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Setting the Table for Julia Child : Gourmet Dining in America, 1934–1961 / by Strauss, David, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Food fights in twentieth-century America : the good life versus the healthy life -- Building a foundation for gourmet dining in America -- Origins, rituals, and menus of gourmet dining societies, 1934-1961 -- Selectivity and publicity in the gourmet dining movement -- Beating the Nazis with truffles and tripe : the early years of "Gourmet : the magazine of good living" -- Gourmet's gastronomic tours : Samuel Chamberlain and his bouquets -- From readers to cooks? …”
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California's fading wildflowers lost legacy and biological invasions / by Minnich, Richard A.

Table of Contents: “…References to wildflowers in the Los Angeles Times, The Desert magazine, and the Riverside Press Enterprise.…”
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Communicating the North : media structures and images in the making of the Nordic Region /

Table of Contents: “…A Communicative Perspective on the Formation of the North: Contexts, Channels and Concepts / Jonas Harvard & Peter Stadius -- Nordic Media Systems 1850-1950: Myths, Mixtures and Metamorphoses / Lars Nord -- Connecting the Nordic Region: The Electric Telegraph and the European News Market / Jonas Harvard -- Media Scandinavianism: Media Events and the Historical Legacy of Pan-Scandinavianism / Jonas Harvard & Magdalena Hillström -- Nordic Solidarity in Print: The Association "Nordens Frihet" and its magazine, 1939-45 / Tora Byström -- Expressions of Pan-Scandinavian Sentiments in the Magazine Fram among Scandinavian Migrants in South Africa, 1914-1954 / Erlend Eidsvik -- "One Valhalla of the Free": Scandinavia, Britain and Northern Identity in the Mid-Nineteenth Century / Andrew Newby -- Selling the Sami: Nordic Stereotypes and Participatory Media in Georgian Britain / Linda Andersson Burnett -- The Valkyrie in Bikini: The Nordic Woman as Progressive Media Icon in Spain, 1891-1975 / Elena Lindholm Narvaez -- Unity Expo(se)d: the Scandinavia Pavilions at the World Exhibitions in 1967 and 1970 / Nikolas Glover -- Happy Countries: Appraisals of Inter-War Nordic Societies / Peter Stadius -- A Swedish Norden or a Nordic Sweden? …”
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More than a farmer's wife voices of American farm women, 1910-1960 / by Lauters, Amy Mattson, 1972-

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Endtimes? crises and turmoil at the New York times, 1999-2009 / by Schwarz, Daniel R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: crises and turmoil at the New York times -- The way we were: a brief history of the Times with a focus on major events -- Looking backward: the (failed) Raines reformation -- Digital revolution: www.nytimes.com -- Media economics 101: the business crises of the New York times -- Counter reformation: the way we are (i): new bearings -- And continuity in the contemporary times under Keller -- The way we are (ii): where the contemporary times under Keller is and where is it going -- Dramatic changes in Sunday's magazines: competing for attention among myriad reading and leisure choices -- The challenge to the first amendment: the Judith Miller saga and the story of domestic spying -- Struggling with its ethnic heritage: has the Times's waged war against the Jews? …”
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Buster Keaton's crew : the team behind his silent films / by Foote, Lisle, 1963-

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Imagining the Global Transnational Media and Popular Culture Beyond East and West / by Darling-Wolf, Fabienne

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: a translocal approach to imagining the global -- Un-American idols: how the global/national/local intersect -- Holier-than-thou: representing the "other" and vindicating ourselves in international news -- Talking about non-no: (re)fashioning race and gender in global magazines -- Disjuncture and difference from the Banlieue to the Ganba: embracing hip-hop as a global genre -- What West is it? …”
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Imagining the Global : Transnational Media and Popular Culture Beyond East and West / by Darling-Wolf, Fabienne

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: a translocal approach to imagining the global -- Un-American idols: how the global/national/local intersect -- Holier-than-thou: representing the "other" and vindicating ourselves in international news -- Talking about non-no: (re)fashioning race and gender in global magazines -- Disjuncture and difference from the Banlieue to the Ganba: embracing hip-hop as a global genre -- What West is it? …”
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Imagining the Global : Transnational Media and Popular Culture Beyond East and West / by Darling-Wolf, Fabienne

