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Cities in Asia by and for the People /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Cities by and for the People; 2 How to Prove You are Not a Squatter; 3 Inhabitants of Spontaneous Settlements in Bangkok: Networks and Actions Changing the Contemporary Metropolis; 4 Collaborative Urban Farming Networks in Bangkok; 5 The Struggle to Create Alternative Urban Spaces; 6 Making the Music Scene, Making Singapore; 7 Connecting with Society and People through 'Art Projects' in an Era of Personalization; 8 Activating Alternatives in Public Market Trade; 9 From Street Hawkers to Public Markets.…”
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The sites of Rome time, space, memory /

Table of Contents: “…Larmour and Diana Spencer -- Rome at a gallop : Livy, on not gazing, jumping, or toppling into the void / Diana Spencer -- 'In the name of the father' : Ovid's Theban law / Micaela Janan -- 'I get around' : sadism, desire, and metonymy on the streets of Rome with Horace, Ovid, and Juvenal / Paul Allen Miller -- Holes in the body : sites of abjection in Juvenal's Rome / David H.J. …”
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Striptease the untold history of the girlie show / by Shteir, Rachel, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…"A startled fawn upon the stage" -- Legs -- "Yvette goes to bed": the first undressing acts -- From Ziegfeld to Minsky: respectable undressing and the rise of modern burlesque -- After the doughboys returned: nudity in burlesque and on broadway -- The first strippers and teasers -- Pansies, reformers, and a "frenzy of congregate cootchers": the birth of modern striptease -- A pretty girl is like a melody, sort of -- The burlesque soul of striptease -- "Minskyville" -- "I never made any money until I took my pants off": fans and bubbles around the nation -- "Temporary entertainment for morons and perverts": LaGuardia kicks striptease out of New York -- Gypsy -- From literary strippers to queens of burlesque -- "Clamouring for a table and pounding for an encore": striptease at the world's fair -- Striptease during wartime -- The private lives of strippers -- Stripty-second streets -- The seamy sides of striptease -- Striptease confidential -- You've gotta get a gimmick -- Topless dancing -- 1969: who killed striptease?…”
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Kazan revisited

Table of Contents: “…Kazan goes to Washington : a case study in misguided ambivalence / Victor Navasky -- Man on a tightrope : Kazan as liberal anticommunist / Brenda Murphy -- "Independence" and the "art film" : Baby doll and after / Brian Neve -- The search for humor and humanity in Baby doll and A face in the crowd / Sam Wasson -- A straight director's queer eye, 1951-1961 / Mark Harris -- The other side of the story : Elia Kazan as director of female pain / Savannah Lee -- Documentary and democracy in Boomerang! and Panic in the streets / Andrew Tracy -- Elia Kazan and the semidocumentary composing urban space / Patrick Keating -- Choreographing emotions : Kazan's cinemascope staging / Lisa Dombrowski -- Lost river / Richard Schickel -- Late Kazan, or the ambiguities / Haden Guest.…”
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The philosophy of Martin Scorsese

Table of Contents: “…Skoble ; Goodfellas, Gyges, and the good life / Dean A. Kowalski ; Mean streets : beatitude, flourishing, and unhappiness / Mark T. …”
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Freedom and the arts essays on music and literature / by Rosen, Charles, 1927-2012

Table of Contents: “…-- Frédéric Chopin, reactionary and revolutionary -- Robert Schumann, a vision of the future -- Long perspectives -- The New Grove's dictionary returns -- Western music : the view from California -- Theodore Adorno : criticism as cultural nostalgia -- Resuscitating opera : Alessandro Scarlatti -- Operatic paradoxes : the ridiculous and sublime -- Lost chords and the golden age of pianism -- Montaigne : philosophy as process -- La Fontaine : the ethical power of style -- The anatomy lesson : melancholy and the invention of boredom -- Mallarmé and the transfiguration of poetry -- Hoffmansthal and radical modernism -- The private obsessions of Wystan Auden -- Old wisdom and newfangled theory : two one-way streets to disaster.…”
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Religious interests in community conflict beyond the culture wars /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Salt Lake City's Main Street plaza controversy / J. Quin Monson & Kara L. …”
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Medicine, charity and mutual aid the consumption of health and welfare in Britain, c.1550-1950 /

Table of Contents: “…: cathedral almsmen in England 1538-1914 / Ian Atherton, Eileen McGrath and Alannah Tomkins -- From common rights to cold charity : enclosure and poor allotments in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Sylvia Pinches -- Kinship and welfare in early modern England : sometimes charity begins at home / Sheila Cooper -- Deaf children and charitable education in Britain 1790-1944 / Anne Borsay -- Joseph Townend and the Manchester Infirmary : a plebeian patient in the industrial revolution / Stuart Hogarth -- Investigating the "deserving" poor : charity and the voluntary hospitals in nineteenth-century Birmingham / Jonathan Reinarz -- Choice and the children's hospital : Great Ormond Street Hospital patients and their families 1855-1900 / Andrea Tanner -- Mental health charity for the middling sort : Holloway Sanatorium 1885-1900 / Anne C. …”
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One Zambia, many histories towards a history of post-colonial Zambia /

Table of Contents: “…Phiri -- 'The devil you know' : the impact of the mulungushi economic reforms on retail trade in rural Zambia, with special reference to Susman Brothers & Wulfsohn, 1968-80 / Hugh Macmillan -- The informalization of Lusaka's economy : regime change, ultra-modern markets, and street vending, 1972-2004 / K. Tranberg Hansen -- Fighting for democracy of the pocket : the labour movement in the Third Republic / Friday E. …”
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Setting performance targets by Stringer, Carolyn

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RFID for the supply chain and operations professional by Zelbst, Pamela

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Moral leadership a transformative model for tomorrow's leaders / by Caldwell, Cam

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Variable speed drives principles and applications for energy cost savings / by Spitzer, David W.

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Statistics for economics by Naghshpour, Shahdad

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Game theory anticipating reactions for winning actions / by Burkey, Mark L.

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Business model design and learning a strategic guide / by Spencer, Barbara

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The thinking executive's guide to sustainability / by Kassel, Kerul

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A primer on sustainability : in the business environment / by Whitfield, Ronald, McNett, Jeanne M., 1946-

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Fostering creativity in self and the organization : your professional edge / by Stein, Eric W.

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Leading Latino talent to champion innovation / by Caraballo, Vinny, McLaughlin, Gregory C., McLaughlin, Heidi

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