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Equal time television and the civil rights movement / by Bodroghkozy, Aniko, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…: Julia -- Prime time, Good times -- Epilogue: the return of civil rights television: the Obama victory.…”
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My name is Jody Williams a Vermont girl's winding path to the Nobel Peace Prize / by Williams, Jody, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…-- A special place in hell -- Claude, Casey, and the Corvair convertible -- V-I-E-T-N-A-M, marriage, and Mexico -- The making of a grassroots activist -- The pamphlet -- Boots on the ground : Sandinista interlude -- Dinner with the death squad -- I thought I wanted a straight job-instead I got landmines -- Landmines and love -- The Ottawa Process and the 1997 landmine ban world tour -- Whirlwind : October 10 to December 10, 1997 -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations follow page.…”
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The yearning for relief a history of the Sawaba movement in Niger / by Walraven, Klaas van, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Fighting for deliverance -- Infiltrations, 1960-1964 -- Regime responses, 1962-1964 -- Guerrilla war, July-December 1964 -- Guerrilla war, 1965-1966 -- The road of honour: the destruction of a social movement, 1965-1974 -- Epilogue: Aftermath and memory.…”
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Cooperative collegial democracy for Africa and multi-ethnic societies democracy without tears / by Ezeani, Emefiena

Table of Contents: “…-- Centripetalism : a competitive model of democracy -- Consociationalism : a quasi-cooperative model of democracy -- Democracy in pre-colonial and post-colonial Africa -- Ethnicity, religion, the judiciary and liberal democracy in a multi-ethnic society -- Godfatherism, privatisation of the state and diminution of political space -- Giovanni Sartori : political parties, party-less state and competitive democracy -- The unanswered national questions and the party model of democracy -- The party system and some specific issues -- Voting under the veil of ignorance and the belief in the people's power -- Cooperative collegial democracy : a workable model for Africa and multi-ethnic societies -- Epilogue : corruption and democracy : learning from the Nigerian experience.…”
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Ringlingville USA the stupendous story of seven siblings and their stunning circus success / by Apps, Jerold W., 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The idea for a circus, 1848-1881 -- Hall shows and an overland circus, 1882-1884 -- Establishing a reputation, 1885-1889 -- Taking to the rails and growing, 1890-1894 -- A giant emerges, 1895-1899 -- Facing a new century, 1900-1901 -- Making money and pleasing people, 1902-1903 -- Keeping the lead, 1904-1905 -- Becoming even larger, 1906-1907 -- Managing two big shows, 1908-1909 -- Doing the impossible, 1910-1911 -- Tax woes, 1912-1914 -- The effects of war, 1915-1918 -- Epilogue, after Ringlingville.…”
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All good books are Catholic books print culture, censorship, and modernity in twentieth-century America /

Table of Contents: “…Catholic literary aesthetics -- Modernisms literary and theological -- Declining oppositions -- The history and function of Catholic censorship, as told to the twentieth century -- Censorship in the land of "thinking on one's own" -- Art and freedom in the era of "the church of your choice" -- Reclaiming the modernists, reclaiming the modern -- Peculiarly possessed of the modern consciousness -- Epilogue : the abrogation of the index.…”
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Disturbers of the peace : representations of madness in Anglophone Caribbean literature / by Josephs, Kelly Baker

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Madness, Caribbeanness and the process of nation-building -- Manias and messiahs: man-man and the madness of Miguel Street -- The necessity for madness: negotiating nation in Sylvia Wynter's The Hills of Hebron -- "Fighting mad": between sides and stories in Wide Sargasso Sea -- Shared dreams and collective delirium in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain -- "Claims to social identity": madness and subject formation in Jane and Louisa will soon come home -- Epilogue: Madness and migration in the new millennia.…”
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Exodus politics : civil rights and leadership in African American literature and culture / by Patterson, Robert J., 1980-

Table of Contents: “…: the politics of gender and gender politics: civil rights activism and leadership in Ernest Gaines' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman -- The refusal of Christ to accept crucifixion: bridge leadership refutes the paradoxes of exodus politics in Alice Walker's Meridian -- The important thing is making generations: reconsidering reproduction and blues performances as forms of civil rights leadership in Gayl Jones' Corregidora -- We all killed him the limits of (formal) leadership and civil rights legislation in Charles Johnson's Dreamer -- Epilogue: Is there life after exodus politics?.…”
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The great rent wars : New York, 1917-1929 / by Fogelson, Robert M.

Table of Contents: “…The post-war housing shortage -- Between a rock and a hard place -- A weighty decision -- The great rent strikes -- The mayor's committee on rent profiteering -- Enter the state legislature -- The April laws -- The September laws -- The battle in the state courts -- The fight in the federal courts -- A question of coverage -- A reasonable rent -- The four exceptions -- Landlords and tenants in New York and Albany -- The extension of rent control -- The expiration of rent control -- Epilogue.…”
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Designing suburban futures : new models from Build a better burb / by Williamson, June

Table of Contents: “…Noteworthy Competition Schemes -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: New Roles for Architecture and Urban Design. …”
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My friendship with Martin Buber / by Friedman, Maurice S.

