Language Ideologies and the Globalization of?Standard? Spanish : Raising the Standard. by Paffey, Darren

Table of Contents: “…The Real Academia Española (Royal Academy of the Spanish Language)Other language authorities; Summary; 3 Spanish Linguistic Unity and the Global Community of Speakers; Introduction; Unity of the Spanish language; The community of Spanish-speakers; Unity and community in standardization discourse; Summary; 4 The Role and Authority of the Real Academia Española and Other Guardians of Spanish; Introduction; The role of language guardians in standardization; The discursive legitimization of role and authority; Summary; 5 The Spanish Language in the World; Introduction.…”
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The necessary dream : new theories and techniques of interpretation in psychoanalysis / Giuseppe Civitarese ; translated by Ian Harvey. by Civitarese, Giuseppe, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…About the author -- Introduction -- Dark contemplation -- Dream fictions -- The Cell and the cruel/painful world of Carl Stargher -- The inability to dream in They and Dark City -- The dream as an aesthetic object -- Losing your mind, finding your mind -- Reverie, or how to capture a killer ( -content) -- Dreams of dreams -- Are dreams still the guardians of sleep? -- Filmography -- References -- Index.…”
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Upstaging the Cold War : American dissent and cultural diplomacy, 1940-1960 / Andrew J. Falk. by Falk, Andrew Justin, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…: the American postwar mission -- Casting the Iron Curtain -- Projectors of power : containment policy in Hollywood -- Test patterns : making room for dissent in television -- Guardians of the golden age : Cold War television and the imagined audience -- The cultural battlefield in Europe -- Afterword : the Cold War epic.…”
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Shaping Automated Driving to Achieve Societal Mobility Needs A Human-Systems Integration Approach / edited by Peter Moertl, Bernhard Brandstaetter.

Table of Contents: “…Shaping Automated Driving to meet Societal Mobility Needs: The HADRIAN Project -- User-Centered Design of Automated Driving to Meet European Mobility Needs -- An Integrated Display of Fluid Human Systems Interactions -- Automated Driving Vehicle Functionality as Guardian Angel -- Results of two Demonstrations of Holistic Solutions for Automated Vehicles to Increase Usefulness and Safety.…”
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Imagined civilizations : China, the West, and their first encounter / Roger Hart. by Hart, Roger (Roger Preston)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Science as the Measure of Civilizations -- From Copula to Incommensurable Worlds -- Mathematical Texts in Historical Context -- Tracing Practices Purloined by the Three Pillars -- Xu Guangqi, Grand Guardian -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A : Zhu Zaiyu's New Theory of Calculation -- Appendix B : Xu Guangqi's Right Triangles, Meanings -- Appendix C : Xu Guangqi's Writings.…”
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We the elites : why the US Constitution serves the few / Robert Ovetz. by Ovetz, Robert

Table of Contents: “…-- The framers' vision -- Preamble: "Intoxicating draughts of liberty run mad" -- Congress : justice to property -- Congress : designed for inefficiency -- Congress : power of the purse -- The executive : the rule of one -- The executive : unrestrained global guardian of property -- The judiciary : the servant above his master -- Amendments and ratification : an act of force and not of right -- Beyond the Constitution.…”
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International Ombudsman Yearbook. by Staff, International Ombudsman Institute

Table of Contents: “…""Table of Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Who Guards the Guardians? Recent Developments Concerning the Jurisdiction and Accountability of Ombudsmen in Australia""; ""The New Law Governing the Conduct of Local Authority Members in Wales""; ""The Establishment and Operation of the People's Advocate: The Ombudsman in Albania""; ""Challenges Facing the New Ethiopian Ombudsman Institution""; ""Tanzania's Commission for Human Rights and Good Governance: A Critique of the Legislation""…”
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Innovators in digital news / Lucy Küng. by Küng, Lucy

Table of Contents: “…Why are Some Digital News Organisations More Successful than Others? -- 2. The Guardian -- 'Global, Open, Digital' -- 3. The New York Times -- Digitising 'The Grey Lady' -- 4. …”
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The writer's journey : mythic structure for writers / Christopher Vogler. by Vogler, Christopher, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…1: Mapping the journey -- A practical guide -- The archetypes -- Hero -- Mentor: wise ole man or woman -- Threshold guardian -- Herald -- Shapeshifter -- Shadow -- Ally -- Trickster -- 2: Stages of the journey -- Ordinary world -- Call to adventure -- Refusal of the call -- Meeting with the mentor -- Crossing the first threshold -- Tests, allies, enemies -- Approach to the inmost cave -- The ordeal -- Reward -- The road back -- The resurrection -- Return with the Elixir.…”
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Baptism of fire : A novel of the witcher / Andrzej Sapkowski. by Sapkowski, Andrzej

Rabbis of our Time : Authorities of Judaism in the Religious and Political Ferment of Modern Times. by Čejka, Marek

