Search Results - "dragon"

  1. 241

    Youth gangs in literature by Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938-

    Published 2004
    Table of Contents: “…Hinton's The outsiders -- Vietnam and civil rights : Conroy's The lords of discipline -- Prep schools and Watergate : The chocolate war -- Family disintegration in the 1980's : Myers' Scorpions -- 1960s Los Angeles : Bonham's Durango Street -- South Central Los Angeles : Scott's Monster -- Barrio gangs of the 60s and 70s : Rodriguez' Always running -- Filipino Americans : Ascalon's American son -- Vietnamese gangs and skinheads : Garland's Shadow of the dragon -- Chinese gangs : Mahoney's The two Chinatowns.…”
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    Pieces of eight : more archaeology of piracy /

    Published 2016
    Table of Contents: “…Carnes-McNaughton -- Revisiting the fiery dragon / John de Bry and Marco Roling -- Black Bart's ranger / Chad M. …”
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  3. 243

    Pieces of eight : more archaeology of piracy /

    Published 2016
    Table of Contents: “…Carnes-McNaughton -- Revisiting the fiery dragon / John de Bry and Marco Roling -- Black Bart's ranger / Chad M. …”
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  4. 244

    World weavers globalization, science fiction, and the cybernetic revolution /

    Published 2005
    Table of Contents: “…Dick's The man in the high castle / Jake Jakaitis -- Godzilla's travels: the evolution of a globalized gargantuan / Gary Westfahl -- Black secret technology: African technological subjects / Gerald Gaylard -- The teeth of the new cockatoo: mutation and trauma in Greg Egan's Teranesia / Chris Palmer -- When cyberfeminism meets Chinese philosophy: computer, weaving and women / Amy Kit-sze Chan -- Hollywood enters the dragon / V�eronique Flambard-Weisbart -- Romeo must die: action and agency in Hollywood and Hong Kong action films / Susanne Rieser and Susanne Lummerding.…”
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  5. 245

    World weavers globalization, science fiction, and the cybernetic revolution /

    Published 2005
    Table of Contents: “…Dick's The man in the high castle / Jake Jakaitis -- Godzilla's travels: the evolution of a globalized gargantuan / Gary Westfahl -- Black secret technology: African technological subjects / Gerald Gaylard -- The teeth of the new cockatoo: mutation and trauma in Greg Egan's Teranesia / Chris Palmer -- When cyberfeminism meets Chinese philosophy: computer, weaving and women / Amy Kit-sze Chan -- Hollywood enters the dragon / V�eronique Flambard-Weisbart -- Romeo must die: action and agency in Hollywood and Hong Kong action films / Susanne Rieser and Susanne Lummerding.…”
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  6. 246

    Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia : Comparative Perspectives /

    Published 2019
    Table of Contents: “…Florida -- Negotiating order in the land of the dragon and the hidden valley of rice : local motives and regional networks in the transmission of new "Tibetan" Buddhist lineages in Bhutan and Sikkim / Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa.…”
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  7. 247

    Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia : Comparative Perspectives /

    Published 2019
    Table of Contents: “…Florida -- Negotiating order in the land of the dragon and the hidden valley of rice : local motives and regional networks in the transmission of new "Tibetan" Buddhist lineages in Bhutan and Sikkim / Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa.…”
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    The millennial detective essays on trends in crime fiction, film and television, 1990-2010 /

    Published 2011
    Table of Contents: “…Patricia Cornwell's Third-Person Novels / Beth Head -- Inheriting the Mantle: Wallander and Daughter / Susan Massey -- "A Visitor for the Dead": Adam Dalgliesh as a Serial Detective / Sabine Vanacker -- Transforming Genres: Subversive Potentialand the Interface between Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction and Chick Lit / Sonja Altnoeder -- The Poetics of Deviance and the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time / Christiana Gregoriou -- "A Natural Instinct for Forensics": Trace Evidence and Embodied Gazes in The Bone Collector / Lindsay Steenberg -- "Post-Modern or Post-Mortem" Murder as a Self-consuming Artifact in Red Dragon / David Levente Palatinus -- Revisiting Paranoia: The "Witch Hunts" in James Ellroy's The Big Nowhere and Walter Mosley's A Red Death / Maureen Sunderland -- A Detective Series with Love Interruptions? …”
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  9. 249

    The millennial detective essays on trends in crime fiction, film and television, 1990-2010 /

