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David L. Pike
Subterranean Cities: The World Beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945

2005 y.
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Description: The underground has been a dominant image of modern life since the late eighteenth century. A site of crisis, fascination, and hidden truth, the underground is a space at once more immediate and more threatening than the ordinary world above. In Subterranean Cities, David L. Pike explores the representation of underground space in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period during which technology and heavy industry transformed urban life. The metropolis had long been considered a moral underworld of iniquity and dissolution. As the complex drainage systems, underground railways, utility tunnels, and storage vaults of the modern cityscape superseded the countryside of caverns and mines as the principal location of actual subterranean spaces, ancient and modern converged in a mythic space that was nevertheless rooted in the everyday life of the contemporary city. Writers and artists from Felix Nadar and Charles Baudelaire to Charles Dickens and Alice Meynell, Gustave… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0801472563
Book size: —; Page extent: 368.

 

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Sharon Smith
Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States

2006 y.
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Description: Workers in the United States have a rich tradition of fighting back and achieving gains previously thought unthinkable, from the weekend, to health care, to the right to even form a union. But in 2005, the number of workers organized in unions reached a 100-year low in both the public and private sectors, even though more and more people would like the protection of a union, and real wages for most workers have stagnated or declined since the early 1970s. Smith explores how the connection between the US labor movement and the Democratic Party, with its extensive corporate ties, has repeatedly held back working-class struggles. And she closely examines the role of the labor movement in the 2004 presidential election, tracing the shrinking electoral influence of organized labor and the failure of labor-management cooperation, `business unionism,` and reliance on the Democrats to deliver any real gains. Smith shows how a return to the fighting traditions of US… [detailed...]

ISBN: 193185923X
Book size: —; Page extent: 320.

 

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Irina Eremia Bragin
Subterranean Towers: A Father-daughter Story

2004 y.
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ISBN: 0595311369
Book size: —; Page extent: 298.

 

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Subtitles : On the Foreignness of Film

2004 y.
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Description: Book Description`Every film is a foreign film,` Atom Egoyan and Ian Balfour tell us in their introduction to Subtitles . How, then, to translate the experience of film -- which, as Egoyan says, makes us `feel outside and inside at the same time`? Taking subtitles as their point of departure, the thirty-two contributors to this unique collection consider translation, foreignness, and otherness in film culture. Their discussions range from the mechanics and aesthetics of subtitles themselves to the xenophobic reaction to translation to subtitles as a metaphor for the distance and intimacy of film. The essays, interviews, and visuals include a collaboration by Russell Banks and Atom Egoyan, which uses quotations from Banks`s novel The Sweet Hereafter as subtitles for publicity stills from Egoyan`s film of the book, three early film reviews by Jorge Luis Borges, an interview with filmmaker Claire Denis about a scene in her film Friday Night that should not… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0262050781
Book size: —; Page extent: 544.

 

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John Davidson
Subtle Energy

2004 y.
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ISBN: 0852071841
Book size: —; Page extent: 288.

 

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Abraham Pais
Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein

2005 y.
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Description: Subtle is the Lord is widely recognized as the definitive scientific biography of Albert Einstein. The late Abraham Pais was a distinguished physicist turned historian who knew Einstein both professionally and personally in the last years of his life. His biography combines a profound understanding of Einstein`s work with personal recollections from their years of acquaintance, illuminating the man through the development of his scientific thought. Pais examines the formulation of Einstein`s theories of relativity, his work on Brownian motion, and his response to quantum theory with authority and precision. The profound transformation Einstein`s ideas effected on the physics of the turn of the century is here laid out for the serious reader. Pais also fills many gaps in what we know of Einstein`s life - his interest in philosophy, his concern with Jewish destiny, and his opinions of great figures from Newton to Freud. This remarkable volume, written by a physicist who mingled in… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0192806726
Book size: —; Page extent: 584.

 

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Nijole V. Benokraitis
Subtle Sexism: Current Practices and Prospects for Change

— y.
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Description: Systematically examining and documenting the range of discriminatory behaviour that many women experience on a daily basis, the editor of this volume demonstrates how subtle sexism devalues women and limits their work. Nijole V Benokraitis also explains how these practices can be challenged and changed. The four parts cover: the continuing significance of sexism, subtle sexism in organizational settings, subtle sexism as social control, and how to change subtle sexism practices. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0761903860
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Patricia J. Murphy
Subtracting Puppies And Kittens (Puppy &, Kitten Math)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0766027252
Book size: —; Page extent: 32.

