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From Satan's crown to the holy grail emeralds in myth, magic, and history
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…The green legend -- The birth of the stone in myth and in rock -- From mine to "mine" : the emerald business -- Emeralds in world history -- The mystique of origins and the great emeralds -- Secrets of the emerald trade -- Fake emeralds and their kin : a tale of simulation and dissimulation…”
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Right Above Race
Published 2009“…Americans of German origin and the war -- Prussionized Germany -- The poison growth of Prussianism -- Frenzied liberty -- The myth of "a rich man's war" -- Letter to a German.…”
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Adat the legacy of Minangkabau
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…The Minangkabau kaleidoscope -- A gist of history and antiquity -- Adato Minangkabau and early development -- Ancient beginnings -- Adat institutional legacies -- Precepts of adat -- Between myth and culture -- Pre-Islamic scenario -- Adat maxims -- The source and origins -- Budi: substratum of adat -- Minangkabau oral traditional: kaba cindue mato -- Rumah gadang & kabau symbol of a bygone age --The Negeri Sembilan adat evolution --Adat in Negeri Sembilan -- Minangkabau and Negeri Sembilan -- Adat and the NS State Constitution -- Adat and English legal precepts -- From adato to modernity -- The future of adat…”
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A global history of doping in sport drugs, policy, and politics
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Introduction: A global history of doping in sport : drugs, nationalism and politics / John Gleaves -- Pierre de Coubertin, doped 'amateurs' and the 'spirit of sport' : the role of mythology in Olympic anti-doping policies / Ian Ritchie -- Sport, drugs and amateurism : tracing the real cultural origins of anti-doping rules in international sport / John Gleaves and Matthew Llewellyn -- A powerful false positive : nationalism, science and public opinion in the 'oxygen doping' allegations against Japanese swimmers at the 1932 Olympics / Mark Dyreson and Thomas Rorke -- The myth of the Nazi steroid / Marcel Reinold and John Hoberman -- The emergence of moral technopreneurialism in sport : techniques in anti-doping regulation, 1966-1976 / Kathryn Henne -- Drugs, the law, and the downfall of Dancer's Image at the 1968 Kentucky Derby : a case study on human conceptions of domesticated animals / Thomas M. …”
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Political pluralism and the state beyond sovereignty /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Sovereignty and the state -- Replies to political pluralization -- From politics to policy -- Citizen and citizenship -- The environment -- The undiscovered polis -- Political pluralization -- New polities, new problems -- Internationalization -- The treaty culture -- Dehierarchization -- The challenges of political pluralization -- Other directions -- The need to interfere -- Authoritative interference -- Politics versus economy: the green battlefield -- Green production -- Payoffs and incentives -- The need for political incentives -- A summary -- Conclusion -- Principles, discord and concord -- Principles and politics -- Objective truth -- The principle of popularity -- Controlled deliberation -- Philosophical and political liberalism -- Conclusion -- Sustainability as a policy telos -- Policy teloi -- Sustainable development: ecology versus environment -- Same telos, different place: liberal versus non-liberal societies -- Perspectives -- Beyond political principles -- Foundational principles -- Beyond the original position: the archpoint -- The restraint principle -- Beyond the archpoint -- Conclusion -- Alexandrism -- Cutting a knot -- Swords, axes and tweezers -- Murder as a political tool -- Torture, threats and the reign of terror -- The enlightened despot -- Proceduralism -- Lottery -- Conclusion -- The new polis -- The peppermill -- The myth of the state -- Conceptions of the polis -- Metropolis -- Conclusion -- Citizenship in the metropolis -- Introduction -- The rise and fall of mass democracy -- The complex concept of representation -- Mass democracy and representation -- Unequal and equal access -- Two futures for substantive representation -- The princes of industry -- Two kinds of proactive citizen -- A political history of the economy -- Social responsibility: fields and questions -- The impossibility of responsibility -- The civic role of enterprise -- Conclusion -- Harmony and political pluralization -- A political history -- Legitimate political pluralization -- Justice.…”
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