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The Currency of Truth : Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era / by Chua, Emily H. C.

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The Currency of Truth : Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era / by Chua, Emily H. C.

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Whispering truth to power : everyday resistance to reconciliation in postgenocide Rwanda / by Thomson, Susan M.

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Seize freedom! : American truths and renewal in a chaotic age / by McCotter, Thaddeus G.

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Circles where the head should be poems / by Wilkinson, Caki, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Cosmogony -- Lares and Penates -- Bower bird -- Lady on a unicycle -- Same lady, different unicycle -- The truth about effects -- Genealogy -- Girl under bug zapper -- Portrait of the artist with toothpick bridge -- Itinerant -- Mnemosyne -- Fisher King -- Bildungsroman -- The school by the zoo -- Tactics: a short lesson -- Portrait of the artist with paint-by-numbers -- Svengali deck -- Plot twists -- Flea circus -- Felix culpa -- Epithalamium -- Storm and stress -- Aftermath -- Dead matter -- Assisted living -- Miniatures -- The truth about distance -- A correlated history of synchronity.…”
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On private property finding common ground on the ownership of land / by Freyfogle, Eric T.

Table of Contents: “…Correcting the half-truths -- The lost right to roam -- Legal confusion and its fruit -- Property's functions and the right to develop -- When we should pay -- The responsible landowner: a bill of rights.…”
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The Syrian rebellion by Ajami, Fouad

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : the inheritor -- Come the mountain people -- The time of the founder -- False dawn -- The boys of Deraa -- The phantoms of Hama -- The truth of the sects -- Sarajevo on the Orontes -- The stalemate -- Dreaming of home : a note on the exiles -- Fragments of a past mourned and dreaded.…”
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History According to Cattle /

Table of Contents: “…Imagining non-human realities / History of Others: Laura Gustafsson, Terike Haapoja -- Many faces of truth / Anne Aurasmaa -- From language of detachment toward expressiveness of affect / Elisa Aaltola -- Bad faith of zoophobia / Kris Forkasiewicz -- In search of the Indian cow / Radhika Subramaniam.…”
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History According to Cattle /

Table of Contents: “…Imagining non-human realities / History of Others: Laura Gustafsson, Terike Haapoja -- Many faces of truth / Anne Aurasmaa -- From language of detachment toward expressiveness of affect / Elisa Aaltola -- Bad faith of zoophobia / Kris Forkasiewicz -- In search of the Indian cow / Radhika Subramaniam.…”
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Trauma, resistance, reconstruction in post-1994 South African writing

Table of Contents: “…South Asian diaspora in Africa: collective and individual memory in Fatima Meer's and Sita Gandhi's texts / Jaspal Kaur Singh -- Revisiting the past: memory and identity in Elleke Boehmer's Bloodlines and Zoë Wicomb's David's story and Playing in the light / Fiona McCann -- Truth, reconciliation, resistance and reconstruction. …”
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Framing Africa portrayals of a continent in contemporary mainstream cinema /

Table of Contents: “…the re-presencing of Africa in twenty-first-century film / Nigel Eltringham -- "Print the legend": myth and reality in The last King of Scotland / Mark Leopold -- Black Hawk down: recasting U.S. military history at Somali expense / Lidwien Kapteijns -- Pharma in Africa: health, corruption and contemporary Kenya in The constant gardener / Daniel Branch -- War in the city, crime in the country: Blood diamond and the representation of violence in the Sierra Leone War / Danny Hoffman -- Showing what cannot be imagined: Shooting dogs and Hotel Rwanda / Nigel Eltringham -- Torture, betrayal and forgiveness: Red dust and the search for truth in post-apartheid South Africa / Annelies Verdoolaege -- Go Amabokoboko! …”
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Responsibility of Intellectuals : Reflections by Noam Chomsky and Others after 50 years /

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Responsibility of Intellectuals : Reflections by Noam Chomsky and Others after 50 years /

