Table of Contents: “…A new musical rhythm was given to the people : rhythm and representation in black Manhattan -- Do all we could to get what we felt belonged to us by the laws of nature : selling real Negro melodies and marketing authentic black rhythms -- Appreciate the noble and the beautiful within us : ragging uplift with rhythmic transgressions -- The piano man was it! …”
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Table of Contents: “…Grayling -- Wittgenstein on mathematical proof / Crispin Wright -- Language and conversation : Wittgenstein's builders / Raimond Gaita -- 'I heard a plaintive melody' : (Philosophical investigations, p. 209) / Oswald Hanfling -- Religion in Wittgenstein's mirror / D.Z. …”

Table of Contents: “…Pianta -- City power : the next president can help cities boost more workers into the middle class / Richard Schragger -- The long game : the next president must lay the foundation for a next-generation economy / Margaret O'Mara -- Moving up : the next president can restore confidence in the American dream / Melody Barnes -- Presidential precedents : oral histories show how other presidents dealt with opportunity issues / Michael Nelson.…”
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Table of Contents: “…A fine melody will sound throughout the ages making lofty words gleam beautiful as gems / Richard Fabian -- Fractured China, 1850-1950 / Jonathan Spence -- New songs on ancient tunes : 19th-20th century Chinese painting and calligraphy from the Richard Fabian collection / Stephen Little -- Open country : tradition and innovation in modern Chinese painting / Chu-Tsing Li -- Chinese calligraphy in the mid to late Qing and Republican periods (1850-1950) / Qianshen Bai -- The Richard Fabian collection. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On -- Jerry Lee Lewis -- Phonograph -- Put Your Records On -- Corinne Bailey Rae -- Radio -- We Want the Air Waves -- Ramones -- Vinyl -- Spin the Black Circle -- Pearl Jam -- Tapes -- Rhymin' and Stealin' -- Beastie Boys -- Television -- Television Rules the Nation -- Daft Punk -- Compact Discs -- Zero-Sum -- Nine Inch Nails -- Downloads -- Don't Download This Song -- Weird Al Yankovic -- Streaming -- Islands in the Stream -- Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers -- Streaming Video -- Throw Away Your Television -- Red Hot Chili Peppers -- Artificial Intelligence & Voice Interfaces -- You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth -Meat Loaf -- Coda -- Time After Time -- Cyndi Lauper -- Afterword. Unchained Melody -- Righteous Brothers.…”

Table of Contents: “…Sokolowski -- Going to space with universal design : why space travel isn't accessible and why it should be / Sheri Wells-Jensen and Angelica Esquivel -- In conversation with Nelly Ben-Hayoun -- Space architecture for the last of us : reflections on off-world planetary construction / Melodie Yashar -- NASA rejection letters -- Mercury -- Hazel fellows sews Playtex's Apollo 11 spacesuit -- La Porte des Mondes (Serge Samyn) & androgynous peripheral assembly System (Vladimir Syromiatnikov) -- Pickering's harem at Harvard Observatory -- First detection of a pulsar / by Jocelyn Bell Burnell -- From Barbarella to Barbie and back / Annick Bureaud -- Feminists in [space] / Réka Patrícia Gál.…”
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Table of Contents: “…--Aurore = Aurora / Gabriel Fauré.--Melody / I.J. Paderewski.--L'Abeille = The bee / François Schubert.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : nationalism, modernism, and the social responsibility of art in Prague -- Smetana, Hostinský, and the aesthetic debates of the nineteenth century -- Legacies, ideologies, and responsibilities : the polemics of the pre-independence years (1900-1918) -- "Archetypes who live, rejoice, and suffer" : Czech opera in the fin de siècle -- The pathology of the new society : debates in the early years of the First Republic (1918-24) -- Infinite melody, ruthless polyphony : Czech modernism in the early Republic -- "A crisis of modern music or audience?" …”
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Table of Contents: “…Appendix: Some Creole melodies.--IV. Two years in the French West Indies, vol II. …”

Table of Contents: “…Writing well is the best revenge -- That Shakespearian rag -- Burke's great melody -- Responding to Blake -- Wordsworth's "Resolution and independence" -- Byron in his letters -- My Bront︠ problem, and yours? …”

