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Tiananmen moon inside the Chinese student uprising of 1989 / by Cunningham, Philip J.

Table of Contents: “…I: New moon -- In search of the real China -- The new May fourth spirit -- Ten thousand bicycles -- II: Waxing moon -- Hunger strike -- Laying claim to the square -- Looking for Gorbachev -- Working-class heroes -- Rising tide of rebellion -- Everyone an emperor -- Breaking the fast -- III: Waning moon -- Martial law -- Provincial vagabonds -- Egg on the face of Mao -- Tiananmen headquarters -- Radical camp -- Last will and testament -- Clandestine interview -- Going underground -- Midnight rendezvous -- IV: No moon -- Troops are coming -- Of tanks and men -- Eve of destruction -- The sky is crying.…”
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End-to-end lean management a guide to complete supply chain improvement / by Trent, Robert J.

Table of Contents: “…Going with the flow -- Lean is the pits -- What goes around comes around -- Why push when you can pull -- Why push when you can pull: the lessons learned -- Lean takes to the skies -- Beam me up, Scotty -- Lean is electrifying -- You're choking me.…”
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The greening of Asia : the business case for solving Asia's environmental emergency / by Clifford, Mark, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: green shoots under soot-stained skies -- Introduction: energy: sun, wind and the end of coal -- The sun kings -- Blowin' in the wind -- Introduction: our human world: cities, buildings, wheels -- Cities in a garden -- Buildings for a greener Asia -- Asia on the move: cars and trains -- Introduction: nature : forests, farms and water -- "Water is more important than oil" -- The tropical challenge : saving Asia's lungs -- Epilogue: "adhere and prosper" : from black coal to green power -- Conclusion -- Appendix: companies to watch -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Screens and veils Maghrebi women's cinema / by Martin, Florence, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Assia Djebar's transvergent Nuba: the Nuba of the women of Mount Chenoua (Algeria, 1978) -- Farida Benlyazid's initiation narrative: A door to the sky (Morocco, 1988) -- Transvergent screens. Yamina Bachir-Chouikh's transvergent echoes: Rachida (Algeria, 2002) -- Raja Amari's screen of the haptic: Red satin (Tunisia, 2002) -- Nadia El Fani's multiple screens: Bedwin hacker (Tunisia, 2002) -- From Dunyazad to transvergent audiences. …”
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Noscendi Nilum cupido imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus / by Manolaraki, Eleni

Table of Contents: “…Egypt and the Nile in Julio-Claudian Rome: Lucan -- Pompey's Nile -- Beyond Pompey's Nile -- Acoreus -- Acoreus, author of the Nile -- Physics: the Nile between earth and sky -- Ethics: Lucan and Seneca on the Nile -- Poetics: the bard's song and the river of poetry -- The bard's song -- The river of poetry -- Flavian Rome: Egypt and the Nile in Flavian Rome -- Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica -- The Nile in Cyzicus -- The Nile in the Bosphorus -- The Nile in Aea -- The Nile on the Danube -- Statius' Thebaid -- The Nile on Perseus' hill -- The Nile on the Langia -- The Nile in Athens -- Statius' Siluae -- Producing Egypt, staging Isis -- Remapping the land: from Egypt to Rome and back again -- Relating to religion: Anubis, Phoenix, and Apis -- Revisiting history: Alexander and Cleopatra -- The Antonine and Severan periods: The Nile and Egypt in the Antonine and Severan periods -- The emperor's Nile: the younger Pliny and Fronto -- Plutarch's On Isis and Osiris -- Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana -- Sage and emperor on the Nile -- Reclaiming the Nile -- Imagining the Nile.…”
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Japan at nature's edge the environmental context of a global power /

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An invention without a future : essays on cinema / by Naremore, James

Table of Contents: “…Authors, actors, adaptations -- Hawks, Chandler, Bogart, Bacall: The big sleep -- Uptown folk: blackness and entertainment in Cabin in the sky -- Hitchcock and humor -- Hitchcock at the margins of noir -- Spies and lovers: North by Northwest -- Welles, Hollywood, and Heart of darkness -- Orson Welles and movie acting -- Welles and Kubrick: two forms of exile -- The treasure of the Sierra Madre -- The return of the dead -- Part 3. …”
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Screens and veils Maghrebi women's cinema / by Martin, Florence, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Assia Djebar's transvergent Nuba: the Nuba of the women of Mount Chenoua (Algeria, 1978) -- Farida Benlyazid's initiation narrative: A door to the sky (Morocco, 1988) -- Transvergent screens. Yamina Bachir-Chouikh's transvergent echoes: Rachida (Algeria, 2002) -- Raja Amari's screen of the haptic: Red satin (Tunisia, 2002) -- Nadia El Fani's multiple screens: Bedwin hacker (Tunisia, 2002) -- From Dunyazad to transvergent audiences. …”
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Noscendi Nilum cupido imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus / by Manolaraki, Eleni

