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Panoptic dreams streetscape video surveillance in Canada / by Hier, Sean P. (Sean Patrick), 1971-

Table of Contents: “…The expansion of streetscape monitoring programs ; Thwarted efforts to establish streetscape monitoring programs ; Thunder Bay's Eye on the Street ; Panoptic dreams : arguments, implications, and recommendations.…”
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Multiple analyses in clinical trials

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Definition of a clinical trial -- The great compromise of medical research -- The populations can fool us -- Extending to the population -- Appropriate sampling -- Trustworthy estimates -- Random research -- Experimental corruption -- Prospectively designed research -- Patience and tight protocols -- Endpoints -- Community responsibility -- Investigator mandate -- P-values: pros and cons -- Evolution in trial methodology -- Argument for multiple endpoints -- Conflict within trial interpretation -- Type I error inflation -- Bonferroni correction -- Negative primary endpoints.…”
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Multiple analyses in clinical trials

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Definition of a clinical trial -- The great compromise of medical research -- The populations can fool us -- Extending to the population -- Appropriate sampling -- Trustworthy estimates -- Random research -- Experimental corruption -- Prospectively designed research -- Patience and tight protocols -- Endpoints -- Community responsibility -- Investigator mandate -- P-values: pros and cons -- Evolution in trial methodology -- Argument for multiple endpoints -- Conflict within trial interpretation -- Type I error inflation -- Bonferroni correction -- Negative primary endpoints.…”
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Multiple analyses in clinical trials

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Definition of a clinical trial -- The great compromise of medical research -- The populations can fool us -- Extending to the population -- Appropriate sampling -- Trustworthy estimates -- Random research -- Experimental corruption -- Prospectively designed research -- Patience and tight protocols -- Endpoints -- Community responsibility -- Investigator mandate -- P-values: pros and cons -- Evolution in trial methodology -- Argument for multiple endpoints -- Conflict within trial interpretation -- Type I error inflation -- Bonferroni correction -- Negative primary endpoints.…”
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Plato a guide for the perplexed / by Press, Gerald A. (Gerald Alan), 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Plato's life and works -- The contexts for interpreting Plato's Dialogues -- Sources of perplexity : change -- A brief history of platonism and Plato interpretation -- Dialogue form -- Arguments and ideas, vision and doctrines -- Fables, myths, and stories -- Irony and other forms of humour -- Play and seriousness -- Paradox -- Plato's philosophy : permanence -- Platonic anonymity and the nature of Plato's philosophy -- Persistent themes and Plato's vision -- The platonic path to wisdom -- Help in reading and understanding Plato's Dialogues and his philosophy -- How to read a platonic dialogue -- Summaries of the Dialogues.…”
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The "good soldier" on trial a sociological study of misconduct by the US military pertaining to Operation Iron Triangle, Iraq / by Meštrović, Stjepan Gabriel

Table of Contents: “…The hidden patterns of violence in war crimes -- Covering up Major Sullivan's cover-up report -- The Article 32 hearing, or perjuryfest, begins -- Misconduct by investigators, PTSD, and sleep deprivation exposed and ignored -- Lost in translation : testimony by the Iraqi soldiers, and closing arguments -- Inquiry is reopened : kicking the soldiers while they're down -- Additional hearings and empty rituals -- The plea-bargain hearing as a degradation ceremony -- Visits to Ft. …”
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Catholic social learning educating the faith that does justice / by Bergman, Roger (Roger C.)

Table of Contents: “…Personal encounter : the only way -- Ignatian pedagogy and the faith that does justice -- Teaching justice after MacIntyre : toward a Catholic philosophy of moral education -- Immersion, empathy, and perspective transformation : Semestre Dominicano, 1998 -- "We make the road by stumbling": Aristotle, service-learning, and justice -- Meetings with remarkable men and women: on teaching moral exemplars -- Education for justice and the Catholic university : innovation or development? : an argument from tradition -- Aristotle, Ignatius, and the painful path to solidarity : a pedagogy for justice in Catholic higher education.…”
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Reading orientalism Said and the unsaid / by Varisco, Daniel Martin

Table of Contents: “…Orienting Orientalism -- "One that cannot now be rewritten" -- Defin[ess]ing Orientalism -- Verbalizing an orient -- The growth (benign, cancerous, or otherwise) of Orientalism -- The said and the unsaid in Said's magnum opus orientale -- Dissing orientalism: all that Said has done -- Drawing the fault lines -- Self-critique more than mere image -- A novel argument out of blurred genres -- The seductive charms of and against orientalism -- Presenting and representing orientalism -- The essential[ism] problem -- What is said (but true?) …”
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Psychoanalysis and theism critical reflections on the Gr�unbaum thesis /

