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Horror noir where cinema's dark sisters meet / by Meehan, Paul, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Horror and fantasy elements in classic films noir -- Horror noir in the 1930s -- The Val Lewton/Jacques Tourneur noir legacy -- Horror noir from radioland -- Monster noir -- Gothic and costume noir -- Horror noir in the 1950s -- Hitchcock's psychological ghosts and doppelgängers -- Modern horror noir in the 1960s -- Horror noirs of the 1970s and '80s -- The noir horrors of Hannibal the cannibal -- The mean streets of hell -- Conclusion : horror and film noir: the dark genres.…”
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When the Danube ran red by Ozsváth, Zsuzsanna, 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Hanna -- Relocations -- Past and present -- A dream disrupted -- Changes -- Erzsi -- Options -- Pali -- Before the storm -- Disaster strikes : March 19 -- Plans for the future -- Measures taken -- The new world -- Ghettoization -- The ghetto house -- The children of 10 Abonyi Street -- A miracle -- The return of horror -- Evil tidings -- Together -- Homeless -- The Vatican house -- Witches' Shabbat -- Alone -- The siege -- Walking across the underworld -- The "White Cross Hospital" -- Going home -- Epilogue.…”
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Looking forward, looking back images of Eastern European Jewish migration to America in contemporary American children's literature / by Pohl, Jana

Table of Contents: “…Adapting an immigrant autobiography : Mary Antin's The promised land (1912) and Rosemary Wells's Streets of gold (1999), illustrated by Dan Andreasen -- pt. 7. …”
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Approaches to early childhood and elementary education by Wardle, Francis, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…John Dewey and the Bank Street approach -- Constructivist approach -- The high/scope approach -- Montessori -- Waldorf, British infant/primary schools, and free schools -- Contexts: Bronfenbrenner and Vygotsky -- Reggio Emilia -- The standards and core knowledge curricular approaches -- Global approaches to early childhood and elementary education -- Exceptional children -- Multicultural and multilingual education -- Brain-based learning -- Federal and state programs -- Religious approaches -- Behavioral approaches -- The project approach to learning.…”
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Father and son selected short fiction / by Ibrāhīm, Ḥannā

Table of Contents: “…Sheikh Mabruk ; The statue ; The neighbors' story ; The delivery ; The procession ; Ahmad and Mordekhai ; A cup of tea ; The street ; The funeral ; While waiting for the verdict ; Hayat: a short story ; The job ; Devouring: a very short story.…”
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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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Kinds of Blue : The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative / by Grandt, Jürgen E., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…-- The remembering song : toward an aesthetic of literary jazz in Sidney Bechet's Treat it Gentle -- "Swing it, sister" : jazz time in Ann Petry's The Street -- Boping billy clubs, burning cadillacs, and wigged-out aliens : jazz and violence in short stories by Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and Amiri Baraka -- Kinds of blue : Toni Morrison, Hans Janowitz, and the jazz aesthetic -- Coda: Waiting to be the music : hybridity, afro-modernism, and critical practice.…”
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Data analysis with SPSS software : variability, probability, and the normal distribution / by Davis, Steven, Davis, Evelyn R.

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Jazz religion, the second line, and Black New Orleans by Turner, Richard Brent

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Follow the second line -- The Haiti-New Orleans vodou connection : Zora Neale Hurston as initiate observer -- Mardi Gras Indians and second lines, sequin artists and rara bands : street festivals and performances in New Orleans and Haiti -- Interlude: The healing arts of African diasporic religion -- In rhythm with the spirit : New Orleans jazz funerals and the African diaspora -- Epilogue : A jazz funeral for "a city that care forgot" : the New Orleans diaspora after Hurricane Katrina.…”
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Peter Selz sketches of a life in art / by Karlstrom, Paul J.

