Search Results - "Subjectivity"

Appalachia in the classroom teaching the region /

Table of Contents: “…Gantt -- Fred Chappell's I am one of you forever as a subject for literary analysis and an alternative image of mid-twentieth-century Appalachia / Ricky L. …”
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Digital economies at global margins /

Table of Contents: “…: information and communication technologies in commercial small-scale farming in East Africa / Madlen Krone and Peter Dannenberg -- Digital inclusion, female entrepreneurship and the production of neoliberal subjects' views from Chile and Zambia / Hannah McCarrick and Dorothea Kleine -- "Let the private sector take care of this" : the philanthro-capitalism of digital humanitarianism / Ryan Burns -- The digitalization of anti-poverty programs : aadhaar and the reform of social protection in India / Silvia Masiero -- The myth of market price information : mobile phones and the application of economic knowledge in ICTD / Jenna Burrell and Elisa Oreglia -- Digital production at global margins -- Hope and hype in Africa's digital economy : the rise of innovation hubs / Nicolas Friederici -- The limits of hackathons in making the internet matter / Lilly Irani -- Meeting social objectives with offshore service work : evaluating impact sourcing in the Philippines / Jorien Oprins and Niels Beerepoot -- Digital labor and development : impacts of global digital labor platforms and the gig economy on worker livelihoods / Mark Graham, Isis Hjorth, and Vili Lehdonvirta -- Geographical discrimination in the gig economy / Hernan Galperin and Catrihel Greppi -- Margins at the center : alternative digital economies in Shenzhen, China / Jack Qiu and Julie Yujie Chen -- African economies : simply connect? …”

Emotions, Everyday Life and Sociology by Jacobsen, Michael Hviid

Table of Contents: “…Shyness: Self-consciously perceived relative social incompetence; Introduction; The shy self: subjective experiences; Performing the shy role; Managing shyness as a deviant identity; Conclusion…”
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Eunuchs and Castrati Disability and Normativity in Early Modern Europe. by Crawford, Katherine

Table of Contents: “…Marrying castrates, or: how to make a disabled social subject; 1. The dialectics of the religious castrate; 2. …”
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World weavers globalization, science fiction, and the cybernetic revolution /

Table of Contents: “…Dick's The man in the high castle / Jake Jakaitis -- Godzilla's travels: the evolution of a globalized gargantuan / Gary Westfahl -- Black secret technology: African technological subjects / Gerald Gaylard -- The teeth of the new cockatoo: mutation and trauma in Greg Egan's Teranesia / Chris Palmer -- When cyberfeminism meets Chinese philosophy: computer, weaving and women / Amy Kit-sze Chan -- Hollywood enters the dragon / V�eronique Flambard-Weisbart -- Romeo must die: action and agency in Hollywood and Hong Kong action films / Susanne Rieser and Susanne Lummerding.…”
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Geographies of sexualities theory, practices, and politics /

Table of Contents: “…Del Casino Jr -- Queer critique and the politics of affect / Jason Lim -- Developmental desire and/or transnational jouissance : re-formulating sexual subjectivities in transcultural contact zones / Hanna Hacker -- Fucking geography, again / David Bell -- Practices -- Playing with restraints : space, citizenship and BDSM / RDK Herman -- Queer mixed race? …”
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The practice of U.S. women's history narratives, intersections, and dialogues /

Table of Contents: “…Macleitch -- From daughters of liberty to women of the republic : American women in the era of the American Revolution / Susan Branson -- Southern women of color and the American Revolution, 1775-1783 / Betty Wood -- From dawn to dusk : women's work in the Antebellum Era / Inge Dornan and Jay Kleinberg -- To bind up the nation's wounds : women and the American Civil War / Susan-Mary Grant -- Turner's ghost : a personal retrospective on western women's history / Susan Armitage -- Gender and U.S. imperialism in U.S. women's history / Laura Briggs -- Chinese American women in U.S. history : explaining representations of exotic others, passive objects, and active subjects / Shirley Hune -- Migrations and destinations : reflections on the histories of U.S. immigrant women in the United States / Donna Gabaccia and Vicki L. …”
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The philosophy of miracles by Corner, David

