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Street Politics in the Age of Austerity : From the Indignados to Occupy /

Table of Contents: “…Social Movements and Political Moments; Reflections on the Intersections of Global Justice Movements & Occupy Wall Street; Jackie Smith.…”
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The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit / by Herscher, Andrew, 1961-

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Reading London : Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-Century Literature / by Bond, Erik

Table of Contents: “…Archives of conduct : John Gay on London's street level -- Novel conduct : imagined authority in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Bow Street -- Pope, Westminster Bridge, and other imaginative "things of use" -- Interchapter : the print-saturated city -- Agitation and dramatic criticism in Boswell's London Journal -- Frances Burney's "interior monitor" and the self-governing woman.…”
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Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism : From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku / by Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…The Chicago Renaissance, Theodore Dreiser, and Richard Wright's spatial narrative -- The cross-cultural vision of Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- No name in the street : James Baldwin's exploration of American urban culture -- If Beale Street could talk : Baldwin's search for love and identity -- Jazz and Toni Morrison's urban imagination of desire and subjectivity -- Wright's The outsider and French existentialism -- Pagan Spain : Wright's discourse on religion and culture -- The African "primal outlook upon life" : Wright and Morrison -- The poetics of nature : Wright's haiku, Zen, and Lacan -- Private voice and Buddhist enlightenment in Alice Walker's The color purple -- Cross-cultural poetics : Sonia Sanchez's Like the singing coming off the drums -- James Emanuel's jazz haiku and African American individualism.…”
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For Their Own Good : The Transformation of English Working-Class Health Culture, 1880-1970 / by Beier, Lucinda McCray

Table of Contents: “…"Every street had its lady" : working-class health culture before World War II -- "We know what's good for you" : formal health care provision in Barrow, Lancaster, and Preston -- "No fever in our house" : contagion, prevention, and the working class -- "They never told us anything" : sex and family limitation -- "With having my mother, I didn't need any advice off anybody else" : bearing and caring for children -- "By gum, we did enjoy it" : popular media and the construction of modern health culture -- "The best thing since wearing boots" : working-class health culture after 1948.…”
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Cities in Asia by and for the People /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Cities by and for the People; 2 How to Prove You are Not a Squatter; 3 Inhabitants of Spontaneous Settlements in Bangkok: Networks and Actions Changing the Contemporary Metropolis; 4 Collaborative Urban Farming Networks in Bangkok; 5 The Struggle to Create Alternative Urban Spaces; 6 Making the Music Scene, Making Singapore; 7 Connecting with Society and People through 'Art Projects' in an Era of Personalization; 8 Activating Alternatives in Public Market Trade; 9 From Street Hawkers to Public Markets.…”
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Montaigne and the Origins of Modern Philosophy / by Hartle, Ann

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Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature : Literary and Cultural Essays /

Table of Contents: “…Reading, from Don Quijote de la Mancha to The house on Mango Street: Chicano/a literature, mimesis, and the reader / Manuel M. …”
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Global Diffusion of Protest : Riding the Protest Wave in the Neoliberal Crisis /

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Animal Acts : Performing Species Today /

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The Governance of International Migration : Irregular Migrants' Access to Right to Stay in Turkey and Morocco / by Ustubici, Aysen

Table of Contents: “…Civil society working on immigration issues; Legal sidesteps in the absence of mobilization; 5 Migrant illegality beyond EU borders; Turkey and Morocco in a comparative perspective; 5.1 Deportations and perceptions of deportability; 5.2 Socio-economic participation and daily legitimacy; 5.3 Access to rights through institutions and the role of 'street-level advocacy'; 5.4 Reversing illegality; Mobilization for the rights of irregular migrants; Migrant mobilization for legal status; Conclusion; 6 Conclusions.…”
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