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The Basque country a cultural history / by Woodworth, Paddy, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Land of stone, iron, glass : land of the Basques -- Wherixe are we, exactly?…”
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After taste expanded practice in interior design /

Table of Contents: “…The interior comes home / Susan Yelavich -- An olfactory reconstruction of Philip Johnson's glass house interior / Jorge Otero-Pailos -- We are in this thing together : an interview with Constance Adams -- Portfolio : Petra Blaisse.…”
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Traitors suspicion, intimacy, and the ethics of state-building /

Table of Contents: “…Strauss -- Betraying trust and the elusive nature of ethnicity in Burundi / Simon Turner -- In praise of traitors: intimacy, betrayal, and the Sri Lankan Tamil community / Sharika Thiranagama -- Treason and contested moralities in a coloured township, Cape Town / Steffen Jensen -- In a treacherous state: the fear of collaboration among West Bank Palestinians / Tobias Kelly -- The glass agency: Iranian war veterans as heroes or traitors? …”
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Eco-efficient concrete /

Table of Contents: “…Environmental impact of Portland cement production -- Lower binder intensity eco-efficient concretes -- Life cycle assessment (LCA) aspects of concrete -- Natural pozzolans in eco-efficient concrete -- Artificial pozzolans in eco-efficient concrete -- Tests to evaluate pozzolanic activity in eco-efficient concrete -- Properties of concrete with high-volume pozzolans -- Influence of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) on concrete durability -- Performance of self-compacting concrete (SCC) with high-volume supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) -- High-volume ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS) concrete -- Recycled glass concrete -- Municipal solid waste incinerator (MSWI) concrete -- Concrete with polymeric wastes -- Concrete with construction and demolition wastes (CDW) -- An eco-efficient approach to concrete carbonation -- Concrete with polymers -- Alkali-activated based concrete -- Sulfoaluminate cement -- Reactive magnesia cement -- Nanotechnology for eco-efficient concrete -- Biotechconcrete : an innovative approach for concrete with enhanced durability.…”
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Reading, translating, rewriting : Angela Carter's translational poetics / by Dutheil de la Rochère, Martine Hennard

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Angela Carter's French connections -- Tracing editorial metamorphoses: the fairy tales of Charles Perrault from 1977 to the present day -- Updating the politics of experience: from "Le petit chaperon rouge" to "Little red riding hood" and "The company of wolves" -- Looking through the keyhole of culture, or the moral function of curiosity: from "La barbe bleue" to "Bluebeard" and "The bloody chamber" -- Doing the somersault of love: from "Le chat botte" to "Puss in boots" and "Puss-in-boots" -- Revamping sleeping beauty: from "La belle au bois dormant" to "The sleeping beauty in the wood" and "The lady of the house of love" -- Recovering a female tradition: from "La belle et la bete" to "Beauty and the beast" and "The tiger's bride" -- Giving up the ghost: from "Cendrillon ou La petite pantoufle de verre" to "Cinderella: or, The little glass slipper" and "Ashputtle or the mother's ghost" -- Conclusion: The poetics and politics of translation.…”
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African theatre.

Table of Contents: “…"I will not cry" : women's theatre in the Algerian diaspora / Laura Chakravarty Box -- Challenging the master : resisting "male" virtues of the ancient Egyptian goddess Isis in the theatre of Taufik al / Dina Amin -- Of Suwa houses & singing contests : early urban women performers in Asmara, Eritrea / Christine Matzke -- Contextualizing women's theatre in Kenya : Alakie Ainyi Mboya's Otongolia & Ari Katini Mwachofi's Mama ee / Mike Kuria -- Portraits of women in contemporary Ugandan theatre / Mercy Mirembe Ntangaare -- Drama in her life : the story of Adeline Ama Buabeng / Esi Sutherland-Addy with Ama Buabeng -- Visibility, eloquence & silence : women & theatre for development in Ghana / Esi Dogbe -- Contemporary Nigerian theatre : the plays of Stella Oyedepo / Chris Dunton -- Who can silence her drums : an analysis of the plays of Tess Onwneme / Omofolabo Ajayi -- Noticeboard / James Gibbs -- Glass house / Fatima Dike ; with an introduction by Marcia Blumberg -- Book reviews.…”
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Integrated design in contemporary architecture by Moe, Kiel

