Of Muse, Meandering and Midnight. by Watson, Samuel Wagan

Table of Contents: “…Cover; About the Author; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1: of muse; a prelude; magnesium girl; after 2am; back seat driver; on the river; waiting for the good man; raindrops fall in vain; chloe in the window box; the postman's privilege; musing: the graveyard shift; new farm is closed; 2: meandering; white stucco dreaming; the crooked men; falling mother sky; brown water looting; jetty nights; carefree; the mosquito room; mudflat; deadman's mouth harp; it starts; a verse for the cheated; 1986; the fatal garden; radio thick blood; 3: and midnight ... ; midnight's boxer; surgery music.…”
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Inventing place : writing Lone Star rhetorics

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: bodies, place, and Poiesis -- When you're pretty -- Figments of a future Austin: imagination on the rise -- Rhetorics of smoke and cedar: the terroir of Texas BBQ -- Drowning at the Poodle Dog -- The complete history of Parlin Hall (abridged version) -- Recirculating our racism: public memory, folklore, and place in East Texas -- Archiving devils -- Fort Worth by day, Cow Town by night, it's all to the West of Adios -- (White trash) Pantego -- Denton and the rhetorical appeal of authenticity -- Walnut Hill Story: memory, history, and the built environment in the experience of a place -- Reconciling Texas: or, inventing (a) place out of place -- From Bespoke to Baroque: folding and unfolding the burrito in San Antonio -- Texas without Texas: the septic tank Where Houston became modern in Paris, Texas -- Eagleville -- We all remember the Alamo: materializing the personal -- Notes from a Texas gun show -- El Paso, plastic bags, aesthetics -- Weary Land: the space and place of West Texas.…”
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The whole difference : selected writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal by Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1874-1929

Table of Contents: “…McClatchy -- Fiction. The tale of night six hundred and seventy-two (1895) / translated by Michael Henry Heim ; A tale of the cavalry (1898) / translated by Mary Hottinger -- Essays. …”
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Gender, sainthood, & everyday practice in South Asian Shi'ism by Ruffle, Karen G.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Transliteration; INTRODUCTION; 1 SAINTS ARE "REAL" PEOPLE: Imitable Sainthood in Shi'ism; 2 GOD'S STRONG WOMEN: Female & Feminine in Shi'i Sainthood; 3 THE SADDEST STORY EVER TOLD: Translating Karbala through Feminine Voices & Emotions into a Deccani Shi'i Idiom; 4 A BRIDE OF ONE NIGHT, A WIDOW FOREVER: Text & Ritual Performance in the Constitution of an Idealized South Asian Shi'i Selfhood; 5 WHO COULD MARRY AT A TIME LIKE THIS?…”
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Representing the Plague in Early Modern England. by Totaro, Rebecca

Table of Contents: “…Part III: Performances, Playhouses, and the Sites of Re-Creation6 "Sweet recreation barred": The Case for Playgoing in Plague-Time; 7 Shakespeare's Dual Lexicons of Plague: Infections in Speech and Space; 8 "A plague on both your houses": Sites of Comfort and Terror in Early Modern Drama; Part IV: Contemporary Turns; 9 Plague in A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Girardian Reading of Bottom and Hippolyta; 10 Dekker's and Middleton's Plague Pamphlets as Environmental Litera.…”
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Table lands : food in children's literature by Keeling, Kara K., Pollard, Scott T.

Table of Contents: “…An invitation to the table : the tastes of children's literature -- American children's cookbooks as scenes of instruction : tracking historical shifts of work, play, pleasure, and memory -- Puddings and pies : meat pastries in the tales of Beatrix Potter -- "A little smackerel of something" : food and the Künstlerroman in the Winnie-the-Pooh books -- Food of the woods and plains : two visions of food, culture, land, and history in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books and Louise Erdrich's Birchbark series -- "A profound love for luscious things" : food as symbolism and history in Maurice Sendak's In the Night Kitchen -- Dangerous angels : the Weetzie Bat books : food, place, and sparkly glam slinkster cool vegetarianism in Los Angeles -- Ratatouille and restaurants : a portrait of the artist as a young rat -- "Beating eggs never makes the evening news" : politics and kitchens in Rita Williams-García's One Crazy Summer and its sequels -- Refugee narratives, cuisine clash : the case of Thanhha Lai's Inside Out & Back Again.…”
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Each day : a veteran educator's guide to raising children by Wilson, Zebulon Vance

Table of Contents: “…-- What wakes you up in the middle of the night -- What benefits our labors -- An authoritative community -- Silas Marner and me -- Parade out the gargoyles -- Scaffolding and learning -- The freedom to choose one's way -- Let the children come -- The eagle and the selfies -- My students, now -- What we desire.…”
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The dirt riddles : poems by Walsh, Michael, 1973-

