Reproducing women : medicine, metaphor, and childbirth in late imperial China by Wu, Yi-Li, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Late imperial fuke and the literate medical tradition -- Amateur as arbiter : popular fuke manuals in the Qing -- Function and structure in the female body -- An uncertain harvest : pregnancy and miscarriage -- "Born like a lamb" : the discourse of cosmologically resonant childbirth -- To generate and transform : strategies for postpartum health -- Epilogue: body, gender, and medical legitimacy.…”
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Reproducing women : medicine, metaphor, and childbirth in late imperial China by Wu, Yi-Li, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Late imperial fuke and the literate medical tradition -- Amateur as arbiter : popular fuke manuals in the Qing -- Function and structure in the female body -- An uncertain harvest : pregnancy and miscarriage -- "Born like a lamb" : the discourse of cosmologically resonant childbirth -- To generate and transform : strategies for postpartum health -- Epilogue: body, gender, and medical legitimacy.…”

Reclaiming authorship : literary women in America, 1850-1900 by Williams, Susan S.

Table of Contents: “…Definining female authorship -- Writing in and out of the home : parlor culture and authorship -- Authorizing reception : Maria Cummins and The lamplighter -- Revising romance : Louisa May Alcott, Hawthorne, and the Civil War -- Contractual authorship : Elizabeth Keckley and Mary Abigail Dodge -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelp's ethical authorship -- Epilogue : amateurs and professionals in Woolson and James.…”
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Reclaiming authorship : literary women in America, 1850-1900 by Williams, Susan S.

Table of Contents: “…Definining female authorship -- Writing in and out of the home : parlor culture and authorship -- Authorizing reception : Maria Cummins and The lamplighter -- Revising romance : Louisa May Alcott, Hawthorne, and the Civil War -- Contractual authorship : Elizabeth Keckley and Mary Abigail Dodge -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelp's ethical authorship -- Epilogue : amateurs and professionals in Woolson and James.…”
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From a scientific point of view : reasoning and evidence beat improvisation across fields by Bunge, Mario, 1919-2020

Table of Contents: “…-- Interdependence of epistemology and metaphysics -- Human nature is unnatural -- The study of early societies -- Reframing mental disorders -- Technology [not equal symbol] applied science -- Liberties and democracies : authentic and bogus -- Amateurs and professionals -- Crime, criminology, and penology -- Gravitational waves and the nature of space -- Is scientific philosophy possible?…”
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Democracy, law and the modernist avant-gardes : writing in the state of exception by Bru, Sascha

Table of Contents: “…Taking writing to exception : by way of introduction -- The trauma of literature : a promenade through the archive on the avant-garde and politics -- The party and the book : Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, futurism and amateur democracy -- The paper state : Paul van Ostaijen, expressionism and constitutional heterotopia -- The secret politician : Richard Huelsenbeck, Dadaism and the redemption of literature -- The law of literature : by way of conclusion.…”
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A Taste for Language : Literacy, Class, and English Studies. by Watkins, James Ray

Table of Contents: “…Literary Studies and the Amateur's "Wow!"; 4. Ethos, Avocation, and the Liberal Arts; 5. …”
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Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet by Goriunova, Olga

Table of Contents: “…Organizational Aesthetics, Digital Folklore, and Software; 4. Geeky Publics, Amateurs, and the Potency of Art; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Photography and Italy. by Pelizzari, Maria Antonella

Table of Contents: “…Photography and Italy Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Introduction; one: Modern Pictures of an Ancient World; two: Risorgimento Mythologies; three: Romance of Stone and Steel; four: Amateurs and Professionals; five: Italian Modernities; six: Postwar Narratives; seven: The Margin of the Frame; eight: Alienation and Belonging; References; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Photo Acknowledgements; Index.…”
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The thread

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Unseen cinema. 1, The mechanized eye. Episode 16, "Oil" : a symphony in motion

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Unseen cinema. 4, Inverted narratives. Little geezer (his rise and fall)

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Choral pedagogy by Smith, Brenda (Brenda Jo), Sataloff, Robert Thayer

