Television, social media, and fan culture / edited by Alison F. Slade, Amber J. Narro, and Dedria Givens-Carroll.

Table of Contents: “…Largent & Jason Roy Burnett -- It's bigger on the inside: fandom, social media, and Doctor Who / Krystal Fogle -- Television-inspired cosplay and social media / Laura Kane and William E. …”
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Once and Future Antiquities in Science Fiction and Fantasy by Rogers, Brett M.

Table of Contents: “…; Notes; CHAPTER 3 TIME TRAVEL AND SELF-REFLEXIVITY IN RECEPTIONS OF HOMER'S ILIAD; "Watch the scanners": Doctor Who and the televised Trojan War; "Meanwhile, on another dimensional plane at the self-same time": Marvel's Thor Annual #8: Thunder Over Troy; Travelling through time: classical reception as science fiction; Notes; CHAPTER 4 MONUMENTS AND TRADITION IN JACK MCDEVITT'S THE ENGINES OF GOD; Exo-archaeology and the monuments; The decipherment of Linear C…”
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Playing fans : negotiating fandom and media in the digital age / Paul Booth. by Booth, Paul, 1981-

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Vampires, burial, and death : folklore and reality / Paul Barber. by Barber, Paul, 1941-

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In war and famine : missionaries in China's Honan Province in the 1940s / Erleen J. Christensen. by Christensen, Erleen J.

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Seeing fans : representations of fandom in media and popular culture / edited by Lucy Bennett and Paul Booth.

Table of Contents: “…11 Marking the Line between Producers and Fans: Representations of Fannish-ness in Doctor Who and Sherlock; 12 Hero-Fans and Fanboy Auteurs: Reflections and Realities of Superhero Fans; 13 We See You (Sort of): Representations of Fans on Supernatural; 14 Interview with Emily Perkins, Actor in Supernatural; Spotlight On: Fan and Transmedia Works; 15 Beyond Mary Sue: Fan Representation and the Complex Negotiation of Gendered Identity; 16 The Digital Literary Fangirl Network: Representing Fannishness in the Transmedia Web Series; 17 Interview with Luminosity, Fan and Vidder.…”
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In conversation with cinematographers / David A. Ellis. by Ellis, David A., 1947-

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Difference Makers : Stories of Those Who Dared - A Collection of Interview Columns By Susan Long (English Version).

Table of Contents: “…NEVER; Postscript; Ngiam Tong Dow; Stop Dancing to the Tune of the Gorilla; Anthony Yeo; Life Can be Rich without Riches; HE FAILED O LEVELS TWICE; Postscript; Dr Chia Boon Hock; Singapore's Suicide Shrink; Professor Feng Pao Hsii; Doctor Who Made Aches and Pains His Calling; WAR STORIES; LOSING PATIENTS; Postscript…”
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Television, social media, and fan culture / edited by Alison F. Slade, Amber J. Narro, and Dedria Givens-Carroll.

Table of Contents: “…Largent & Jason Roy Burnett -- It's bigger on the inside: fandom, social media, and Doctor Who / Krystal Fogle -- Television-inspired cosplay and social media / Laura Kane and William E. …”
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The view from the cheap seats : selected nonfiction / Neil Gaiman. by Gaiman, Neil

Table of Contents: “…Delany and The Einstein Intersection -- On the fortieth anniversary of the Nebula Awards: a speech, 2005 -- The Bride of Frankenstein -- MirrorMask: an introduction -- MirrorMask: a Sundance diary -- The nature of the infection: some thoughts on Doctor Who -- On comics and films: 2006 -- Good comics and tulips: a speech -- A speech to professionals contemplating alternative employment, given at PROCON, April 1997 -- "But what has that to do with Bacchus?" …”

Law in West German Democracy : Seventy Years of History As Seen Through German Courts. by Ridley, Hugh

Table of Contents: “…4.1 Reporting the Law4.2 Precedents in Weimar; 4.3 The Federal Republic; 4.4 A Routine Murder; 4.5 Rosemarie Nitribitt; 4.6 Two Women in Court; 4.7 Hetzel's Campaign for a Retrial; 4.8 Conclusions; Chapter 5 Personal Matters in Court: Homosexuality and Abortion; 5.1 The Legacy of the Past; 5.2 Post-War Shifts of Policy; 5.3 The Frankfurt Homosexual Trials; 5.4 218 in the Federal Republic; 5.5 'It's Not You, Doctor, Who Have Offended Me, but the Judges'; 5.6 The Campaign against 218 Moves Forward; 5.7 The Last Razzia; Chapter 6 The Spiegel Affair; 6.1 The Dimensions of the Affair…”
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Fibromyalgia for dummies / by Roland Staud with Christine Adamec. by Staud, Roland

