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Reference and information services in the 21st century : an introduction / by Cassell, Kay Ann

Table of Contents: “…Introducing reference and information service -- Determining the question : in-person, telephone, and virtual reference interviews -- Finding the answer : basic search techniques -- Answering questions about books, magazines, newspapers, libraries and publishing, and bibliographic networks : bibliographic resources -- Answering questions about anything and everything : encyclopedias -- Answering questions that require handy facts : ready reference sources -- Answering questions about words : dictionaries -- Answering questions about events and issues, past and present : indexes and full-text databases -- Answering questions about health, law, and business : special guidelines and sources -- Answering questions about geography, countries, and travel : atlases, gazetteers, maps, geographic information systems, and travel guides -- Answering questions about the lives of people : biographical information sources -- Answering questions about governments : government information sources -- When and how to use the Internet as a reference tool -- Reader's advisory work / Mary K. …”

Cinema's alchemist the films of Péter Forgács /

Table of Contents: “…How to make history perceptible: The Bartos family and the private Hungary series / Roger Odin -- Found images as witness to Central European history: a Bibø reader and Miss Universe 1929 / Catherine Portuges -- Reenvisioning the documentary fact: on saying and showing in Wittgenstein Tractatus and bourgeois dictionaries / Tyrus Miller -- The world rewound: Wittgenstein Tractatus / Whitney Davis -- Taking the part for the whole: some thoughts inspired by the film music of Tibor Szemzø / Tamøs Korønyi -- Analytical spaces: the installations of Péter Forgács / Laszlo F. …”
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Cinema's alchemist the films of Péter Forgács /

Table of Contents: “…How to make history perceptible: The Bartos family and the private Hungary series / Roger Odin -- Found images as witness to Central European history: a Bibø reader and Miss Universe 1929 / Catherine Portuges -- Reenvisioning the documentary fact: on saying and showing in Wittgenstein Tractatus and bourgeois dictionaries / Tyrus Miller -- The world rewound: Wittgenstein Tractatus / Whitney Davis -- Taking the part for the whole: some thoughts inspired by the film music of Tibor Szemzø / Tamøs Korønyi -- Analytical spaces: the installations of Péter Forgács / Laszlo F. …”
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Reference and information services in the 21st century : an introduction / by Cassell, Kay Ann

Table of Contents: “…Introducing reference and information service -- Determining the question : in-person, telephone, and virtual reference interviews -- Finding the answer : basic search techniques -- Answering questions about books, magazines, newspapers, libraries and publishing, and bibliographic networks : bibliographic resources -- Answering questions about anything and everything : encyclopedias -- Answering questions that require handy facts : ready reference sources -- Answering questions about words : dictionaries -- Answering questions about events and issues, past and present : indexes and full-text databases -- Answering questions about health, law, and business : special guidelines and sources -- Answering questions about geography, countries, and travel : atlases, gazetteers, maps, geographic information systems, and travel guides -- Answering questions about the lives of people : biographical information sources -- Answering questions about governments : government information sources -- When and how to use the Internet as a reference tool -- Reader's advisory work / Mary K. …”

