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Flying with the eagle, racing the Great Bear tales from native North America / by Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Northeast -- The dream fast, Anishinabe -- White weasel, Abenaki -- Racing the Great Bear, Iroquois -- Granny squannit and the bad young man, Wampanoag -- The Southeast -- How the game animals were set free, Cherokee -- The wild boy, Caddo -- The underwater lodge, Muskogee (creek) -- The wisdom of the willow tree, Osage -- The Southwest -- The owl-man giant and the monster elk, Apache -- How the hero twins found their father, diné (Navajo) -- The bear boy, Pueblo -- The ghost society, Yuki -- The Northwest -- The light-haired boy, Lakota -- Star boy, Cheyenne -- Salmon boy, Tlingit -- Tommy's whale, Inupiaq.…”
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Exoplanets

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to exoplanets -- Keplerian orbits and dynamics of exoplanets -- Radial velocity techniques for exoplanets -- Exoplanet transits and occultations -- Microlensing by exoplanets -- Direct imaging of exoplanets -- Astrometric detection and characterization of exoplanets -- Planets around pulsars and other evolved stars: the fates of planetary systems -- Statistical distribution of exoplanets -- Non-Keplerian dynamics of exoplanets -- Tidal evolution of exoplanets -- Protoplanetary and debris disks -- Terrestrial planet formation -- Giant planet formation -- Planet migration -- Terrestrial planet interiors -- Giant planet interior structure and thermal evolution -- Giant planet atmospheres -- Terrestrial planet atmospheres and biosignatures -- Atmospheric circulation of exoplanets.…”
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Nosotros a study of everyday meanings in Hispano New Mexico / by Korte, Alvin O.

Table of Contents: “…Phenomenology of everyday life : fenomenologia cotidiana y los hispanos -- The oral tradition : el saber popular -- Mortification, an interactional perspective : la mortificacion -- Shame, respect, and joking exchanges : verguenza, respeto, y la carría -- Violence in mexican music : mancornando -- Being in prison : en la pinta -- Multiple realities : múltiples realidades -- Curse and disorder : el desmadre -- Leave taking : despedidas -- From tombstones to star trek : que poco soy! : "no soy mas" -- Seeking light after the great night : tinieblas -- Giving thanks : dando gracias -- Final thoughts : pensamientos ultimos -- Notes.…”
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Newton and the origin of civilization by Buchwald, Jed Z.

Table of Contents: “…Troubled Senses -- Troubled Numbers -- Erudition and Chronology in Seventeenth-Century England -- Isaac Newton on Prophecies and Idolatry -- Aberrant Numbers : The Propagation of Mankind before and after the Deluge -- Newtonian History -- Text and Testimony -- Interpreting Words -- Publication and Reaction -- The War on Newton in England -- The War on Newton in France -- The Demise of Chronology -- Evidence and History -- Appendix A: Signs, Conventions, Dating, and Definitions -- Appendix B: Newton's Computational Methods -- Appendix C: Commented Extracts from Newton's MS Calculations -- Appendix D: Placing Colures on the Original Star Globe -- Appendix E: Hesiod, Thales, and Stellar Risings and Settings.…”
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Spymaster Dai Li and the Chinese secret service / by Wakeman, Frederic E.

Table of Contents: “…Images of Dai Li -- Living off the land -- Touben -- The league of ten -- "Vigorous Practice" : the Chiang freemasonry -- The founding of the Lixingshe -- The Lixingshe and the blue shirts -- The blue shirts' "Fascism" -- Ideological rivalries : the blue shirts and the "CC" clique -- The blue shirts in the provinces -- The Shanghai station, 1932-1935 -- Death squads -- Assassinations -- Police academies -- Sleeping in their coffins -- Skirts and sashes -- War and the special movement corps -- The training camps -- Codes 000 -- Dai li, Milton Miles, and the foundation of Saco -- Saco training camps -- Spying -- Dai Li's wartime smuggling networks -- Juntong in wartime Chongqing -- Falling star.…”
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The grand illusion love, lies, and my life with Styx / by Panozzo, Chuck

Table of Contents: “…The Wooden Nickel years ; Almost famous ; Hey now, you're a rock star -- Free-falling. Breaking up is hard to do ; And now for the bad news -- I've got a secret. …”
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American cinema of the 1930s themes and variations /

