Culture control critique : allegories of reading the present by Beckman, Frida

Table of Contents: “…Spatial preoccupations -- Celebrating ruins: The drowned world, The drought, The crystal world -- Filling the gaps: Crash, Concrete island, High rise -- Coming into allegory: Cocaine nights, Super-Cannes, Millennium people, Kingdom come -- Totalities, allegories and revolutions -- Cultural critique and form -- Time, allegory, control. …”
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Toward the winter solstice : new poems by Steele, Timothy

Table of Contents: “…Part I; Toward the Winter Solstice; Snow; Champlain Evening; Yellow Birches; Sepulveda Basin Mallards; Didelphis Virginiana; Anima; The Swing; Herb Garden; April 27, 1937; Siglo de Oro; Jardin des Tuileries; In the Memphis Airport; In the Italian Alps; Fountain in the City; Freudian Analysis; Joanna, Wading; Daybreak, Benedict Canyon; Part II; Gym Nights; Ethel Taylor; Vermont Transit; Henry and Elvis; A Muse; Faustina; Sad Epigrams; At the Chautauqua Channel; In a Eucalyptus Grove; Black Phoebe; The Middle Years; For Victoria, Traveling in Europe; Swimming in Winter; August.…”
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The twilight war : the secret history of America's thirty-year conflict with Iran by Crist, David

Table of Contents: “…Maps -- "A little king in your heart" -- A new grand strategy -- Barbed-wire Bob -- A den of spies -- A fig leaf of neutrality -- Sharon's grand design -- A spectacular action -- The American Hamlet -- Sleepy hollow -- Arms for the Ayatollah -- A ring on the American finger -- The wake-up call -- The invisible hand of God -- A window of opportunity -- The night stalkers -- A very close call -- No higher honor -- Good-bye, Captain Nasty -- The terrible climax -- Goodwill begets goodwill -- War or peace -- An atrocity -- An axis of evil -- Defeat or victory -- The freedom agenda -- A quasi-war -- An extended hand and a closed fist.…”


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Forest Echoes. by Alembong, Nol

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; The Beginning; Forest; Forest Echoes; The Crossing; Living East of the Mungo; Remembering February 11, 1961; The Democrat and His Fans; The Sin to Glory; The New Prophets; The Plague; Tears; Sleepwalking; The Aerial Tour; Bamenda; Harvest Reports; Tug-of-war; Harvest Thanksgiving; Of Good and Bad Dogs; Saturday Nights off Campus; Asumpta; Lebialem; Bangwa Tiger; To an Ambazonian Warrior; To You, Florence; Cycles; Bridging the Atlantic; Speaking; Favourite Name; Song of Awambeh; Tekwombuo; Anqwa; The Celebration; Hunting; Tell Me.…”
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Otherness in Hollywood Cinema. by Richardson, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Hollywood Cinema and the 'Other'; Chapter 1 The Other and the Wilderness; Chapter 2 The Myth of the Frontier; Chapter 3 Chasing Chinese Shadows: The Yellow Peril Reconsidered; Chapter 4 The Exotic as Spectacle; Chapter 5 Otherness in the Night: Film Noir; Chapter 6 Of Monsters and Cold Wars; Chapter 7 The Myth of the Zombie; Chapter 8 Apocalypse Now on a Borderline of Consciousness; Chapter 9 Refigurations of the Exotic in Contemporary Cinema; Chapter 10 Steven Spielberg and the Sanctification of Difference.…”
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Conflict and Development in Iranian Film. by Seyed-Gohrab, A. A.

Table of Contents: “…Conflict and Development in Iranian Film; Content; Acknowledgements; Politics and Persistence: The Development of Iranian Film; The Sound of Frogs at Night: Kiarostami's Philosophy of Cinema; Sexuality and Cultural Change: The Presentation of Sex and Gender in Pre- and Post-revolutionary Iranian Cinema; Kiarostami's Cinematic Poetry in Where is the Friend's Home? …”
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The taxi-dance hall : a sociological study in commercialized recreation and city life by Cressey, Paul Goalby

Table of Contents: “…THE TAXI-DANCE HALL: WHAT IT IS; I.A Night in the Taxi-Dance Hall; II. The Taxi-Dance Hall as a Type; PART II. …”
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Lisa and the lacemaker : the graphic novel by Hoopmann, Kathy, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Lisa and the Lacemaker: An Asperger Adventure, written by Kathy Hoopmann, adapted and illustrated by Mike Medaglia; Chapter 1: The Party; Chapter 2: Great Aunt Hannah; Chapter 3: Lace; Chapter 4: Off to Ben's Place; Chapter 5: The Door; Chapter 6: A Hidden Hideaway; Chapter 7: Secret Rooms; Chapter 8: Food, Horrible Food; Chapter 9: Night Lessons; Chapter 10: Metal Detecting; Chapter 11: The Present; Chapter 12: The Lacemaker; Chapter 13: School; Chapter 14: Running; Chapter 15: Gwyneth; Chapter 16: Lisa the Gimp; Chapter 17: Over Coffee; Chapter 18: Spoon Mystery.…”
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Cracking the Particle Code of the Universe. by Moffat, John W.