American women poets in the 21st century : where lyric meets language /

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: RAE ARMANTROUT -- POEMS -- As We're Told 8 -- The Plan 8 -- View zo -- Up to Speed zo -- Manufacturing zz -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Cheshire Poetics 24 -- LYRICISM OF THE SWERVE -- The Poetry of Rae Armantrout, by Hank Lazer 27 -- MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE -- POEMS -- From Four Year Old Girl 53 -- From Kali 56 -- From The Retired Architect 60 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- By Correspondence 6i -- A "SENSITIVE EMPIRICISM" -- Berssenbrugge's Phenomenological Investigations, -- by Linda Voris 68 -- LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO -- POEMS -- The One Thousand Days 94 -- Soul Keeping Company 95 -- Periodic Table of Ethereal Elements 96 -- Am Moor 98 -- Carrowmore 99 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Myself a Kangaroo Among the Beauties oo -- "SUBJECT, SUBJUGATE, INTHRALLED" -- The Selves of Lucie Brock-Broido, by Stephen Burt I03 -- JORIE GRAHAM -- POEMS -- Exit Wound I27 -- Covenant 131 -- Prayer I34 -- Gulls 135 -- The Complex Mechanism of the Break 138 -- In/Silence I40 -- Philosopher's Stone 142 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- At the Border 146 -- JORIE GRAHAM AND EMILY DICKINSON -- Singing to Use the Waiting, by Thomas Gardner 148 -- BARBARA GUEST -- POEMS -- Valorous Vine 178 -- If So, Tell Me I79 -- Confession of My Images i8o -- Defensive Rapture 81 -- An Emphasis Falls on Reality 183 -- The Farewell Stairway 85 -- Words 88 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- The Forces of the Imagination 89 -- IMPLACABLE POET, PURPLE BIRDS -- The Work of Barbara Guest, by Sara Lundquist I9I -- LYN HEJINIAN -- POEMS -- From Writing Is an Aid to Memory zzz -- From Happily 229 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Some Notes toward a Poetics 235 -- Parting with Description, by Craig Dworkin 242 -- BRENDA HILLMAN -- POEMS -- A Geology z68 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Twelve Writings toward a Poetics of Alchemy, -- Dread, Inconsistency, Betweenness, and California -- Geological Syntax 276 -- "NEEDING SYNTAX TO LOVE" -- Expressive Experimentalism in the Work of -- Brenda Hillman, by Lisa Sewell z28 -- SUSAN HOWE -- POEMS -- From Chair 308 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- There Are Not Leaves Enough to Crown to -- Cover to Crown to Cover 325 -- ARTICULATING THE INARTICULATE -- Singularities and the Countermethod in Susan Howe, -- by Ming-Qian Ma 329 -- ANN LAUTERBACH -- POEMS -- In the Museum of the Word (Henri Matisse) 353 -- STONES (Istanbul, Robert Smithson) 3 5 8 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- As (It) Is: Toward a Poetics of the Whole Fragment 363 -- "Enlarging the Last Lexicon of Perception" in -- Ann Lauterbach's Framed Fragments, by Christine Hume -- HARRYETTE MULLEN -- POEMS -- Wino Rhino 400 -- Fancy Cortex 400 -- Music for Homemade Instruments 401 -- The Anthropic Principle 40I -- Sleeping with the Dictionary 402 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Imagining the Unimagined Reader 403 -- "SLEEPING WITH THE DICTIONARY" -- Harryette Mullen's "Recyclopedia," -- by Elisabeth A. …”
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American women poets in the 21st century : where lyric meets language /

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: RAE ARMANTROUT -- POEMS -- As We're Told 8 -- The Plan 8 -- View zo -- Up to Speed zo -- Manufacturing zz -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Cheshire Poetics 24 -- LYRICISM OF THE SWERVE -- The Poetry of Rae Armantrout, by Hank Lazer 27 -- MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE -- POEMS -- From Four Year Old Girl 53 -- From Kali 56 -- From The Retired Architect 60 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- By Correspondence 6i -- A "SENSITIVE EMPIRICISM" -- Berssenbrugge's Phenomenological Investigations, -- by Linda Voris 68 -- LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO -- POEMS -- The One Thousand Days 94 -- Soul Keeping Company 95 -- Periodic Table of Ethereal Elements 96 -- Am Moor 98 -- Carrowmore 99 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Myself a Kangaroo Among the Beauties oo -- "SUBJECT, SUBJUGATE, INTHRALLED" -- The Selves of Lucie Brock-Broido, by Stephen Burt I03 -- JORIE GRAHAM -- POEMS -- Exit Wound I27 -- Covenant 131 -- Prayer I34 -- Gulls 135 -- The Complex Mechanism of the Break 138 -- In/Silence I40 -- Philosopher's Stone 142 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- At the Border 146 -- JORIE GRAHAM AND EMILY DICKINSON -- Singing to Use the Waiting, by Thomas Gardner 148 -- BARBARA GUEST -- POEMS -- Valorous Vine 178 -- If So, Tell Me I79 -- Confession of My Images i8o -- Defensive Rapture 81 -- An Emphasis Falls on Reality 183 -- The Farewell Stairway 85 -- Words 88 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- The Forces of the Imagination 89 -- IMPLACABLE POET, PURPLE BIRDS -- The Work of Barbara Guest, by Sara Lundquist I9I -- LYN HEJINIAN -- POEMS -- From Writing Is an Aid to Memory zzz -- From Happily 229 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Some Notes toward a Poetics 235 -- Parting with Description, by Craig Dworkin 242 -- BRENDA HILLMAN -- POEMS -- A Geology z68 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Twelve Writings toward a Poetics of Alchemy, -- Dread, Inconsistency, Betweenness, and California -- Geological Syntax 276 -- "NEEDING SYNTAX TO LOVE" -- Expressive Experimentalism in the Work of -- Brenda Hillman, by Lisa Sewell z28 -- SUSAN HOWE -- POEMS -- From Chair 308 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- There Are Not Leaves Enough to Crown to -- Cover to Crown to Cover 325 -- ARTICULATING THE INARTICULATE -- Singularities and the Countermethod in Susan Howe, -- by Ming-Qian Ma 329 -- ANN LAUTERBACH -- POEMS -- In the Museum of the Word (Henri Matisse) 353 -- STONES (Istanbul, Robert Smithson) 3 5 8 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- As (It) Is: Toward a Poetics of the Whole Fragment 363 -- "Enlarging the Last Lexicon of Perception" in -- Ann Lauterbach's Framed Fragments, by Christine Hume -- HARRYETTE MULLEN -- POEMS -- Wino Rhino 400 -- Fancy Cortex 400 -- Music for Homemade Instruments 401 -- The Anthropic Principle 40I -- Sleeping with the Dictionary 402 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Imagining the Unimagined Reader 403 -- "SLEEPING WITH THE DICTIONARY" -- Harryette Mullen's "Recyclopedia," -- by Elisabeth A. …”
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Valency theoretical, descriptive and cognitive issues /

