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Games of empire global capitalism and video games / by Dyer-Witheford, Nick, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Game engine : labor, capital, machine -- Immaterial labor : a workers' history of videogaming -- Cognitive capitalism : electronic arts -- Machinic subjects : the XBOX and its rivals -- Gameplay : virtual/actual -- Banal war : full spectrum warrior -- Biopower play : world of warcraft -- Imperial city : grand theft auto -- New game? …”
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The aesthetics of hate far-right intellectuals, antisemitism, and gender in 1930s France / by Sanos, Sandrine

Table of Contents: “…: the politics and aesthetics insurgency of the young new right -- The absent author : Maurice Blanchot and the subjection of politics -- "Negroid Jews against white men" : Louis-Ferdinand Céline and the politics of literature -- The race of fascism : Je suis partout, race, and culture.…”
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Handbook of financial risk management simulations and case studies / by Chan, Ngai Hang

Table of Contents: “…List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- An introduction to excel vba -- Background -- Structured products -- Volatility modeling -- Fixed-income derivatives I : short-rate models -- Fixed-income derivatives II : libor market models -- Credit derivatives and counterparty credit risk -- Value-at-risk and related risk measures -- The Greeks -- Appendix -- References -- Subject index -- Author index.…”
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Aspects of psychologism / by Crane, Tim

Table of Contents: “…-- The given -- Unconscious belief and conscious thought -- Subjective facts -- Papineau on phenomenal concepts -- Tye on acquaintance and the problem of consciousness.…”
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A scientific assessment of the validity of mystical experiences : understanding altered psychological and neurophysiological states / by Papanicolaou, Andrew C.

Table of Contents: “…Defining mystical states and experiences -- Unintentional and deliberate methods of attaining mystical states : religious, cultural, and philosophical perspectives -- Mystical states achieved through psychedelics: the origins, classical, and contemporary use of psychedelics -- Questioning the reliability of mystical states : identifying features -- Questioning the validity of mystical states : opinions and objections -- The experiencing subject and mystical object : defining validity of the mystical state.…”
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Re-Forming the Past : History, The Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative / by Spaulding, A. Timothy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The slave narrative and its postmodern counterpart -- The conflation of time in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada and Octavia Butler's Kindred -- Ghosts, haunted houses, and the legacy of slavery : Toni Morrison's Beloved and the gothic impulse -- Re-forming Black subjectivity : symbolic transculturation in Charles Johnson's Oxherding tale and Middle passage -- Beyond postmodernity : de-familiarizing the postmodern slave narrative.…”
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The mobilities paradigm : discourses and ideologies / by Endres, Marcel, Manderscheid, Katharina, Mincke, Christophe

Table of Contents: “…affirmation or de-construction of the solitary mobile subject / Katharina Manderscheid -- Passengers without havens? …”

History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out : Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History / by Barrett, James R., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the subjective side of working-class history -- The Blessed Virgin made me a socialist historian: an experiment in Catholic autobiography and the historical understanding of race and class -- Was the personal political? …”
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The sale of goods / by Bridge, M. G (Michael G.)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction and conclusion of the contract -- Definition and subject matter of the sale of goods contract -- The passing of property -- Risk, mistake, and frustration -- The seller's duty and power to transfer title -- Delivery, acceptance, and payment -- The implied terms of description, fitness, and quality -- Other liabilities of the seller and liabilities of third parties -- Unfair contract terms -- Termination of the contract for breach -- The remedies of the seller and the buyer I -- The remedies of the seller and the buyer II.…”

John Cuthbert Ford, SJ moral theologian at the end of the manualist era / by Genilo, Eric Marcelo O.