Table of Contents: “…. / Steven Holl Architects and Rüssli Architekten -- Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver / Adjaye Associates -- North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh / Thomas Phifer and Partners -- The Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio / Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Mishizawa: SANAA -- Crown Hall renovation, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago / Krueck & Sexton Architects -- Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life, Tulane University, New Orleans / VJAA -- Seminar II Building at the Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington / Mahlum Architects -- Milton Academy Science Building, Milton, Massachusetts / The Rose + Guggenheim Studio -- Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building 2, Arizona State University, Tempe / richärd + bauer -- University of Arizona College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Tucson / Jones Studio -- Sidwell Friends School, Middle School renovation and addition, Washington, D.C. / Kieran Timberlake Associates -- Technology Access Foundation, White Center, Lakewood, Washington / Miller Hull Partnership -- Artists for Humanity EpiCenter, Boston / Arrowstreet -- Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania / Davis Gardner Gannon Pope Architecture with Bruce Lindsay -- Gleneagles Community Center, West Vancouver, British Columbia / Patkau Architects -- Water + Life Museums, Hemet, California / Lehrer + Gangi Design + Build -- U.S. …”
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Integrated design in contemporary architecture by Moe, Kiel

Table of Contents: “…. / Steven Holl Architects and Rüssli Architekten -- Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver / Adjaye Associates -- North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh / Thomas Phifer and Partners -- The Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio / Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Mishizawa: SANAA -- Crown Hall renovation, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago / Krueck & Sexton Architects -- Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life, Tulane University, New Orleans / VJAA -- Seminar II Building at the Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington / Mahlum Architects -- Milton Academy Science Building, Milton, Massachusetts / The Rose + Guggenheim Studio -- Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building 2, Arizona State University, Tempe / richärd + bauer -- University of Arizona College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Tucson / Jones Studio -- Sidwell Friends School, Middle School renovation and addition, Washington, D.C. / Kieran Timberlake Associates -- Technology Access Foundation, White Center, Lakewood, Washington / Miller Hull Partnership -- Artists for Humanity EpiCenter, Boston / Arrowstreet -- Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania / Davis Gardner Gannon Pope Architecture with Bruce Lindsay -- Gleneagles Community Center, West Vancouver, British Columbia / Patkau Architects -- Water + Life Museums, Hemet, California / Lehrer + Gangi Design + Build -- U.S. …”
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Radical poetics and secular Jewish culture

Table of Contents: “…Radical Jewish culture/secular Jewish practice / Charles Bernstein -- Who or what is a Jewish American poet, with specific reference to David Antin, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau Duplessis, and Jerome Rothenberg / Hank Lazer -- The house of Jews: experimental modernism and traditional Jewish practice / Jerome Rothenberg -- Zukofsky at 100: Zukofsky as a body of work / Bob Perelman -- Addendum: on "the Jewish question": three perspectives / Bob Perelman -- Light(silence)word / Norman Fischer -- On Yiddish poetry and translation of Yiddish poetry / Kathryn Hellerstein -- An "exotic" on East Broadway: Mikhl Likht and the paradoxes of Yiddish modernist poetry / Merle Bachman -- Revisiting Charles Reznikoff's urban poetics of diaspora and contingency / Ranen Omer-Sherman -- Looking at Louis Zukofsky's poetics through Spinozist glasses / Joshua Schuster -- "Can a Jew be wild": the radical Jewish grammar of Gertrude Stein's voices poems / Amy Feinstein -- Remains of the diaspora: a personal meditation / Michael Heller -- Secular and sacred: returning (to) the repressed / Alicia Ostriker -- Midrashic sensibilities: secular Judaism and radical poetics (a personal essay in several chapters) / Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- Secular Jewish culture and its radical poetic discontents / Norman Finkelstein -- Radical relation: Jewish identity and the power of contradictions in the poetics of Muriel Rukeyser and George Oppen / Meg Schoerke -- "Yes and no, not either/or": aesthetics, identity, and Marjorie Perloff's Vienna paradox / Daniel Morris -- "Sound scraps, vision scraps": Paul Celan's poetic practice / Marjorie Perloff -- Language in the dark: the legacy of Walter Benjamin in the opera Shadowtime / Charlie Bertsch -- Danger, skepticism, and democratic longing: five contemporary secular Jewish American poets / Thomas Fink -- Relentlessly going on and on: how Jews remade modern poetry without even trying / Stephen Paul Miller -- Azoy toot a Yid: secular poetics and "the Jewish way" / Eric Murphy Selinger -- A Jew in New York / Bob Holman -- Imp/penetrable archive: Adeena Karasick's wall of sound / Maria Damon -- In the shadow of desire: Charles Bernstein's Shadowtime and its kabbalistic trajectories / Adeena Karasick -- Hijacking language: kabbalistic trajectories / Adeena Karasick -- Letter to the Romans / Benjamin Friedlander -- White / Paul Auster.…”
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Radical poetics and secular Jewish culture