Table of Contents: “…-- Divine manipulation of microprocesses : an alternative -- Arguments for divine basic actions at the macro level -- Quantum gaps and special divine agency -- A context for miracles -- Thankability and the miraculous -- Thankability and the subjective : an objection -- Due thankability -- Due thankability and apologetic -- Miracle, coincidence, and counterfactual -- Counterfactuals and basic actions.…”
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Judgement, decision making and success in sport by Bar-Eli, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Theories of decision making. -- 3.1 Subjective Expected Utility Theory. -- 3.2 Prospect Theory. -- 3.3 Decisional Field Theory. -- 3.4 Simple heuristic approach. -- 3.5 Summary. -- 4. …”
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Development and assessment of self-authorship exploring the concept across cultures /

Table of Contents: “…Creamer -- Getting to the complexities of identity: the contributions of an autoethnographic and intersectional approach / Susan R. Jones -- Using the subject-object interview to promote and assess self-authorship / Jennifer Garvey Berger -- Future directions: pursuing theoretical and methodological issues in the evolution of self-authorship / Marcia B. …”
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Handbook of stress and burnout in health care

Table of Contents: “….] -- Physician burnout as predicted by subjective and objective workload and by autonomy / Arie Shirom, Nurit Nirel, and Amiram D. …”
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Introduction to Unified Strength Theory by Yu, Maohong, 1934-

Table of Contents: “…5.7 Strength design of an automobile transmission shaft: outer diameter design of drive shaft5.8 Strength design of a transmission axle; 5.9 Unified solution for elastic limit pressure of a thick-walled cylinder subjected to internal pressure; 5.10 Analysis of plastic ultimate pressure for a thick-walled cylinder with internal pressure; 5.11 Unified solution of plastic limit internal pressure for a thick-walled cylinder with the same tensile strength and compressive strength materials…”
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Boundaries and Beyond : China's Maritime Southeast in Late Imperial Times /

Boundaries and beyond : China's maritime Southeast in late imperial times = 耕海 : 明清东南海与传统藩篱的移位 /

by Ng, Chin-Keong

Table of Contents: “…"Are These Persons British or Chinese Subjects?": Legal Principles and Ambiguities Regarding the Status of the Straits Chinese as Revealed in the Lee Shun Fah Affair in Amoy, 1847.…”
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Validating a best practice : a tool for improvement and benchmarking / by Van Nuland, Yves, Duffy, Grace L.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Authors -- Section I Description of The Best-Tool -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Why a Book on the Subject of "Best Practice"? -- 1.2 What Are the Advantages of the Application of the BEST-Method and BEST-Tool for the Reader? …”
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Workers' compensation benefits, costs, and safety under alternative insurance arrangements / by Thomason, Terry

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 1 Introducton -- An Overview of Workers' Compensation -- Objectives of the Workers' Compensation Programs -- Notes -- 2 Developments in Workers' Compensation since 1960 -- Benefits and Costs -- Insurance Arrangements -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 3 Measuring Employers' Costs -- Alternative Measures of Employers' Costs -- Cost Methodology -- Cost Data -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 4 Benefit Adequacy versus Affordability -- An Accounting Model of Employer Costs -- Cost Regression Model -- Regression Results -- Benefit Adequacy versus Affordability -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 5 Employer Costs -- Theoretical Considerations -- Regression Analyses -- Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- 6 The Effect of Workers' Compensation Insurance Regulation -- Economic Theory of Rate Regulation -- Empirical Research on Rate Regulation -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 7 The Effect of Workers' Compensation Insurance Regulation -- Employer Cost Specification -- Employer Costs: Regression Results -- Market Structure and Rate Regulation -- Market Structure Regressions -- Conclusions about the Effect of Deregulation -- Notes -- 8 Insurance Arrangements and Workplace Safety -- The Economic Theory of Work Accidents -- Injury Rate Regression Model -- Regression Results: Public versus Private Provision -- The Danzon-Harrington Hypothesis -- Injury Rates and Rate Regulation -- The Effect of Insurance Arrangements on Injury Rates -- Notes -- 9 Conclusions -- Cost Methodology -- Benefit Adequacy versus Affordability -- Delivery System Efficiency -- Injury Prevention -- Policy Implications -- Notes -- Appendix A: Data on Workers' Compensation Costs, Benefits, -- and Insurance Arrangements -- Appendix B: Insurance Terminology -- Appendix C: Detailed Methodology for Measuring Employers' Costs -- of Workers' Compensation Insurance -- Appendix D: Benefit Index Methodology -- Appendix E: The Insurance Cycle -- Appendix F: Insurance Commission Survey -- Appendix G: Supplemental Regression Results -- References -- Cited Author Index -- Subject Index -- About the Institute.…”
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, feminist as thinker a reader in documents and essays /

