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From the modernist annex American women writers in museums and libraries / by Roffman, Karin

Table of Contents: “…Women and the mutual development of museums and libraries -- Museums and memory in Edith Wharton's modern novels -- Nella Larsen, librarian at 135th Street -- Accidents happen in Marianne Moore's native habitat -- Finding freedom from museums and libraries in Ruth Benedict's poetry -- Conclusion.…”
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Roosevelt's purge how FDR fought to change the Democratic Party / by Dunn, Susan, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Getting ready to fight -- The nonpartisan leader -- Favorite son of the South -- Southern insurgents -- The partisan leader takes the first steps -- Rolling westward -- Marching through Georgia -- "Cotton Ed" -- The Maryland shore -- New York streets -- The dynamics of the purge -- From the purge to realignment.…”
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The Depression comes to the South Side protest and politics in the Black metropolis, 1930-1933 / by Reed, Christopher Robert

Table of Contents: “…The impact of the Depression on home life, institutions, and organizations -- The ineffectiveness of conventional politics -- Protest activism in the streets : an alternative to conventional politics -- Organized protest responses, from militant to revolutionary : the NAACP and the Communist Party -- Organized efforts in behalf of civil rights -- Cultural stirrings and conclusion.…”
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Making in America from innovation to market / by Berger, Suzanne

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- What happened to manufacturing -- Scaling up start-ups to market -- Main street manufacturers and innovation -- Lessons in scaling from abroad: Germany and China -- Trends in advanced manufacturing technology research -- Jobs, skills, and training -- Building new pathways from innovation to the market.…”
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"No one helped" : Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the myth of urban apathy / by Gallo, Marcia M.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: A New York story -- Urban villages in the big city -- Hidden in plain sight -- Thirty-eight witnesses -- The metropolitan brand of apathy -- The city responds -- Surviving new city streets -- Challenging the story of urban apathy -- Epilogue: Kitty, fifty years later.…”
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Understanding Don DeLillo / by Veggian, Henry

Table of Contents: “…Series editor's preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Understanding Don Delillo -- Jargon and genre : Americana, End zone, and Great Jones Street -- Opacity and transparency : White noise and Mao II -- Artists and prophets : The body artist, Cosmopolis, and Falling man -- With, to, and against the novel : the short stories.…”
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Indiscretions : Avant-Garde Film, Video, and Feminism / by Mellencamp, Patricia

Table of Contents: “…Historically speaking -- Visionary film and sexual difference -- Video politics -- Surveillance and simulation -- Theoretical objects -- Postmodern TV -- Uncanny feminism -- Last scene in the streets of modernism -- Taking a cue from Ariadne -- Images of language and indiscreet dialogues -- The avant-garde, the everyday, and the underground.…”
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Sensing the city through television urban identities in fictional drama / by Billingham, Peter, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…: Queer as folk -- Homicide, life on the street.…”
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John Wilkes the scandalous father of civil liberty / by Cash, Arthur H. (Arthur Hill), 1922-

Table of Contents: “…The making of a gentleman -- The squire of Aylesbury -- Into Parliament -- The North Briton -- Number 45 -- The Great George Street printing shop -- Trials and a trial of honor -- Exile -- The Middlesex election controversy -- Incapacitation -- The City of London -- My lord mayor -- Poverty, paternity, and parliamentary reform -- Chamberlain.…”
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In the heart of the beat the poetry of rap / by Pate, Alexs D., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…-- A matter of life : a brief discussion -- From the streets : coloring the multicultural black -- Defining rap/poetry -- Where you from? …”
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Acoustic territories sound culture and everyday life / by LaBelle, Brandon

