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Prison Area, Independence Valley : American Paradoxes in Political Life and Popular Culture / by Kroes, Rob

Table of Contents: “…Bush administration and European anti-Americanism -- The ascent of the falling man : an iconic image of 9/11 -- Cool hand luck : how America played its hand entertaining the world -- Musical America : staging the U.S.A. to the sounds of music -- A spaghetti southern : landscapes of fear in Quentin Tarantino's Django unchained -- Freaks on display : a tale of empathy and ostracism -- American responses to the Holocaust : atrocity photographs as nomadic objects -- Barack Hussein Obama : two portrait sketches -- Obama and the paradox of American global power : dreams of democracy and the imperial imperative -- Taking exception.…”
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Conducting psychological assessments : a guide for practitioners / by Wright, A. Jordan

The long war a new history of U.S. national security policy since World War II /

Table of Contents: “…Fordham -- The changing moral contract for military service / James Burk -- American insecurity: dissent from the "long war" / Charles Chatfield -- The "good" war: national security and American culture / William L. …”
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Trinidad carnival the cultural politics of a transnational festival /

Table of Contents: “…: the U.S. calypso craze of 1957 / Ray Funk and Donald R. Hill -- The politics of cultural value and the value of cultural politics : international intellectual property legislation in Trinidad / Robin Balliger.…”
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Global Faulkner Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2006 /

Table of Contents: “…Matthews -- From colony to empire: postmodern Faulkner / Leigh Anne Duck -- The fetish of surplus value; or, What the ledgers say / Melanie R. …”
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The perfect lion the life and death of Confederate artillerist John Pelham / by Maxwell, Jerry H. (Jerry Hollis), 1942-

Table of Contents: “…"The most adventuresome member of that adventurous group" -- "We are a class beyond the common ones" -- "Fear God and know no other fear" -- "Madness and fanaticism" -- "We predict for them a brilliant future" -- "War is not glorious" -- "An honour to be one of them" -- "Like a duck on a June bug" -- "We are going to whip the yankees like the mischief" -- "I have had my revenge out of Pope" -- "Who could not conquer with such troops as these" -- "The Lord of Hosts was plainly fighting on our side" -- "The Lord bless your dirty ragged souls" -- "Put on the war paint!" …”
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The anatomy of Harpo Marx by Koestenbaum, Wayne

Table of Contents: “…The holy fool flees language's stinkbomb: The cocoanuts (1929) -- Pinky, the pointing scapegoat, lags behind: Duck soup (1933) -- The mad mohel's goo-goo eyes of monomaniacal attunement: A night at the opera -- Poppy power, or, the thick-enough art of zombie dumbfoundment: Animal crackers (1930) -- Later astonishments. …”
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Global Faulkner Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2006 /

Table of Contents: “…Matthews -- From colony to empire: postmodern Faulkner / Leigh Anne Duck -- The fetish of surplus value; or, What the ledgers say / Melanie R. …”
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The perfect lion the life and death of Confederate artillerist John Pelham / by Maxwell, Jerry H. (Jerry Hollis), 1942-

Table of Contents: “…"The most adventuresome member of that adventurous group" -- "We are a class beyond the common ones" -- "Fear God and know no other fear" -- "Madness and fanaticism" -- "We predict for them a brilliant future" -- "War is not glorious" -- "An honour to be one of them" -- "Like a duck on a June bug" -- "We are going to whip the yankees like the mischief" -- "I have had my revenge out of Pope" -- "Who could not conquer with such troops as these" -- "The Lord of Hosts was plainly fighting on our side" -- "The Lord bless your dirty ragged souls" -- "Put on the war paint!" …”
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The anatomy of Harpo Marx by Koestenbaum, Wayne

Table of Contents: “…The holy fool flees language's stinkbomb: The cocoanuts (1929) -- Pinky, the pointing scapegoat, lags behind: Duck soup (1933) -- The mad mohel's goo-goo eyes of monomaniacal attunement: A night at the opera -- Poppy power, or, the thick-enough art of zombie dumbfoundment: Animal crackers (1930) -- Later astonishments. …”
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Conducting psychological assessments : a guide for practitioners / by Wright, A. Jordan

The long war a new history of U.S. national security policy since World War II /

Table of Contents: “…Fordham -- The changing moral contract for military service / James Burk -- American insecurity: dissent from the "long war" / Charles Chatfield -- The "good" war: national security and American culture / William L. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Trinidad carnival the cultural politics of a transnational festival /

Table of Contents: “…: the U.S. calypso craze of 1957 / Ray Funk and Donald R. Hill -- The politics of cultural value and the value of cultural politics : international intellectual property legislation in Trinidad / Robin Balliger.…”
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Voodoo queen the spirited lives of Marie Laveau / by Ward, Martha

