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Fictions of dignity embodying human rights in world literature / by Anker, Elizabeth S. (Elizabeth Susan), 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : constructs by which we live -- Bodily integrity and its exclusions -- Embodying human rights : toward a phenomenology of social justice -- Constituting the liberal subject of rights : Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children -- Women's rights and the lure of self-determination in Nawal el Saadawi's Woman at point zero -- J.M. …”
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Critical disability studies and the disabled child : unsettling distinctions / by Cooper, Harriet (Senior research associate)

Table of Contents: “…The look that made me: The early gazing relationship and the construction of disabled subjectivity -- 2. Making her better? Denaturalising the notion of the 'developing child' -- 3. …”
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Just Enough R! : An Interactive Approach to Machine Learning and Analytics. by Roiger, Richard J.

Table of Contents: “…Appendix B: Statistics for Performance Evaluation. Subject Index. Index of R Functions. Script Index.…”
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Historical and ethical issues in trial design

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Historical antecedents to the clinical trial -- Pharmacology & mathematical statistics as key for clinical trials -- Shortage of streptomycin during WWII & use of control groups -- Unethical research studies & informed consent by study subjects -- Withholding a potentially useful therapy -- Letting chance determine patient assignment -- Advancing scientific knowledge without reducing study participants to a means to an end -- General ethical frameworks of Utilitarianism & Kantianism -- Eight factors to be considered in designing ethical and scientific studies.…”
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Necessary Luxuries : Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815 / by Erlin, Matt

Table of Contents: “…Wieland's Der goldne Spiegel -- Karl Philipp Moritz and the system of needs -- Products of the imagination: mining, luxury, and the Romantic artist in Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen -- Symbolic economies in Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften -- Conclusion: Useful subjects?…”
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Discovering Addiction : The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research / by Campbell, Nancy D. (Nancy Dianne), 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Framing the "opium problem" : protoscientific concepts of addiction -- Creatures of habit : feeding the "junkie monkeys" of Michigan -- "A new deal for the drug addict" : addiction research moves to Lexington, Kentucky -- "The man with the syringe" : pain and pleasure in the experimental situation -- "The tightrope between coercion and seduction" : characterizing the ethos of addiction research at Lexington -- "The great hue and cry" : prison reform and the ethics of human subjects research -- "The behavior is always right" : behavioral pharmacology comes of age -- "The hijacked brain" : reimagining addiction.…”
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Thought Crime : Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan / by Ward, Max M., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the ghost in the machine: emperor system ideology and the peace preservation law apparatus -- Kokutai and the aporias of imperial sovereignty : the passage of the Peace Preservation Law in 1925 -- Transcriptions of power : repression and rehabilitation in the early Peace Preservation Law apparatus, 1925-1933 -- Apparatuses of subjection : the rehabilitation of thought criminals in the early 1930s -- Nurturing the ideological avowal : toward the codification of tenkō in 1936 -- The ideology of conversion : tenkō on the eve of total war -- Epilogue: the legacies of the thought rehabilitation system in postwar Japan.…”
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Psychology of stress

Table of Contents: “…Gender and subjective well-being in the United States : from subjective well-being to complete mental health / Corey L.M. …”
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Identity Papers Literacy and Power in Higher Education /

Table of Contents: “…Williams -- Institutions and struggles for identity -- Social class as discourse: the construction of subjectivities in English / James Zebroski -- Excellence is the name of the (ideological) game / Patricia Harkin -- The feminist WPA project: fear and possibility in the feminist "home" / Shannon Carter -- When "MS. …”
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Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology : Perspectives and Prospects /

Table of Contents: “…"True" and "False" Evolutionism -- 4. Life, Concept and Subject -- 5. Bodily Experience and Experiencing One's Body -- 6. …”
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Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation : Forugh Farrokhzad and Sylvia Plath / by Rahimi Bahmany, Leila

Table of Contents: “…: Doubling in the Myth of Narcissus and Echo -- The Petrifying Look: The Myth of Medusa -- From Narcissus to Narcissism: Freud's Psychological Exegesis of the Myth -- The Subject as an Alienated Construct: Lacan's Theory of the Mirror Stage -- A Spatiotemporal Site of Psychological Interiority: Memory as a Mirror -- Mother-Daughter: The Mutual Mirroring -- Mirroring in Text -- ch. 2 Mirror Imagery in the Works of Forugh Farrokhzad -- A Herstory of a Subject-in-Process -- Captive to the Male Gaze -- The Mirror as an Eye -- The Mirror of the Heart -- The Otherness of the Self-image -- The Mirror of the Memory and of the Imagination -- The Grotesquery of the Mirror Image -- The Mirror and the Window -- Mother-Daughter Reciprocity in the Mirror -- The Emancipated and Emancipating Mirror -- Self-Mirroring in the Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad -- ch. 3 Mirror Imagery in the Works of Sylvia Plath.…”
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The Question of Ethics : Nietzsche, Foucault, Heidegger / by Scott, Charles E.

