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From midnight to guntown true crime stories from a federal prosecutor in Mississippi / by Hailman, John

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America's Japan and Japan's performing arts cultural mobility and exchange in New York, 1952-2011 / by Thornbury, Barbara E.

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The Festival of Britain a land and its people / by Atkinson, Harriet

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The greatest shows on earth : a history of the circus / by Simon, Linda, 1946-

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African diaspora in the cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States /

Table of Contents: “…AFRICA IN THE ARTS : MIGRATION, IMPROVISATION, EXCHANGE -- Pearl Fishing in the Caribbean : Early Images of Slavery and Forced Migration in the Americas / Mónica Domínguez-Torres -- Improvisation in the Danzón and its Ties to Early New Orleans Jazz / Robin Moore -- Afrochic : Africa in the Modernist Imagination / Camara Dia Holloway -- True Blood : Colorblindness, Blanqueamiento, and Vampire Ethnicity in Castro's Cuba / Phillip Penix-Tadsen -- Introspection and Projection in Cuban Art / Colette Gaiter -- Hearing Reggaeton's African-American Address / Wayne Marshall -- Black-British and Other African Diaspora Artists Visualizing Slavery / Eddie Chambers -- IV. …”

Contemporary art, photography, and the politics of citizenship / by Maimon, Vered

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Bergson / by Sinclair, Mark, 1973-

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Jamming the Classroom : Musical Improvisation and Pedagogical Practice / by Heble, Ajay, 1961-, Stewart, Jesse, 1974-

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The Chatter of the Visible : Montage and Narrative in Weimar Germany / by McBride, Patrizia C.

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Museum of Nonhumanity by Haapoja, Terike, Haapoja, Terike, Gustafsson, Laura

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Dancing Indigenous Worlds : Choreographies of Relation / by Shea Murphy, Jacqueline, 1964-

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Blowin' hot and cool jazz and its critics / by Gennari, John

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : (much more than) a few words about jazz -- Not only a new art form but a new reason for living -- As if it were artistic and not just a teenage enthusiasm : hot collecting -- Across the color line -- Hearing 'the noisy lostness' : telling the story of jazz -- Writer's writers and sensitive cats : mapping the new jazz criticism -- Swinging in a high-class groove : mainstreaming jazz in Lenox and Newport -- The shock of the new : black freedom, the counterculture, and 1960s jazz criticism -- Race-ing the bird : Ross Russell's obsessive pursuit of Charlie Parker -- Tangled up in blues : the new jazz renaissance and its discontents -- Conclusion : change of the century.…”
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Disenchanted modernity in Robert Kroetsch's The studhorse man biology and culture, sex and gender, eugenics and contraception, writing and reading / by Zichy, Francis, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…-- The Acts of the Apostles -- Sex and gender in The studhorse man -- Being not so clearly male in The studhorse man -- "Men in love", part I -- "Men in love", part II: obsession as liberation -- Smoking a peace pipe with the poundkeeper -- The artist's salvation, and the natural man's destiny -- "Four fingers and a thumb": sex, breeding, and love -- The penis cannot make water lilies: God, nature, culture, and modernity -- Conclusion: death and the phallus in The studhorse man.…”
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Intertwingled The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson /

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Artistic Contributions -- The Computer Age -- Odes to Ted Nelson -- Part II: Peer Histories -- The Two-eyed Man -- Ted Nelson’s Xanadu—Caution: Four Letter Words Ahead -- Hanging Out with Ted Nelson -- Riffing on Ted Nelson—Hypermind -- Intertwingled Inspiration -- An Advanced Book for Beginners -- Part III: Hypertext and Ted Nelson-Influenced Research -- The Importance of Ted’s Vision -- Data, Metadata and Ted -- Making Links: Everything Really is Deeply Intertwingled -- Ted Nelson -- History Debugged -- We Can and Must Understand Computers NOW -- The Future of Transclusion -- Ted Nelson: A Critical (and Critically Incomplete) Bibliography -- Part IV: The Last Word -- What Box?.…”
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Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings /

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Contemplating art essays in aesthetics / by Levinson, Jerrold

Table of Contents: “…The irreducible historicality of the concept of art -- Artworks as artifacts -- Emotion in response to art -- Elster on artistic creativity -- Sound, gesture, space, and the expression of emotion in music -- Musical expressiveness as hearability-as-expression -- Nonexistent artforms and the case of visual music -- Music as narrative and music as drama -- Film music and narrative agency -- Evaluating music -- Musical thinking -- Musical chills -- Wollheim on pictorial representation -- What is erotic art? …”
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Women in transition : crossing boundaries, crossing borders /

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Attraction explained : the science of how we form relationships / by Swami, Viren, 1980-

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Urban Planet : Knowledge towards Sustainable Cities /

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Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia / by Ma, Ran

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