First things : the maternal imaginary in literature, art, and psychoanalysis / by Jacobus, Mary

First things first : an illustrated collection of sayings useful and familiar for children / by Fraser, Betty

Breathing of first things; [poems] by Sobiloff, Hyman Jordan, 1912-1970

First Things First : Selected letters of Kate Llewellyn 1977-2004. by Llewellyn, Kate

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The first thing my mama told me / by Swanson, Susan Marie

Inconsequence : Lesbian Representation and the Logic of Sexual Sequence / by Jagose, Annamarie Rustom

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Before They Were Titans : Essays on the Early Works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy /

Table of Contents: “…An Afterword on the Wondrous Thickness of First Things /…”
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A lost language, and other essays on Chaucer. by M. Madeleva Sister, 1887-1964

Table of Contents: “…--O yonge, fresshe folkes.--First things and last.…”

The politics of the superficial : visual rhetoric and the protocol of display / by Ommen, Brett

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the visual colonization of surface -- Spanning design's surface -- First things first : graphic design and meaning -- The protocol of display -- The public chamber of fear -- The politics of the superficial -- Conclusions and caveats.…”
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Seán O'Casey : writer at work : a biography / by Murray, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. First things -- pt. 2. The Dublin plays -- pt. 3. London -- New York -- London -- pt. 4. …”
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David Malouf and the poetic : his earlier writings / by Smith, Yvonne, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…The Young Writer (1934-1959) -- Finding a Voice in the 1960s -- Breakthrough in the 1970s -- An Imaginary Life -- First Things Last and Child's Play -- A Severe Test: Fly Away Peter -- Antipodes and 12 Edmondstone Street -- Harland's Half Acre.…”

Spanish so white : conversations on the inconvenient racism of a 'foreign' language education / by Schwartz, Adam, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Nombre y fecha : first things first, or "Francisco," que en paz descanse (1993-1999) -- Sitting down and showing up : guiding principles and non-negotiables -- Conversations with ourselves : inheritances, ideologies, identities -- Conversations with teachers : whose voices, whose wisdoms are we showing up for? …”
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Objects and intertexts in Toni Morrison's Beloved : the case for reparations / by Ruprecht Fadem, Maureen E.

Table of Contents: “…Foreword: Too many, too quiet, too long; or, "Anything is better than the silence" -- Remembering is not forgetting; or, History is in the texts of it [the form of Beloved] -- Tragedy and its props; or, History is in the things of it [the craft of Beloved] -- Literary memory and the amnesiac nation; or, "The rest is weather" [object lesson, I] -- Bodies [sic] matter; or, "Certainly no clamor for a kiss" [object lesson, II] -- The powers of intertextuality, the spectre of reparations; or, Three tragedies and a critique of the American slave sate [the object of Beloved] -- Afterword: First things, lost things; or, The purloined name and the necessity of (postcolonial) failure -- Coda: Impossible things; or, "I've had enough of shitty news".…”
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The Laughter of Adam and Eve / by Sommer, Jason

Table of Contents: “…The Laughter of Adam and Eve : A Detail ; New Covenant, Causality ; The One Who Knows All Language ; Brouhaha ; At the Akhmatova Museum, Fountain House Annex ; Signs and Wonders ; Film Clips of Munkacs, 1933 ; Gunga Din ; Saint Kevin, Blackbird, and Others ; No Script -- Resignation Bird ; Sleeping with a Woman Who Writes ; The Love of Pygmalion ; Lover ; A as Insignia ; Vile ; That Dream, Your Dream, She Says ; Enemies ; Her Pleasure in Herself ; Fashion Show ; Plague Tale ; In a Breath ; Mytheme ; What Old David Felt ; Religion, Then Science -- To One at Risk ; This My Failure This My Life This My ; Regret ; First Things ; Escaped to Tell ; Passengers Will . . . ; At Day's End, as at the End of Any Day ; Evening ; Letting It in a Little ; That The Compensations of Art ; Spend, Spend.…”
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The two W's of journalism : the why and what of public affairs reporting / by Merritt, Davis

