Why France? : American historians reflect on an enduring fascination /

Table of Contents: “…Diefendorf -- Catholic connections, Jewish relations, French religion / Thomas Kselman -- Europe without personal angst / Jan Goldstein -- France, a political romance / Edward Berenson -- Choosing history, discovering France / Herrick Chapman -- An African American in Paris / Tyler Stovall -- Writing at the margins / Leonard V. …”
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The transatlantic republican : Thomas Paine and the age of revolutions / by Vincent, Bernard, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…Paine, America and France -- I The Strategy of Time in Common Sense -- II Thomas Paine, the Masonic Order, and the American Revolution -- III From Fact to Myth: The Americans in Paris during the French Revolution -- IV Paine's "Share" in the French Revolution -- V Thomas Paine, the Louisiana Purchase, and the Rights of Man -- VI A National of Nowhere: The Problem of Thomas Paine's American Citizenship -- Part II. …”
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Orchestral excerpts for tuba

Table of Contents: “…Introduction (3:14) -- Concerto for orchestra (1:23) / Bartok -- Hungarian march (1:18) ; Romeo et Juliet (2:56) ; Symphonie fantastique (6:47) / Berlioz -- Symphony no. 7 (4:13) / Bruckner -- An American in Paris (2:33) / Gershwin -- Symphonic metamorphosis (0:34) / Hindemith -- The planets (2:19) / Holst -- Symphony no. 1 (1:37) ; Symphony no. 5 (4:23) ; Symphony no. 6 (3:13) / Mahler -- Pictures at an exhibition (5:22) / Moussorgsky-Ravel -- Romeo and Juliet (4:36) ; Symphony no. 5 (4:28) / Prokofiev -- Fountains of Rome (2:28) / Respighi -- Also sprach Zarathustra (1:46) ; Ein Heldenleben (2:43) ; Til Eulenspiegel (2:57) / Strauss -- Petrouchka (3:02) / Stravinsky -- Eine Faust Ouverture (1:20) ; Prelude Act III, Lohengrin (2:12) ; Die Meistersinger (3:26) ; Ride of the Valkyries (2:32) / Wagner.…”

Front page : covers of the twentieth century / by Duperray, Stéphane

Table of Contents: “…History -- Magazines -- Actuel -- II Borghese -- Elle -- Esquire -- Femina -- Fortune -- Harper's Bazaar -- L'Illustration -- Interview -- Kristall -- Life -- National Geographic -- The New Yorker -- The North American Review -- Paris Match -- Picture Post -- Playboy and Lui -- Punch -- La Rivista -- Rolling Stone -- The Saturday Evening Post -- Simplicissimus -- Stern -- Sunday Telegraph Magazine -- The Sunday Times Magazine -- Tatler -- Vogue -- Vu -- Trends -- Red Borders -- Caricatures -- Artists' Commissions -- The Torn Effect -- Graphic Design -- Kitsch -- Pop Art -- Norman Rockwell -- Art Deco -- Propaganda -- Fear and Conflict -- World War II -- Vietnam War -- Fashion and the Press -- Transport -- Sport -- Brigitte Bardot -- The Beatles -- Winston Churchill -- Diana -- Marlene Dietrich -- Charles de Gaulle -- Adolf Hitler -- Grace Kelly -- The Kennedy Family -- Nikita Khrushchev -- Sophia Loren -- Madonna -- Mao Tse-Tung -- Marilyn Monroe -- Benito Mussolini -- Joseph Stalin -- Headliners -- Divas and Matinee Idols.…”
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The Silver Palate good times cookbook / by Rosso, Julee

