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Entrepreneurial Vernacular : Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s / by Loeb, Carolyn S., 1948-

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Transforming Trauma : Resilience and Healing Through Our Connections With Animals /

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Public opinion in state politics

Table of Contents: “…Uslaner -- Public opinion and policymaking in the culture wars: is there a connection between opinion and state policy on gay and lesbian issues? …”
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Remembering childhood in the Middle East memoirs from a century of change /

Table of Contents: “…The end of the Ottoman Empire (1923) / Mohammed Fadhel Jamali (Iraq) ; Nazik Jawdat (Syria/Lebanon) ; Charles Issawi (Egypt) ; Mansur al-Hazimi (Saudi Arabia) ; Janset Shami (Jordan) ; Selma Khadra Jayyusi (Palestine) -- European colonial rule and the rise of Arab nationalism (1830-1967) -- Establishment of the state of Israel (1948) / Hoda Naamani (Syria/Lebanon) ; Yildiray Erdener (Turkey) ; Hassan Aziz Hassan (Egypt) ; Basima Bezirgan (Iraq) ; Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot (Egypt) ; Mohammed Ghanoonparvar (Iran) ; Avraham Zilkha (Israel) ; Halim Barakat (Syria/Lebanon) ; Güneli Gün (Turkey) ; Zbida Shetlan (Tunisia) ; Mahnaz Afkhami (Iran) -- New nations (1952-1963) -- Oil wealth and OPEC (1973) -- Israeli-Palestinian wars (1967, 1973) -- Camp David treaty (1979) -- Iranian revolution (1979) / Salah-Dine Hammoud (Morocco) ; Saif Abbas Dehrab (Kuwait) ; Hamza al-Din (Egypt) ; Akile Gursoy (Turkey) ; Rafiq Abdul Rahman (Palestine) ; Abdul Aziz Abbassi (Morocco) ; Fedwa Malti-Douglas (Lebanon) ; Awad Abdelrahim Abdelgader (Sudan) ; Ali Eftekari (Iran) -- The post-colonial Middle East (1971) / Shafeeq N. …”
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The social media reader

Table of Contents: “…Gabriella Coleman -- The language of (internet) memes / Patrick Davison -- Money -- The long tail / Chris Anderson -- Law -- Remix : how creativity is being strangled by the law / Lawrence Lessig -- Your intermediary is your destiny / Fred von Lohmann -- On the fungibility and necessity of cultural freedom / Fred Benenson -- Giving it away is hard work : three creative commons case studies / Michael Mandiberg -- Labor -- Quentin Tarantino's star wars? : grassroots creativity meets the media industry / Henry Jenkins -- Gin, television, and social surplus / Clay Shirky -- Between democracy and spectacle : the front-end and back-end of the social web / Felix Stalder -- D. …”
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Producing fashion commerce, culture, and consumers /

Table of Contents: “…French haute couture and Belgian fashion between the wars / Veronique Pouillard -- Chapter 5. Licensing practices at Maison Christian Dior / Tomoko Okawa -- PART II. …”
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The social media reader

Table of Contents: “…Gabriella Coleman -- The language of (internet) memes / Patrick Davison -- Money -- The long tail / Chris Anderson -- Law -- Remix : how creativity is being strangled by the law / Lawrence Lessig -- Your intermediary is your destiny / Fred von Lohmann -- On the fungibility and necessity of cultural freedom / Fred Benenson -- Giving it away is hard work : three creative commons case studies / Michael Mandiberg -- Labor -- Quentin Tarantino's star wars? : grassroots creativity meets the media industry / Henry Jenkins -- Gin, television, and social surplus / Clay Shirky -- Between democracy and spectacle : the front-end and back-end of the social web / Felix Stalder -- D. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Producing fashion commerce, culture, and consumers /

Table of Contents: “…French haute couture and Belgian fashion between the wars / Veronique Pouillard -- Chapter 5. Licensing practices at Maison Christian Dior / Tomoko Okawa -- PART II. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Indigenous Textual Cultures : Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire /

