Hegemony in the digital age : the Arab/Israeli conflict online by Marmura, Stephen M. E., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction : identity and authority in the age of networks -- Aims and scope -- Key terms and concepts -- Political mobilization -- The Web as a mass medium -- War on the Web -- Ideology and civil society -- Net-based activism and American Mid-East policy -- Grassroots mobilization and political opportunity -- Activism and the Net : relevant precedents -- Contemporary peace camp activism -- Net-based activism and American Mid-East policy -- Public opinion -- Backdrop : the mainstream media as a legitimating identity -- The Web as an alternative mass medium -- The voice of legitimacy : CNN.com and the Arab/Israeli conflict -- Introduction -- CNN.com's "land of conflict" -- Dominant themes and validity claims -- Anchoring authority in a de-centered medium -- Closing remarks -- Hate and holy war on the WWW -- Confronting the other -- Stormfront.org : promoting the cause of "White nationalism" -- Kahane.org : fighting to eliminate Israel's "Arab cancer" -- Radioislam.org : defending Islam and the West from the "Jewish threat" -- Closing remarks -- Hate and holy war on the WWW -- The struggle for influence -- Social movement integration and growth -- Building alliances : virtual and real -- Discussion -- Hegemony reconsidered : the Internet, civil society, and social fragmentation.…”


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The best American science writing 2003

Table of Contents: “…Mann -- The learning curve / Atul Gawande -- A world of their own / Liza Mundy -- The melody lingers on / Floyd Skloot -- The world's numerical recipe / Frank Wilczek -- Emergent realities in the cosmos / Marcelo Gleiser -- Scientists reach out to distant worlds / Natalie Angier -- Here there be dragons / Margaret Wertheim -- Notes from a parallel universe / Jennifer Kahn -- Shadow creatures / Michelle Nijhuis -- You dirty vole / Gunjan Sinha -- Stalking the American lobster / Trevor Corson -- Fighting chance / Siddhartha Mukherjee -- The big bloom / Michael Klesius -- Why turn red? …”


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Killer in the Village

Table of Contents: “…AIDS Spreading From America to Britain (1:08) -- Greenwich Village Gay Culture (1:25) -- AIDS (2:52) -- First Indications of AIDS (1:41) -- Tracking Pentamidine (2:01) -- Opportunistic Diseass (2:31) -- AIDS Task Force (1:34) -- Bobbi Campbell (2:28) -- Immune System and AIDS (1:57) -- Stimulants (3:05) -- Immune Overload Theory (2:24) -- Indications of Sexual Transmission (2:27) -- Search for Virus (2:00) -- AIDS and Anal Sex (1:34) -- Heroin Users and AIDS (2:14) -- Toxoplasmosis Case (1:45) -- Investigating Toxoplasmosis (1:13) -- AIDS and Haiti (1:56) -- Hemophiliacs (2:05) -- Fighting Blood Contamination (1:27) -- Women with AIDS (1:53) -- Babies with AIDS and Slow Incubation (1:23) -- Signs of Long Incubation Period (2:13) -- Prisoner Near Death (1:40) -- Identifying AIDS (1:41) -- Attempts at Cure (2:36) -- Painful Changes for Gays (3:03) -- Credits: Killer in the Village (0:27)…”
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Singing bronze : a history of carillon music by Rombouts, Luc

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER 13 -- In search of the sound of the pastCHAPTER 14 -- A soul in peace, among the stars; CHAPTER 15 -- The broken bells of Flanders; CHAPTER 16 -- Memorial bells; CHAPTER 17 -- New carillon construction in the Old Country; CHAPTER 18 -- 'The bells fight with us'; CHAPTER 19 -- Dutch manufacture versus Carillon Americana; CHAPTER 20 -- Innovations in the Old and the New World; CHAPTER 21 -- Panorama of the new carillon art; Sources and acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliography; Origin of the illustrations; Indices.…”
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An everyday life of the English working class : work, self and sociability in the early nineteenth century by Steedman, Carolyn

Table of Contents: “…; 1 An introduction, shewing what kind of history this is; what it is like, and what it is not like; 2 Books do furnish a mind; 3 Family and friends; 4 Fears as loyons: drinking and fighting; 5 Sex and the single man; 6 Talking law; 7 Earthly powers; 8 Getting and spending; 9 Knitting and frames; 10 The knocking at the gate: General Ludd; 11 Some conclusions: writing everyday; Bibliography; Archival documents; Berkshire County Record Office, Reading.…”
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Triumph Revisited : Historians Battle for the Vietnam War. by Wiest, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Historians and the Vietnam War; Section I: The Vietnam War in an Asian Perspective; Chapter 1 The Vietnamese Civil War of 19551975 in Historical Perspective; Chapter 2 Ngo Dinh Diem and South Vietnam Reconsidered; Chapter 3 What We Still Do Not Know; Chapter 4 A One-sided Picture of the ChineseVietnamese Ties during the Vietnam War; Chapter 5 Section I Response; Section II: Debating Triumph Forsaken as History; Chapter 6 Triumph Impossible; Chapter 7 Fighting Stories.…”
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Digital divide : teachers, technology, and the classroom

