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Designing modern America Broadway to Main Street / by Innes, Christopher, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Styling for the modern age -- Egos at work -- Theatrical fashions -- Stage and screen -- Society scenery -- A century of progress -- Riding into the future -- The world of tomorrow -- Car culture -- Street scenes -- Reaching for the sky -- Suburban heaven -- Lifestyle begins in the kitchen -- Selling modernity -- Afterword : then and now.…”
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Talking rocks geology and 10,000 years of Native American tradition in the Lake Superior Region / by Morton, Ron

Table of Contents: “…Makers of the magic smoke -- 8. The talking sky -- 9. The never-ending circle.…”
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Acoustic territories sound culture and everyday life / by LaBelle, Brandon

Table of Contents: “…Underground : busking, acousmatics, and the echo -- Home : ethical volumes of silence and noise -- Sidewalk : steps, gait, and rhythmic journey-forms -- Street : auditory latching, cars, and the dynamics of vibration -- Shopping mall : muzak, mishearing, and the productive volatility of feedback -- Sky : radio, spatial urbanism, and cultures of transmission.…”
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Acoustic territories sound culture and everyday life / by LaBelle, Brandon

Table of Contents: “…Underground : busking, acousmatics, and the echo -- Home : ethical volumes of silence and noise -- Sidewalk : steps, gait, and rhythmic journey-forms -- Street : auditory latching, cars, and the dynamics of vibration -- Shopping mall : muzak, mishearing, and the productive volatility of feedback -- Sky : radio, spatial urbanism, and cultures of transmission.…”
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Talking rocks geology and 10,000 years of Native American tradition in the Lake Superior Region / by Morton, Ron

Table of Contents: “…Makers of the magic smoke -- 8. The talking sky -- 9. The never-ending circle.…”
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Founding gods, inventing nations conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam / by McCants, William Faizi, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Gifts of the gods : the origins of civilization in ancient Near Eastern and Greek mythology -- The beneficent sky god : cultural history in the Qur'an -- Who was first? …”
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Founding gods, inventing nations conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam / by McCants, William Faizi, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Gifts of the gods : the origins of civilization in ancient Near Eastern and Greek mythology -- The beneficent sky god : cultural history in the Qur'an -- Who was first? …”
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Empire of the air : aviation and the American ascendancy / by Van Vleck, Jenifer, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the logic of the air -- The Americanization of the airplane -- Good neighbors are close neighbors -- Global visions, national interests -- "America's lifeline to Africa" -- From open door to open sky -- Mass air travel and the routes of the Cold War -- The jet age and the limits of American power -- Conclusion : "Empires rise and empires fall".…”
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Empire of the air : aviation and the American ascendancy / by Van Vleck, Jenifer, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the logic of the air -- The Americanization of the airplane -- Good neighbors are close neighbors -- Global visions, national interests -- "America's lifeline to Africa" -- From open door to open sky -- Mass air travel and the routes of the Cold War -- The jet age and the limits of American power -- Conclusion : "Empires rise and empires fall".…”
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Worst cases terror and catastrophe in the popular imagination / by Clarke, Lee Ben

Table of Contents: “…Worst cases : be afraid, be very afraid -- 2. The sky could be falling : globally relevant disasters and the perils of probabilism -- 3. …”
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Worst cases terror and catastrophe in the popular imagination / by Clarke, Lee Ben

Table of Contents: “…Worst cases : be afraid, be very afraid -- 2. The sky could be falling : globally relevant disasters and the perils of probabilism -- 3. …”
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Ecocide and population by Adelstein, Michael E.

Table of Contents: “…--Hello energy, good-bye big sky, by J. Neary.--Preserving our environment, by J. …”

The sacred art of forgiveness : forgiving ourselves and others through God's grace / by Ford, Marcia

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Five fictions in search of truth by Jehlen, Myra

Table of Contents: “…A real madeleine is a work of art -- Salammbo : three rough stones beneath a rainy sky -- The sacred fount : the case of the man who became extraordinarily -- Amusing -- The ambassadors : what he saw was exactly the right thing -- Lolita : a beautiful, banal, eden-red apple -- A simple heart : Felicite and the holy parrot.…”
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Five fictions in search of truth by Jehlen, Myra

Table of Contents: “…A real madeleine is a work of art -- Salammbo : three rough stones beneath a rainy sky -- The sacred fount : the case of the man who became extraordinarily -- Amusing -- The ambassadors : what he saw was exactly the right thing -- Lolita : a beautiful, banal, eden-red apple -- A simple heart : Felicite and the holy parrot.…”
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Ecocide and population by Adelstein, Michael E.

Table of Contents: “…--Hello energy, good-bye big sky, by J. Neary.--Preserving our environment, by J. …”

The sacred art of forgiveness : forgiving ourselves and others through God's grace / by Ford, Marcia

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The Scholar and the State : Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China / by Ge, Liangyan

Table of Contents: “…A rugged partnership: the intellectual elite and the imperial state -- The romance of the three kingdoms: the Mencian view of political sovereignty -- The scholar-lover in erotic fiction: a power game of selection -- The scholars: trudging out of a textual swamp -- The stone in dream of the red chamber: unfit to repair the azure sky -- Coda: Out of the imperial shadow.…”
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The Scholar and the State : Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China / by Ge, Liangyan

Table of Contents: “…A rugged partnership: the intellectual elite and the imperial state -- The romance of the three kingdoms: the Mencian view of political sovereignty -- The scholar-lover in erotic fiction: a power game of selection -- The scholars: trudging out of a textual swamp -- The stone in dream of the red chamber: unfit to repair the azure sky -- Coda: Out of the imperial shadow.…”
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Undermining science suppression and distortion in the Bush Administration / by Shulman, Seth

Table of Contents: “…Facts matter -- "Icing" the data on climate change -- Doctoring evidence about your health -- Abstaining from the truth on abstinence and aids -- Clear skies? healthy forests? understanding Bush's real environmental policy -- When good science is the endangered species -- Burying more than intelligence -- Stacking the deck -- Stem cells and monkey trials -- Restoring scientific integrity.…”
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