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Christianity, Democracy, and the Shadow of Constantine /

Table of Contents: “…Moral argument in the human rights debate of the Russian orthodox church -- Post-communist orthodox countries and secularization : the Lautsi case and the fracture of Europe -- Power to the people : orthodoxy, consociational democracy, and the move beyond phyletism -- Power, protest, and perichoresis : on being church in a troubled world -- Strange fruit : Augustine, liberalism, and the good Samaritan -- An orthodox encounter with liberal democracy -- Democracy and the dynamics of death : orthodox reflections on the origin, purpose, and limits of politics -- "I have overcome the world" : the church, the liberal state, and Christ's two natures in the Russian politics of theosis -- Emperors and bishops of Constantinople -- Stepping out of Constantine's shadow -- "You cannot have a church without an Empire" : political orthodoxy in Byzantium -- Roman catholicism and democracy : the postconciliar era -- How (not) to be a political theologian.…”
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Teaching Information Literacy and Writing Studies : Volume 1, First-Year Composition Courses /

Table of Contents: “…Collaboration as conversations -- Knowledge processes and program practices -- Writing with the library -- Supplanting the research paper and one-shot library visit -- Prioritizing academic inquiry in the first-year experience -- Pressing the reset button on (information) literacy in FYW -- Research as inquiry -- Joining the conversation -- Promoting self-regulated learning in the first-year writing classroom --Using information literacy tutorials effectively -- Using object-based learning to analyze primary sources -- Communities of information -- A cooperative, rhetorical approach to research instruction -- Food for thought -- Creating a multimodal argument -- Project-based learning -- Adapting for inclusivity -- Are they really using what I'm teaching? …”
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Rhetoric and theology figural reading of John 9 / by Wright, William M., IV

Table of Contents: “…Jo. 44 -- Comparing the reading strategies of Augustine and Martyn -- Implications and possibilities -- Four premodern interpretations of John 9 -- The value of premodern exegetes for New Testament studies -- John Chrysostom -- Chrysostom's homilies 56-59 on the Gospel of John in context -- Chrysostom on the place of John 9 within the Gospel -- Chrysostom on the internal dynamics of John 9 -- Chrysostom's theological interpretation of John 9 -- Cyril of Alexandria -- Cyril's commentary on the Gospel of John in context -- Cyril on the place of John 9 within the Gospel -- Cyril on the internal dynamics of John 9 -- Cyril's theological interpretation of John 9 -- Bruno of Segni -- Bruno's commentary on John in context -- Bruno on the place of John 9 within the Gospel -- Bruno on the internal dynamics of John 9 -- Bruno's theological interpretation of John 9 -- Thomas Aquinas -- Aquinas' lectures on John in context : exegesis in the medieval university -- Aquinas on the place of John 9 within the Gospel -- Aquinas on the internal dynamics of John 9 -- Aquinas' theological interpretation of John 9 -- Conclusions -- Figural argumentation in John 9 -- Elaborated chreia and symbolic expression in Greco-Roman literary composition -- Chreia composition and elaborated argument -- Greco-Roman symbolic literary composition -- The figural argument in John 9:1-41 -- John 9:1-7 -- John 9:8-12 -- John 9:13-17 -- John 9:18-23 -- John 9:24-34 -- John 9:35-38 -- John 9:39-41 -- Conclusion -- Narrative rhetoric, theology, and figural reading -- The narrative and rhetorical dimensions of John 9 -- The narrative dynamics of John 9 -- An integration of epideictic and forensic rhetoric -- The figural dynamic and John's theology -- The inseparability of form and content in John's theology -- The figural dynamic and the incarnation -- Reading John's figural dynamic -- Conclusion.…”
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From Media Hype to Twitter Storm : News Explosions and Their Impact on Issues, Crises and Public Opinion /

Table of Contents: “…The dynamics of media attention to issues : towards standardizing measures, dimensions, and profiles -- 4. Hype, argumentation, and scientific dissemination -- II. Anatomy of self-reinforcing dynamics : case studies -- 5. …”
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From Media Hype to Twitter Storm : News Explosions and Their Impact on Issues, Crises and Public Opinion /

