Women speak out / America enters the world of nations

Table of Contents: “…Annie Oakley, Calamity Jane, Belle Starr and the women of the wild, wild west.…”

Untold.

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Untold. the infamous Reno Gang.

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China watcher : confessions of a Peking Tom / by Baum, Richard, 1940-2012

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- The Occidental tourist -- A dissertation is not a dinner party -- Confessions of a Peking Tom -- Through the looking glass -- Democracy deferred -- Capitalism with Chinese characteristics -- The road to Tiananmen -- After the deluge -- China rising -- God in the machine -- The wild, wild west -- Beijing revisited -- China watching, then and now -- The Gini in the jar -- Loose ends.…”
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Variations on a theme park : the new American city and the end of public space /

Table of Contents: “…Variations on a theme park / Michael Sorkin -- The world in a shopping mall / Margaret Crawford -- Silicon Valley Mystery House / Langdon Winner -- New city, new frontier : the Lower East Side as wild, wild West / Neil Smith -- Inside exopolis : scenes from Orange County / Edward W. …”

Sugar : Micheal Ray Richardson, eighties excess, and the NBA / by Rosen, Charles

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: December 27, 1985--Moonachie, New Jersey -- Living on dreams -- Living the dream -- Big man in the Big Apple -- To fix or not to fix, that was the question -- Moving from coast to coast to coast -- Playing it straight...for a while -- Life after death -- The great migration in black and white -- Back in the USA -- The view from the bench -- Sunk once more -- The wild wild west -- The most shameful playoff series in the history of professional basketball -- Epilogue: Whither Sugar Ray?…”

Sugar : Micheal Ray Richardson, eighties excess, and the NBA / by Rosen, Charles

Table of Contents: “…Sunk Once More; 12. The Wild, Wild West; 13. The Most Shameful Playoff Series in the History of Professional Basketball; Epilogue; A Note on Sources.…”
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#1 songs of the 80's : 45 no. 1 hits as listed on the hot 100 singles charts.

Table of Contents: “…Addicted to love -- Careless whisper -- Could've been -- Don't worry, be happy -- Don't you want me -- Endless love -- Eternal flame -- Everybody wants to rule the world -- Every breath you take -- Every rose has its thorn -- Everytime you go away -- Faith -- Flashdance...what a feeling -- Hangin' tough -- Heaven is a place on earth -- Holding back the years -- (Ijust) died in you arms -- I love rock 'n' roll -- I still haven't found what I'm looking for -- I want to know what love is -- I'll be loving you -- Islands in the stream -- Karma chameleon -- Kokomo -- Lost in your eyes -- Man in the mirror -- Missing you -- My preprogative -- Next time I fall -- One more try -- One that you love -- Physical -- Sailing -- Sara -- Shout -- There'll be sad songs (to make you cry) -- These dreams -- Total eclipse of the heart -- Wake me up before you go-go -- We built this city -- We didn't start the fire -- What's love got to do with it -- Wild, wild west -- With or without you -- Woman in love -- You give love a bad name.…”

Television westerns : six decades of sagebrush sheriffs, scalawags, and sidewinders / by Marill, Alvin H.

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Crash course US history.

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Spy television / by Britton, Wesley A.

Table of Contents: “…. -- More British than Bond : John Steed, The avengers, and feminist role-playing -- Cold War sports and games : I spy and racial politics -- The Cold War and existential fables : Danger man, Secret agent, and The prisoner -- The page and the screen : The saint and Robin Hood spies -- Interchangeable parts : missions: impossible -- James Bond on the prairie : from The wild wild West to the Secret adventures of Jules Verne -- From tongues in cheek to tongues sticking out : Get smart and the spoofing of a genre -- Also-rans and new branches : network secret agents from 1963 to 1980 -- Reagan, le Carré, Clancy, cynicism, and cable : down to Earth in the 1980s and 1990s -- The return of fantasy and the dark nights of spies : The x-files, La femme Nikita, and the new millennium -- Active and inactive files : Alias, 24, The agency, and twenty-first-century spies -- Conclusion : the past, present, and future of TV espionage : why spies?…”
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Hollywood or history? : an inquiry-based strategy for using film to teach United States history /

Table of Contents: “…Tall tales and their place in history / Megan Cullen -- Portrayals of American slavery in film : a study of Gone with the wind, Roots, and Unchained memories / Dennis Urban -- Women and the wild, wild west / James Nunez -- The ox bow incident : a historiographical lesson in vigilantism and due process / Michael Lovorn -- Suffragettes parade for the vote / Michele Celani and Elizabeth Blackmon -- The Iron jawed angels and the fight for women's suffrage / Wendy Rouse -- The economic and social effects of the Dust Bowl / Rebecca Bidwell -- "The greater good" : using Flags of our fathers for critical thinking and historical inquiry / Mark Percy -- Rosa's refusal : serendipity or sustained activism? …”
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Zillow talk : the new rules of real estate / by Rascoff, Spencer, Humphries, Stan

Table of Contents: “…: What street names tell us about property values ; Empire real estate of mind: Analyzing the oddities of New York City ; The wild, wild west: America's most volatile housing markets ; Statistics are people, too: Looking at the housing bust in more than just dollars and cents ; What's walkability worth?…”