Table of Contents: “…Colonialism and the Hawaiian Language Archives / Noelani Arista -- Kanak writings and written tradition in the Archive of New Caledonia's "1917" War / Alban Bensa and Adrian Muckle -- Māori literacy practices in colonial New Zealand / Lachy Paterson -- "Don't destroy the writing" : time- and space-based communication and the colonial strategy of mimicry in nineteenth-century Salish-missionary relations on Canada's Pacific Coast / Keith Thor Carlson -- Talking traditions : orality, ecology, and spirituality in Mangaia's Textual cultures / Michael P.J. …”
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Cocaine : From Coca Fields to the Streets /

Table of Contents: “…Fontes -- Drug cartels, from political to criminal intermediation : The Caballeros Templarios' mirror sovereignty in Michoacán, Mexico / Romain Le Cour Grandmaison -- Of drugs, tortillas, and real estate : on the tangible and intangible benefits of drug dealing in Nicaragua / Dennis Rodgers -- "A very well-established culture" : cocaine market self-regulation as alternative governance in San Juan, Puerto Rico / Lilian Bobea and Cyrus Veeser -- Visible and invisible "cracklands" in Brazil : moral drug commerce and the production of space in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (1990-2017) / Taniele Rui -- The violence of the American dream in segregated US inner-city narcotics markets / Philippe Bourgois, Laurie Kain Hart, George Karandinos, and Fernando Montero -- Shifting south : cocaine's historical present and the changing politics of drug war, 1975-2015 / Paul Gootenberg -- Conclusion. …”
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Public opinion in state politics

Table of Contents: “…Uslaner -- Public opinion and policymaking in the culture wars: is there a connection between opinion and state policy on gay and lesbian issues? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Remembering childhood in the Middle East memoirs from a century of change /

Table of Contents: “…The end of the Ottoman Empire (1923) / Mohammed Fadhel Jamali (Iraq) ; Nazik Jawdat (Syria/Lebanon) ; Charles Issawi (Egypt) ; Mansur al-Hazimi (Saudi Arabia) ; Janset Shami (Jordan) ; Selma Khadra Jayyusi (Palestine) -- European colonial rule and the rise of Arab nationalism (1830-1967) -- Establishment of the state of Israel (1948) / Hoda Naamani (Syria/Lebanon) ; Yildiray Erdener (Turkey) ; Hassan Aziz Hassan (Egypt) ; Basima Bezirgan (Iraq) ; Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot (Egypt) ; Mohammed Ghanoonparvar (Iran) ; Avraham Zilkha (Israel) ; Halim Barakat (Syria/Lebanon) ; Güneli Gün (Turkey) ; Zbida Shetlan (Tunisia) ; Mahnaz Afkhami (Iran) -- New nations (1952-1963) -- Oil wealth and OPEC (1973) -- Israeli-Palestinian wars (1967, 1973) -- Camp David treaty (1979) -- Iranian revolution (1979) / Salah-Dine Hammoud (Morocco) ; Saif Abbas Dehrab (Kuwait) ; Hamza al-Din (Egypt) ; Akile Gursoy (Turkey) ; Rafiq Abdul Rahman (Palestine) ; Abdul Aziz Abbassi (Morocco) ; Fedwa Malti-Douglas (Lebanon) ; Awad Abdelrahim Abdelgader (Sudan) ; Ali Eftekari (Iran) -- The post-colonial Middle East (1971) / Shafeeq N. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Indigenous Textual Cultures : Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire /

Table of Contents: “…Colonialism and the Hawaiian Language Archives / Noelani Arista -- Kanak writings and written tradition in the Archive of New Caledonia's "1917" War / Alban Bensa and Adrian Muckle -- Māori literacy practices in colonial New Zealand / Lachy Paterson -- "Don't destroy the writing" : time- and space-based communication and the colonial strategy of mimicry in nineteenth-century Salish-missionary relations on Canada's Pacific Coast / Keith Thor Carlson -- Talking traditions : orality, ecology, and spirituality in Mangaia's Textual cultures / Michael P.J. …”
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Cocaine : From Coca Fields to the Streets /

