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Hijos del pueblo gender, family, and community in rural Mexico, 1730-1850 / by Kanter, Deborah Ellen

Table of Contents: “…"Like three feet in one shoe" : the Toluca Region, 1730-1821 -- Hijos del pueblo : the limits of community -- "In compliance with marital obligations" : women, men, and married life -- "Not in the street" : households and the meanings of kinship -- Scandalous men and intrepid women -- Neither alone nor free : women in depósito -- From fathers to stepfathers : life after independence.…”
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Rereading Heterosexuality : Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction / by Carroll, Rachel

Table of Contents: “…COVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: feminism, queer theory and heterosexuality; Part One: Revisiting the spinster; Chapter 1 'Becoming my own ghost': spinsterhood and the 'invisibility' of heterosexuality in Sarah Waters' Affinity; Chapter 2 Telling tales out of school: spinsters, scandals and intergenerational heterosexuality in Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal; Part Two: Transgressive female heterosexuality; Chapter 3 Queering Alice, killing Lolita: feminism, queer theory and the politics of child sexuality in A.M. …”
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Rereading Heterosexuality : Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction / by Carroll, Rachel

Table of Contents: “…COVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: feminism, queer theory and heterosexuality; Part One: Revisiting the spinster; Chapter 1 'Becoming my own ghost': spinsterhood and the 'invisibility' of heterosexuality in Sarah Waters' Affinity; Chapter 2 Telling tales out of school: spinsters, scandals and intergenerational heterosexuality in Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal; Part Two: Transgressive female heterosexuality; Chapter 3 Queering Alice, killing Lolita: feminism, queer theory and the politics of child sexuality in A.M. …”
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The city a guide to London's global financial centre / by Roberts, Richard, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…About the city -- From the Royal Exchange to Canary Wharf -- Financial markets and instruments -- The sell-side : investment banking and securities -- The buy-side : investors and asset management -- Banking, payments, and specialist financial institutions -- Insurance -- Professional and support services -- Shipping and commodities -- Bank of England -- Regulation -- Financial centre league tables -- City scandals and calamities -- Challenges and outlook.…”
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Inside the Hollywood fan magazine a history of star makers, fabricators, and gossip mongers / by Slide, Anthony

Table of Contents: “…Quirk and Photoplay -- The studio mouthpiece -- The fan magazine as a literary outlet -- New writers, new publishers, new horizons -- The golden age of the fan magazine -- Gossip, scandal, and innuendo -- The 1950s and the influence of television -- The 1960s -- Ms. …”
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Inside the Hollywood fan magazine a history of star makers, fabricators, and gossip mongers / by Slide, Anthony

Table of Contents: “…Quirk and Photoplay -- The studio mouthpiece -- The fan magazine as a literary outlet -- New writers, new publishers, new horizons -- The golden age of the fan magazine -- Gossip, scandal, and innuendo -- The 1950s and the influence of television -- The 1960s -- Ms. …”
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The city a guide to London's global financial centre / by Roberts, Richard, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…About the city -- From the Royal Exchange to Canary Wharf -- Financial markets and instruments -- The sell-side : investment banking and securities -- The buy-side : investors and asset management -- Banking, payments, and specialist financial institutions -- Insurance -- Professional and support services -- Shipping and commodities -- Bank of England -- Regulation -- Financial centre league tables -- City scandals and calamities -- Challenges and outlook.…”
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Divas and scholars performing Italian opera / by Gossett, Philip

Table of Contents: “…Setting the stage ; Transmission versus tradition ; Scandal and scholarship ; The romance of the critical edition -- Intermezzo. …”
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Divas and scholars performing Italian opera / by Gossett, Philip

Table of Contents: “…Setting the stage ; Transmission versus tradition ; Scandal and scholarship ; The romance of the critical edition -- Intermezzo. …”
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High theory/low culture by Brottman, Mikita, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Joyful mayhem : Bakhtin and football fans -- 3. Rumor, gossip, and scandal : Barthes and tabloid rhetoric -- 4. "The last stop of desire" : Roland Barthes goes shopping -- 5. …”
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High theory/low culture by Brottman, Mikita, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Joyful mayhem : Bakhtin and football fans -- 3. Rumor, gossip, and scandal : Barthes and tabloid rhetoric -- 4. "The last stop of desire" : Roland Barthes goes shopping -- 5. …”
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The Newton wars and the beginning of the French Enlightenment by Shank, John Bennett