Table of Contents: “…Computer Skills: The New Basics (5:00) -- Education Bridges the Digital Divide (5:21) -- Hoover Elementary School (5:35) -- Debates For and Against Computers (4:09) -- Computer Integration (4:03) -- Children Using Computers to Learn (2:31) -- Computers Enhancing Teachers (1:09) -- Technology Training for Teachers (4:27) -- Problems of Funding Technology (5:11) -- Funding for Maintaining Technology (5:00) -- Technology With Community Support (6:49) -- Computer Literacy for Success (2:30) -- Virtual Diversity (4:18) -- Technology Divided by Communities (4:22) -- Technologically Impoverished (4:36) -- Access Begets Usage (3:32) -- Computer Technology Centers (4:12) -- Computers Keep Kids in School (2:40) -- Technology: A Male-Dominated Field (4:25) -- Fighting Gender Stereotypes (3:50) -- Gender Bias in the Classroom (3:05) -- Girl-Friendly Computer Classes (4:07) -- Girl-Friendly Technology (3:04) -- Girl-Friendly Software (3:44) -- Computer Environment for Girls (4:29) -- Bridging the Digital Divide (3:26)…”
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Digital divide teachers, technology, and the classroom

Table of Contents: “…Computer Skills: The New Basics (5:00) -- Education Bridges the Digital Divide (5:21) -- Hoover Elementary School (5:35) -- Debates For and Against Computers (4:09) -- Computer Integration (4:03) -- Children Using Computers to Learn (2:31) -- Computers Enhancing Teachers (1:09) -- Technology Training for Teachers (4:27) -- Problems of Funding Technology (5:11) -- Funding for Maintaining Technology (5:00) -- Technology With Community Support (6:49) -- Computer Literacy for Success (2:30) -- Virtual Diversity (4:18) -- Technology Divided by Communities (4:22) -- Technologically Impoverished (4:36) -- Access Begets Usage (3:32) -- Computer Technology Centers (4:12) -- Computers Keep Kids in School (2:40) -- Technology: A Male-Dominated Field (4:25) -- Fighting Gender Stereotypes (3:50) -- Gender Bias in the Classroom (3:05) -- Girl-Friendly Computer Classes (4:07) -- Girl-Friendly Technology (3:04) -- Girl-Friendly Software (3:44) -- Computer Environment for Girls (4:29) -- Bridging the Digital Divide (3:26)…”
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Gilmore girls and the politics of identity essays on family and feminism in the television series

Table of Contents: “…Fleegal -- Gender lies in Stars Hollow / Brenda Boyle and Olivia Combe -- Food fights: Food and its consumption as a narrative device / Lindsay Coleman -- Still more Gilmore: How Internet fan communities remediate Gilmore girls / Daniel Smith-Rowsey.…”
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Colonel House : a biography of Woodrow Wilson's silent partner by Neu, Charles E.

Table of Contents: “…Peacemaking, 1919-1920 -- Waiting for the Peace Conference -- The Peace Conference, I -- The Peace Conference, II -- The fight for the League -- Part VI. Elder statesman, 1921-1938 -- The end of the Wilson Era -- New beginnings -- Marking time -- Victory at last -- The crisis of the 1930s -- Epilogue: crossing the river.…”
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Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Mechanical, Automotive and Materials Engineering CMAME 2022, 16–18 December, Hanoi, Vietnam

Table of Contents: “…Effect of Suspension System Stiffness on Dynamic Load Three Axle Vehicle -- Trajectory Inference Optimization Based on Improved DR Algorithm -- Research on AGV Chassis Structural Renovation based on Uphill and Downhill Scenarios -- Finding Recommendations for Selecting Numerical Model Settings for Efficient Simulation of the Working Process of an Axial Turbine Blade with Convective Cooling -- A Novel Design of Automatic Longan Seed Removing Machine -- A Semi-analytical Approach for Dynamic Characteristics of Beams with the Effect of Static Load -- Milling Tool Wear Prediction Based on 1DCNN-LSTM -- The Influence of Road Quality on Oscillating of Multi-Purpose Forest Fire Fighting Vehicle -- Filaments for 3D Printers from Surgical Masks, Cornstarch and Plastic Bottles Generated by COVID-19 -- AFM Analysis of 3D Printing PEI for Automotive Applications Life Cycle Assessment of Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing Process -- Development of Cost-effective Sustainable Hybrid Composites Based on Recycled PP and Chopped Carbon Fibers -- Mechanism of Droplet Coalescence in Cylindrical Hydrocyclone -- Influence of Geometric Imperfections on Global Buckling Strengths of Cold-rolled Aluminium Alloy Channel Columns.…”
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Poems from Guantánamo : the detainees speak

