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Dance hall days intimacy and leisure among working-class immigrants in the United States / by McBee, Randy D.

Table of Contents: “…Marriages were a little different then : marriages upon short acquaintance and immigrant, working-class life -- The era of large ballrooms and famous bands : the rise of commercial leisure and the making of a peer culture -- The girls here are like crazy : working-class women's heterosocial leisure and homosocial fun -- That's alright, I have my gang here : working-class male culture and the struggle over gender, identity, and dance -- And you know the old saying about familiarity breeding contempt : working-class male culture, social clubs, and heterosocial leisure -- When it comes to my marrying, boy, there will be a lot of strings pulled by my parents : familial conflict, commercial leisure, and weddings.…”
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The end of the Maoist era Chinese politics during the twilight of the Cultural Revolution, 1972-1976 / by Teiwes, Frederick C.

Table of Contents: “…The Tiananmen Incident and Mao's last days, April-September 1976 -- 8. The purge of the "Gang of Four," September-October 1976.…”
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Transforming the Chinese economy

Table of Contents: “…Formation of China's rural reform policy / Chen Xiwen -- The reform, opening, and development of China's industrial economy / Chen Jiagui and Wang Qin -- Labor market development and expansion of rural and urban employment / Cai Fang -- The intrinsic logic of China's banking industry reform / Yi Gang -- Government transformation and public finance / Hu Angang -- China's integration with the world : development as a process of learning and industrial upgrading / Justin Yifu Lin and Yan Wang -- Beyond the East Asian miracle : looking back and future prospects for China's economic growth model / Wu Jinglian and Fan Shitao -- Economic growth and income distribution : an empirical analysis of China's experiences / Li Shi -- Women's contribution to economic development : thirty years of rural labor market development and women's participation and contribution / Linxiu Zhang and Team.…”
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Literature and the environment

Table of Contents: “…Cohen -- Gary snyder, turtle island (1974) / George Hart -- Edward Abbey, The monkey wrench gang (1975) / David Fenimore -- Ursula K. Le Guin, The earthsea trilogy (1977) / Susan Palwick -- Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977) / Scott Slovic -- Barry Lopez, Arctic dreams (1986) / Jen Hill -- Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge (1991) / Cheryll Glotfelty -- Denise Levertov, The life around us (1997) / George Hart.…”
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Newspeak in the 21st century by Edwards, David, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…No conspiracy : solving the propaganda puzzle -- BBC balance : the magnificent fiction -- Back to back bias : an A-Z of BBC propaganda -- Climate chaos : keeping madness mainstream -- Plan A/Plan B: the Downing Street memo -- Mind your methodology : killing the 2004 Lancet report -- One million dead and counting : the 2006 Lancet report and beyond -- Bitter harvest : bombings in Britain, Spain and Iraq -- Israel and Palestine : an eye for an eyelash -- Real men go to Tehran : targeting Iran -- Iran in Iraq -- Venezuela : dousing the firebrand -- Liberal press gang : behind the scenes at the Independent and the Guardian -- Brilliant fools : snarls, smears and the dark art of Willy-waving -- Compassion, awareness and honest journalism.…”
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Vocations of political theory

Table of Contents: “…Reading the body : hobbes, body politics, and the task of political theory / Samantha Frost -- Work, shame, and the chain gang : the new civic education / Jill Locke -- The nobility of democracy / William E. …”
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Prudent lending restored securitization after the mortgage meltdown /

Table of Contents: “…Bethel, Allen Ferrell, and Gang Hu -- 6. Mortgage payment insurance and the future of the housing finance system / Jack Guttentag and Igor Roitburg -- 7. …”
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Gangster tour of Texas by Baker, T. Lindsay

Table of Contents: “…Bonnie and Clyde slept here : on the trail of the Barrow Gang -- Four brothers in crime : the Newton Boys, express car and bank robbers of Uvalde -- The Southern Pacific payroll robbery in El Paso : an attempted heist, the murder of an innocent man, and an international prisoner exchange -- Becky Rogers, the flapper bandit -- The Stanton frame-up : killing blameless men for a bounty -- The Santa Claus Bank Robbery -- Captain Charlie and the Rum King of San Antonio -- The Urschel kidnapping : Machine Gun Kelly's foray into Texas -- The Texas and Pacific mail robbery in Fort Worth : robbery, cold-blooded murder, and incarceration on Alcatraz -- The unsolved murder of Frank Nand Singh: immigrant smuggling on the Mexican border in the 1930s -- The Post morphine ring : dope dealing at the edge of the Caprock -- The greatest medical charlatan of them all : Dr. …”
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Hand of fire the comics art of Jack Kirby / by Hatfield, Charles, 1965-

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Ravish the Republic: The Archives of The Iron Garters Crime/Art Collective /

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American cinema and the southern imaginary

Table of Contents: “…The celluloid war before the birth: race and history in early American film / Robert Jackson -- Mammy's "mules" and the rules of marriage in Gone with the Wind / Riché Richardson -- Bodies and expectations: chain gang discipline / Leigh Anne Duck -- The postwar cinematic South: realism and the politics of liberal consensus / Chris Cagle -- A "professional southerner" in the Hollywood studio system: Lamar Trotti at work, 1934-1952 / Matthew H. …”
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Nightmares of the lettered city : banditry and literature in Latin America, 1816-1929 / by Dabove, Juan Pablo

