Stigma : marking skin in the early modern world /

Table of Contents: “…The invisible mark : representing baptism in early modern French dramaturgy /…”
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Disciplinary Spaces : Spatial Control, Forced Assimilation and Narratives of Progress since the 19th Century /

Table of Contents: “…Law into the Far West: Territorial Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Spatial Imagination in the Baptism of the Brazilian Nation-State (1930s-1940s) --…”
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A Pearl in the storm : how I found my heart in the middle of the ocean / by McClure, Tori Murden

Table of Contents: “…The quest begins -- Women and stomachs first -- A shark and an explosion -- Baptism by storm -- Death on deck -- Independence day -- Sea lions in the middle of the north Atlantic -- Three strokes forward, two strokes back -- Storm petrels -- Theodore Roosevelt's burial at sea -- Where's the rest of it, and what ate it? …”

Images and objects in ritual practices in medieval and early modern northern and central Europe /

Table of Contents: “…Table of contents; acknowledgements; introduction; part i; late medieval imagesand the variabilityof rituals; "to show that the place is divine"; the rosary and the wounds of christ; image, time and ritual; morian and merian. word and image; part ii; the gaze of power, the act of obedience; baptism and the king's coronation; in between the secular and the religious; images of hereditary succession; magic of presence; between act, image, and memory; part iii; the self-representation of thelate medieval cistercian abbot; memoria and sacral artin late medieval livonia.…”
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One small town, one crazy coach : the Ireland Spuds and the 1963 Indiana high school basketball season / by Roos, Mike, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Gloomsday -- No Irish in Ireland -- Neither a Drunkard Nor a Bank Robber -- Baptisms -- Turkey Run and the White Horse Tavern -- A Wop and a Wimp and a Moon -- Too Much Is Not Enough -- Life under the Knife -- Ice Man -- Your Blood, Your Sweat, Your Tears -- Drill, Baby, Drill! …”
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The life-giving myth and other essays / by Hocart, A. M. 1884-1939

Table of Contents: “…Childhood ceremonies -- 18. Baptism by fire -- 19. Initiation and manhood -- 20. …”
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The place of the dead : death and remembrance in late medieval and early modern Europe /

Table of Contents: “…Boyden -- Tokens of innocence: infant baptism, death and burial in early modern England / Will Coster -- The afterlives of monstrous infants in reformation Germany / Philip M. …”

Life in the slipstream : the legend of Bobby Walthour Sr / by Homan, Andrew M., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Georgia Peach Blossom; 2 Bobby and Blanche; 3 Prince of atlanta; 4 Bipartite Bicycling; 5 In the Slipstream; 6 Six Daze; 7 Gentlemen, Start Your Engines; 8 Twentieth Century Fox; 9 Cold Start, Big Money; 10 At the Edge of the Garden; 11 Sunday Preacher; 12 American Champion; 13 Back in Dixie; 14 Baptism of Blood; 15 Dixie Flyers; 16 L'Imbattable Walthour; 17 On Top of the World; 18 Sputtering Skyrocket; 19 Déjà Vu; 20 An American Superstar in Paris; 21 Crash and Burn; 22 Nine Lives; 23 Herr Walthour; 24 Russian Roulette Survivor; Notes; Index…”
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In the kingdom of ice : the grand and terrible polar voyage of the USS Jeannette / by Sides, Hampton

Table of Contents: “…The company of the USS Jeannette -- Baptism by ice -- A great blank space. A shocking Sabbath carnival of death ; Ne plus ultra ; The Lord of Creation ; For you I will dare anything ; Gateways to the Pole -- The national genius. …”

A centre of wonders : the body in early America /

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Demography and nutrition : evidence from historical and contemporary populations / by Scott, Susan, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…2.2 Exogenous oscillations in 404 parishes2.3 The role of wheat prices in driving exogenous population oscillations; 2.4 Short wavelength oscillation in baptisms in 404 parishes; 2.5 Conclusions; Chapter 3 The Staple Food Supply: Fluctuating Wheat Prices and Malnutrition; 3.1 Hypotheses to account for fluctuating grain prices; 3.2 Sources for the data series; 3.3 Cycles in the wheat price index; 3.4 Oats and barley price indices; 3.5 Correspondence between the grain price indices in England; 3.6 The effect of seasonal temperatures on wheat prices; 3.7 The effect of rainfall on wheat prices…”
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Travelling passions : the hidden life of Vilhjalmur Stefansson / by Gísli Pálsson, 1949-

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