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Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University / by Hampton, Rosalind, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Cover ; Title page ; Copyright ; Contents ; Acknowledgments ; Prelude ; Finding a Conversation ; "Becoming" an Activist -- 1. Introduction: The University as a Site of Struggle ; Settler Colonialism and Education: A Brief Overview ; The Canadian University ; Whose University? …”
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Fermilab physics, the frontier, and megascience / by Hoddeson, Lillian

Table of Contents: “…The call of the frontier -- An American dream -- The several hundred GeV accelerator, 1959-1963 -- The Berkeley design, 1963-1965 -- Midwest passage, 1965-1967 -- A new frontier on the Illinois prairie -- Wilson's vision -- Constructing the ring, 1968-1972 -- A user's paradise, 1968-1978 -- Beyond the horizon : the energy doubler, 1967-1978 -- The road to megascience -- Lederman's vision -- Completing the doubler, 1978-1984 -- Bigger science : experiment strings, 1970-1988 -- Megascience realized : colliding beams, 1967-1989 -- The super collider affair -- Epilogue: Light on the horizon, 1989-1995 -- Authors' statements and other acknowledgements -- Appendix: Fermilab experiments, 1970-1992.…”
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Profiles in humanity the battle for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights / by Cohen, Warren I.

Table of Contents: “…Mahatma Gandhi and nonviolent resistance -- Václav Havel and the power of the powerless -- Aung San Suu Kyi, martyr for democracy -- Margaret Sanger and the liberation of women -- Muslim feminists -- Jack Greenberg and the NAACP-Legal Defense Fund -- Martin Luther King, Jr., and the struggle for racial equality -- Donald Woods, Bram Fischer, Helen Suzman and the fight against apartheid -- Nelson Mandela : grace in victory -- Holocaust rescuers -- Pope John XXIII and Catholic humanism -- Mikhail Gorbachev, Andrei Sakharov, and human rights in Europe -- Liu Binyan : the quest for truth and justice in China -- Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt and the welfare state -- Muhammad Yunus, microfinance, and an end to poverty.…”
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You are what you hear how music and territory make us who we are / by Witchel, Harry

Table of Contents: “…-- Why do aggressive young men blare out booming music from their cars? -- Why do we listen to sad music? …”
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Love a history / by May, Simon (Simon Philip Walter)

Table of Contents: “…Love plays God -- The foundation of Western love : Hebrew scripture -- From physical desire to paradise : Plato -- Love as perfect friendship : Aristotle -- Love as sexual desire : Lucretius and Ovid -- Love as the supreme virtue : Christianity -- Why Christian love isn't unconditional -- Women on top : love and the troubadours -- How human nature became loveable : from the high Middle Ages to the Renaissance -- Love as joyful understanding of the whole : Spinoza -- Love as enlightened romanticism : Rousseau -- Love as religion : Schlegel and Novalis -- Love as the urge to procreate : Schopenhauer -- Love as affirmation of life : Nietzsche -- Love as a history of loss : Freud -- Love as terror and tedium : Proust -- Love reconsidered.…”
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Coming of age in America the transition to adulthood in the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…Kefalas -- Transitions to adulthood in the land of Lake Woebegon / Teresa Toguchi Swartz, Douglas Hartmann and Jeylan Mortimer -- If you can make it there-- : the transition to adulthood in New York City / Jennifer Holdaway -- Coming of age in America's finest city : transitions to adulthood among children of immigrants in San Diego / Linda Borgen and Ruben Rumbaut -- Becoming adult : meanings and markers for young Americans / Richard A. …”
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Learning through serving a student guidebook for service-learning across the disciplines / by Cress, Christine M. (Christine Marie), 1962-

Table of Contents: “…-- Building and maintaining community partnerships -- Becoming community : moving from I to we -- Groups are fun, groups are not fun : teamwork for the common good -- Creating cultural connections : navigating difference, investigating power, unpacking privilege -- Reflection in action : the learning-doing relationship -- Failure with the best of intentions : when things go wrong -- Expanding horizons : new views of course concepts -- Beyond a grade : are we making a difference? …”
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The moral property of women a history of birth control politics in America / by Gordon, Linda

Table of Contents: “…Planned parenthood. Birth control becomes public policy, 1945-70 -- Birth control in the era of second-wave feminsm. …”
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People, plants, and genes the story of crops and humanity / by Murphy, Denis J.

