Writing history in Renaissance Italy : Leonardo Bruni and the uses of the past / by Ianziti, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Medici Florence -- Parallel Lives: Dante and Petrarch -- Bruni, the Medici, and the Florentine Histories -- The Florentine Histories: From Policy to Propaganda --pt. 4. …”
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Particles. by Gerber, Dan, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…A Time of the HoppersOn My Walk; Counting Treasures; The Bear on Main Street; Tarawa; South of Marrakech; Flight; Adrift; The Cool Earth; Spirit Harness; Psalm; Dust; Advice from the Burglar; The Favorite Child; Quite by Chance; A Face at the Window; Plum Rain; My Father's Fields; Wild Horses; from A Primer on Parallel Lives (2007); In Praise of Humberto Tapia; Tracking the Moment; Doing Nothing; Six Miles Up; A Small Dark Thing; Out Walking in Early November; A Theory of Wind; Madam Wei Remembers; Candor Seeks Its Own Unforeseeable Occasions; The Call; Eclipse; WWII; The Rain Poured Down.…”
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The third day at Gettysburg & beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Gallagher -- Cross purposes : Longstreet, Lee, and Confederate attack plans for July 3 at Gettysburg / William Garrett Piston -- Pickett's charge : the convergence of history and myth in the Southern past / Carol Reardon -- Armistead and Garnett : the parallel lives of two Virginia soldiers / Robert K. Krick -- Fredericksburg on the other leg : Sergeant Ben Hirst's narrative of important events, Gettysburg, July 3, 1863 -- From Gettysburg to falling waters : Meade's pursuit of Lee / A. …”
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The emergence of early Yiddish literature : cultural translation in Ashkenaz / by Frakes, Jerold C.

Table of Contents: “…(Non- )intersecting parallel lives : Pasquino in Rome and on the Rialto -- 4. …”
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Plutarch's prism : classical reception and public humanism in France and England, 1500-1800 / by Kingston, Rebecca

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Antony and Cleopatra / by Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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The falcon thief : a true tale of adventure, treachery, and the hunt for the perfect bird / by Hammer, Joshua, 1957-

Understanding ethnic segregation in contemporary Britain / by Halsall, Jamie

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William Dean Howells : a writer's life / by Goodman, Susan, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Chronology of Howells' life and work -- Parallel lives -- Warring ambitions, 1851/1859 -- Years of decision, 1859/1861 -- Consul at Venice, 1861/1865 -- Atlantic years, 1 : 1865/1867 -- Atlantic years, 2 : 1867/1871 -- His Mark Twain, from 1869 -- Fictional lives, 1871/1878 -- From Venice as far as Belmont, 1878/1882 -- In England and Italy, 1882/1883 -- The man of business, 1883/1886 -- Heartache and horror, 1886/1890 -- Words and deeds, 1890/1894 -- Peripatetic, 1895/1899 -- Kittery Point, 1900/1905 -- Greater losses, 1906/1910 -- Reconsiderations, 1911/1917 -- Eighty years and after, 1918/1920.…”
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The ground between : anthropologists engage philosophy /

Table of Contents: “…Ajala's heads : reflections on anthropology and philosophy in a West African setting / Michael Jackson -- The parallel lives of philosophy and anthropology / Didier Fassin -- The difficulty of kindness : boundaries, time, and the ordinary / Clara Han -- Ethnography in the way of theory / João Biehl -- The search for wisdom : why William James still matters / Arthur Kleinman -- Eavesdropping on Bourdieu's philosophers / Ghassan Hage -- How concepts make the world look different : affirmative and negative genealogies of thought / Bhrigupati Singh -- Philosophia and anthropologia: reading alongside Benjamin in Yazd, Derrida in Qum, Arendt in Tehran / Michael M.J. …”
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The palm at the end of the mind : relatedness, religiosity, and the real / by Jackson, Michael, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…The real -- Only connect -- 95 Irving street -- Reconnecting -- Missed connections -- Tertium quid -- The dead -- Mind the gap -- The genealogical imagination -- The penumbral -- After midnight -- Second skins -- On not severing the vine when harvesting the grape -- Corrupted con-texts -- The broken heart -- Incarnations -- The matrixial -- A letter from Athens -- Emily's journal -- Beginnings -- The pain in painting -- Paths -- Parallel lives -- My lunch with Arthur -- The wellness narratives -- Night -- Outside the window -- "What really matters" -- Knots -- Marina del Rey -- In limbo -- In media res -- In Wellington -- The enigma of anteriority -- Survivor guilt -- Ventifact -- Measured talk -- Heaven and hell -- Manifest destiny -- The nature of things -- The road of excess -- The eternal ones of the dream -- Strange lights -- Recognitions -- The other portion -- It happens -- Ships that pass in the night -- Café Stelling -- Value judgments -- The bottle imp -- Marginal notes -- A storyteller's story -- Big thing and small thing -- Sacrifice -- Prince Vessantara -- The girl who went beneath the water -- Ill-gotten gains -- Is nothing sacred? …”
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Tokyo Rose/an American patriot : a dual biography / by Close, Frederick Phelps, 1943-

