Civic Landscape; Obstacles to Understanding; Modes of Conversion; The Christians of House D; The Christianization of Public Space; Seven: The Inner Life of the Christian Community: Clergy and People; The Seven Eyes of God -- Laos Theou; Eight: Community and Factionalism in the Christian Community; Radiant and Inexpressible Power…”
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Four scraps of bread : (quatre petits bouts de pain) / by Hollander-Lafon, Magda

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