Table of Contents: “…Newton without newtonianism : French mathematical science in the early eighteenth century -- Sources of Enlightenment Newtonianism : toward a new climate of science in France after 1715 -- Preparing the battlefield : fighting for and against Newton after 1715 -- The invention of French Newtonianism : Maupertuis and Voltaire -- Making the "philosophe" : Voltaire's Newtonianism and the scandal of the lettres philosophiques -- A French culture war : the battle over Newtonianism -- Leibnizianism and the solidification of the French Enlightenment.…”
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Concerto for the left hand disability and the defamiliar body / by Davidson, Michael, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Prelude: the pool -- Introduction: concerto for the left hand -- Strange blood: hemophobia and the unexplored boundaries of queer nation -- Phantom limbs: film noir's volatile bodies -- Hearing things: the scandal of speech in deaf performance -- Tree tangled in tree: resiting poetry through ASL -- Missing Larry: the poetics of disability in Larry Eigner -- Nostalgia for light: being blind at the museum -- Universal design: the work of disability in an age of globalization -- Organs without bodies: transplant narratives in the global market -- Afterword: disability and the defamiliar body -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.…”
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Concerto for the left hand disability and the defamiliar body / by Davidson, Michael, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Prelude: the pool -- Introduction: concerto for the left hand -- Strange blood: hemophobia and the unexplored boundaries of queer nation -- Phantom limbs: film noir's volatile bodies -- Hearing things: the scandal of speech in deaf performance -- Tree tangled in tree: resiting poetry through ASL -- Missing Larry: the poetics of disability in Larry Eigner -- Nostalgia for light: being blind at the museum -- Universal design: the work of disability in an age of globalization -- Organs without bodies: transplant narratives in the global market -- Afterword: disability and the defamiliar body -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.…”
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The Newton wars and the beginning of the French Enlightenment by Shank, John Bennett

Table of Contents: “…Newton without newtonianism : French mathematical science in the early eighteenth century -- Sources of Enlightenment Newtonianism : toward a new climate of science in France after 1715 -- Preparing the battlefield : fighting for and against Newton after 1715 -- The invention of French Newtonianism : Maupertuis and Voltaire -- Making the "philosophe" : Voltaire's Newtonianism and the scandal of the lettres philosophiques -- A French culture war : the battle over Newtonianism -- Leibnizianism and the solidification of the French Enlightenment.…”
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A secession crisis enigma William Henry Hurlbert and "The diary of a public man" / by Crofts, Daniel W.

Table of Contents: “…-- The Lincoln interviews -- Hurlbert and Ward -- Promoting the diary -- Hurlbert and the world -- Connecting past and present -- Scandal and summation -- Epilogue: "The diary of a public man" and the Lincoln legend -- Appendix: The text of "The diary of a public man."…”
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Greece's 'odious' debt : the looting of the Hellenic republic by the Euro, the political elite and the investment community / by Manolopoulos, Jason

Table of Contents: “…-- Western branding, eastern legacy: a country on a fault line -- The looting of Greece: scandals, corruption and a monstrous public sector -- Getting unlucky : it all begins to unravel -- The euro in practice -- Liquidity boom -- The entertainers -- An unaffordable bail-out? …”
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A secession crisis enigma William Henry Hurlbert and "The diary of a public man" / by Crofts, Daniel W.

Table of Contents: “…-- The Lincoln interviews -- Hurlbert and Ward -- Promoting the diary -- Hurlbert and the world -- Connecting past and present -- Scandal and summation -- Epilogue: "The diary of a public man" and the Lincoln legend -- Appendix: The text of "The diary of a public man."…”
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Greece's 'odious' debt : the looting of the Hellenic republic by the Euro, the political elite and the investment community / by Manolopoulos, Jason

Table of Contents: “…-- Western branding, eastern legacy: a country on a fault line -- The looting of Greece: scandals, corruption and a monstrous public sector -- Getting unlucky : it all begins to unravel -- The euro in practice -- Liquidity boom -- The entertainers -- An unaffordable bail-out? …”
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Eakins revealed the secret life of an American artist / by Adams, Henry, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Within the walls -- The perfect crime -- The loin cloth scandal -- Family quarrels -- The death of Ella Crowell -- The insanity of Lillian Hammitt -- Explanations and enigmas -- Analyzing Eakins -- Part II. …”
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