Table of Contents: “…A Self-Test; Finding a Doctor Who's a "True Believer" in Fibromyalgia; Treating the Problem; Making Lifestyle Changes: Pulling Yourself into a Non-Fibro World; Coping with Fibromyalgia at Home and on the Job; Chapter 2: Recognizing Key Symptoms of Fibromyalgia; Describing Where It Hurts: Almost Everywhere!…”
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Cracking the Tech Career : Insider Advice on Landing a Job at Google, Microsoft, Apple, or any Top Tech Company / Gayle Laakmann McDowell. by Laakmann McDowell, Gayle

Table of Contents: “…; Majors; Minors; Learn to Code; Get Project Experience; Grade Point Average: Does It Matter and What Can You Do?; Doctor Who? Getting to Know Professors; Graduate School; The True Cost of Graduate School; Career Graduate Degrees; Preparing Now; The MBA; What's an MBA Worth?…”
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Drug trafficking / Julia Bauder, book ed.

Table of Contents: “…Banning the sale of drugs increases crime / Joel Miller ; Efforts to stop drug trafficking harm patients with chronic pain / Jacob Sullum ; The War on Drugs harms minorities / Jesselyn McCurdy ; Innocent convenience store clerks are being jailed because of the War on Drugs / Drug Reform Coordination Network ; Fighting drug trafficking makes the United States more secure / Office of National Drug Control Policy ; The production of methamphetamine is dangerous and must be stopped / Mark Shook ; Doctors who treat chronic pain patients do not need to fear the War on Drugs / Karen P. …”

The crime of chernobyl : the nuclear gulag. by Tchertkoff, Wladimir

Table of Contents: “…EIGHT YEARS LATER (JUNE 1998); 3. DOCTORS WHO TELL THE TRUTH. THE MOTHER OF DIMA TUROVETZ-NOVEMBER 1990 AND JUNE 1998; Chapter VII; THE ORDEAL OF THE LIQUIDATORS; 1. …”
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Getting off at Elysian Fields : obituaries from the Times-Picayune / John Pope. by Pope, John (Reporter)

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Secular days, sacred moments : the America columns of Robert Coles / edited [with an introduction] by David D. Cooper ; afterword by Robert Coles. by Coles, Robert

Table of Contents: “…November 23, 1996 : We’re hoping for a few extra moments of the sacred during these long secular days -- January 4, 1997 : “The doctors, they be strutters - they need teaching” -- February 1, 1997 : Merton and Milosz find common ground in their skepticism - the distance they put between themselves and faddish trends -- February 15, 1997 : Like a Hebrew prophet, Erikson was insisting upon psychological investigation as a moral calling -- March 1, 1997 : “The Third Reich was a product of German history, but it was not the only possibility open to the country at that time” -- March 22, 1997 : Surely someone would come by, see me standing there helplessly, offer a phone or a lift -- April 5, 1997 : I was witness to the moral energy a painter or photographer can stir in children -- May 3, 1997 : There is hope in those sudden, unexpected, breakthrough experiences that bring us a blessed spell of inwardness -- May 31, 1997 : This double standard could all too readily be accommodated by the slippery imprecisions of psychiatric jargon -- July 19, 1997 : The doctor who is sick now turns his students into the kind of physician he himself has been with others -- August 2, 1997 : Through the use of fictional strategies, the writer offers us a clue about oppression -- September 13, 1997 : What appears to be bizarre and senseless is in many cases a quite reasonable expression of horror -- November 8, 1997 : “I’m really sorry, I never should have opened the door without looking - I was lost in thought, I wasn't thinking” -- December 6, 1997 : It was the old story of teachers who have a lot to learn from their humble, yet knowing, students -- January 17, 1998 : Dorothy Day spoke of the irony : “All that philosophical knowledge, and such a moral failure, such blindness - and worse - in a life” -- February 14, 1998 : In Othello we meet a man of great dignity and refinement who is gradually undone -- February 28, 1998 : Bonhoeffer’s position in society, his personal safety, and, if need be, his very life were not to be defended at all costs -- March 21, 1998 : Psychotherapy, in all its American banality, is redeemed through its emphasis on the personal as part of the communal -- March 28, 1998 : I wondered if she really believed what she seemed to believe, whether she wasn’t really quite frightened “underneath” -- April 25, 1998 : I could lecture on the moral and social inquiry and myself behave like a moral and social outcast -- July 4, 1998 : Once more I took note of the psychological acuity, the capacity to figure out others with a certain thoughtful detachment -- August 29, 1998 : This child knew that misdeeds deserve, warrant an expression of regret -- October 31, 1998 : Our insistent yearnings ought not to be the stuff of glib psychiatric pronouncements -- November 21, 1998 : These youngsters recognize that smart or powerful is not necessarily the same as good -- February 20, 1999 : “I wished he’d been as understanding and kindly at home with his family as he was in the world with all his associates” -- May 1, 1999 : A moral leadership that is to work must mobilize a following in the name of a virtue, it must both inspire and coerce -- July 31, 1999 : Many of us who took to Holden Caulfield, embracing his laid-back words, his wisecracks, his cool, also worried about him, would he make it? …”
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The television genre book / edited by Glen Creeber ; associate editors, Toby Miller and John Tulloch.

