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Outside the limelight basketball in the Ivy League / by Orton, Kathy, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Origins of a league -- A mom-and-pop store -- Great Scott -- Multicultural Quakers -- Getting under way -- Roll crimson pride -- Backdoor cuts -- A tradition tarnished -- Bright lights, big stages -- Harvardization -- Conference calls -- We interrupt this season-- -- The road is the thing -- Everyone onto the court -- Brothers in arms -- A rivalry like no other -- Topsy-turvy weekend -- Dreams deferred -- And the winner is-- -- The wait of expectations.…”
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Jews on Broadway an historical survey of performers, playwrights, composers, lyricists and producers / by Lane, Stewart F.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : setting the stage -- Immigration, Yiddish theater and building Broadway -- Part of the melting pot : from Vaudeville to Broadway -- Music of Broadway : classic composers, legendary lyricists -- Group theater, acting teachers and life during wartime -- From communism to the Catskills -- Jewish themes, legends and life in the 1960s and 1970s -- Young playwrights with a message, inflation, Disney and me -- New millennium sees Broadway breakthroughs : veterans and newcomers -- Epilogue.…”
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Progressive country : how the 1970s transformed the Texan in popular culture / by Mellard, Jason

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "Too much ain't enough," or, The Texan in the late twentieth century -- The empire of Texas : Lone Star regionalism sets the stage, 1936-1968 -- Home with the armadillo : Austin's progressive country music scene -- This new cross between Baba Ram Dass and Sam Bass : cosmic cowboydom and the 1970s -- The vanishing Texan : the party of the fathers realigns -- You a real cowboy? …”
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People's livelihood in contemporary China : changes, challenges and prospects /

Table of Contents: “…List of tables -- List of figures -- Introduction: the changing Chinese society / Li Peilin -- Social construction : theory and practices -- The people's livelihood in China / Li Peilin and Li Wei -- China in the mass consumption stage / Tian Feng -- Urban and rural residents' social security / Zhang Liping -- Evolution process and the trend of income differential / Chen Guangjin -- Children of the reform and opening up / Tian Feng -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.…”
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The Dynamics of Opportunity in America Evidence and Perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Opportunity in America – Setting the Stage -- PART I: Understanding Where We Are Today -- PART II: The Labor Market -- PART III: Education and Opportunity.…”
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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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Women and power in postconflict Africa / by Tripp, Aili Mari

Resolving racial conflict the Community Relations Service and civil rights, 1964-1989 / by Levine, Bertram J.

Table of Contents: “…Lyndon Johnson sets the stage -- Learning intervention : intuition, courage, and goodwill -- Selma blow by blow : a dissection of the community crisis that turned the tide for voting rights -- Equality of results : the revised civil rights agenda -- When cities erupt -- Police-minority relations : a lightning rod for racial conflagration -- Education amid turmoil -- Mediation : the road less traveled -- Not all black and white : varieties of civil rights conflict -- Minorities and the media : the conversion of the image builders -- The quest for value.…”
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Measuring the performance of the hollow state by Frederickson, David G.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: federal performance measurement -- Setting the stage: third parties, fiscal federalism, and accountability -- Performance measurement as political and administrative reform -- Performance as grants to third party service providers: the Health Resources and Services Administration -- Performance as the provision of health financial security: the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services -- Performance as grants to third-party research providers: the National Institutes of Health -- Measuring the health performance of sovereign tribes as third parties: the Indian Health Services -- Performance as regulation: the Food and Drug Administration -- Measuring performance and results in theory and practice -- After Government Performance and Results Act : performance measurement, performance budgeting and performance management.…”
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Striptease the untold history of the girlie show / by Shteir, Rachel, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…"A startled fawn upon the stage" -- Legs -- "Yvette goes to bed": the first undressing acts -- From Ziegfeld to Minsky: respectable undressing and the rise of modern burlesque -- After the doughboys returned: nudity in burlesque and on broadway -- The first strippers and teasers -- Pansies, reformers, and a "frenzy of congregate cootchers": the birth of modern striptease -- A pretty girl is like a melody, sort of -- The burlesque soul of striptease -- "Minskyville" -- "I never made any money until I took my pants off": fans and bubbles around the nation -- "Temporary entertainment for morons and perverts": LaGuardia kicks striptease out of New York -- Gypsy -- From literary strippers to queens of burlesque -- "Clamouring for a table and pounding for an encore": striptease at the world's fair -- Striptease during wartime -- The private lives of strippers -- Stripty-second streets -- The seamy sides of striptease -- Striptease confidential -- You've gotta get a gimmick -- Topless dancing -- 1969: who killed striptease?…”
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Observing America the commentary of British visitors to the United States, 1890-1950 / by Frankel, Robert Perry, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Wells and the progressive era -- The global stage : H.G. Wells on America's emergence in the First World War -- Main street America : G.K. …”
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That eminent tribunal judicial supremacy and the constitution /

