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Theodicy of culture and the Jewish ethos David Koigen's contribution to the sociology of religion / by Urban, Martina

Table of Contents: “…Theodicy of culture and the theory of the cultural act -- Beyond the a priori: toward a religion of intimacy -- Resituating Judaism: on pragmatism and phenomenology -- Ethos: a non-essentialist perspective on religion and ethnicity -- Epilogue: towards a sociology of Jewish religious knowledge.…”
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Merit the history of a founding ideal from the American Revolution to the twenty-first century / by Kett, Joseph F.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the faces of merit -- Republic of merit -- Merit and the culture of public life -- Small worlds : competition in the colleges -- Making the grade : managed competition and schooling -- The scientific measurement of merit -- The "presumption of merit" : institutionalizing merit -- Squeeze play : merit in government -- Merit in crisis -- Epilogue : merit, equality, consent.…”
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Rival queens actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater / by Nussbaum, Felicity

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: at stage's edge -- The economics of celebrity -- Real, beautiful women: rival queens -- Actresses' memoirs: exceptional virtue -- Actresses and patrons: the theatrical contract -- The actress and performative property: Catherine Clive -- The actress, travesty, and nation: Margaret Woffington -- The actress and material femininity: Frances Abington -- Epilogue: contracted virtue.…”
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Security and suspicion an ethnography of everyday life in Israel / by Ochs, Juliana

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the practice of everyday security -- A genealogy of Israeli security -- Senses of security : rebuilding Cafe Hillel -- Paad : fear as corporeal politics -- Embodying suspicion -- Projecting security on the city -- On IKEA and army boots : the domestication of security -- Seeing, walking, securing : tours of Israel's separation wall -- Epilogue: real fantasies of security.…”
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Freeing Tammy women, drugs, and incarceration / by Raphael, Jody

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- Betrayal -- Trial -- County jail -- Prison -- Numbing -- Minimum security -- Terrence alone -- The basement -- Forgetting -- Out of the basement -- Epilogue : back to county.…”
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The concrete dragon China's urban revolution and what it means for the world / by Campanella, Thomas J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The urbanism of ambition -- Thunder from the south -- Reclaiming Shanghai -- The politics of the past -- Capital improvements -- City of chai -- The country and the city -- Suburbanization and the mechanics of sprawl -- Driving the capitalist road -- Theme parks and the landscape of consumption -- Epilogue: China reinvents the city.…”
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An ethics of betrayal the politics of otherness in emergent U.S. literatures and culture / by Parikh, Crystal

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: an ethics of betrayal -- Late arrivals: an ethics of betrayal in racial and national formation -- Accidents and obligations: minority neoconservatives and U.S. racial discourse -- Ethnic America undercover: the intellectual and minority discourse -- The passion: the betrayals of Elián González and Wen Ho Lee -- Epilogue: the traitors in our midst.…”
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Creating the culture of reform in antebellum America by Garvey, T. Gregory, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Discursive democracy and the culture of reform -- Religious pluralism and the origins of the culture of reform -- Sincerity and publicity in the Grimké-Beecher debate -- Garrison, Douglass, and the problem of politics -- Emerson's self-reliance as a theory of community -- Epilogue : sincerity and pluralism in critical conversation.…”
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The politically incorrect guide to science by Bethell, Tom

Table of Contents: “…-- Evolution: the missing evidence -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.…”
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Mirror of morality Chinese narrative illustration and Confucian ideology / by Murray, Julia K.

