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Digital Tools in Urban Schools Mediating a Remix of Learning / by Mahiri, Jabari

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The Roots of Latino Urban Agency

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Latino urban agency / Sharon A. Navarro and Rodolfo Rosales -- Latino political agency in Los Angeles past & present: diverse conflicts, diverse coalitions, and fates that intertwine / Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval -- The rebirth of Latino urban agency in San Francisco: from the MCO to the MAC, 1967/2006 / Richard Edward DeLeon -- The fight for school equity in Chicago's Latino neighborhoods / Melissa R. …”
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Lords of Lambityeco Political Evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca during the Xoo Phase / by Lind, Michael

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Networks of Power Political Relations in the Late Postclassic Naco Valley / by Schortman, Edward M.

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Legal Tender Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination / by Urang, John Griffith, 1975-

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The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit by Herscher, Andrew, 1961-

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The Insecure City Space, Power, and Mobility in Beirut / by Monroe, Kristin V., 1974-

Subjects: “…Urban anthropology Lebanon Beirut.…”
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Ancient Maya Commerce

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Japanese Demon Lore Oni from Ancient Times to the Present / by Reider, Noriko T.

Table of Contents: “…-- Shuten Doji (drunken demon): a medieval story of the carnivalesque and the rise of warriors and fall of oni -- Women spurned, revenge of oni women: gender and space -- Yamauba, the mountain ogress: old hag to voluptuous mother -- Oni in urban culture: de-demonization of the oni -- The oni and Japanese identity: enemies of the Japanese empire in and out of the imperial army -- Sex, violence, and victimization: modern oni and lonely Japanese -- Oni in manga, anime, and film -- Oni without negatives: selfless and surrealistic oni.…”
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Brokers of Public Trust Notaries in Early Modern Rome / by Nussdorfer, Laurie

Table of Contents: “…The jurists : writing public words -- The profession : defining urban identities -- The laws : shaping notarial pages -- The archives : creating documentary spaces -- The office : forging scribal lives -- The state : policing notarial practices.…”
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Saving the Big Thicket From Exploration to Preservation, 1685-2003 / by Cozine, James

Table of Contents: “…The Indians' assault -- The Spanish assault -- The Anglo assault -- A timber bonanza -- Oil exploration in the Big Thicket -- The drive for preservation -- The Yarborough years -- Urbanites and intellectuals -- Consensus and compromise.…”
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From the Ground Up A History of Mining in Utah /

Table of Contents: “…Wallace Gwynn -- Coal industry / Allan Kent Powell -- Uranium boom / Raye C. Ringholz -- Beryllium mining / Debra Wagner -- III. …”
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Wiring The Writing Center

Table of Contents: “…Upton -- The community college mission and the electronic writing center / Ellen Mohr -- Random memories of the virtual writing center : the modes-to-nodes problem / Ray Wallace -- Computers in the writing center : a cautionary history / Peter Carino -- UnfURLed : 20 writing center sites to visit on the information highway / Bruce Pegg -- Computers and writing centers : an annotated bibliography / Steve Sherwood.…”
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Passions Pedagogies and 21st Century Technologies

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Children's Folklore A Source Book /

Table of Contents: “…- Overview: History of children's folklore -- The complexity of children's folklore -- The transmmission of children's folklore -- Overview: Methods in children's folklore -- Double dutch and double cameras: studying the transmission of culture in an urban school yard -- Children's games and gaming -- Methodological problems of collecting folklore from children -- Overview: Children's folklore concerns -- Songs, poems, and rhymes -- Riddles -- Tales and legends -- Teases and pranks -- Overview: Settings and activities -- Children's lore in school and playgrounds -- Material folk culture of children -- Children's folklore in residential institutions: Summer camps, boarding schools, hospitals, and custodial facilities -- The past in the present: Theoretical directions for children's folklore -- Bibliography of children's folklore.…”
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Writing National Cinema Film Journals and Film Culture in Peru / by Middents, Jeffrey

Table of Contents: “…A history of the Peruvian cinematic tradition -- Publication, authority, identity: constructing the film journal -- Shaping Peruvian taste: "good" and "bad" Peruvian movies -- Latin American dis/connections: Peru versus the new Latin American cinema -- For a few minutes: considering the short-film industry -- Creating the "Lombardi generation": the rise of an urban cinematic aesthetic -- The changing of the guard: Peruvian cinema in the twenty-first century.…”
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Maternal Megalomania Julia Domna and the Imperial Politics of Motherhood / by Langford, Julie, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Romancing Romans : Julia Domna and the Populus Romanus -- The Nature of the Sources -- The Princeps and the Plebs -- The Roman Populace, Public Demonstrations and Divine Inspiration -- Severan Propaganda and the Urban Plebs -- Julia Domna in Severan Propaganda -- Severus, the populus Romanus and the Collegia -- And Julia Domna? …”
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Formative Fictions Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the "Bildungsroman" / by Boes, Tobias, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…The limits of national form : normativity and performativity in Bildungsroman criticism -- Apprenticeship of the novel : Goethe and the invention of history -- Epigonal consciousness : Stendhal, Immermann, and the "problem of generations" around 1830 -- Long-distance fantasies : Freytag, Eliot, and national literature in the age of empire -- Urban vernaculars : Joyce, Döblin, and the "individuating rhythm" of modernity -- Conclusion : apocalipsis cum figuris : Thomas Mann and the Bildungsroman at the ends of time.…”
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Primitive Minds Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel / by Neill, Anna, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Evolution and the dreamy mind -- Charlotte Brontë's hypochondriacal heroines -- Spirits and seizures in Bleak House and Our mutual friend -- Suspended animation and second sight : Daniel Deronda and Silas Marner -- Dreamy intuition and detective genius : Ezra Jennings and Sherlock Holmes -- The end of the novel : naturalism and reverie in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and The return of the native.…”
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Paper Money Men Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Sphere in Antebellum America / by Anthony, David, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…"Sleepy hollow," gothic masculinity, and the panic of 1819 -- Shylock on Wall Street; or, the Jessica complex in antebellum sensationalism -- Banking on emotion: debt and male submission in the urban gothic -- Tabloid manhood, speculative femininity -- "Success" and race in the House of the seven gables.…”
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