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A journey into Ireland's literary revival by Felton, R. Todd, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The Irish literary revival : a geography of the public and the private -- County Galway : home among the swallows -- The Aran Islands : a little corner on the face of the world -- County Mayo : a queer lot these times -- County Sligo : the land of heart's desire -- County Wicklow : south and west and south again -- Dublin : the public stage -- Timeline.…”
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Structural intimacies sexual stories in the black AIDS epidemic / by Mackenzie, Sonja, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Storying sexuality in the black aids epidemic -- A liquor store on every corner : intimate states of alcohol and HIV/AIDS -- Never a black brokeback mountain : sexual silence and the "down low" in the age of AIDS -- Crazy talk : the conspiracy counter narrative in the black aids epidemic -- The president, the preacher, and race and racism in the obama era -- Appendix: methodological matters.…”
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Something's Gotta Give : Charleston Conference Proceedings, 2011 /

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Lithuanians in Michigan by Grazulis, Marius K.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Lithuanian history as a background to immigration -- First and second waves of Lithuanians in Michigan -- Religion and culture in the first and second waves -- Lithuanians and sports -- Third and fourth waves Lithuanian immigration to Michigan -- Politics -- Fourth wave -- Fifth wave of immigration and today -- Union pier experience -- Future of Lithuanians in Michigan -- Conclusion -- Sidebars -- Bishop Salatka of Marquette -- Old country farmer's cheese -- Lithuanian Jews -- Louis Getz -- Milda's corner store.…”
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Teaching EFL in China what every foreign teacher should know before they go / by Wolff, Martin

Table of Contents: “…-- China EFL : the unqualified teaching (sic) the unmotivated, in a hostile environment -- EFL/ESL teaching in China : questIons, questions, questions -- China EFL : programming human robots -- Why Chinese universities do not provide an English speaking environment -- China EFL : English corner -- China EFL : one reason for midnight runners -- The journey to nowhere on the information highway -- Culture shock.…”
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Sounds from the Other Side : Afro–South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music / by Powell, Elliott H.

Table of Contents: “…A Desi Love Supreme : John Coltrane, James Baldwin, and the Life Side of Afro-South Asian Music -- Corner Politics : The Queer and South Asian Coalitional Black Politics of Miles Davis -- Punks, Freaks, OutKasts, and ATLiens : The Afro-South Asian Imaginings of Rick James and Andre -- Recovering Addict(ive) : The Afro-South Asian Sexual Politics of Truth Hurts's "Addictive" -- Do(ing) Something Different : Cross-Cultural Collaboration in the Work of Timbaland and Raje Shwari.…”
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Sounds from the Other Side : Afro–South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music / by Powell, Elliott H.

Table of Contents: “…A Desi Love Supreme : John Coltrane, James Baldwin, and the Life Side of Afro-South Asian Music -- Corner Politics : The Queer and South Asian Coalitional Black Politics of Miles Davis -- Punks, Freaks, OutKasts, and ATLiens : The Afro-South Asian Imaginings of Rick James and Andre -- Recovering Addict(ive) : The Afro-South Asian Sexual Politics of Truth Hurts's "Addictive" -- Do(ing) Something Different : Cross-Cultural Collaboration in the Work of Timbaland and Raje Shwari.…”
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Bastide on religion the invention of candomblé / by Despland, Michel

Table of Contents: “…An intellectual biography -- Breaking the glass and striking the rock -- Symbols, memory and anticipation : sociology from Durkheim to Gurvitch -- Civilizations neither meet nor clash, people do -- The three books on Afro-Brazilian religions -- The Paris career : the world of French ethnologists -- Leaving safe ground : acknowledging the fluidity of human interaction -- Candomblé as paradigm for translocal religion -- O sagrado selvagem as corner stone of a theory of religion -- Study of religion and sociology of knowledge -- The aesthetic dimension, or the black hen lays white eggs.…”
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Deep roots rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora / by Fields-Black, Edda L.