Table of Contents: “…Ann Street -- Freedom la mode, la Marie -- Life in the cities of the dead -- At the altar of love and luck -- Madame Laveau's prayers, poisons, and political pull -- How John, the Devil, and Mam'zelle Marie hoodooed the media -- A tale of two sisters -- The last queen of the voodoos returns from the dead -- Postscript : events in the lives of the Marie Laveaus -- At the end : recognition and respect.…”
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Engaging nature : environmentalism and the political theory canon /

Table of Contents: “…Meyer -- John Locke / Zev Trachtenberg -- David Hume / Andrew Valls -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau / Joseph H. Lane, Jr -- Edmund Burke / Harlan Wilson -- Mary Wollstonecraft / Barbara K. …”
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Voodoo queen the spirited lives of Marie Laveau / by Ward, Martha

Table of Contents: “…Ann Street -- Freedom la mode, la Marie -- Life in the cities of the dead -- At the altar of love and luck -- Madame Laveau's prayers, poisons, and political pull -- How John, the Devil, and Mam'zelle Marie hoodooed the media -- A tale of two sisters -- The last queen of the voodoos returns from the dead -- Postscript : events in the lives of the Marie Laveaus -- At the end : recognition and respect.…”
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Engaging nature : environmentalism and the political theory canon /

Table of Contents: “…Meyer -- John Locke / Zev Trachtenberg -- David Hume / Andrew Valls -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau / Joseph H. Lane, Jr -- Edmund Burke / Harlan Wilson -- Mary Wollstonecraft / Barbara K. …”
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Hammered Dulcimer / by Williams, Lisa, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…The direction of shadow -- Sunday morning -- Interruption of flight -- Yellow bird -- What the wind said to the girl who was afraid -- The fall -- The tenderness -- The hammered dulcimer -- Complaint -- Eve, after eating -- Man walking -- Black horses -- The growth -- Manners, 1977 -- A spider -- The man by the river -- Banquet -- To night -- On the nature of beauty -- Romantic relief -- Negation -- Landscape -- A wind in place -- Crater -- On a worm descending a thread -- A story of swans -- God put the noose around my neck -- The grasshopper -- The end of spring -- In the abstract -- Ambivalence -- The chant -- A forward spring -- Rattlesnake -- In the valley -- After a line of Plato.…”
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Hammered Dulcimer / by Williams, Lisa, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…The direction of shadow -- Sunday morning -- Interruption of flight -- Yellow bird -- What the wind said to the girl who was afraid -- The fall -- The tenderness -- The hammered dulcimer -- Complaint -- Eve, after eating -- Man walking -- Black horses -- The growth -- Manners, 1977 -- A spider -- The man by the river -- Banquet -- To night -- On the nature of beauty -- Romantic relief -- Negation -- Landscape -- A wind in place -- Crater -- On a worm descending a thread -- A story of swans -- God put the noose around my neck -- The grasshopper -- The end of spring -- In the abstract -- Ambivalence -- The chant -- A forward spring -- Rattlesnake -- In the valley -- After a line of Plato.…”
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On the edge of freedom the fugitive slave issue in south central Pennsylvania, 1820-1870 / by Smith, David G. (David Grant), 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Fugitive Slave Issue on "the Edge of Freedom" -- South Central Pennsylvania, Fugitive Slaves, and the Underground Railroad -- Thaddeus Stevens' Dilemma, Colonizationism, and the Turbulent Years of Early Antislavery in Adams County, 1835-39 -- Antislavery Petitioning in South Central Pennsylvania -- The Fugitive Slave Issue on Trial : The 1840s in South Central Pennsylvania -- Controversy and Christiana : The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1850-51 -- Interlude: Kidnapping, Kansas, and the Rise of Race-Based Partisanship : The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1852-57 -- Revival of the Fugitive Slave Issue, 1858-61 -- Contrabands, "White Victories," and the Ultimate Slave Hunt : The Recasting the Fugitive Slave Issue in Civil War South Central Pennsylvania -- After the Shooting : South Central Pennsylvania after the Civil War -- Conclusion: The Postwar Ramifications of the Fugitive Slave Issue "On the Edge of Freedom" -- Appendix A: Selected Fugitive Slave Advertisements, 1818-1828 -- Appendix B: 1828 South Central Pennsylvania Petition Opposing Slavery in the District of Columbia -- Appendix C: 1847 Gettysburg African American Petition -- Appendix D: 1846 Adams County Petition -- Appendix E: 1861 Franklin County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix F: 1861 Adams County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix G: [Second] 1861 Adams County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix H: 1861 Doylestown, Bucks County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix I: 1861 Newtown, Bucks County Pro-Personal Liberty Law Petition.…”
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