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Toys and Tools in Pink : Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology / by Colatrella, Carol

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The place of play toys and digital culture / by Lauwaert, Maaike

Table of Contents: “…New children, different toys -- pt. 2. From solitary to networked geographies of play -- pt. 3. …”
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Toons in toyland : the story of cartoon character merchandise / by Hollis, Tim

Table of Contents: “…License to toon -- Funny business -- Read more about it -- Toying around with your friends -- Windows into another world -- For the record -- Happy holidays -- Eat, drink, and be funny -- Car toons -- To infinity and beyond.…”
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The cute and the cool wondrous innocence and modern American children's culture / by Cross, Gary S.

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Parlor ponds the cultural work of the American home aquarium, 1850-1970 / by Hamera, Judith

Table of Contents: “…Promiscuous Vision : The Visual Affinities of the Home Aquarium -- Rural Rambles and Rustic Adornments : Early British Aquarium Writing -- The Toy of the Day : American Aquarium Writing, 1850-1915 -- Toy Fish -- The Domestic Aquarium -- "Foreign in the Domestic Sense" : Tropical Fish and the Transnational Aquarium -- Conclusion: Reefer Madness.…”
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Show Sold Separately : Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts / by Gray, Jonathan (Jonathan Alan)

Table of Contents: “…Hype, intros, and textual beginnings -- Bonus materials: digital auras and authors -- Under a long shadow: sequels, prequels, pre-texts, and intertexts -- Spoiled and mashed up: viewer-created paratexts -- In the world, just off screen: toys and games -- Conclusion: "In the DNA": creating across paratexts.…”
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Critical neuroscience a handbook of the social and cultural contexts of neuroscience /

Table of Contents: “…Proposal for a critical neuroscience / Jan Slaby and Suparna Choudhury -- The need for a critical neuroscience : from neuroideology to neurotechnology / Steven Rose -- Against first nature : critical theory and neuroscience / Martin Hartmann -- Scanning the lifeworld : toward a critical neuroscience of action and interaction / Shaun Gallagher -- Toys are us : models and metaphors in brain science / Cornelius Borck -- The neuromance of cerebral history / Max Stadler -- Empathic cruelty and the origins of the social brain / Allan Young -- Disrupting images : neuroscientific representations in the lives of psychiatric patients / Simon Cohn -- Critically producing brain images of mind / Joseph Dumit -- Radical reductions : neurophysiology, politics, and personhood in Russian addiction medicine / Eugene Raikhel -- Delirious brain chemistry and controlled culture : exploring the contextual mediation of drug effects / Nicolas Langlitz -- Critical neuroscience : from neuroimaging to tea leaves in the bottom of a cup / Amir Raz -- The salmon of doubt : six months of methodological controversy within social neuroscience / Daniel Margulies -- Cultural neuroscience as critical neuroscience in practice -- Joan Y. …”
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World Building : Transmedia, Fans, Industries /

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American Chinese restaurants : society, culture and consumption /

Table of Contents: “…/ written by Isha Aran ; illustrated by Karl Orozco -- #372 And #1 a winning combo / written by Isha Aran, Daniel Tam-Claiborne, Sophia Park and Julian Tucker ; illustrated by Karl Orozco and Sophia Park -- #249 dim sum drama / written and illustrated by Isha Aran -- #818 first in our hearts / written and illustrated by Amelea Kim -- A visual habitat study for Chinese restaurants in a California conurbation / Nicholas Bauch and Rick Miller -- Redefining and challenging the boundaries of Chinese cuisine : a visually based exploration of Uyghur restaurants in the United States / Christopher Sullivan -- Diasporic counterpublics : the Chinese restaurant as institution and installation in Canada / Lily Cho -- Toy's Chinese restaurants : exploring the political dimension of race through the built environment / Hongyan Yang.…”
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Gameplay mode war, simulation, and technoculture / by Crogan, Patrick

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