“…It was the house of Medici, patrons of Botticelli, Michelangelo and Galileo, benefactors who turned Florence into a global power center, and then lost it all.The House of Medici picks up where Barbara Tuchman's Hibbert delves into the lives of the Medici family, whose legacy of increasing self-indulgence and sexual dalliance eventually led to its self-destruction. …”

“…A group of artists and scientists fascinated by the Dodo, commemorate the work of the MauritiusWildlife Foundation and discover important lessons about extinction. Nine lost creatures from Mauritius are scientifically accurately reconstructed in bronze. …”

“…More fortunes are made and lost more quickly in the commodity futures markets than anywhere else. …”

“…Or maybe, you are among the millions who have suffered a debilitating disease, lost a loved one or lost your job. This inspiring book identifies ten key ways to weather and bounce back from stress and trauma. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…15 Archives, truth and the democratic transition process in Brazil -- 16 Archives for truth and justice in Argentina: the search for the missing persons -- 17 Chronicle of a backlash foretold: Guatemala's National Police archives, lost and found and lost - and found? - again -- Concluding remarks -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A Hindu reading of Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle; 10. The trauma of lost love in psychoanalysis; Epilogue; REFERENCES…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…""Chapter Twenty-Five""""Chapter Twenty-Six""; ""Chapter Twenty-Seven""; ""Chapter Twenty-Eight""; ""Chapter Twenty-Nine""; ""Chapter Thirty""; ""Chapter Thirty-One""; ""Chapter Thirty-Two""; ""Chapter Thirty-Three""; ""Appendices and Indices ""; ""Appendix I. An Echo From the Lost Ending""; ""Appendix II. The Capitula of Hilaryâ€?…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Vitality of Tradition / How the West Was Won: The Arab Conqueror and the Serene Amazigh in Driss Chraïbi’s "La Mère du printemps" / Cultural Encounter in Moroccan Postcolonial Literature of English Expression / Intersections: Amazigh (Berber) Literary Space / Writing in the Feminine: The Emerging Voices of Francophone Moroccan Women Writers / Tactile Labyrinths and Sacred Interiors: Spatial Practices and Political Choices in Abdelmajid Ben Jalloun's "Fíal-Tufúla" and Ahmed Sefrioui’s "Laboîteà merveilles" / Monstrous Offspring: Disturbing Bodies in Feminine Moroccan Francophone Literature / Hegemonic Discourse in Orientalists Translations of Moroccan Culture / The Counter cultural, Liberal Voice of Moroccan Mohamed Choukri and Its Affinities with the American Beats / Khatibi: A Sociologist in Literature / Emigration and Quest for Identity in Laila Lalami's "Hope & Other Dangerous Pursuits", Akbib's "The Lost Generation", and Fandi's "Alien Arab and Maybe Illegal in America"…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Colonial history, postcolonial theory and the 'Aboriginal problem' in colonial Victoria -- 'Tickpen', 'Boro Boro': Aboriginal economic engagements in early Melbourne -- 'Thus have been preserved numerous interesting facts that would otherwise have been lost': Colonisation, protection and William Thomas's contribution to The Aborigines of Victoria -- The 1869 Aborigines Protection Act: Vernacular ethnography and the governance of Aboriginal subjects -- 'They formed a little family as it were': The Board for the Protection of Aborigines (1875-1883) -- Managing mission life, 1869-1886 -- 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Toward an Anthropology of Absence -- Introduction: An Anthropology of Absence -- People Without Things -- Embodying Absence -- Missing Bodies Near-at-Hand: The Dissonant Memory and Dormant Graves of the Spanish Civil War -- A Sense of Absence: The Staging of Heroic Deaths and Ongoing Lives among American Organ Donor Families -- Temporalities of Absence -- Derivative Presence: Loss and Lives in Limbo in the West Bank -- Materializations of Disaster: Recovering Lost Plots in a Tsunami-Affected Village in South India -- Materializing Remembrance -- A Saturated Void: Anticipating and Preparing Presence in Contemporary Danish Cemetery Culture -- Bringing Home the Dead: Photographs, Family Imaginaries and Moral Remains -- Ambiguous Materialities -- Absent Powers: Magic and Loss in Post-socialist Mongolia -- Seeking Providence Through Things: The Word of God Versus Black Cumin -- Presencing the Im-Material -- Commentary -- An Anthropology of Absence: Commentary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : the struggle for self-determination and the Palestinian quest for statehood / Leila Farsakh -- The political economy of state formation in Palestine / Adam Hanieh -- The Gaza Strip : humanitarian crisis and lost statehood / Tariq Baconi -- The forgotten Palestinians : East Jerusalem and the Oslo peace process / Hania Assali -- The state, the land and the hill museum / Hanan Toukan -- Defending Palestinian rights in the Trump era and beyond / Yousef Munayyer -- Transitional justice in Palestine/Israel : whose justice? