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Muslim girls and the other France race, identity politics, & social exclusion / by Keaton, Trica Danielle

Table of Contents: “…Unmixing French "national identity" -- Structured exclusion: public housing in the French outer city -- Transmitting a "common culture": symbolic violence realized -- Counterforces: educational inequality and relative resistance -- Beyond identity: Muslim girls and the politics of their existence -- Epilogue: and so it goes.…”
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Hippies of the religious right by Shires, Preston, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Modern culture-mainstream and mainline -- The counterculture -- Old-time religion and new-time youth -- A radical spirituality for a radical generation -- The evangelical lifestyle -- The countercultural Christians -- The merging of countercultural and evangelical Christianity -- Awaiting the religious right -- Politically right -- The Christian right and its sixties inheritance -- Epilogue.…”
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The gentle subversive Rachel Carson, Silent spring, and the rise of the environmental movement / by Lytle, Mark H.

Table of Contents: “…Spring -- Sense of wonder: Under the Sea-Wind -- Summer -- Florescence: The Sea Around Us -- Fall - The fullness of life: From The Edge of the Sea to DDT -- Winter -- The poison book and the dark season of vindication -- Epilogue Rachel Carson: the legacy.…”
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The scar of visibility medical performances and contemporary art / by Kuppers, Petra

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: bodily fantasies -- Visions of anatomy: space, exhibitions, and dense bodies -- Living bodies: staging knowledge, fantasy, and temporality -- The collaborative arts: pain and performance -- Intersections: blood, laughter, and the space-off -- Monsters, cyborgs, animals: crashes, cuttings, and migraines -- Medical museums and art display: the discourses of AIDS -- Reaching out: outsider art, specialists, and positions in between -- Epilogue: fantasies in the sand.…”
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Charles Valentin Alkan his life and his music / by Eddie, William Alexander

Table of Contents: “…Alkan : the historical and social background -- Apprentice works -- Development of a personal voice -- Etudes -- Sonata types for piano -- Morceaux caracteristiques -- The esquisses -- Arrangements and cadenzas -- Organ and pedalier music -- Piano and strings -- Miscellaneous compositions -- Stylistic dimensions -- Reception -- Performance practice -- Epilogue.…”
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Radical evil and the scarcity of hope postsecular meditations / by Matuštík, Martin Joseph, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Impossible hope -- Job at Auschwitz -- Redemptive critical theory -- Between hope and terror -- The negatively saturated phenomenon -- Job questions Kant -- Redemption in an antiredemptory age -- Radical evil as a saturated phenomenon -- The uncanny -- The unforgivable -- Tragic beauty -- The unspeakable -- Without a why -- Epilogue : Job questions the Grand Inquisitor.…”
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Inside Alabama a personal history of my state / by Jackson, Harvey H.

Table of Contents: “…Back when it belonged to the Indians -- Frontier Alabama -- Becoming a state -- Antebellum Alabama -- Stumbling toward secession -- Secession and Civil War -- After the war that never ended -- A world made by Bourbons, for Bourbons -- White man's Alabama -- Depression and war -- Alabama after the war: "Big Jim" and beyond -- Old times there should not be forgotten -- The age of Wallace -- The age of Wallace and after -- Epilogue : To sum it up.…”
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Cinemachismo masculinities and sexuality in Mexican film / by Mora, Sergio de la

Table of Contents: “…"Midnight virgin": melodramas of prostitution in literature and film -- Pedro Infante unveiled: masculinities in the Mexican "buddy movie" -- The last dance: (homo)sexuality and representation in Arturo Ripstein's El lugar sin límites and the fichera subgenre -- Mexico's third-wave new cinema and the cultural politics of film -- Epilogue. Mexican cinema is dead! Long live Mexican cinema!…”
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Framing attention windows on modern German culture / by Koepnick, Lutz P. (Lutz Peter)