Table of Contents: “…Amateur and professional choral singers -- The rehearsal process -- Anatomy and physiology of the voice -- Medical care of voice disorders / Robert T. …”
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Hot thespian action! : ten premiere plays from Walterdale Playhouse

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Faites votre serre facile et productive by Geoffrion, Christophe

Table of Contents: “…Comment pallier les défauts des serres d'amateurs?; IV. Concevoir et construire sa serre; A. …”
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Beyond Bach : music and everyday life in the eighteenth century by Talle, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Civilizing Instruments -- The Mechanic and the Tax Collector -- A Silver Merchant's Daughter -- A Dark-Haired Dame and her Scottish Admirer -- Two Teenage Countesses -- A Marriage Rooted in Reason -- Male Amateur Keyboardists -- A Blacksmith's Son -- May God Protect this Beautiful Organ -- How Professional Musicians were Compensated -- The Daily Life of an Organist.…”
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Joining the clubs : the business of the National Hockey League to 1945 by Ross, J. Andrew, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "A rather unique sort of organization" -- Industrializing a game : 1875-1916 -- A reorganization : 1917-1923 -- Transplanting the clubs : 1923-1926 -- Creating a major league : 1926-1929 -- Becoming "the big thing" : 1929-1935 -- Integrating the amateurs : 1935-1939 -- Managing a morale business : 1939-1945 -- Conclusion: Culture and structure.…”
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Only the most able : moving beyond politics in the selection of national security leaders by Duncan, Stephen M.

Table of Contents: “…The power to appoint civilian leaders -- The professionalism of military leaders prior to 1972 -- Personnel is policy -- Politics and unqualified civilian leaders -- The professionalism of military leaders from 1972 to 9/11/2001 -- Civilian leaders who can get things done -- Professionalism in the era of wars of a different kind -- Trust and clashes of culture and competence -- Politics in the middle of war -- The "professionalization" of amateur appointees.…”
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Creating prehistory : Druids, ley hunters and archaeologists in pre-war Britain by Stout, Adam

Table of Contents: “…Manufacturing the past : the Victorian background -- Establishing the discipline -- Containing the amateurs -- Making progress -- The politics of socialism -- The diffusion heresy : nurture and the primitive -- Establishing diffusion -- A clash of narratives : diffusion and the archaeologists -- The esoteric revival -- The universal bond -- Stonehenge : a mecca of Celtic idealism -- The aesthetics of order -- The old straight track -- The straight track postal club -- Straight track to beyond -- Visions of civilization.…”
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Visualizing American empire : orientalism and imperialism in the Philippines by Brody, David, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Strange travelogues: Charles Longfellow in the Orient -- Domesticating the Orient: Edward Morse, art amateur, and the American interior -- Disseminating empire: representing the Philippine colony -- Mapping empire: cartography and American imperialism in the Philippines -- Celebrating empire: New York City's victory party for naval hero George Dewey -- Building empire: architecture and American imperialism in the Philippines -- Conclusion: Taft decorates the White House.…”
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Through Astronaut Eyes Photographing Early Human Spaceflight. by Levasseur, Jennifer K.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Interpreting Astronaut Photography -- Chapter 1: Why an Amateur Needs a Better Camera than a Professional -- Chapter 2: Photographs for Every Audience -- Chapter 3: Images of Exploration -- Chapter 4: The Afterlife of Astronaut Photography -- Epilogue: Continuing Resonance -- Notes -- Archival and Bibliographic Sources -- Index -- About the Author…”
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The hidden musicians : music-making in an English town by Finnegan, Ruth H.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface to the 2007 edition; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1 Introductory; 1 The existence and study of local music; 2 'Amateur' and 'professional' musicians; 3 Introduction to Milton Keynes and its music; 2 Musical worlds in Milton Keynes; 4 The classical music world at the local level; 5 The brass band world; 6 The folk music world; 7 The world of musical theatre; 8 Jazz; 9 The country and western world; 10 Rock and pop; 3 Contrasts and comparisons; 11 Learning music.…”
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Grasses in Your Pocket : a Guide to the Prairie Grasses of the Upper Midwest by Gardner, Anna B., Hurst, Michael, Lewis, Deborah, Clark, Lynn G.

