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The politics of fashion in eighteenth-century America by Haulman, Kate

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : that strange, ridic'lous vice -- The many faces of fashion in the early eighteenth century -- Fops and coquettes : gender, sexuality, and status -- Country modes : cultural politics and political resistance -- New duties and old desires on the eve of revolution -- A contest of modes in revolutionary Philadelphia -- Fashion and nation -- Epilogue : political habits and citizenship's corset : the 1790s and beyond.…”
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Situated testimonies dread and enchantment in an Indonesian literary archive / by Sears, Laurie J. (Laurie Jo)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the afterwardsness of history -- Desire, phantoms, and commodities: Maria Dermoût's colonial critique -- At home and not at home in empire: transnational phantasies of colonial modernity -- A neurotic family romance of modernity and the national form -- The end of the nationalist romance -- Trauma and its doubles in postcolonial masculinity -- Masculinist trauma and feminist melancholia -- Afterword: trauma, translation, and a critical path.…”
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Improving executive sponsorship of projects : a holistic approach / by Chandler, Dawne E., Hall, Payson

Table of Contents: “…Importance of project management standards -- 5. Desirable executive sponsor characteristics -- 6. Sponsor readiness -- 7. …”
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Textual Contraception : Birth Control and Modern American Fiction / by Capo, Beth Widmaier, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…"Lewd and lascivious" literature -- "As red and flaming as possible": radical rhetoric of the 1910s -- "For married women only": birth control and modern marriage -- "Conscious makers of people": achieving a free motherhood -- Reading the body, controlling the race: birth control and the eugenic impetus of the 1920s and 1930s -- The economics of desire and despair: birth control and the depression era -- Conclusion: textual contraception.…”
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Reflections on Human Nature / by Lovejoy, Arthur O. (Arthur Oncken), 1873-1962

Table of Contents: “…The self-appraisal of man -- The theory of human nature in the American constitution and the method of counterpoise -- The desires of the self-conscious animal -- Approbativeness as the universal, distinctive, and dominant passion of man -- The "love of praise" as the indispensable substitute for "reason and virtue" in Seventeenth and Eighteenth century theories of human nature -- Approbativeness and "pride" in political and economic thought -- The indictment of pride -- Some ethical reflections.…”
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Rural women in urban China gender, migration, and social change / by Jacka, Tamara, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: From the "margins" to the "center" -- The subject -- Between "rural idiocy" and "urban modernity" -- Assembling working sisters -- Place -- In and out of place -- The place of desire -- People -- Relationships -- Identifications -- Time -- Narrative, time, and agency -- Appendix 1. …”
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Textual Contraception : Birth Control and Modern American Fiction / by Capo, Beth Widmaier, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…"Lewd and lascivious" literature -- "As red and flaming as possible": radical rhetoric of the 1910s -- "For married women only": birth control and modern marriage -- "Conscious makers of people": achieving a free motherhood -- Reading the body, controlling the race: birth control and the eugenic impetus of the 1920s and 1930s -- The economics of desire and despair: birth control and the depression era -- Conclusion: textual contraception.…”
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Reflections on Human Nature / by Lovejoy, Arthur O. (Arthur Oncken), 1873-1962

Table of Contents: “…The self-appraisal of man -- The theory of human nature in the American constitution and the method of counterpoise -- The desires of the self-conscious animal -- Approbativeness as the universal, distinctive, and dominant passion of man -- The "love of praise" as the indispensable substitute for "reason and virtue" in Seventeenth and Eighteenth century theories of human nature -- Approbativeness and "pride" in political and economic thought -- The indictment of pride -- Some ethical reflections.…”
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Writing the love of boys origins of Bishōnen culture in modernist Japanese literature / by Angles, Jeffrey, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Blow the blood-stained bugle : Murayama Kaita and the language of personal sensation -- Treading the edges of the known world : homoerotic fantasies in Murayama Kaita's prose -- The appeal of the strange : same-sex desire in Edogawa Ranpo's mystery fiction -- (Re)discovering same-sex love : Ranpo and the creation of Queer history -- Uninscribing the adolescent body : aesthetic resistance in Taruho's writing -- Conclusion : postwar legacies.…”
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Aching for beauty footbinding in China / by Wang, Ping, 1957-

