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Aesopic conversations popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / by Kurke, Leslie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: an elusive quarry: In search of ancient Greek popular culture; Explaining the joke: a roadmap for classicists; Synopsis of method and structure of argument -- The Aesopic challenge to Delphic authority: Ideological tensions at Delphi; the Aesopic critique; Neoptolemus and Aesop: sacrifice, hero cult, and competitive scapegoating -- Sophia before/beyond philosophy: the tradition of Sophia; Sophists and (as) sages; Aristotle and the transformation of Sophia -- Aesop as sage: political counsel and discursive practice; Aesop among the sages; Political animals: fable and the scene of advising -- Reading the life: the progress of a sage and the anthropology of Sophia: an Aesopic anthropology of wisdom; Aesop and Ahiqar; Delphic theoria and the death of a sage; the bricoleur as culture hero, or the art of extorting self-incrimination -- The Aesopic parody of high wisdom: demystifying Sophia: Hesiod, Theognis, and the seven sages; Aesopic parody in the visual tradition -- Aesop at the invention of philosophy: the problematic sociopolitics of mimetic prose; the generic affiliations of Sokratikoi logoi -- The battle over prose: fable in sophistic education and Xenophon's Memorabilia: Sophistic fables; traditional fable narration in Xenophon's Memorabilia -- Sophistic fable in Plato: parody, appropriation, and transcendence: Plato's Protagoras: debunking Sophistic fable; Plato's symposium: ringing the changes on fable -- Aesop in Plato's Sokratikoi logoi: analogy, elenchos, and disavowal: Sophia into philosophy: Socrates between the sages and Aesop; the Aesopic bricoleur and the "old Socratic tool-box"; sympotic wisdom, comedy, and Aesopic competition in Hippias major -- Historie and logopoiia: two sides of Herodotean prose: history before prose, prose before history; Aesop ho logopoios; Plutarch reading Herodotus: Aesop, ruptures of decorum, and the non-Greek -- Herodotus and Aesop: Cyrus tells a fable; Greece and (as) fable, or resignifying the hierarchy of genre; fable as history; the Aesopic contract of the histories: Herodotus teaches his readers.…”
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The minimalist parameter selected papers from the Open Linguistics Forum, Ottawa, 21-23 March 1997 /

Table of Contents: “…Syntactic Movement: Cyclicity, Optionality, (Non)overtness -- Takashi Toyoshima -- Head-to-Spec Movement 115 -- Adam Szczegielniak -- Polish Optional Movement 137 -- Beradette Plunkett -- Attract and Covert Merge: Predicting interrogative variation 159 -- Artemis Alexiadou and Elena Anagnostopoulou -- Covert F(eature)-Movement and the Placement of Arguments 175 -- Andrew Simpson -- On Covert Movement and LF 191 -- SECTION M. …”
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Social Economics and the Solidarity City by Murtagh, Brendan

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; The Social Economy, the State and the City; Rolling Back and Rolling Out; Disembedding and Re-embedding; Social and Solidarity; Structure of the Argument; 2 The Rules of the Game; Introduction; Disembedding the Market; Co-ordinating the Commons; Problems of Co-ordination; Social Enterprise Markets; Reassembling the Market; Conclusion; 3 Urban Politics and Alternative Economics; Introduction; Neoliberalism and Its Limits; Countermoves and Resistance…”
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Interpretation and method empirical research methods and the interpretive turn /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Stories for research / Steven Maynard-Moody and Michael Musheno -- Interpretive content analysis : stories and arguments in analytic documents / Clare Ginger -- How built spaces mean : a semiotics of space / Dvora Yanow -- We call it a grain of sand : the interpretive orientation and a human social science / Timothy Pachirat -- Doing social science in a humanistic manner / Dvora Yanow and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea.…”
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Talking to the enemy track two diplomacy in the Middle East and South Asia / by Kaye, Dalia Dassa

Table of Contents: “…Geological Survey and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: regional seismic monitoring cooperation project -- European-sponsored activities -- Gulf security track two forums -- Roles -- Socialization -- Filtering -- Policy impact -- Limits -- Elites -- Domestic constraints -- The regional environment -- Conclusion -- Regional security dialogues in South Asia -- Introduction -- Overview of dialogues -- Neemrana process -- Balusa group -- Kashmir Study Group (KSG) -- Shanghai process -- Stimson Center dialogues -- CSIS meetings on nuclear risk reduction centres (NRRCs) -- Cooperative Monitoring Center, Sandia National Laboratories -- Maritime activities: the confidence and cooperation in South Asian Waters Project -- Roles -- Socialization -- Filtering -- Policy impact -- Limits -- Elites -- Domestic constraints -- Regional environment -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Central arguments -- Regional comparisons -- Regional lessons -- Improving track two dialogues -- Expand the types of participants -- Create or strengthen institutional support and mentors for track two activities -- Localize the dialogues -- Bibliography.…”
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Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory /