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Machine generated contents note: INTRODUCTION: CREATIVE COURAGE CHAPTER 1 - THE CENTRAL PROBLEM AFFECTING WORK: THE WAR ON IMAGINATION, AND HOW I LOST MY CREATIVE COURAGE. CHAPTER 2 - CARING FIRST: RESPECT IS NOT THE FIRST STEP WHEN DISENGAGEMENT IS THE STATUS QUO. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Youth -- Early boyhood -- The innocent years -- Innocence lost -- College and army -- Newsroom apprentice -- 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Omri's Story: The One-Way Corridor -- Susan's Story: A Self-defeating Cycle -- References -- Challenging Knowledge In/Accessibility -- Susan's Story: Knowledge Kept in the Shadows -- Omri's Story: Lost in Translation -- Tamar's Story: "You will have a marketing problem" -- References -- Tackling Difference in a Neoliberal Classroom -- Susan's Story: Blaming the Messenger -- Omri's Story: "Stop telling me how screwed up I am!" …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…""Lyla Vivian Marshall Harcoff: The Pursuits of a Small-Town Dreamer""""""The Eternal Feminine"": An Examination of the Life and Times of the Twentieth-Century New University Woman through Cecil Clare Crane""; ""The Lost Bandsman and His Band""; ""Just Harry""; ""Epilogue: Purdue's Past through Purdue's Present""; ""Biographical Cameos""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “….” / Elation and Fortification / Psychoanalysis: An Adventure in Learning to Think Critically / Words are Ways / His Main Interest: The Human Passions / When You Hear the Word, the Reality Is Lost / Fromm Didn’t Want to Be a Frommian / His Way to Clarity and Humaneness / His Deeply Inspirational Presence and Thoughtfulness / A Crucial Encounter / Fromm’s Genius Was in His Actual Presence / References -- About the Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Erich Fromm’s Writings on Psychoanalytic “Technique”…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction / Xavier Tubau -- Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda's conciliarism in his lost De potestate papae et concilii / Ignacio García Pinilla -- Theorizing in Trent : Alfonso de Castro, anti-heretical theory, and the politics of reform / Kimberly Lynn -- Conflicting loyalties : church freedom, pastoral care and civil duties in Diego de Álava y Esquivel / Xavier Tubau -- Conciliarism and episcopalism in the Council of Trent. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Lee's first month in command of the army of Northern Virginia / In your hands that musket means liberty : African American soldiers and the battle of Olustee / With malice toward both : Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis in caricature / Walt Whitman's real wars / Hollywood has it both ways : the rise, fall, and reappearance of the lost cause in American film / Battle over the bodies : burying and reburying the Civil War dead, 1865-1871 / Not a veteran in the poorhouse : Civil War pension and soldiers' homes / William T. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Eccentricities : health and the perils of recreation -- II. The lost world of Spencer's metaphysics: 7. The new reformation -- 8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…/ The other Jesus : how a Jewish reformer lost his Jewish identity / Gospel truths : Hollywood, history, and Christianity / Much will be required of the person entrusted with much : assembling a passion drama from the four Gospels / The death of Jesus and the death of the Temple / Numb struck : an Evangelical reflects on Gibson's Passion / The last station : a Catholic reflection on The Passion / The Passion and the message / Mel makes a war movie / Seeing different movies, talking past each other / Jesus of Hollywood / Commitment to community : interfaith relations and faithful witness / First take the log out of you own eye : different viewpoints, different movies / Selling Passion / Ad hoc scholars report -- The worship of blood / Jesus nation, Catholic Christ / Steve Martin, "Script notes."…”