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Dartmouth College an architectural tour / by Meacham, Scott

Table of Contents: “…A history of Dartmouth's campus -- The Green -- East Wheelock Street -- Athletics -- The Terrace and College Park -- Massachussets Row and Tuck Mall -- Webster Avenue -- Berry Row and the Old Hospital -- The town.…”
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China's contested capital architecture, ritual, and response in Nanjing / by Musgrove, Charles D., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The capital established -- Visions of grandeur in the capital plan -- Administrative aesthetics and "architectural revolution" -- The necropolis of Nanjing -- Lessons in allure: celebrations of state in the capital -- Views from the street: development, defiance & discipline.…”
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Sales & celebrations retailing and regional identity in Western New York State, 1920-1940 / by Elvins, Sarah

Table of Contents: “…A region develops -- Downtown retailers and "Main street towns" -- Selling in hub and hinterland -- The "chain store question" and the independent retailer -- The depression and local spending -- Hard times and good times at home.…”
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Life after Guns : Reciprocity and Respect among Young Men in Liberia / by Hardgrove, Abby V. (Abby Virginia), 1983-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A history of violence -- Reciprocity, respect, and becoming "established" -- Street youth: life on the periphery -- Life in armed groups -- Life after guns: reintegration as social process -- Conclusion: on dominance and discourse.…”
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Midnight coffee poems / by George, Edward M.

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From the Republic of the Rio Grande a personal history of the place and the people / by De La Garza, Beatriz Eugenia

Table of Contents: “…The Republic of the Rio Grande -- The kingdom of Zapata -- Grandfather's revolution : the horseman -- Grandfather's revolution : the historian -- The prodigal -- "You and I will die of love" -- "Not a stone upon a stone" -- The streets of Laredo -- Voyages in English.…”
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The Eve/Hagar paradigm in the fiction of Quince Duncan by Martin-Ogunsola, Dellita, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Intimations of womanism in Dawn song -- Womanist footprints in The Pocomía rebellion -- A tale of two wives in The four mirrors -- The House of Moody in For the sake of peace -- A voice from down under in Dead-end street.…”
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Khmer women on the move exploring work and life in urban Cambodia / by Derks, Annuska

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Rice people in the city -- Women, ideals and migration -- Factory work -- Sex work -- Street trade -- City life and modern experience -- Dutiful daughters, broken women -- Conclusion: Moving women, moving selves.…”
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The films of Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro by Rausch, Andrew J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Mean streets (1973) -- Taxi driver (1976) -- New York, New York (1977) -- Raging bull (1980) -- The king of comedy (1982) -- Goodfellas (1990) -- Cape Fear (1991) -- Casino (1995) -- Epilogue.…”
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A cinema of loneliness by Kolker, Robert Phillip

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Body's montage : history's mise-en-scene : Arthur Penn and Oliver Stone -- Tectonics of the mechanical man : Stanley Kubrick -- Expressions of the streets : Martin Scorsese -- Of dinosaurs and ships -- Radical surfaces : Robert Altman.…”
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Instant messaging rules a business guide to managing policies, security, and legal issues for safe IM communication / by Flynn, Nancy, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…-- Retaining IM business records -- Saving everything can be a costly mistake -- Discovery: when IM is used as evidence-for or against you -- Beware the destruction of IM evidence -- Training is essential to IM policy compliance -- Employee compliance is key to IM policy success -- IM is big on Wall Street -- Regulated firms playing catch-up with e-mail retention -- Regulations extend to main street, too -- Instant messaging rules.…”
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New Atlantis musicians battle for the survival of New Orleans / by Swenson, John

Table of Contents: “…Voice of the wetlands -- African Americans and Indians -- The Constantinople of the New World -- Sad night in Jackson Square -- Return of the spirits -- Let it go -- Don't let them wash us away -- Reality check -- Don't take my picture -- Musicians strike back at violence -- I am New Orleans -- Shorty on the block -- The Armstrong legacy -- Cold in the trailer -- If I can help somebody -- Baghdad on the Mississippi -- Brown baby dead in the water -- On the fringes -- City that care forgot -- Wild and free -- Saving at the bank of soul -- It ain't just the suit -- Bourbon Street blues -- Snooks flies away -- Ghosts of traditional jazz -- New blood -- Jazz fest turns 40 -- New Atlantis -- Mcdermott's duets -- Cyril's nightmare -- The wizard of Piety Street -- Blues come down like rain -- Cyril comes full circle -- Marching in.…”
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House by house, block by block the rebirth of America's urban neighborhoods / by Von Hoffman, Alexander

Table of Contents: “…The quest to save the inner city : a historical perspective -- Miracle on 174th Street -- Boston and the power of collaboration -- In the rust belt : can the ghetto be rebuilt? …”
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Photographing the Mexican Revolution commitments, testimonies, icons / by Mraz, John

Table of Contents: “…The Porfiriato : from the studio to the street -- Representing the revolution -- The myth of the casasolas -- Learning to photograph war -- The Zapatista movement and southern cameras -- Photographing the reaction -- The caudillo of the cameras? …”
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Benjamin's passages : dreaming, awakening / by Gelley, Alexander

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Contexts of the aesthetic -- Epigones in the house of language: Benjamin and Kraus -- Benjamin on atget: empty streets and the fading of aura -- Entering the passagen -- Citation as incitation: the political agenda of the passagenarbeit -- Messianism, "weak" and otherwise -- Forgetting, dreaming, awakening.…”
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History and crime by Godfrey, Barry S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- History, criminology, and "historical criminology" -- The history of criminal statistics -- Police governance : enforcement, discretion, professionalism, and accountability -- Changing perceptions of criminality -- Immigration, ethnicity, race, and crime -- Surveillance : from the workplace to the streets? -- Incarceration and decarceration -- Glossary.…”
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The history of life a very short introduction / by Benton, M. J. (Michael J.)

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Playing with fire feminist thought and activism through seven lives in India / by Nagar, Richa

Table of Contents: “…The beginnings of a collective journey -- A very short childhood -- From the streets of Babul to the wetness of Aanchal -- Prisons within prisons : battles stretching from the courtyard to the mind -- Cracking cages, new skies -- Challenges of NGOization and dreams of Sangtin.…”
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Ottoman Izmir the rise of a cosmopolitan port, 1840/1880 / by Zandi-Sayek, Sibel

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a world in flux -- Defining citizenship : property, taxation, and sovereignty -- Ordering the streets : public space and urban governance -- Shaping the waterfront : public works and the public good -- Performing community : rituals and identity -- Epilogue : the view from Izmir.…”
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Emergent architectural territories in East Asian cities by Rowe, Peter G.

Table of Contents: “…Territories and turning points -- The two axes of Beijing -- From Puxi to Pudong in Shanghai -- Flying in and out of town -- Reclaiming and remaking territories -- Keeping and re-using -- Streets and fashion on display -- Territories, geographies and discourses -- On representing architectural territories in drawings.…”
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