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Knowledge for Justice : Critical Perspectives from Southern African-Nordic Research Partnerships /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Tor Halvorsen, Hilde Ibsen, Henri-Count Evans and Sharon Penderis -- part I. Knowledge and neo-liberalism -- 1. The Sustainable Development Goals, knowledge production and the global struggle over values / Tor Halvorsen -- 2. …”
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AMERICANAS, AUTOCRACY, AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL INNOVATION : overwriting the dictator. by Ortiz-Vilarelle, Lisa

Table of Contents: “…Luminata -- "Only a Woman Could Imagine a Story Like This": Desire and Patriotism in Isabel Allende's Aphrodite and My Invented Country -- Marjorie Agosín's Filial Narrative: Producing Genres of Liberation in the Next Generation -- Matremoir: A Cross and a Star -- Patremoir: Always from Somewhere Else…”
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Contemporary African American Fiction : New Critical Essays /

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The work of the university by Levin, Richard C.

Table of Contents: “…From the beginning -- Calm seas, auspicious gales -- Beyond the ivy walls: our university in the wider world -- The purpose of a college education -- On liberal education -- The task of self-discovery -- A serious place -- Preparing for a new millennium -- Discovery -- Westward ho! …”
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A declaration of energy independence how freedom from foreign oil can improve national security, our economy, and the environment / by Hakes, Jay E.

Table of Contents: “…Solution one : store massive emergency reserves -- Solution two : drive the car of the future -- Solution three : bring alternative fuels to market -- Solution four : plug into an electric future -- Solution five : adopt energy taxes liberals and conservatives can like -- Solution six : make energy conservation a patriotic duty -- Solution seven : throw some "Hail Marys" -- Pt. 3. …”
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Naturalized bioethics toward responsible knowing and practice /

Table of Contents: “…DeVries, Lisa Kane Low, and Elizabeth (Libby) Bogdan-Lovis -- Holding on to Edmund: the relational work of identity / Hilde Lindemann -- Caring, minimal autonomy, and the limits of liberalism / Agnieszka Jaworska -- Narrative, complexity, and context: autonomy as an epistemic value / Naomi Scheman -- Toward a naturalized narrative bioethics / Tod Chambers -- Motivating health: empathy and the normative activity of coping / Jodi Halpern and Margaret Olivia Little -- Economies of hope in a period of transition: parents in the time leading up to their child's liver transplantation / Mare Knibbe and Marian Verkerk -- Consent as a grant of authority: a care ethics reading of informed consent / Joan C. …”
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Civil rights in New York City from World War II to the Giuliani era /

Table of Contents: “…To be a good American : the New York City Teachers Union and race during the Second World War / Clarence Taylor -- Cops, schools, and communism : local politics and global ideologies--New York City in the 1950's / Barbara Ransby -- "Taxation without sanitation is tyranny" : civil rights struggles over garbage collection in Brooklyn, New York, during the fall of 1962 / Brian Purnell -- Rochdale Village and the rise and fall of integrated housing in New York City / Peter Eisenstadt -- Conservative and liberal opposition to the New York City school-integration campaign / Clarence Taylor -- The dead end of despair : Bayard Rustin, the 1968 New York school crisis, and the struggle for racial justice / Daniel Perlstein -- The young lords and the social and structural roots Of late sixties urban radicalism / Johanna Fernandez -- "Brooklyn College belongs to us" : Black students and the transformation of public higher education in New York City / Martha Biondi -- Racial events, diplomacy, and Dinkins's image / Wilbur C. …”
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Walls, borders, boundaries spatial and cultural practices in Europe /

Table of Contents: “…: contemporary b/ordering walls in Europe / Daniela Vicherat Mattar -- Border guarding as spatial practice : a case study of Czech communist governance and hidden transcripts / Muriel Blaive and Thomas Lindenberger -- A 'complicated contrivance' : West Berlin behind the wall, 1971-1989 / David Barclay -- Moving borders and competing civilizing missions : Germany, Poland, and Ukraine in the context of the EU's eastern enlargement / Steffi Marung -- Migrants, mosques, and minarets : reworking the boundaries of liberal democracy in Switzerland and Germany / Patricia Ehrkamp -- Not our kind : generational barriers dividing postwar Albanian migrant communities / Isa Blumi -- Invisible migrants : memory and German nationhood in the shadow of the Berlin Wall / Jeffrey Jurgens -- Crossing boundaries in Cyprus : landscapes of memory in the demilitarized zone / G�ulg�un Kayim.…”
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Security/Mobility : Politics of Movement /

