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  • The pleasure of the blog: the early novel, the serial, and the narrative archive
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    Blogs; Literary form;
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    Blogs have in the last couple of years loomed large in the Western imagination, but the ideas about blogs that have circulated both through the mainstream media and through academia have been extremely limited in scope. In the popular imagination,...
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    2006-10-11
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  • Screening the rural: the American countryside in silent film
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    Culture; Country life; Homesickness; Rural-urban relations; Silent films; United States - Social life and customs;
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    The rise of motion pictures during the 1910s and 1920s was a critical component of an emerging consumer culture in the United States that coincided with its broader transformation from a rural to an urban society. Because of this conjuncture,...
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    2006-09-28
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  • Cues for snacks and soft drinks: a study of adolescent eating behaviors
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    Diet; Behaviour and health; Teenagers;
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    Memory can be said to deeply connected to our tastes in food -- what we've liked or disliked in the past creates associations that help trigger our current eating behaviors. In what might be seen as a scientific version of the beginning of...
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    2013-04-10
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  • Undercurrents and rip tides in Mormon studies
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    Mormons; Silk industry; Mormon missionaries; Mormon pioneers; Women and religion; Smith, Joseph, 1805-1844; Brannan, Sam, 1819-1889; Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry), 1857-1933; Brodie, Fawn McKay, 1915-1981
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    Richard and Claudia Bushman discuss transformations in Mormon studies. Claudia Bushman talks about radical women's Mormon history and shares an account of women's silk making. She says there was a huge flowering of new church institutions and...
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    2009-02-04
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  • Becoming Paul M. Churchland: NeuroPhilosopher
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    Neurosciences; Philosophy; Churchland, Paul M., 1942-; Consciousness; Foundationalism (Theory of knowledge); Logical positivism
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    Philosopher Paul Churchland, currently nearing the end of his second decade in resistance at the University of California, San Diego, has long been what is often quite rare: a cutting-edge academic philosopher. He as been at the vanguard...
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    2005-04-27
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  • Public lands - public debates: a century of controversy
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    Public lands; United States. National Park Service; United States. Forest Service.
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    The U. S. manages a vast system of national forests, grasslands, parks, and refuges, landscapes that contain some of the most beautiful and resource-rich terrain in the country. Since their establishment beginning in the late 19th-century, these...
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    2012-10-31
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  • Mothers, daughters, concubines, prostitutes: women in the Book of Genesis, how do we assess them?
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    Women in the Bible; Matriarchs (Bible); Bible. O.T. Genesis; Bible. O.T. Genesis - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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    Eve or Lot's wife, Sarah or Hagar, Rebecca, Leah and Rachel - many of the women characters in the book of Genesis are used as archetypes for women until this day. Yet how well do these images, disseminated about these women from everything from...
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    2006-10-11

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