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Gidget : origins of a teen girl transmedia franchise / by Wojcik, Pamela Robertson, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction 'An array of Gidgets: the transmedia phenomenon Gidget' -- 'Gidget: the little girl with big ideas: and intertextual original' -- 'Becoming single: Gidget: betwixt and between' -- 'Gidget goes all over the place, but always back to Moondoggie' -- 'Gidget gets small: containing Gidget on the small screen' -- Conclusion: 'Gidget shoots the curl'.…”
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Fat politics the real story behind America's obesity epidemic / by Oliver, J. Eric, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…What is fat? -- How obesity became an epidemic disease -- Why we hate fat people -- Women, fat, and the sexual market -- Fat genes and the obesity blame game -- Food and weight gain: super sized misperceptions -- Sloth, capitalism, and the paradox of freedom -- Obesity policy: the fix is in -- Unmaking the obesity epidemic.…”
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Looking South the evolution of Latin Americanist scholarship in the United States, 1850-1975 / by Delpar, Helen

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Beginnings -- Laying the foundations -- Early historians -- The rise of anthropology -- Geography and the other social sciences -- Latin Americanists and the world of policy making -- Maturity and institutionalization -- A decade of expansion, 1935-1945 -- Marking time, 1945-1958 -- The boom years, 1958-1975 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.…”
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Claiming individuality the cultural politics of distinction /

Table of Contents: “…On claiming individuality : an introduction to the issues / Vered Amit, Noel Dyck -- In the aftermath of death : presenting self, individuality and family in an Iyangar family in Chennai, 1994 / Mattison Mines -- Growing up in the Caribbean : individuality in the making / Karen Fog Olwig -- Distinction and co-construction : diaspora Asian fashion entrepreneurs in London / Parminder Bhachu -- Claiming individuality through "flexibility" : career choices and constraints among traveling consultants / Vered Amit -- A personalized journey : tourism and individuality / Julia Harrison -- Becoming educated, becoming and individual? Tropes of distinction and "modesty" in French narratives of rurality / Deborah Reed-Danahay -- An anatomy of humor : the charismatic repartee of Trevor Jeffreis in The Mitre pub / Nigel Rapport -- Proclaiming individual piety : pilgrims and religious renewal in Côte d'Ivoire / Marie Nathalie LeBlanc -- Claiming to be Croat : the risks of return to the homeland / Daphne Winland.…”
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Houston blue the story of the Houston Police Department / by Roth, Mitchel P., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Baghdad on the bayou -- Houston, USA -- Civil War, Reconstruction, and the birth of HPD -- Houston's crime problem -- The marshal becomes the chief -- Murder was in the air -- The bloodiest day -- HPD and the Klan -- The Prohibition years -- Reorganization -- Percy Heard and the war years -- Post-War HPD -- The old gray fox's whim -- Secret leaders and 1269m -- A sergeant becomes chief -- Political winds -- Herman B. …”
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England in Europe : English Royal Women and Literary Patronage c1000-1150 / by Tyler, E. M. (Elizabeth M.), 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The women of 1066 -- 7. Edith Becomes Matilda -- Conclusion: endings and beginnings.…”
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Acting for singers creating believable singing characters / by Ostwald, David, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…The divine marriage : combining believable acting with expressive singing -- To become or not to become : using yourself to create a believable character -- Playing in the moment : using improvisation to be believable -- Judgements and trust : improving your concentration -- Creating your character. …”
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England in Europe : English Royal Women and Literary Patronage c1000-1150 / by Tyler, E. M. (Elizabeth M.), 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The women of 1066 -- 7. Edith Becomes Matilda -- Conclusion: endings and beginnings.…”
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The making of pro-life activists how social movement mobilization works / by Munson, Ziad W.

Table of Contents: “…Tension in the pro-life moral universe -- My life is my argument: religion and the movement -- Becoming an activist: ideas and social movements.…”
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194X architecture, planning, and consumer culture on the American home front / by Shanken, Andrew Michael, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: planning the postwar architect -- The culture of planning: the rhetoric and imagery of home front anticipation -- Old cities, new frontiers: mature economy theory and the language of renewal -- Advertising nothing, anticipating nowhere: architects and consumer culture -- The end of planning: the building boom and the invention of normalcy -- Afterword -- Appendix: wartime advertising campaigns.…”
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A history of homosexuality in Europe Berlin, London, Paris 1919-1939 / by Tamagne, Florence

Table of Contents: “…Unacknowledged fears and desires : ambiguous speech and stereotyped images homosexuals become commonplace during the inter-war period -- pt. 3. …”
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"I must be a part of this war" a German American's fight against Hitler and Nazism / by Kollander, Patricia

Table of Contents: “…From patriot to outcast : 1909-1937 -- 2. How to become an American : 1937-1942 -- 3. A German in the U.S. …”
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Specters of Paul sexual difference in early Christian thought / by Dunning, Benjamin H.