Table of Contents: “…Underground : busking, acousmatics, and the echo -- Home : ethical volumes of silence and noise -- Sidewalk : steps, gait, and rhythmic journey-forms -- Street : auditory latching, cars, and the dynamics of vibration -- Shopping mall : muzak, mishearing, and the productive volatility of feedback -- Sky : radio, spatial urbanism, and cultures of transmission.…”
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Lydia's open door inside Mexico's most modern brothel / by Kelly, Patty, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Modern sex in a modern city -- Hidden in plain sight: street prostitution -- Inside the Galactic Zone: regulating sex, regulating women -- Convergence: Panistas, prostitutes, and peasants -- "It began innocently": women of the ambiente -- Sellers and buyers -- The secrets we keep: sex, work, stigma -- Final thoughts.…”
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The Philadelphia Mummers building community through play / by Masters, Patricia Anne, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…From play to play community : the early years of the Mummers parade -- Expanding the play community : the contemporary parade -- Blacks, women, and the "new" immigrants : the Mummers and diversity -- "Going up the street" : the experience of the parade -- Rituals and the play community -- Family, club, and neighborhood -- The experience of play -- The Mummers past and future.…”
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The inception of modern professional education C.C. Langdell, 1826-1906 / by Kimball, Bruce A., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Boyhood and youth, 1826-1854 -- Lawyer on Wall Street, 1855-1870 -- Scholar, 1870-1881 -- Teacher, 1870-1881 -- Faculty, 1870-1900 -- The first dean, 1870-1886 -- Students, 1876-1882 -- Triumph and betrayal, 1886-1890s -- Poor old white-whiskers, 1895-1906.…”
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Blue collar, theoretically a post-marxist approach to working class literature / by Lavelle, John F., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…The praxis of class -- A study in new working-class studies -- A review of the discourse of working-class literature -- Postmarxist theories of class -- Postmodern/poststructuralist theories of class and a theory of the working class -- A working-class reading of Maggie: A girl of the streets and The great gatsby.…”
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Contesting trade in Central America : market reform and resistance / by Spalding, Rose J.

Table of Contents: “…The march to market reform in Central America -- Rule makers and rule takers: negotiating CAFTA -- Resistance: competing voices -- Ratification politics: in the chamber and in the street -- After CAFTA: antimining movements, investment disputes, and new organizational territory -- Electoral challenges and transitions -- Post-neoliberalism and alternative approaches to change.…”
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Hey presto! Swift and the quacks / by Ormsby-Lennon, Hugh

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Si vulgus vult decipi, decipiatur -- Classis stage-itinerant -- From gabble and harangue to quack's bill -- Universal improvement of mankind -- Ejaculating the soul -- Aping the medicine show: Mencken, Salmon, Yworth -- Doctor and presto -- Dumfounding -- Apollonius of Tyana -- Beginnings and endings, terrae filius on Grub Street.…”
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One man's music the life and times of Texas songwriter Vince Bell / by Bell, Vince

Table of Contents: “…Foreword by Kathleen Hudson -- Sorcerers' apprentice -- Look of the loner looking at it -- Sweat like a boxer -- Sinbad and the silver tooth -- Music where the words are the important part -- I'm not this way because I'm a musician, I'm a musician because I'm this way -- Secret mountain laboratory -- Six strings, no kick -- Three-day ride to the kitchen -- The songwriter -- Elastic plastic fork and pitiable paper plate -- Bermuda triangle -- Name unknown -- Rumor of my demise -- Room 933 -- If it was time for the musicians to call, it was time to go home and fix it -- Providence Street -- Even up on Misery Ave., they sometimes dance and sing -- Path of least regret -- Music school -- Edge of the world -- Monday for two years -- Keep your eyes in the sky -- Second Street -- Fate worse than death -- Wizard of odds -- Adrift in paradise -- Give chance a chance -- Prize for not working hard enough -- Phoenix -- Album of a lifetime -- The poetry in the prose -- Play like you practice -- Texas plates -- Say in your owndamnway -- The bottom line -- Live in Texas -- Rough old Texas hands.…”
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Chicago in the age of capital class, politics, and democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction / by Jentz, John B., 1944-

Table of Contents: “…The city -- The internationale of the citizen workers: from slavery to the labor question -- The eight-hour day and the legitimacy of wage labor -- Chicago's immigrant working class and the rise of urban populism, 1867-73 -- Class and politics during the depression of the 1870s -- Combat in the streets: the Railroad Strike of 1877 and its consequences -- Regime change.…”
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This land is our land immigrants and power in Miami /

Table of Contents: “…Becoming American : it's not a one-way street -- Competing elites : Cuban power, Anglo conversion, and frustrated African Americans -- Working in the USA : ethnic segregation and bureaucratizing interaction -- Just comes and cover-ups : African Americans and Haitians in high school -- Making it work : interaction, power, and accommodation in inter-ethnic relations.…”
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