Table of Contents: “…; The Lithuanian giant; In the name of the Torah and science; The guardian of Jerusalem; Guardian of the Jewish traditions from Satmar; The righteous man who bribed the Devil; The king of rabbinical politics; 4 A collection of shorter profiles of several rabbis; Arik W. …”
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Newspeak in the 21st century / David Edwards & David Cromwell. by Edwards, David, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…No conspiracy : solving the propaganda puzzle -- BBC balance : the magnificent fiction -- Back to back bias : an A-Z of BBC propaganda -- Climate chaos : keeping madness mainstream -- Plan A/Plan B: the Downing Street memo -- Mind your methodology : killing the 2004 Lancet report -- One million dead and counting : the 2006 Lancet report and beyond -- Bitter harvest : bombings in Britain, Spain and Iraq -- Israel and Palestine : an eye for an eyelash -- Real men go to Tehran : targeting Iran -- Iran in Iraq -- Venezuela : dousing the firebrand -- Liberal press gang : behind the scenes at the Independent and the Guardian -- Brilliant fools : snarls, smears and the dark art of Willy-waving -- Compassion, awareness and honest journalism.…”
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The Ugly Woman : Transgressive Aesthetic Models in Italian Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque. by Bettella, Patrizia

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Female Ugliness in the Middle Ages: The Old Hag -- Misogyny and Female Old Age in Medieval Culture -- Rhetoric and the Ugly -- Comic-Realistic Poetry: Rustico Filippi and Guido Guinizzelli -- Misogyny and Antistilnovismo: Cecco Angiolieri and Nicolò de' Rossi -- Stilnovistic Parody and Antifeminist Bias in Guido Cavalcanta and Niccola Muscia -- 2 Transgression in the Trecento and Quattrocento: Guardian, Witch, Prostitute -- The Old Guardian in Comic Poetry and Franco Sacchetti -- Descriptive Vituperation: Guarding and Slandering in Minstrel Poetry -- The Witch in Burchiello and Giovan Matteo di Meglio -- The Old Prostitute: Angelo Poliziano -- 3 The Portrait of the Ugly Woman in the Renaissance: The Peasant, the Anti-Laura -- Paradoxical Praise -- Parody in Rustic Poetry -- Praised Ugliness/Otherness: The Peasant in Strascino, Berni, and Firenzuola -- Transgression on the Margins: The Disgusting Other -- Anti-Petrarchism: The Anti-Laura in Berni, Doni, and Aretino -- 'Stanze in Praise of the Ugly Woman' -- 4 New Perspectives in Baroque Poetry: Unconventional Beauty -- From Ugliness to Unconventional Beauty -- The Dark Lady -- In Praise of Dark Hair -- In Praise of Dark Skin: The Exotic Other -- Female Old Age Revisited -- Lice and Fleas: Beauty and Vermin between Witticism and Parody -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- 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.…”
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Lancelot, or, The knight of the cart / Chrétien de Troyes ; translated by Ruth Harwood Cline. by Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- LANCELOT; OR, THE KNIGHT OF THE CART -- Prologue -- The Abduction of Guinevere -- The Cart -- The Flaming Lance -- The Guardian of the Ford -- The Amorous Hostess -- The Gilded Comb -- The Games -- The Tombs -- The Stony Passageway -- The Riot -- The Proud Knight -- The Sword Bridge -- The Duel for the Queen -- The Queen's Rejection -- The Queen's Repentance -- The Tryst -- Legal Combat -- Lancelot's Betrayal -- The Tournament -- Lancelot's Imprisonment -- The Last Battle…”
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The Government of Money : Monetarism in Germany and the United States. by Johnson, Peter A.

Table of Contents: “…The Monetarist Revolution and the Fed, 1970-1985; 6. Central Banks as Guardians of Democracy; Notes; Index…”
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Staging spectatorship in the plays of Philip Massinger / Joanne Rochester. by Rochester, Joanne

Table of Contents: “…: plays within the play: The Roman actor -- "For your sport / You shall see a masterpiece": Masques-within in The picture, The guardian and The city madam -- "Speculations / On cheating pictures": visual art as dramatic inset: The picture -- "Make your howse the stage on which weel act/our comick sceane: trials and paradramatic scenes.…”
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The rise and fall of early American magazine culture / Jared Gardner. by Gardner, Jared

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the literary museum and the unsettling of the early American novel -- American spectators, tatlers, and guardians : transatlantic periodical culture in the eighteenth century -- The American magazine in the early national period : publishers, printers, and editors -- The American magazine in the early national period : readers, correspondents, and contributors -- The early American magazine in the nineteenth century : Brown, Rowson, and Irving -- Conclusion : what happened next.…”
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Twentieth century Jews : forging identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land / Monty Noam Penkower. by Penkower, Monty Noam, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…The Kishinev pogrom of 1903 -- Abraham Isaac Selmanowitz: guardian of tradition -- The 'Jewish seat' of Justice Felix Frankfurter -- The genesis of the American Council for Judaism -- The Jewish Times of Arthur Hays Sulzberger -- The silences of Bialik -- A lost opportunity for Orthodoxy -- Haim Arlosoroff's murder and Israel's political divide -- Shlomo Ben-Yosef: from a British gallows to Israel's pantheon to obscurity.…”
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The road to Nunavut : the progress of the eastern Arctic Inuit since the Second World War / R. Quinn Duffy. by Duffy, R. Quinn (Ronald Quinn), 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Reluctant Guardian -- 1 Supplying Shelter -- 2 Looking after Health -- 3 Providing an Education -- 4 Providing a Living -- 5 Relinquishing Authority -- Notes -- 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…”
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