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Christ's churches purely reformed : a social history of Calvinism
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ISBN: 0300088124 030010507X 9780300088120 Year: 2002 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

Cities and social change in early modern France.
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ISBN: 0049440179 9780049440173 Year: 1989 Publisher: London Hyman

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The international Caravaggesque movement. Lists of pictures by Caravaggio and his followers throughout Europe from 1590 to 1650
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ISBN: 0714819166 Year: 1979 Publisher: Oxford : Phaidon Press,


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Environmental education for our common future : a handbook for teachers in Europe
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ISBN: 8200405532 Year: 1991 Publisher: Oslo Norwegian university press

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Imagined communities : reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism
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ISBN: 9781844670864 1844670864 Year: 2006 Publisher: London : Verso,


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Mendelssohn, time and memory : the romantic conception of cyclic form
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ISBN: 9781107005785 9780511794384 9781139161435 1139161431 9781139159388 1139159380 1283342499 9781283342490 9781139152884 1139152882 1107005787 9781139157612 1139157612 051179438X 1107221390 9786613342492 1139160435 1139155865 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Felix Mendelssohn has long been viewed as one of the most historically minded composers in western music. This book explores the conceptions of time, memory and history found in his instrumental compositions, presenting an intriguing new perspective on his ever-popular music. Focusing on Mendelssohn's innovative development of cyclic form, Taylor investigates how the composer was influenced by the aesthetic and philosophical movements of the period. This is of key importance not only for reconsideration of Mendelssohn's work and its position in nineteenth-century culture, but also more generally concerning the relationship between music, time and subjectivity. One of very few detailed accounts of Mendelssohn's music, the study presents a new and provocative reading of the meaning of the composer's work by connecting it to wider cultural and philosophical ideas.


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My country, mine country : Indigenous people, mining and development contestation in remote Australia
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ISBN: 192214472X 1922144738 9781922144737 Year: 2013 Publisher: Canberra : Australian National University, E Press,

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Within the context of three mining agreements in north Australia this study considers Indigenous livelihood aspirations and their intersection with sustainable development agendas.


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Victorian sculpture.
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ISBN: 0300025068 Year: 1982 Publisher: New Haven (Conn.) Yale university

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Virgin or vamp
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ISBN: 0195086651 9780195086652 1423738306 9781423738305 1280442247 9781280442247 1601299567 9781601299567 0195066804 9780195066807 9786610442249 0195358724 Year: 1992 Publisher: New York London Oxford University Press

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The national press has recently lavished coverage on several major sex-related scandals: the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings, the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, and the Mike Tyson case. With each event came lurid stories pitting either a loose or a virginal woman against an unwilling or monstrous man. Such extreme coverage, argues Helen Benedict, perpetuates myths that are harmful to the victims of these crimes (and sometimes to the accused). With the rise in reported rapes, more such myth-mongering stories are bound to be seen in the future. In Virgin or Vamp, Benedict addresses the press's tendency to misrepresent rape, denigrate victims, and invade the privacy of its subjects, while also pointing out the press's critical role in informing and educating the public. In this timely book, Benedict draws on her experience as a reporter and professor of journalism to examine the print press's treatment of four prominent sex crimes from the past decade - the Rideout marital rape^ trial in Oregon, the Big Dan's pool table gang rape in New Bedford, Massachusetts, the "Preppy Murder" in New York, and the Central Park jogger rape. By analyzing the language of the original news stories and interviewing the original reporters, Benedict identifies the press's tendency to label victims as either virgins or vamps, a practice she condemns as misleading and harmful. For example, she finds that the press worked so hard at portraying Jennifer Levin, the victim of the "Preppy Murder," as a man-chasing vamp that it made her seem as responsible for her death as was her killer, Robert Chambers. Likewise, Benedict shows how the press depicted Greta Rideout as a hysterical wife who accused her husband of rape for revenge, rather than as a victim of domestic battery who eventually escaped - the truth of the case. Benedict also looks at other factors that perpetuate the misunderstanding of rape. For instance, she shows how the New York press presented the Central Park jogger rape c ase as motivated by racism because of its unwillingness to consider rape an issue of gender. She also addresses our inherent language bias (more positive words exist to describe men than women), the press's tendency to use sexually suggestive language to describe crime victims, and its preference for crimes against whites. In her conclusion, Benedict analyzes the William Kennedy Smith rape case, and argues that the debate over naming victims is misconceived in light of the press's current lack of understanding about rape. More than a critique about the way the print press covers sex crimes, Virgin or Vamp also reveals the roots of rape coverage in the days of lynching, and shows how deep traditionalist views of women still run. Benedict concludes with both practical and radical suggestions of how reporters can challenge such views by covering these increasingly common crimes without further harming the victims, the defendants, or public understanding.

Shiny objects
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ISBN: 158729012X 9781587290121 0877451168 9780877451167 0877451176 9780877451174 Year: 1982 Publisher: Iowa City University of Iowa Press

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A successful professional painter and art instructor for years, Benedict was dissatisfied that she could paint petal-perfect flowers and expensive portraits of wealthy clients, but could not capture the light on the garden at dusk or the tender hands and faces of her own children. Seven years ago she walked into a poetry workshop and found ""the window I needed for my imagination."" She never painted another painting, and has never stopped writing. She got her BA in English and her MFA in writing at Goddard College, taught workshops, won scholarships, and recieved grants an

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