 

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Rebecca Wingard-Nelson
Subtraction and Addition (Math Busters)

2008 y.
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ISBN: 0766028755
Book size: —; Page extent: 64.

 

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Brenda Case Scheer
Suburban Form: An International Perspective

2004 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionThis book demonstrates that suburban and peripheral development are a global phenomenon with interesting continuities despite cultural differences. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0415314763
Book size: —; Page extent: 272.

 

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Jamie McKelvie
Suburban Glamour

2008 y.
Publisher: Image Comics
Description: Life`s tough when you`re a teenager - homework, boy trouble, and meddling parents. So when you throw in imaginary friends turned real, monster attacks, and faerie magic - well, that`s just not fair, is it? Suburban Glamour follows Astrid Johnson as she and her best friend Dave get caught in a faerie family battle that stretches back through the centuries. Modern teenage life meets age-old magic in this story from the co-creator of Phonogram! [detailed...]

ISBN: 1582408785
Book size: —; Page extent: 104.

 

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Gary Wharton
Suburban London Cinemas

2009 y.
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Description: Through the medium of old photographs, programs, and advertisements, this book provides a fascinating look at the history of cinema-going across the suburbs of London during the last century. Among the 50 historic cinemas featured are the Finsbury Park Astoria, the Maida Vale Picture House, the Shepherds Bush Pavilion, the West Ealing Kinema, the Woolwich Granada and Kilburn`s Gaumont State. Illustrated with 100 images, this well-researched and informative volume will delight all those who have fond memories of visiting some of London`s long-since vanished cinemas. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0750949538
Book size: —; Page extent: 128.

 

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Hannah Holmes
Suburban Safari : A Year on the Lawn

2005 y.
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Description: When science writer Hannah Holmes decided to spend a year studying the inhabitants of her 0.2-acre patch of ground in suburban Portland, Maine, she went about the task with an ecologist`s enthusiasm and a scientist`s compulsive eye for detail. The result is an entertaining and effortlessly compelling examination of nature`s stubborn (and successful) struggle to exist in the face of daunting manmade challenges. Holmes`s lawn, unfertilized and rarely mowed, turns out to be a surprisingly diverse ecosystem of bird, mammal, and insect life--a self-perpetuating, constantly evolving community of chipmunks, ladybugs, spiders, slugs, and crows. These creatures, and the complex relationships between them, are the raw material for Holmes`s incisive reflections on natural history, urban ecology, and the ignominious story of the over-irrigated, pesticide-laced American lawn--rolling out, Holmes notes, at a rate of one million acres per year. What drives Holmes is not just concern for the natural… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1582344795
Book size: —; Page extent: 240.

 

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Douglas Knerr
Suburban Steel: The Magnificent Failure of the Lustron Corporation, 1945-1951 (Urban Life and Urban Landscape Series)

— y.
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ISBN: 0814209610
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Jennifer Gordon
Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights

2007 y.
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Description: Jorge Bonilla is hospitalized with pneumonia from sleeping at the restaurant where he works, unable to afford rent on wages of thirty cents an hour. Domestic worker Yanira Juarez discovers she has labored for six months with no wages at all, her employer lied about establishing a savings account for her. We live in an era of the sweatshop reborn. In 1992 Jennifer Gordon founded the Workplace Project to help immigrant workers in the underground suburban economy of Long Island, New York. In a story of gritty determination and surprising hope, she weaves together Latino immigrant life and legal activism to tell the unexpected tale of how the most vulnerable workers in society came together to demand fair wages, safe working conditions, and respect from employers. Immigrant workers--many undocumented--won a series of remarkable victories, including a raise of thirty percent for day laborers and a domestic workers` bill of rights. In the process, they transformed themselves… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0674024044
Book size: —; Page extent: 384.

 

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Brad Zellar
Suburban World: The Norling Photographs

2008 y.
Publisher: Borealis Books
Description: Men wearing suits jousting with sailfish. Head on bridge collision. Men with linoleum. Kitchen murder suicide. Firemen playing donkey baseball. Ideal woman in apron. Through more than 10,000 images, Irwin Denison Norling, the unofficial town photographer for Bloomington, Minnesota, captured the strange juxtapositions, incongruities, and dark corners of the developing suburban America of the 1950s and `60s. A competitive amateur glued to his police radio, Norling spent years examining the light and darkness, tragedies and desolation, rituals of community and celebration through the lens of the camera, deftly capturing the uneasy dichotomy between the familiar and subversive the familiarly subversive. `That was the way it was. And the way it was, that`s what I was after.` [detailed...]

