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The price of honor the life and times of George Brinton McClellan, Jr. / by Mulrine, M. Barbara, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Beginnings, 1865-895 -- The Halls of Congress, 1895-903 -- The initiation, 1903-904 -- Hizzoner, the mayor, 1905 -- Disputed territory, 1906 -- Bonds, borough presidents, blue laws, 1907 -- A rightful claim, 1908 -- Racing to the wire, 1909 -- Into oblivion, 1910-928 -- Elder statesman, 1929-940 --.…”
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The price of honor the life and times of George Brinton McClellan, Jr. / by Mulrine, M. Barbara, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Beginnings, 1865-895 -- The Halls of Congress, 1895-903 -- The initiation, 1903-904 -- Hizzoner, the mayor, 1905 -- Disputed territory, 1906 -- Bonds, borough presidents, blue laws, 1907 -- A rightful claim, 1908 -- Racing to the wire, 1909 -- Into oblivion, 1910-928 -- Elder statesman, 1929-940 --.…”
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The sizzler George Sisler, baseball's forgotten great / by Huhn, Rick, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…George who? -- Blue sweater -- Arm trouble -- Reunited and repositioned -- War clouds -- The veteran -- Major-league changes -- Renaissance man -- Guarded optimism -- "The little world series" -- Missing in action -- Comeback kid -- Same old same old -- Brave new world -- Private enterprise -- Full circle -- Family man -- Historically speaking.…”
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Toxic diversity race, gender, and law talk in America / by Subotnik, Dan

Table of Contents: “…Learning to think about race and gender -- Smelling the sewers but not the flowers -- The critical race theory show -- Race, gender, jokes, thinking, and feeling -- The unbearable burden of being black -- Pink and blue -- Chicken little goes to law school -- The tall tales of women teachers -- Unwed motherhood and apple pie -- A casino society -- Crime stories.…”
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The Conservative Party and the extreme right, 1945-75 by Pitchford, Mark

Table of Contents: “…The shock of opposition, 1945-51 -- Consensus Conservatism and extreme-right revival, 1951-57 -- Macmillan and Home : 'pink socialism' and 'true-blue' Conservatism, 1957-64 -- Edward Heath : a rightwards turn and the coalescence of the extreme right, 1964-70 -- 'Heathco' meets the extreme-right's challenge, 1970-75 -- Conclusion : keeping it right.…”
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The Conservative Party and the extreme right, 1945-75 by Pitchford, Mark

Table of Contents: “…The shock of opposition, 1945-51 -- Consensus Conservatism and extreme-right revival, 1951-57 -- Macmillan and Home : 'pink socialism' and 'true-blue' Conservatism, 1957-64 -- Edward Heath : a rightwards turn and the coalescence of the extreme right, 1964-70 -- 'Heathco' meets the extreme-right's challenge, 1970-75 -- Conclusion : keeping it right.…”
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The sizzler George Sisler, baseball's forgotten great / by Huhn, Rick, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…George who? -- Blue sweater -- Arm trouble -- Reunited and repositioned -- War clouds -- The veteran -- Major-league changes -- Renaissance man -- Guarded optimism -- "The little world series" -- Missing in action -- Comeback kid -- Same old same old -- Brave new world -- Private enterprise -- Full circle -- Family man -- Historically speaking.…”
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Toxic diversity race, gender, and law talk in America / by Subotnik, Dan

Table of Contents: “…Learning to think about race and gender -- Smelling the sewers but not the flowers -- The critical race theory show -- Race, gender, jokes, thinking, and feeling -- The unbearable burden of being black -- Pink and blue -- Chicken little goes to law school -- The tall tales of women teachers -- Unwed motherhood and apple pie -- A casino society -- Crime stories.…”
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China's naval power : an offensive realist approach / by Lim, Yves-Heng, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Naval power and the quest for regional hegemony -- China's rise in East Asia: the political context of Beijing's bid for regional hegemony -- The offensive turn of China's naval strategy and doctrine -- The modernization of Chinese naval forces -- Taiwan and beyond -- Territorial and maritime issues in the China seas -- The great naval chessboard: sea power and the Chinese quest for hegemony -- Conclusion, (Not) born to be blue?…”
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China's naval power : an offensive realist approach / by Lim, Yves-Heng, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Naval power and the quest for regional hegemony -- China's rise in East Asia: the political context of Beijing's bid for regional hegemony -- The offensive turn of China's naval strategy and doctrine -- The modernization of Chinese naval forces -- Taiwan and beyond -- Territorial and maritime issues in the China seas -- The great naval chessboard: sea power and the Chinese quest for hegemony -- Conclusion, (Not) born to be blue?…”
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Exodus politics : civil rights and leadership in African American literature and culture / by Patterson, Robert J., 1980-