Interview in Weehawken : the Burr-Hamilton Duel as Told in the Original Documents /

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Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky : fellowship of poets / by Grudzińska-Gross, Irena

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My American night : poems / by Collins, Christopher P., 1974-

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Judaism and Hellenism reconsidered / by Feldman, Louis H.

Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 6: Studies in the Ancient Jewish Mediterranean Diaspora -- Part Two: Anti-Semitism, Philo-Semitism, Conversion to Judaism -- Chapter 7: Hatred for and Attraction to the Jews in Classical Antiquity -- Chapter 8: Reflections on Rutgers' Attitudes to Judaism in the Greco-Roman Period -- Chapter 9: Conversion to Judaism in Classical Antiquity -- Part Three: Studies in Philo -- Chapter 10: Philo's Version of the 'Aqedah -- Chapter 11: Philo, Pseudo-Philo, Josephus, and Theodotus on the Rape of Dinah -- Part Four: Josephus -- Chapter 12: Josephus -- Chapter 13: Josephus' Liberties in Interpreting the Bible in the Jewish War and in the Antiquities -- Chapter 14: Rearrangement of Pentateuchal Material in Josephus' Antiquities, Books 1-4 -- Chapter 15: The Influence of the Greek Tragedians on Josephus -- Chapter 16: Josephus' Biblical Paraphrase as a Commentary on Contemporary Issues -- Chapter 17: Parallel Lives of Two Lawgivers : Josephus' Moses and Plutarch's Lycurgus -- Chapter 18: Josephus on the Spies (Numbers 13-14) -- Chapter 19: The Rehabilitation of Non-Jewish Leaders in Josephus' Antiquities -- Chapter 20: On Professor Mark Roncace's Portraits of Deborah and Gideon in Josephus -- Chapter 21: Josephus' Portrayal (Ant. 5.136-74) of the Benjaminite Affair of the Concubine and its Repercussions (Judges 19-21) -- Chapter 22: The Importance of Jerusalem as Viewed by Josephus -- Chapter 23: The Concept of Exile in Josephus -- Chapter 24: Restoration in Josephus -- Part Five: Rabbinic Insights -- Chapter 25: Rabbinic Sources for Historical Study -- Chapter 26: Rabbinic Insights on the Decline and Forthcoming Fall of the Roman Empire -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index of Passages from Ancient Texts -- Jewish Scriptures -- Apocrypha -- Pseudepigrapha -- Dead Sea Scrolls -- New Testament -- Christian Church Fathers -- Hellenistic Jewish Literature: Philo, Pseudo-Philo, Josephus -- Other (Alleged) Graeco-Jewish Writers -- Rabbinic and Allied Literature -- Classical Greek Authors -- Classical Latin Authors -- Near Eastern Languages -- Index of Names and Subjects -- Index of Greek, Linear B, Phoenician, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Punic and Royal Aramaic, Hittite, Latin, Hebrew, and Aramaic Words -- Index of Modern Scholars.…”
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A Companion to Plutarch /

Table of Contents: “…Books Without Prologues -- APPENDIX: THE CONSTITUENT PARTS OF A BOOK OF PARALLEL LIVES -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 24: Morality, Characterization, and Individuality -- 1. …”
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Grasmere 2013 : Selected Papers from the Wordsworth Summer Conference at Rydal Hall /

Table of Contents: “…s use of Plutarchâ€?s Parallel Lives in The Excursion ""; ""Simon Swift : Wordsworth and Charles Le Brun ""; ""Rowan Boyson : Wordsworthâ€?…”
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The John also called Mark : reception and transformation in Christian tradition / by Furlong, Dean, 1974-

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Atlantic biographies : individuals and peoples in the Atlantic world /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Indigenous leaders and the Atlantic world: the parallel lives of Dom Antonio Filipe Camarao and Pieter Poty, 1600-1650 / Mark Meuwese -- Law and colonial reform in the 18th century Spanish world: the life of Francisco Xavier Gamboa, Mexican lawyer / Christopher Albi -- Benkos Bioho: African Maroon leadership in New Grenada / Omar H. …”