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: a translocal approach to imagining the global -- Un-American idols: how the global/national/local intersect -- Holier-than-thou: representing the "other" and vindicating ourselves in international news -- Talking about non-no: (re)fashioning race and gender in global magazines -- Disjuncture and difference from the Banlieue to the Ganba: embracing hip-hop as a global genre -- What West is it? …”
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Murray Leinster the life and works / by Stallings, Billee J., 1928-

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Reference and information services in the 21st century : an introduction / by Cassell, Kay Ann

Table of Contents: “…Introducing reference and information service -- Determining the question : in-person, telephone, and virtual reference interviews -- Finding the answer : basic search techniques -- Answering questions about books, magazines, newspapers, libraries and publishing, and bibliographic networks : bibliographic resources -- Answering questions about anything and everything : encyclopedias -- Answering questions that require handy facts : ready reference sources -- Answering questions about words : dictionaries -- Answering questions about events and issues, past and present : indexes and full-text databases -- Answering questions about health, law, and business : special guidelines and sources -- Answering questions about geography, countries, and travel : atlases, gazetteers, maps, geographic information systems, and travel guides -- Answering questions about the lives of people : biographical information sources -- Answering questions about governments : government information sources -- When and how to use the Internet as a reference tool -- Reader's advisory work / Mary K. …”

Volume writings on graphic design, music, art, and culture / by Fitzgerald, Kenneth, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Words on sound and vision -- The neographical survey : an instructor of concern -- Adversarial thoughts -- First, class -- Designers are material -- The resistance -- Designer X -- Trenchancy -- Buzz kill -- Quietude -- Amplifications : on Creem magazine -- My two and only -- Sound -- Music for markets -- The graphic equalizer -- Teleidoscopin? …”
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The Viennese secession by Carl, Klaus H.

Table of Contents: “…Vienna in the second half of the 19th century -- The World Fair of 1889 -- Art in England at the end of the century -- Art on the continent at the end of the century -- The precursors of the Viennes secession in Munich and Berlin -- Munich -- Berlin -- The Viennese Secession -- Vienna at the turn of the century -- The Kunstlerhaus -- The Secession I -- The Ver Sacrum magazine -- The Secession II -- The exhibition centre of the Viennese Secession -- The Beethoven frieze -- The Secession III -- Artists of the Viennese Secession -- Gustav Klimt -- Koloman Moser -- Alfred Roller -- Egon Schiele -- Other Viennese artists -- Wiener Werkstatte -- The most important artists of the Wiener Werkstatte -- Architecture in the second half of the 19th century. …”
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Literary coteries and the making of modern print culture, 1740-1790 / by Schellenberg, Betty A.

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Literary coteries and the making of modern print culture, 1740-1790 / by Schellenberg, Betty A.

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Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants : Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s / by Woodson, Jon

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Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants : Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s / by Woodson, Jon

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Generations and globalization youth, age, and family in the new world economy /

Table of Contents: “…Woronov -- Continuity and change in San Pedro Tlalcuapan, Mexico : childhood, social reproduction, and transnational migration / Roger Magazine and Martha Areli Ramírez Sánchez -- Fresh contact in Tamatave, Madagascar : sex, money, and intergenerational transformation / Jennifer Cole -- Empowering youth : making youth citizens in Botswana / Deborah Durham -- Aging across worlds : modern seniors in an Indian diaspora / Sarah Lamb -- Maintaining local dependencies : elderly women and global rehabilitation agendas in southeastern Botswana / Julie Livingston -- The old world and its new economy : notes on the "third age" in Western Europe today / Jessica Greenberg and Andrea Muehlebach.…”
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Attraction explained : the science of how we form relationships / by Swami, Viren, 1980-

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The glass slipper : women and love stories / by Weisser, Susan Ostrov

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence -- Why Charlotte Bronte despised Jane Austen (and what that tells us about the modern meaning of love) -- The true and real thing: Victorian and modern magazine cultures of romance -- Victorian desires and modern romances: Pocahontas on a bridge in Madison County -- For the love of mermaids, beasts, and vampires (and ghosts, robots, monsters, witches, and aliens): romancing the other -- Women who love too much ... or not enough...or the wrong way: the tragedy and comedy of romantic love in modern movies -- Feminism and Harlequin romance: the problem of the love story -- A genre of one's own: African American romance imprints and the "universality" of love -- Is female to romance as male is to porn? …”
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