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The Return of the Omniscient Narrator : Authorship and Authority in Twenty-First Century Fiction / by Dawson, Paul, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The return of omniscience in contemporary fiction -- Omniscience and narrative authority -- The direct address and the ironic moralist -- Prolepsis and the literary historian -- Style and the pyrotechnic storyteller -- Polymathic knowledge, the immersion journalist, and the social commentator -- Voice and free indirect discourse in contemporary omniscient narration -- Paralepsis and omniscient character narration -- Real authors and real readers : a discursive approach to the narrative communication model -- Conclusion.…”
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Immigration and American popular culture an introduction / by Rubin, Rachel, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Hollywood, 1930 : Jewish gangster masquerade -- Los Angeles, 1943 : zoot suit style, immigrant politics -- Broadway, 1957 : West Side Story and the Nuyorican blues -- Monterey, 1967 : the hippies meet Ravi Shankar -- South Bronx, 1977 : Jamaican migrants, born Jamericans, and global music -- Cyberspace, y2k : giant robots, Asian punks -- Afterword : Chelsea, 2006 ; wandering popular culture.…”
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Metro movies cinematic urbanism in post-Mao China / by Kuoshu, Harry H., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- X-roads : old and new city films -- Dislocation : Huang Jianxin's urban searching for roots -- No one cheers : the later fifth generation and the urban "situation movie" -- Beijing bastards : century's end rock scenes and China's Generation X -- Captives of love : emotional styles and the new urbanites -- Lunar eclipse: elusive urban realities -- City paradise : urbanization looms over an old land -- Conclusion.…”
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Making and remaking mosques in Senegal by Cantone, Cleo

Table of Contents: “…Sudanese style mosques and their little known relatives in Futa Toro (15th-mid 19th century) -- The birth of the 'colonial mosque' : hybridity, French policy and Muslim identity (ca. 1820-1920) -- Regionalism, revivals and repercussions on Senegalese mosques (ca. 1920-1950s) -- The contemporary urban mosque phenomenon : mosquees confreriques, mosquees ibadou (1960s-present) -- Women, space and West African mosques.…”
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Adobe InDesign CS6 digital classroom by Smith, Christopher, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…InDesign CS6 essential skills -- Building documents with master pages -- Working with text and type -- Working with styles -- Working with graphics -- Creating and using tables -- Using color in your documents -- Using effects -- Advanced document features -- Preflighting, printing and creating PDFs from InDesign -- Introduction to digital documents -- Creating digital books -- Adobe InDesign CS6 new features.…”
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Metro movies cinematic urbanism in post-Mao China / by Kuoshu, Harry H., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- X-roads : old and new city films -- Dislocation : Huang Jianxin's urban searching for roots -- No one cheers : the later fifth generation and the urban "situation movie" -- Beijing bastards : century's end rock scenes and China's Generation X -- Captives of love : emotional styles and the new urbanites -- Lunar eclipse: elusive urban realities -- City paradise : urbanization looms over an old land -- Conclusion.…”
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Making and remaking mosques in Senegal by Cantone, Cleo

Table of Contents: “…Sudanese style mosques and their little known relatives in Futa Toro (15th-mid 19th century) -- The birth of the 'colonial mosque' : hybridity, French policy and Muslim identity (ca. 1820-1920) -- Regionalism, revivals and repercussions on Senegalese mosques (ca. 1920-1950s) -- The contemporary urban mosque phenomenon : mosquees confreriques, mosquees ibadou (1960s-present) -- Women, space and West African mosques.…”
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Adobe InDesign CS6 digital classroom by Smith, Christopher, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…InDesign CS6 essential skills -- Building documents with master pages -- Working with text and type -- Working with styles -- Working with graphics -- Creating and using tables -- Using color in your documents -- Using effects -- Advanced document features -- Preflighting, printing and creating PDFs from InDesign -- Introduction to digital documents -- Creating digital books -- Adobe InDesign CS6 new features.…”
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Immigration and American popular culture an introduction / by Rubin, Rachel, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Hollywood, 1930 : Jewish gangster masquerade -- Los Angeles, 1943 : zoot suit style, immigrant politics -- Broadway, 1957 : West Side Story and the Nuyorican blues -- Monterey, 1967 : the hippies meet Ravi Shankar -- South Bronx, 1977 : Jamaican migrants, born Jamericans, and global music -- Cyberspace, y2k : giant robots, Asian punks -- Afterword : Chelsea, 2006 ; wandering popular culture.…”
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Casino women courageous in unexpected places / by Chandler, Susan Kerr

