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American Studies as Transnational Practice : Turning toward the Transpacific /

Table of Contents: “…Geopolitics of knowing/understanding and American studies: a decolonial argument or view from the global south /…”
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American Studies as Transnational Practice : Turning toward the Transpacific /

Table of Contents: “…Geopolitics of knowing/understanding and American studies: a decolonial argument or view from the global south /…”
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The Rule of the Friars Minor, 1209-2009 : historical perspectives, lived realities /

Table of Contents: “…. -- The early Franciscans at work as a state-of-nature argument / David Flood, O.F.M. -- Alms-asking and alms-giving as social commentary and social remedy / Michael F. …”
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Fichte's Vocation of man : new interpretive and critical essays /

Table of Contents: “…Wood -- Intersubjectivity and the communality of our final end in Fichte's Vocation of man / Kien-How Goh -- Evil and moral responsibility in the Vocation of man / Jane Dryden -- Jumping the transcendental shark : Fichte's "Argument of belief" in Book II of die Bestimmung des Menschen and the transition from the earlier to the later Wissenschaftslehre / Daniel Breazeale -- Determination and freedom in Kant and in Fichte's Bestimmung des Menschen / Angelica Nuzzo -- There is in nature an original thinking power, just as there is an original formative power : on a claim from Book one of the Vocation of man / Violetta L. …”
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Salience in sociolinguistics : a quantitative approach / by Rácz, Péter

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TheWorking Life : The Labor Market for Workers in Low-Skilled Jobs / by Maxwell, Nan L.

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TheWorking Life : The Labor Market for Workers in Low-Skilled Jobs / by Maxwell, Nan L.

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Grammatical relations and their non-canonical encoding in Baltic /

“…Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic ;…”
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Advances in Social Media for Travel, Tourism and Hospitality : New Perspectives, Practice and Cases /

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The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City /

Table of Contents: “…29.Ethics and Profits: Economic Development, Hospitality and the Preservation of Urban Heritage --Michael Herzfeld--30.Gender, Art and the Reshaping of the Urban in Amman, Jordan --Aseel Sawalha--31.Dancing, Design Methods and the Politics of Space in Kampala: An Accidental Ethnography --Elizabeth Chin--32.Lisbon is Black: An Argument of Presence --Derek Pardue--33.Brazilian Popular Music and the City --Ruben Oliven…”
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Why we argue (and how we should) : a guide to political disagreement in the age of unreason / by Aikin, Scott F., Talisse, Robert B.

Table of Contents: “…Why do we argue? -- Why argument matters -- Public argument in a democratic society -- Deep disagreements -- The simple truth thesis -- Pushovers -- Tone of voice -- The surprising truth about hypocrisy -- Arguments by analogy -- Argumentation between the ads -- Language, spin, and framing -- Argument online -- The owl of Minerva problem -- Argumentative responsibility and argument repair -- Civility in argument.…”

Letters to Doubting Thomas a case for the existence of God / by Layman, C. Stephen (Charles Stephen), 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Theism and naturalism -- Religious experience and interpretation -- Is religious experience reliable? -- A cosmological argument -- A design argument -- An argument from free will -- Theism and evil -- Naturalism and evil -- A mortal argument.…”
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Belief in God an introduction to the philosophy of religion / by Mawson, T. J.

Table of Contents: “…Personhood, transcendence, immanence -- Omnipotence, omniscience, eternality -- Perfect freedom, perfect goodness, necessity -- Creator of the world, creator of value -- Revealer, offerer of eternal life -- Arguing for and against the existence of God -- The ontological argument -- The argument to design -- The cosmological argument -- The argument from religious experience -- The argument from reports of apparent miracles -- The problem of evil.…”
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Nothing to hide the false tradeoff between privacy and security / by Solove, Daniel J., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The nothing-to-hide argument -- The all-or-nothing fallacy -- The danger of deference -- Why privacy isn't merely an individual right -- The pendulum argument -- The national-security argument -- The problem with dissolving the crime-espionage distinction -- The war-powers argument and the rule of law -- The Fourth Amendment and the secrecy paradigm -- The third party doctrine and digital dossiers -- The failure of looking for a reasonable expectation of privacy -- The suspicionless-searches argument -- Should we keep the exclusionary rule? …”
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Judges and unjust laws common law constitutionalism and the foundations of judicial review / by Edlin, Douglas E.

Table of Contents: “…The common law -- The source-based argument for the judicial obligation to apply the law -- The conceptual argument for the judicial obligation to apply the law -- The source-based argument for the judicial obligation to develop the law : part I (England) -- The source-based argument for the judicial obligation to develop the law : part II (United States) -- The conceptual argument for the judicial obligation to develop the law -- Common law review -- Common law review in two common law systems.…”
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From revolution to war state relations in a world of change / by Conge, Patrick J., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. The argument -- pt. 2. Testing the argument -- pt. 3. Beyond France, Iran, and Nicaragua.…”
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Voices for children rhetoric and public policy / by Gormley, William T., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Children: beloved but neglected -- The rise of economic arguments -- Arguments in different policy domains -- Arguments in different venues -- How frames shape public opinion -- Battling for kids in state capitols -- Capitol Hill debates about children -- Putting frames in perspective.…”
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Thwarting consumer choice the case against mandatory labeling for genetically modified foods / by Marchant, Gary Elvin, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction and background -- pt. 2. Critique of the arguments for mandatory GM labeling -- pt. 3. Arguments against mandatory GM labeling.…”
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A theory of legal punishment : deterrence, retribution, and the aims of the state / by Altman, Matthew C.

Table of Contents: “…Crimes and burdens -- Preserving the public order : a defense of consequentialism -- The rational and the reasonable -- Expressing resentment : a defense of retributivism -- The two-tiered model of punishment -- The epistemic argument -- The compatibilist argument -- The moral argument -- In defense of criminology -- On proportionality -- Jury nullification and reflective equilibrium -- Consequences of capital punishment -- Retribution and restorative justice -- Conclusion.…”
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Critically reading the theory and methods of archaeology : an introductory guide / by Gibbon, Guy E., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…-- What are the issue and the claim? -- What is the argument? -- What are the assumptions? -- Is the writing clear? …”
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