Table of Contents: “…1 Introduction: Security/ Mobility and the politics of movement -- 1 Prologue: Movement then and now -- 2 Connectivity as problem: security, mobility, liberals, and Christians -- Part I: Things on the move -- 3 The power of cyberspace centralisation: analysing the example of data territorialisation -- 4 Commercialised occupation skills: Israeli security experience as an international brand -- 5 Mobility, circulation, and homeomorphism: data becoming risk information -- Part II: People on the move -- 6 'Illegals' in the Law School of Athens: public presence, discourse, and migrants as threat -- 7 The management of African asylum seekers and the imaginary of the border in Israel -- 8 Reinventing political order? …”
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German history from the margins

Table of Contents: “…Germans of the Jewish Stamm: visions of community between nationalism and particularism, 1850 to 1933 / Till van Rahden -- Identity and essentialism: race, racism, and the Jews at the fin de siècle / Yfaat Weiss -- Prussia at the margins, or the world that nationalism lost / Helmut Walser Smith -- Völkisch-nationalism and universalism on the margins of the Reich: a comparison of majority and minority liberalism in Germany, 1898-1933 / Eric Kurlander -- "Volksgemeinschaften unter sich": German minorities and regionalism in Poland, 1918-39 / Winson Chu -- A margin at the center: the conservatives in Lower Saxony between Kaiserreich and Federal Republic / Frank Bösch -- "Black-red-gold enemies": Catholics, Socialists, and Jews in elementary schoolbooks from Kaiserreich to Third Reich / Katharine Kennedy -- "Productivist" and "consumerist" narratives of Jews in German history / Gideon Reuveni -- How "Jewish" is German sexuality? …”
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The new inquisitions heretic-hunting and the intellectual origins of modern totalitarianism / by Versluis, Arthur, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : heresy -- Heresy and the inquisition -- Czeslaw Milosz and the captive mind -- The archetypal inquisition -- Joseph de Maistre and the Inquisition -- Juan Donoso Cortés and the "sickness" of the liberal state -- Georges Sorel and Charles Maurras : the emergence of secular state corporatism -- Maurice Barrès and Charles Maurras : the nationalist substitute for Catholicism -- The secularization of heresiophobia -- Carl Schmitt, the Inquisition, and totalitarianism -- Carl Schmitt and early modern Western esotericism -- Carl Schmitt and gnosticism -- Communism and the heresy of religion -- Eric Voegelin, anti-gnosticism, and the totalitarian emphasis on order -- The rhetoric of anti-gnosticism -- Voegelinian inquisitors -- Norman Cohn and the pursuit of heretics -- The inner demons of Europe once again -- Theodor Adorno and the "occult" -- Another long, strange trip -- That old bugaboo, "gnosticism," yet again -- An epidemic of evil! …”
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Debating political reform in China rule of law vs. democratization /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Suisheng Zhao -- Toward a consultative rule of law regime in China / Pan Wei -- Political liberalization without democratization : Pan Wei's proposal for political reform / Suisheng Zhao -- A government of laws : democracy, rule of law, and administrative law reform in China / Randall Peerenboom -- The rule of law as transition to democracy in China / Larry Diamond -- A comparative politics of democratization in China / Edward Friedman -- Pan Wei's consultative rule of law regime and reforming authoritarianism in China / Gunter Schubert -- Toward the rule of law : why China's path will be different from the West / Baohui Zhang -- The people's court in transition : the prospects for Chinese judicial reform / Qianfan Zhang -- State power and unbalanced legal development in China / Yongshun Cai, Songcai Yang -- Law and labor in post-Mao China / Yunqiu Zhang -- The Internet and emerging civil society in China / Guobin Yang -- The Internet and single-party rule in China / Tamara Renee Shie -- Toward a rule of law regime : political reform under China's fourth generation of leadership / Suisheng Zhao -- Reflections on "consultative rule of law regime" : a response to my critics / Pan Wei.…”
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The changing identity of rural India a socio-historic analysis /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Capital and labour transformations in shaping rural development in India / Elisabetta Basile and Ishita Mukhopadhyay -- Identifying livelihoods in rural India / Ishita Mukhopadhyay -- The institutional embeddedness of Indian rural capitalism / Elisabetta Basile -- Social capital and poverty reduction strategies : the case of rural India / Claudio Cecchi, Luca Molinas, and Fabio Sabatini -- An overview of Indian microfinance / Shirsendu Mukherjee and Sukanta Bhattacharya -- Income-based estimates vs. consumption-based estimates of poverty : evidence from rural Tamil Nadu after liberalization / Marco Cavalcante -- Occupational diversification of the rural workers : some results from field surveys in West Bengal / Sankar K. …”
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Psychology of victimization