Table of Contents: “…Childhood : Munich, art, and Hitler -- New York : Steiglitz, Rheingold, and 57th Street -- Chicago to Pomona : New Bauhaus and early career -- Back to New York : inside MOMA -- MOMA exhibitions : from new images of man to Alberto Giacometti -- Pop goes the art world : departure from New York -- Berkeley : funk, sex, finances, and politics -- Students, colleagues, and controversy -- A career in retirement : returning to early themes and passions -- A conclusion : looking at Kentridge and Warhol.…”
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Panoptic dreams streetscape video surveillance in Canada / by Hier, Sean P. (Sean Patrick), 1971-

Table of Contents: “…The expansion of streetscape monitoring programs ; Thwarted efforts to establish streetscape monitoring programs ; Thunder Bay's Eye on the Street ; Panoptic dreams : arguments, implications, and recommendations.…”
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The villainous stage : crime plays on Broadway and in the West End / by Lachman, Marvin

Table of Contents: “…Early days -- Adaptations and sensation -- History and mystery on stage -- Sherlock Holmes: Baker Street on stage -- Series detectives and rogues -- Agatha Christie, playwright -- Crook plays -- The theatre of the mind -- Trial and error: courtrooms on stage -- The stage side of the triangle -- The spy who came onto the stage -- A funny thing happened on the way to the theatre -- Spoofing the mystery -- Social studies I: race, ethnicity, and religion -- Social studies II: criminal justice -- Whodunits -- Just in crime: the musical.…”
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Hopelessly divided the new crisis in American politics and what it means for 2012 and beyond / by Schoen, Douglas E., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Bush and the right-wing implosion -- Independent voters: angry, volatile, and growing -- The power of money -- The K Street effect: how lobbyists have saturated public policy -- Redistricting, race, and the political class -- Conclusion: reform or fail.…”
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The Grind : Black Women and Survival in the Inner City / by McCurn, Alexis S.

Table of Contents: “…"I Am Not a Prostitute": How Young Black Women Challenge Sexual Harassment on the Street -- 4. "Keeping It Fresh": Self-Representation and Challenging Controlling Images in the Inner City -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Field Research Methods in Urban Public Space -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author.…”
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Boston Riots : Three Centuries of Social Violence / by Tager, Jack

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Eighteenth-Century setting -- A variety of Riots: Food, Customs, Antielite, and Pope Day Riots -- The Impressment Riot of 1747 -- Antebellum Boston: Norm Enforcement, Race, and Abolition Riots -- Anti-Catholic Rioting in Antebellum Boston: The Ursuline Convent and the Broad Street Riots -- Anti-Catholic Tensions, 1850-1900, and the Draft Riot of 1863 -- The 1919 Police Strike Riots -- Ghetto Riots, 1967-1968 -- Antibusing Riots, Fall 1974 -- Antibusing Riots, 1975-1976 -- Conclusion -- Index.…”
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Orpheus in America / by Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880

Table of Contents: “…Before my departure -- The crossing -- New York, the Gilmore Garden -- The house, the street, the cars -- The theatres of New York -- The restaurants, three types of waiters -- Women, the introductions, the park -- The story of two statues -- The liberties in America -- Organizations -- Advertising -- The races -- The American press -- Some portraits -- Philadelphia -- Offenbach Garden -- To Niagara, Pullman cars -- Niagara Falls -- The Dauphin Eleazar -- Returning from Niagara sleeping cars -- The tortures of a musician -- Banquets, baton, and Brevet -- Farewell soiree -- The return.…”
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Professional lives, personal struggles

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: rediscovering homelessness-- and ourselves / Randall Amster -- Advocacy and identity -- Social justice, ethics, and advocacy in street research : a personal accounting / Talmadge Wright -- The advocate researcher / Rob Rosenthal -- Homelessness and drag / Kathleen Arnold -- Writing the streets : dilemmas of depiction / Trenna Valado -- Relationships and ethics -- Planning and managing ethical dilemmas in homelessness research / Michael Rowe -- A "buddy researcher" prospects, limitations, and ethical considerations in ethnographic research on homeless people in berlin / Jürgen von Mahs -- Ethics and studying homelessness : tales from the field / Kurt Borchard -- Weapons of the weak, by the weak, and for the weak : negotiating power between and among homeless persons and service providers / Julie Adkins -- Research and transformation -- Do we really need more research on homelessness? …”
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Coping with stress / by McNaughton-Cassill, Mary E.

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Data analysis with SPSS software : data types, graphs, and measurement tendencies / by Davis, Steven, Davis, Evelyn R.

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Just neighbors? : research on African American and Latino relations in the United States /

Table of Contents: “…: framing commonality in a multiracial coalition / Sylvia Zamora -- Ethnic succession and ethnic conflict : street gangs in Los Angeles / James Diego Vigil -- Examining the relationship between African American and Latino street gangs : conflict, cooperation and avoidance in two multi-racial urban neighborhoods / Cid Martinez and Victor Rios.…”
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