Search Results - "The Corner"

On the corner : African American intellectuals and the urban crisis / by Matlin, Daniel

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Life at Four Corners : Religion, Gender, and Education in a German-Lutheran Community, 1868-1945 / by Coburn, Carol

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Just around the corner the paradox of the jobless recovery / by Aronowitz, Stanley

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Life at Four Corners : Religion, Gender, and Education in a German-Lutheran Community, 1868-1945 / by Coburn, Carol

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Letters from readers in the Polish American press, 1902-1969 : a corner for everybody /

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At home with apartheid the hidden landscapes of domestic service in Johannesburg / by Ginsburg, Rebecca, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Getting to know the corners -- The tempo of kitchen life -- Children and leaving -- Come in the dark -- House rules -- From homes with apartheid.…”
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Dorothy West's paradise a biography of class and color / by Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…They lost us the beach: A legend of Oak Bluffs -- Childhood sketches -- Dorothy West's typewriter -- To Russia with love -- New challenges -- The living is easy -- Cottager's corner -- Two weddings.…”
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Money jungle imagining the new Times Square / by Chesluk, Benjamin Jacob

Table of Contents: “…Brilliant corners -- Magnificent spectacle -- The new spaces of Times Square -- The midtown community court -- Times Square Ink -- "Visible signs of a city out of control" -- "It doesn't exist, but they're selling it" -- The meanings of Times Square -- Notes -- Index.…”
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A journey into Ireland's literary revival by Felton, R. Todd, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The Irish literary revival : a geography of the public and the private -- County Galway : home among the swallows -- The Aran Islands : a little corner on the face of the world -- County Mayo : a queer lot these times -- County Sligo : the land of heart's desire -- County Wicklow : south and west and south again -- Dublin : the public stage -- Timeline.…”
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Born of the Same Roots : Stories of Modern Chinese Women /

Table of Contents: “…Caterpillar / Lao She -- Two women / Wu Tsu-hsiang -- On the Oxcart / Hsiao Hung -- Garbage cleaner / Lo Hua-sheng -- West wind ; Chang Sao / Ping Hsin -- Little Liu / Ling Shu-hua -- Parting / Tʻien Tʻao -- At the precipice / Teng Yu-mei -- Spring is just around the corner / Tsʻao Ming -- Rain / Ai Wu -- Corduroy / Hsi Jung -- Old team captain welcomes a bride / Sung Shun-kʻang -- A day in Pleasantville / Pai Hsien-yung -- Nightfall / Yü Li-hau -- A rose in June / Ch'en Ying-chen -- Born of the same roots / Yang Chʻing chʻu -- May he return soon / Wang Tʻo -- My friend Ai Fen / Chen Jo-hsi.…”
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Born of the Same Roots : Stories of Modern Chinese Women /

Table of Contents: “…Caterpillar / Lao She -- Two women / Wu Tsu-hsiang -- On the Oxcart / Hsiao Hung -- Garbage cleaner / Lo Hua-sheng -- West wind ; Chang Sao / Ping Hsin -- Little Liu / Ling Shu-hua -- Parting / Tʻien Tʻao -- At the precipice / Teng Yu-mei -- Spring is just around the corner / Tsʻao Ming -- Rain / Ai Wu -- Corduroy / Hsi Jung -- Old team captain welcomes a bride / Sung Shun-kʻang -- A day in Pleasantville / Pai Hsien-yung -- Nightfall / Yü Li-hau -- A rose in June / Ch'en Ying-chen -- Born of the same roots / Yang Chʻing chʻu -- May he return soon / Wang Tʻo -- My friend Ai Fen / Chen Jo-hsi.…”
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The Time of the Sign : A Semiotic Interpretation of Modern Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Caterpillar / Lao She -- Two women / Wu Tsu-hsiang -- On the Oxcart / Hsiao Hung -- Garbage cleaner / Lo Hua-sheng -- West wind ; Chang Sao / Ping Hsin -- Little Liu / Ling Shu-hua -- Parting / Tʻien Tʻao -- At the precipice / Teng Yu-mei -- Spring is just around the corner / Tsʻao Ming -- Rain / Ai Wu -- Corduroy / Hsi Jung -- Old team captain welcomes a bride / Sung Shun-kʻang -- A day in Pleasantville / Pai Hsien-yung -- Nightfall / Yü Li-hau -- A rose in June / Ch'en Ying-chen -- Born of the same roots / Yang Chʻing chʻu -- May he return soon / Wang Tʻo -- My friend Ai Fen / Chen Jo-hsi.…”
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The Time of the Sign : A Semiotic Interpretation of Modern Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Caterpillar / Lao She -- Two women / Wu Tsu-hsiang -- On the Oxcart / Hsiao Hung -- Garbage cleaner / Lo Hua-sheng -- West wind ; Chang Sao / Ping Hsin -- Little Liu / Ling Shu-hua -- Parting / Tʻien Tʻao -- At the precipice / Teng Yu-mei -- Spring is just around the corner / Tsʻao Ming -- Rain / Ai Wu -- Corduroy / Hsi Jung -- Old team captain welcomes a bride / Sung Shun-kʻang -- A day in Pleasantville / Pai Hsien-yung -- Nightfall / Yü Li-hau -- A rose in June / Ch'en Ying-chen -- Born of the same roots / Yang Chʻing chʻu -- May he return soon / Wang Tʻo -- My friend Ai Fen / Chen Jo-hsi.…”
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Victory in defeat the Wake Island defenders in captivity, 1941-1945 / by Urwin, Gregory J. W., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…"Issue in doubt" : the siege of Wake Island -- "The emperor has ... presented you with your lives" : the shock of capture -- "Very odd people indeed" : the first twenty-four hours in captivity -- "The Japanese continue to treat us with respect" : a deceptively gentle transition to POW life -- "A real hell ship" : from Wake Island to Yokohama on the Nitta Maru -- "Never had I felt so desolate or so weary" : from murder at sea to despair on land -- "The most painful days we spent in prison camp" : hitting bottom at Woosung -- "The Japanese Army ... will improve your conditions" : turning the corner at Woosung -- "Without Red Cross help ... we would never have pulled through" : the impact of outside aid -- "I thought they handled themselves reasonably well" : Japanese-POW relations at Woosung -- "You God damn Americans don't understand anything" : strains, outrages, and departures -- "This camp is the best one that the Japs have" : a new commandant and a new camp -- A hellacious damn deal till we finished" : pushed to the edge on Mount Fuji -- "Optimism ... is running high" : hope revives at Kiangwan -- "The pleasure of raising our flag over the enemy's homeland" : to Japan and liberation -- "98 US PW, 5-10-43" : the Wake Island diaspora, 1942-1945 -- "We had a bond there that's still going" : why so many came home.…”
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Evangelical and frontier mission : perspectives on the global progress of the Gospel /