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Kayaking alone nine hundred miles from Idaho's mountains to the Pacific Ocean / by Barenti, Mike

Table of Contents: “…Sunbeam -- Where the Marlboro man might settle -- Henry Clay Merritt, on his 158th birthday -- Into the wilderness -- Watching fish in Riggins -- Dragonflies and the plant migration -- Into the breach -- Locking through with smolt -- River of empire -- The swallowing monster and the pictograph island -- Watching fish at Bonneville Dam -- Used up by the wind -- Looking back at Cape Disappointment.…”
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Kayaking alone nine hundred miles from Idaho's mountains to the Pacific Ocean / by Barenti, Mike

Table of Contents: “…Sunbeam -- Where the Marlboro man might settle -- Henry Clay Merritt, on his 158th birthday -- Into the wilderness -- Watching fish in Riggins -- Dragonflies and the plant migration -- Into the breach -- Locking through with smolt -- River of empire -- The swallowing monster and the pictograph island -- Watching fish at Bonneville Dam -- Used up by the wind -- Looking back at Cape Disappointment.…”
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Stan Lee and the rise and fall of the American comic book by Raphael, Jordan

Table of Contents: “…-- pt. 7. 'This man, this monster' -- pt. 8. 'It's clobberin' time!' -- pt. 9. …”
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Stan Lee and the rise and fall of the American comic book by Raphael, Jordan

Table of Contents: “…-- pt. 7. 'This man, this monster' -- pt. 8. 'It's clobberin' time!' -- pt. 9. …”
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The Novel and the Menagerie : Totality, Englishness, and Empire / by Koenigsberger, Kurt

Table of Contents: “…The novel as zoo: animal stories and English style -- Picturing Britannia's menagerie: the aesthetics of the imperial whole -- Circuses in cabinets: the Victorian novelist as beast tamer -- Elephants in the labyrinth of empire: Arnold Bennett, modernism, and the menagerie -- Monsters on the verandah of realism: Virginia Woolf's empire exhibition -- The "Anglepoised" novel after empire: English creatures and postcolonial exhibition -- Small islands, frozen arks.…”
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The Novel and the Menagerie : Totality, Englishness, and Empire / by Koenigsberger, Kurt

Table of Contents: “…The novel as zoo: animal stories and English style -- Picturing Britannia's menagerie: the aesthetics of the imperial whole -- Circuses in cabinets: the Victorian novelist as beast tamer -- Elephants in the labyrinth of empire: Arnold Bennett, modernism, and the menagerie -- Monsters on the verandah of realism: Virginia Woolf's empire exhibition -- The "Anglepoised" novel after empire: English creatures and postcolonial exhibition -- Small islands, frozen arks.…”
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Charisma and the fictions of Black leadership by Edwards, Erica R. (Erica Renee)

Table of Contents: “…Restaging the charismatic scenario: fictions of African American leadership -- Leadership's looks: the aesthetics of black political modernity -- Moses, monster of the mountain: gendered violence in Zora Neale Hurston's Gothic -- Disappearing the leader: the vanishing spectacle in civil rights fiction -- "Cyanide in the kool-aid": black politics and popular culture after civil rights -- Claim ticket lost: Toni Morrison's Paradise and American literature's Holy hollow.…”
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Charisma and the fictions of Black leadership by Edwards, Erica R. (Erica Renee)

Table of Contents: “…Restaging the charismatic scenario: fictions of African American leadership -- Leadership's looks: the aesthetics of black political modernity -- Moses, monster of the mountain: gendered violence in Zora Neale Hurston's Gothic -- Disappearing the leader: the vanishing spectacle in civil rights fiction -- "Cyanide in the kool-aid": black politics and popular culture after civil rights -- Claim ticket lost: Toni Morrison's Paradise and American literature's Holy hollow.…”
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Fans, bloggers, and gamers exploring participatory culture / by Jenkins, Henry, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…ambushed on Donahue -- The war between effects and meanings: rethinking the video game violence debate -- The Chinese Columbine: how one tragedy ignited the Chinese government's simmering fears of youth culture and the internet -- "The monsters next door": a father-son dialogue about Buffy, moral panic, and generational differences / Henry G. …”
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The horror readers' advisory the librarian's guide to vampires, killer tomatoes, and haunted houses / by Spratford, Becky Siegel

Table of Contents: “…The evolution of horror literature and film -- The readers' advisory interview : matching horror novels with readers -- The classics : time-tested tales of terror -- Ghosts and haunted houses : home, scream, home -- Mummies, zombies, and golems : the walking dead under wraps -- Vampires : Dracula will never die -- Werewolves and animals of terror : the beast walks among us -- Maniacs and other monsters : the killer lurking in the corner -- Black magic, witches, warlocks, and the occult : double, double, toil, and trouble -- Demonic possession and Satanism : the Devil inside -- Scientific and biomedical horror : the doctor will see you now -- Psychological horror : mental mayhem -- Splatterpunk or extreme horror : horror's cutting edge -- Horror resources : how to hunt for the haunted -- Collection development : cultivating the seeds of fear -- Marketing your horror collection : make them come back to your lair of horror.…”
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Dark directions Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the modern horror film / by Phillips, Kendall R.