Table of Contents: “…. -- Liberation theology, pit boss style -- Dealing : the view from dead center -- Stuck -- Big tobacco rides the strip -- Crossing over to the other side.…”
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Casino women courageous in unexpected places / by Chandler, Susan Kerr

Table of Contents: “…. -- Liberation theology, pit boss style -- Dealing : the view from dead center -- Stuck -- Big tobacco rides the strip -- Crossing over to the other side.…”
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Oriental Lawrence the quest for the secrets of sex / by Doherty, Gerald, 1929-

Table of Contents: “…Reinventing Yoga -- Ch. 6. Women in Love: New Styles of Orgasm -- Ch. 7. The Plumed Serpent: Transcending the Orgasm -- Ch. 8. …”
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Raising boys' achievement in secondary schools by Younger, Mike, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…-- Raising boys' achievements within an inclusive context -- The context of the classroom : pedagogies and teacher-learning styles -- The context of the individual : target-setting and mentoring -- Organizational contexts : equal opportunities in the single-sex classroom -- The socio-cultural key -- Gender and achievement in special schools -- Policy directions within an inclusive context.…”
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The education mayor improving America's schools /

Table of Contents: “…The historical and political context of integrated governance -- The new style education mayors -- Evaluating the effects of mayoral control -- Integrated governance as a strategy to improve school performance -- Considering the gap between high and low performing schools -- Accountability and urban high schools : the challenge of improving instructional practices -- Toward strategic deployment of resources -- The political dynamics in building public support for education -- Mayoral governance of schools as laboratories of democracy.…”
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Shifting terrain essays on politics, history and society / by Perusek, Glenn W. (Glenn Wesley), 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Hubris of empire -- "A horizon lit with blood" : the U.S. occupation and resistance in Iraq -- Strategy and changing moods in Thucydides -- The dispossessed -- Child labor in the world economy -- The most dispossessed : hunger and poverty on a world scale -- Barren ground : American political culture -- Shifting terrain : styles of liberalism, periodization, and levels of analysis -- The politics of organized labor in the United States, 1945-1998 -- Two methodological traditions in the social sciences.…”
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Shifting terrain essays on politics, history and society / by Perusek, Glenn W. (Glenn Wesley), 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Hubris of empire -- "A horizon lit with blood" : the U.S. occupation and resistance in Iraq -- Strategy and changing moods in Thucydides -- The dispossessed -- Child labor in the world economy -- The most dispossessed : hunger and poverty on a world scale -- Barren ground : American political culture -- Shifting terrain : styles of liberalism, periodization, and levels of analysis -- The politics of organized labor in the United States, 1945-1998 -- Two methodological traditions in the social sciences.…”
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Oriental Lawrence the quest for the secrets of sex / by Doherty, Gerald, 1929-

Table of Contents: “…Reinventing Yoga -- Ch. 6. Women in Love: New Styles of Orgasm -- Ch. 7. The Plumed Serpent: Transcending the Orgasm -- Ch. 8. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Raising boys' achievement in secondary schools by Younger, Mike, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…-- Raising boys' achievements within an inclusive context -- The context of the classroom : pedagogies and teacher-learning styles -- The context of the individual : target-setting and mentoring -- Organizational contexts : equal opportunities in the single-sex classroom -- The socio-cultural key -- Gender and achievement in special schools -- Policy directions within an inclusive context.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The education mayor improving America's schools /

Table of Contents: “…The historical and political context of integrated governance -- The new style education mayors -- Evaluating the effects of mayoral control -- Integrated governance as a strategy to improve school performance -- Considering the gap between high and low performing schools -- Accountability and urban high schools : the challenge of improving instructional practices -- Toward strategic deployment of resources -- The political dynamics in building public support for education -- Mayoral governance of schools as laboratories of democracy.…”
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Iterative methods in combinatorial optimization by Lau, Lap Chi

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