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Sports pharmacy : performance enhancing drugs and the athlete by Gregory, David F., Holmes, Erin R., Singletary, Shannon R., Wilson, Marvin C.

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Are you my mother? : a comic drama by Bechdel, Alison, 1960-

The cinema dreams its rivals : media fantasy films from radio to the Internet by Young, Paul, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Rubes, Camera Fiends, Filmmakers, and Other Amateurs: The Intermedia Imagination of Early Films; 2. …”
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Snapshot versions of life by Chalfen, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Kodak culture and home mode communication -- Social organization, kodak culture, and amateur photography -- Cinema naivete: the case of home movies -- Snapshot communication: exploring the decisive half minute -- Tourist photography: camera recreation -- Interpretating home mode imagery: conventions for reconstructing a reality -- Functional interpretations -- Home mode imagery in other communicative contexts -- Conclusions and new questions -- Notes -- APPENDIX: Homemode questionnaire.…”
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The cinema dreams its rivals : media fantasy films from radio to the Internet by Young, Paul, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Rubes, Camera Fiends, Filmmakers, and Other Amateurs: The Intermedia Imagination of Early Films; 2. …”
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Sport, Crime and Deviance. by Wagg, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Covers; Introduction; Sport exceptionalism and the Court of Arbitration for Sport; Amateurism, scientific control, and crime: historical fluctuations in anti-doping discourses in sport; Sexual violence and collegiate athletics: US federal law, adjudication and the media spotlight; In plain sight -- examining the harms of professional wrestling as state-corporate crime; Challenging popular representations of child trafficking in football; The problems and causes of match-fixing:are legal sports betting regimes to blame?…”
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Paris and the cliché of history : the city and photographs, 1860-1970 by Clark, Catherine E. (Catherine Eleanor), 1982-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Paris, photography, and history: 1860 to 1970 -- Imagination and evidence: visual history at Paris's municipal historical institutions -- Index and time: new forms and theories in photohistories -- Past and present: "repicturing" during the occupation and liberation of Paris -- Style and subjectivity: the Bimillénaire de Paris and the Parisian cliché -- "C'était Paris en 1970": the amateur photographer, the assassination of Paris, and photographic history -- Conclusion: looking back, looking forward: the vidéothèque de Paris.…”
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History and its objects : antiquarianism and material culture since 1500 by Miller, Peter N., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Why historiography matters -- History and things in the twentieth century -- Karl Lamprecht and the "material turn" of 1885 -- Things as historical evidence in the late Renaissance and early Enlightenment -- Material evidence in the history curriculum in eighteenth-century Göttingen -- Archaeology as a way of talking about things 1750-1850 -- Material culture in the amateur historical associations of early nineteenth-century Germany -- Gustav Klemm, cultural history and Culturwissenschaft -- The germanisches Nationalmuseum: antiquitates and cultural history in the museum.…”
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The republic of games : textual culture between old books and new media by Graham, Elyse

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The South Pacific Narratives of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London : Race, Class, Imperialism. by Phillips, Lawrence

Table of Contents: “…Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London -- America and Britain -- The Significance of the Frontier in British and American History -- The Pacific and Colonialism -- Chapter 2: 'Race', Class and Imperialism in Stevenson's The Amateur Emigrant -- Introduction: Identities, Public and Private -- The Bourgeois Artist as Social Critic -- Transgression and the Threat of De/class/ification -- Imperial Critique as Class Discourse -- Chapter 3: Jack London's The People of the Abyss: Socialism, Imperialism and the Bourgeois Ethnographer -- Clothing, Status and Deception -- Class Discourse as Imperial Critique -- Chapter 4: Death, Disease and Paradise: A Parable of Imperial Expansion -- 'Out of My Country and Myself I Go' -- Pacific Travellers and Travel Writing -- Textual Encounters, Real Lives -- The Marquesas Islands -- Chapter 5: The Inequities of Trade: Adventure Narratives, Ethics and Imperial Commerce in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Wrecker -- The Miseducation of Loudon Dodd: From New World to Old -- Standing on the Wall of Antoninus: Western Civilization in the Contact Zone -- Opium: The 'Reality of Romance' and the Wreck of the Flying Scud -- From Midway Island to Middle England: The Mystery of the Flying Scud -- Chapter 6: The Indignity of Labour: Jack London's Adventure and Plantation Labour in the Solomon Islands -- Chapter 7: Fragments of Empire, Fractured Identities -- 'The Beach of Falesā' -- Captain David Grief -- The Ebb-Tide -- Afterword -- The South Pacific in the Twentieth Century -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Waterspouts

