Search Results - "Subjectivity"

Essentials of strategic management : the quest for competitive advantage / by Gamble, John (John E.)

Table of Contents: “…-- Evaluating a company's resources, cost position, and competitiveness -- The five generic competitive strategies -- Supplementing the chosen competitive strategy : other important business -- Strategies for competing in international markets -- Corporate strategy : diversification and the multibusiness company -- Strategy, ethics, and corporate social responsibility -- Superior strategy execution : another path to competitive advantage -- Cases in crafting and executing strategy -- Indexes -- Organization -- Subject -- Name.…”

Captives and voyagers black migrants across the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world / by Byrd, Alexander X., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…The slave trade from the Biafran interior : violence, serial displacement, and the rudiments of Igbo society -- The slave ship and the beginnings of Igbo society in the African diaspora -- White power and the context of slave seasoning in eighteenth-century Jamaica -- Routines of disaster and revolution -- Social movement and imagining freedom in the British capital -- Migration and the impossible demands of leaving London -- From slaves to free subjects in British North America -- Black society and the limits of British freedom -- The effects of exodus : Afro-maritime society in motion -- Arriving in Sierra Leone : catastrophe and its aftermaths -- Conclusion: Migration and black society in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world.…”
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Mythematics solving the Twelve Labors of Hercules / by Huber, Michael R., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…The first Labor : the Nemean Lion -- The second Labor : the Lernean Hydra -- The third Labor : the Hind of Ceryneia -- The fourth Labor : the Erymanthian Boar -- The fifth Labor : the Augean Stables -- The sixth Labor : the Stymphalian Birds -- The seventh Labor : the Cretan Bull -- The eighth Labor : the Horses of Diomedes -- The ninth Labor : the Belt of Hippolyte -- The tenth Labor : Geryon's Cattle -- The eleventh Labor : the Apples of the Hesperides -- The twelfth Labor : Cerberus -- Appendix A. The Labors and subject areas of mathematics -- Appendix B. Hercules before the Labors -- Appendix C. …”
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Interrogating cultural studies theory, politics, and practice /

Table of Contents: “…/ Catherine Belsey -- From cultural studies to cultural analysis / Mieke Bal -- The projection of cultural studies / Martin Mcquillan -- Why i love cultural studies / Simon Critchley -- Two cheers for cultural studies / Chris Norris -- Inventing recollection / Adrian Rifkin -- Becoming cultural studies / Griselda Pollock -- Friends and enemies / Jeremy Gilbert -- --as if such a thing existed -- / Julian Wolfreys -- Cultural studies, in theory / John Mowitt -- The subject position of cultural studies / Jeremy Valentine -- What can cultural studies do? …”
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Studies on universal grammar and typological variation

Table of Contents: “…Rita Manzini -- On extraction, argument binding and voice morphology in Malagasy / Paul Law -- Universals and minimalist features : checking in AgrO / Elly van Gelderen -- Genitive subjects and the VSO order / Jamal Ouhalla -- Some properties of clitics : with special reference to modern Greek / Gaberell Drachman.…”
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Emotions and health, 1200-1700

Table of Contents: “…Solomon -- A disease unto death : sadness in the time of Shakespeare / Erin Sullivan -- Medicine, psychology, and the melancholic subject in the Renaissance / Angus Gowaland -- Music and spirit in early modern thought / Penelope Gouk.…”
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Structure, culture and agency : selected papers of Margaret Archer / by Archer, Margaret S. (Margaret Scotford)

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Realism's explanatory framework -- Thinking and theorizing about educational systems -- On predicting the behaviour of the educational system -- The myth of cultural integration -- The vexatious fact of society -- Morphogenesis versus structuration -- For structure : its reality, properties and powers -- The private life of the social agent -- The ontological status of subjectivity -- Reflexivity as the unacknowledged condition of social life -- A brief history of how reflexivity becomes imperative -- Self-government & self-organization as misleading metaphors -- The generative mechanism re-configuring late modernity -- How agency is transformed in the course of social transform -- Trajectory of the morphogenetic approach -- Interview with Maggie -- Annotated bibliography -- Index.…”
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The Idea of Atonement in the Philosophy of Hermann Cohen / by Zank, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Substance, Self-Consciousness, and Concrete Subjectivity in Cohen's Logic, Ethics, and Philosophy of Religion.…”
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Lifecycle events and their consequences : job loss, family change, and declines in health /

Table of Contents: “…Moulton -- Involuntary job transitions and subjective well-being / Ariel Kalil and Thomas DeLeire -- Job loss : a discussion / Michael D. …”
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Clio/anthropos exploring the boundaries between history and anthropology /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : history and anthropology--strange bedfellows / Eric Tagliacozzo and Andrew Willford -- In search of the colonial subject / David Arnold -- Laughing at Leviathan : John Furnivall, Dutch New Guinea, and the ridiculousness of colonial rule / Danilyn Rutherford -- Export ceramics in Philippine societies : historical and ethnographic perspectives / Eric Tagliacozzo -- Chronotopes of a dystopic nation : the birth of "dependency" in late Porfirian Mexico / Claudio Lomnitz -- Foretelling ethnicity in Trinidad : the post emancipation "labor problem" / Viranjini Munasinghe -- The nationalization of ethnology : Japan and China in Manchuria / Prasenjit Duara -- The figure of the Tamil in modern Malaysia / Andrew Willford -- Unsettled stories and inadequate metaphors : the movement to historical anthropology / David William Cohen.…”
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Anthropology and the will to meaning a postcolonial critique / by Argyrou, Vassos