Table of Contents: “…The many become one : theological monism and the problem of the female body -- Desire and the feminine : Clement of Alexandria's displacement of Eve -- What sort of thing is this luminous woman? …”
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This land is our land immigrants and power in Miami /

Table of Contents: “…Becoming American : it's not a one-way street -- Competing elites : Cuban power, Anglo conversion, and frustrated African Americans -- Working in the USA : ethnic segregation and bureaucratizing interaction -- Just comes and cover-ups : African Americans and Haitians in high school -- Making it work : interaction, power, and accommodation in inter-ethnic relations.…”
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Study skills for nursing and midwifery students by Scullion, Philip A.

Table of Contents: “…Beginning to develop effective study skills -- pt. 3. Becoming competent : advanced learning for nursing and midwifery students -- pt. 4. …”
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Our roots run deep as ironweed : Appalachian women and the fight for environmental justice / by Bell, Shannon Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…: Maria Gunnoe's fight for her children's health and safety -- We became two determined women : Pauline Canterberry and Mary Miller become the sylvester dustbusters -- Let us live in our mountains : Joan Linville's fight for her homeland -- You gotta go and do everything you can--fight for your kids : Donetta Blankenship speaks out against underground slurry injections -- It's just a part of who I am : Maria Lambert and the movement for clean water in Prenter -- I'm not an activist against coal, I'm an activist for the preservation of my state : Teri Blanton and the fight for justice in Kentucky -- I'm not going to be run out, I'm not going to be run over, I'm not going out without a fight : Patty Sebok's battle against monster coal trucks -- Our roots run so deep, you can't distinguish us from the earth we live on : Debbie Jarrell and the campaign to move Marsh Fork elementary school -- It's not just what I choose to do, it's also, I think, what I have to do : Lorelei Scarboro's drive to save coal river mountain -- Money cannot recreate what nature gives you : Donna Branham's struggle against mountaintop removal -- I want my great-great-grandchildren to be able to live on this earth! …”
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The Qualcomm equation how a fledgling Telecom company forged a new path to big profits and market dominance / by Mock, Dave

Table of Contents: “…Ecstasy, pianos, torpedoes : the beginnings, World War II to the mid-1960s -- From Linkabit to Qualcomm : starts and encores, mid-1960s to late 1980s -- Start of the cellular boom : the need for new commercial applications, 1980s -- Cellular goes digital : second-generation stirrings, late 1980s -- Disrupting the cellular status quo : Qualcomm goes to bat, 1989 -- Spreading the CDMA message : turning points, late 1989 -- New technology never sells itself : winning acceptance one demo at a time, 1989-1991 -- Creating a common interface : devising and testing, 1990-1991 -- Becoming a wireless standard : going the extra mile to acceptance, 1992-1993 -- Marketing in tandem with technology : building partnerships, 1993-1994 -- Wireless holy wars: trials by fire, 1994-1995 -- Make or break in personal communications services : the tide turns at last, 1995 -- Defining the core business : equipment manufacturer or technology developer? …”
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Future-focused leadership preparing schools, students, and communities for tomorrow's realities / by Marx, Gary

Table of Contents: “…The leader as a connected generalist -- Guiding principles for future-oriented leaders -- The importance of being connected--internally and externally -- Trends: identifying and analyzing their impact -- Issue management -- More tools and techniques for scanning the environment -- Characteristics: identifying what we want to become -- Scenarios: "what if?" and "then what?" -- Strategic communication -- Getting the ball rolling.…”
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The self and it novel objects and mimetic subjects in eighteenth-century England / by Park, Julie, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : its, parts, wholes and the eighteenth-century self -- For the pleasure of it : consuming novelty -- Making the heart and hymen real : Clarissa -- Appearing natural, becoming strange : the self as mimetic object -- Frances Burney's mechanics of coming out -- Puppet life : animation, voice and Charlotte Charke's narrative -- Unheimlich maneuvers : enlightenment in the age of psychoanalysis.…”
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In spite of partition Jews, Arabs, and the limits of separatist imagination / by Hochberg, Gil Z., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…History, memory, identity : from the Arab Jew "we were" to the Arab Jew "we may become" -- The legacy of Levantinism : against national normality -- Bringing Hebrew back to its (Semitic) place : on the deterritorialization of language -- Too Jewish and too Arab or who is the (Israeli) subject? …”
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