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A history of art in Africa / by Visonà, Monica Blackmun, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…IV: Eastern and Southern Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Southern Africa -- Pt V: The Diaspora -- African Artists Abroad -- Art of the African Diaspora.…”
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Napoleon the path to power / by Dwyer, Philip G.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : the bridge at Arcola -- The outsider, 1769-1792: The pleasure of recognition ; 'You will be my avenger' ; Corsica in revolution ; Ambition awakened -- The revolutionary, 1792-1796: Disillusion ; The Jacobin ; Shifting political sands ; The political appointee -- The conquering hero, 1796-1798: Innovation ; Conquest and pillage ; Artists and soldiers, politics and love ; The apprenticeship of power ; Bonaparte the 'Italique' -- The civilizing hero, 1798-1799: A grandiose exile ; Confronting Egypt ; Conciliation and terror : governing Egypt ; Prisoner of his conquest ; The limits of imagination ; The end of the dream -- Seizing power, 1799: The return of the saviour ; The coup as farce.…”
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Pioneer Jewish Texans by Ornish, Natalie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to a people -- The adventurers : conquistadors and the search for freedom -- The soldiers : Jews in the battles for Texas independence -- The colonizers : opening Texas's lands west -- The statesmen : constructing a republic and a nation -- The ranchers : giants of Texas's great cattle herds -- The financiers : new frontiers in banking -- The wildcatters : from pipes to oil leases -- The humanitarian : Galveston and the gateway immigration movement -- The great merchants : some called them princes -- The significant merchants : laying the economic foundation for Texas's future -- The educators : the Paul Reveres of education -- The artists : vanguards in the arts -- The doctors and other healers : from the Alamo to the Nobel Prize -- The lawyers : justice for all.…”
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Russian avant-garde and radical modernism an introductory reader /

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Masters of science fiction and fantasy art a collection of the most inspiring science fiction, fantasy, and gaming illustrators in the world / by Haber, Karen

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Drawing the line the untold story of the animation unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson / by Sito, Tom, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…-- The world of the animation studio : the cartoon assembly line -- Suits : producers as artists see them -- Hollywood labor, 1933-1941 : the birth of cartoonists unions -- The Fleischer strike : a union busted, a studio destroyed -- The great Disney Studio strike : the civil war of animation -- The war of Hollywood and the blacklist : 1945-1953 -- A bag of oranges : the Terrytoons strike and the Great White Father -- Lost generations : 1952-1988 -- Animation and the global market : the runaway wars, 1979-1982 -- Fox and hounds : the torch seen passing -- Camelot : 1988-2001 -- Animation-- isn't that all done on computers now? …”
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Abiayalan Pluriverses : Bridging Indigenous Studies and Hispanic Studies /

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Bloomsbury Scientists : Science and Art in the Wake of Darwin by Boulter, Michael

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Performing the Iranian state : visual culture and representations of Iranian identity /

Table of Contents: “…Fitzpatrick -- PERFORMING VISUAL STRATEGIES: REPRESENTATIONAL CONCEPTS OF FEMALE IRANIAN IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO ART / Julia Allerstorfer -- PAINTED AND ANIMATED METAPHORS: AN INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST ALIREZA DARVISH / Mina Zand Siegel and Carmen Pérez González -- IN THE HOUSE OF FATEMEH: REVISITING SHIRIN NESHAT'S PHOTOGRAPHIC SERIES WOMEN OF ALLAH / Staci Gem Scheiwiller.…”
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Post-soul satire : black identity after Civil Rights /

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Representing Sylvia Plath

Table of Contents: “…Primary representations: three artists respond to Sylvia Plath; Adolescent Plath - 'the girl who would be God' Suzie Hanna; Bodily imprints: a choreographic response to Sylvia Plath's Poppy Poems Kate Flatt (with Sally Bayley); Stella Vine's peanut crunching Plath Sally Bayley; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Rivers of the Anthropocene /

Table of Contents: “…Kane -- Decoding the river : artists and scientists reveal the water system of the White River / Mary Miss and Tim Carter -- What is a river? …”
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Instruments for New Music : Sound, Technology, and Modernism / by Patteson, Thomas

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A mythic obsession the world of Dr. Evermor / by Kupsh, Tom