Table of Contents: “…The dynamics of media attention to issues : towards standardizing measures, dimensions, and profiles -- 4. Hype, argumentation, and scientific dissemination -- II. Anatomy of self-reinforcing dynamics : case studies -- 5. …”
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Private guns, public health by Hemenway, David

Table of Contents: “…-- Guns in the home -- Guns in schools -- Guns in public -- Young children -- Adolescents and young adults -- Women -- African Americans -- Manufacturers -- Licensed dealers -- The unregulated market -- The second amendment -- Public opinion -- Evaluating regulation -- The wrong arguments -- Lessons from other products -- Lessons from other countries -- International effects of our permissive policies -- A brief history of firearms law -- Reasonable policies -- Public health surveillance.…”
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Comparative and contrastive studies of information structure

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Carsten Breul, Edward Göbbel & Alexander Thiel -- Contrastive topics and distributed foci as instances of sub-informativity : a comparison of English and German / Volker Gast -- Givenness and discourse anaphors / Luis López -- Constraints on subject-focus mapping in French and English : a contrastive analysis / Knud Lambrecht -- Wh-questions in French and English : mapping syntax to information structure / Paul Boucher -- A comparative perspective on intensive reflexives : English and Hebrew / Dana Cohen -- Focus types and argument asymmetries : a cross-linguistic study in language production / Stavros Skopeteas and Gisbert Fanselow -- Topicality in L1-acquisition : a contrastive analysis of null subject expressions in child French and German / Nicole Hauser-Grüdl -- Formal and functional constraints on constituent order and their universality / Peter Öhl -- On the foundations of the contrastive study of information structure / Carsten Breul.…”
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Reasonable perspectives on religion

Table of Contents: “…Ethics and the Fabric of the Universe / David Ray Griffin -- 9. The Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God: An Apologia / Paul Herrick -- 10. …”
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Demystifying academic writing : genres, moves, skills, and strategies / by Fang, Zhihui

Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 2 Linguistic Features of Academic Writing -- Chapter 3 Skills and Strategies for Academic Writing: Part One -- Chapter 4 Skills and Strategies for Academic Writing: Part Two -- Section II Writing Academic Genres -- Chapter 5 Writing a Reading Response -- Chapter 6 Writing a Book Review -- Chapter 7 Writing a Literature Review -- Chapter 8 Writing an Argumentative Essay -- Chapter 9 Writing an Empirical Research Article -- Chapter 10 Writing a Grant Proposal -- Section III Maximizing Success in Writing and Publishing -- Chapter 11 Building Capacity for Academic Writing -- Chapter 12 Writing for Scholarly Publication -- Appendix A Survey of Academic Writing Needs -- Appendix B Checklist for Self Assessment of Academic Writing…”
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Crisis system : a critical realist and environmental critique of economics and the economy /

Table of Contents: “…Inaccurate and biased : cost-benefit analyses of transport infrastructure projects / Petter Nµss -- 5. Arguments for and against economic growth / Jin Xue -- 6. …”
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Results now how we can achieve unprecedented improvements in teaching and learning / by Schmoker, Michael J.

Table of Contents: “…-- Appendix A: Suggestions for Teaching Critical and Argumentative Literacy -- Appendix B: Start Here for Improving Teaching -- Appendix C: Agreements.…”
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Teacher's guide for discovering the world through debate a practical guide to educational debate for debaters, coaches and judges / by Claxton, Nancy

Table of Contents: “…Preparation -- Content of the textbook -- The course -- Course requirements -- Terminal course objectives (tcos) -- Weekly topic outline -- Week 1 lesson -- Week 2 lesson -- Week 3 lesson -- Week 4 lesson -- Week 5 lesson -- Week 6 lesson -- Week 7 lesson -- Week 8 lesson -- Week 9 lesson -- Week 10 lesson -- Week 11 lesson -- Week 12 lesson -- Appendix -- Course syllabus -- Worksheets -- Distinguishing between claims, propositions, and evidence -- Karl Popper quotes -- Group discussion questions for Karl Popper debate transcript and commentary reading -- Using the three methods to argue and refute causal relationships -- Building a case for and against a simple value proposition -- Building a case for a comparative value proposition-fact sheet -- Argument flow sheet -- Karl Popper debate ballot.…”
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Oxford readings in the Attic orators