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The Time Left between Us by DeFonzo, Alicia

Table of Contents: “…Lost Men -- 14. O Holy Night -- 15. Christmas Eve -- 16. Werner and Gertrud -- 17. …”
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Collaborative intimacies in music and dance : anthropologies of sound and movement

Table of Contents: “…PART IV Bodies Dancing in Time and across Space Chapter 7 Rumba; Chapter 8 Cinematic Dance as a Local Critical Commentary on the 'Economic Crisis'; PART V Motion, Irony and the Making of Lifeworlds ; Chapter 9 Performing Irony on the Dance Floor; Chapter 10 The Intoxicating Intimacy of Drum Strokes, Sung Verses and Dancing Steps in the All-Night Ceremonies of Ambonwari (Papua New Guinea); Index.…”
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The smell of battle, the taste of siege : a sensory history of the Civil War by Smith, Mark M. (Mark Michael), 1968-

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Statistical Application Development with R and Python - Second Edition. by Tattar, Prabhanjan Narayanachar

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Fitzgerald & Hemingway : works and days by Donaldson, Scott, 1928-2020

Table of Contents: “…"This side of paradise": Fitzgerald's coming of age novel -- Possessions in "the Great Gatsby": Reading Gatsby closely -- The trouble with Nick: Reading Gatsby closely -- Money and marriage in Fitzgerald's stories -- A short history of "Tender is the night" -- pt. 3. Fitzgerald and his times. Fitzgerald's nonfiction -- The crisis of "The Crack-up" -- Fitzgerald's political development -- pt. 4. …”
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Translating life : studies in transpositional aesthetics

Table of Contents: “…Title Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; Translations in A Midsummer Night's Dream; Elizabethan Translation: the Art of the Hermaphrodite; From Stage to Page: Character through Theatre Practices in Romeo and Juliet; Translating the Elizabethan Theatre: the Politics of Nostalgia in Olivier's Henry V; Tempestuous Transformations; ' ... tinap ober we leck giant': African Celebrations of Shakespeare; (Post)colonial Translations in V.S. …”
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Hemispheres and Stratospheres The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment.

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Texas Ranger John B. Jones and the Frontier Battalion, 1874-1881 by Miller, Rick, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Irresistible on horseback -- Daring gallantry -- The right man -- No carpet-knight -- A heavy task -- The abominable legislature -- Kill all the Dutch -- Gallant and untiring -- Terribly tongue-lashed -- A Bedouin in the saddle -- Here comes the rangers! …”
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Black Fathers : an Invisible Presence in America, Second Edition. by Connor, Michael E.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter Seven: Finding yourself when you're not at homeSection Two: Father stories; Chapter Eight: Man-to-boy becoming man-to-man: A son's reflection; Chapter Nine: Birthright: Anecdotes of fatherhood, race, and redemption; Chapter Ten: Black fatherhood: Reflections, challenges, and lessons learned; Chapter Eleven: Black man defined: A boy with a purpose becomes a man when the purpose is fulfilled; Chapter Twelve: Making room for Black men to father and mentor; Section Three: Thoughts and reflections; Chapter Thirteen: Fatherhood love.…”
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Rockin' out : popular music in the USA by Garofalo, Reebee

Table of Contents: “…Popular music and political culture : the sixties -- The civil rights movement and popular music -- Girl groups, male producers and Brill building pop -- Motown: the integration of pop -- "Stop! …”


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The art of problem solving in organic chemistry by Alonso-Amelot, Miguel E.

Table of Contents: “…The Art of Problem Solving in Organic Chemistry; Contents; Preface; Text Organization; Reference; Preface to the First Edition; Acknowledgments; 1 Problem Analysis in Organic Reaction Mechanism; 1.1 Overview; 1.2 Introduction; 1.2.1 "Pushing Forward" a Solution in Formal and Exhaustive Terms; 1.2.2 Lessons from this Example; 1.3 Avoiding the Quagmire; 1.4 The Basic Steps of Problem Analysis; 1.4.1 Recognizing the Problem; 1.4.2 Analyzing Problems by Asking the Right Questions, Discarding the Irrelevant; 1.4.3 Drawing a First Outline for Guidance.…”
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Resilient health care. Volume 2, The resilience of everyday clinical work

Table of Contents: “…Wears -- Mobilising resilience by monitoring the right things for the right people at the right time / Al Ross and Janet Anderson -- Why is work-as-imagined different from work-as-done? …”
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