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Home truths fictions of the South Asian diaspora in Britain /
Published 2002An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Democratic hope : pragmatism and the politics of truth /
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White scholars/African American texts
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Bauer -- "Writing about Gwendolyn Brooks anyway" / James D. Sullivan -- "Truth and talent in interpreting ethnic American autobiography : from white to Black and beyond" / Kimberly Rae Connor.…”
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Fragile Conviction
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Condition of uncertainty : life in an industrial wasteland -- What happened to Soviet atheism? -- Walking the truth in Islam with the Tablighi Jamaat -- Pentecostal miracle truth on the frontier -- The tenacity of spiritual healing and seeing -- Conclusion : pulsation : dynamics of conviction.…”
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Fragile Conviction : Changing Ideological Landscapes in Urban Kyrgyzstan /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Condition of uncertainty : life in an industrial wasteland -- What happened to Soviet atheism? -- Walking the truth in Islam with the Tablighi Jamaat -- Pentecostal miracle truth on the frontier -- The tenacity of spiritual healing and seeing -- Conclusion : pulsation : dynamics of conviction.…”
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Fragile Conviction : Changing Ideological Landscapes in Urban Kyrgyzstan /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Condition of uncertainty : life in an industrial wasteland -- What happened to Soviet atheism? -- Walking the truth in Islam with the Tablighi Jamaat -- Pentecostal miracle truth on the frontier -- The tenacity of spiritual healing and seeing -- Conclusion : pulsation : dynamics of conviction.…”
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Antiphon the Athenian oratory, law, and justice in the age of the Sophists /
Published 2002Table of Contents: “…The Authenticity of the Tetralogies -- 3. TRUTH -- I. The Papyrus Fragments -- z. Nomos and Physis -- 3. …”
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Dutch culture in the Golden Age
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Context -- Structures and change -- The shape of Dutch culture -- Painting and graphic art -- Literature -- Humanism and the reptile of letters -- Science and technology -- God and truth -- The culture of politics -- The influence of the Dutch Golden Age -- The waning of the Golden Age.…”
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China's transition to modernity : the new classical vision of Dai Zhen /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…The man and his times -- How Jesuit science conquered the Kangxi court -- Searching for truth in the origins of civilizations -- How to build a coalition around science -- An outsider enters the mainstream -- How to dethrone Jesuit science -- Bringing it home to the palace of light -- Legibility of visionary scholars.…”
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Belabored professions narratives of African American working womanhood /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Race, work, and literary authority in the Narrative of Sojourner Truth -- The view from below : menial labor and self-reliance in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig -- Enterprising women and the labors of femininity : Eliza Potter, Cincinnati hairdresser -- Behind the scenes of Black labor : Elizabeth Keckley and the scandal of publicity.…”
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The greengrocer and his TV the culture of communism after the 1968 Prague Spring /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…"A criminal comedy but of a revivalist spirit" : the beginning and the end of the Prague Spring -- Purge and the remaking of a socialist citizenry -- Intellectuals, hysterics, and "real men" : the Prague Spring officially remembered -- The quiet life versus a life in truth : writing the script for normalization -- Broadcasting in the age of late communism -- Jaroslav Dietl : normalization's narrator -- The socialist family and its caretakers -- Self-realization and the socialist way of life.…”
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What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution /
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…: imagining life in King Lear -- The dream of Descartes -- A history of error: Robert Fludd, Thomas Browne, and the Harrow of Truth -- The century of genius (1): Measuring up -- The century of genius (2): Hooke, Newton, and the system of the world -- Revolution and its discontents: the skeptical challenge -- Appendix 1: The fable of sound -- Appendix 2: Descartes' Three dreams.…”
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Maya intellectual renaissance identity, representation, and leadership /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Maya identity and interethnic relations -- Pan-Mayanism : the complexity of Maya culture and the process of self-representation -- Representation via ethnography : mapping the Maya image in a Guatemalan primary-school social-studies textbook -- The multiplicity of Maya voices : Maya leadership and the politics of self-representation -- Truth, human rights, and representation : the case of Rigoberta Menchú -- The ethnohistory of Maya leadership -- Theoretical basis and strategies for Maya leadership -- Maya ways of knowing : modern Maya and the elders -- Leadership and Maya intellectuality -- Indigenous rights, security, and democracy in the Americas : the Guatemalan situation -- The twenty-first century and the future of the Maya in Guatemala.…”
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Responsibility of Intellectuals : Reflections by Noam Chomsky and Others after 50 years /
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Responsibility of Intellectuals : Reflections by Noam Chomsky and Others after 50 years /
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Essays from the edge parerga & paralipomena /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…: reflections on a Frankfurt school lament -- Mourning a metaphor: the revolution is over -- Cultural relativism and the visual turn -- Scopic regimes of modernity revisited -- No state of grace : violence in the garden -- Visual parrhesia? : Foucault and the truth of the gaze -- The Kremlin of modernism -- Phenomenology and lived experience -- Aesthetic experience and historical experience : a twenty-first-century constellation -- Still waiting to hear from derrida -- Pseudology : Derrida on Arendt and lying in politics -- The menace of consilience : keeping the disciplines unreconciled -- Can there be national philosophies in a transnational world? …”
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John Oliver Killens a life of Black literary activism /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Youngblood, 1954-1955 -- Stalking the truth, 1955-1957 -- Rights and rites, 1958-1959 -- Journey to genesis, 1959-1961 -- Thundering genius, 1961-1963 -- It doesn't hurt to review, 1963-1964 -- Statesmanlike work, 1964 -- In residence, 1965-1966 -- Explaining dissent, 1966-1967 -- New Black, 1967-1968 -- We must construct a monument, 1968-1969 -- Champeenship of blackness, 1970-1971 -- Long-distance running, 1971-1974 -- I always said class and race, 1974-1977 -- Pushing Pushkin, 1977-1982 -- For freedom, 1982-1986 -- Dr. …”
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Faithful transgressions in the American West six twentieth-century Mormon women's autobiographical acts /
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier -- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother -- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier -- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story -- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place -- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.…”
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Faithful Transgressions In The American West Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts /
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier -- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother -- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier -- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story -- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place -- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.…”
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