Table of Contents: “…Humphreys -- The nature of proofs in antiphon / Michael Gagarin -- 'Artless proofs' in Aristotle and the orators / Christopher Carey -- Torture and rhetoric in Athens / David Mirhady -- Ability and education : the power of persuasion / Josiah Ober -- Lady Chatterley's lover and the Attic orators : the social composition of the Athenian jury / Stephen Todd -- Arguments from precedent in the Attic oratory / Lene Rubinstein -- Politics as literature : Demosthenes and the burden of the Athenian past / Harvey Yunis.…”
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The Blackwell guide to Kant's ethics

Table of Contents: “…Johnson -- The universal law formulas / Richard Galvin -- The formula of humanity as an end in itself / Richard Dean -- Autonomy and the kingdom of ends / Sarah Holtman -- Argument and critique -- Deriving the supreme moral principle from common moral ideas / Samuel J. …”
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Crimes of punishment America's culture of violence / by Dorpat, Theodore L.

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Critical interventions in Caribbean politics and theory / by Meeks, Brian

Table of Contents: “…Theoretical Forays -- The Frontline : Valentino, Pablo Moses, and Caribbean Organic Philosophy in the Seventies -- Reasoning with Caliban : A Critical Reading of Paget Henry's Caliban's Reason : Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy -- Arguments within What's Left of the Left : James, Watson, and the Question of Method -- Michael Manley : Crossing the Contours of Charisma -- Part Two. …”
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Grammatical change and linguistic theory the Rosendal papers /

Table of Contents: “…Harris -- From resultatives to anteriors in Ancient Greek / Dag Haug -- Lexical nonsense and morphological sense / Martin Maiden -- The diffusion of systemic changes through the inflectional system / Kjartan Ottosson -- Left branch extraction of nominal modifiers in old Scandinavian / Christer Platzack -- On incorporation in Athapaskan languages / Keren Rice -- Argument marking from Latin to modern Romance languages / Lene Schøsler.…”
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The creative retrieval of Saint Thomas Aquinas essays in Thomistic philosophy, new and old / by Clarke, W. Norris (William Norris), 1915-

Table of Contents: “…-- A curious blind spot in the Anglo-American tradition of antitheistic argument -- The problem of the reality and multiplicity of divine ideas in Christian neoplatonism -- Is the ethical eudaimonism of Saint Thomas too self-centered? …”
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The significance of the ark narrative literary formation and artistry in the book of Chronicles / by Street, James M., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Need for the study -- Purpose of the study -- Organization of the study -- Literary-critical issues -- Introduction -- Preface : 1 Chronicles 15:1-24 -- The movement of the ark : 1 Chronicles 15:25-16:3 -- The cultic appointments in Jerusalem : 1 Chronicles 16:4-6 -- The Psalm of praise : 1 Chronicles 16:7-36 -- David's final ordering of the Levites : 1 Chronicles 16:37-42 -- Conclusion : 1 Chronicles 16:43 -- Features and functions as a whole -- Summary -- The place of 1 Chronicles 15-16 within the book -- Introduction -- Literary hypotheses reconsidered -- Arguments for the importance of the ark narrative -- The ark narrative in theme building -- Summary -- Exegetical analysis -- Analysis of material -- Summary -- Theology of the ark narrative -- The function of the narrative within the Davidic narrative as a whole -- Function of the narrative within the book -- Major themes within the ark narrative -- Synthetic analysis -- Summary -- Conclusion -- Summary of findings -- Implications for reading Chronicles -- Implications for further study.…”
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Telenovelas

Table of Contents: “…/ Laura Stempel Mumford -- The international telenovela debate and the contra-flow argument : a reappraisal / Dani�el Biltereyst and Philippe Meers -- Telenovelas and soap operas : negotiating reality from the periphery / Christina Slade -- Romancing the globe / Ibsen Mart�inez -- Understanding telenovelas as a cultural front : a complex analysis of a complex reality / Jorge Gonz�alez -- Opening America? …”
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