Table of Contents: “…My friendship with Martin Buber begins -- The cost of my commitment -- On the suspension of the ethical -- Martin Buber's first visit to America -- Sartre, Heidegger, Jung, and Scholem -- The life of dialogue: letters following Buber's first visit -- Personal direction: letters, 1954-1957 -- The Washington School of Psychiatry and the Buber-Rogers dialogue -- Postscript to I and thou: letters following Buber's second visit -- Buber's last visit to America -- Interrogations and responses: letters following Buber's last visit -- Our stay in Jerusalem and Buber's last years -- Epilogue: memorial address.…”
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The light of knowledge : literacy activism and the politics of writing in South India / by Cody, Francis, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : of light, literacy, and knowledge in the Tamil countryside -- On being a "thumbprint" : time and space in Arivoli activism -- Feminizing enlightenment : the social and reciprocal agency -- Labors of objectification : words and worlds of pedagogy -- Search for a method : the media of enlightenment -- Subject to citizenship : petitions and the performativity of signature -- Epilogue : reflections on a time of charismatic enlightenment.…”
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Fossils of the Carpathian region / by Főzy, István

Table of Contents: “…Museums and Collections -- Museums and Collections -- Epilogue -- Glossary.…”
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Pests in the city : flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats / by Biehler, Dawn

Table of Contents: “…History, ecology, and the politics of pests -- The promises of modern pest control -- Flies : agents of interconnection in progressive era cities -- Bedbugs : creatures of community in modernizing cities -- German cockroaches : permeable homes in the postwar era -- Norway rats : back-alley ecology in the chemical age -- Persistence and resistance in the age of ecology -- The ecology of injustice : rats in the civil rights era -- Integrating urban homes : cockroaches and survival -- Epilogue: the persistence and resurgence of bedbugs.…”
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From Kristallnacht to Watergate : memoirs of a newspaperman / by Rosenfeld, Harry, 1929-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- From Warsaw to Berlin -- Kristallnacht -- Coming to America -- Annie -- The trib -- In the army -- Fighting to save the Trib -- The long battle rages on -- The Washington post -- Assignment Vietnam -- World tour -- Back in Washington -- Shaping up metro -- Inside Watergate -- The reporters who became Woodstein -- Watergate act two -- Nixon gets a wakeup call -- After the Pulitzer -- Diversions high and low -- Nixon's final hours -- New assignment -- A strike and other troubles -- Uncharted waters -- New job, new demands -- Primed for a fresh start -- Epilogue.…”
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Charles Lee : self before country / by Mazzagetti, Dominick A.

Table of Contents: “…The fateful choice -- Lee's "American expedition" -- Lee's European experience -- Personality and political philosophy -- A "love affair" with America -- Foreign officers in service to America -- America's soldier -- Rejoining Washington -- Captivity, betrayal, exchange -- Monmouth -- Court-martial -- Bitterness, despair and death -- Epilogue: A man without a country.…”
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Roads in the wilderness : conflict in canyon country / by Rogers, Jedediah Smart

Table of Contents: “…Making a Desert Landscape -- Epilogue.…”
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Robert Wise : shadowlands ; a Wes D. Gehring biography. by Gehring, Wes D.

Table of Contents: “…The early years -- A career detour: 1930s Hollywood -- Orson Welles -- Val Lewton and becoming a director -- Lewton and Maupassant: a template picture -- Wise's first noir classic: Born to kill -- Signature cinema: the set-up -- Life after RKO: The day the earth stood still and genre diversity -- Melodrama in various war settings: Run silent, run deep as metaphor -- "portraits" and biographies doubling as melodramas and/or noirs -- Wise's brass-ring decade: the 1960s -- Filmmaking: "a terribly expensive paint box" -- Epilogue.…”
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Romantic Catholics : France's postrevolutionary generation in search of a modern faith / by Harrison, Carol E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : romantic Catholics and the two Frances -- First communion : the most beautiful day in the lives and deaths of little girls -- The education of Maurice de Guérin -- The dilemma of obedience : Charles de Montalembert, Catholic citizen -- Pauline Craven's holy family : writing the modern saint -- Frédéric and Amélie Ozanam : charity, marriage, and the Catholic social -- A free church in a free state : the Roman question -- Epilogue : the devout woman of the Third Republic and the eclipse of Catholic fraternity.…”
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Arts & crafts architecture : history and heritage in New England / by Meister, Maureen

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: grappling with modernity -- Dramatis personae: twelve architect-leaders -- Arts and crafts advocates, arts and crafts architects -- An intellectual stew: Emerson, Norton, Brandeis -- An arts and crafts movement emerges in New England -- Looking backward: from Romanesque to Gothic revival -- Looking backward: Colonial revival as arts and crafts -- Looking forward: building for the twentieth century -- Epilogue: confronting modernism.…”
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