Table of Contents: “…What the Natives Don't Know 60 -- The Sociocultural Unconscious 60 -- Heterodox Consciousness 74 -- The 'Heroisation' of the Thinking Subject 82 -- 5. The Ethnological Will to Meaning 92 -- The Impossible 92 -- Sameness and the Beyond 105 -- The Will to Meaning 112 -- At the End of the Game 117.…”
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Academic librarianship in the 21st century

Table of Contents: “…Bowers -- Users' information needs in academic libraries of the 21st century : assessment of the LibQUAL+TM tools in improving service quality standards / Maria Anna Jankowska -- Bibliographic management software and Z39.50 connection in Thai academic libraries / Aurathai Waressa-ard -- Fair use in the twenty-first century : a librarian's perpective / Angela Weiler -- Increasing information retrieval through subject access improvements / Susan E. Russell and Jie Huang -- An overview of LIS open access literature / Angel Borrego, Candela Olle, and Marta Somoza.…”
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Schopenhauer's encounter with Indian thought representation and will and their Indian parallels / by Cross, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Schopenhauer in context: the "oriental renaissance" -- Schopenhauer's Indian sources: Hinduism -- Schopenhauer's Indian sources: Buddhism -- "Representation": Schopenhauer and the reality-status of the world -- The reality-status of the empirical world: the Mādhyamika teaching -- Advaita Vedānta: the world as illusory appearance -- Conclusions: Schopenhauer's doctrine of representation and its Indian affinities -- Schopenhauer's conception of the world as will -- Schopenhauer: the will in its general forms (ideas) -- Metaphysical factors behind the empirical world: Advaita Vedānta -- The arising of the empirical world in Buddhism: the Yogācāra teaching -- Conclusions: Schopenhauer's will and comparable Indian ideas -- The ontological status of will -- Beyond the will: "better consciousness" and the "pure subject of knowing" -- The hidden compass: Schopenhauer and the limits of philosophy --Schopenhauer and Indian thought.…”
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Aesthetic and philosophical reflections on mood : Stimmung and modernity / by Breidenbach, Birgit

Table of Contents: “…Stimmung and Modernity: Theoretical ExplorationsStimmung in Modern PhilosophyConceptualising Stimmung in LiteratureChapter 1: Fyodor Dostoevsky's Moody ModernityAlienation in the Modern CityThe Intensity of Aesthetic ExperienceAesthetic Intensity and the Modern ConditionChapter 2: Aesthetic Attunement in Samuel Beckett's Narrative FictionThe (Pre- and Post-)Cartesian Subject in Murphy and Watt'All I am is feeling:' The Textual Dynamics of MolloyDecomposed Selves, Voices in the DarkChapter 3: Eine 'Stimmungssache:' Thomas Bernhard's 'Trilogy of the Arts'Music and Artistic Ideal in The LoserWoodcutters: Irritation and the Creative ProcessBernhard's Aesthetics of Stimmung and the Failure of Art in Old MastersConclusionBibliography…”
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Seeking the beloved community a feminist race reader / by James, Joy, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Davis--liberation praxis -- Assata Shakur and Black female agency -- Democracy and captivity -- Black suffering in search of the "beloved community" -- American prison notebooks -- Violations -- War, dissent & social justice -- Academia, activism, and imprisoned intellectuals -- Activist scholars or radical subjects? -- Campaigns against blackness -- Sovereign kinship and the president elect -- The dead zone -- Racism, genocide and resistance -- All power to the people! …”
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Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination : Anglophone Writing from 1600 to 1900 / by Stroh, Silke

Table of Contents: “…Anglophone literature of civilization and the hybridized Gaelic subject : Martin Martin's travel writings -- ch. 3. …”
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A companion to Pedro Almodóvar

Table of Contents: “…Marsha Kinder: reenvoicements and reverberations in Almodóvar's macro-melodrama -- Celestino Deleyto: The flower of his secret: Carne trémula and the Mise en scene of Desire -- Julian Daniel Gutiérrez-Albila: Scratching the past on the "surface" of the "skin": embodied inter-subjectivity, prosthetic memory, and witnessing in Almodóvar's La mala educación -- Javier Herrera: Almodóvar's Stolen images -- Global Almodóvar. …”
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Affective Images : Post-apartheid Documentary Perspectives / by Kesting, Marietta

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Science Fiction in Argentina : Technologies of the Text in a Material Multiverse / by Page, Joanna, 1974-

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Promissory Notes : On the Literary Conditions of Debt / by Goodman, Robin Truth, 1966-

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