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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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A Writer's tool kit 12 proven ways you can make your writing stronger--today / by Short, Carroll Dale

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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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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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Tourism, development and terrorism in Bali by Hitchcock, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a paradise globalized -- The importance of tourism -- A brand created -- Bali's global villages -- Street traders and entrepreneurs -- Global, local encounters -- World heritage as globalization -- Bali during the Asian crisis -- The 2002 Bali bombings crisis -- Global conflict and the bombers -- The rise and fall of tourism -- Coping with globalization -- Conclusion.…”
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Living for the city migration, education, and the rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California / by Murch, Donna Jean

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- City of migrants, 1940-1960 -- Canaan bound -- Fortress California -- The campus and the street, 1961-1966 -- We care enough to tell it -- A campus where Black power won -- Black power and urban movement, 1966-1982 -- Men with guns -- Survival pending revolution -- A chicken in every bag.…”
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Cape Town after apartheid crime and governance in the divided city / by Samara, Tony Roshan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : urban geopolitics, neoliberalism, and the governance of security -- Security and development in post-apartheid South Africa -- Children in the streets : urban governance in Cape Town city center -- Gangsterism and the policing of the Cape Flats -- The weight of policing on the fragile ground of transformation -- The production of criminality on the urban periphery -- Conclusion : apartheid, democracy and the urban future.…”
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The book in the Renaissance by Pettegree, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…The book world before print -- Gutenberg -- Renaissance encounters : the crisis of print -- The creation of a European book market -- Book town Wittenberg -- Luther's legacy -- First with the news -- Polite diversions -- At school -- The literature of conflict -- The search for order -- Market forces -- Science and exploration -- Healing -- Building a library -- Word and the street.…”
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Back stories U.S. news production and Palestinian politics / by Bishara, Amahl A., 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Balanced objectivity and accumulated authorship -- Arming state speech, constraining journalists' work -- Working from home : disinterest and the scope of the political -- The embodied and up-close work of journalism -- The separation wall as stage for refugee identities -- Watching U.S. television from the Palestinian street -- Conclusion : framing graffiti : voice, materiality, and violence.…”
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tPA for stroke the story of a controversial drug / by Zivin, Justin A.

Table of Contents: “…Code stroke on Market street -- Clot-buster : the natural history -- Dead or alive -- Brain-O -- The brain doctors cometh : slowly -- What emergency? …”
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Two Sides of a Barricade : (Dis)order and Summit Protest in Europe / by Scholl, Christian, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Barricades are back -- Global dissent : tactical trajectories -- Understanding interaction tactically -- Bodies that matter : the epistemology of street interactions -- "Leave them no space!" the microphysics of spatial interactions -- Psy(c)ops, spin-doctors and the communication of dissent -- "A revolt is a revolt is a revolt" violence, law, and the exception -- Back to the barricades?.…”
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The great stink of Paris and the nineteenth-century struggle against filth and germs by Barnes, David S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- "Not everything that stinks kills" : odors and germs on the streets of Paris, 1880 -- The santiarian's legacy, or how health became public -- Taxonomies of transmission : local etiologies and the equivocal triumph of germ theory -- Putting germ theory into practice -- Toward a cleaner and healthier republic -- Odors and "infection," 1880 and beyond -- The legacy of the twentieth century.…”
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Erotic grotesque nonsense the mass culture of Japanese modern times / by Silverberg, Miriam Rom, 1951-2008

Table of Contents: “…Japanese modern times -- Japanese modern within modernity -- Japanese modern sites -- The modern girl as militant (movement on the streets) -- The café waitress sang the blues -- Friends of the movies (from Ero to empire) -- The household becomes modern life -- Asakusa--honky-tonk tempo -- Asakusa eroticism -- Down-and-out grotesquerie -- Modern nonsense.…”
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