Table of Contents: “…1930 : Movies and social difference / Aaron Baker -- 1931 : Movies and the voice / Cynthia Erb -- 1932 : Movies and transgression / David Lugowski -- 1933 : Movies and the New Deal in entertainment / Martin Rubin -- 1934 : Movies and the marginalized / Charlene Regester -- 1935 : Movies and the resistance to tyranny / Ina Rae Hark -- 1936 : Movies and the possibility of transcendence / Susan Ohmer -- 1937 : Movies and new constructions of the American star / Allen Larson -- 1938 : Movies and whistling in the dark / Sam B. …”
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Faulkner and material culture Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2004 /

Table of Contents: “…Aiken -- The philosophy of furniture, or, Light in August and the material unconscious / Jay Watson -- Dematerializing culture : Faulkner's trash aesthetic / Patricia Yaeger -- Flags in the dust and the material culture of class / Kevin Railey -- "Touch me while you look at her" : stars, fashion, and authorship in Today we live / D. …”
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Virginia at war, 1861

Table of Contents: “…Davis -- The Shenandoah Valley of Virginia / Michael Mahon -- The tarnished thirty-fifth star / C. Stuart McGehee -- Diary of a Southern refugee during the War, 1861 / Judith Brockenbrough McGuire.…”
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Gender and the American presidency nine presidential women and the barriers they faced / by Sheckels, Theodore F.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Gender and the American presidency: nine presidential women and the barriers they faced -- Nancy Landon Kassebaum: the junior senator from Kansas with a mind of her own -- Dianne Feinstein: the loneliness of a moderate voice -- Barbara Mikulski: wrong style, wrong appearance -- Elizabeth Hanford Dole: a star surrogate -- Nancy D'Alesssandro Pelosi: tangled-up in stereotypes -- Olympia Snowe: seeking a sensible center -- Christine Gregoire: a competent communicator -- Kathleen Gilligan Sebelius: realizing America's promise -- Linda Lingle: forgotten politico in paradise -- Conclusion: what must a presidential woman be.…”
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Planning by design (PxD) based systematic methodologies / by Butuner, Hakan

Table of Contents: “…(SWANP) -- 8: skyscraPer terrorist attack resPonse Planning (starP) -- 9: Systematic Planning of Globalizing Local Firms (SPG) -- References -- Index.…”
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Jane Campion authorship and personal cinema / by Fox, Alistair

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: authorship, creativity, and personal cinema -- Origins of a problematic: the Campion family -- The "tragic underbelly" of the family: fantasies of transgression in the early films -- Living in the shadow of the family tree: Sweetie -- "How painful it is to have a family member with a problem like that": authorship as creative adaptation in An angel at my table -- Traumas of separation and the encounter with the phallic other: The piano -- The misfortunes of an heiress: The portrait of a lady -- Exacting revenge on "cunt men": Holy smoke as sexual fantasy -- "That which terrifies and attracts simultaneously": Killing daddy in the cut -- Lighting a lamp: loss, art, and transcendence in The water diary and Bright star -- Conclusion: theorizing the personal component of authorship.…”
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Meter matters verse cultures of the long nineteenth century /

Table of Contents: “…Rudy -- "For the inscape's sake": sounding the self in the meters of Gerard Manley Hopkins / Summer J. Star -- "But the law must be poetic": Swinburne, Omond, and the New Prosody / Yisrael Levin -- Popular ballads: rhythmic remediations in the nineteenth century / Michael Cohen -- Blank verse and the expansion of England: the meter of Tennyson's demeter / Cornelia Pearsall -- Prosody wars / Meredith Martin.…”
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Earth sound earth signal energies and earth magnitude in the arts / by Kahn, Douglas, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Thomas Watson : natural radio, natural theology -- Microphonic imagination -- The aeolian and Henry David Thoreau's sphere music -- The aelectrosonic and energetic environments -- Inductive radio and whistling currents -- Alvin Lucier : brainwaves -- Edmond Dewan and cybernetic hi-fi -- Alvin Lucier : whistlers -- From brainwaves to outer space : John Cage and Karl Jansky -- For more new signals -- Sound of the underground : earthquakes, nuclear weaponry, and music -- Long sounds and transperception -- Pauline Oliveros : sonosphere -- Thomas Ashcraft : electroreceptor -- Black sun, black rain -- Star-studded cinema -- Robert Barry : conceptualism and energy -- Collaborating objects radiating environments -- Joyce Hinterding : drawing energy -- Earth-in-circuit.…”
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The Roman Salute Cinema, History, Ideology / by Winkler, Martin M.

