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In defense of my people : Alonso S. Perales and the development of Mexican-American public intellectuals / by Olivas, Michael A.

Table of Contents: “…Perales and the effort to establish the civil rights of Mexican-Americans as seen through the lens of contemporary critical legal theory : post-racialism, reality construction, interest convergence and other critical themes / George A. …”
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In defense of my people : Alonso S. Perales and the development of Mexican-American public intellectuals / by Olivas, Michael A.

Table of Contents: “…Perales and the effort to establish the civil rights of Mexican-Americans as seen through the lens of contemporary critical legal theory : post-racialism, reality construction, interest convergence and other critical themes / George A. …”
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Hot books in the Cold War : the CIA-funded secret book distribution program behind the Iron Curtain / by Reisch, Alfred A. (Alfred Alexander), 1931-

Table of Contents: “…Minden and his concept of cultural and ideological competition -- The New York Book Center : books, books, and more books -- The book project reaches new heights : the golden age of the 1960s -- Western and émigré books and periodicals published with covert support -- New opportunities through East-West contacts -- The early 1970s : the international advisory council -- A lasting enemy -- The communist regimes on the defensive : criticisms, warnings, and attacks -- The person-to-person distribution program : a direct way to reach East Europeans, the early Polish program 1958-1959 -- Another vehicle for reaching the people of eastern Europe : the person-to-person distribution program and personalized mailings -- The most important book distribution point : Vienna -- Letters from Poland, the crucial country -- Letters from Czechoslovakia before and after 1968 -- Letters from Hungary under goulash communism -- Letters from Romania under the Ceausescu regime -- Letters from Bulgaria despite very strict censorship -- The last seventeen years : International Literary Centre, Ltd., East Europe, and the USSR.…”
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Hot books in the Cold War : the CIA-funded secret book distribution program behind the Iron Curtain / by Reisch, Alfred A. (Alfred Alexander), 1931-

Table of Contents: “…Minden and his concept of cultural and ideological competition -- The New York Book Center : books, books, and more books -- The book project reaches new heights : the golden age of the 1960s -- Western and émigré books and periodicals published with covert support -- New opportunities through East-West contacts -- The early 1970s : the international advisory council -- A lasting enemy -- The communist regimes on the defensive : criticisms, warnings, and attacks -- The person-to-person distribution program : a direct way to reach East Europeans, the early Polish program 1958-1959 -- Another vehicle for reaching the people of eastern Europe : the person-to-person distribution program and personalized mailings -- The most important book distribution point : Vienna -- Letters from Poland, the crucial country -- Letters from Czechoslovakia before and after 1968 -- Letters from Hungary under goulash communism -- Letters from Romania under the Ceausescu regime -- Letters from Bulgaria despite very strict censorship -- The last seventeen years : International Literary Centre, Ltd., East Europe, and the USSR.…”
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The Anthem guide to short fiction /

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The Anthem guide to short fiction /

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Imagining Afghanistan : Global Fiction and Film of the 9/11 Wars / by Ivanchikova, Alla, 1977-

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Imagining Afghanistan : Global Fiction and Film of the 9/11 Wars / by Ivanchikova, Alla, 1977-

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Contemporary Ukraine on the cultural map of Europe

Table of Contents: “…Stech -- Choosing a Europe : Andrukhovych, Izdryk, and the new Ukrainian literature / Marko Pavlyshyn -- Images of bonding and social decay in contemporary Ukrainian prose : reading Serhii Zhadan and Anatolii Dnistrovyi / Maxim Tarnawsky -- Women's literary discourse and national identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine / Maria G. …”
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Contemporary Ukraine on the cultural map of Europe

Table of Contents: “…Stech -- Choosing a Europe : Andrukhovych, Izdryk, and the new Ukrainian literature / Marko Pavlyshyn -- Images of bonding and social decay in contemporary Ukrainian prose : reading Serhii Zhadan and Anatolii Dnistrovyi / Maxim Tarnawsky -- Women's literary discourse and national identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine / Maria G. …”
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Kill Boxes: Facing the Legacy of US-Sponsored Torture, Indefinite Detention, and Drone Warfare / by Weber, Elisabeth, 1959-