Table of Contents: “…Dempsey -- Cyberbullying in Germany : what we know about the victims / Catarina Katzer -- The long term impact of victimization in cases of historical child sexual abuse and intimate partner violence / Susan Rodger, Alan Leschied -- A conservative is a liberal urban dweller who has been mugged : a longitudinal study on the links between victimization and voting preferences / Silvia Russo, Michele Roccato, Alessio Vieno and others -- Peer reputations and peer victimization / Dario Bacchini, Gaetana Affuso -- Psychology of victimization / Jose Carlos Assi Kimou -- Psychology of victimization / Jennifer M. …”
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The psychologies in religion working with the religious client /

Table of Contents: “…Judd & Stevan Lars Nielsen -- Liberal Judaism / Ira S. Halper & Amy Ruth Bolton -- Orthodox Judaism: features and issues for psychotherapy / Kate Miriam Loewenthal -- Psychology and Sunni Muslims / Saba R. …”
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The cultural contradictions of democracy political thought since September 11 / by Brenkman, John

Table of Contents: “…-- Leviathan -- The neoconservative illusion -- The frailty of human affairs -- Crises of the republic -- The argument -- Seized by power -- Death and the governor of Texas -- The new American exceptionalism -- The cold warrior myth -- Kant with Arendt -- Targeting Iraq -- Al Qaeda and ultimate ends -- A grammar of motives -- The imagination of power -- State of exception -- Arendt versus Agamben -- Schmitt and Hobbes -- Decision and covenant -- The ordeal of universalism -- September 11 and fables of the left -- First response -- Multilateral ambivalence -- Terrorism as symptom -- Chomskian certitudes -- Hardt and Negri's Empire -- The multitude and prophecy -- Iraq : delirium of war, delusions of peace -- The idealism of means -- The idealism of ends -- Neither left nor right -- The Atlantic misalliance -- Diplomatic intrigues and political truths -- Repudiations of the UN left and right -- The Hobbesian nightmare : occupied Iraq -- The ordeal of universalism -- Democracy and war -- Postnational cosmopolitanism versus liberal nationalism? -- Kant with Hobbes -- Habermas's Agon with Schmitt -- Hobbes with Kant -- Europe, or, the empire of rights -- Islam's geo-civil war -- Global neoliberal religious conservatism? …”
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Displacing the divine the minister in the mirror of American fiction / by Walrath, Douglas Alan, 1933-

Table of Contents: “…Misfits in America ; Harsh Puritans and fanatical Calvinists ; Scoundrels in collars -- Clerics in contention : church images. Liberal challengers ; Faithful Calvinists ; Precarious pastors -- Vulnerable divines : radical images. …”
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This changes everything Occupy Wall Street and the 99% movement /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: how Occupy Wall Street changes everything / Sarah van Gelder -- How Occupy Wall Street really got started / Andy Kroll -- Enacting the impossible: making decisions by consensus / David Graeber -- Principles of solidarity -- The chills of popular power: the first month of Occupy Wall Street / Marina Sitrin -- Claiming space for diversity at Occupy Wall Street / Hena Ashraf -- Declaration of the occupation of New York City -- No leaders, no violence: what diversity of tactics means for Occupy Wall Street / Nathan Schneider -- The most important thing in the world / Naomi Klein -- How inequality poisons society and equity benefits everyone : an interview with Richard Wilkinson / Brooke Jarvis -- Six ways to liberate main street from Wall Street / David Korten -- A fair tax system: three places to start / Chuck Collins -- How to create living-wage jobs that are good for the planet / Sarah van Gelder and Doug Pibel -- How to put the rights of people and nature over corporate rights / Thomas Linzey and Jeff Reifman -- Going to the streets to get things done / Ralph Nader -- The occupation of hope: letter to a dead man / Rebecca Solnit -- 10 ways to support the occupy movement / Sarah van Gelder.…”
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Anglo-American idealism thinkers and ideas /

Table of Contents: “…Collingwood's response to Oxbridge meta-ethics : hierarchical moral pluralism / Timothy Lord -- Taking individuals seriously : new liberalism and rights / Derrick Darby -- The ideal of charity in the realist age / Chris Colgan -- Collingwood, Hegel and the owl of Minerva / Gary Browning -- Absolute presuppositions and the limits of reason : some aspects of the philosophy of Collingwood / Sverre Wide -- Collingwood, Heidegger and the art of being / Timothy Rosser -- Art, feeling, and truth : the central problem of the aesthetics of Anglo-Saxon idealism / Marie-Luise Raters -- Edward Caird, Northrop Frye, and Kant scholarship / Philip MacEwen.…”
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