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A brief history of American sports by Gorn, Elliott J., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Part 1: America Becomes A Sporting Nation: -- Colonists at play: -- Virgin land -- English sports -- Virginia ethic -- New England way -- Middle colonies -- Sports and the new nation -- Saints and their bodies: sport through 1860: -- Adams family -- Victorian culture and the attack on traditional sports -- Beginnings of modern American sports -- Muscular Christians and brawny Brahmins -- Vigorous, manly, out-of-door sports: the Gilded Age: -- Healthful and invigorating sports -- Sport and society -- Rise of mass sports: boxing and baseball -- Elite sports -- Strenuous life -- Part 2: Sport And Its Discontents: -- Sports with a mission: football and basketball: -- Walter Camp and the bureaucratization of the strenuous life -- Football, alumni, and the control of the university -- Progressives, play, and basketball -- World War I: great unifier -- Play, business, and space: sports and the public sphere: -- Home teams -- Sports heroes and mass culture -- Gender and sport -- Racial integration -- Money, television, drugs, and the win: dilemmas of modern sports: -- Amateur ideals and sporting reality -- Twentieth-century amateurism -- Impact of television -- Historical roots of the drug problem in sports -- Sports for a new century: -- Explosion of sports -- Steroid era -- Money and sport -- Level playing field -- Epilogue -- Bibliographic essay -- Index.…”

William Gibson by Westfahl, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Journey to the future : a biographical sketch -- A dangerous amateur : contributions -- Finding his own uses for things : the short fiction -- Legends of the sprawl : Neuromancer, Count zero, and Mona Lisa overdrive -- Different engines : The difference engine, screenplays, poetry, song lyrics, and nonfiction -- A bridge to the present : virtual light, idoru, and All tomorrow's parties -- All today's parties : Pattern recognition, Spook country, and Zero history -- Conclusion -- Interview with William Gibson.…”
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A history of women's boxing by Smith, Malissa

Table of Contents: “…She-devils and Amazonian tigresses : women enter the boxing ring -- Victorian ladies boxing -- Boxing, women, and the mores of change -- Encountering the modern : Flappers, Mae West, and the war years -- Boxing in the Age of the "Mighty Atom" -- Burning bras, taking on the "sheriff," and winning the right to fight -- A ring of their own -- These ladies love the ring -- Christy Martin and the pinking of the velvet ropes -- Women's boxing and the fame game -- The amateurs -- The state of things : 1722 to 2012 and beyond.…”
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Jewish public culture in the late Russian empire by Veidlinger, Jeffrey, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Jewish public culture -- The Jews of this world -- Libraries: from the study hall to the public library -- Reading: from sacred duty to leisure time -- Literary societies: the culture of language and the language of culture -- Cultural performance: the people of the book and the spoken word -- Theater: the professionalization of performance -- Musical and dramatic societies: amateur performers and audiences -- The Jewish historical and ethnographic society: collecting the Jewish past -- Public history: imagining Russian Jews -- Conclusion: this world and the next.…”
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A history of philosophy in America : 1720-2000. by Kuklick, Bruce, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Calvinism and Jonathan Edwards -- -- Philosophy and politics -- Theological dispute -- Collegiate philosophy -- Innovative amateurs -- Part II. The age of pragmatism, 1859-1934. …”
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Image brokers : visualizing world news in the age of digital circulation by Gürsel, Zeynep Devrim

Table of Contents: “….: Visualizing Politics, from Shock and Awe to the Fall of Saddam Hussein -- Agence France-Presse: What Is the Dominant -- Newsworld: Everyday Practices of Editing the World -- Barnstorm: An American Rite of Passage -- Visa pour l'image: Personal Visions and Amateur Documents -- World Press Photo: Developing World Photography -- Conclusion: Waiting for the Dust to Settle.…”
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