Table of Contents: “…Fillmore -- Valency and cognition--a notion in transition / Gert Rickheit and Lorenz Sichelschmidt -- Valency grammar in mind / Rudolf Emons -- The acquisition of argument structure / Heike Behrens -- Valency and the errors of learners of English and German / Ian Roe -- Temporary ambiguity of German and English term complements / Klaus Fischer -- Sentence patterns and perspective in English and German / Irene Ickler -- Contrasting valency in English and German / Brigitta Mittmann -- Valency in a contrastive perspective : structure and use / Stig Johansson -- Valency and automatic syntactic and semantic analysis / Dieter Götz -- Handling valency and coordination in Database Semantics / Roland Hausser -- Pronominal clitics and valency in Albanian : a computational linguistics perspective and modelling within the LAG-framework / Besim Kabashi -- The practical use of valencies in the Erlangen speech dialogue system CONALD / Günther Görz and Bernd Ludwig -- Valency data for Natural Language Processing : what can the Valency Dictionary of English provide? / Ulrich Heid.…”
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Swedenborg explorer's guidebook a research manual for inquiring new readers, seekers of spiritual ideas, and writers of Swedenborgian treatises / by Woofenden, William Ross

Table of Contents: “…Swedenborg's writings -- Chronology of published works and unpublished documents -- Alphabetical listing of Swedenborg's writings -- Classification by subject of Swedenborg's writings -- Annotated bibliography of Swedenborg's writings by year -- Published and unpublished writings -- Works of uncertain authorship and projected works that were never written -- Lost works -- Selected collateral literature -- Concordances and compendiums -- Indexes -- Dictionaries -- Documentary collections -- Bibliographies -- Doctrinal summaries -- A. basic reference -- B. general -- The lord -- The word -- E. humankind -- F. love, faith, use -- G. creation, providence, freedom -- H. sex and marriage -- Regeneration -- J. life after death, the spiritual world -- Exegetical works -- A. old testament -- B. new testament -- Studies in correspondences, parables, etc -- Major biographies of Swedenborg -- Historical studies -- A. church history -- B. church polity -- Autobiographies and biographies -- Of prominent swedenborgians -- Metaphysics -- Critical studies -- A. published works -- B. theses and dissertations -- Periodicals -- A. current periodicals -- B. former periodicals -- Indexes to periodicals -- Digests, outlines, and synopses -- Studies in science and religion -- Religious education materials -- Prayer and other devotional materials -- Literature for children -- Miscellaneous -- Glossary -- Selected list of key Swedenborgian concepts -- Pre-theological concepts relevant to the history of science and philosophy -- Concepts bridging the pre-theological and theological concepts -- Revelations about humankind and our intended destiny -- Major documentary collections and booksellers.…”
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Swedenborg explorer's guidebook a research manual for inquiring new readers, seekers of spiritual ideas, and writers of Swedenborgian treatises / by Woofenden, William Ross

Table of Contents: “…Swedenborg's writings -- Chronology of published works and unpublished documents -- Alphabetical listing of Swedenborg's writings -- Classification by subject of Swedenborg's writings -- Annotated bibliography of Swedenborg's writings by year -- Published and unpublished writings -- Works of uncertain authorship and projected works that were never written -- Lost works -- Selected collateral literature -- Concordances and compendiums -- Indexes -- Dictionaries -- Documentary collections -- Bibliographies -- Doctrinal summaries -- A. basic reference -- B. general -- The lord -- The word -- E. humankind -- F. love, faith, use -- G. creation, providence, freedom -- H. sex and marriage -- Regeneration -- J. life after death, the spiritual world -- Exegetical works -- A. old testament -- B. new testament -- Studies in correspondences, parables, etc -- Major biographies of Swedenborg -- Historical studies -- A. church history -- B. church polity -- Autobiographies and biographies -- Of prominent swedenborgians -- Metaphysics -- Critical studies -- A. published works -- B. theses and dissertations -- Periodicals -- A. current periodicals -- B. former periodicals -- Indexes to periodicals -- Digests, outlines, and synopses -- Studies in science and religion -- Religious education materials -- Prayer and other devotional materials -- Literature for children -- Miscellaneous -- Glossary -- Selected list of key Swedenborgian concepts -- Pre-theological concepts relevant to the history of science and philosophy -- Concepts bridging the pre-theological and theological concepts -- Revelations about humankind and our intended destiny -- Major documentary collections and booksellers.…”
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Valency theoretical, descriptive and cognitive issues /

