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Stellar Transformations - Movie Stars Of The 2010s

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 Explores questions of stardom, performance, and their cultural contexts in ways that remind us of the alluring magic of stars while also bringing to the fore the changing ways in which viewers engaged with them during the last decade.
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Dorothy West'S Paradise - A Biography Of Class And Color

by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson

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 Captures the scope of the author's long life and career, this is an essential book for both fans of West's fiction and students of race, class, and American women's lives. Dorothy West's Paradise offers an intimate biography of an important author and a privileged glimpse into the society that shaped her work.
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Animal Magic Poems On A Disappearing Wrl - Poems On A Disappearing World

by Liz Brownlee; Illustration: Rose Sanderson

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Intoxication - An Ethnography Of Effervescent Revelry

by Sebastien Tutenges

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 Vivid and at times deeply personal, this book offers new insights into a wide variety of intoxicating experiences, from the intimate feeling of connection among concertgoers to the adrenaline-fueled rush of a fight, to the thrill of jumping off a balcony into a swimming pool.
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1980 - America'S Pivotal Year

by Jim Cullen

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 By boring in with granular detail on a few key touchstone areas - politics, music, film, television, and publishing - 1980 describes a zeitgeist as it shifts, capturing those elements that harkened back toward the seventies as they jostled with others that pointed forward to the eighties.
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Star Decades Complete 11 Volume Set

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The Synergistic Classroom - Interdisciplinary Teaching In The Small College Setting

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 Addresses the many ways faculty can leverage their institutions' small size and openness to pedagogical experimentation to overcome the challenges of limited institutional resources and enrollment concerns and better prepare students for life and work in the twenty-first century.
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Campus With Purpose - Building A Mission-Driven Campus

by Stephen Lehmkuhle

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 Through personal and engaging anecdotes about his experience as the inaugural chancellor at the University of Minnesota-Rochester, Stephen Lehmkuhle describes how higher education leaders can focus on campus purpose to create new and fresh ways to think about many elements of campus operation and function.
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Stellar Transformations - Movie Stars Of The 2010s

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 Explores questions of stardom, performance, and their cultural contexts in ways that remind us of the alluring magic of stars while also bringing to the fore the changing ways in which viewers engaged with them during the last decade.
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Stellar Transformations - Movie Stars Of The 2010s

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 Explores questions of stardom, performance, and their cultural contexts in ways that remind us of the alluring magic of stars while also bringing to the fore the changing ways in which viewers engaged with them during the last decade.
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Glamour In A Golden Age - Movie Stars Of The 1930s

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Jersey Justice - The Story Of The Trenton Six

by Cathy D. Knepper

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 The case of the Trenton Six attracted international attention in its time (1946-1952) Yet, there is no memory of it. The shame of racism evident in the case has been nearly erased from the public record. Now, historian Cathy D. Knepper takes us back to the courtroom to make us aware of this shocking chapter in American history.
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Screen Decades Complete - American Cinema From The 1890s To The 2000s

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 The Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema series is now available as an eleven-volume set: American Cinema from the 1890s to the 2000s. Each volume presents a group of original essays analyzing the impact of cultural issues on the cinema and the impact of the cinema on society.
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Star Decades Complete - Movie Stars From The 1910s To The 2000s

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 The Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema series is now available as a ten-volume set: Movie Stars from the 1910s to the 2000s. Each volume presents original essays that analyse the movie star against the background of American cultural history.
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The Great White Way - Race And The Broadway Musical

by Warren Hoffman

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 Reveals the racial politics, content, and subtexts that have haunted musicals for almost one hundred years from Show Boat (1927) to The Scottsboro Boys (2011). It investigates the thematic content of the Broadway musical and considers how musicals work on a structural level, allowing them to simultaneously present and hide their racial agendas. New archival research will have theatre fans and scholars forever rethinking how they view this popular American entertainment.
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By Their Fruits - Eugenics, Population Control, And The Abortion Campaign

by Ann Farmer

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 Argues that abortion was the fruit of the eugenics/population control movement. This book demonstrates that despite their compassionate rhetoric, female abortion advocates were all eugenicists, inspired by men, racist, elitist, and obsessed with controlling the quality and quantity of mankind.
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Millennial Momentum - How A New Generation Is Remaking America

by Michael D. Hais

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 Argues that the new generation of youth, the Millennials, are transforming areas of American politics and culture, including education, entertainment, labor, and business, and explains how this shift will affect America's international relations.
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Shining In Shadows - Movie Stars Of The 2000s

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 Examines a wide range of Hollywood icons from a turbulent decade for the film industry and for America itself. Perhaps reflecting America's cultural fragmentation and uncertainty, Hollywood's star personas sent mixed messages about Americans' identities and ideals. With a multigenerational, international cast of stars, this collection presents a fascinating composite portrait of Hollywood stardom today.
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Bringing Buildings Back - From Abandoned Properties To Community Assets

by Alan Mallach

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What Dreams Were Made Of - Movie Stars Of The 1940s

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 Examines the performers who helped define American cinema in the 1940s, a decade of rapid and repeated upheaval for Hollywood and the US. Through discussions of key films as well as studio publicity and fan magazines, these essays analyze how these actors and actresses helped lift spirits during World War II, and explore how cultural shifts after the war forced many stars to adjust to new outlooks and attitudes, particularly in film noir.
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Poultry Science, Chicken Culture - A Partial Alphabet

by Susan Squier

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 A collection of engrossing, witty, and thought-provoking essays about the chicken. It assesses the chicken as the focus of film, photography, and visual art; details some of the roles played by chickens and eggs in the development of embryology, biology, and regenerative medicine; traces the iconic figure of the chicken in political discourse during the 2008 presidential election; investigates the connection between women and chickens; and scrutinizes the role of chicken farming in international development.
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Pretty People - Movie Stars Of The 1990s

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 In the 1990s, American civil society got upended and reordered as many social, cultural, political, and economic institutions were changed forever. This examines a wide range of Hollywood icons who reflect how stardom in that decade was transformed as the nation itself, signaling significant changes to familiar ideas about gender, race, ethnicity, age, class, sexuality, and nationality.
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Pass Cambridge Bec Preliminary (Second Edition)

by Ian Wood

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Pass Cambridge Bec Preliminary: Workbook

by Anne (University Of Georgia, Athens) Williams, Colin Benn, Ian Wood, Louise Pile, Michael Black, Paul Dummett, Paul Sanderson e Russell Whitehead

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