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Staying Alive: A Survival Manual for the Liberal Arts / by Fradenburg, L. O. Aranye, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Hands off our jouissance : the collaborative risk of a shared disorganization -- Driving education : a crash course -- An army of lovers -- Living the liberal arts : an argument for embodied learning communities -- Human-tongued basilisks -- Breathing with Lacan's Seminar X : expression and emergence -- The object breath -- Life's reach : territory, display, ekphrasis -- Ekphrastic Beowulf : defying death and staying alive in the academy -- Fuzzy logic.…”
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Patent failure how judges, bureaucrats, and lawyers put innovators at risk / by Bessen, James, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…The argument in brief -- Why property rights work, how property rights fail -- If you can't tell the boundaries, then it ain't property -- Survey of empirical research : do patents perform like property? …”
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William James on the Courage to Believe / by O'Connell, Robert J.

Table of Contents: “…1. The Argument of "The Will to Believe" -- 2. On Matter and Manner -- 3. …”
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William James on the Courage to Believe / by O'Connell, Robert J.

Table of Contents: “…1. The Argument of "The Will to Believe" -- 2. On Matter and Manner -- 3. …”
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Runaway state-building patronage politics and democratic development / by O'Dwyer, Conor, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…: postcommunist welfare politics -- Exporting the argument : party competition and state effectiveness in other new democracies.…”
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William James on the Courage to Believe / by O'Connell, Robert J.

Table of Contents: “…1. The Argument of "The Will to Believe" -- 2. On Matter and Manner -- 3. …”
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William James on the Courage to Believe / by O'Connell, Robert J.

Table of Contents: “…1. The Argument of "The Will to Believe" -- 2. On Matter and Manner -- 3. …”
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The reputation society how online opinions are reshaping the offline world /

Table of Contents: “…/ Paolo Massa -- Rating in large-scale argumentation systems / Luca Iandoli, Josh Introne, & Mark Klein -- Privacy, context, and oversharing : reputational challenges in a Web 2.0 world / Michael Zimmer & Anthony Hoffman -- The future of reputation networks / Jamais Cascio -- "I hope you know this is going on your permanent record" / Madeline Ashby & Cory Doctorow.…”
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La sécurité d'emploi dans le secteur public : Essai by Borgeat, Louis

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The emergence of football : sport, culture and society in the nineteenth century / by Swain, Peter, Dr

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A short history of early football -- A brief historiography of the Industrial Revolution -- Cultural change: Football's demise in the Eastern Counties before 1830 -- Folk Mass and festival football: The arguments -- Folk, mass and festival football: The evidence -- Cultural continuity: Football outside the public schools, 1800-1830 -- The missing years, 1831-1840 -- Football in the Forties and Fifties -- The football association, Sheffield and Lancashire in the Sixties -- Class, clubs and football: The unfolding century.…”
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Economics of the Indian steel industry / by Dasgupta, Susmita, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…-- The demand failure of steel in India -- The myth of the s curve -- Metallic balance of steel -- Bad loans of steel companies -- Technologies for making steel -- The cost of steel -- The price of steel -- Profits from steel -- Management of over capacity of steel -- Steel trade of India -- Summary of arguments -- Conclusion.…”
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Kafka and Wittgenstein : The Case for an Analytic Modernism / by Schuman, Rebecca

Table of Contents: “…-- Logical modernism: Kafka and the Tractatus logico-philosophicus -- Logic, skepticism, and mysticism -- The trial and the law of logic -- The metamorphosis and the limits of metaphorical language -- "The judgment," ethics, and the ineffable -- Analytic skepticism : Kafka and the philosophical investigations -- Wittgenstein's transition and a more analytic Kafka -- The castle and the paradox of ostensive definition -- Rule-following and failed execution in "The penal colony" -- The private language argument and the undermining of "Josefine the singer" -- Concluding thoughts: the problem with (critical) progress.…”
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Peirce's Philosophical Perspectives / by Potter, Vincent G.

Table of Contents: “…Peirce -- C.S. Peirce's argument for God's reality: a pragmatist's view.…”
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The Beecher sisters by White, Barbara Anne

Table of Contents: “…Calvinist childhoods, 1800-18370 -- Marriage and motherhood, 1837-1852 -- In the wake of Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Water cure and Civil War, 1860-1865 -- The gilded age, 1865-1868 -- Suffrage arguments, 1868-1869 -- "Foes in your own household," 1870-1871 -- Free love and "Mrs. …”
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Understanding Ukrainian politics power, politics, and institutional design / by D'Anieri, Paul J., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Institutions and democracy : questioning the connections -- Power and institutions : overview of the argument -- The evolution of Ukrainian politics 1989-2004 -- Societal divisions and the challenge of liberal democracy in Ukraine -- The constitution and executive-legislative relations -- The electoral law : cause or effect of weak parties? …”
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Kafka and Wittgenstein : The Case for an Analytic Modernism / by Schuman, Rebecca

Table of Contents: “…-- Logical modernism: Kafka and the Tractatus logico-philosophicus -- Logic, skepticism, and mysticism -- The trial and the law of logic -- The metamorphosis and the limits of metaphorical language -- "The judgment," ethics, and the ineffable -- Analytic skepticism : Kafka and the philosophical investigations -- Wittgenstein's transition and a more analytic Kafka -- The castle and the paradox of ostensive definition -- Rule-following and failed execution in "The penal colony" -- The private language argument and the undermining of "Josefine the singer" -- Concluding thoughts: the problem with (critical) progress.…”
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Peirce's Philosophical Perspectives / by Potter, Vincent G.

Table of Contents: “…Peirce -- C.S. Peirce's argument for God's reality: a pragmatist's view.…”
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ASEAN Resistance to Sovereignty Violation : Interests, Balancing and the Role of the Vanguard State / by Southgate, Laura

Table of Contents: “…The Indonesian Invasion of East Timor; Indonesia and the Cold War regional environment (1970-1975); Civil war in East Timor; ASEAN vanguard state -- external power interest convergence; ASEAN institutional cohesion; Indonesia's invasion of East Timor (December 1975); Invasion repercussions: Indonesian resistance to sovereignty violation; Theoretical assessment of Indonesia's invasion of East Timor (1975); Contrasting theoretical arguments…”
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ASEAN Resistance to Sovereignty Violation : Interests, Balancing and the Role of the Vanguard State / by Southgate, Laura

Table of Contents: “…The Indonesian Invasion of East Timor; Indonesia and the Cold War regional environment (1970-1975); Civil war in East Timor; ASEAN vanguard state -- external power interest convergence; ASEAN institutional cohesion; Indonesia's invasion of East Timor (December 1975); Invasion repercussions: Indonesian resistance to sovereignty violation; Theoretical assessment of Indonesia's invasion of East Timor (1975); Contrasting theoretical arguments…”
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David Hume and the problem of other minds by Waldow, Anik

Table of Contents: “…Other minds and their place in the Hume-literature -- A modern approach -- Scepticism versus naturalism -- The vulgar and the philosopher -- Relative ideas -- Concepts of the real -- Intuition and common sense -- Epistemic responsibility -- Degeneration of reason -- Just philosophy -- Conceiving minds -- Abstraction -- Argument from analogy -- Sympathy -- Limitations -- Generality -- Hume's concept of mind -- The world and the other -- Habit and intersubjective responsiveness -- Belief and education -- Mental facts -- Signs of mind and world -- The belief-grounding function of sympathy -- Corrigibility of belief -- Cognitive architecture.…”
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