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Jazz mavericks of the Lone Star State by Oliphant, Dave

Table of Contents: “…Tuning up with a few introductory notes -- Jazz mavericks of the Lone Star State -- The roots of Texan jazz -- From bebop to hard bop and beyond : the Texas jazz connections -- Texas bebop messengers to the world : Kenny Dorham and Leo Wright -- British acolytes of jazz and its Texas contingent -- The Wisconsin-Texas jazz nexus -- Jazz in literature -- The alchemy of jazz -- Ornette Coleman's harmolodic life -- A jazz master's diamond jubilee -- A Texas take on Ken Burns's Jazz -- Swinging through Texas on a Scottish air -- The birth of western swing -- The inventor of jazz revisited : untangling the legacy of Jelly Roll Morton and Alan Lomax -- Discographies and Texan jazz -- San Marcos in jazz history.…”
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Shush! : growing up Jewish under Stalin : a memoir / by Draitser, Emil, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…-- One Passover in Odessa -- On commissars, cosmopolites, and lightbulb inventors -- Them! -- No kith, no kin -- Grandpa Uri -- Missing Mikhoels -- Black on white -- Time like glass -- The death of Stalin.…”
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Shush! : growing up Jewish under Stalin : a memoir / by Draitser, Emil, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…-- One Passover in Odessa -- On commissars, cosmopolites, and lightbulb inventors -- Them! -- No kith, no kin -- Grandpa Uri -- Missing Mikhoels -- Black on white -- Time like glass -- The death of Stalin.…”
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Lincoln & Darwin shared visions of race, science, and religion / by Lander, James

Table of Contents: “…Origins and education -- Voyages and the experience of slavery -- The racial background, personal encounters, and turning points in 1837 -- Religious reformation -- Career preparations and rivals, 1845-49 -- Mortality, invention, and geology -- Scientific racism -- The types of mankind and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854-55 -- The politics of race -- Campaigning, 1856-58 -- Publications and crocodiles, 1859-60 -- More debates and new reviews -- Designers and inventors -- Inventions for a long war -- The Trent affair : a chemistry problem -- Delegation and control -- The rationality of colonization -- Colonization and emancipation -- Societies -- Mill workers and freedmen -- Testing hopes and hoaxes -- Spiritual forces -- Meeting Agassiz -- The descent of man -- An end to religion -- The dream of equality.…”
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Lincoln & Darwin shared visions of race, science, and religion / by Lander, James

Table of Contents: “…Origins and education -- Voyages and the experience of slavery -- The racial background, personal encounters, and turning points in 1837 -- Religious reformation -- Career preparations and rivals, 1845-49 -- Mortality, invention, and geology -- Scientific racism -- The types of mankind and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854-55 -- The politics of race -- Campaigning, 1856-58 -- Publications and crocodiles, 1859-60 -- More debates and new reviews -- Designers and inventors -- Inventions for a long war -- The Trent affair : a chemistry problem -- Delegation and control -- The rationality of colonization -- Colonization and emancipation -- Societies -- Mill workers and freedmen -- Testing hopes and hoaxes -- Spiritual forces -- Meeting Agassiz -- The descent of man -- An end to religion -- The dream of equality.…”
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Foreign-language learning with digital technology

Table of Contents: “…Digital technology and language learning : a review of policy and research evidence / Michael Evans -- The potential of the Internet as a language-learning tool / Iain Mitchell -- Trainee teachers' perceptions of the use of digital technology in the languages classroom / Linda Fisher -- Digital technology as a tool for active learning in MFL : engaging language learners in and beyond the secondary classroom / Rachel Hawkes -- Engaging pupils in bilingual, cross-cultural online discourse / Michael Evans -- SIDE by side : pioneers, inventors and the tyranny of educational distance / Cal Durrant -- Teacher and student perceptions of e-learning in EFL / Miranda Hamilton -- From textbook to online materials : the changing ecology of foreign-language publishing in the era of ICT / Carl Blyth.…”
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Foreign-language learning with digital technology