Table of Contents: “…: the politics of gender and gender politics: civil rights activism and leadership in Ernest Gaines' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman -- The refusal of Christ to accept crucifixion: bridge leadership refutes the paradoxes of exodus politics in Alice Walker's Meridian -- The important thing is making generations: reconsidering reproduction and blues performances as forms of civil rights leadership in Gayl Jones' Corregidora -- We all killed him the limits of (formal) leadership and civil rights legislation in Charles Johnson's Dreamer -- Epilogue: Is there life after exodus politics?.…”
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Sidney J. Furie : life and films / by Kremer, Daniel, 1984-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- The boy in his own company -- Colonizing a wilderness -- Making a name in London -- Man's favorite sport -- Through a glass refracted: the wild angles picture show -- Professional winners and professional losers -- Idol worship in jazz: Lady sings the blues and Hit! -- Sid & Carole & Clark & Sheila: the romantic fantasies -- Cast iron jacket -- Cool sounds from hell: The entity -- Matinee buster -- Housemaster -- Epilogue: still working the angles.…”
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Exodus politics : civil rights and leadership in African American literature and culture / by Patterson, Robert J., 1980-

Table of Contents: “…: the politics of gender and gender politics: civil rights activism and leadership in Ernest Gaines' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman -- The refusal of Christ to accept crucifixion: bridge leadership refutes the paradoxes of exodus politics in Alice Walker's Meridian -- The important thing is making generations: reconsidering reproduction and blues performances as forms of civil rights leadership in Gayl Jones' Corregidora -- We all killed him the limits of (formal) leadership and civil rights legislation in Charles Johnson's Dreamer -- Epilogue: Is there life after exodus politics?.…”
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Sidney J. Furie : life and films / by Kremer, Daniel, 1984-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- The boy in his own company -- Colonizing a wilderness -- Making a name in London -- Man's favorite sport -- Through a glass refracted: the wild angles picture show -- Professional winners and professional losers -- Idol worship in jazz: Lady sings the blues and Hit! -- Sid & Carole & Clark & Sheila: the romantic fantasies -- Cast iron jacket -- Cool sounds from hell: The entity -- Matinee buster -- Housemaster -- Epilogue: still working the angles.…”
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Into the hearts of the Amazons in search of a modern matriarchy / by DeMott, Tom

Table of Contents: “…The blue mortuary -- The politician -- Honoring San Vicente -- The apologist -- Lavada -- The Russian -- Quintessential isthmus women -- The kid -- Vela Zandunga -- The spy -- The other city hall -- The princess -- Purse strings -- The blaseña -- Tirada de frutas -- The radical -- Day of the dead -- The Italian -- Bloqueo -- The journalist -- Marketplace Tehuantepec -- The filmmaker -- Inventing Santa Inés -- The grad student -- Green mangos -- The investigator -- The general's daughter.…”
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Film and fairy tales : the birth of modern fantasy / by Moen, Kristian

Table of Contents: “…"A dream we make wide awake": the nineteenth-century féerie -- A cinema of transformations: the film féerie and Georges Méliès -- Fairy-tale aesthetics: early film theory and The blue bird (1918) -- Mary Pickford and the fantasies of stardom -- Sites of enchantment and The thief of Bagdad (1924) -- Delimiting fairy tales: Snow White and the seven dwarfs (1937) -- Afterword: Mutability lessons.…”
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Film and fairy tales : the birth of modern fantasy / by Moen, Kristian

Table of Contents: “…"A dream we make wide awake": the nineteenth-century féerie -- A cinema of transformations: the film féerie and Georges Méliès -- Fairy-tale aesthetics: early film theory and The blue bird (1918) -- Mary Pickford and the fantasies of stardom -- Sites of enchantment and The thief of Bagdad (1924) -- Delimiting fairy tales: Snow White and the seven dwarfs (1937) -- Afterword: Mutability lessons.…”
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Into the hearts of the Amazons in search of a modern matriarchy / by DeMott, Tom

Table of Contents: “…The blue mortuary -- The politician -- Honoring San Vicente -- The apologist -- Lavada -- The Russian -- Quintessential isthmus women -- The kid -- Vela Zandunga -- The spy -- The other city hall -- The princess -- Purse strings -- The blaseña -- Tirada de frutas -- The radical -- Day of the dead -- The Italian -- Bloqueo -- The journalist -- Marketplace Tehuantepec -- The filmmaker -- Inventing Santa Inés -- The grad student -- Green mangos -- The investigator -- The general's daughter.…”
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The argumentative theatre of Joe Penhall by Boles, William C., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : from the raves to the stages of London -- Wild turkey and the new man, The new lad and the Penhall male -- Some voices and the failure of care -- Pale horse and the struggle to mourn -- Love and understanding and the demise of relationships -- The bullet and the stigma of redundancy -- Blue/orange and racism within the National Health Service -- Dumb show and Penhall's women -- Landscape with weapon and post-September 11 drama -- Afterword.…”
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Planet taco : a global history of Mexican food / by Pilcher, Jeffrey M., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Global Tacos -- The First Wave of Global Mexican -- The Blue Corn Bonanza -- Conclusion: The Battle of the Taco Trucks -- Glossary.…”
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