Table of Contents: “…"The child is father of the man": background and early life -- The search for artistic voice: opportunity and trouble -- The myth: escape into fantasy and creativity -- The Forevertron: the myth in iron -- The Bird band: whimsical fantasy -- The middle works: from the heart and other places -- The Mirror eye: the trickster's scheme -- The Dreamkeepers: dream and fantasy meet reality -- The rolling atelier: the Evermor circle -- The Twenty-eight intergalactic meditation points: mystery, poetry, steel -- Alien visitors: looking out -- Rhymes, riddles, treasure maps, and not necessarily coded messages.…”
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Understanding Tolstoy / by Kaufman, Andrew D. (Andrew David), 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The lost house and the little green stick : Tolstoy's journey as man and artist -- "The hero of my tale is truth" -- Seeking authenticity in an alienated age : Olenin and The Cossacks -- War and peace : life's "labyrinth of linkages" -- Andrei and Nikolai : intersecting spiritual orbits -- Patterns of disillusionment and discovery -- The dog and the globe : Pierre's journey to the truth -- From generation to generation -- Levin : "To err and to dream" -- Two lights : Anna and Levin -- Stumbling through life : the death of Ivan Ilyich -- Coming alive : Dmitry Nekhliudov and Resurrection -- Hadji-Murat : the stubborn thistle.…”
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Cultural policy, work and identity the creation, renewal and negotiation of professional subjectivities /

Table of Contents: “…Theories of professional identity : bringing cultural policy in perspective / Jonathan Paquette -- Cultural policy and the promotion of World War I heritage sites in France : emerging professions and hybrid practices / Anne Hertzog -- Cultural democracy and the creation of new professional subjectivities : the case of cultural mediation / Jonathan Paquette -- Technology, cultural policy and the public service broadcasting tradition : professional practices at BBC news in the social media era / Valérie Bélair-Gagnon -- Curators and the state, a question of interdependencies : the case of France / Frédéric Poulard -- Policy rationale and agency : the notion of civil society organizations in Swedish cultural policy / Tobias Harding -- Museum volunteers : between precarious labour and democratic knowledge community / Susan Ashley -- The transcendental fan : navigating the producer-consumer dichotomy and cultural policy in the digital age / Devin Beauregard -- American cultural policy and the rise of arts management program : the invention of a new professional subjectivity / Eleonora Redaelli -- Becoming a cultural entrepreneur : creative industries, culture-led regeneration and identity work / Jennifer Hinves -- Cultural policy and agency in a cultural minority context : artistic creation and cultural management in northern Ontario / Aurélie Lacassagne -- Being part of the "supercreative core" : artists and the experience of local policy in the creative era / Caroline Agnew.…”
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This note's for you : popular music + advertising = marketing excellence / by Allan, David

Table of Contents: “…The Silhouettes - Various Artists and Apple (2003) -- 15. Angels - Bob Dylan and Victoria's Secret (2004) -- 16. …”
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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Edwidge Danticat

Table of Contents: “…Through Global Learning Classrooms; 10 A Comprehensive Resource Guide to Reading and Teaching Brother, I'm Dying: Background, History, and Context: Part A; 11 A Comprehensive Resource Guide to Reading and Teaching Brother, I'm Dying: Criticisms, Thematic Analysis, & An Eight-Week Teaching Model: Part B; PART IV: Citizen-Artist and Teaching as Activism; 12 Edwidge Danticat's "Citizen-Artist Curriculum with Columbia College Freshmen"…”
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Law and ethnic plurality socio-legal perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…On cultural diversity : the importance of normative foundations for legal responses -- Immigration, diversity, and integration : the limits of EU law -- Changes in drugs policy and practice : implications for the Black Community -- Common law and common sense : juries, justice, and the challenge of ethnic plurality -- Artistic license, free speech, and religious sensibilities in a multicultural society -- Planning law and mosque development : the politics of religion and residence in Birmingham -- Alternative dispute resolution in a diasporic Muslim community in Britain -- Rituals of recognition : ethnic minority marriages in British legal systems -- Ethnicity and the senior judiciary in England and Wales.…”
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Images, texts, and marginalia in a "Vows of the peacock" manuscript (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library MS G24) : with a complete concordance and catalogue of peacock manuscripts / by Leo, Domenic

Table of Contents: “…The Glazier Peacock : texts, authors, and patrons -- The Glazier Peacock : artists -- The Glazier Peacock : miniatures -- The Glazier Peacock : marginalia -- The Glazier Peacock : festivities -- The Glazier Peacock : texts, images, and heresy -- The Glazier Peacock : conclusion -- Peacock cycle manuscripts : a concordance of miniatures -- Catalogue of manuscripts -- Appendix 1. …”
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