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Essays from the edge parerga & paralipomena / by Jay, Martin, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…: reflections on a Frankfurt school lament -- Mourning a metaphor: the revolution is over -- Cultural relativism and the visual turn -- Scopic regimes of modernity revisited -- No state of grace : violence in the garden -- Visual parrhesia? : Foucault and the truth of the gaze -- The Kremlin of modernism -- Phenomenology and lived experience -- Aesthetic experience and historical experience : a twenty-first-century constellation -- Still waiting to hear from derrida -- Pseudology : Derrida on Arendt and lying in politics -- The menace of consilience : keeping the disciplines unreconciled -- Can there be national philosophies in a transnational world? …”
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Nation of cowards black activism in Barack Obama's post-racial America / by Ikard, David, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…-- The teaching moment that never was : Henry Louis Gates, Barack Obama, and the post-racial dilemma -- "I know what's in his heart" : enlightened exceptionalism and the problem with using Barack Obama as the racial litmus test for Black progress and achievement -- The audacity of Reverend Wright : speaking truth to power in the twenty-first century -- Setting the record straight : why Barack Obama and America cannot afford to ignore a Black agenda -- Pull yourself up by your bootstraps : Barack Obama, the Black poor, and the problems of racial common sense thinking.…”
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Reinventing local and regional economies / by Gordon, Gerald L.

Table of Contents: “…The case study approach -- Lessons from the formula for economic growth on main street America -- Political foundations for economic reinvention -- Exposing the notion that a local economy can remain static -- Taking the long-term view and managing expectations : the horizon for elected officials -- Economic development seen as an investment -- (Case studies: Fairfax County, Milwaukee) -- Community development as a precursor to economic reinvention -- Building bridges between the public and private sectors -- (Case studies: Rochester, Allentown, Buffalo) -- Creating support systems and clusters -- (Case studies: Lexington, Kentucky; Pittsburgh; Dayton; Kansas City, Phoenix) -- Enhancing a community's assets for business attraction: tending to the product -- (Case studies: Baltimore, Las Vegas/Water) -- Basic strategic foundations for economic growth and economic development -- Distinguishing between economic growth and economic development -- Stabilizing economies through diversification -- (Case studies: Seattle, Detroit, Fairfax County, Birmingham, Tulsa, Charlotte) -- Coordinating land use and other local and regional planning -- (Case studies: Albuquerque, Dubuque, Youngstown) -- Target industries and community assets -- (Case studies: Indianapolis, Cleveland, the Bronx, multiple silicon "wannabe's" -- Encouraging technology transfer from colleges and universities to stimulate economic development -- (Case studies: MIT, johns hopkins, carnegie-mellon university and the university of pittsburgh, george Mason University) -- Marketing for business relocation and expansion -- Reality versus perceptions and truth in advertising -- The growth of entrepreneurial businesses as a complement to business attraction and retention -- (case studies: Allentown, Rochester, Kansas City) -- Best (and worst) practices in the use of incentives for business attraction -- (Case studies: Chicago/Boeing; State of North Carolina/Firestone Bridgestone tires; State of Maryland/Marriott Corporation).…”

Poems from Guantánamo the detainees speak /

Table of Contents: “…. / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost -- Cup poem 2 / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost -- Two fragments / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost -- First poem of my life / Mohammed El Gharani -- Humiliated in the shackles / Sami al Haj -- The truth / Emad Abdullah Hassan -- Is it true? / Osama Abu Kabir -- Hunger strike poem / Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif -- I am sorry, my brother / Othman Abdulraheem Mohammad -- Terrorist 2003 / Martin Mubanga -- I write my hidden longing / Abdulla Majid al Noaimi, the captive of dignity -- My heart was wounded by the strangeness / Abdulla Majid al Noaimi, the captive of dignity -- Ode to the sea / Ibrahim al Rubaish -- Even if the pain / Siddiq Turkestani.…”
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Healing historical trauma in South Korean film and literature / by Choi, Chungmoo

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Emancipation's Daughters : Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body / by Richardson, Riche, 1971-

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Emancipation's Daughters : Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body / by Richardson, Riche, 1971-

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