Blue arabesque : a search for the sublime / by Hampl, Patricia, 1946-

Second-term blues : how George W. Bush has governed /

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Trump, the blue-collar president / by Scaramucci, Anthony

Table of Contents: “…The billionaire blue-collar president -- The great America -- From schlemiel to mensch -- The Grand Old Party -- Going to Hartford -- Down for the count -- The art of the comeback -- Because I'm an idiot -- The Apprentice -- SALT -- Our paths converge -- D-Day -- The loophole -- Alburquerque -- Election night -- Welcome to the White House -- The call -- Expiration date -- The twelfth day.…”

Soul covers : rhythm and blues remakes and the struggle for artistic identity : (Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Phoebe Snow) / by Awkward, Michael

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Soul covers : rhythm and blues remakes and the struggle for artistic identity : (Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Phoebe Snow) / by Awkward, Michael

American resistance : from the Women's March to the blue wave / by Fisher, Dana, 1971-

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American resistance : from the Women's March to the blue wave / by Fisher, Dana, 1971-

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Dispatches from the race war / by Wise, Tim, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Post-racial blues: race and reality in the Obama years --…”
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Policing : politics, culture and control : essays in honour of Robert Reiner /

Table of Contents: “…Something old, something new; something not entirely blue : uneven and shifting modes of crime control /…”
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Networked David Lynch : critical perspectives on cinematic transmediality /

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER 12 Researching Audiovisually: Experiments in Videographic Criticism in David Lynch's The Elephant Man and Blue Velvet --…”
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The new atheist novel : fiction, philosophy and polemic after 9/11 / by Bradley, Arthur

Table of Contents: “…Ian McEwan's End of the World Blues -- Martin Amis and the War for Cliché -- Philip Pullman's Republic of Heaven -- Salmon Rushdie and the quarrel over God.…”

The new atheist novel : fiction, philosophy and polemic after 9/11 / by Bradley, Arthur

Table of Contents: “…Ian McEwan's End of the World Blues -- Martin Amis and the War for Cliché -- Philip Pullman's Republic of Heaven -- Salmon Rushdie and the quarrel over God.…”
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The new American revolution : the making of a populist movement / by McEnany, Kayleigh

Table of Contents: “…Two bright lights (terrorism) -- The winner (veteran's affairs) -- The transformation (immigration) -- The thin blue line (our police force) -- The silencing (freedom of speech) -- The forsaking (freedom of religion) -- The cleansing water (the Flint water crisis) -- The betrayal (jobs) -- The stakes (healthcare) -- The beginning -- The outsiders -- The debates -- The election.…”

Rogue spooks : the intelligence war on Donald Trump / by Morris, Dick, McGann, Eileen

Table of Contents: “…-- How the intelligence community went from red to blue -- In like Flynn...out like Flynn -- And the leaks kept coming... -- The media invents a scandal: Russian intervention in the U.S. election -- It wasn't the first time -- How the intel community came to pose a threat to democracy.…”

The best of times : the boom and bust years of America before and after everything changed / by Johnson, Haynes, 1931-2013

Table of Contents: “…Prelude: Fragments from a golden age -- Book 1: Technotimes. Deep (RS/6000 SP) blue. Culture of success. Nerd Nirvana. Seeding the future -- Book 2: Teletimes. …”

Agency and imagination in the films of David Lynch : philosophical perspectives / by Reid, James D., Craig, Candace R.

Table of Contents: “…"I wanna finish this one my own way": strong agency in The straight story -- From pasture to hellhole: weak agency and industry in Erasurehead -- Imaginative recognition and transfiguration in The elephant man -- Knowledge, agency, and violence in Blue velvet -- Agency and identity in Wild at heart -- "You'll never have me": agents apart in Lost highway -- "It's no longer your film": fantasy, fate, and agency in Mulholland Dr. -- "My wife is not a free agent": agency lost in INLAND EMPIRE -- Agency regained in Twin Peaks: the return or myths of overreaching.…”

David Lynch : beautiful dark / by Olson, Greg, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 1: Fearfully and wonderfully made, 1946-1970 (The alphabet, The grandmother) -- 2: Factory child, 1970-1976 (Eraserhead) -- 3: Burden of flesh, 1976-1980 (The elephant man) -- 4: Golden sands, heavy heart, 1980-1984 (Dune) -- 5: Night town, 1984-1986 (Blue Velvet) -- 6: Buzz saw, 1986-1990 (Twin Peaks, season 1) -- 7: Burning love, 1990 (Wild at heart) -- 8: Our schoolgirl of the sorrows, 1990-1992 (Twin Peaks, season 2 and Twin Peaks: fire walk with me) -- 9: Head like a house on fire, 1992-1997 (Lost highway) -- 10: Autumn afternoon, 1997-2000 (The straight story) -- 11: Road to Dreamsville, 2000-2001 (Mulholland Drive) -- 12: Man of the world, 2001-2007 (DavidLynch.com, INLAND EMPIRE).…”
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The films of Paul Schrader /

Table of Contents: “…Bachman; 2: Movement and Meaning: The 'unmotivated' Camera in Four Films by Paul Schrader, Deborah Allison; 3: Late Schrader: From the Canon to the Canyons, Billy Stevenson; 4: 'Thinking White:' Performing Racial Tension in Blue Collar, Scott Balcerzak; 5: Prophets and Zealots: Paul Schrader's Adaptations of The Mosquito Coast and The Last Temptation of Christ, Erica Moulton; 6: 'So I find another form of expression': Art and Life/Art in Life in Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Thomas Prasch; 7: Schrader's Women: Cat People and Patty Hearst, Brian Brems; 8: Paul Schrader's Experiment in Italian Neo-decadence: The Comfort of Strangers and the Sadean System, Robert Dassanowsky; 9: 'Just Being Transparent Baby': Surveillance Culture, Digitization and Self-Regulation in Paul Schrader's The Canyons, James Slaymaker; 10: 'Every Act of Preservation Is an Act of Creation': Paul Schrader's Eco-Theology in First Reformed, Tatiana Prorokova; 11: Leaning on the Everlasting Arms: Love and Silence in First Reformed, Robert Ribera; Interview with Paul Schrader conducted by Michelle E. …”
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The age of Clinton : America in the 1990s / by Troy, Gil

Table of Contents: “…. : "We Must Care for One Another" : Clinton's Learning Curve -- 1994 : Seattle : The New Nihilism in the Coffee Capital, and Renewed Republicanism in the Nation's Capital -- 1995 : Oklahoma City : "Their Legacy Must Be Our Lives" : the Claw-Back Kid Finds Windows of Opportunity -- 1996 : Alphabet City, New York : "Take Me or Leave Me" : Cultural Salvoes from Blue America -- 1997 : Silicon Valley : "Think Different" : The Everyday Wizardry of Everything and Everywhere Machines -- 1998 : Beverly Hills, 90210 : the Great American Moral Panic -- 1999 : Chicago : Finding Forgiveness in the Church of Oprah -- 2000 : Miami : "The Purpose of Prosperity" : Dilemmas of Multiculturalism and Hedonism in America's Pleasure Capital -- 2001 : "Let's Roll" : America the Functional Under Attack.…”

Listening for the heartbeat of being : the arts of Robert Bringhurst /

Table of Contents: “…Water Music: Close Listening to The Blue Roofs of Japan / Katherine McLeod -- 10. Bringhurst in West Coast Book Design and Publishing / Scott McIntyre -- 11. …”
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