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The cinema of Michael Winterbottom by Allison, Deborah, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Butterfly kiss: the road movie -- Jude: the heritage film -- Welcome to Sarajevo: war cinema -- Wonderland: social realist drama -- The claim: the western -- Code 46: science fiction -- The road to Guantanamo: docudrama -- The killer inside me: neo-noir -- Conclusion.…”
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Cultures of the future

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Race and education, 1954-2007 by Wolters, Raymond, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Constitutional history and social science -- School reform in the 1950s -- Desegregation begins -- In the deep south -- Desegregation transformed -- Educational reform in the 1960s -- The travail of integration -- Controversy over white flight and the effects of racially balanced integration -- From Brown to Green and back -- The diversity rationale.…”
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Cats and Conservationists : The Debate Over Who Owns the Outdoors / by Wald, Dara M., 1979-, Peterson, Anna Lisa, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Cat Problem -- Chapter 3: The Science Problem and Framing -- Chapter 4: The Values Problem -- Chapter 5: The Social Problem -- Chapter 6: Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Authors…”
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Tainted Souls and Painted Faces : The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture / by Anderson, Amanda, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Mid-Victorian conceptions of character, agency, and reform: social science and the "great social evil" -- "The taint the very tale conveyed": self-reading, suspicion, and falleness in Dickens -- Melodrama, morbidity, and unthinking sympathy: Gaskell's Mary Barton and Ruth -- Dramatic monologue in crisis: agency and exchange in G.G. …”
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The Enlightenment and the intellectual foundations of modern culture by Dupré, Louis K., 1925-

Table of Contents: “…A definition and a provisional justification -- A different cosmos -- A new sense of selfhood -- Toward a new conception of art -- The moral crisis -- The origin of modern social theories -- The new science of history -- The religious crisis -- The faith of the philosophers -- Spiritual continuity and renewal.…”
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Toxic exposures contested illnesses and the environmental health movement / by Brown, Phil

Table of Contents: “…Citizen-science alliances and health social movements: contested illnesses and challenges to the dominant epidemiological paradigm -- Breast cancer: a powerful movement and a struggle for science -- Asthma, environmental factors, and environmental justice -- Gulf War-related illnesses and the hunt for causation: the "stress of war" vs. the "dirty battlefield" -- Similarities and differences among asthma, breast cancer, and Gulf War illnesses -- The new precautionary approach: a public paradigm in progress -- Implications of the contested illnesses perspective -- Conclusion: the growing environmental health movement.…”
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Improving adult literacy instruction options for practice and research /

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Dissonances democratic critiques of democracy / by O'Donnell, Guillermo A.

Table of Contents: “…Democratic theory and comparative politics -- Horizontal accountability in new democracies -- Horizontal accountability : the legal institutionalization of mistrust -- Notes on various accountabilities and their interrelations -- Polyarchies and the (un)rule of law in Latin America : a partial conclusion -- Social sciences in Latin America : looking at the past and glancing at the future.…”
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North Atlantic maritime cultures anthropological essays on changing adaptations /

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Incentives and test-based accountability in education

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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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Daniel Webster and Jacksonian Democracy / by Nathans, Sydney

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Making standards useful in the classroom by Marzano, Robert J.

Table of Contents: “…Using standards and measurement topics -- Standards in education -- Unpacking standards and designing measurement topics -- A scale format for measurement topics -- A formative assessment system using measurement topics -- Grades and report cards using measurement topics -- Scoring scales -- Language arts -- Mathematics -- Science -- Social studies -- Life skills.…”
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Creative research in economics / by Wentzel, Arnold

Table of Contents: “…The possibility of systematic originality -- 2. Originality in social science research -- 3. The representation of problems in economics -- 4. …”
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Texts of power emerging disciplines in colonial Bengal /

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Allocating federal funds for state programs for English language learners

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Ageing, corporeality and embodiment by Gilleard, C. J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Identity, embodiment and the somatic turn in the social sciences -- Corporeality, embodiment and the "new ageing" -- Gender, ageing and embodiment -- Age and the racialised body -- Disability, ageing and identity -- Sexuality, ageing and identity -- Sex and ageing -- Cosmetics, clothing and fashionable ageing -- Fitness, exercise and the ageing body -- Ageing and aspirational medicine -- Conclusions ageing, forever embodied -- References -- Index.…”
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Antebellum Posthuman : Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century / by Ellis, Cristin, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Posthumanism and the problem of social justice : race and materiality in the twenty-first century -- Coda. …”
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Different kinds of minds contribute to society

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