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Controvertibles by Barry, Quan

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- the 1984 Apple Super Bowl commercial as intervention -- Porte des Morts as Neutrino -- the cabriolet as metempsychosis -- the seahorse as transubstantiation -- Pernkopf 's Atlas as Interregnum -- habeas corpus as confession -- house fire as bildungsroman -- the oboe in Handel's largo from Xerxes as elegy -- the short brutish life of Samantha Smith as control -- aboriginal cave painting as difficulty -- purdah as polemic -- the Great Molasses Flood of 1919 as allegory -- the landmine as opiate -- Ridley Scott's Gladiator as Partitive Genitive -- the long jump as teleportation -- mal amour as disciple -- Dosso Dossi's Saint George as Controvertible -- crossing the South China Sea as analgesia -- figurative poem as psychostasia -- the last elephant in Burundi as vessel -- Nick Drake's "Pink Moon" as Infatuation -- Hanging Rock as Intervention -- domestic violence as Noh play -- Pharaoh's Daughter's Motivation as New Criticism -- the excavated foundations of the Salem Village parsonage as resipiscence -- Rembrandt's The Storm on the Sea of Galilee as Semiotics -- Arctic Summer as Analogy -- Rage Against the Machine as Plate Tectonics -- Vietnamese Dictionary Definition as Self-Portrait -- the final scene in Akira Kurosawa's Ran as condition -- Lazarus as Ambiguity -- the Blue Grotto as gestation -- Stravinsky's [line diagram] as Approximation -- "Jisas Yu Holem Hand Blong Mi" as Dream of Reunification -- the knight's soliloquy as vespers -- the Shroud of Turin as admonition -- Emmett Till's Open Casket as La Pietà -- self-immolation as self-immolation -- snow angels as Michael Furey -- untitled as apologia -- Richard Nixon's 1972 Christmas Bombing Campaign as Gospel -- ultrasound as palinode -- the finite as infinite -- imitative fallacy as jeremiad -- the long jump as bullet-time.…”
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A brief history of the Olympic games by Young, David C.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Beginnings and evidence -- Athletic events -- Combat and equestrian events -- Zeus country -- Pindar and immortality -- Body, mind, and Greek athletics -- Questions of profit and social class -- The athletes -- Women and Greek athletics -- Between the Greek and Roman worlds -- The later centuries of Olympia -- The origin and authenticity of the modern Olympic Games -- Appendix A: Chronology and schedule of the athletic circuit -- Appendix B: Technical note on discus and long jump -- Appendix C: Modern issues : the marathon and torch relay.…”
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Improving student engagement and development through assessment : theory and practice in higher education

Table of Contents: “…Student views on assessment / Alex Bols -- Trained for the high jump, asked to do the long jump : does first year assessment promote retention? …”
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Doing double Dutch : the international circulation of literature from the Low Countries

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Sport, arts materials and management science : selected, peer reviewed papers from the International Conference on Sport, Arts Materials and Management Science (SAMMS 2012), May 4-...

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Advanced research on industry, information system and material engineering IV : selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 4th International Conference on Industry, Information S...

Table of Contents: “…Analysis on the Effects of Atmospheric Turbulence on Line-of-Sight Ultraviolet Communication System PerformanceMechanics Analysis of Long Jump by Means of the Theory of Artificial Neural Networks; Research on Flow Sensor and the Pressure Sensor with Digital Asthma Diagnosis Technology; Aerodynamic Performance Evaluation with a New Method for Darrieus Wind Turbine; Research on Stress and Load with the Effect of Number of Teeth Planetary Gears Matching; Research on Wind Turbine Blade Loads and Dynamics Factors; Research on a Multi-Axis Wrist Force Sensor with Double Bending Beams…”
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