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Design like Apple seven principles for creating insanely great products, services, and experiences / by Edson, John, 1966-

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The best specimen of a tyrant the ambitious Dr. Abraham Van Norstrand and the Wisconsin Insane Hospital / by Doherty, Thomas

Subjects: “…Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane History.…”
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The best specimen of a tyrant the ambitious Dr. Abraham Van Norstrand and the Wisconsin Insane Hospital / by Doherty, Thomas

Subjects: “…Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane History.…”
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Committed : Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions / by Burch, Susan

Subjects: “…Canton Asylum for Insane Indians fast (OCoLC)fst01973950…”
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Committed : Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions / by Burch, Susan

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Stoicism & emotion by Graver, Margaret

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: emotion and norms for emotion -- A science of the mind -- The pathetic syllogism -- Vigor and responsibility -- Feelings without assent -- Brutishness and insanity -- Traits of character -- The development of character -- City of friends and lovers -- The tears of Alcibiades -- Appendix: the status of confidence in stoic classifications.…”
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Stoicism & emotion by Graver, Margaret

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: emotion and norms for emotion -- A science of the mind -- The pathetic syllogism -- Vigor and responsibility -- Feelings without assent -- Brutishness and insanity -- Traits of character -- The development of character -- City of friends and lovers -- The tears of Alcibiades -- Appendix: the status of confidence in stoic classifications.…”
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Yodel in hi-fi from kitsch folk to contemporary electronica / by Plantenga, Bart

Table of Contents: “…An introduction to the insane logic of yodeling -- In the beginning was the holler -- The black voice heard blue around the world -- Yodel-spotting in the big-small world -- The great leap from low to high culture -- Ego vs. echo -- The yodel that ate celluloid -- Swiss yodels.…”
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Yodel in hi-fi from kitsch folk to contemporary electronica / by Plantenga, Bart

Table of Contents: “…An introduction to the insane logic of yodeling -- In the beginning was the holler -- The black voice heard blue around the world -- Yodel-spotting in the big-small world -- The great leap from low to high culture -- Ego vs. echo -- The yodel that ate celluloid -- Swiss yodels.…”
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Emotions, values, and the law by Deigh, John

Table of Contents: “…Emotions : the legacy of James and Freud -- Primitive emotions -- Cognitivism in the theory of emotion -- Emotions and values -- The politics of disgust and shame -- Emotions and the authority of law : variations on themes from Bentham and Austin -- All kinds of guilt -- Promises under fire -- Moral agency and criminal insanity -- Liberalism and freedom.…”
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Emotions, values, and the law by Deigh, John

Table of Contents: “…Emotions : the legacy of James and Freud -- Primitive emotions -- Cognitivism in the theory of emotion -- Emotions and values -- The politics of disgust and shame -- Emotions and the authority of law : variations on themes from Bentham and Austin -- All kinds of guilt -- Promises under fire -- Moral agency and criminal insanity -- Liberalism and freedom.…”
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Madness : American Protestant reactions to mental illness across three centuries / by Vacek, Heather H., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Making theological sense out of suffering, sin, and sickness / Cotton Mather -- Christian vocation and the shape the secular profession / Benjamin Rush -- Advocating for the helpless, forgotten, and insane / Dorothea Dix -- Reclaiming religious authority in medicine / Anton Boisen -- A passionate plea to engage finds lukewarm reaction / Karl Menninger.…”
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Madness : American Protestant reactions to mental illness across three centuries / by Vacek, Heather H., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Making theological sense out of suffering, sin, and sickness / Cotton Mather -- Christian vocation and the shape the secular profession / Benjamin Rush -- Advocating for the helpless, forgotten, and insane / Dorothea Dix -- Reclaiming religious authority in medicine / Anton Boisen -- A passionate plea to engage finds lukewarm reaction / Karl Menninger.…”
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American madness the rise and fall of dementia praecox / by Noll, Richard, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…The world of the American alienist, 1896 -- Adolf Meyer brings dementia praecox to America -- Emil Kraepelin -- The American reception of dementia praecox and manic -- Depressive insanity, 1896-1905 -- The lost biological psychiatry -- The rise of the mind-twist men, 1903-1913 -- Bayard Taylor Holmes and radically rational treatments -- The rise of schizophrenia in America, 1912-1927.…”
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American madness the rise and fall of dementia praecox / by Noll, Richard, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…The world of the American alienist, 1896 -- Adolf Meyer brings dementia praecox to America -- Emil Kraepelin -- The American reception of dementia praecox and manic -- Depressive insanity, 1896-1905 -- The lost biological psychiatry -- The rise of the mind-twist men, 1903-1913 -- Bayard Taylor Holmes and radically rational treatments -- The rise of schizophrenia in America, 1912-1927.…”
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Legitimating new religions by Lewis, James R.

Table of Contents: “…Religious experience and the origins of religion -- Native American prophet religions -- Jesus in India and the forging of tradition -- Science, technology, and the Space Brothers -- Anton Lavey, the Satanic Bible, and the Satanist tradition -- Heaven's Gate and the legitimation of suicide -- The authority of the long ago and the far away -- Atrocity tales as a delegitimation strategy -- Religious insanity -- The cult stereotype as an ideological resource -- Scholarship and the delegitimation of religion.…”
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Legitimating new religions by Lewis, James R.

Table of Contents: “…Religious experience and the origins of religion -- Native American prophet religions -- Jesus in India and the forging of tradition -- Science, technology, and the Space Brothers -- Anton Lavey, the Satanic Bible, and the Satanist tradition -- Heaven's Gate and the legitimation of suicide -- The authority of the long ago and the far away -- Atrocity tales as a delegitimation strategy -- Religious insanity -- The cult stereotype as an ideological resource -- Scholarship and the delegitimation of religion.…”
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A Lutheran plague murdering to die in the eighteenth century / by Krogh, Tyge, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Frequency -- The murderers' social situation and mental state -- Religious motives -- The authorities and the murders -- Pietism and the murderers -- Motives -- Boundaries -- Divine demands -- Salvation of the soul -- A Lutheran plague -- The Danish decree of 1767 -- Measures taken against the suicide murders in Germany -- The role of suicide murders in the penal reform debates -- From salvation to insanity -- Conclusion -- Appendix : suicide murder cases in Copenhagen, 1697-1789.…”
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A Lutheran plague murdering to die in the eighteenth century / by Krogh, Tyge, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Frequency -- The murderers' social situation and mental state -- Religious motives -- The authorities and the murders -- Pietism and the murderers -- Motives -- Boundaries -- Divine demands -- Salvation of the soul -- A Lutheran plague -- The Danish decree of 1767 -- Measures taken against the suicide murders in Germany -- The role of suicide murders in the penal reform debates -- From salvation to insanity -- Conclusion -- Appendix : suicide murder cases in Copenhagen, 1697-1789.…”
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Head masters phrenology, secular education, and nineteenth-century social thought / by Tomlinson, Stephen, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…The science of man -- Ideology and education in Virginia -- Gall, naturalist of the mind -- The birth of the normal -- George Combe and the rise of phrenology in Britain -- Schooling for a new moral world -- The eye of the community -- The philosophy of Christianity -- James Simpson and the necessity of popular education -- Insanity, education, and the introduction of phrenology to America -- Phrenological Mann -- From savagery to civilization -- Guardians of the republic -- The high tide of secularism -- The education of Littlehead -- Race, science, and the republic -- Ministering to the body politic.…”
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