Table of Contents: “…Early human societies and their plants -- Plant management and agriculture -- How some people became farmers -- Plant genomes -- Fluid genomes, uncertain species, and the genetics of crop domestication -- The domestication of cereal crops -- The domestication of non-cereal crops -- People and the emergence of crops -- Agriculture : a mixed blessing -- Evolution of agrourban cultures : I The Near East -- Evolution of agrourban cultures : II south and east Asia -- Evolution of agrourban cultures : III Africa, Europe, and the Americas -- Crop management in the classical and medieval periods -- Agricultural improvement and the rise of crop breeding -- Imperial botany and the early scientific breeders -- Agricultural improvement in modern times -- The future of agriculture and humanity.…”
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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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We Shall Not Be Moved/No nos moverán / by Spener, David, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Southwest : "We shall not be moved" becomes "No nos moverâan" -- Across the Atlantic to Spain -- Social movement : a song's journey across time and space -- Translation and transcendence in the travels of a song -- Conclusion : an internationalist culture of the singing left in the twentieth century.…”
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Players and Arenas : The Interactive Dynamics of Protest /

Table of Contents: “…When and Why Religious Groups Become Political Players…”
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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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We Shall Not Be Moved/No nos moverán / by Spener, David, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Southwest : "We shall not be moved" becomes "No nos moverâan" -- Across the Atlantic to Spain -- Social movement : a song's journey across time and space -- Translation and transcendence in the travels of a song -- Conclusion : an internationalist culture of the singing left in the twentieth century.…”
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Players and Arenas : The Interactive Dynamics of Protest /

Table of Contents: “…When and Why Religious Groups Become Political Players…”
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Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850) /

Table of Contents: “…Oyarbide Magaña -- Enemy treasures : the making and marketing of Spanish Comedia in the Amsterdam Schouwburg / Frans Blom -- 'The barke is bad, but the tree good' : hispanophilia, hispanophobia and Spanish honour in English and Dutch plays (c. 1630-1670) / Rena Bood -- James Salgado : anti-Spanish sentiment and the Popish Plot / Antonio Cortijo Ocaña -- From hispanophobia to Quixotephilia : the politics of quixotism in the British long eighteenth century / Pedro Javier Pardo -- Spanish politicking in British periodical reviews, 1808-1814 / Susan Valladares -- Hispanophobia and hispanophilia in the Netherlands : continuities and ruptures in the nineteenth century / Lotte Jensen -- From azoteas to dungeons : Spain as archaeology of the despotism in Alexander Dallas's novel Vargas (1822) / Fernando Durán López -- Discordant visions : Spain and the stages of London in 1823 / Diego Saglia -- Historical fiction, cultural transfer and the recycling of the Black Legend between the Low Countries and Britain : a nineteenth-century case study / Raphaël Ingelbien -- 'Covering the skeletons with flesh and blood' : Spanish Golden Age drama in English and Dutch nineteenth-century literary histories / Yolanda Rodríguez Perez.…”
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Richard Wagner's Essays on Conducting : A New Translation with Critical Commentary / by Walton, Chris, 1963-

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Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850) /

Table of Contents: “…Oyarbide Magaña -- Enemy treasures : the making and marketing of Spanish Comedia in the Amsterdam Schouwburg / Frans Blom -- 'The barke is bad, but the tree good' : hispanophilia, hispanophobia and Spanish honour in English and Dutch plays (c. 1630-1670) / Rena Bood -- James Salgado : anti-Spanish sentiment and the Popish Plot / Antonio Cortijo Ocaña -- From hispanophobia to Quixotephilia : the politics of quixotism in the British long eighteenth century / Pedro Javier Pardo -- Spanish politicking in British periodical reviews, 1808-1814 / Susan Valladares -- Hispanophobia and hispanophilia in the Netherlands : continuities and ruptures in the nineteenth century / Lotte Jensen -- From azoteas to dungeons : Spain as archaeology of the despotism in Alexander Dallas's novel Vargas (1822) / Fernando Durán López -- Discordant visions : Spain and the stages of London in 1823 / Diego Saglia -- Historical fiction, cultural transfer and the recycling of the Black Legend between the Low Countries and Britain : a nineteenth-century case study / Raphaël Ingelbien -- 'Covering the skeletons with flesh and blood' : Spanish Golden Age drama in English and Dutch nineteenth-century literary histories / Yolanda Rodríguez Perez.…”
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Richard Wagner's Essays on Conducting : A New Translation with Critical Commentary / by Walton, Chris, 1963-

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