Table of Contents: “…Games Of Truth, The Ethical Subject -- The Question Of Dasein's Most Proper Being -- 1. …”
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Identity Papers : Literacy and Power in Higher Education /

Table of Contents: “…Williams -- Institutions and struggles for identity -- Social class as discourse: the construction of subjectivities in English / James Zebroski -- Excellence is the name of the (ideological) game / Patricia Harkin -- The feminist WPA project: fear and possibility in the feminist "home" / Shannon Carter -- When "MS. …”
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Ricardo on Money : A Reappraisal / by Deleplace, Ghislain

Table of Contents: “…International adjustment -- References -- Name index -- Subject index.…”
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Out of place Englishness, empire, and the locations of identity / by Baucom, Ian, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…"British to the Backbone": On Imperial Subject-Fashioning -- Ch. 3. The Path from War to Friendship: E.M. …”
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Knowledge, power, and discipline German studies and national identity / by Bontempelli, Pier Carlo

Table of Contents: “…The metamorphoses of domination and the subject of German studies -- The origins of modern German studies -- Under the aegis of Goethe : liberal historiography from Gervinus to Dilthey -- The science of literature and the steam engine : Wilhelm Scherer and the positivist school -- Wilhelm Dilthey and Geistesgeschichte -- German studies in the years of National Socialism -- The break in political continuity and the continuity of the disciplinary apparatus, 1945-1968 -- The dialectics of rebellion : 1968 and its consequences -- After 1968 : transforming the canon, shifting the paradigms -- Beyond the year 2000 : German studies between new approaches and the resurgence of philology.…”
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The intestines of the state youth, violence, and belated histories in the Cameroon grassfields / by Argenti, Nicolas

Table of Contents: “…Centuries of youth : remembering, incorporation, and the reclamation of history -- Kings, slaves, and floating populations : discourses of centrality and marginality in the precolonial era -- Masks of terror and the subjection of cadets -- Aurora colonialis : German imperialism and the modernity of slavery -- Embodied histories : royal investiture, masking, and remembering -- From slaves to free boys : cadets' resistance to gerontocratic, colonial, and postcolonial authority -- The death of tears : mortuary rites and the indeterminacy of dance -- Dancing death : memorial celebrations, the politics of ritual laughter, and the embodied memories of youth -- Histories of the present, histories of the future.…”
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Understanding media users from theory to practice / by Wilson, Tony, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Structuralist and effects studies -- The active audience : speaking subjects -- Perceiving is believing : from phenomenology to media user theory -- Meanings are ours : reader response and audience studies -- The projecting audience : from cinema to cellphone -- A phenomenology of phone use : pervasive play and the ludification of culture -- Selling on screen : from media hermeneutics to marketing communication -- Buying brandscapes : a phenomenology of perception and purchase -- Consumer-citizens : crossing cultures in cyberspace -- Media user theory : going beyond accumulation of audiences.…”
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Conjuring the real the role of architecture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fiction /

Table of Contents: “…Georges de Boscherville in historical representation / Stephen Bann -- Performing history on the Victorian stage / Richard Schoch -- Shops and subjects / Andrew Ballantyne -- Pride and prejudice: establishing historical connections among the arts / Josh Silvers and Toby D. …”
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Unveiling the harem elite women and the paradox of seclusion in eighteenth-century Cairo / by Fay, Mary Ann

Table of Contents: “…Reimagining the harem: from orientalist fantasies to historical reconstruction -- Egypt in the eighteenth century: the transition from the medieval to the early modern -- Slaves in the family: Islam, household slavery, and the construction of kinship -- The Mamluk household: how a house became a home -- Mamluk women and the Egyptian economy: a comparative perspective on women's property rights -- The city as text: space, gender, and power in Cairo -- The architecture of seclusion: in search of the historical harem -- Everyday life in the harem -- Changing the subject: gender and the history of the Mamluk revival -- Epilogue.…”
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