Table of Contents: “…A toast to the good times -- The splurge of spring -- Fresh starts -- Spring fever -- On the grapevine -- Rainy days and sundays -- Easter -- A Tuscany retreat -- Daffodil weekend -- Spring chickens -- Derby weekend -- Mother's Day -- Tea for two -- Primavera wedding -- Easy living -- Porch brunches -- Pomp and circumstance -- Fireworks on the Fourth -- Summer when it sizzles -- Midsummer's vegetables -- Gone fishing -- Grill crazy -- Ice cream socials -- Siestas, sunsets, and stargazing -- Autumn hues -- Opening night openers -- Country fare -- Rising to the top -- Pastas with pedigrees -- The autumn hunt -- Americans in Paris -- Sassy ginger salute -- Apples and pears -- America gives thanks -- Rave reviews -- Winter wonderland -- The dinner party -- Dinner at eight -- Dressed to the nines -- Silver bells -- Nutcracker sweet open house -- Christmas Eve -- Christmas morning breakfast -- Christmas Day dinner -- New Year's Eve -- New Year's Day -- Fireside foods -- Ski weekends -- Winter escapes -- Valentine's day.…”

Preston Sturges : the last years of Hollywood's first writer-director / by Smedley, Nick, Sturges, Tom

Table of Contents: “…A Fallen Giant: Adjusting to the New, 1949-1950 -- Back to the Future: Broadway and Paramount, 1951-1952 -- Sturges' Travels: Farewell to America, 1953 -- The Millionairess and the Major: Sturges Returns to Paris, 1954 -- Americans in Paris: Filming Major Thompson, 1955 -- American Gangster: The Trials and Tribulations of Independent Film Production, 1956-1957 -- Farcical manoeuvres, 1957-1958 -- New York, New York: Public Hopes, Private Griefs, 1957 -- For Better or For Worse: Marital Tensions, 1957-1958 -- Sliding Towards the Brink, January-July 1958 -- The Road to Despair, July-December 1958 -- The Conquering Hero: Return to New York, January - March 1959 -- Triumph over Pain: The Last Happy Months of Preston Sturges, March-August 1959 -- The Events Have Led Up to His Death, August 1959.…”

Autocritique : essays on art and anti-art, 1963-1987 / by Rose, Barbara

Table of Contents: “…America as paradise -- Geometry, American-style -- Synchromism : a tale of the two Gertrudes -- Photography in America -- Filthy pictures -- Venus envy -- The auction is the action -- Diane Arbus : the American scene as the American nightmare -- Andy Warhol's aluminum foil : the mirror of our time -- Pop in perspective -- Roy Lichtenstein : reproduction as representation -- ABC art -- Color-field painting : the Washington school -- Mondrian boogies in New York -- The late paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe -- Decoys and doubles : Jasper Johns and the modernist mind -- Ellsworth Kelly : an American in Paris -- Painting within the tradition : the career of Helen Frankenthaler -- Seventies painting -- Jackson Pollock and the death of painting -- Sculpture and perception -- Blowup : the problem of scale in sculpture -- Lucas Samaras : the self as icon and environment -- John Chamberlain : painterly sculpture --…”

Embraceable you/ by Gershwin, George, 1898-1937

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Cuban overture/ by Gershwin, George, 1898-1937

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Someone to watch over me/ by Gershwin, George, 1898-1937

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Rhapsody in blue/ by Gershwin, George, 1898-1937

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Cold War film genres /

Table of Contents: “…Gendered and racial variations on Cold War modernity in the apartment plot / Pamela Robertson Wojcik -- Success and the single girl: urban romances of working women / Jennifer Lei Jenkins -- Paris loves lovers and Americans loved Paris: gender, class, and modernity in the postwar Hollywood musical / Steven Cohan -- Straight to baby: scoring female jazz agency and new masculinity in Henry Mancini's Peter Gunn / Kristin McGee.…”
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Film, fashion, and the 1960s /

Table of Contents: “…Fashion apart: Godard and Fageol in 1960s paris / Astrid Soderbergh Widding -- Fashion, film, and rome / Eugenia Paulicelli -- Contexts, contradictions, couture, and clothing: fashion in An American in Paris, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and That touch of mink / Pat Kirkham and Marilyn Cohen -- Gender: modernity and tradition. …”
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A little solitaire : John Frankenheimer and American film /