Table of Contents: “…. / Mareike Jenner -- Drama-documentary / John Corner -- Cathy come home/The day after / John Corner -- Costume drama / Robin Nelson -- Jane Austin adaptations / Robin Nelson -- Downton Abbey / Glen Creeber -- Telefantasy / Catherine Johnson -- Buffy the vampire slayer / Catherine Johnson -- Game of thrones / Helen Wheatley -- Science fiction / Luke Hockley -- Star Trek / Luke Hockley -- The x-files / Catherine Johnson -- Doctor Who / Matt Hills -- Postmodern drama / Adrian Page -- Twin Peaks / Adrian Page -- Ally McBeal / Robin Nelson -- Heroes / Glen Creeber -- Studying soap opera / Anna McCarthy -- Dallas / Glen Creeber -- Realism and soap opera / Anna McCarthy -- Soul city / Anna McCarthy -- EastEnders / Glen Creeber -- Soap operas and their audiences / John Tulloch -- A country practice / John Tulloch -- The telenovela / Thomas Tufte -- Brazillian telenovelas / Thomas Tufte -- Studying comedy / Brett Mills -- Humour theory / Brett Mills -- Comedy and 'child-directed speech' / Ian Wilkie -- The sketch show / Steve Neale -- Monty Python's flying circus / Steve Neale -- Stand-up comedy / Ian Wilkie -- Situation comedy, part 1 / John Hartley -- The unruly woman sitcom / Jane Feuer -- Situation comedy, part 2 / Jane Feuer -- Sex and the city / Glen Creeber -- The 'gay' and 'queer' sitcom / Jane Feuer -- Will and Grace / Jane Feuer -- Contemporary sitcom: 'comedy vérité' / Brett Mills -- The office/BrassEye / Brett Mills -- The panel show / Brett Mills -- QI / Brett Mills -- Children's television as genre / Jason Mittell -- Studying children's television / Máire Messenger Davies -- Horrible histories / Lisa Richards -- The child audience / Máire Messenger Davies -- Pre-schoolers: a special audience / Máire Messenger Davies -- Sesame Street / Glen Creeber -- Moral panics / Paul Wells -- Teletubbies / Paul Wells -- Children and advertising / Merris Griffiths -- Studying television news / Justin Lewis -- "The propaganda model of news': Herman and Chomsky / Justin Lewis -- The Glasgow Media Group / Jackie Harrison -- Analysing television news / Justin Lewis -- How to analyse a tv news programme / John Hartley -- Constructing news values / Jackie Harrison -- Gatekeeper studies / Jackie Harrison -- Objectivity and television news / Jackie Harrison -- The aesthetics of twenty-four-hour news / Glen Creeber -- The BBC and impartiality / Jackie Harrison -- The globalisation of television news / John Hartley -- Cable news network (CNN) / John Hartley -- Citizen journalism / Jackie Harrison -- Al-Jazeera / Jackie Harrison -- Studying documentary / John Corner -- Big fat gypsy weddings / Glen Creeber -- Form and content in documentary study / John Corner -- Documentary realism / John Corner -- Observational ('fly-on-the-wall') documentary / Stella Bruzzi -- New reflexive documentary: 'The Broomfield film' / Stella Bruzzi -- Educational programming / K. …”

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Health innovations. SW Pictures.

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