Table of Contents: “…Egypt and the Nile in Julio-Claudian Rome: Lucan -- Pompey's Nile -- Beyond Pompey's Nile -- Acoreus -- Acoreus, author of the Nile -- Physics: the Nile between earth and sky -- Ethics: Lucan and Seneca on the Nile -- Poetics: the bard's song and the river of poetry -- The bard's song -- The river of poetry -- Flavian Rome: Egypt and the Nile in Flavian Rome -- Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica -- The Nile in Cyzicus -- The Nile in the Bosphorus -- The Nile in Aea -- The Nile on the Danube -- Statius' Thebaid -- The Nile on Perseus' hill -- The Nile on the Langia -- The Nile in Athens -- Statius' Siluae -- Producing Egypt, staging Isis -- Remapping the land: from Egypt to Rome and back again -- Relating to religion: Anubis, Phoenix, and Apis -- Revisiting history: Alexander and Cleopatra -- The Antonine and Severan periods: The Nile and Egypt in the Antonine and Severan periods -- The emperor's Nile: the younger Pliny and Fronto -- Plutarch's On Isis and Osiris -- Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana -- Sage and emperor on the Nile -- Reclaiming the Nile -- Imagining the Nile.…”
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Japan at nature's edge the environmental context of a global power /

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An invention without a future : essays on cinema / by Naremore, James

Table of Contents: “…Authors, actors, adaptations -- Hawks, Chandler, Bogart, Bacall: The big sleep -- Uptown folk: blackness and entertainment in Cabin in the sky -- Hitchcock and humor -- Hitchcock at the margins of noir -- Spies and lovers: North by Northwest -- Welles, Hollywood, and Heart of darkness -- Orson Welles and movie acting -- Welles and Kubrick: two forms of exile -- The treasure of the Sierra Madre -- The return of the dead -- Part 3. …”
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Our mothers, our powers, our texts manifestations of Ajé in Africana literature / by Washington, Teresa N., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Obinkaram Echewa's I saw the sky catch fire -- Initiations into the self, the conjured space of creation, and prophetic utterance in Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa and Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, cypress & indigo -- Un/complementary complements : gender, power, and Ajé -- The relativity of negativity -- The womb of life is a wicked bag : cycles of power, passion, and pain in the mother-daughter Ajé relationship -- Twinning across the ocean : the neo-political Ajé of Ben Okri's Madame Koto and Mary Monroe's Mama Ruby.…”
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Our mothers, our powers, our texts manifestations of Ajé in Africana literature / by Washington, Teresa N., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Obinkaram Echewa's I saw the sky catch fire -- Initiations into the self, the conjured space of creation, and prophetic utterance in Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa and Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, cypress & indigo -- Un/complementary complements : gender, power, and Ajé -- The relativity of negativity -- The womb of life is a wicked bag : cycles of power, passion, and pain in the mother-daughter Ajé relationship -- Twinning across the ocean : the neo-political Ajé of Ben Okri's Madame Koto and Mary Monroe's Mama Ruby.…”
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Kate Bush and Hounds of love by Moy, Ron, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…-- The society of the spectacular -- Pop video : history and developments -- An overview of Kate Bush's early videos -- Hair of the hound -- Coming to terms with video -- The sensual world : the video -- The line, the cross and the curve -- Her later work -- The whole story -- The period leading up to The sensual world -- This woman's work -- The period leading up to The red shoes -- The red shoes -- The period leading up to Aerial -- Aerial : a sea of honey -- A sky of honey -- Coda : we become panoramic.…”
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Sound commitments avant-garde music and the sixties /

Table of Contents: “…ONCE and the sixties / Ralf Dietrich ; "Scream against the sky" : Japanese avant-garde music in the sixties / Yayoi Uno Everett -- The challenge of institutionalization. …”
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Achieve the honorable : a Missouri congressman's journey from Warm Springs to Washington / by Skelton, Ike, 1931-2013

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Jacket Flaps; Title Page; Copyright; Frontispiece; Contents; A Note; Acknowledgments; A Wreck in Iraq; Roots; A Sound from the Sky; Polio and Warm Springs; Finishing Third, and Winning; Dad; College Years; The Law, Dewey, and Gene; Susie; Mr. …”
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Achieve the honorable : a Missouri congressman's journey from Warm Springs to Washington / by Skelton, Ike, 1931-2013

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Jacket Flaps; Title Page; Copyright; Frontispiece; Contents; A Note; Acknowledgments; A Wreck in Iraq; Roots; A Sound from the Sky; Polio and Warm Springs; Finishing Third, and Winning; Dad; College Years; The Law, Dewey, and Gene; Susie; Mr. …”
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Kate Bush and Hounds of love by Moy, Ron, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…-- The society of the spectacular -- Pop video : history and developments -- An overview of Kate Bush's early videos -- Hair of the hound -- Coming to terms with video -- The sensual world : the video -- The line, the cross and the curve -- Her later work -- The whole story -- The period leading up to The sensual world -- This woman's work -- The period leading up to The red shoes -- The red shoes -- The period leading up to Aerial -- Aerial : a sea of honey -- A sky of honey -- Coda : we become panoramic.…”
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Sound commitments avant-garde music and the sixties /

Table of Contents: “…ONCE and the sixties / Ralf Dietrich ; "Scream against the sky" : Japanese avant-garde music in the sixties / Yayoi Uno Everett -- The challenge of institutionalization. …”
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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects /

Table of Contents: “…With the world, or bound to face the sky: the postures of the wolf-child of Hesse / Karl Steel -- Animals and the medieval culture of empire / Sharon Kinoshita -- The floral and the human / Peggy McCracken -- Exemplary rocks / Kellie Robertson -- Mineral virtue / Valerie Allen -- You are here: a manifesto / Eileen A. …”
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