Table of Contents: “…Casey / Michael Zuckert -- Antijural jurisprudence : the vices of the judges enter a new stage / Hadley Arkes -- Judicial power and the withering of civil society / George W. …”
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The uncensored Boris Godunov the case for Pushkin's original Comedy, with annotated text and translation / by Dunning, Chester S. L., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Reconsidering history and expanding the canon / Caryl Emerson and Chester Dunning -- The problem of Boris Godunov : a review of interpretations and the so-called canonical text / Chester Dunning -- The exiled poet-historian and the creation of his comedy / Chester Dunning -- The tragic fate of Pushkin's comedy / Chester Dunning -- The world of laughter in Pushkin's comedy / Sergei Fomichev -- Tragedy, comedy, carnival, and history on stage / Caryl Emerson -- The ebb and flow of influence : muffling the comedic in the move toward print / Caryl Emerson -- Boris Godunov and the Russian literary canon / Caryl Emerson and Chester Dunning.…”
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Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment by Smith, James M., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the politics of sexual knowledge: the origins of Ireland's containment culture and the Carrigan Report (1931) -- The Magdalen asylum and history: mining the archive -- The Magdalen in nineteenth-century Ireland -- The Magdalen asylum and the state in twentieth-century Ireland -- The Magdalen Laundry in cultural representation: memory and storytelling in contemporary Ireland -- Remembering Ireland's architecture of containment: "telling" stories on stage, Patricia Burke Brogan's Eclipsed and Stained glass at Samhain -- (Ef)facing Ireland's Magdalen survivors: visual representations and documentary testimony -- The Magdalene sisters: film, fact and fiction -- Monuments, Magdalens, memorials: art installations and cultural memory -- Conclusion: history, cultural representation, ... action? …”
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Martin Sherman skipping over quicksand / by Dace, Letitia

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Depression in the elderly

Table of Contents: “…Abdel-Rahman -- Depression in elderly patients with end stage renal disease treated with dialysis or kidney transplantation / Emaad Abdel-Rahman, Rasheed A. …”
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Disability and popular culture : focusing passion, creating community and expressing defiance / by Ellis, Katie, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: producerly disability -- Our moment in time : the transitory and concrete value of disability toys -- Contemporary beauty-ism -- Spaces of cultural mediation : the science fiction cinema of the third stage of disability -- Among the leading characters on television -- Enfreaking popular music : making us think by making us feel -- Controlling the body : sport, disability and the construction of ability -- Disability and spreadable media : access, representation and inspiration porn -- Conclusion : focusing passion, creating community, expressing defiance -- References -- Filmography.…”
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Sensing Absence: How to See What Isn’t There in the Study of Science and Security by Rappert, Brian

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Actors and the Art of Performance: Under Exposure by Valerie, Susanne

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Dreaming America : Popular Front Ideals and Aethetics in Children's Plays of the Federal Theatre Project / by Frost, Leslie Elaine

Table of Contents: “…Raising up an educated audience : Federal Children's Theatre -- The Revolt of the beavers : "we should have called it Rumplestiltskin" -- "I looked him right square in the eye" : the story of Little Black Sambo in the Federal Theatre Project -- Shadows of war and homefront patriotism : anti-fascism and the innocent child in the Federal A letter to Santa Claus and Hollywood's The little princess -- Wishing on a star : Pinocchio's journey from the Federal stage to Disney's world.…”
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