Search Results - "Blues"

Outside the wire American soldiers' voices from Afghanistan /

Table of Contents: “…Spring / SPC Chantal Ogaldez -- Deployment / SFC Billy Wallace -- Karbala, Iraq / SFC Billy Wallace -- How every soldier leaves / SGT Catherine Lorfils -- They were just kids / PFC Anonymous Female -- Meltdown / SGT Jarrell Robinson -- Sat phone black op / SGT Sean Moore -- Hell of a long day / SPC Karl Mulling -- Protection / Marie Mulling -- Our lives today / Marie Mulling -- Coincidence / PV2 Anonymous Female -- B-hut blues / SFC Michael Bramlett -- Bombed / SrA Michal Sakautzki -- The hardest good-bye / SGT Latayna Orama -- Routine mission / SGT Kevin Zimmerman -- A woman, a boxer / PVT Veneta White -- Little girl, run . . . it's not safe here / SGT Jose Githens -- Death through a 9x scope / SGT Anonymous Male -- My great sadness / SGT Christopher Williams -- West ash street / SGT Michael Diggs -- Busted / SGT Jessie Evans -- Disappointment / SGT Jessie Evans -- More day / SGT Jessie Evans -- I would rather die in Afghanistan / SGT Elether Fareaux -- A moment of silence / PVT Emily Anderson -- Words unspoken / SPC J. …”
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Outside the wire American soldiers' voices from Afghanistan /

Table of Contents: “…Spring / SPC Chantal Ogaldez -- Deployment / SFC Billy Wallace -- Karbala, Iraq / SFC Billy Wallace -- How every soldier leaves / SGT Catherine Lorfils -- They were just kids / PFC Anonymous Female -- Meltdown / SGT Jarrell Robinson -- Sat phone black op / SGT Sean Moore -- Hell of a long day / SPC Karl Mulling -- Protection / Marie Mulling -- Our lives today / Marie Mulling -- Coincidence / PV2 Anonymous Female -- B-hut blues / SFC Michael Bramlett -- Bombed / SrA Michal Sakautzki -- The hardest good-bye / SGT Latayna Orama -- Routine mission / SGT Kevin Zimmerman -- A woman, a boxer / PVT Veneta White -- Little girl, run . . . it's not safe here / SGT Jose Githens -- Death through a 9x scope / SGT Anonymous Male -- My great sadness / SGT Christopher Williams -- West ash street / SGT Michael Diggs -- Busted / SGT Jessie Evans -- Disappointment / SGT Jessie Evans -- More day / SGT Jessie Evans -- I would rather die in Afghanistan / SGT Elether Fareaux -- A moment of silence / PVT Emily Anderson -- Words unspoken / SPC J. …”
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Authors on Film /

Table of Contents: “…Bernard Shaw / On cinema -- Heinrich Mann / On The blue angel: Heinrich Mann to Karl Lemke -- The blue angel is shown to me -- Thomas Mann / On the film -- Bertolt Brecht / Concern music for the film -- Graham Greene / Three reviews -- Louis Aragon / What is art, Jean-Luc Godard? …”
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Authors on Film /

Table of Contents: “…Bernard Shaw / On cinema -- Heinrich Mann / On The blue angel: Heinrich Mann to Karl Lemke -- The blue angel is shown to me -- Thomas Mann / On the film -- Bertolt Brecht / Concern music for the film -- Graham Greene / Three reviews -- Louis Aragon / What is art, Jean-Luc Godard? …”
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The view from the ground experiences of Civil War soldiers /

Table of Contents: “…The blue and the gray in black and white : assessing the scholarship on Civil War soldiers / Aaron Sheehan-Dean -- A "vexed question" : white Union soldiers on slavery and race / Chandra Manning -- A brother's war : exploring Confederate perceptions of the enemy / Jason Phillips -- "The army is not near so much demoralized as the country is" : soldiers in the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate home front / Lisa Laskin -- "No nearer heaven now but rather farther off" : the religious compromises and conflicts of northern soldiers / David W. …”
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Blackness in opera

