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Highlife Saturday night popular music and social change in urban Ghana / by Plageman, Nate, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the historical importance of urban Ghana's Saturday nights -- Popular music, political authority, and social possibilities in the southern Gold Coast, 1890-1940 -- The making of a middle class: urban social clubs and the evolution of highlife music, 1915-1940 -- The friction on the floor: negotiating nightlife in Accra, 1940-1960 -- "The highlife was born in Ghana": politics, culture, and the making of a national music, 1950-1965 -- "We were the ones who composed the songs": the promises and pitfalls of being a bandsman, 1945-1970.…”
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The Buddha side : gender, power, and Buddhist practice in Vietnam / by Soucy, Alexander Duncan, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Views of the religious landscape -- Space and the ranking of Buddhisms -- Masculinities and performances of skepticism -- Offerings and blessings -- Women, offerings, and symbolic capital -- Sutra recital and Buddhist identities -- Conspicuous devotion and devotional distinctions -- Interpretive distinctions -- Language, orthodoxy, and performances of authority.…”
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Old texts, new practices : Islamic reform in modern Morocco / by Terem, Etty, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Modern Islam and the religious reform tradition -- Religious knowledge and authority in precolonial Morocco -- The rhetoric of Moroccan modernity -- Delineating Muslim-Christian relations -- Refashioning notions of gender and family -- Redefining patterns of consumption -- Islamic legal tradition, change, and continuity.…”
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Chavez's children ideology, education, and society in Latin America / by Anselmi, Manuel

Table of Contents: “…Preface to the American edition -- Introduction -- Preliminary questions : some general theoretical properties of ideology -- Socio-historical analysis of revolutionary Bolivarism -- Theoretical analysis of revolutionary Bolivarism -- Analysis of the structures and activities in Bolivarian schools -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- About the author.…”
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Cato the Censor and the Beginnings of Latin Prose : From Poetic Translation to Elite Transcription / by Sciarrino, Enrica, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Situating the beginnings of Latin prose -- Under the Roman sun : poets, rulers, translations, and power -- Conflicting scenarios : traffic in others and others' things -- Inventing Latin prose : Cato the Censor and the formation of a new aristocracy -- Power differentials in writing : texts and authority.…”
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Cato the Censor and the Beginnings of Latin Prose : From Poetic Translation to Elite Transcription / by Sciarrino, Enrica, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Situating the beginnings of Latin prose -- Under the Roman sun : poets, rulers, translations, and power -- Conflicting scenarios : traffic in others and others' things -- Inventing Latin prose : Cato the Censor and the formation of a new aristocracy -- Power differentials in writing : texts and authority.…”
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Teaching composition as a social process by McComiskey, Bruce, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Three levels of composing -- Social-process rhetorical inquiry -- The post-process movement in composition studies -- Composing postmodern subjectivities in the aporia between identity and difference -- Critical discourse analysis in the composition class -- Writing in context -- Works cited -- Index -- About the author.…”
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Teaching Composition As A Social Process by McComiskey, Bruce, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Three levels of composing -- Social-process rhetorical inquiry -- The post-process movement in composition studies -- Composing postmodern subjectivities in the aporia between identity and difference -- Critical discourse analysis in the composition class -- Writing in context -- Works cited -- Index -- About the author.…”
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Teaching Composition As A Social Process / by McComiskey, Bruce, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Three levels of composing -- Social-process rhetorical inquiry -- The post-process movement in composition studies -- Composing postmodern subjectivities in the aporia between identity and difference -- Critical discourse analysis in the composition class -- Writing in context -- Works cited -- Index -- About the author.…”
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Teaching Composition As A Social Process / by McComiskey, Bruce, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Three levels of composing -- Social-process rhetorical inquiry -- The post-process movement in composition studies -- Composing postmodern subjectivities in the aporia between identity and difference -- Critical discourse analysis in the composition class -- Writing in context -- Works cited -- Index -- About the author.…”
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Arab TV-audiences : negotiating religion and identity /