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Visible deeds of music art and music from Wagner to Cage / by Shaw-Miller, Simon, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Ut pictura musica : interdisciplinarity, art, and music -- "Deeds of music made visible" : Wagner, the Gesamtkunstwerk, and the birth of the modern -- Instruments of desire : musical morphology in Picasso's cubism -- Quasi una musica : Kupka and Klee, music, and the idea of abstraction -- "Out of tune" : Hauer's legacy and the aesthetics of minimalism in art and music -- A chorus of voices : seeing music in Cage and Fluxus, the birth of the postmodern.…”
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Archaeologies of English Renaissance literature by Schwyzer, Philip

Table of Contents: “…Intimate disciplines : archaeology, literary criticism, and the traces of the dead -- Exhumation and ethnic conflict : colonial archaeology from St Erkenwald to Spenser in Ireland -- Dissolving images : monastic ruins in Elizabethan poetry -- Charnel knowledge : open graves in Shakespeare and Donne -- 'Mummy is become merchandise' : cannibals and commodities in the seventeenth century -- Readers of the lost urns : desire and disintegration in Thomas Browne's Urn-burial.…”
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Structures of agency essays / by Bratman, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Appendix: Nozick, free will, and the problem of agential authority ; A desire of one's own ; Autonomy and hierarchy ; Three forms of agential commitment: reply to Cullity and Gerrans -- ; Planning agency, autonomous agency ; Three theories of self-governance -- Extending the theory temptation revisited ; Shared valuing and frameworks for practical reasoning.…”
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A home for every child the Washington Children's Home Society in the Progressive Era / by Hart, Patricia Susan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Taking a chance on the Pacific Northwest -- Seeking alternatives to institutional care -- Child relinquishment : the last best hope -- Sorted, boarded, and reformed : coming into the care of WCHS -- Completing God's plan and competing desires : negotiating adoptive parenthood -- Biology, botany, and belonging -- Traveling children : placement, re-placement, and return -- Conclusion: A home for every child : the elusive promise.…”
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Dynamics, control, and flying qualities of V/STOL aircraft by Franklin, James A.

Table of Contents: “…Representative operations of V/STOL aircraft -- Control strategy and desired control characteristics -- Equations of motion for Hover and forward flight -- Longitudinal flying qualities in Hover -- Lateral-directional flying qualities in Hover -- Longitudinal flying qualities in forward flight -- Lateral-directional flying qualities in forward flight -- Response to wind and turbulence -- Control augmentation and cockpit displays -- Aircraft stability derivatives.…”
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Creating Mexican consumer culture in the age of Porfirio Díaz by Bunker, Steven B., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Personalized progress: the production and marketing of the machine-rolled cigarette -- Selling in the city: the growth of popular advertising -- Capital investments: Porfirian department stores and the evolution of Mexico City retailing -- Modernizing capital: constant innovation and the expression of progress -- An all-consuming passion: desire, department stores, and the modernization of crime -- Hot diamonds, cold steel: the La Profesa Jewelry Store robbery -- Conclusion.…”
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Evolutionary rhetoric sex, science, and free love in nineteenth-century feminism / by Hayden, Wendy, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…The Season of Battle: The Rhetoric of Free-Love Feminism in Nineteenth-Century America -- Evolutionary Theory: (R) volutionary Rhetorics in the Free Love Movement -- Physiology: Rewriting the Body and Sexual Desire -- Bacteriology: Marriage as a diseased Institution -- Embryology: Toward a Eugenic Warrant for Free-Love Feminism -- Heredity: The Disappearing Reform Warrant -- Conclusion: Historiography and Feminist Uses of Eugenics.…”
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The transplant imaginary : mechanical hearts, animal parts, and moral thinking in highly experimental science / by Sharp, Lesley Alexandra

Table of Contents: “…Temporality and Social Desire in Anticipatory Science -- Conclusion: The Moral Parameters of Virtuous Science -- Notes -- References -- Index.…”
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A profile of the United States toy industry : serious fun / by Byrne, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…Buying and selling -- 5. Creating desire: licensing, advertising, and marketing -- 6. …”
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New designs for siRNAs as Dicer-substrates

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Potency of RNA duplexes of ~27 nucleotides in length -- Dicer substrates -- Variation in dicing patterns -- Defined substrate preferences for Dicer -- Design of RNA duplexes that are processed to specific, desired products -- Dicer processing introduces functional asymmetry into the potency of a RNA duplex -- Preferential binding of Dicer to 3'-overhand -- The exploitation of Dicer properties to improve design of RNAi reagents.…”
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