ISBN: 0873516095
Book size: —; Page extent: 144.

 

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Eric Bogosian
Suburbia (new version)

2009 y.
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Description: “Bogosian’s script retains the playwright-performer’s trademark vitriol and hammer wit.”a??Time Out This new version of Eric Bogosian’s best-selling play, set in a convenience store parking lot, premiered last season Off Broadway. His rewritesa??for a world seeped in cell phones, hip-hop, and a new political contexta??render the piece “an American anyplace where everything, yet nothing, has changed” (The New York Times). Eric Bogosian’s plays and solo shows include Talk Radio (Pulitzer Prize finalist), Sex, Drugs, Rock &, Roll, Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead, and Drinking in America. He has received three OBIE awards and has toured throughout the country. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1559363428
Book size: —; Page extent: 112.

 

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Robert A. Beuka
SuburbiaNation : Reading Suburban Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Film

2004 y.
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Description: Book Description Green lawns, swimming pools, backyard barbecues: welcome to suburbia, the promised land of the American middle class. Or is it? To judge by the depiction of suburbia in prominent works of American fiction and film, the suburbs are also home to dysfunctional families, broken communities, and widespread misery. Clearly, despite the continued popularity of the suburbs as a place to live, the prevailing image of suburbia has changed markedly since the days of Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best . In this book, Robert Beuka argues that in order to begin to understand our conflicted relationship toward the suburbs, we need to understand how suburbia has come to be defined through its representation in the popular media and arts. SuburbiaNation looks carefully at the suburban landscape through the lens of fiction and of film, and Beuka weaves together such classics as It`s a Wonderful Life , The Stepford Wives , The Great… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1403963401
Book size: —; Page extent: 304.

 

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Duncan Reekie
Subversion: The Definitive History of Underground Cinema

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0190567421
Book size: —; Page extent: 224.

 

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Kirsten Moana Thompson
Subversion: The Definitive History of Underground Cinema

2007 y.
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Description: `Subversion: The Definitive History of Underground Cinema` is an indispensable history of underground cinema, an untold story that includes the British independent and French avant-garde cinemas of the 1920s, the counterculture film movements of the 1960s, the microcinema resurgence of the 1990s, and beyond. Dispensing with simplistic `art versus commerce` discourses, `Subversion` not only discovers the cultural roots of underground filmmaking in bohemian cabarets of nineteenth-century Paris and the fairbooths of medieval London, but situates the underground as a radical and popular subculture separate from mainstream cinema and avant-garde film., reviewing a previous edition or volume [detailed...]

ISBN: 1905674228, 978-1905674220
Book size: —; Page extent: 224.

 

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Melissa Rannels, Melissa Alvarado, Hope Meng
Subversive Seamster: Transform Thrift Store Threads into Street Couture

2007 y.
Publisher: Taunton
Description: It`s time to get subversive, again! The downtown divas of `Sew Subversive` are back with another happy helping of straightlaced sewing advice for stylish results every time. Transform tacky bridesmaid gowns and pleated pants into picture-perfect tops, skirts and accessories. The two Melissas and a Hope deliver 30 great projects that are achievable for even the new sewer. `Subversive Seamster` is your secret roadmap to the jewels of thrifting and the ins and outs of refashioning. This book has shortcuts, tips, and secrets to the wide world of inexpensive, individualized fashion. Our clothes make a statement about who we are. What better way to say, `I am an individual!` than to wear one-of-a-kind items made out of other one-of-a-kind items? We derive the most fashionable satisfaction knowing that we are reusing and recycling what already exists in this material world--and looking darn good doing it! [detailed...]

ISBN: 156158925X
Book size: —; Page extent: 192.

 

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Charles B. Hersch
Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans

2009 y.
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Description: Subversive Sounds probes New Orleans’s history, uncovering a web of racial interconnections and animosities that was instrumental to the creation of a vital American art form—jazz. Drawing on oral histories, police reports, newspaper accounts, and vintage recordings, Charles Hersch brings to vivid life the neighborhoods and nightspots where jazz was born. This volume shows how musicians such as Jelly Roll Morton, Nick La Rocca, and Louis Armstrong negotiated New Orleans’s complex racial rules to pursue their craft and how, in order to widen their audiences, they became fluent in a variety of musical traditions from diverse ethnic sources. These encounters with other music and races subverted their own racial identities and changed the way they played—a musical miscegenation that, in the shadow of Jim Crow, undermined the pursuit of racial purity and indelibly transformed American culture. “More than timely . . . Hersch orchestrates voices of musicians on both sides of the racial… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0226328686
Book size: —; Page extent: 304.

