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Zines Straight From The Stacks: Self-Published Tracts From Library Workers, Alycia Sellie

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Negative Emotions And Music Revisited, Peter L. Manuel

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Review Of Sleepless Town, Michael Adams

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Review of Lee Chi Ngai's 1998 film: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2005/08/sleepless-town.html

Review Of The Innocents, Michael Adams

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Review of Jack Clayton's The Innocents: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2005/10/the-innocents.html

Review Of Ninotchka, Michael Adams

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Review of Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2005/09/ninotchka.html

Review Of Seven Men From Now, Michael Adams

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Review of Budd Boetticher's Seven Men from Now: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2006/01/seven-men-from-now.html

Review Of Two For The Road, Michael Adams

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Review of Stanley Donen's Two for the Road: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2005/11/two-for-the-road.html

Review Of The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers, Michael Adams

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Review of Lewis Milestone's The Strange Love of Martha Ivers: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2005/11/the-strange-love-of-martha-ivers.html

"You Better Work": Underground Dance Music In New York City By Kai Fikentscher, Eliot Bates

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You Better Work!: Underground Dance Music in New York City is arguably the first ethnography of electronic dance music culture; it is also one of the first ethnomusicologically-influenced monographs on mediated dance music. Kai Fikentscher deftly avoids the wealth of music industry genre tags (such as "deep house" or "two step garage") that plague many writings on electronic dance music, instead focusing on a specific dance community in New York City which began its social dance practice in the days of disco and continued the practice well into the 1990s. His study took place over the course of thirteen years, …

Enron And The Future Of U.S. Corporate Law And Policy *496 Enron And The Necessity Of The Objective Proximate Monitor, Charles M. Elson

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Health Education’S New Frontier In Addressing Corporate Influences On Health: An Interview With Nicholas Freudenberg, Nicholas Freudenberg, Ellen Jones, Lori Dorfman

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Nick Freudenberg is Distinguished Professor of Public Health at Hunter College, City University of New York. For the past 25 years, he has worked with community organizations to develop, implement, and evaluate community interventions to improve the well-being of low-income urban communities. He has also worked for many years in the New York City jail, running programs to improve the transition from jail to the community, and advocating for policy changes related to jail conditions and postrelease drug treatment, health care, and housing. More recently, he has turned his attention to the role of corporate policies and practices on the …

Rewriting The Holocaust Online: A Discourse Analysis Of Holocaust Denial Web Sites, Mark Aaron Polger

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This study is undertaken to learn how Holocaust deniers use Internet websites to attain legitimacy and credibility. I attempt to show that this sort of “historical revision” is actually blanketed anti-Semitism. I examine Holocaust denial as it is viewed by different disciplines. I investigate the main figures of Holocaust denial. As well, I analyze Jewish race theories of the past two hundred years to demonstrate how Jews have been perceived as aliens and as outsiders. The construction of the “Jew as outsider” sets the stage for how Holocaust deniers frame their discourse on their web pages. My research investigates a …

Lysophosphatidic Acid Induces Neointima Formation Through Pparγ Activation, Chunxiang Zhang, Daniel L. Baker, Satoshi Yasuda, Natalia Makarova, Louisa Balazs, Leonard R. Johnson, Gopal K. Marathe, Thomas M. Mcintyre, Yong Xu, Glenn D. Prestwich, Hoe-Sup Byun, Robert Bittman, Gabor Tigyi

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Neointimal lesions are characterized by accumulation of cells within the arterial wall and are a prelude to atherosclerotic disease. Here we report that a brief exposure to either alkyl ether analogs of the growth factor–like phospholipid lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), products generated during the oxidative modification of low density lipoprotein, or to unsaturated acyl forms of LPA induce progressive formation of neointima in vivo in a rat carotid artery model. This effect is completely inhibited by the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR)γ antagonist GW9662 and mimicked by PPARγ agonists Rosiglitazone and 1-O-hexadecyl-2-azeleoyl-phosphatidylcholine. In contrast, stearoyl-oxovaleryl phosphatidylcholine, a PPARα agonist and polypeptide epidermal …

Twin Pillars Of Judicial Philosophy: The Impact Of The Ginsburg Collegiality And Gender Discrimination Principles On Her Separate Opinions Involving Gender Discrimination, Deborah Zalesne, Rebecca Barnhart

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Consuming (F)Ears Of Corn: Public Health And Biopharming, Rebecca Bratspies

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To Elect Or Not To Elect: A Case Study Of Judicial Selection In New York City, 1977-2002, Steve Zeidman

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Reparations For Apartheid's Victims: The Path To Reconciliation?, Penelope Andrews

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Trusset: Parallel Development Of Software And Construction Systems For Space-Truss Structures, Cory Clarke, Phillip Anzalone

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Predicting The Success Of Commercial Aska Services, In The United States And Abroad, Kate Lyons, Jenny M. Baum

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This article discusses the quality of commercial and library-sponsored AskA services and uses this as a prediction for the success of the programs. The authors also explore the idea of the commoditization of information and its acceptance rates in different countries, and use these to predict the success of commercial and library-sponsored AskA services both in the United States and abroad.