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; About the Authors; Preface; Introduction; Part I; CHAPTER 1 The Why; CHAPTER 2 First Things First: Why We Have A First Amendment; CHAPTER 3 Conflicting Visions of Democracy; CHAPTER 4 The Evolution of Journalism; CHAPTER 5 What the Public Needs To Know; CHAPTER 6 Three Publics for the News; CHAPTER 7 Technology and the New Millennium; Part II; CHAPTER 8 The What; CHAPTER 9 Sampling the News; CHAPTER 10 Framing Stories and Positioning Citizens; CHAPTER 11 Positioning Ourselves as Journalists; CHAPTER 12 Deliberation; CHAPTER 13 Elections…”
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The screenwriter's compass : character as true North / by Gallo, Guy

Table of Contents: “…FIRST THINGS Screenwriter's Compass Big Deal-You're Writing a Screenplay Gear Up Screenwriting Is Writing Craftsmanship GROUNDWORK Reading Theory Upsetting Aristotle Putting Aristotle to Work Character-Driven versus Plot-Driven Fable and Construct Turning Theory to Task GETTING READY Master Shot Screenplay Reading Screenplays Composition Creates Story On Outlines On Character Histories On Treatments On Adaptation FIRST DRAFT The Blank Page Scene and Action Description Camera Gestures and Paragraphing Being God Character Logic Hearing Voices Empathy Thinking of Structure Breaking a Block REVISION First Reader Looking Again for Logic Questions Challenges and Pitfalls On Expectation FINISHING Wrighting a Screenplay Screenplay Format Series of Shots Proofreading Submission GETTING READY AGAIN Passion and Purpose Happy Accident Intuition and Analysis Lessons.…”
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Before they were titans : essays on the early works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy /

Table of Contents: “…Peterson -- Dostoevsky's orphan text : Netochka Nezvanova / Elizabeth Cheresh Allen -- Part II : Tolstoy : works of the 1850s -- The creative impulse in Childhood : the dangerous beauty of games, lies, betrayal, and art / Robin Feuer Miller -- Fear and loathing in the Caucasus : Tolstoy's "The raid" and Russian journalism / William Mills Todd III and Justin Weir -- Tolstoy's Sevastopol tales : pathos, sermon, protest, and Stowe / Liza Knapp -- On cultivating one's own garden with other people's labor : serfdom in "A landowner's morning" / Anne Lounsbery -- Tolstoy's lessons : pedagogy as salvation / Ilya Vinitsky -- An afterword on the wondrous thickness of first things / Caryl Emerson.…”
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Stray home : poems / by Clark, Amy M., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…-- Girl with a playbill -- Monkey with a cup -- Looking for Z; -- Night rescue -- First thing this morning -- Come dusk -- The art teacher's wife -- Calla lily. …”
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Conventions 101 : a Functional Approach to Teaching (And Assessing!) Grammar and Punctuation / by Ramsey, Chauna, Ramsey, Chauna

Table of Contents: “…First Things First: Conventions Pre-Test -- Unit 1: A Lot; There, They're, Their; To, Two, Too -- Unit 2: Your, You're; Its, It's; Woman, Women -- Unit 3: Where, Were; Could Have, Could "Of"; Lose, Loose -- Unit 4: Whose, Who's; Fewer, Less; Choose, Chose -- Unit 5: Accept, Except; Who vs That; Lose, Loose -- Unit 6: All Ready, Already; I vs Me; Affect, Effect -- Unit 7: Everyday, Every Day; Defiant, Definite -- Unit 8: Capitalizing Pronouns; All Right vs "Alright" -- Unit 9: Commas in a Series; Commas After Introductory Phrases -- Unit 10: Commas with "So," "Or," "But," "And"; Commas with Interrupting Elements -- Unit 11: Comma Review -- Unit 12: Fragments and Run-Ons -- Unit 13: Semicolons -- Unit 14: Punctuation and End Quotation Marks; Punctuating Titles -- Unit 15: Colons -- Unit 16: Apostrophe Pre-Assessment -- Unit 17: Apostrophes -- Unit 18: Subject-Verb Agreement -- Unit 19: Final Exam; "Rejected" Notice; Cheat Sheet.…”
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Cognitive neuroscience of natural language use /