 

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Paul F. Knitter, Chandra Muzaffar
Subverting Greed: Religious Perspectives on the Global Economy (Faith Meets Faith)

— y.
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Description: The Boston Research Center for the 21st Century is pleased to announce the publication of Subverting Greed: Religious Perspectives on the Global Economy (Orbis Books, November 2002, in association with the BRC). This multi-author volume grew out of the BRC`s consideration of the impact of globalization and other economic justice issues (1999-2001). This focus culminated in a conference and lecture series in 2001 entitled Economics for Human Well-Being: Advancing a People`s Agenda. With this foundation inmind, Subverting Greed offers an `interfaith dialogue on paper` focused on one of the most urgent issues of our time: corporate-driven globalization. Insightful essays by distinguished religious scholars--who are also practitioners of the religious traditions they represent--consider the impact of globalization as they seek to shed light on their own tradition`s concerns, define common problems, and propose common solutions. It is clear from the range of essays that all religious… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1570754462
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Subverting Hatred: The Challenge of Nonviolence in Religious Traditions (Faith Meets Faith Series)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0157075747
Book size: —; Page extent: 210.

 

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Martha Cooper, Henry Chalfant
Subway Art

1988 y.
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Description: Two gifted photographers have documented every aspect of this extraordinary urban subculture, complete with 239 full-color photographs. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0805006788
Book size: —; Page extent: 104.

 

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Camilo Jose Vergara
Subway Memories

2004 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionNew York City`s first subway system officiall opened on October 27, 1904, operating along a nine-mile strip. Today, in it`s centennial year, the subway stretches for 685 miles and carries well over four million passengers a day. An eclectic mix of New Yorkers from every age and nationality?from commuters and street musicians to evangelists and curious tourists come together each day under New York`s streets. Photographer and sociologist, Camilo Vergara captures these chance encuornters in colorful images. In addition to documenting trains and the diverse riders, Vergara depicts New York cityscapes, as seen from the elevated trains that rumble over bridges and wind their way through neighborhoods in Queens, Harlem, Brooklyn, andthe Bronx. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1580931464
Book size: —; Page extent: 128.

 

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New York Transit Museum, Anthony Robins, Andrew Garn
Subway Style: 100 Years of Architecture &, Design in the New York City Subway

2004 y.
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Description: October 2004 marks the 100th anniversary of the largest underground transit network in the world. Love it or hate it, if you`re a New Yorker, you can`t live without it: 3.5 million people ride the rails every day. The subway is as much a symbol of New York City as Central Park and the Statue of Liberty. Commemorating its centennial, this official publication presents an illustrated history of the architecture and design of the entire complex, from the interiors of the trains and the mosaic signage at the stations to the evolution of the token and the intricacy of the intertwined, rainbow-colored lines on the free, foldout map. Produced with the New York City Transit Museum, Subway Style documents the aesthetic experience of the system through more than 250 exclusive pictures. The book includes newly commissioned color photographs of historic and contemporary station ornamentation as well as imagery from the Museum`s archives. The images span the full century, from the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 158479349X
Book size: —; Page extent: 252.

 

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Mary Winget
Subways (Pull Ahead Books)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0822564246
Book size: —; Page extent: 32.

 

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Mark Lucock
Succeed In Landscape Photography

2004 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionAlthough developments in camera technology mean that quality images are now well within the grasp of the keen amateur, the market place is competitive. How does an aspiring photographer improve and promote his or her photography in order to earn extra income, or to make the leap to professional status? This new subject-focused series explains everything the amateur needs to know, from planning a shoot to effective marketing of the images to clients. In the first title, Landscape Photography, renowned landscape photographer Mark Lucock offers the keen amateur an insight into the daily life and decision-making of the working landscape photographer, sharing professional insights and trade secrets of producing successful commercial and fine art photography. Equipment and technique are only part of the equation: Lucock?s approach is also a spiritual one?his passion about the environment gives his approach a highly compelling, personal edge. Lucock equips readers with… [detailed...]

ISBN: 2880467926
Book size: —; Page extent: 128.

 

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Philip Carter, Ken Russell
Succeed at IQ Tests: Improve Your Numerical, Verbal and Spatial Reasoning Skills

2008 y.
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ISBN: 0749452285
Book size: —; Page extent: 192.

 

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Peter North, Bea Toews
Succeed in Business Australia: The Essential Guide for Business and Investment (Culture Shock, Succeed in Business)

— y.
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ISBN: 155868414X
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