Table of Contents: “…Craven's gothic form: nightmares, screams, and monsters -- Gothic technologies: Serpent and the rainbow, Deadly friend, Swamp thing, Red eye, Shocker -- Gothic families: The people under the stairs, The hills have eyes, Last house on the left -- Desolate frontiers in the films of John Carpenter. …”
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Dark directions Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the modern horror film / by Phillips, Kendall R.

Table of Contents: “…Craven's gothic form: nightmares, screams, and monsters -- Gothic technologies: Serpent and the rainbow, Deadly friend, Swamp thing, Red eye, Shocker -- Gothic families: The people under the stairs, The hills have eyes, Last house on the left -- Desolate frontiers in the films of John Carpenter. …”
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Visions of Global America and the Future of Critical Reading / by O'Hara, Daniel T., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Badiou's truth and the office of the critic : neither gods nor monsters -- Figures of the void : on the subject of truth and the fundamentalist imagination -- "The cry of its occasion" : the subject of truth, or the terror in global terrorism -- Global America and the logics of vision -- America, the symptom : on the post-9/11 allegory in American studies -- Our worldly apocalypse : literature and everyday life -- "Monstrous levity" : between realism and vision in Henry James -- Toward a global democracy : James Baldwin and the stoic vision of amor fati -- Bringing out the terror : James Purdy and the culture of vision.…”
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Grotesque Figures : Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity / by Swain, Virginia E., 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Baudelaire's Physiologie: Rousseau as Caricature and Type in the Prose Poems -- 5. Machines, Monsters, and Men: Realism and the Modern Grotesque -- 6. …”
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Fans, bloggers, and gamers exploring participatory culture / by Jenkins, Henry, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…ambushed on Donahue -- The war between effects and meanings: rethinking the video game violence debate -- The Chinese Columbine: how one tragedy ignited the Chinese government's simmering fears of youth culture and the internet -- "The monsters next door": a father-son dialogue about Buffy, moral panic, and generational differences / Henry G. …”
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The horror readers' advisory the librarian's guide to vampires, killer tomatoes, and haunted houses / by Spratford, Becky Siegel

Table of Contents: “…The evolution of horror literature and film -- The readers' advisory interview : matching horror novels with readers -- The classics : time-tested tales of terror -- Ghosts and haunted houses : home, scream, home -- Mummies, zombies, and golems : the walking dead under wraps -- Vampires : Dracula will never die -- Werewolves and animals of terror : the beast walks among us -- Maniacs and other monsters : the killer lurking in the corner -- Black magic, witches, warlocks, and the occult : double, double, toil, and trouble -- Demonic possession and Satanism : the Devil inside -- Scientific and biomedical horror : the doctor will see you now -- Psychological horror : mental mayhem -- Splatterpunk or extreme horror : horror's cutting edge -- Horror resources : how to hunt for the haunted -- Collection development : cultivating the seeds of fear -- Marketing your horror collection : make them come back to your lair of horror.…”
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Visions of Global America and the Future of Critical Reading / by O'Hara, Daniel T., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Badiou's truth and the office of the critic : neither gods nor monsters -- Figures of the void : on the subject of truth and the fundamentalist imagination -- "The cry of its occasion" : the subject of truth, or the terror in global terrorism -- Global America and the logics of vision -- America, the symptom : on the post-9/11 allegory in American studies -- Our worldly apocalypse : literature and everyday life -- "Monstrous levity" : between realism and vision in Henry James -- Toward a global democracy : James Baldwin and the stoic vision of amor fati -- Bringing out the terror : James Purdy and the culture of vision.…”
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Grotesque Figures : Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity / by Swain, Virginia E., 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Baudelaire's Physiologie: Rousseau as Caricature and Type in the Prose Poems -- 5. Machines, Monsters, and Men: Realism and the Modern Grotesque -- 6. …”
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War and genocide in Cuba, 1895-1898 by Tone, John Lawrence

Table of Contents: “…Eloy Gonzalo and the disaster of war -- The origins of Cuban independence -- José Martí : a dream of Cuba -- Emilio Calleja and the failure of reform -- Máximo Gómez and total war -- Antonio Maceo and the battle of Peralejo -- The Cuban Liberation Army -- The Spanish Army -- Arsenio Martínez Campos : defending the indefensible -- Mal tiempo and the romance of the machete -- The invasion of the west -- Valeriano Weyler : the butcher -- The death of Maceo -- Reconcentration -- The monster and the assassin -- The jingoes -- Frascuelo versus Edison -- The splendid disaster.…”
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War and genocide in Cuba, 1895-1898 by Tone, John Lawrence

Table of Contents: “…Eloy Gonzalo and the disaster of war -- The origins of Cuban independence -- José Martí : a dream of Cuba -- Emilio Calleja and the failure of reform -- Máximo Gómez and total war -- Antonio Maceo and the battle of Peralejo -- The Cuban Liberation Army -- The Spanish Army -- Arsenio Martínez Campos : defending the indefensible -- Mal tiempo and the romance of the machete -- The invasion of the west -- Valeriano Weyler : the butcher -- The death of Maceo -- Reconcentration -- The monster and the assassin -- The jingoes -- Frascuelo versus Edison -- The splendid disaster.…”
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