Table of Contents: “…The social status of narrative illustration in China -- Redrawing the concept of Chinese narrative illustration -- Early narrative illustration and moral suasion -- New strategies for narrative illustration in the post-Han period -- Institutionalizing narrative illustration under the Tang dynasty -- Turning points and competing values -- Later narrative illustration at court : legitimation -- Remonstrance, and indoctrination -- Narrative illustration outside the court : persuasion, pleasure, prestige, and piety -- Epilogue.…”
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Traditional Micronesian societies adaptation, integration, and political organization / by Petersen, Glenn

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a perspective on traditional Micronesian life -- Micronesia and Micronesians -- The prehistory of Micronesian societies -- Descent and descent groups -- Household and family, land and labor -- Chieftainship and government -- Politics and leadership -- Aesthetics, beliefs, values, and behavior -- Some exceptions to the pan-Micronesian patterns -- Epilogue : traditional Micronesian societies and modern Micronesian history.…”
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Democracy and the political unconscious by McAfee, Noëlle, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…The political unconscious -- Modernity's traumas -- Targeting the public sphere -- The repetition compulsion or the endless war on terror -- Recovering community -- Deliberative democracy -- Feminist theory, politics, and freedom -- Public knowledge -- Three models of democratic deliberation -- The limits of deliberation, democratic myths, new frontiers -- Media and the public sphere -- Epilogue.…”
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Argentina and the United States an alliance contained / by Sheinin, David

Table of Contents: “…Trade, progress, and nation building, 1800-1880 -- Pan-Americanism, world war, and the Bolshevik menace, 1880-1923 -- Sanitary embargo, cultural connections, and wartime neutrality, 1924-1946 -- Cold war and the end of Argentine democracy, 1947-1961 -- The sixties : military ties, economic uncertainties -- Descent to dictatorship, 1970-1983 -- The forging of a new relationship, 1984-1999 -- Epilogue : the crash of 2001 and beyond.…”
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Making a moral society ethics and the state in Meiji Japan / by Reitan, Richard M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Ethics and the universal in Meiji Japan -- Civilization and foolishness : contextualizing ethics in early Meiji Japan -- The epistemology of Rinrigaku -- Rinrigaku and religion : the formation and fluidity of moral subjectivity -- Resisting civilizational hierarchies : the ethics of spirit and the spirit of the people -- Approaching the moral ideal : national morality, the state, and "dangerous thought" -- Epilogue: The ethics of humanism and moral particularism in twentieth-century Japan.…”
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The triumph of order democracy and public space in New York and London / by Keller, Lisa

Table of Contents: “…Violence and control in the Empire City -- pt. 4. Epilogue.…”
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Kierkegaard's Fear and trembling a reader's guide / by Carlisle, Clare, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…-- Problem III: was it ethically defensible for Abraham to conceal his undertaking from Sarah, from Eliezer, from Isaac? -- Epilogue -- Reception and influence.…”
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Landscapes of conflict the Oregon story, 1940-2000 / by Robbins, William G., 1935-

Table of Contents: “…The great hope for the new order -- Into the brave new world -- Bringing perfection to the fields -- The wonder world of pesticides -- Planning and technical efficiency in the forests -- Intensive forestry and citizen activism -- Richard Neuberger's conservation politics -- Tom McCall and the struggle for the Willamette -- Ecologies of sprawl : the land-use nexus -- Epilogue : this special place.…”
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The Son Tay Raid American POWs in Vietnam were not forgotten / by Gargus, John

Table of Contents: “…Raid conception -- Raid training and planning -- Preparations in Southeast Asia -- The Son Tay mission -- The Vietnamese story about the Raid -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Tabular lists of participants, equipment, and chronology.…”
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Osama bin Laden by Scheuer, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Osama bin Laden as subject -- Education, 1957-1979 -- Apprenticeship, 1979-1989 -- Nomad, 1989-1996 -- Organizer, 1996-2001 -- Survivor and planner, 2001-2010 -- The bin Laden era -- Epilogue.…”
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Insect media an archaeology of animals and technology / by Parikka, Jussi, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : insects in the age of technology -- Nineteenth-century insect technics : the uncanny affects of insects -- Genesis of form: insect architecture and swarms -- Technics of nature and temporality : Uexkøll's ethology -- Metamorphosis, intensity, and devouring space : elements for an insect game theory -- Intermezzo -- Animal ensembles, robotic affects : bees, milieus, and individuation -- Biomorphs and boids : swarming algorithms -- Sexual selection in the biodigital: teknolust and the weird life of SRAs -- Epilogue : insect media as an art of transmutation.…”
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