Table of Contents: “…The fugitive -- I have discovered a great kid -- You can never tell your finish when you start -- I sweat blood -- At the devil's ball -- Play a simple melody -- I wasn't much of a soldier -- Work for yourself! …”
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Table of Contents: “…The lives of plants -- Receiving color -- The scent of sakura -- Dew from the trunk -- The timbres of the wild -- The Kariyasu of Mount Ibuki -- Gardenia yellow -- The life of indigo -- The color green -- On looms -- Melodies of color -- Mother-of-pearl -- Silkworms from Heaven -- Raw silk -- The beauty of plain cloth -- On mordants -- Journey of light -- A gray world -- Gleanings from the sample box -- Last snows in Kohoku -- "Signpost" (Michishirube) -- Snow, Deep North, colors of the requiem -- The sakura of Fujiwara -- Un, Kon, Don : luck, grit, and simplicity -- Tsumugi and Kasuri -- Forty-eight browns and a hundred grays -- Ungen-bokashi -- Murasaki Shikibu and the color purple -- The colors of Gion -- Three-span aprons -- Kimono and obi -- The art of accessorizing -- The future of the kimono -- Half a life in sappanwood red -- Afterword: The work does the work -- In sympathy with nature / Inoue Takao.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Becoming poetry : an introduction -- Adding feathers to the Learned's wing (1999) -- Helen Vendler on Shakespeare's sonnets -- The aesthetics of contemporary sonnet sequences : the examples of Salter and Muldoon (2010) -- Pound-foolishness in Paterson (1987) -- Andrew Hudgins's Blasphemous imagination (1998) -- On writing the sonnet sequence Danses macabres : an interview with Stefanie Silva (2010) -- Credentials (2) -- On Rachel Hadas, Eamon Grennan, and Karl Shapiro -- Archeological gifts : Thomas, Hafiz, and Henry (2004) -- Two poet's poets (2001) -- On Philip Booth and Jane Cooper -- Shocking, surprising snodgrass (2006) -- A formal garden with a real poet in it (2003) -- On Daniel Hoffman -- Mary Oliver's divided mind -- New bottles (2011) -- On Kay Ryan, Robert Dana, Michael Jennings, and Edward Hirsch -- Better poetry through chemistry (2007) -- On David Wojahn -- Why poetry doesn't count as song (2012) -- Heard and unheard melodies (1990).…”
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Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Distraction Therapy; i.; The Perimeter Melody; For Good; During the Retirement Semester; The Earth, We're Told, Is Humming; The Malignancy of Stars; The Fury that Follows Small Disappointments; The Fear Warehouse; Shadowing the Gravedigger; Assessing the Dead; Science; The Shelter Revival; The Infinity Room; The Startling Language of Shriveling Leaves; Preserving Cursive; The Lost Continents; The Secret City; ii.; The Absolute; After the Bomb Drill, Miss Hartung Teaches Weather; The Nuclear Age; Upon the Tongue; While I Am Standing; The Light; The Rain aft er Sunrise.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Benson -- Wallace Stegner's hunger for wholeness / John Daniel -- Ruminations on Stegner's protective impulse and the art of storytelling / Melody Graulich -- Wallace Stegner's practice of the wild / James R. …”

Table of Contents: “…--Cummings, R. Madman's murder melody.--Lewis, S. The ghost patrol.--Hammett, D. …”

Table of Contents: “…A new art for a new art form: Roxy and the development of motion picture exhibition (1908-1913) -- Broadway melody: Roxy, Riesenfeld, and the deluxe theater movement (1913-1917) -- The movie house as recruiting center: Roxy, World War I documentaries, and the engineering of consent (1917-1918) -- "The man who gave the movies a college education": Roxy, Rapee, and motion pictures at the Capitol Theatre (1919-1922) -- Roxy and the birth of media convergence (1922-1936). …”
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Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Distraction Therapy; i.; The Perimeter Melody; For Good; During the Retirement Semester; The Earth, We're Told, Is Humming; The Malignancy of Stars; The Fury that Follows Small Disappointments; The Fear Warehouse; Shadowing the Gravedigger; Assessing the Dead; Science; The Shelter Revival; The Infinity Room; The Startling Language of Shriveling Leaves; Preserving Cursive; The Lost Continents; The Secret City; ii.; The Absolute; After the Bomb Drill, Miss Hartung Teaches Weather; The Nuclear Age; Upon the Tongue; While I Am Standing; The Light; The Rain aft er Sunrise.…”
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