Table of Contents: “…El periquillo sarniento : banditry as the non plus ultra -- Facundo : banditry and the state as nomadic war machine -- El chacho : banditry and allegories of legitimation -- O cabelleira : cangaceiros, sacarocracy, and the invention of a national tradition -- El zarco : banditry and foundational allegories for the nation-state -- Criminology : banditry as the wound of history -- Astucia : banditry and insurgent utopia -- Zárate : banditry, nation, and the experience of the limits -- Martín Fierro : banditry and the frontiers of the voice -- Juan Moreira : the gaucho malo as unpopular hero -- Alma gaucha : the gaucho outlaw and the leviathan -- Los bandidos de Ría Frío : banditry, the criminal state, and the critique of Porfirian illusions -- Os sertões : original banditry and the crimes of nations -- La guerra gaucha : bandit and founding father in the epic of the nation-state -- Los de abajo : the feast, the bandit gang, the bola (revolution and its metaphors) -- Cesarismo democrático : banditry and the necessary gendarme (the shadow of the Caudillo I) -- Doña Bárbara : banditry and the illusions of modernity (the shadow of the Caudillo II).…”
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Nonlinear control techniques for electro-hydraulic actuators in robotics engineering / by Guo, Qing, 1981-, Jiang, Dan, 1980-

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Postcolonial green environmental politics & world narratives /

Table of Contents: “…Arundhati Roy: environment and uneven form / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee; Jungle tide, devouring reef: (post)colonial anxiety and ecocritique in Sri Lankan literature / Sharae Deckard; Fragments of Shangri-La: "eco-Tibet" and its global circuits / Gang Yue; Diggers, strangers, and broken men: environmental prophecy and the commodifcation of nature in Keri Hulme's The bone people / Laura Wright -- Africa. …”
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Civilian participants in the Cultural Revolution : being vulnerable and being responsible / by Mok, Francis K. T.

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Non-state actors in asset recovery

Table of Contents: “…Davis -- Non-state actors and value recovery : ganging to create political will / Melvin Ayogu -- Civil society facilitators of asset recovery : the two Swiss cases Mobutu and Abacha / Max Mader -- The role of financial institutions in anti-bribery and anti-corruption efforts / Markus E. …”
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Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China / by Zhu, Yujie, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…Ming -- The Moderator, Mei -- The Dancer, Chao -- Locals' Responses: Hope and Frustration -- Conclusion -- 5.Guests -- The Honeymooners, Vincent and Lulu -- New Lijiang Residents, Wang and Yan -- He Gang from Naxi Mama -- Foreign Tourists, Marina and Johnson -- Conclusion -- 6.After the Show -- Wandering between Dream and Reality -- Embracing a New Home -- Resistance, Coping, and Departure -- Conclusion -- 7.Conclusion -- Romantic Consumption and Customization -- Global Significance of a Local Courtyard.…”
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Minding the South by Reed, John Shelton

Table of Contents: “…Bradford -- What they say about Dixie -- Of Collard greens and kings -- Red and yellow, black, and white -- Telling about the South -- The imagined South -- Six Southerners -- Lady propagandist of the Old South -- The man from New Orleans -- The world's best-selling novelist -- Mover and shaker -- Hardy perennial -- The southern Elvis -- The end of Elvis -- Southern culture, High and low -- Southern laughter -- A cokelorist at work -- The national magazine of the South -- Carolina couch crime -- Southern lit (and one movie) -- Taking a stand -- Portrait of Atlanta -- Nebbish from Mississippi -- Hollywood chain gangs -- Reflections -- The banner that Won't stay furled -- The most Southern state? …”
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Reducing global poverty the case for asset accumulation /

Table of Contents: “…Carter -- The stages-of-progress methodology and results from five countries / Anirudh Krishna -- Asset accumulation policy and poverty reduction / Caroline Moser -- Addressing vulnerability through asset building and social protection / Sarah Cook -- Social protection and asset accumulation by the middle class and the poor in Latin America / Andres Solimano -- Building natural resource-based assets in southern Africa : workable scenarios / Paula Nimpuno-Parente -- Protecting land rights in post-tsunami and postconflict Aceh, Indonesia / Lilianne Fan -- Hurricane Katrina : impact on assets and asset-building approaches to poverty reduction / Amy Liu -- Gangs, violence, and asset building / Dennis Rodgers -- Beyond microfinance / Vijay Mahajan -- Using microinsurance and financial education to protect and accumulate assets / Monique Cohen and Pamela Young -- Migrant foreign savings and asset accumulation / Manuel Orozco -- Transnational communities of the United States and Latin America / Hector Cordero-Guzman and Victoria Quiroz-Becerra -- Gender and transnational asset accumulation in El Salvador / Sarah Gammage -- Claiming rights : citizenship and the politics of asset distribution / Clare Ferguson, Caroline Moser, and Andy Norton.…”
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Taiwan and China : Fitful Embrace /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Lowell Dittmer -- Taiwan's national identity and cross-strait relations / Yi-Huah Jiang -- Changing identities in Taiwan under Ma Ying-jeou / Jean-Pierre Cabestan -- Paths crossed but never merged: changes and continuities of Taiwanese in Mainland China / Shu Keng & Ruihua Lin -- Chinese national identity under reconstruction / Gang Lin & Weixu Wu -- Chinese youth nationalism in a pressure pot / Rou-lan Chen -- Varieties of state capitalism across the Taiwan Strait: a comparison and its implications / Chih-shian Liou -- The nature and transition of Taiwanese investment in China: business orientation, profit seeking, and politicization / Chung-min Tsai -- Cross-strait economic relations and China's rise: the case of the IT sector / Tse-Kang Leng -- Social entrepreneurialism in post-developmental state Taiwan / You-Tian Hsing -- Pivot, hedger, or partner: strategies of lesser powers caught between hegemons / Yu-Shan Wu -- A farewall to arms? …”
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