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Beasts of the Modern Imagination : Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst, and Lawrence / by Norris, Margot

Table of Contents: “…Kafka's "Josefine": The animal as the negative site of narration -- 7. Max Ernst: The rhetorical beast of the visual arts -- 8. …”
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The Decentered Universe of Finnegans Wake : A Structuralist Analysis / by Norris, Margot

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Whole Lives : Shapers of Modern Biography / by Whittemore, Reed, 1919-2012

Table of Contents: “…Carlyle and his great men -- Leslie Stephen's DNB and the Woolf rejoinders -- Sigmund Freud and his disciples -- American biography.…”
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The Sopranos / by Polan, Dana B., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Watching The Sopranos -- Eight million stories in the naked city -- Food for thought -- Living in the moment -- The late style of The Sopranos -- Gaming The Sopranos -- Getting high with The Sopranos -- Qualifying "quality TV" -- "Honey, I'm home" -- Against interpretation -- New Jersey dreaming -- Tie-ins and hangers-on -- Touring postindustrialism -- Cashing in on the game -- Cable and the economics of experimentation -- This thing of ours.…”
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Making Peace in an Age of War : Emperor Ferdinand III (1608–1657) / by Hengerer, Mark

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History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out : Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History / by Barrett, James R., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the subjective side of working-class history -- The Blessed Virgin made me a socialist historian: an experiment in Catholic autobiography and the historical understanding of race and class -- Was the personal political? …”
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The Deliverance of Others : Reading Literature in a Global Age / by Palumbo-Liu, David

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Native Americans and the Christian Right : The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances / by Smith, Andrea, 1966-

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How Climate Change Comes to Matter : The Communal Life of Facts / by Callison, Candis, 1971-

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Latter-day Screens : Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism / by Weber, Brenda R., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…: mediated Mormonism -- Mormonism as meme and analytic: spiritual neoliberalism, image management, and transmediated salvation -- The Mormon glow: the raced and gendered implications of spectacular visibility -- The epistemology of the (televised, polygamous) closet: the cultural politics of mediated Mormonism and the promises of the American Dream -- Polygamy USA: visibility, charismatic evil, and gender progressivism -- Gender trouble in happy valley: choice, happy affect, and the Mormon feminist housewives -- "Pray (and obey) the gay away": conscience and the queer politics of desire -- Conclusion: afterthoughts and latter days -- Epilogue. Mormons on my mind, or, everything I ever needed to know about hegemony I learned in Mesa, Arizona -- Notes -- References -- Media archive -- Index.…”
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From Russia with Code : Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times /

Table of Contents: “…Before the collapse : programming cultures in the Soviet Union / Ksenia Tatarchenko -- From lurker to ninja : creating an IT community at Yandex / Marina Fedorova -- For code and country : civic hackers in contemporary Russia / Ksenia Ermoshina -- At the periphery of the empire : Vladivostok's IT industry / Alexandra Masalskaya and Zinaida Vasilyeva -- Kazan connected : "IT-ing" up a province / Alina Kontareva -- Hackerspaces and technoparks in Moscow / Aleksandra Simonova -- Siberian software developers / Andrey Indukaev -- E-Estonia reprogrammed : nation branding and children coding / Daria Savchenko -- Post-Soviet ecosystems of IT / Dmitry Zhikharevich -- Migrating step by step : Russian computer scientists in the UK / Irina Antoschyuk -- Brain drain and Boston's "upper-middle tech" / Diana Kurkovsky West -- Jews in Russia and Russians in Israel / Marina Fedorova -- Russian programmers in Finland : self-presentation in migration narratives / Lyubava Shatokhina.…”
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The Birth of Energy : Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work / by Daggett, Cara New, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Putting the world to work -- The birth of energy -- The novelty of energy -- A steampunk production -- A geo-theology of energy -- Work becomes energetic -- Energy, race, and empire -- Energopolitics -- The imperial organism at work -- Education for empire -- A post-work energy politics.…”
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The Provocative Joan Robinson : The Making of a Cambridge Economist / by Aslanbeigui, Nahid, 1954-

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A Sentimental Education for the Working Man : The Mexico City Penny Press, 1900-1910 / by Buffington, Robert, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Working-class heroes -- The one true Juárez -- The apotheosis of the working man -- Rumbo perdido: transgressive journeys into manhood -- Don Juan and the troubled birth of modern love -- Epilogue las trampas modernas.…”
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Visions of Electric Media : Television in the Victorian and Machine Ages / by Roberts, Ivy, 1982-

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Food, Farms, and Solidarity : French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops / by Heller, Chaia

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Creating a New Rationality of Agriculture in a Postindustrial World -- Part I: Toward a New Rationality of Agriculture -- The New Paysan Movements: French Industrialized Agriculture and the Rise of the Postindustrial Paysan -- The Confederation Paysanne: Philosophy, Structure, and Constituency -- Part II: The Confederation Paysanne's Early Anti-GMO Campaign, from Risk to Globalization -- Union Activism and Programs: Early Campaigns and Paysan Agriculture -- We Have Always Been Modern: Toward a Progressive Anti-GMO Campaign -- The Trial of the GMOS: Deploying Discourses from Risk to Globalization -- Part III: How France Grew Its Own Alter-globalization Movement -- Caravans, GMOS, and McDo: The Campaign Continues -- Operation Roquefort, Part I: Traveling to Washington, D.C. -- Operation Roquefort, Part II: The Battle of Seattle -- Postindustrial Paysans in a Post-Seattle World: New Movements, New Possibilities -- Conclusion: French Lessons; What's to Be Learned?…”
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Mongrel Nation : Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain / by Dawson, Ashley, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Colonization in reverse : an introduction -- "In the big city the sex life gone wild" : migration, gender, and identity in Sam Selvon's The lonely Londoners -- Black power in a transnational frame : radical populism and the Caribbean Artists Movement -- Behind the mask : carnival politics and British identity in Linton Kwesi Johnson's dub poetry -- Beyond imperial feminism : Buchi Emecheta's London novels and Black British women's emancipation -- Heritage politics of the soul : immigration and identity in Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses -- Genetics, biotechnology, and the future of "race" in Zadie Smith's White teeth -- Conclusion : "Step back from the blow back" : Asian hip-hop and post-9/11 Britain.…”
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Thought Crime : Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan / by Ward, Max M., 1973-

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Animating Film Theory /

Table of Contents: “…Lehman -- Animating uncommon life : U.S. Military malaria films (1942-1945) and the Pacific theater / Bishnupriya Ghosh -- Realism in the animation media environment : animation theory from Japan / Marc Steinberg -- Some observations pertaining to cartoon physics; or, The cartoon cat in the machine / Scott Bukatman.…”
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Weaving Narrative : Clothing in Twelfth-Century French Romance / by Wright, Monica L., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Romance and the fabric of feudal society: conjointure and change -- Material matters: clothing in changing contexts -- Dressing up the character: the elucidation of characters through clothing -- Clothing acts and the movement from code to signifying system -- Clothing as a structuring, thematic, and narrative device: the art of weaving romance.…”
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