Table of Contents: “…Bryan -- New paradigms in William Grant Still's Blue steel / Gayle Murchison -- Performers in Catfish Row: Porgy and Bess as collaboration / Gwynne Kuhner Brown -- Searching for "authenticity" in Paul Bowles's Denmark Vesey / Melissa J. de Graaf -- The politics of color in Oscar Hammerstein's Carmen Jones / Melinda Boyd -- Performing race in Ernst Krenek's Jonny spielt auf / Jonathan O. …”
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The view from the ground experiences of Civil War soldiers /

Table of Contents: “…The blue and the gray in black and white : assessing the scholarship on Civil War soldiers / Aaron Sheehan-Dean -- A "vexed question" : white Union soldiers on slavery and race / Chandra Manning -- A brother's war : exploring Confederate perceptions of the enemy / Jason Phillips -- "The army is not near so much demoralized as the country is" : soldiers in the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate home front / Lisa Laskin -- "No nearer heaven now but rather farther off" : the religious compromises and conflicts of northern soldiers / David W. …”
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Blackness in opera

Table of Contents: “…Bryan -- New paradigms in William Grant Still's Blue steel / Gayle Murchison -- Performers in Catfish Row: Porgy and Bess as collaboration / Gwynne Kuhner Brown -- Searching for "authenticity" in Paul Bowles's Denmark Vesey / Melissa J. de Graaf -- The politics of color in Oscar Hammerstein's Carmen Jones / Melinda Boyd -- Performing race in Ernst Krenek's Jonny spielt auf / Jonathan O. …”
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History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out : Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History / by Barrett, James R., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…reading the autobiography of American communism -- Revolution and personal crisis : personal narrative and the subjective in the history of American Communism -- Blue-collar cosmopolitans : toward a history of working-class sophistication in industrial America -- The bohemian writer and the radical woodworker : a study in class relations -- Americanization from the bottom up : immigration and the remaking of the working class in the United States, 1880-1930 -- Inbetween peoples : race, nationality, and the "new immigrant" working class / James R. …”
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History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out : Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History / by Barrett, James R., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…reading the autobiography of American communism -- Revolution and personal crisis : personal narrative and the subjective in the history of American Communism -- Blue-collar cosmopolitans : toward a history of working-class sophistication in industrial America -- The bohemian writer and the radical woodworker : a study in class relations -- Americanization from the bottom up : immigration and the remaking of the working class in the United States, 1880-1930 -- Inbetween peoples : race, nationality, and the "new immigrant" working class / James R. …”
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Mad Men, Mad World : Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s /

Table of Contents: “…Maddening times : Mad men in its history / Dana Polan -- Mad space / Dianne Harris -- Representing the mad margins of the early 1960s : Northern civil rights and the blues idiom / Clarence Lang -- After the sex, what? …”
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Mad Men, Mad World : Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s /

Table of Contents: “…Maddening times : Mad men in its history / Dana Polan -- Mad space / Dianne Harris -- Representing the mad margins of the early 1960s : Northern civil rights and the blues idiom / Clarence Lang -- After the sex, what? …”
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State of change Colorado politics in the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Colorado : sometimes red and sometimes blue / Robert D. Loevy -- What's going on? the shifting terrain of federal elections in Colorado / Robert J. …”
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Knowledge systems and translation

Table of Contents: “…/ Klaus Schubert -- Empirical research into the role of knowledge in interpreting : methodological aspects / Daniel Gile -- Investigating expert translators' processing knowledge / Arnt Lykke Jakobsen -- Of cat? sh and blue bananas : scenes-and-frames semantics as a contrastive "knowledge system" for translation / Mary Snell-Hornby -- Translation-related analysis of the textualisation of a knowledge system on the basis of Fauconnier's concept of mental spaces / Laura Sergo and Gisela Thome -- Modelling semantic networks on source and target texts in consecutive interpreting : a contribution to the study of interpreters' notes / Helle V. …”
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State of change Colorado politics in the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Colorado : sometimes red and sometimes blue / Robert D. Loevy -- What's going on? the shifting terrain of federal elections in Colorado / Robert J. …”
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Knowledge systems and translation

