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The Sopranos / by Polan, Dana B., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Watching The Sopranos -- Eight million stories in the naked city -- Food for thought -- Living in the moment -- The late style of The Sopranos -- Gaming The Sopranos -- Getting high with The Sopranos -- Qualifying "quality TV" -- "Honey, I'm home" -- Against interpretation -- New Jersey dreaming -- Tie-ins and hangers-on -- Touring postindustrialism -- Cashing in on the game -- Cable and the economics of experimentation -- This thing of ours.…”
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Sweatshop the history of an American idea / by Hapke, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Narrating the shop -- A shop is not a home: dirt, ethnicity, and the sweatshop -- Surviving sites: sweatshops in the progressive era and beyond -- Newsreel of memory: the WPA sweatshop in the Great Depression -- The sweatshop returns: post-industrial art -- Spinning the shop -- Spinning the new shop: El Monte and the Smithsonian furor -- Nike's sweatshop quandary and the industrial sublime -- Watching out for the shop.…”
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The Sopranos / by Polan, Dana B., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Watching The Sopranos -- Eight million stories in the naked city -- Food for thought -- Living in the moment -- The late style of The Sopranos -- Gaming The Sopranos -- Getting high with The Sopranos -- Qualifying "quality TV" -- "Honey, I'm home" -- Against interpretation -- New Jersey dreaming -- Tie-ins and hangers-on -- Touring postindustrialism -- Cashing in on the game -- Cable and the economics of experimentation -- This thing of ours.…”
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Supreme neglect how to revive constitutional protection for private property / by Epstein, Richard Allen, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Private property : its origins, structure and utility -- The generative power of constitutional interpretation -- A typology of physical takings -- Public use -- Unjust compensation -- A matching principle for regulatory takings -- Going too far : mineral rights -- Adventures in land use regulation : zoning and landmark preservation -- The environmental challenge -- The exaction game -- Rate regulation -- Intellectual property -- Final reflections.…”
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California crackup how reform broke the Golden State and how we can fix it / by Mathews, Joe, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Out of luck -- Building and breaking California -- Crisis without exit -- History and the constitution -- Empowering and shackling Sacramento -- From teachers to janitors : direct democracy demotes the legislature -- The California fix -- Budgeting without shackles -- The architecture of political frustration -- Remaking elections and the legislature -- Government from the bottom up -- A more direct democracy -- Good rules to match its mountains.…”
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The films of Hal Ashby by Beach, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…Hal Ashby: new Hollywood auteur -- Hollywood maverick: Ashby, the new Hollywood, and the 1970s -- On the road to find out: The landlord and Harold and Maude -- Once I was a soldier: visions of the military in The last detail and Coming home -- I like to watch: Shampoo and Being there -- There's something happening here: music in Ashby's films -- A director under the influence: Ashby's final decade.…”
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California crackup how reform broke the Golden State and how we can fix it / by Mathews, Joe, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Out of luck -- Building and breaking California -- Crisis without exit -- History and the constitution -- Empowering and shackling Sacramento -- From teachers to janitors : direct democracy demotes the legislature -- The California fix -- Budgeting without shackles -- The architecture of political frustration -- Remaking elections and the legislature -- Government from the bottom up -- A more direct democracy -- Good rules to match its mountains.…”
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The films of Hal Ashby by Beach, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…Hal Ashby: new Hollywood auteur -- Hollywood maverick: Ashby, the new Hollywood, and the 1970s -- On the road to find out: The landlord and Harold and Maude -- Once I was a soldier: visions of the military in The last detail and Coming home -- I like to watch: Shampoo and Being there -- There's something happening here: music in Ashby's films -- A director under the influence: Ashby's final decade.…”
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Supreme neglect how to revive constitutional protection for private property / by Epstein, Richard Allen, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Private property : its origins, structure and utility -- The generative power of constitutional interpretation -- A typology of physical takings -- Public use -- Unjust compensation -- A matching principle for regulatory takings -- Going too far : mineral rights -- Adventures in land use regulation : zoning and landmark preservation -- The environmental challenge -- The exaction game -- Rate regulation -- Intellectual property -- Final reflections.…”
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A history of the French new wave cinema by Neupert, Richard John

Table of Contents: “…-- Testing the water : Alexandre Astruc, Agnès Varda, and Jean-Pierre Melville -- New stories, new sex : Roger Vadim and Louis Malle -- Claude Chabrol : launching a wave -- Francois Truffaut : the new wave's ringleader -- Jean-Luc Godard : Le petit soldat -- The cahiers du cinéma cohort : Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Pierre Kast -- On the new wave's Left Bank : Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda.…”
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A history of the French new wave cinema by Neupert, Richard John

Table of Contents: “…-- Testing the water : Alexandre Astruc, Agnès Varda, and Jean-Pierre Melville -- New stories, new sex : Roger Vadim and Louis Malle -- Claude Chabrol : launching a wave -- Francois Truffaut : the new wave's ringleader -- Jean-Luc Godard : Le petit soldat -- The cahiers du cinéma cohort : Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Pierre Kast -- On the new wave's Left Bank : Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda.…”
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Tongnaab the history of a West African god / by Allman, Jean Marie