Table of Contents: “…Where has the authority gone? : new imperatives and audience research / Ehab Galal -- Audience responses to Islamic TV : between resistance and piety / Ehab Galal -- Cyber religious-national community? …”
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The elephant in the room silence and denial in everyday life / by Zerubavel, Eviatar

Table of Contents: “…The trouble with elephants -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Author index -- Subject index.…”
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Contesting childhood autobiography, trauma, and memory / by Douglas, Kate, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Creating childhood : autobiography and cultural memory -- Consuming childhood : buying and selling the autobiographical child -- Authoring childhood : the road to recovery and redemption -- Scripts for remembering : childhoods and nostalgia -- Scripts for remembering : traumatic childhoods -- Ethics : writing about child abuse, writing about abusive parents -- The ethics of reading : witnessing traumatic childhoods -- Writing childhood in the twenty-first century.…”
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Kill the Overseer! : The Gamification of Slave Resistance by Lauro, Sarah Juliet

Table of Contents: “…Cover Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Videogames as Commemoration -- Nat Turner and Harriet Tubman -- Paths to Freedom -- A Close Playing: Flight to Freedom -- "Make History Yours": An Introduction to Assassin's Creed -- Avatar Trouble and Aveline -- Untranslated -- Failure and Freedom Cry -- A Digital Fragment -- Untitled -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author…”
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Kill the Overseer! : The Gamification of Slave Resistance by Lauro, Sarah Juliet

Table of Contents: “…Cover Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Videogames as Commemoration -- Nat Turner and Harriet Tubman -- Paths to Freedom -- A Close Playing: Flight to Freedom -- "Make History Yours": An Introduction to Assassin's Creed -- Avatar Trouble and Aveline -- Untranslated -- Failure and Freedom Cry -- A Digital Fragment -- Untitled -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author…”
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The hyperlinked society questioning connections in the digital age /

Table of Contents: “…Napoli -- The hyperlink in newspapers and blogs / Lokman Tsui -- The role of expertise in navigating links of influence / Eszter Hargittai -- Google, links, and popularity versus authority / Seth Finkelstein -- The hyperlinked news organization / Martin Nisenholtz -- How hyperlinks ought to change the advertising business / Tom Hespos -- Hyperlinks and marketing insight / Stacey Lynn Schulman -- Hyperlinking and advertising strategy / Eric Picard -- From hyperlinks to hyperties / Marc A. …”
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Putting a name to it : diagnosis in contemporary society / by Jutel, Annemarie

Table of Contents: “…diagnosis and the patient-doctor relationship -- Illness and disease -- Medical authority -- Changing roles in diagnosis -- What next? …”
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The Hyperlinked Society Questioning Connections in the Digital Age /

Table of Contents: “…Napoli -- The hyperlink in newspapers and blogs / Lokman Tsui -- The role of expertise in navigating links of influence / Eszter Hargittai -- Google, links, and popularity versus authority / Seth Finkelstein -- The hyperlinked news organization / Martin Nisenholtz -- How hyperlinks ought to change the advertising business / Tom Hespos -- Hyperlinks and marketing insight / Stacey Lynn Schulman -- Hyperlinking and advertising strategy / Eric Picard -- From hyperlinks to hyperties / Marc A. …”
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The Hyperlinked Society : Questioning Connections in the Digital Age /

Table of Contents: “…Napoli -- The hyperlink in newspapers and blogs / Lokman Tsui -- The role of expertise in navigating links of influence / Eszter Hargittai -- Google, links, and popularity versus authority / Seth Finkelstein -- The hyperlinked news organization / Martin Nisenholtz -- How hyperlinks ought to change the advertising business / Tom Hespos -- Hyperlinks and marketing insight / Stacey Lynn Schulman -- Hyperlinking and advertising strategy / Eric Picard -- From hyperlinks to hyperties / Marc A. …”
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Jamming the Classroom : Musical Improvisation and Pedagogical Practice / by Heble, Ajay, 1961-, Stewart, Jesse, 1974-

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