Table of Contents: “…/ Klaus Schubert -- Empirical research into the role of knowledge in interpreting : methodological aspects / Daniel Gile -- Investigating expert translators' processing knowledge / Arnt Lykke Jakobsen -- Of cat? sh and blue bananas : scenes-and-frames semantics as a contrastive "knowledge system" for translation / Mary Snell-Hornby -- Translation-related analysis of the textualisation of a knowledge system on the basis of Fauconnier's concept of mental spaces / Laura Sergo and Gisela Thome -- Modelling semantic networks on source and target texts in consecutive interpreting : a contribution to the study of interpreters' notes / Helle V. …”
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Legendary Ladies of Texas /

Table of Contents: “…EARLY DAYS Maria de Agreda: The lady in blue -- Angelina -- Emily Morgan: Yellow Rose of Texas -- The weeping woman: La Llorona -- SETTLERS Belle Starr: the bandit queen of Dallas -- The ghost of Chipita: the crying woman of San Patricio -- The capitol's lady -- Two sixshooters and a sunbonnet: The story of Sally Skull -- Sophia Porter: Texas' own Scarlett O'Hara -- Elise Waerenskjold: A modern on the prairie -- TEXAS GETS CULTURE Adah Isaacs Menken: From Texas to Paris -- Elisabet Ney: Texas' First lady of sculpture -- Mollie Bailey: Circus entrepreneur -- Martha White McWhirter and the Belton sanctificationists -- Aunt Dicy: Legendary black lady -- El Paso madams -- EARLY 20TH CENTURY Pardon me, Governor Ferguson -- "Tell them I don't smoke cigars": The story of Bonnie Parker -- Glamor girl called Electra -- The babe -- MODERN TIMES Janis and the Austin scene -- Legends in their own time: The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders -- Honky tonk angels -- Woman as victim in modern folklore -- Mrs. …”
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Legendary Ladies of Texas /

Table of Contents: “…EARLY DAYS Maria de Agreda: The lady in blue -- Angelina -- Emily Morgan: Yellow Rose of Texas -- The weeping woman: La Llorona -- SETTLERS Belle Starr: the bandit queen of Dallas -- The ghost of Chipita: the crying woman of San Patricio -- The capitol's lady -- Two sixshooters and a sunbonnet: The story of Sally Skull -- Sophia Porter: Texas' own Scarlett O'Hara -- Elise Waerenskjold: A modern on the prairie -- TEXAS GETS CULTURE Adah Isaacs Menken: From Texas to Paris -- Elisabet Ney: Texas' First lady of sculpture -- Mollie Bailey: Circus entrepreneur -- Martha White McWhirter and the Belton sanctificationists -- Aunt Dicy: Legendary black lady -- El Paso madams -- EARLY 20TH CENTURY Pardon me, Governor Ferguson -- "Tell them I don't smoke cigars": The story of Bonnie Parker -- Glamor girl called Electra -- The babe -- MODERN TIMES Janis and the Austin scene -- Legends in their own time: The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders -- Honky tonk angels -- Woman as victim in modern folklore -- Mrs. …”
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Where am I wearing? a global tour to the countries, factories, and people that make our clothes / by Timmerman, Kelsey, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: We have it made -- A consumer goes global -- Tattoo's tropical paradise -- Fake blood, sweat, and tears : anti-sweatshop protestors -- Jingle these -- Undercover in the underwear biz -- Bangladesh amusement park -- Inside my first sweatshop -- Child labor in action -- Arifa, the garment worker -- Hope -- No black and white, only green -- (Update for revised edition) Hungry for choices -- Labor day -- Year zero -- Those who wear Levi's -- Those who make Levi's -- Blue jean machine -- Progress -- Treasure and trash -- (Update for revised edition) The faces of crisis -- PO'ed VP -- Life at the bottom -- Growing pains -- The real China -- On a budget -- An all-American Chinese Walmart -- The Chinese fantasy -- (Update for revised edition) Migration -- For richer, for poorer -- (Update for revised edition) Restarting, again -- Return to fantasy island -- Amilcar's journey -- An American dream -- Touron goes glocal -- Appendix A: Discussion questions -- Appendix B: Note to freshman me -- Appendix C: Where are you teaching? …”
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Neurodegeneration theory, disorders and treatments /

Table of Contents: “…Gifondorwa, Carol Milligan -- Methylene blue induces mitochondrial complex IV and improves cognitive function and grip strength in old mice / Afshin Gharib ... …”
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