Table of Contents: “…Fontes -- Drug cartels, from political to criminal intermediation : The Caballeros Templarios' mirror sovereignty in Michoacán, Mexico / Romain Le Cour Grandmaison -- Of drugs, tortillas, and real estate : on the tangible and intangible benefits of drug dealing in Nicaragua / Dennis Rodgers -- "A very well-established culture" : cocaine market self-regulation as alternative governance in San Juan, Puerto Rico / Lilian Bobea and Cyrus Veeser -- Visible and invisible "cracklands" in Brazil : moral drug commerce and the production of space in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (1990-2017) / Taniele Rui -- The violence of the American dream in segregated US inner-city narcotics markets / Philippe Bourgois, Laurie Kain Hart, George Karandinos, and Fernando Montero -- Shifting south : cocaine's historical present and the changing politics of drug war, 1975-2015 / Paul Gootenberg -- Conclusion. …”
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Sex, power and slavery /

Table of Contents: “…Candido -- Sex trafficking and prostitution: Japanese brothel prostitution, daily life, and the client: colonial Singapore, 1870-1940 / James Francis Warren -- Body-price: ambiguities in the sale of women at the end of the Qing Dynasty / Johanne Ransmeir -- Sex slavery and human trafficking in Nigeria; an overview / Roseline Uyanga with Marie-Luise Ermisch -- The realities and rise of female sex trafficking in Thailand and Cambodia in the latter half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century / Francesca Ann Louise Mitchell -- The Japanese army and comfort women in World War II / Shigeru Sato -- Art, sexuality, and slavery: hidden geographies of the Cape: shifting representations of slavery and sexuality in South African art and fiction / Gabeba Baderoon -- Innocence curtailed: reading maternity and sexuality as labor in Canadian representations of Black girls / Charmaine Nelson -- Gender, sex, and power: images of enslaved women's bodies / Ana Lucia Araujo -- Queering the study of slavery: "To lever's on soap!"…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Sex, power and slavery /

Table of Contents: “…Candido -- Sex trafficking and prostitution: Japanese brothel prostitution, daily life, and the client: colonial Singapore, 1870-1940 / James Francis Warren -- Body-price: ambiguities in the sale of women at the end of the Qing Dynasty / Johanne Ransmeir -- Sex slavery and human trafficking in Nigeria; an overview / Roseline Uyanga with Marie-Luise Ermisch -- The realities and rise of female sex trafficking in Thailand and Cambodia in the latter half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century / Francesca Ann Louise Mitchell -- The Japanese army and comfort women in World War II / Shigeru Sato -- Art, sexuality, and slavery: hidden geographies of the Cape: shifting representations of slavery and sexuality in South African art and fiction / Gabeba Baderoon -- Innocence curtailed: reading maternity and sexuality as labor in Canadian representations of Black girls / Charmaine Nelson -- Gender, sex, and power: images of enslaved women's bodies / Ana Lucia Araujo -- Queering the study of slavery: "To lever's on soap!"…”
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The Geography of American Poverty : Is There a Need for Place-Based Policies? / by Partridge, Mark D.

Table of Contents: “…-- Characteristics of high and low poverty rate rural counties -- Changes in 1989-1999 rural poverty rates -- Rural regression findings -- Rural poverty and proximity to metro areas -- Case study : Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska -- Policy implications for fighting rural poverty -- Summary -- How to win the local poverty war -- Synopsis -- Policy recommendations.…”
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The Electrification of Russia, 1880–1926 / by Coopersmith, Jonathan, 1955-

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New Countries : Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750–1870 / by Tutino, John, 1947-

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The Roots of Nationalism : National Identity Formation in Early Modern Europe, 1600-1815 /

Table of Contents: “…The Low Countries: Constitution, Nationhood and Character according to Hugo Grotius / Jan Waszink -- 7. A Russia Born of War / Gregory Carleton -- 8. Exiled Trojans or the Sons of Gomer Wales's Origins in the long Eighteenth Century / Adam Coward -- Part Three. …”
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