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Kill Boxes: Facing the Legacy of US-Sponsored Torture, Indefinite Detention, and Drone Warfare / by Weber, Elisabeth, 1959-

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Open Society Unresolved : The Contemporary Relevance of a Contested Idea /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Open society unresolved : charting the contested terrain / Christof Royer -- Human nature and the open society / Thom Scott-Phillips -- In praise of coldness : the open neighborhood and its enemies / Rachid Boutayeb -- Against identity : individuality as the foundation of open society / Gregory Lobo -- Empirical embodiment of critical rationalism : deliberative theory and open society / Gazela Pudar Draško and Predrag Krstić -- Open society as an achievement : Popper, Gaus, and the liberal tradition / Piers Norris Turner -- Nozick's meta-Utopia as an open society / Avery Fox White -- Hannah Arendt and literary pedagogy / Andrea Timár -- Can Bergson's definition of open society be useful today? …”
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Open Society Unresolved : The Contemporary Relevance of a Contested Idea /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Open society unresolved : charting the contested terrain / Christof Royer -- Human nature and the open society / Thom Scott-Phillips -- In praise of coldness : the open neighborhood and its enemies / Rachid Boutayeb -- Against identity : individuality as the foundation of open society / Gregory Lobo -- Empirical embodiment of critical rationalism : deliberative theory and open society / Gazela Pudar Draško and Predrag Krstić -- Open society as an achievement : Popper, Gaus, and the liberal tradition / Piers Norris Turner -- Nozick's meta-Utopia as an open society / Avery Fox White -- Hannah Arendt and literary pedagogy / Andrea Timár -- Can Bergson's definition of open society be useful today? …”
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Translation in second language learning and teaching

Table of Contents: “…metaphoric speech and literary translation in second language teaching and learning / Kathleen Thorpe -- Translation as a learning well for teaching / Lillian Depaula -- Literary translation and foreign language teacher education in Brazil : a possible path for an inclusive education / Vera Helena Gomes Wielewicki -- Reading books with translations : getting over the reading barrier / Harald Weydt -- Talking of cultural translation criticism / Anna Fochi -- A full Irish breakfast : interlanguage perspective, intercultural perspective, or both? …”
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Translation in second language learning and teaching

Table of Contents: “…metaphoric speech and literary translation in second language teaching and learning / Kathleen Thorpe -- Translation as a learning well for teaching / Lillian Depaula -- Literary translation and foreign language teacher education in Brazil : a possible path for an inclusive education / Vera Helena Gomes Wielewicki -- Reading books with translations : getting over the reading barrier / Harald Weydt -- Talking of cultural translation criticism / Anna Fochi -- A full Irish breakfast : interlanguage perspective, intercultural perspective, or both? …”
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Paris Bride : A Modernist Life by Schad, John, Schad, John

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Paris Bride : A Modernist Life by Schad, John, Schad, John

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Meaning of Folklore : The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes / by Dundes, Alan

Table of Contents: “…Folklore as a mirror of culture -- The study of folklore in literature and culture: identification and interpretation -- Metafolkore and oral literary criticism -- From etic to emic units in the structural study of folktales ; postscript, the motif index and the tale-type index: a critique -- How Indic parallels to the ballad of the "walled-up wife" reveal the pitfalls of parochial nationalistic folkloristics -- Structuralism and folklore ; postscript, binary opposition in myth: the Propp/Levi Strauss debate in retrospect -- On game morphology: a study of the structure of non-verbal folklore -- The devolutionary premise in folklore theory -- Folk ideas as units of worldview ; postscript, worldview in folk narrative -- As the crow flies: a straightforward study of lineal worldview in American folk speech -- Much ado about "sweet bugger all": getting to the bottom of a puzzle in British folk speech -- Grouping lore--scientists and musicians: science in folklore--folklore in science? …”
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