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    Scriptures, Shrines, Scapegoats, and World Politics 

    Maoz, Zeev; Henderson, Errol A. (2020)
    The effect of religious factors on politics has been a key issue since the end of the Cold War and the subsequent rise of religious terrorism. However, the systematic investigations of these topics have focused primarily ...
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    Alienation Effects 

    Jakovljevic, Branislav (2016)
    Exciting new scholarship has been emerging as performance studies scholars begin to turn their attention to the performance of politics, nationhood, and jurisprudence. Branislav Jakovljevic’s project on the history and ...
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    The Wild Goose 

    Mori, Ogai (2020)
    Mori Ogai (1862–1922), one of the giants of modern Japanese literature, wrote The Wild Goose at the turn of the century. Set in the early 1880s, it was, for contemporary readers, a nostalgic return to a time when the nation ...
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    Chang Ch’un-ch’iao and Shanghai’s January Revolution 

    Walder, Andrew G. (2020)
    Shanghai’s January Revolution was a highly visible and, by all accounts, crucially important event in China’s Cultural Revolution. Its occurrence, along with the subsequent attempt to establish a “commune” form of municipal ...
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    Sounding Together 

    Garrett, Charles; Oja, Carol (2021)
    Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives on U.S. Music in the Twenty-21st Century is a multi-authored, collaboratively conceived book of essays that tackles key challenges facing scholars studying music of the United ...
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    Mongrel Nation 

    Dawson, Ashley (2010)
    Mongrel Nation surveys the history of the United Kingdom's African, Asian, and Caribbean populations from 1948 to the present, working at the juncture of cultural studies, literary criticism, and postcolonial theory. Ashley ...
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    Theater as Data 

    Escobar Varela, Miguel (2021)
    In Theater as Data, Miguel Escobar Varela explores the use of computational methods and digital data in theater research. He considers the implications of these new approaches, and explains the roles that statistics and ...
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    Nourish the People 

    Will, Pierre-Etienne; Wong, R.; Wong, R. Bin (2020)
    The Qing state, driven by Confucian precepts of good government and urgent practical needs, committed vast resources to its granaries. Nourish the People traces the basic practices of this system, analyzes the organizational ...
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    The Linguistic Turn in Contemporary Japanese Literary Studies 

    Bourdaghs, Michael K. (2020)
    The 1970s and 1980s saw a revolution in Japanese literary criticism. A new generation of scholars and critics, many of them veterans of 1960s political activism, arose in revolt against the largely positivistic methodologies ...
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    China’s Revolutions and Intergenerational Relations 

    Whyte, Martin K. (2020)
    China’s Revolutions and Intergenerational Relations counters the widely accepted notion that traditional family patterns are weakened by forces such as economic development and social revolutions. China has experienced ...
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    The Tale of Matsura 

    Lammers, Wayne P. (2020)
    Fujiwara Teika is known as the premier poet and literary scholar of the early 13th century. It is not so widely known that he also tried his hand at fiction: Mumyōzōshi (Untitled Leaves; ca. 1201) refers to “several works” ...
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    The Grand Old Man and the Great Tradition 

    Blenati, Luisa; Ruperti, Bonaventura (2020)
    Adriana Boscaro and Tanizaki Jun’ichirô: two names firmly linked in my mind and in those of many others who feel connected to Boscaro either on a personal level or through a shared devotion to the work of Tanizaki. This ...
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    Musashino in Tuscany 

    Fessler, Susanna (2020)
    By the late Meiji period Japanese were venturing abroad in great numbers, and some of those who traveled kept diaries and wrote formal travelogues. These travelogues reflected a changing view of the West and changing ...
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    Dances with Sheep 

    Strecher, Matthew (2020)
    "As a spokesman for disaffected youth of the post-1960s, Murakami Haruki has become one of the most important voices in contemporary Japanese literature, and he has gained a following in the United States through translations ...
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    Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji 

    Rowley, Gaye (2020)
    Yosano Akiko (1878–1942) has long been recognized as one of the most important literary figures of prewar Japan. Her renown derives principally from the passion of her early poetry and from her contributions to 20th-century ...
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    Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan 