Say It Loud! African-American Audiences, Media, And Identity, Gordon Alley-Young

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In The Name Of Harmony And Prosperity: Labor And Gender Politics In Taiwan's Economic Restructuring (Introduction And Chapter 1), Anru Lee

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Resources For Forensic Psychology., Ellen A. Sexton

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Libraries supporting a forensic psychology undergraduate and/or graduate level college program need to collect materials from a range of disciplines – psychology, law, psychiatry and criminal justice. In this guide I identify the major reference works, journals, databases and other resources that should be in a good forensic psychology collection.

Reconfiguring Childhood Boys And Girls Growing Up Global, Cindi Katz

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Children are a spur, a commitment, a way of imaging the future—but all too often these sorts of phrases just rattle around a vacuum, their utterance the beginning and end of the commitment. We emphasize “the best interests of the child,”but this gloss provides a moral imperative to all manner of uncompleted projects and unfulfilled policies. Likewise, the use of children’s images or presence in public forums of all types gives a patina of honorableness to practices and plans that never actually make good on the promissory note of childhood. The 1992 Rio Earth Summit is a notable example. Such …

Creative Uses Of Cultural Genres, Colette Daiute

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Telling - or writing - a story about an event in your life is telling a social story. Autobiographical narrations are also, to be sure, personal and unique, but the social nature of narrating is often overlooked in research and education. In particular, to appreciate what young people are doing when we ask them to share their personal experiences in public institutions like school, we need a theory to guide our reading of narratives as conversations.

This chapter focuses on how young narrators juggle the demanding yet potentially rewarding activity of narrating in public settings, and it offers insights for …

Prostitution, Hustling, And Sex Work Law And Policy, Polly Thistlethwaite

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Prostitution, hustling, and sex work are forms of labor, not erotic preferences or identities as are gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender, but sex workers and queers alike are stigmatized and criminalized for consensual sexual activity. The state – federal, state, and local law enforcement – routinely interferes with certain types of sexual activity. Enforcement of laws regulating sex behavior often varies given the discretion of local police. In her 1989 essay “Thinking Sex,” Gayle Rubin positions sex-for-money, prostitution, with pornography, promiscuous sex, pornography, and homosexual sex in the low status “outer limits” of the contemporary American sex hierarchy; while heterosexual, …

Antagonism And Relational Aesthetics, Claire Bishop

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A critique of relational aesthetics, as theorized by Nicolas Bourriaud, and exemplified in the work of Rirkrit Tiravanija and Liam Gillick. Using Laclau and Mouffe's theory of democracy as antagonism, the paper proposes instead a 'relational antagonism' found in certain projects by Santiago Sierra and Thomas Hirschhorn.

Would Brown Make It To New York City? The First Phase Of The Battle For School Integration, 1954-1957, Kristopher B. Burrell

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This conference paper looks at the struggle to desegregate New York's City's public schools in the immediate aftermath of the Brown v Board of Education decision in 1954. For the first three years following the Supreme Court decision, the New York City Board of Education make public overtures toward fulfilling the letter and spirit of Brown in New York, but in practice the Board of Education engaged in stalling and half-measures that succeeded in effectively stopping widespread school desegregation in the city.

Europarl: The European Parliament On-Line, John A. Drobnicki

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Review of EUROPARL: The European Parliament On-Line.

Review Of The Website City Directories Of The United States Of America, John A. Drobnicki

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Review of the website City Directories of the United States of America.

The Race For Globalization: Modernity, Resistance And The Unspeakable In Three African Francophone Texts, Francesca Sautman

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The "global village" that media pundits and politicians evoke as general currency might well be visualized, in this onset of the twenty-first century, as a village beset by fires, riot, and rampage, where hunger reigns unopposed. The paradox of the term poorly conceals the untold violence that the violence of rhetoric seeks to erase. Yet, contemporary African Francophone texts have been tearing off this mask for decades, locating themselves less often in idyllic villages, and more frequently, on the cable lines of suffering between dying villages and indigent cities. In the literature of the 1980s, the focus of this essay, …