Table of Contents: “…. -- Method -- John Ford's moral theology and the manualist tradition -- John Ford's two modes of resolving moral cases -- The development of doctrine -- Moral objectivity -- Objective moral norms and situation ethics -- Subjective culpability -- John Ford and Josef Fuchs -- Morality and law -- Opposing totalitarianism and protecting the vulnerable -- John Ford and his legacy.…”
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Rebellious histories the Amistad slave revolt and the cultures of late twentieth-century black transnationalism / by Christensen, Matthew J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : rebellious histories -- Cinque/Sengbe : naming the transnational subject -- Cannibals in the postcolony : Charlie Haffner's Amistad Kata-Kata and the moral economy of global consumption -- Neoliberal masculinity, black transnationalism, and the United States ; disappearing borders in Amistad and echo of lions -- Enslaving globalization : trans-atlantic slavery, Civil War, and modernity in Raymond Desouza-George's The broken handcuff -- Conclusion : rebellious futures.…”
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Forest and labor in Madagascar from colonial concession to global biosphere / by Sodikoff, Genese Marie, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Geographies of borrowed time -- Overland on foot, aloft: an anatomy of the social structure -- Land and languor: on what makes good work -- Toward a new nature: rank and value in conservation bureaucracy -- Contracting space: making deals in a global hot spot -- How the dead matter: the production of heritage -- Cooked rice wages: internal contradiction and subjective experience -- Epilogue: workers of the vanishing world.…”
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Crime classification manual a standard system for investigating and classifying violent crimes / by Douglas, John E.

Table of Contents: “…Treffers -- Local, federal and international agencies -- About the editors -- About the contributors -- Author index -- Subject index.…”
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Portrait of a Young Painter : Pepe Zuniga and Mexico City's Rebel Generation / by Vaughan, Mary K., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…-- Exuberant interlude : painting at the Museo de Antropología -- Private struggle/public protest : 1965-1972 -- Subjectivity and the public sphere : the mature art of Jose Zúñiga.…”
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Growing up global economic restructuring and children's everyday lives / by Katz, Cindi, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Fluid dynamics -- A child's day in Howa -- The political economy and ecology of Howa village -- Social reproduction -- Children's work and play -- Knowing subjects/abstracting knowledge -- Disrupted landscapes of production and reproduction -- Displacements -- New York parallax; or, you can't drive a Chevy through a post-fordist landscape -- Howa at the end of the millennium -- Topographies of global capitalism -- The strange familiar -- Negotiating the recent future.…”
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Conditions by Badiou, Alain

Table of Contents: “…-- Philosophy and psychoanalysis -- The subject and infinite -- Antiphilosophy : Lacan and Plato -- Writing of the generic : Samuel Beckett.…”
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Widowhood in early modern Spain protectors, proprietors, and patrons / by Fink De Backer, Stephanie

Table of Contents: “…Widows and the literary imagination -- Subjects of counsel -- Objects of desire -- Sex in the city -- To her alone pertains the governance of all her house (Gaspar Astete) -- Master and mistress of the household -- Father and mother of their children -- A widow's work is never done -- Worthy recipients and pious donors -- Widowhood, poverty, and charity -- Family, memory, and the sacralization of urban space -- Coda. …”
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A different place in the making : the everyday life practices of Chinese rural migrants in urban villages / by Yuan, Yan, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Re-grounding the migratory subjects in place -- The politics of place-making and the geography of migrant settlement in urban China -- Doing ethnography in urban villages -- Street life in the urban villages -- Co-inhabitation and transformation : knowing the locality through housing -- Possession, location, connection : the place of television in home-making -- The politics of place in the spring festival -- A televised spring festival and its consumption in the urban villages -- Conclusions.…”
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Population genetic studies in Africa curiosity and challenges /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Use of genomic DNA to advance our knowledge and understanding of human evolution, biomedical research and mechanisms of disease -- Acquiring specimens for research -- Strict policies and recommendations guiding specimen acquirement -- Social, ethical and legal issues when conducting research on human subjects -- Factors to be considered when setting up qualitative and quantitative research -- Case study: sub-Saharan Africa, in particular population genetics studies.…”
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Machiavelli and the Politics of Democratic Innovation / by Holman, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part one: Methodology -- Machiavelli and the constellative move of historical appropriation -- Part two: Philosophical Anthropology -- The contingency of being: on worldly and human indetermination -- Politics and the human essence: The prince as a model of human subjectivity -- Part three: Political Ontology -- Ambition and the people: the popular form of the desire for creation -- Social equality and the contingent being of the great -- Institutionalizing ambitious expression: the republic as the self-overcoming regime.…”
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