Table of Contents: “…Data That Go Bump in the Night; 7. Trying to Identify the 125-GeV Bump; 8. …”
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Ark : poems by Isles, John

Table of Contents: “…Part I : To a Pretending Leaf ; Static Report ; Carrion Days ; Sirens ; Out of the Past ; Elegy for the Present Moment ; Small Traveling Islands ; General Trees -- Part II : Covenant ; West of Here, North of True ; The Evangelist of Fish ; City upon a Hill ; Saint in the Wilderness ; New World Narratives ; The Old Hunting Grounds ; The Night-Flier's Song ; Western Landscape with Storm ; Natural History ; Every City -- Part III : How the Dead Kiss -- Part IV : The Blouse Keeps Opening ; The Wounded Angel ; Our Daughter ; Impossible Garden ; As One with Foot in Mouth ; Like Freedom ; Outlaws, According to the Movies ; In the Erogenous Zone of the Body Politic.…”
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Military high schools in America by Trousdale, William

Table of Contents: “…. -- Part III : Watchman, what of the night? Downward toward disaster ; Man to man ; Crooked timber ; Tradition into tragedy ; Broken windows -- Part IV : Monastery or magic kingdom. …”
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The people of the abyss by London, Jack

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; The People of the Abyss; Preface; The Descent; Johnny Upright; My Lodgings and Some Others; A Man and the Abyss; Self-neglect; Those on the Edge; Frying-pan Alley and a Glimpse of Inferno; A Winner of the Victoria Cross; The Carter and the Carpenter; The Spike; Carrying the Banner; The Peg; Coronation Day; Dan Cullen, Docker; Hops and Hoppers; The Sea Wife; Property versus Person; Inefficiency; Wages; The Ghetto; Coffee-houses and Doss-houses; The Precariousness of Life; Suicide; The Children; A Vision of the Night; The Hunger Wail.…”
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Women and revenge in Shakespeare : gender, genre, and ethics by Tassi, Marguerite A., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Women and revenge: some literary, iconographic, and intellectual foundations -- Valorous tongues, lamenting voices: the expressive ethics of female inciters in Shakespeare's plays -- Reporting the women's causes aright: wounded names and revenge narratives in Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, and Much ado about nothing -- Hecuba's legacy: wounded maternity and vengeance in the First tetralogy and Titus Andronicus -- "Revenging home": Cordelia and the virtue of vengeance -- Twelfth night, or what Maria wills -- Feminine vindication and the social drama of revenge in The merry wives of Windsor -- The quality of revenge: debt, reciprocity, and Portia's "vantage" in The merchant of Venice -- Women's gall, women's grace: female friendship, moral rebuke, and the vindictive passions.…”
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Poetry for students. Volume 40 : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry

Table of Contents: “…Another feeling / by Ruth Stone -- Civilian and soldier / by Wole Soyinka -- Defining the grateful gesture / by Yvonne Sapia -- For the young who want to / by Marge Piercy -- I am learning to abandon the world / by Linda Pastan -- In just / by e.e. cummings -- The journey / by Mary Oliver -- Legal alien / by Pat Mora -- London / by William Blake -- Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / by Alfred Edward Housman -- The moon at the fortified pass / by Li Po -- The mother / by Gwendolyn Brooks -- Night journey / by Theodore Roethke -- Spring and fall : to a young girl / by Gerard Manley Hopkins -- We wear the mask / by Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Who understands me but me / by Jimmy Santiago Baca.…”
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Bullets on the water : Canadian refugee stories by Grouev, Ivaylo, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…The lonely lucky man: Albania -- A supersonic delivery: Somalia -- The longest night: Iran -- An endangered species: Yugoslavia-Serbia -- Homeland for one: Moldova -- Jump higher!…”
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Fantasia

Table of Contents: “…Hee, Norm Ferguson ; music, Amilcare Ponchielli -- Night on bald mountain / director, Wilfred Jackson ; music, Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky -- Ave Maria / director, Wilfred Jackson ; music, Franz Schubert.…”

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Sleepwalking Is It Real?

Table of Contents: “…(3:04) -- Criminal Defense of a Parasomniac (4:15) -- Sleepwalking Acquittals (3:21) -- Evidence of Sleepwalking (1:12) -- Sleepwalking Stories (1:18) -- REM Sleep Science (1:52) -- NREM Sleep Stages (1:43) -- Influences on Somnambulism (1:32) -- A Sleep Study (2:22) -- Sleep Eating (4:38) -- Night Terrors and Sleep Sex (5:40) -- Sleepwalking Murder Defense (10:28) -- Controversial Sleepwalking Defense (3:48) -- Judicial Skepticism (3:02) -- Is the Sleepwalking Defense a Sham? …”
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Weber's Der Freischütz (Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series). by Fisher, Burton D.

Table of Contents: “….; Act II -- Scene 2: The Wolf's Glen. It is night.; Act III: Scene 1: In the forest.; Act III -- Scene 2: Agathe's room. …”
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Hapa girl : a memoir by Chai, May-lee

Table of Contents: “…1 The Wearing of the Green; 2 The Sexy Artist Meets the Boy From New York City; 3 How to Charm a Mother-in-Law; 4 California Dreamin'; 5 The Banana; 6 The Banana's Revenge; 7 Autumn in the Country; 8 Hunting Season; 9 The Little Things; 10 The Closet; 11 My Last Confession; 12 Bugs; 13 The Fall of the Prince; 14 The Jade Tree; 15 The Nights of Many Prayers; 16 What You Don't Know Can Hurt You; 17 Stephen King High; 18 Barbarians; 19 Glamour Puss; 20 The Cannibals; 21 The Fine Art of Denial.…”
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Gleam. by Broom, Sarah, 1972-2013

Table of Contents: “…Cover Page; Title Page; Content; holding the line; if I could land; tides; vigil; One story and the other; disorder in the night; breath; introduction (belated); because; astral; the skeleton and the wave; the skeleton dances under the stars; Creature; tender; anchor; Meditation on dying; Of Necessity; wind; The Bony Crowd Whispered Thinly; river come gently; the fire; Little Black Stick Figure; small; undiluted; roses so close to the sea; you are my harbour; birdsong; Those are pearls; Healer; defrost the dog; Couplets; on not being very Zen about it all; About me and that moon; sleepers.…”
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