    Pandey, Rajyashree (2020)
    This is the first monograph-length study in English of Kamo no Chōmei, one of the most important literary figures of medieval Japan. Drawing upon a wide range of writings in a variety of genres from the Heian and Kamakura ...
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    Christian Converts and Social Protests in Meiji Japan 

    Scheiner, Irwin (2020)
    Nowhere has there been a discussion of the confusion necessarily generated by the rapidity of the change or of the agony created in the lives of many whose attitudes, expectations, and even success depended on the continuance ...
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    Imagination without Borders 

    Hein, Laura; Jennison, Rebecca (2020)
    "Tomiyama Taeko, a Japanese visual artist born in 1921, is changing the way World War II is remembered in Japan, Asia, and the world. Her work deals with complicated moral and emotional issues of empire and war responsibility ...
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    Essays on the Modern Japanese Church 

    Yamaji, Aizan (2020)
    Essays on the Modern Japanese Church (Gendai Nihon kyokai shiron), published in 1906, was the first Japanese-language history of Christianity in Meiji Japan. Yamaji Aizan’s firsthand account describes the reintroduction ...
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    Sukeroku’s Double Identity 

    Thornbury, Barbara (2020)
    The aim of this book is to show that seemingly illogical double identity of the townsman, Sukeroku, and the samurai, Soga Goro, in the play Sukeroku is a surviving element of what was once a complex and coherent structure ...
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    “The Sting of Death” and Other Stories 

    Shimao, Toshio (2020)
    Society and social sciences;Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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    Pearl from the Dragon’s Mouth 

    Sun, Cecile C. C. (2020)
    The interplay between the external world (ching) and the poet’s inner world (ch’ing) lies at the heart of Chinese poetry, and understanding the interaction of the two is crucial to understanding this work from within its ...
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    Appropriation and Representation 

    Yang, Shuhui (2020)
    Feng Menglong (1574–1646) was recognized as the most knowledgeable connoisseur of popular literature of his time. He is known today for compiling three famous collections of vernacular short stories, each containing forty ...
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    Collective Decision Making in Rural Japan 

    Marshall, Robert C. (2020)
    Society and social sciences;Sociology;Veterinary medicine: infectious diseases and therapeutics
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    Political Leadership in Contemporary Japan 

    MacDougal,Terry Edward (2020)
    Society and social sciences;Politics and government;Sociology
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    The Imperial Style of Inquiry in Twentieth-Century China 

    Munro, Donald J. (2020)
    How have traditional Chinese ways of thinking affected problem solving in this century? The traditional, imperial style of inquiry is associated with the belief that the universe is a coherent, internally structured unity ...
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    Mao Zedong’s “Talks at the Yan’an Conference on Literature and Art” 

    McDougall, Bonnie S. (2020)
    "The writings of Mao Zedong have been circulated throughout the world more widely, perhaps, than those of any other single person this century. The “Talks at the Yan’an Conference on Literature and Art” has occupied a ...
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    Beyond the Bauhaus 

    Ascher Barnstone, Deborah (2016)
    The Breslau arts scene during the Weimar period was one of the most vibrant in all of Germany, yet it has disappeared from memory and historiography. 'Beyond the Bauhaus' explores the polyvalent and contradictory nature ...
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    Law, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Terrorism 

    Douglas, Roger (2014)
    It is commonly believed that a state facing a terrorist threat responds with severe legislation that compromises civil liberties in favour of national security. Roger Douglas compares responses to terrorism by five liberal ...
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    Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss 

    Anderson, Emily Hodgson (2018)
    How do we recapture, or hold on to, the live performances we most love, and the talented artists and performers we most revere? Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss tells the story of how 18th-century actors, novelists, and ...
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    Common Law Judging 

    Edlin, Douglas (2016)
    Are judges supposed to be objective? Citizens, scholars, and legal professionals commonly assume that subjectivity and objectivity are opposites, with the corollary that subjectivity is a vice and objectivity is a virtue. ...
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    Kafka's Zoopoetics 

    Harel, Naama (2020)
    Kafka's Zoopoetics is the first extensive account of animals and human-animal relations in the work of Franz Kafka. The book appeals to a broad audience, including scholars and students of Comparative Literature, German ...
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    Sounds of the Underground 