Table of Contents: “…Radical Jewish culture/secular Jewish practice / Charles Bernstein -- Who or what is a Jewish American poet, with specific reference to David Antin, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau Duplessis, and Jerome Rothenberg / Hank Lazer -- The house of Jews: experimental modernism and traditional Jewish practice / Jerome Rothenberg -- Zukofsky at 100: Zukofsky as a body of work / Bob Perelman -- Addendum: on "the Jewish question": three perspectives / Bob Perelman -- Light(silence)word / Norman Fischer -- On Yiddish poetry and translation of Yiddish poetry / Kathryn Hellerstein -- An "exotic" on East Broadway: Mikhl Likht and the paradoxes of Yiddish modernist poetry / Merle Bachman -- Revisiting Charles Reznikoff's urban poetics of diaspora and contingency / Ranen Omer-Sherman -- Looking at Louis Zukofsky's poetics through Spinozist glasses / Joshua Schuster -- "Can a Jew be wild": the radical Jewish grammar of Gertrude Stein's voices poems / Amy Feinstein -- Remains of the diaspora: a personal meditation / Michael Heller -- Secular and sacred: returning (to) the repressed / Alicia Ostriker -- Midrashic sensibilities: secular Judaism and radical poetics (a personal essay in several chapters) / Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- Secular Jewish culture and its radical poetic discontents / Norman Finkelstein -- Radical relation: Jewish identity and the power of contradictions in the poetics of Muriel Rukeyser and George Oppen / Meg Schoerke -- "Yes and no, not either/or": aesthetics, identity, and Marjorie Perloff's Vienna paradox / Daniel Morris -- "Sound scraps, vision scraps": Paul Celan's poetic practice / Marjorie Perloff -- Language in the dark: the legacy of Walter Benjamin in the opera Shadowtime / Charlie Bertsch -- Danger, skepticism, and democratic longing: five contemporary secular Jewish American poets / Thomas Fink -- Relentlessly going on and on: how Jews remade modern poetry without even trying / Stephen Paul Miller -- Azoy toot a Yid: secular poetics and "the Jewish way" / Eric Murphy Selinger -- A Jew in New York / Bob Holman -- Imp/penetrable archive: Adeena Karasick's wall of sound / Maria Damon -- In the shadow of desire: Charles Bernstein's Shadowtime and its kabbalistic trajectories / Adeena Karasick -- Hijacking language: kabbalistic trajectories / Adeena Karasick -- Letter to the Romans / Benjamin Friedlander -- White / Paul Auster.…”
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An American hometown Terre Haute, Indiana, 1927 / by Roznowski, Tom, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Lyda -- Albert McBride to Ernestine Myers Dancing Academy -- Agnes Nairn to North Baltimore Bottle Glass Company -- Harry E. Oaf to James Osler -- Mabel P. …”
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Language without soil Adorno and late philosophical modernity /

Table of Contents: “…Kelley -- The idiom of crisis : on the historical immanence of language in Adorno / Neil Larsen -- Aesthetic theory and nonpropositional truth content in Adorno / Gerhard Richter -- The homeland of language : a note on truth and knowledge in Adorno / Mirko Wischke -- Of stones and glass houses : minima moralia as critique of transparency / Eric Jarosinski -- The polemic of the late work : Adorno's Hölderlin / Robert Savage -- Twelve anacoluthic theses on Adorno's "Parataxis : on Hölderlin's late poetry" / David Farrell Krell -- The ephemeral and the absolute : provisional notes to Adorno's Aesthetic theory / Peter Uwe Hohendahl.…”
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White girl a story of school desegregation / by Silverstein, Clara, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…-- My father's words -- I am Lee's daughter -- Splinters of glass.…”
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An American hometown Terre Haute, Indiana, 1927 / by Roznowski, Tom, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Lyda -- Albert McBride to Ernestine Myers Dancing Academy -- Agnes Nairn to North Baltimore Bottle Glass Company -- Harry E. Oaf to James Osler -- Mabel P. …”
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Language without soil Adorno and late philosophical modernity /