Table of Contents: “…The Rio Nunez region : a small corner of West Africa's rice coast region -- The first-comers and the roots of coastal rice-growing technology -- The newcomers and the seeds of tidal rice-growing technology -- Coastal collaboration and specialization : flowering of tidal rice-growing technologies -- The strangers and the branches of coastal rice-growing technology -- Feeding the slave trade : the trade in rice and captives from West Africa's rice coast -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 : fieldwork interviews -- Appendix 2 : rice terminology in Atlantic languages spoken in the coastal Rio Nunez region.…”
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Making medicine scientific John Burdon Sanderson and the culture of Victorian science / by Romano, Terrie M.

Table of Contents: “…From evangelical to medical officer of health -- Choosing medicine -- Medical officer of health -- Making a career in medical research -- Before the germ theory : the cattle plague of 1865-1866 and the state support of pathology -- From clinician-researcher to professional physiologist : making the pulse visible -- Becoming a research pathologist : the rise of laboratory medicine in Britain -- Focusing on physiology : capturing the venus's flytrap's electrical activity -- The medical sciences : critics and allies -- Physicians, antivivisectionists, and the failure of the Oxford School of Physiology -- A corner turned? : experimental medicine in late-Victorian Britain -- Researchers associated with Burdon Sanderson in Britain.…”
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Unrivalled influence women and empire in Byzantium / by Herrin, Judith

Table of Contents: “…Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Women in Byzantium -- In search of Byzantine women : three avenues of approach -- Women and the faith in icons in early Christianity -- Unrivalled influence : mothers and daughters in the medieval Greek world -- "Femina Byzantina" : the council in Trullo on women -- Public and private forms of religious commitment among Byzantine women -- The imperial feminine in Byzantium -- Political power and Christian faith in Byzantium : the case of Irene (regent 780-90, emperor 797-802) -- Moving bones : evidence of political burials from medieval Constantinople -- The many empresses of the Byzantine court (and all their attendants) -- Theophano : considerations on the education of a Byzantine princess -- Toleration and repression in the Byzantine family : gender problems -- The icon corner in medieval Byzantium -- Marriage : a fundamental element of imperial statecraft -- Index.…”
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Born of the Same Roots : Stories of Modern Chinese Women /

Table of Contents: “…Caterpillar / Lao She -- Two women / Wu Tsu-hsiang -- On the Oxcart / Hsiao Hung -- Garbage cleaner / Lo Hua-sheng -- West wind ; Chang Sao / Ping Hsin -- Little Liu / Ling Shu-hua -- Parting / Tʻien Tʻao -- At the precipice / Teng Yu-mei -- Spring is just around the corner / Tsʻao Ming -- Rain / Ai Wu -- Corduroy / Hsi Jung -- Old team captain welcomes a bride / Sung Shun-kʻang -- A day in Pleasantville / Pai Hsien-yung -- Nightfall / Yü Li-hau -- A rose in June / Ch'en Ying-chen -- Born of the same roots / Yang Chʻing chʻu -- May he return soon / Wang Tʻo -- My friend Ai Fen / Chen Jo-hsi.…”
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Born of the Same Roots : Stories of Modern Chinese Women /

Table of Contents: “…Caterpillar / Lao She -- Two women / Wu Tsu-hsiang -- On the Oxcart / Hsiao Hung -- Garbage cleaner / Lo Hua-sheng -- West wind ; Chang Sao / Ping Hsin -- Little Liu / Ling Shu-hua -- Parting / Tʻien Tʻao -- At the precipice / Teng Yu-mei -- Spring is just around the corner / Tsʻao Ming -- Rain / Ai Wu -- Corduroy / Hsi Jung -- Old team captain welcomes a bride / Sung Shun-kʻang -- A day in Pleasantville / Pai Hsien-yung -- Nightfall / Yü Li-hau -- A rose in June / Ch'en Ying-chen -- Born of the same roots / Yang Chʻing chʻu -- May he return soon / Wang Tʻo -- My friend Ai Fen / Chen Jo-hsi.…”
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Postscripts retrospections on time and place / by Root, Robert L.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : words in the wind (the Green Mountains, Vermont) -- To think of time (the Habitation, Nova Scotia) -- The pattern of life indelible (Belgrade Lakes, Maine) -- The everlastingly great look of the sky (Walden Pond, Massachusetts) -- Here is New York (New York, New York) -- Anasazi (the Four Corners) -- Knowing where you've been (the Bitterroot Mountains, Montana) -- Shore lines (the Great Lakes) -- Of trees and time (Warren Woods, Michigan) -- Malabar Farm (Malabar Farm State Park, Ohio) -- Terra cognita (Acadia National Park, Maine) -- Time and tide (Acadia National Park, Maine) -- Epilogue : postscript to a postscript to "the ring of time" (Sarasota, Florida).…”
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Qualitative inquiry and the politics of advocacy