    Graham, Stephen (2016)
    In basements, dingy backrooms, warehouses, and other neglected places around the world music is being made that doesn't fit neatly into popular or classical categories and genres, whose often extreme sounds and tiny concerts ...
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    Gender, Intersections, and Institutions 

    Davidson-Schmich, Louise K. (2017)
    Germany serves as a case study of when and how members of intersectional groups—individuals belonging to two or more disadvantaged social categories—capture the attention of policymakers, and what happens when they do. ...
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    Shipwrecked 

    Morrison, James V. (2016)
    This book presents the first comparative study of notable literary shipwrecks from the past four thousand years, focusing on Homer’s Odyssey, Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. James V. Morrison considers ...
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    Good Vibrations 

    Lambert, Philip (2016)
    "Good Vibrations brings together scholars with a variety of expertise, from music to cultural studies to literature, to assess the full extent of the contributions to popular culture and popular music of one the most ...
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    Black Eggs 

    Kurihara, Sadako (2020)
    Kurihara Sadako was born in Hiroshima in 1913, and she was there on August 6, 1945. Already a poet before she experienced the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, she used her poetic talents to describe the blast and its aftermath. ...
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    Career Patterns in the Ch’ing Dynasty 

    Chu, Raymond W.; Saywell, William G. (2020)
    The office of governor general (tsung-tu) was the highest provincial post throughout the Ch’ing dynasty. As such, it was a vital link in the control of a vast empire by a very small and alien ruling elite. This is primarily ...
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    Early Start 

    Karch, Andrew (2013)
    In the United States, preschool education is characterized by the dominance of a variegated private sector and patchy, uncoordinated oversight of the public sector. Tracing the history of the American debate over preschool ...
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    Coronavirus Politics 

    Greer, Scott L; King, Elizabeth; Massard da Fonseca, Elize; Peralta-Santos, André (2021)
    COVID-19 is the most significant global crisis of any of our lifetimes. The numbers have been stupefying, whether of infection and mortality, the scale of public health measures, or the economic consequences of shutdown. ...
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    Going to Court to Change Japan 

    Steinhoff, Patricia G. (2016)
    "Going to Court to Change Japan takes us inside movements dealing with causes as disparate as death by overwork, the rights of the deaf, access to prisoners on death row, consumer product safety, workers whose companies ...
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    Passionate Amateurs - Theatre, Communism and Love 

    Ridout, Nicholas (2013)
    Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. It begins with one of the first great plays of ...
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    The Train That Had Wings 

    Mukundan, M. (2020)
    The Train That Had Wings presents modern life in Kerala in terms of a shared but tragically compromised humanity. Mukundan dares to look beneath the routines and facades of everyday life in order to probe depth of sin, ...
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    Modern China, 1840–1972 

    Nathan, Andrew J. (2020)
    Graduate students have traditionally learned a good part of what they know about sources and research aids on modern China through hearsay and serendipity, in unsystematic and unreliable bits and pieces. The field has now ...
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    Transport in Transition 

    Watson, Andrew (2020)
    Water transport is a major feature of the traditional Chinese economy because of its magnitude and comparative efficiency. Yet this feature has all too often been ignored by scholars, with the notable exception of Japanese ...
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    Imperfect Creatures 

    Cole, Lucinda (2016)
    "Lucinda Cole’s Imperfect Creatures offers the first full-length study of the shifting, unstable, but foundational status of “vermin” as creatures and category in the early modern literary, scientific, and political ...
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    Passionate Amateurs 

    Ridout, Nicholas (2013-10-01)
    Beginning with Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Ridout argues ...
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    Partisan Gerrymandering and the Construction of American Democracy 

    Engstrom, Erik J. (2013-09-01)
    Erik J. Engstrom offers a historical perspective on the effects of gerrymandering on elections and party control of the U.S. national legislature. Aside from the requirements that districts be continuous and, after 1842, ...
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    Spectacular Disappearances 