Table of Contents: “…Gordon -- "Lower orders," racial hierarchies, and rights rhetoric: evolutionary echoes in Elizabeth Cady Stanton's thought during the late 1860s / Michele Mitchell -- A selection of speeches, articles, and essays by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1854-1901 -- "Address to the legislature of New York, Albany, February 14, 1854" -- "Address to the legislature on women's right of suffrage, Albany, February 18, 1860" -- "Address to tenth national women's rights convention on marriage and divorce, New York City, May 11, 1860" -- "Address to anniversary of American equal rights association, May 12, 1869, New York City" -- "Subjection of women" (1875) -- "National protection for national citizens, address to the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, January 11, 1878, Washington, D.C." -- "The other side of the woman question" (1879) -- "Has Christianity benefited woman" (1885) -- "Divorce versus domestic warfare" (1890) -- "The matriarchate: or mother-age" (1891) -- "Worship of God in man" (1893) -- Selections from the woman's bible (1895, 1898) -- "Our proper attitude toward immigration" (1895) -- "Significance and history of the ballot" (1898) -- "Progress of the American woman" (1900) -- "The degradation of disfranchisement" (1901) -- About the contributors.…”
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From socialism to capitalism eight essays / by Kornai, János

Table of Contents: “…-- Introduction -- Starting points -- Some lessons -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix -- The system paradigm -- Introduction -- A system paradigm, not a transformational paradigm -- A brief intellectual history -- The main attributes of the system paradigm -- Post-socialist transformation: the great challenge -- Some other puzzles -- Failures of prediction -- Appendix: On segregation of the social science -- Previous publications of the studies in this volume -- References -- Name index -- Subject index.…”
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Spacetime and theology in dialogue by Goosen, Gideon

Table of Contents: “…Some philosophical questions about space and time -- The Greek philosophers -- Time as moving according to number (Plato) -- Time a puzzle to Aristotle -- Plotinus expands on Aristotle -- Augustine and subjective time -- Is time real? (Kant) -- Temporality fundamental to being (Heidegger) -- Eternity? …”
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Probabilistic inequalities by Anastassiou, George A., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Moment theory of random rounding rules subject to one moment condition -- 19. Moment theory on random rounding rules using two moment conditions -- 20. …”
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The minimalist parameter selected papers from the Open Linguistics Forum, Ottawa, 21-23 March 1997 /

Table of Contents: “…Case, Topic, Focus, Interrogativity -- Julie Anne Legate and Carolyn Smallwood -- The Case Filter Meets the Minimalist Program: Evidence for -- strong [case] 2. 207 -- Aniko Csirmaz -- Null Subjects in Hungarian DPs and nflected Infinitivals 227 -- Kerstin Hoge -- That-t Effects in English and Yiddish 233 -- Virginia Motapanyane -- Evidence for Focus Features 249 -- Ning Zhang -- [Q] Checking in Mandarin Chinese Yes-No Questions 261 -- SECTION IV. …”
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