Table of Contents: “…Saluting gestures in Roman art and literature -- Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii -- Raised-arm salutes in the United States before fascism : from the pledge of allegiance to Ben-Hur on stage -- Early cinema : American and European epics -- Cabiria : the intersection of cinema and politics -- Gabriele d'Annunzio and Cabiria -- Fiume : the Roman salute becomes a political symbol -- From D'Annunzio to Mussolini -- Nazi cinema and its impact on Hollywood's Roman epics : from Leni Riefenstahl to Quo vadis -- Visual legacies : antiquity on the screen from Quo vadis to Rome -- Cinema : from Salome to Alexander -- Television : from Star trek to Rome -- Conclusion.…”
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Architecture history, theory and preservation : prehistory to the middle ages / by Pabón-Charneco, Arleen

Table of Contents: “…In the Tuscan Manner: Etruscan Architecture 7. As Many Stars As In The Sky: Roman Architecture 8. One True Faith: Buddhist, Christian, Islamic and Shinto Architecture 9. …”
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The Roman Salute : Cinema, History, Ideology / by Winkler, Martin M.

Table of Contents: “…Saluting gestures in Roman art and literature -- Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii -- Raised-arm salutes in the United States before fascism : from the pledge of allegiance to Ben-Hur on stage -- Early cinema : American and European epics -- Cabiria : the intersection of cinema and politics -- Gabriele d'Annunzio and Cabiria -- Fiume : the Roman salute becomes a political symbol -- From D'Annunzio to Mussolini -- Nazi cinema and its impact on Hollywood's Roman epics : from Leni Riefenstahl to Quo vadis -- Visual legacies : antiquity on the screen from Quo vadis to Rome -- Cinema : from Salome to Alexander -- Television : from Star trek to Rome -- Conclusion.…”
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The Roman Salute : Cinema, History, Ideology / by Winkler, Martin M.

Table of Contents: “…Saluting gestures in Roman art and literature -- Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii -- Raised-arm salutes in the United States before fascism : from the pledge of allegiance to Ben-Hur on stage -- Early cinema : American and European epics -- Cabiria : the intersection of cinema and politics -- Gabriele d'Annunzio and Cabiria -- Fiume : the Roman salute becomes a political symbol -- From D'Annunzio to Mussolini -- Nazi cinema and its impact on Hollywood's Roman epics : from Leni Riefenstahl to Quo vadis -- Visual legacies : antiquity on the screen from Quo vadis to Rome -- Cinema : from Salome to Alexander -- Television : from Star trek to Rome -- Conclusion.…”
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Grit, noise, and revolution the birth of Detroit rock 'n' roll / by Carson, David, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Boogie and the beat -- Fame and fortune -- Freewheelin' in the motor city -- Motown and other sounds -- The village is on fire -- On to the hideout -- So you wanna be a rock 'n' roll star? -- A whole lotta soul, a whole lotta funk -- Birth of the noise -- A mythical figure -- Summer in the city -- Hippies and head shops -- Hits and misses -- Something in the air -- Seger on the rise -- A night at the Grande -- Enter the stooges -- On the front lines with the MC5 -- Total assault : kickin' out the jams -- Up against the wall and beyond -- The Detroit pop festival -- Voices of the counterculture -- I wanna be your dog -- "Uncle Russ" -- First train out of town -- 1970 -- The big bust.…”
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Cultural disability studies in education : interdisciplinary navigations of the normative divide / by Bolt, David, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…chapter Introduction: Cultural disability studies in education: Fields, representations, and social aesthetics -- chapter 1 Visions from the yellow decade: Disability, aesthetics, and residual existence -- chapter 2 From sideshow to cinema: Disability, film, and horrification -- chapter 3 Remembering the drowned and the saved: Disability, Holocaust, and the inadequacies of representation -- chapter 4 In the log house: Disability, gender, and resistance to social norms -- chapter 5 Stuff happens: Disability, happiness, and the pursuit of cure -- chapter 6 End of the rock star: Disability, music, and the passage of time -- chapter 7 One of the crowd: Disability, humour, and the contradictions of comedy -- chapter 8 On the campaign trail: Disability, mass media, and levels of representation.…”
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