    Fawcett, Julia H. (2016-05-01)
    How can people in the spotlight control their self-representations when the whole world seems to be watching? The question is familiar, but not new. Julia Fawcett examines the stages, pages, and streets of eighteenth-century ...
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    Resonance of Unseen Things 

    Lepselter, Susan (2016-03-01)
    The Resonance of Unseen Things offers an ethnographic meditation on the “uncanny” persistence and cultural freight of conspiracy theory. The project is a reading of conspiracy theory as an index of a certain strain of late ...
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    The Chatter of the Visible 

    McBride, Patrizia C. (2016-03-01)
    The Chatter of the Visible examines the paradoxical narrative features of the photo montage aesthetics of artists associated with Dada, Constructivism, and the New Objectivity. While montage strategies have commonly been ...
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    Mixed-Member Electoral Systems in Constitutional Context 

    Batto, Nathan F.; Huang, Chi; Tan, Tan C.; Cox, Gary W. (2016-05-01)
    "Reformers have promoted mixed-member electoral systems as the “best of both worlds.” In this volume, internationally recognized political scientists evaluate the ways in which the introduction of a mixed-member electoral ...
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    Risk Criticism 

    Wallace, Molly (2016-05-01)
    Risk Criticism is a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. In 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset its iconic Doomsday Clock to ...
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    Refining Child Pornography Law 

    Hessick, Carissa Byrne (2016-05-01)
    The legal definition of child pornography is, at best, unclear. In part because of this ambiguity and in part because of the nature of the crime itself, the prosecution and sentencing of perpetrators, the protection of and ...
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    Envisioning Socialism 

    Gumbert, Heather L. (2014-01-27)
    "Envisioning Socialism examines television and the power it exercised to define the East Germans’ view of socialism during the first decades of the German Democratic Republic. In the first book in English to examine this ...
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    Bluestocking Feminism and British-German Cultural Transfer, 1750-1837 

    Johns, Alessa (2014-08-27)
    Bluestocking Feminism and British-German Cultural Transfer, 1750–1837 examines the processes of cultural transfer between Britain and Germany during the Personal Union, the period from 1714 to 1837 when the kings of England ...
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    Black Musician and the White City 

    Absher, Amy (2014-06-16)
    Amy Absher’s The Black Musician and the White City tells the story of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-twentieth century. While depicting the segregated city before World War II, Absher traces the ...
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    Consumption and Violence 

    Sedlmaier, Alexander (2014-10-13)
    Combining the tools of political, social, cultural, and intellectual history, Consumption and Violence: Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany explores strategies of legitimization developed by advocates of militant ...
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    The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry 

    Rambsy II, Howard (2011-09-26)
    The outpouring of creative expression known as the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s spawned a burgeoning number of black-owned cultural outlets, including publishing houses, performance spaces, and galleries. ...
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    News and Frontier Consciousness in the Late Roman Empire 

    Graham, Mark W. (2006-11-27)
    Prior to the third century A.D., two broad Roman conceptions of frontiers proliferated and competed: an imperial ideology of rule without limit coexisted with very real and pragmatic attempts to define and defend imperial ...
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    Publishing Blackness 

    Hutchinson, George B.; Young, John K. (2013-02-08)
    From the white editorial authentication of slave narratives, to the cultural hybridity of the Harlem Renaissance, to the overtly independent publications of the Black Arts Movement, to the commercial power of Oprah's Book ...
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    Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea 

    Horowitz, Joshua; Anderson, Casey (2009-04-29)
    When gun enthusiasts talk about constitutional liberties guaranteed by the Second Amendment, they are referring to freedom in a general sense, but they also have something more specific in mind---freedom from government ...
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    Mammographies 

    DeShazer, Mary K. (2013-06-10)
    While breast cancer continues to affect the lives of millions, contemporary writers and artists have responded to the ravages of the disease in creative expression. Mary K. DeShazer’s book looks specifically at breast ...
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    Mongrel Nation 

    Dawson, Ashley (2007-07-13)
    Mongrel Nation surveys the history of the United Kingdom’s African, Asian, and Caribbean populations from 1948 to the present, working at the juncture of cultural studies, literary criticism, and postcolonial theory. Ashley ...
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    Late Sophocles 