Table of Contents: “…Giardina -- Theory -- Energizing and constraining advocacy / Robert Stake & Luisa Maria-Rosu -- Back to the educational future, again : a "double dip" into the long recession / Ian Stronach & John Clarke -- "Answers," assemblages, and qualitative research / Mirka Koro-Ljungberg & Tim Barko -- Turning the next wide 21st century corner : holistic restorative justice as science in qualitative inquiry / John H. …”
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The horror readers' advisory the librarian's guide to vampires, killer tomatoes, and haunted houses / by Spratford, Becky Siegel

Table of Contents: “…The evolution of horror literature and film -- The readers' advisory interview : matching horror novels with readers -- The classics : time-tested tales of terror -- Ghosts and haunted houses : home, scream, home -- Mummies, zombies, and golems : the walking dead under wraps -- Vampires : Dracula will never die -- Werewolves and animals of terror : the beast walks among us -- Maniacs and other monsters : the killer lurking in the corner -- Black magic, witches, warlocks, and the occult : double, double, toil, and trouble -- Demonic possession and Satanism : the Devil inside -- Scientific and biomedical horror : the doctor will see you now -- Psychological horror : mental mayhem -- Splatterpunk or extreme horror : horror's cutting edge -- Horror resources : how to hunt for the haunted -- Collection development : cultivating the seeds of fear -- Marketing your horror collection : make them come back to your lair of horror.…”
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The Time of the Sign : A Semiotic Interpretation of Modern Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Caterpillar / Lao She -- Two women / Wu Tsu-hsiang -- On the Oxcart / Hsiao Hung -- Garbage cleaner / Lo Hua-sheng -- West wind ; Chang Sao / Ping Hsin -- Little Liu / Ling Shu-hua -- Parting / Tʻien Tʻao -- At the precipice / Teng Yu-mei -- Spring is just around the corner / Tsʻao Ming -- Rain / Ai Wu -- Corduroy / Hsi Jung -- Old team captain welcomes a bride / Sung Shun-kʻang -- A day in Pleasantville / Pai Hsien-yung -- Nightfall / Yü Li-hau -- A rose in June / Ch'en Ying-chen -- Born of the same roots / Yang Chʻing chʻu -- May he return soon / Wang Tʻo -- My friend Ai Fen / Chen Jo-hsi.…”
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The Time of the Sign : A Semiotic Interpretation of Modern Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Caterpillar / Lao She -- Two women / Wu Tsu-hsiang -- On the Oxcart / Hsiao Hung -- Garbage cleaner / Lo Hua-sheng -- West wind ; Chang Sao / Ping Hsin -- Little Liu / Ling Shu-hua -- Parting / Tʻien Tʻao -- At the precipice / Teng Yu-mei -- Spring is just around the corner / Tsʻao Ming -- Rain / Ai Wu -- Corduroy / Hsi Jung -- Old team captain welcomes a bride / Sung Shun-kʻang -- A day in Pleasantville / Pai Hsien-yung -- Nightfall / Yü Li-hau -- A rose in June / Ch'en Ying-chen -- Born of the same roots / Yang Chʻing chʻu -- May he return soon / Wang Tʻo -- My friend Ai Fen / Chen Jo-hsi.…”
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