    Published 2011
    Table of Contents: “…Patricia Cornwell's Third-Person Novels / Beth Head -- Inheriting the Mantle: Wallander and Daughter / Susan Massey -- "A Visitor for the Dead": Adam Dalgliesh as a Serial Detective / Sabine Vanacker -- Transforming Genres: Subversive Potentialand the Interface between Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction and Chick Lit / Sonja Altnoeder -- The Poetics of Deviance and the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time / Christiana Gregoriou -- "A Natural Instinct for Forensics": Trace Evidence and Embodied Gazes in The Bone Collector / Lindsay Steenberg -- "Post-Modern or Post-Mortem" Murder as a Self-consuming Artifact in Red Dragon / David Levente Palatinus -- Revisiting Paranoia: The "Witch Hunts" in James Ellroy's The Big Nowhere and Walter Mosley's A Red Death / Maureen Sunderland -- A Detective Series with Love Interruptions? …”
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    Hong Kong connections transnational imagination in action cinema /

    Published 2005
    Table of Contents: “…Srinivas -- Hong Kong, Hollywood, Bombay : on the function of 'martial art' in the Hindi action cinema / Valentina Vitali -- Let's miscegenate : Jackie Chan and his African-American connection / Laleen Jayamanne -- The secrets of movement : the influence of Hong Kong action cinema upon the contemporary French avant-garde / Nicole Brenez -- At the edge of the cut : an encounter with the Hong Kong style in contemporary action cinema / Adrian Martin -- Wuxia redux : Crouching tiger, hidden dragon as a model of late transnational production / Stephen Teo -- Hong Kong film and the new cinephilia / David Desser -- Action cinema, labour power, and the video market / Paul Willemen -- Spectral critiques: tracking "uncanny" filmic paths towards a bio-poetics of trans-Pacific globalization / Rob Wilson -- Technoscience culture, embodiment, and wuda pian / Wong Kin-yuen.…”
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  11. 251

    Hong Kong connections transnational imagination in action cinema /

    Published 2005
    Table of Contents: “…Srinivas -- Hong Kong, Hollywood, Bombay : on the function of 'martial art' in the Hindi action cinema / Valentina Vitali -- Let's miscegenate : Jackie Chan and his African-American connection / Laleen Jayamanne -- The secrets of movement : the influence of Hong Kong action cinema upon the contemporary French avant-garde / Nicole Brenez -- At the edge of the cut : an encounter with the Hong Kong style in contemporary action cinema / Adrian Martin -- Wuxia redux : Crouching tiger, hidden dragon as a model of late transnational production / Stephen Teo -- Hong Kong film and the new cinephilia / David Desser -- Action cinema, labour power, and the video market / Paul Willemen -- Spectral critiques: tracking "uncanny" filmic paths towards a bio-poetics of trans-Pacific globalization / Rob Wilson -- Technoscience culture, embodiment, and wuda pian / Wong Kin-yuen.…”
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  12. 252

    Navigating Diversity and Inclusion in Veterinary Medicine /

    Published 2013
    Table of Contents: “…Greenhill -- "Here be dragons" : barriers to and opportunities for change / James W. …”
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    Navigating Diversity and Inclusion in Veterinary Medicine /

    Published 2013
    Table of Contents: “…Greenhill -- "Here be dragons" : barriers to and opportunities for change / James W. …”
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    Stories : Screen Narrative in the Digital Era /

    Published 2019
    Table of Contents: “…Spoilers, twists, and dragons : popular narrative after Game of Thrones / Sandra Laugier -- Part III. …”
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    Stories : Screen Narrative in the Digital Era /

    Published 2019
    Table of Contents: “…Spoilers, twists, and dragons : popular narrative after Game of Thrones / Sandra Laugier -- Part III. …”
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    Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China : Kaleidoscopic Histories /

    Published 2018
    Table of Contents: “…The Way of The platinum dragon : Xue Juexian and the sound of politics in 1930s Cantonese cinema / Kenny K.K. …”
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    Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China : Kaleidoscopic Histories /

    Published 2018
    Table of Contents: “…The Way of The platinum dragon : Xue Juexian and the sound of politics in 1930s Cantonese cinema / Kenny K.K. …”
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    Re-embroidering the robe faith, myth and literary creation since 1850 /

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…Gavin -- Of maidens and dragons: Sara Maitland's Three times table / Deborah Sarbin -- pt. 2. …”
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