Search Results - "belief"

Bodies of belief Baptist community in early America / by Lindman, Janet Moore

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Linguistic planets of belief : mapping language attitudes in the American South / by Bounds, Paulina, Cramer, Jennifer, Tamasi, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Concepts of Beliefs -- Perceptual Dialectology and the Power of Labelling -- Planet USA: South versus Others -- Southern Planet: Hicks, Hillbillies, and Rednecks? …”
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Time, history, and belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico by Hassig, Ross, 1945-

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Nixon at the movies a book about belief / by Feeney, Mark

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Playing God belief and ritual in the Muttappan cult of North Malabar / by Gabriel, Theodore P. C.

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Closing the achievement gap a vision for changing beliefs and practices /

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Native American language ideologies beliefs, practices, and struggles in Indian country /

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It keeps me seeking : the invitation from science, philosophy, and religion / by Briggs, Andrew, Halvorson, Hans, Steane, Andrew M.

Table of Contents: “…Miracles and reasonable belief --…”

Diagnosing folklore : perspectives on disability, health, and trauma /

Table of Contents: “…Disability, ethnography, and the stigmatized vernacular -- Part 2. Folk knowledge, belief, and treatment in regional and ethnic health praxis -- Part 3. …”
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The troubled empire : China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties / by Brook, Timothy, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Dragon spotting -- Scale -- The nine sloughs -- Khan and emperor -- Economy and ecology -- Families -- Beliefs -- The business of things -- The South China Sea -- Collapse -- Conclusion -- Temperature and precipitation extremes -- The nine sloughs -- Succession of emperors -- Pronunciation guide.…”
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Advancing Environmental Education Practice / by Krasny, Marianne E.

Table of Contents: “…Theory of change -- Evaluation -- Environment, sustainability, and climate change -- Environmental behaviors -- Environmental action -- Knowledge and thinking -- Values, beliefs, and attitudes -- Nature of connectedness -- Sense of place -- Efficacy -- Identity -- Norms -- Social capital -- Positive youth development -- Health and wellbeing -- Conclusion : resilience : adaptation and transformation…”
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Morals Not Knowledge : Recasting the Contemporary U.S. Conflict between Religion and Science / by Evans, John Hyde, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The religion and science advocates in the academic debate -- The academic analysts of the relationship between religion and science -- Recent transformation of elite academic and public debates -- Existing research on the public -- Empirical tests of knowledge and belief conflict for the religious public -- Empirical tests of moral conflict for the religious public -- Conclusion.…”
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Bracing for the apocalypse : an ethnographic study of New York's 'prepper' subculture / by Bounds, Anna Maria

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Intimate Bureaucracies / by Saper, Craig J.

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The Politics of Survival : Peirce, Affectivity, and Social Criticism / by Trout, Lara

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Social epileptology understanding social aspects of epilepsy /

Table of Contents: “…Epilepsy : definition, syndromes, and treatment / Jordan Kamel and Mark Cook -- Beliefs and perceptions of epilepsy in different cultures / Jaya Pinikahana -- Epilepsy, stigma and society / Graham Scambler -- Who gets treatment for epilepsy? …”
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Strange Science : Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age /

Table of Contents: “…Psychical Research and the Fantastic Science of Spirits -- 13. The Energy of Belief: The Unseen Universe, and the Spirit of Thermodynamics.…”
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Mussolini's army in the French Riviera : Italy's occupation of France / by Sica, Emanuele, 1975-

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Making sense of AIDS culture, sexuality, and power in Melanesia /

Table of Contents: “…The trouble with trousers : gossip, kastom, and sexual culture in Vanuatu / Maggie Cummings -- Love as sacrifice : the romantic underground and beliefs about HIV/AIDS in Manokwari, Papua / Sarah Hewat -- Smoke from fire : desire and secrecy in Auki, Solomon Islands / Holly Buchanan-Aruwafu and Rose Maebiru -- "You have to understand, some of us are glad AIDS has arrived" : Christianity and condoms among the Huli, Papua New Guinea / Holly Wardlow -- Moral reform and miraculous cures : Christian healing and AIDS in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea / Richard Eves -- SikAIDS : deconstructing the awareness campaign in rural West New Britain, Papua New Guinea / Naomi M. …”
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The funeral kit mortuary practices in the archaeological record / by Baker, Jill L., 1964-

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