Table of Contents: “…Kelley -- The idiom of crisis : on the historical immanence of language in Adorno / Neil Larsen -- Aesthetic theory and nonpropositional truth content in Adorno / Gerhard Richter -- The homeland of language : a note on truth and knowledge in Adorno / Mirko Wischke -- Of stones and glass houses : minima moralia as critique of transparency / Eric Jarosinski -- The polemic of the late work : Adorno's Hölderlin / Robert Savage -- Twelve anacoluthic theses on Adorno's "Parataxis : on Hölderlin's late poetry" / David Farrell Krell -- The ephemeral and the absolute : provisional notes to Adorno's Aesthetic theory / Peter Uwe Hohendahl.…”
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White girl a story of school desegregation / by Silverstein, Clara, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…-- My father's words -- I am Lee's daughter -- Splinters of glass.…”
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Prophets without honor a requiem for moral patriotism / by Strabala, William

Table of Contents: “…Prophets hearing voices from history -- Political prophecies : divine atomic right to rule -- Slippery footing : bananas, oil, and Cold War ice -- Lionsden prophecy : we the system -- Prophecy globalized : trilateralism and secret teams -- Good land for prophet-making -- Lies to America, lies to the church : Rupiper and Vietnam -- Prophecies in blood and fire -- A ticket to 'Nam : Albert, Chuck, and burning passion -- The confirmation of prophets -- Through a stained glass window, darkly -- When Omaha meets Recife -- Heartburn in the heartland -- Secret memos and smoking guns -- Of hostages and prophets : Rupiper in Iran -- Iran-contra : the Eichmann corollary -- Prophecies over the death squads -- Nuclear-walled Jericho -- All for oil : desert storm and guts of orphans -- Post mortem of the conquest -- The church in prophetic crisis -- The prophetic question -- From Des Moines to Nuremberg to Rome and back -- Medals for heroes of peace, not war -- Prophecy betrayed -- Prophecy of plowshares in space -- Andromeda, strained -- At a place called Eden -- Observing prophecy in the courtroom -- Prophetic aftershocks.…”
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Prophets without honor a requiem for moral patriotism / by Strabala, William

Table of Contents: “…Prophets hearing voices from history -- Political prophecies : divine atomic right to rule -- Slippery footing : bananas, oil, and Cold War ice -- Lionsden prophecy : we the system -- Prophecy globalized : trilateralism and secret teams -- Good land for prophet-making -- Lies to America, lies to the church : Rupiper and Vietnam -- Prophecies in blood and fire -- A ticket to 'Nam : Albert, Chuck, and burning passion -- The confirmation of prophets -- Through a stained glass window, darkly -- When Omaha meets Recife -- Heartburn in the heartland -- Secret memos and smoking guns -- Of hostages and prophets : Rupiper in Iran -- Iran-contra : the Eichmann corollary -- Prophecies over the death squads -- Nuclear-walled Jericho -- All for oil : desert storm and guts of orphans -- Post mortem of the conquest -- The church in prophetic crisis -- The prophetic question -- From Des Moines to Nuremberg to Rome and back -- Medals for heroes of peace, not war -- Prophecy betrayed -- Prophecy of plowshares in space -- Andromeda, strained -- At a place called Eden -- Observing prophecy in the courtroom -- Prophetic aftershocks.…”
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Political Rhetoric and the Media : The Year in C-SPAN Research, Volume 8 by Browning, Robert X.

Table of Contents: “…HOW GENDER SHAPES EMOTIONAL POLITICAL RHETORIC -- 8. CRACKING THE GLASS CEILING IN THE NEWSROOM: A HISTORICAL EXAMINATION OF WOMEN JOURNALISTS' PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER IN THE MEDIA -- 9. …”
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Political Rhetoric and the Media : The Year in C-SPAN Research, Volume 8 by Browning, Robert X.

Table of Contents: “…HOW GENDER SHAPES EMOTIONAL POLITICAL RHETORIC -- 8. CRACKING THE GLASS CEILING IN THE NEWSROOM: A HISTORICAL EXAMINATION OF WOMEN JOURNALISTS' PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER IN THE MEDIA -- 9. …”
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