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Balkan smoke tobacco and the making of modern Bulgaria / by Neuburger, Mary, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Coffee house babble : smoking and sociability in the long nineteenth century -- No smoke without fire : tobacco and transformation, 1878-1914 -- From the Orient Express to the Sofia café : smoke and propriety in the interwar years -- Asenovgrad fortress : the biography of a tobacco cooperative between the world wars -- From leaf to ash : Bulgarians, Jews, Germans and the Second World War -- Smoke-filled rooms : places to light up in communist Bulgaria -- Smokes for big brother : Bulgartabak and tobacco under communism.…”
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Good Vibrations : Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys in Critical Perspective /

Table of Contents: “…"Brian comes alive" : celebrity, performance, and the limitations of biography in lyric reading / Kirk Curnutt -- Pet sound effects / Daniel Harrison -- Brian Wilson's harmonic language / Philip Lambert -- Summer of '64 / Keir Keightly -- When I grow up : the Beach Boys' early music / Jadey O'Regan -- Into the Mystic? …”
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A historical guide to Ralph Ellison

Table of Contents: “…Tracy -- Ralph Ellison : a brief biography / Maryemma Graham and Jeffery Dwayne Mack -- Creative and cultural lag : the radical education of Ralph Ellison / William Maxwell -- A delicate ear, a retentive memory, and the power to weld the fragments / Steven C. …”
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Good Vibrations : Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys in Critical Perspective /

Table of Contents: “…"Brian comes alive" : celebrity, performance, and the limitations of biography in lyric reading / Kirk Curnutt -- Pet sound effects / Daniel Harrison -- Brian Wilson's harmonic language / Philip Lambert -- Summer of '64 / Keir Keightly -- When I grow up : the Beach Boys' early music / Jadey O'Regan -- Into the Mystic? …”
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Surface tensions surgery, bodily boundaries, and the social self / by Manderson, Lenore

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The September 11 terrorist attacks by Hillstrom, Kevin, 1963-

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Surface tensions surgery, bodily boundaries, and the social self / by Manderson, Lenore

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The September 11 terrorist attacks by Hillstrom, Kevin, 1963-

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Bastide on religion the invention of candomblé / by Despland, Michel

Table of Contents: “…An intellectual biography -- Breaking the glass and striking the rock -- Symbols, memory and anticipation : sociology from Durkheim to Gurvitch -- Civilizations neither meet nor clash, people do -- The three books on Afro-Brazilian religions -- The Paris career : the world of French ethnologists -- Leaving safe ground : acknowledging the fluidity of human interaction -- Candomblé as paradigm for translocal religion -- O sagrado selvagem as corner stone of a theory of religion -- Study of religion and sociology of knowledge -- The aesthetic dimension, or the black hen lays white eggs.…”
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The riddle of Cantinflas essays on Hispanic popular culture / by Stavans, Ilan

Table of Contents: “…or, the ritual of chance -- Santa Selena -- The novelist and the dictator -- The riddle of Cantinflas -- Mario Vargas Llosa: civilization versus barbarism -- The art of the ephemeral -- Sandra Cisneros: form over content -- Civility and Latinos -- José Guadalupe Posada: a profile -- Conversations: Language and empire (with Verónica Albin); Against biography (with Donald Yates); Redrawing the historieta (with Neal Sokol).…”
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Dutch scholarship in the age of empire and beyond : KITLV- the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, 1851-2011 / by Kuitenbrouwer, M.

Table of Contents: “…The KITLV under conservative and liberal administration (1851-1870) -- Imperialism, orientalism and ethics (1870-1914) -- The late-colonial rise of indology (1914-1940) -- Decolonization and internationalization (1940-1975) -- Postcolonial academic practice (1975-2001) -- Appendix I: Honorary members, presidents and secretary/directors KITLV -- Appendix II: KITLV membership figures, 1853-2000 -- Appendix III: KITLV publications, 1852-2010 -- Epilogue / Harry A. Poeze -- Biography of Maarten Kuitenbrouwer / Harry A. Poeze -- Bibliography of Maarten Kuitenbrouwer.…”
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Bastide on religion the invention of candomblé / by Despland, Michel

Table of Contents: “…An intellectual biography -- Breaking the glass and striking the rock -- Symbols, memory and anticipation : sociology from Durkheim to Gurvitch -- Civilizations neither meet nor clash, people do -- The three books on Afro-Brazilian religions -- The Paris career : the world of French ethnologists -- Leaving safe ground : acknowledging the fluidity of human interaction -- Candomblé as paradigm for translocal religion -- O sagrado selvagem as corner stone of a theory of religion -- Study of religion and sociology of knowledge -- The aesthetic dimension, or the black hen lays white eggs.…”
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The riddle of Cantinflas essays on Hispanic popular culture / by Stavans, Ilan

Table of Contents: “…or, the ritual of chance -- Santa Selena -- The novelist and the dictator -- The riddle of Cantinflas -- Mario Vargas Llosa: civilization versus barbarism -- The art of the ephemeral -- Sandra Cisneros: form over content -- Civility and Latinos -- José Guadalupe Posada: a profile -- Conversations: Language and empire (with Verónica Albin); Against biography (with Donald Yates); Redrawing the historieta (with Neal Sokol).…”
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Dutch scholarship in the age of empire and beyond : KITLV- the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, 1851-2011 / by Kuitenbrouwer, M.

Table of Contents: “…The KITLV under conservative and liberal administration (1851-1870) -- Imperialism, orientalism and ethics (1870-1914) -- The late-colonial rise of indology (1914-1940) -- Decolonization and internationalization (1940-1975) -- Postcolonial academic practice (1975-2001) -- Appendix I: Honorary members, presidents and secretary/directors KITLV -- Appendix II: KITLV membership figures, 1853-2000 -- Appendix III: KITLV publications, 1852-2010 -- Epilogue / Harry A. Poeze -- Biography of Maarten Kuitenbrouwer / Harry A. Poeze -- Bibliography of Maarten Kuitenbrouwer.…”
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What really matters service, leadership, people, and values / by Pepper, John, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…A passionate sense of ownership ; The benefits of diversity and the challenge of achieving it ; A personal model for living ; A family affair -- Conclusion: Enduring values in an age of innovation -- Appendix 1: Biographies of key leaders -- Appendix 2: Redesigning your organizational structure to achieve your purpose.…”
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What really matters service, leadership, people, and values / by Pepper, John, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…A passionate sense of ownership ; The benefits of diversity and the challenge of achieving it ; A personal model for living ; A family affair -- Conclusion: Enduring values in an age of innovation -- Appendix 1: Biographies of key leaders -- Appendix 2: Redesigning your organizational structure to achieve your purpose.…”
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Television program master index : access to critical and historical information on 2,273 shows in books, dissertations and journal articles / by Dintrone, Charles V., 1942-

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