    Van Nortwick, Thomas (2015-02-26)
    "Only a few plays by Sophocles—one of the great tragic playwrights from Classical Athens—have survived, and each of them dramatizes events from the rich store of myths that framed literature and art. Sophocles’ treatment ...
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    American Stravinsky 

    Murchison, Gayle (2012-02-21)
    One of the country's most enduringly successful composers, Aaron Copland created a distinctively American style and aesthetic in works for a diversity of genres and mediums, including ballet, opera, and film. Also active ...
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    Anatomizing Civil War 

    Dinter, Martin T. (2013-01-30)
    Imperial Latin epic has seen a renaissance of scholarly interest. This book illuminates the work of the poet Lucan, a contemporary of the emperor Nero who as nephew of the imperial adviser Seneca moved in the upper echelons ...
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    American Power and International Theory at the Council on Foreign Relations, 1953-54 

    McCourt, David M. (2020)
    Between December 1953 and June 1954, the elite think-tank the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) joined prominent figures in International Relations, including Pennsylvania’s Robert Strausz-Hupé, Yale’s Arnold Wolfers, the ...
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    State of Empowerment 

    Barnes, Carolyn (2020)
    On weekday afternoons, dismissal bells signal not just the end of the school day but also the beginning of another important activity: the federally funded after-school programs that offer tutoring, homework help, and basic ...
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    #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation 

    De Kosnik, Abigail; Feldman, Keith (2019)
    "Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has served as a major platform for political performance, social justice activism, and large-scale public debates over race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and nationality. It has empowered ...
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    Tactics of the Human 

    Shackelford, Laura (2015)
    Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction examines the comparative perspective on digital cultures contemporary American fiction develops through the creative transposition of digital rhetorics and ...
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    Science Fiction in Argentina: Technologies of the Text in a Material Multiverse 

    Page, Joanna (2016)
    It has become something of a critical commonplace to claim that science fiction does not actually exist in Argentina. This book puts that claim to rest by identifying and analyzing a rich body of work that fits squarely ...
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    Making News at The New York Times 

    Usher, Nikki (2014)
    An ethnographic study of The New York Times’ business desk provides a unique vantage point to see the future for news in the digital age
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    Manifesto for the Humanities: Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times 

    Ann Smith, Sidonie (2015)
    After a remarkable career in higher education, Sidonie Smith offers Manifesto for the Humanities as a reflective contribution to the current academic conversation over the place of the Humanities in the 21st century. Her ...
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    Ethical Programs: Hospitality and the Rhetorics of Software 

    Brown, James (2015)
    Living in a networked world means never really getting to decide in any thoroughgoing way who or what enters your “space” (your laptop, your iPhone, your thermostat . . . your home). With this as a basic frame-of-reference, ...
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    Web Writing: Why and How for Liberal Arts Teaching and Learning 

    Dougherty, Jack; O'Donnell, Tennyson (2015)
    Teaching writing across the curriculum with online tools
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    Imagining the Global: Transnational Media and Popular Culture Beyond East and West 

    Darling-Wolf, Fabienne (2014)
    Based on a series of case studies of globally distributed media and their reception in different parts of the world, Imagining the Global reflects on what contemporary global culture can teach us about transnational cultural ...
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    Campaign Finance and Political Polarization: When Purists Prevail 

    La Raja, Raymond; Schaffner, Brian (2015)
    Efforts to reform the U.S. campaign finance system typically focus on the corrupting influence of large contributions. Yet, as Raymond J. La Raja and Brian F. Schaffner argue, reforms aimed at cutting the flow of money ...
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    Internationalizing "International Communication" 

    Lee, Chin-Chuan (2015)
    International communication as a field of inquiry is, in fact, not very “internationalized.” Rather, it has been taken as a conceptual extension or empirical application of U.S. communication, and much of the world outside ...
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    Big Digital Humanities: Imagining a Meeting Place for the Humanities and the Digital 

    Svensson, Patrik (2016)
    Big Digital Humanities has its origins in a series of seminal articles Patrik Svensson published in the Digital Humanities Quarterly between 2009 and 2012. As these articles were coming out, enthusiasm around Digital ...
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