Table of Contents: “…They fight for peace / Shaker Abdurraheem Aamer -- O prison darkness / Abdulaziz -- I shall not complain / Abdulaziz -- To my father / Abdulla Thani Faris al-Anazi -- Lions in the cage / Ustad Badruzzaman Badr -- Homeward bound / Moazzam Begg -- Death poem / Jumah al Dossari -- They cannot help / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost -- Cup poems 1. / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost -- Cup poem 2 / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost -- Two fragments / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost -- First poem of my life / Mohammed El Gharani -- Humiliated in the shackles / Sami al Haj -- The truth / Emad Abdullah Hassan -- Is it true? …”
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Stirring up Seattle : Allied Arts in the civic landscape by Campbell, R. M. (Richard M.)

Table of Contents: “…Schell; Chapter 14 / Art Funded by the Public Purse; Chapter 15 / Jerry Thonn; Chapter 16 / Fighting to Regulate Billboards; Chapter 17 / Mary B. …”
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Der Erste Weltkrieg zur See. by Epkenhans, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Inhalt; Einleitung; Die deutsche Seestrategie 1914-1918; Learning to Fight On, Above and Below the Water: Operational Challenges of the Royal Navy, 1914-1916; Unvorbereitet und schockiert. …”
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Wars and Betweenness Big Powers and Middle Europe, 1918-1945

Table of Contents: “…Diplomacy and petroleum: Italy's fight for Albanian oilfields, 1920-1925 / Alessandro Sette -- 7. …”
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Best left as Indians : native-white relations in the Yukon territory, 1840-1973 by Coates, Kenneth, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…1990 -- 9 The Modern Economy -- 10 Religion and Education -- 11 Government and Indians in the Modern North -- 12 Indians and Non-Native Society -- 13 Fighting for Their Place: The Emergence of Native Land Claims -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z…”
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Washington the Warrior

Table of Contents: “…Washington the Warrior: Film Overview (1:30) -- George Washington: Country Gentleman (3:05) -- Washington's First Mission (3:38) -- Bravery and Fortitude (5:02) -- Washington's Brashness (4:39) -- Washington's Fort Necessity (5:01) -- Command by Default (5:14) -- Virginia Militia (2:42) -- George Washington: Gentleman Farmer (3:51) -- Britain's Oppression (4:11) -- George Washington: Commander in Chief (4:32) -- British Leave Boston (1:33) -- British Forces on the Attack (6:58) -- Crossing the Delaware River (2:40) -- Battle of Trenton (2:05) -- Victory at Princeton (2:23) -- Washington's Strategy (1:05) -- British Victories (4:50) -- Valley Forge: Race Against Time (2:58) -- American Army: Fighting Machine (4:38) -- British Campaign in the South (2:04) -- Disintegration of Rebel Army (2:24) -- Second and Third Southern Armies (3:07) -- Battle of Yorktown (3:46) -- End of Revolutionary War (6:07) -- Credits: Washington the Warrior (0:31)…”
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Modern Islamic Thinking and Activism Dynamics in the West and in the Middle East

Table of Contents: “…Social work, poverty , inequality and social safety nets : voluntary welfare organizations / Jonathan Benthall ; Tradition and modernity in social Islam : the case of Muslim NGOs in Jordan / Egbert Harmsen ; Fighting poverty with Kimse Yok Mu / Thomas Michel -- Conclusion. …”
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MacroWikinomics : rebooting business and the world by Tapscott, Don, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Creating public value : government as a platform for social achievement ; The rise of the citizen regulator ; Solving global problems : beyond the nation-state ; Fighting for justice : user-generated freedom, from Tehran to Rangoon to Beijing -- Conclusion. …”


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Washington the Warrior

Table of Contents: “…Washington the Warrior: Film Overview (1:30) -- George Washington: Country Gentleman (3:05) -- Washington's First Mission (3:38) -- Bravery and Fortitude (5:02) -- Washington's Brashness (4:39) -- Washington's Fort Necessity (5:01) -- Command by Default (5:14) -- Virginia Militia (2:42) -- George Washington: Gentleman Farmer (3:51) -- Britain's Oppression (4:11) -- George Washington: Commander in Chief (4:32) -- British Leave Boston (1:33) -- British Forces on the Attack (6:58) -- Crossing the Delaware River (2:40) -- Battle of Trenton (2:05) -- Victory at Princeton (2:23) -- Washington's Strategy (1:05) -- British Victories (4:50) -- Valley Forge: Race Against Time (2:58) -- American Army: Fighting Machine (4:38) -- British Campaign in the South (2:04) -- Disintegration of Rebel Army (2:24) -- Second and Third Southern Armies (3:07) -- Battle of Yorktown (3:46) -- End of Revolutionary War (6:07) -- Credits: Washington the Warrior (0:31)…”
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