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  • Material melody, immaterial writing: music and stenography in mid-19th century Germany
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    Music; Musical notation; Shorthand; Shorthand - Gabelsberger; Language, Universal; Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883; Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856; Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869; Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus), 1776-1822; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy,...
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    Innovative stenography systems of the 1830s used the variable thickness of line that was so important in the cursive handwriting of the time to signify differences in phonemes. These systems and their descendants became the dominant shorthand...
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    2006-03-01
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  • From toon town trolleys to freeways: So Cal transportation myths and reality, past, present and future
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    Transportation; Local transit; Automobiles; Firestone Tire and Rubber Company; General Motors Corporation; Pacific Electric Railway Company; Standard Oil Company;
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    In the popular mind, Southern California, with Los Angeles as its epicenter, is the region of the U.S. most associated with the automobile, both its joys and its discontents. From the Beach Boys paean to "fun, fun, fun until her daddy takes the...
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    2007-04-05
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  • An informed citizenry access: the Constitution and government documents
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    Depository libraries; Electronic government information; Government publications; United States. National Archives and Records Administration; Madison, James, 1751-1836; Freedom of information
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    In 1822, James Madison asserted that "a popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be...
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    2005-10-26
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  • Looking at the sunny side of life: emotion and how it affects our thinking across the lifespan
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    Psychology; Aging; Emotions
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    Mood is the filter through which we see the world. As such, it consistently accompanies us throughout our lives, sometimes with a consistent inconsistency. Working with undergraduates, Stacey Wood, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Scripps...
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    2005-04-05
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  • Coercion, compliance and resistance in wartime Japan, 1942-45
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    World War, 1939-1945; Japanese - Correspondence; Japanese - Social conditions
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    If we look at the history of history, we can trace an evolution as it shifted, over a period of centuries, from the chronicles of wars and kings to look more realistically at other players and eventually toward all levels and members of society,...
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    2009-10-07
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  • Globalization, the end of apartheid, and environmental crisis in South Africa
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    South Africa; South Africa - Environmental conditions; Natural resources - South Africa; Globalization;
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    When we think of South Africa, we often think of the recent past, charged with the history of Apartheid. But South Africa is also one of the world's most important countries because of the natural resources it has provided to fuel the global...
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    2010-02-03
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  • Lessons from L.A. schools: some gleanings from the toils of the past that would make the work of the future easier if only someone would listen
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    Public schools; Educational change; Education; Los Angeles Unified School District;
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    The story of public education in Los Angeles is one of institutional decline and hollowing out mixed with daily heroism and self-sacrifice on the part of teachers and administrators who try to make an old institution do things it was not designed...
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    2007-11-11
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  • Nanotechnology for more efficient fuel cells: improving nanoelectrochemistry to optimize solid acid fuel cells interfaces
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    Nanotechnology; Nanotechnology - Environmental aspects; Electric batteries; Fuel cells; Power resources;
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    Fuel cells and batteries are likely to have a dominant role in the development of a sustainable global energy infrastructure. Batteries and fuel cells convert chemical energy to electrical energy through simultaneous electrochemical reactions at...
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    2012-02-01
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  • Bridging worlds: Zulu poet Mazisi Kunene, from epic authenticity to modern science
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    Kunene, Mazisi; Africa; South Africa; Zulu poetry; Literature and science;
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    Mazisi Kunene, the revolutionary colleague of Nelson Mandela, was a major academic voice about the literature of Africa. A professor at UCLA, he was Poet Laureate of both South Africa and Africa and perhaps that continent's greatest poet. He...
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    2012-04-11
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  • The satisfactory midwife bag: midwifey regulation in South Carolina in the early twentieth century
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    Midwifery; South Carolina; Twentieth century; Childbirth
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    How did childbirth, once commonly administered in the household by lay midwives for women, become the domain of the hospital and the state? During the early 20th century, it was common for older African-American women -- Granny Midwives -- to...
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    2013-03-14
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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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