Table of Contents: “…Digital technology and language learning : a review of policy and research evidence / Michael Evans -- The potential of the Internet as a language-learning tool / Iain Mitchell -- Trainee teachers' perceptions of the use of digital technology in the languages classroom / Linda Fisher -- Digital technology as a tool for active learning in MFL : engaging language learners in and beyond the secondary classroom / Rachel Hawkes -- Engaging pupils in bilingual, cross-cultural online discourse / Michael Evans -- SIDE by side : pioneers, inventors and the tyranny of educational distance / Cal Durrant -- Teacher and student perceptions of e-learning in EFL / Miranda Hamilton -- From textbook to online materials : the changing ecology of foreign-language publishing in the era of ICT / Carl Blyth.…”
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R. Buckminster Fuller : world man /

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R. Buckminster Fuller : world man /

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Any Friend of the Movement : Networking for Birth Control, 1920-1940 / by Meyer, Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson

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Any Friend of the Movement : Networking for Birth Control, 1920-1940 / by Meyer, Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson

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Great inventions that changed the world by Wei, James, 1930-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: ForewardPrefaceChapter 1. Introduction1.1 Inventors and Inventions1.2 Innovation, Development, Diffusion1.3 Changing the WorldChapter 2. …”
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Great inventions that changed the world by Wei, James, 1930-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: ForewardPrefaceChapter 1. Introduction1.1 Inventors and Inventions1.2 Innovation, Development, Diffusion1.3 Changing the WorldChapter 2. …”
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The Dean : A Biography of A. A. Potter / by Eckles, Robert B.

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The Dean : A Biography of A. A. Potter / by Eckles, Robert B.

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Animating Film Theory /

Table of Contents: “…Galloway -- "A living, developing egg is present before you" : animation, scientific visualization, modeling / Oliver Gaycken -- Andre Martin, inventor of animation cinema : prolegomena for a history of terms / Herve Joubert-Laurencin; translated by Lucy Swanson -- "First principles" of animation / Alan Cholodenko -- Animation, in theory / Suzanne Buchan -- Film as experiment in animation : are films experiments on human beings? …”
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Animating Film Theory /

Table of Contents: “…Galloway -- "A living, developing egg is present before you" : animation, scientific visualization, modeling / Oliver Gaycken -- Andre Martin, inventor of animation cinema : prolegomena for a history of terms / Herve Joubert-Laurencin; translated by Lucy Swanson -- "First principles" of animation / Alan Cholodenko -- Animation, in theory / Suzanne Buchan -- Film as experiment in animation : are films experiments on human beings? …”
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Data Visualization in Society /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The relationships between graphs, charts, maps and meanings, feelings, engagements / Helen Kennedy and Martin Engebretsen -- Section I Framing data visualization -- Ways of knowing with data visualizations / Jill Walker Rettberg -- Inventorizing, situating, transforming: Social semiotics and data visualization / Giorgia Aiello -- The political significance of data visualization: Four key perspectives / Torgeir Uberg Ncerland -- Section II Living and working with data visualization -- Rain on your radar: Engaging with weather data visualizations as part of everyday routines / Eef Masson and Karin van Es -- Between automation and interpretation: Using data visualization in social media analytics companies / Salla-Maaria Laaksonen and Juho Pääkkonen -- Accessibility of data visualizations: An overview of European statistics institutes / Mikael Snaprud and Andrea Velazquez -- Evaluating data visualization: Broadening the measurements of success / Arran L. …”
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Data Visualization in Society /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The relationships between graphs, charts, maps and meanings, feelings, engagements / Helen Kennedy and Martin Engebretsen -- Section I Framing data visualization -- Ways of knowing with data visualizations / Jill Walker Rettberg -- Inventorizing, situating, transforming: Social semiotics and data visualization / Giorgia Aiello -- The political significance of data visualization: Four key perspectives / Torgeir Uberg Ncerland -- Section II Living and working with data visualization -- Rain on your radar: Engaging with weather data visualizations as part of everyday routines / Eef Masson and Karin van Es -- Between automation and interpretation: Using data visualization in social media analytics companies / Salla-Maaria Laaksonen and Juho Pääkkonen -- Accessibility of data visualizations: An overview of European statistics institutes / Mikael Snaprud and Andrea Velazquez -- Evaluating data visualization: Broadening the measurements of success / Arran L. …”
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