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Leadership decapitation
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ISBN: 9781503610675 1503610675 9781503608245 Year: 2019 Publisher: Stanford, California

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One of the central pillars of US counterterrorism policy is that capturing or killing a terrorist group's leader is effective. Yet this pillar rests more on a foundation of faith than facts. In Leadership Decapitation, Jenna Jordan examines over a thousand instances of leadership targeting—involving groups such as Hamas, al Qaeda, Shining Path, and ISIS—to identify the successes, failures, and unintended consequences of this strategy. As Jordan demonstrates, group infrastructure, ideology, and popular support all play a role in determining how and why leadership decapitation succeeds or fails. Taking heed of these conditions is essential to an effective counterterrorism policy going forward.


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Sacred mountains
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ISBN: 0813166691 0813166004 0813166012 9780813166018 9780813166001 9780813166698 9780813165998 0813165997 Year: 2015 Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky

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Proposes a Christian ethical analysis of the controversial mining practice that has increasingly divided the US and has often led to fierce and even violent confrontations. Andrew R.H. Thompson provides a thorough introduction to the issues surrounding surface mining, including the environmental consequences and the resultant religious debates, and highlights the discussions being carried out in the media.


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Mountaintop mining in Appalachia
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ISBN: 082144509X 9780821445099 0821421093 9780821421093 9780821421109 0821421107 9780821421093 Year: 2014 Publisher: Athens, OH Ohio University Press

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Residents of the Appalachian coalfields share a history and heritage, deep connections to the land, and pride in their own resilience. These same residents are also profoundly divided over the practice of mountaintop mining-that is, the removal and disposal in nearby valleys of soil and rock in order to reach underlying coal seams. Companies and some miners claim that the practice has reduced energy prices, earned income for shareholders, and provided needed jobs. Opponents of mountaintop mining argue that it poisons Appalachia's waters and devastates entire communities for the sake of short-


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The hard facts of the Grimms' fairy tales
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ISBN: 069118299X 0691184283 Year: 2019 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Nursery and Household Tales. This expanded edition includes a new preface and an appendix featuring translations of six tales with commentary by Maria Tatar. Throughout the book, Tatar draws on the disciplinary tools of psychoanalysis and folklore while also providing historical context to explore the harsher aspects of these stories, presenting new interpretations of tales that engage in a kind of cultural repetition compulsion. No other book so thoroughly challenges us to rethink the happily-ever-after of these classic stories.

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Fairy tales --- History and criticism. --- Grimm, Wilhelm, --- Grimm, Jacob, --- Grimm, Jacob, --- Grimm, Wilhelm, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Germany. --- Allusion. --- Anecdote. --- Angela Carter. --- Bleak House. --- Bluebeard. --- Bobbin. --- Briar Rose (novel). --- Brothers Grimm. --- Bruno Bettelheim. --- Cannibalism. --- Cautionary tale. --- Charles Dickens. --- Charles Perrault. --- Child abandonment. --- Child abuse. --- Children's literature. --- Cinderella. --- Coffin. --- Criticism. --- Crone. --- Cruelty. --- Decapitation. --- Disenchantment. --- Dorothea Viehmann. --- Electra complex. --- Evil Queen (Disney). --- Fable. --- Fairy tale. --- Fiction. --- Fledgling (novel). --- Folk and Fairy Tales. --- Folklore. --- Giambattista Basile. --- Golden Hair (fairy tale). --- Grimms' Fairy Tales. --- Hans My Hedgehog. --- Hansel and Gretel. --- Household. --- Humiliation. --- Illustration. --- In the Woods. --- Incest. --- Infanticide. --- Italian Folktales. --- Italo Calvino. --- Jack Zipes. --- Jacob Grimm. --- King Thrushbeard. --- Literary criticism. --- Literature. --- Little Red Riding Hood. --- Ludwig Bechstein. --- Mary's Child. --- Melodrama. --- Misfortune (folk tale). --- Mother. --- Mutilation. --- Narration. --- Narrative. --- Nuclear family. --- Oral tradition. --- Pentamerone. --- Philology. --- Pity. --- Poetry. --- Potion. --- Prose. --- Protagonist. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Queen (Snow White). --- Random House. --- Rumpelstiltskin. --- Russian fairy tale. --- Seven Dwarfs. --- Sibling. --- Simpleton (stock character). --- Stepfamily. --- Stepmother. --- Stith Thompson. --- Storytelling. --- Suckling pig. --- Susan Gubar. --- Tall tale. --- The Devil and his Grandmother. --- The Girl Without Hands. --- The Goose Girl. --- The Juniper Tree (fairy tale). --- The Madwoman in the Attic. --- The Old Witch. --- The Telling. --- The Three Spinners. --- The True Bride. --- The Two Brothers. --- The Uses of Enchantment. --- The Various. --- To the Wedding. --- Trickster. --- Vladimir Propp. --- W. H. Auden. --- Wilhelm Grimm.

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