Table of Contents: “…Menzel's rear window -- Richard Wagner and the framing of modern empathy -- Early cinema and the windows of empire -- Underground vision -- Windows 33/45 -- Fluxus television -- The nation's new windows -- Epilogue : "Berliner Fenster".…”
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Captives & their saviors in the medieval crown of Aragon by Rodriguez, Jarbel, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Raiding and piracy -- Life in captivity -- Captives and renegades -- Liberating the captives: family-initiated responses -- Liberating the captives: communal and institutional responses -- The finances of ransoming -- Epilogue: Freedom and reintegration.…”
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The origins of the Cuban Revolution reconsidered by Farber, Samuel, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…-- The role of the Soviet Union and the Cuban Communists -- Epilogue.…”
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Ancient Mesopotamia at the dawn of civilization the evolution of an urban landscape / by Algaze, Guillermo, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…-- The evidence for trade -- Early Mesopotamian urbanism in comparative perspective -- The synergies of civilization -- Conclusion: The Mesopotamian conjuncture -- Epilogue: Early Sumerian civilization : a research agenda.…”
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The concrete dragon China's urban revolution and what it means for the world / by Campanella, Thomas J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The urbanism of ambition -- Thunder from the south -- Reclaiming Shanghai -- The politics of the past -- Capital improvements -- City of chai -- The country and the city -- Suburbanization and the mechanics of sprawl -- Driving the capitalist road -- Theme parks and the landscape of consumption -- Epilogue: China reinvents the city.…”
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An ethics of betrayal the politics of otherness in emergent U.S. literatures and culture / by Parikh, Crystal

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: an ethics of betrayal -- Late arrivals: an ethics of betrayal in racial and national formation -- Accidents and obligations: minority neoconservatives and U.S. racial discourse -- Ethnic America undercover: the intellectual and minority discourse -- The passion: the betrayals of Elián González and Wen Ho Lee -- Epilogue: the traitors in our midst.…”
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Creating the culture of reform in antebellum America by Garvey, T. Gregory, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Discursive democracy and the culture of reform -- Religious pluralism and the origins of the culture of reform -- Sincerity and publicity in the Grimké-Beecher debate -- Garrison, Douglass, and the problem of politics -- Emerson's self-reliance as a theory of community -- Epilogue : sincerity and pluralism in critical conversation.…”
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The politically incorrect guide to science by Bethell, Tom

Table of Contents: “…-- Evolution: the missing evidence -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.…”
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Mirror of morality Chinese narrative illustration and Confucian ideology / by Murray, Julia K.

Table of Contents: “…The social status of narrative illustration in China -- Redrawing the concept of Chinese narrative illustration -- Early narrative illustration and moral suasion -- New strategies for narrative illustration in the post-Han period -- Institutionalizing narrative illustration under the Tang dynasty -- Turning points and competing values -- Later narrative illustration at court : legitimation -- Remonstrance, and indoctrination -- Narrative illustration outside the court : persuasion, pleasure, prestige, and piety -- Epilogue.…”
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Traditional Micronesian societies adaptation, integration, and political organization / by Petersen, Glenn

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a perspective on traditional Micronesian life -- Micronesia and Micronesians -- The prehistory of Micronesian societies -- Descent and descent groups -- Household and family, land and labor -- Chieftainship and government -- Politics and leadership -- Aesthetics, beliefs, values, and behavior -- Some exceptions to the pan-Micronesian patterns -- Epilogue : traditional Micronesian societies and modern Micronesian history.…”
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Democracy and the political unconscious by McAfee, Noëlle, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…The political unconscious -- Modernity's traumas -- Targeting the public sphere -- The repetition compulsion or the endless war on terror -- Recovering community -- Deliberative democracy -- Feminist theory, politics, and freedom -- Public knowledge -- Three models of democratic deliberation -- The limits of deliberation, democratic myths, new frontiers -- Media and the public sphere -- Epilogue.…”
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Argentina and the United States an alliance contained / by Sheinin, David

Table of Contents: “…Trade, progress, and nation building, 1800-1880 -- Pan-Americanism, world war, and the Bolshevik menace, 1880-1923 -- Sanitary embargo, cultural connections, and wartime neutrality, 1924-1946 -- Cold war and the end of Argentine democracy, 1947-1961 -- The sixties : military ties, economic uncertainties -- Descent to dictatorship, 1970-1983 -- The forging of a new relationship, 1984-1999 -- Epilogue : the crash of 2001 and beyond.…”
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