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When the Devil Knocks : The Congo Tradition and the Politics of Blackness in Twentieth-Century Panama / by Alexander Craft, Renee

Table of Contents: “…: race, gender, and tourism -- Dancing with the Devil at the crossroads : performance ethnography and staging thresholds of difference -- Dialogical performance, critical ethnography, and the "digital present."…”
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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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Narrative Theory Unbound : Queer and Feminist Interventions /

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Realizing the Witch : Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible / by Baxstrom, Richard

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From Curlers to Chainsaws : Women and Their Machines /

Table of Contents: “…Mary Quade -- Old Iron: A RestorationMaureen Stanton -- All Flesh Is Grass; Karen Salyer McElmurray -- Driven; Ana Maria Spagna -- More Than Noise; Stage and World; Debra Marquart -- The Microphone Erotic; Elizabeth MacLeod Walls -- I, Phone; Melissa A. …”
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Logics of War : Explanations for Limited and Unlimited Conflicts / by Weisiger, Alex, 1977-

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Risk Criticism : Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty / by Wallace, Molly

Table of Contents: “…: literary criticism in an age of global risk -- The second nuclear age and its wagers : archival reflexions -- We all live in Bhopal? : staging global risk -- Discomfort food : analogy and biotechnology -- Letting plastic have its say; or, plastic's tell -- The Port Radium paradigm; or, Fukushima in a changing climate -- Afterword: Writing "the bomb" : inheritances in the anthropocene.…”
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Terrorists on Trial : A Performative Perspective / by Graaf, Beatrice de (Ed.)

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Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation : Forugh Farrokhzad and Sylvia Plath / by Rahimi Bahmany, Leila

Table of Contents: “…: Doubling in the Myth of Narcissus and Echo -- The Petrifying Look: The Myth of Medusa -- From Narcissus to Narcissism: Freud's Psychological Exegesis of the Myth -- The Subject as an Alienated Construct: Lacan's Theory of the Mirror Stage -- A Spatiotemporal Site of Psychological Interiority: Memory as a Mirror -- Mother-Daughter: The Mutual Mirroring -- Mirroring in Text -- ch. 2 Mirror Imagery in the Works of Forugh Farrokhzad -- A Herstory of a Subject-in-Process -- Captive to the Male Gaze -- The Mirror as an Eye -- The Mirror of the Heart -- The Otherness of the Self-image -- The Mirror of the Memory and of the Imagination -- The Grotesquery of the Mirror Image -- The Mirror and the Window -- Mother-Daughter Reciprocity in the Mirror -- The Emancipated and Emancipating Mirror -- Self-Mirroring in the Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad -- ch. 3 Mirror Imagery in the Works of Sylvia Plath.…”
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A Brief History of Islam in Europe : Thirteen Centuries of Creed, Conflict and Coexistence / by Berger, Maurits

Table of Contents: “…Uncivilized Europe (700-1000 CE). I. Setting the Stage. 1. Europe at the Dawn of the Muslim Conquests -- 2. …”
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Clinical Trials in Ovarian Cancer / by Walsh, Christine S., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Early stage epithelial ovarian cancer -- Advanced stage epithelial ovarian cancer : adjuvant chemotherapy -- Advanced stage epithelial ovarian cancer : timing of surgery and interval cytoreduction -- Epithelial ovarian cancer : maintenance therapy -- Recurrent epithelial ovarian cancer.…”
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Gaze Regimes : Film and feminisms in Africa /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: By way of context and content -- 1 African Women in Cinema: An overview -- 2 'I am a feminist only in secret' -- 3 Staged Authenticity: Femininity in photography and film -- 4 'Power is in your own hands': Why Jihan El-Tahri does not like movements -- 5 Aftermath: A focus on collective trauma -- 6 Shooting Violence and Trauma: Traversing visual and social topographies in Zanele Muholi's work -- 7 Puk Nini: A Filmic Instruction in Seduction: Exploring class and sexuality in gender relations -- 8 I am Saartjie Baartman -- 9 Filmmaking at the Margins of a Community: On co-producing Elelwani -- 10 On Collective Practice and Collected Reflections -- 11 'Cinema of resistance' -- 12 Dark and Personal -- 13 'Change? …”
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Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 / by Fawcett, Julia H.

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Curing Medicare : A Doctor's View on How Our Health Care System Is Failing Older Americans and How We Can Fix It / by Lazris, Andrew

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Adoption and impact of OER in the Global South /

Table of Contents: “…Teacher professional learning communities : a collaborative OER adoption approach in Karnataka, India -- 15. An early stage impact study of localised OER in Afghanistan -- section 5. …”
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Joyce : The Return of the Repressed / by Friedman, Susan Stanford

Table of Contents: “…(Self)censorship and the making of Joyce's modernism / Susan Stanford Friedman -- Pharmaconomy / Alberto Moreiras -- Uncanny returns in "The dead" / Robert Spoo -- A portrait of the romantic poet as a young modernist / Jay Clayton -- Simon's Irish rose / Richard Pearce -- Races and chains / Laura Doyle -- Staging sexuality / Joseph A. Boone -- The preservation of tenderness / Marilyn L. …”
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The Unfinished Art of Theater : Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil / by Townsend, Sarah J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The uneven stage of the avant-gardes -- Mexico -- Rehearsals of the tragi-co(s)mic race -- Primitivist accumulation and Teatro sintetico -- Radio/puppets, or the institutionalization of a (media) revolution -- Brazil -- Parsifal on the periphery of capitalism -- Phonography, operatic ethnography, and other bad arts -- Total theater and missing pieces -- Postscript: Loose ends.…”
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The Sound of Innovation : Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution / by Nelson, Andrew J.

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Setting the Stage; 3 The First Movement; 4 Tension and Release; 5 Duet for Stanford and Yamaha; 6 From Exposition to Development; 7 Plucking the Golden Gate Bridge; 8 Recapitulation and Variations; 9 Coda; Appendix: Interviews Conducted by Author; Notes; References; Index.…”
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Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media : A Synthesis from the GoodPlay Project /

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Naval Leadership in the Atlantic World : The Age of Reform and Revolution, 1700 -1850 /

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