Table of Contents: “…Tongnaab and the Talensi in the history of the Middle Volta savanna -- Gods and guns, rituals and rule, 1911-1928 -- "Watch over me" : witchcraft and anti-witchcraft movements in Ghanaian history, 1870s-1920s -- From savanna to forest : Nana Tongo and ritual commerce in the world of cash and cocoa -- Tongnaab, Meyer Fortes, and the making of colonial Taleland, 1928-1945 -- Tongnaab and the dynamics of history among the Talensi.…”
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Fortifying China the struggle to build a modern defense economy / by Cheung, Tai Ming

Table of Contents: “…Bridging the civil-military technological divide in the information age -- Innovation and stagnation during the Maoist era -- The eclipse of the defense economy under Deng Xiaoping -- The revival of the defense economy in the twenty-first century -- Building a dual-use economy -- Can the Chinese defense economy catch up? -- Chinese terms -- Historical official exchange rates between the Renminbi and U.S. dollar, 1955-2008.…”
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Fortifying China the struggle to build a modern defense economy / by Cheung, Tai Ming

Table of Contents: “…Bridging the civil-military technological divide in the information age -- Innovation and stagnation during the Maoist era -- The eclipse of the defense economy under Deng Xiaoping -- The revival of the defense economy in the twenty-first century -- Building a dual-use economy -- Can the Chinese defense economy catch up? -- Chinese terms -- Historical official exchange rates between the Renminbi and U.S. dollar, 1955-2008.…”
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Captain John R. Hughes, Lone Star Ranger by Parsons, Chuck

Table of Contents: “…-- Challenging the Odles -- Another ranger killed -- Battling the Olguins -- Scouting on Pirate Island -- Spectators on the Rio Grande -- The hardest man to catch -- From Ysleta to Alice -- From East Texas to the Texas Panhandle -- A ranger in the Panhandle -- Capt. …”
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Intelligent and honest radicals : the Chicago Federation of Labor and the politics of progression / by Newton-Matza, Mitchell, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…: the creation of the Chicago Federation of Labor and into the twentieth century -- Everybody is watching us now : the CFL and the dream of a Labor Party -- The crack of the whip : the battle against the labor injunction -- The Chicago controversy : the Landis Award -- A brisk war over a new constitution for Illinois -- Conclusion : out of the twenties and into the New Deal.…”
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Tongnaab the history of a West African god / by Allman, Jean Marie

Table of Contents: “…Tongnaab and the Talensi in the history of the Middle Volta savanna -- Gods and guns, rituals and rule, 1911-1928 -- "Watch over me" : witchcraft and anti-witchcraft movements in Ghanaian history, 1870s-1920s -- From savanna to forest : Nana Tongo and ritual commerce in the world of cash and cocoa -- Tongnaab, Meyer Fortes, and the making of colonial Taleland, 1928-1945 -- Tongnaab and the dynamics of history among the Talensi.…”
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Captain John R. Hughes, Lone Star Ranger by Parsons, Chuck

Table of Contents: “…-- Challenging the Odles -- Another ranger killed -- Battling the Olguins -- Scouting on Pirate Island -- Spectators on the Rio Grande -- The hardest man to catch -- From Ysleta to Alice -- From East Texas to the Texas Panhandle -- A ranger in the Panhandle -- Capt. …”
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Intelligent and honest radicals : the Chicago Federation of Labor and the politics of progression / by Newton-Matza, Mitchell, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…: the creation of the Chicago Federation of Labor and into the twentieth century -- Everybody is watching us now : the CFL and the dream of a Labor Party -- The crack of the whip : the battle against the labor injunction -- The Chicago controversy : the Landis Award -- A brisk war over a new constitution for Illinois -- Conclusion : out of the twenties and into the New Deal.…”
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Older people and mental health nursing a handbook of care /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Older individuals and mental health / Sue Davies and Tony Ryan -- Normal physiological ageing / Roger Watson -- Values underpinning help, support, and care / Jan Dewing -- Approaches to help, support, and care / Elizabeth Collier -- Legal and ethical frameworks for mental health nursing / Michael Tullett -- Dilemmas in mental health nursing / Tina Naldrett -- Assessing older people with mental health issues / Henry Minardi -- Culture, religion, and spirituality / Peter Draper and Wilfred McSherry -- Intimacy, sex, and sexuality / Denise Forte, Diane Wells, and Angela Cotter -- Nutrition / Christine Eberhardie -- Palliative and end-of-life care / Lynne Phair -- Acute mental health issues / Sarah McGeorge -- Delirium / Irene Schofield -- Enduring mental health issues / Barry Aveyard -- Depression in later life / Jill Manthorpe and Steve Iliffe -- Dementia in later life / Trevor Adams and Gary Blatch -- Mental health and well-being for older people in the future: the nursing contribution / Henry Minardi, Hazel Heath, and Rebecca Neno.…”
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