Table of Contents: “…Fillmore -- Valency and cognition--a notion in transition / Gert Rickheit and Lorenz Sichelschmidt -- Valency grammar in mind / Rudolf Emons -- The acquisition of argument structure / Heike Behrens -- Valency and the errors of learners of English and German / Ian Roe -- Temporary ambiguity of German and English term complements / Klaus Fischer -- Sentence patterns and perspective in English and German / Irene Ickler -- Contrasting valency in English and German / Brigitta Mittmann -- Valency in a contrastive perspective : structure and use / Stig Johansson -- Valency and automatic syntactic and semantic analysis / Dieter Götz -- Handling valency and coordination in Database Semantics / Roland Hausser -- Pronominal clitics and valency in Albanian : a computational linguistics perspective and modelling within the LAG-framework / Besim Kabashi -- The practical use of valencies in the Erlangen speech dialogue system CONALD / Günther Görz and Bernd Ludwig -- Valency data for Natural Language Processing : what can the Valency Dictionary of English provide? / Ulrich Heid.…”
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The Dragoman Renaissance : Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism / by Rothman, E. Natalie (Ella Natalie), 1976-

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The Dragoman Renaissance : Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism / by Rothman, E. Natalie (Ella Natalie), 1976-

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Developing academic literacy

Table of Contents: “…/ Lynn Errey -- Patterns of revision in first language and second language writing / Alasdair Archibald -- The virtual vocabulary notebook : the electronic dictionary as vocabulary learning tool / Hilary Nesi.…”
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Developing academic literacy

Table of Contents: “…/ Lynn Errey -- Patterns of revision in first language and second language writing / Alasdair Archibald -- The virtual vocabulary notebook : the electronic dictionary as vocabulary learning tool / Hilary Nesi.…”
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Key papers on Korea : essays celebrating 25 years of the Centre of Korean Studies, SOAS, University of London /

Table of Contents: “…North Korea -- Introduction: North Korea / Andrew David Jackson -- Rousing the reader to action: North Korean wartime literature / Jerôme de Wit -- State power and hegemonic values: media coverage of the super bowl and arirang mass games / Andray Abrahamian -- How North Korea made its English-Korean dictionary / Lee Heejae -- Part three. Literature, philosophy and society -- Introduction: literature, philosophy and society / Andrew David Jackson -- The task and risk of translating classical Korean sijo: Yun Sondo and Hwang Chini / Hye-joon Yoon -- Wandering bodies, wondering minds: the body, territory and national identity in Pak T'aewon, Ch'oe Inhun and Chu Insok's stories about Kubo / Justyna Najbar-miller -- Reviving the Confucian spirit of ethical practicality: Tasan's notions of song (nature) and sim (heart/mind) and their political implication / Daeyeol Kim -- Shamans, ghosts and hobgoblins amidst Korean folk customs / Michael J. …”
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Key papers on Korea : essays celebrating 25 years of the Centre of Korean Studies, SOAS, University of London /

Table of Contents: “…North Korea -- Introduction: North Korea / Andrew David Jackson -- Rousing the reader to action: North Korean wartime literature / Jerôme de Wit -- State power and hegemonic values: media coverage of the super bowl and arirang mass games / Andray Abrahamian -- How North Korea made its English-Korean dictionary / Lee Heejae -- Part three. Literature, philosophy and society -- Introduction: literature, philosophy and society / Andrew David Jackson -- The task and risk of translating classical Korean sijo: Yun Sondo and Hwang Chini / Hye-joon Yoon -- Wandering bodies, wondering minds: the body, territory and national identity in Pak T'aewon, Ch'oe Inhun and Chu Insok's stories about Kubo / Justyna Najbar-miller -- Reviving the Confucian spirit of ethical practicality: Tasan's notions of song (nature) and sim (heart/mind) and their political implication / Daeyeol Kim -- Shamans, ghosts and hobgoblins amidst Korean folk customs / Michael J. …”
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Kamusi ya misemo na nahau / by Wamitila, K.W

Kamusi ya misemo na nahau / by Wamitila, K.W

Kamusi ya methali : maana na matumizi / by Mkota, Abel

Bouvard and Pécuchet / by Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880