Table of Contents: “…Psychoanalysis and theism / Adolf Gr�unbaum -- A problem for Freud's disjunctive argument / David Livingston Smith -- The psychoanalysis of religion and the dissolution of epistemic certitude / Jerry S. …”
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The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America / by Darsey, James Francis

Table of Contents: “…Debs -- The word in darkness -- A vision of the apocalypse : Joe McCarthy's rhetoric of the fantastic -- Prophecy as poetry : the romantic vision of Robert Welch -- Secular argument and the language of commodity : gay liberation and merely civil rights -- The seraph and the snake.…”
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Reading Hegel's Phenomenology by Russon, John Edward, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Sense, time, and my meaning -- From perception to philosophy -- Understanding : things, forces, and the body -- Death and desire in Hegel's epistemology : the form of Hegel's argument -- Reading and the body -- Hermeneutical pressure : intersubjectivity and objectivity -- The "freedom of self-consciousness" and early modern epistemology -- Reason and dualism -- Spirit and skepticism -- The contradictions of moral life : Hegel's critique of Kant -- Selfhood, conscience, and dialectic -- The ritual basis of self-identity -- Vision and image in Hegel's system -- Deciding to read : on the horizon (of Christianity) -- Absolute knowing : the structure and project of Hegel's system of science.…”
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The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America / by Darsey, James Francis

Table of Contents: “…Debs -- The word in darkness -- A vision of the apocalypse : Joe McCarthy's rhetoric of the fantastic -- Prophecy as poetry : the romantic vision of Robert Welch -- Secular argument and the language of commodity : gay liberation and merely civil rights -- The seraph and the snake.…”
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Itinerant Philosophy: On Alphonso Lingis /

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Paths to peace domestic coalition shifts, war termination and the Korean War / by Stanley, Elizabeth A., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Testing and extending the argument. Domestic coalition shifts in war termination since 1862 -- War termination in theory and practice.…”
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The messianic reduction Walter Benjamin and the shape of time / by Fenves, Peter D. (Peter David), 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the course of the argument -- Substance poem versus function poem : two poems of Friedrich Hölderlin -- Entering the phenomenological school and discovering the color of shame -- Existence toward space : two "Rainbows" from around 1916 -- The problem of historical time : conversing with Scholem, criticizing Heidegger in 1916 -- Meaning in the proper sense of the word : "On language as such and on human language" and related logico-linguistic studies -- Pure knowledge and the continuity of experience : "On the program of the coming philosophy" and its supplements -- The political counterpart to pure practical reason : from Kant's doctrine of right to Benjamin's category of justice -- Conclusion : the shape of time.…”
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Creating new knowledge in management appropriating the field's lost foundations / by O'Connor, Ellen S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction and problem : no institution of management knowledge -- The institutionalizing research university : rise of the scientific tradition -- The 19th-century business school : fall of the classical and rise of the vocational and school-of-opportunity traditions -- The 20th-century business school : integrating the vocational and scientific traditions -- Mary Parker Follett's unbounded relationality -- Chester Barnard's science of responsible experience -- Revisiting Barnard and Simon's private argument -- Integrating research and responsibility : collaborating with an executive -- Integrating education, research, and responsibility : experimenting with master's-level teaching -- Conclusion and solution : integrating the knowledge traditions and building a discipline of management.…”
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Abuse of discretion : the inside story of Roe v. Wade / by Forsythe, Clarke D., 1958-

Table of Contents: “…The road to Roe : inside the Supreme Court -- The road to Roe : taking abortion into the courts -- The red flags the justices ignored : the embarrassing arguments in the abortion cases -- The abrupt expansion to viability (and beyond) -- The medical myth that drove the outcome in Roe (and its continuing impact) -- The American experience the justices overlooked -- The public health vacuum the justices created -- Detrimental reliance : the international data on the risks to women -- The costs of schizophrenia -- The public is not "polarized" over abortion : what most Americans can agree on -- Has Roe solved the problems it was supposed to solve for women? …”
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Who's asking? : Native science, Western science, and science education / by Medin, Douglas L.

Table of Contents: “…-- Unsettling science -- Maps, models and the unity of science -- Values everywhere within science -- Science reflects who does it -- Culture and issues in cultural research -- Psychological distance and conceptions of nature -- Distance, perspective taking, and ecological relations -- Complicating cultural models : limitations of distance -- The argument so far -- A brief history of Indian education -- Culturally-based science education : navigating multiple epistemologies -- Community-based science education : Menominee focus -- Community-based science education : AIC focus -- Partnership in community : some consequences -- Summary, conclusions, implications.…”
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Current controversies in values and science /

Table of Contents: “…Inductive risk : does the argument from inductive risk justify incorporating non-epistemic values in scientific reasoning? …”
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