Table of Contents: “…Crashing in: Birdman of Alcatraz / Tom Conley -- Walking the line with the fille-fatale / Linda Ruth Williams -- Live TV, filmed theater, and the new Hollywood: John Frankenheimer's The Iceman cometh / James Morrison -- Ashes, ashes: structuring emptiness in All fall down / Murray Pomerance -- Secrets. An American in Paris: John Frankenheimer's impossible object / Jerry Mosher -- Shot from the sky: The gypsy moths and the end of something / Dennis Bingham -- Frankenheimer and the science fiction/horror film / Christine Cornea -- -- The fixer: a Jew who could be any man, any time, anywhere / R. …”

Cold War film genres /

Table of Contents: “…Paris Loves Lovers and Americans Loved Paris: Gender, Class, and Modernity in the Postwar Hollywood Musical / Steven Cohan -- 12. …”

The floating bridge : prose poems / by Shumate, David

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Far Villages -- Manniquins -- Kafka -- The Next Village -- Big Brother Loses His Virginity -- Fresh Fish -- Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat -- Don Quixote -- Metaphors -- Translating a Poem -- The Overwhelming Sadness of the Earth -- Plum -- Wisdom -- The Orange Flags of Babylon -- The Orange Flags of Babylon -- Learning to Eat a Pomegranate -- The Yellow Bird -- Picasso -- The Headless Saints -- The Amateur Zen Master -- Trapped Inside of a Haiku Poem -- The Island of Nirvana -- Rain -- The Dreams of Children -- Trains -- The Long Road -- The Bible Belt -- The Bible Belt -- The Gods -- The Ladders of Purgatory -- Drawing Jesus -- Jesus's IQ -- Seduction -- The Jewish Ghetto -- Boarding the Bus to Gomorrah -- Om -- Zero -- Halo -- The House of Death -- Paris -- The Bedouins of Paris -- Spring in Paris -- Lucifer -- The Kissing Institute -- Pornography -- French Forign Legion -- Gertrude Stein's Gardener -- Dying Park -- The Gates of Paris -- An American in Paris -- Paris, USA -- The Floating Bridge -- The Floating Bridge -- Making a Forest -- A Visit with Dali -- North Wind -- Children's Book Illustrations, Circa 1890 -- Learning Italian Slowly -- A Poem I Wrote Thirty Years Ago -- Chinese Restaurant -- Welcome Home, Children -- The History of the Umbrella -- While I Sleep -- The Fish -- Acknowledgements.…”
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Social and cultural aspects of language learning in study abroad /

Table of Contents: “…Developing interculturality in an international field experience for ESL teachers / Elizabeth Smolcic -- Politics of identification in the use of lingua francas in student mobility to Finland and France / Fred Dervin -- An American in Paris : myth, desire, and subjectivity in one student's account of study abroad in France / Tim Wolcott -- Exploring the potential of high school homestays as a context for local engagement and negotiation of difference : Americans in China / Dali Tan & Celeste Kinginger -- The transformation of "a frog in the well" : a path to a more intercultural, global mindset / Jane Jackson -- "I joke you don't" : second language humor and intercultural identity construction / Maria Shardakova -- Getting over the hedge : acquisition of mitigating language in L2 Japanese / Noriko Iwasaki -- Identity and honorifics use in Korean study abroad / Lucien Brown -- A corpus-based study of vague language use by learners of Spanish in a study abroad context / Julieta Fernandez.…”
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Rive Gauche : Paris as a Site of Avant-garde Art and Cultural Exchange in the 1920s. by Mettinger-Schartmann, Elke

Table of Contents: “…The Surrealist Artist is Strolling around with the Little Puppy-Dog Sigmund Freud at his Heels: Perceptions of Space, the Subconscious and Gender Codifications in 1920s ParisPicturing the Metropolis: Paris in the Eye of the Camera; Topography of a City of Differences: René Crevel's La Mort difficile (1926); The Pull of the Metropolis: The Années folles from a Belgian Perspective, or the Paris of Maigret; "Black Paris" in the 1920s and René Maran's Novel Batouala; Americans in Paris: Huidobro. Girondo. Tarsiwald. Vallejo.…”
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