Table of Contents: “…Blechner -- Transgender, queer theory, and psychoanalysis / Susan Stryker -- The psychoanalysis that dare not speak its name / Ona Nierenberg -- On the not-meanings of Karla Black's There can be no arguments / Medb Ruane -- Afterword. Reflections on the encounters between psychoanalysis and queer theory / Eve Watson.…”
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Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory /

Table of Contents: “…Blechner -- Transgender, queer theory, and psychoanalysis / Susan Stryker -- The psychoanalysis that dare not speak its name / Ona Nierenberg -- On the not-meanings of Karla Black's There can be no arguments / Medb Ruane -- Afterword. Reflections on the encounters between psychoanalysis and queer theory / Eve Watson.…”
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Skepticism in the modern age building on the work of Richard Popkin /

Table of Contents: “…The anthropological argument : the rediscovery of ancient skepticism in modern thought / Danilo Marcondes -- The current debate about Montaigne's skepticism / Vicente Raga Rosaleny -- On skeptical fideism in Montaigne's Apology for Raymond Sebond / Sérgio Cardoso -- Montaigne's radical skepticism / Luiz Eva -- Part two: Early modern thinkers close to skepticism. …”
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Saving God religion after idolatry / by Johnston, Mark, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…-- Supernaturalism and scientism -- Scientism and superstition -- Supernaturalism -- Legitimate naturalism -- Scientism versus science -- The argument for naturalism from true religion -- The phenomenological approach -- The method and the question -- Yahweh's use of the method -- A criterion, or an enclosed circle? …”
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Resonant Games : Design Principles for Learning Games that Connect Hearts, Minds, and the Everyday / by Klopfer, Eric, Rosenheck, Louisa, Osterweil, Scot, Haas, Jason

Table of Contents: “…; 5 Discovering the Secret World of Ysola; The Radix Project; Game and Learning Designs; The Player Experience; Embarking on the Quest; Building the Argument; Repeating the Experiment; Reporting the Discoveries; Systems for Exploration; The Multiplayer Experience; Bridge Curriculum; Culture of Inquiry; School Systems; Professional Development; The Complete Package; 6 Beetles, Beasties, and Bunnies in Your Back Pocket; The UbiqBio Project.…”
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Resonant Games : Design Principles for Learning Games that Connect Hearts, Minds, and the Everyday / by Klopfer, Eric, Rosenheck, Louisa, Osterweil, Scot, Haas, Jason

Table of Contents: “…; 5 Discovering the Secret World of Ysola; The Radix Project; Game and Learning Designs; The Player Experience; Embarking on the Quest; Building the Argument; Repeating the Experiment; Reporting the Discoveries; Systems for Exploration; The Multiplayer Experience; Bridge Curriculum; Culture of Inquiry; School Systems; Professional Development; The Complete Package; 6 Beetles, Beasties, and Bunnies in Your Back Pocket; The UbiqBio Project.…”
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Common Sense in Environmental Management Thinking Through English Land and Water. by Woolley, Jonathan P., 1988-

Table of Contents: “…; Where: the Broads as a fieldsite; What: a common-sense argument; Notes; References; 1 Do academics have common sense?…”
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Rival Kurdish Movements in Turkey : Transforming Ethnic Conflict / by Gurbuz, Mustafa Cagri

Table of Contents: “…Ethnic Conflict and Social Movements -- A Multi-Institutional Politics Approach -- What Makes a Kurdish Activist -- The Argument of the Book -- How Does Meaning-Making Matter? …”
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Rival Kurdish Movements in Turkey : Transforming Ethnic Conflict / by Gurbuz, Mustafa Cagri

Table of Contents: “…Ethnic Conflict and Social Movements -- A Multi-Institutional Politics Approach -- What Makes a Kurdish Activist -- The Argument of the Book -- How Does Meaning-Making Matter? …”
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Data Visualization in Society /

Table of Contents: “…/ Lulu Pinney -- Multimodal academic argument in data visualization / Arlene Archer and Travis Noakes -- Section IV Data visualization semiotics and aesthetics -- What we talk about when we talk about beautiful data visualizations / Sara Brinch - A multimodal perspective on data visualization / Tuomo Hiippala -- Exploring narrativity in data visualization in journalism / Wibke Weber -- The data epic: Visualization practices for narrating life and death at a distance / Jonathan Gray -- What a line can say: Investigating the semiotic potential of the connecting line in data visualizations / Verena Elisabeth Lechner -- Humanizing data through 'data comics': An introduction to graphic medicine and graphic social science / Aria Alamalhodaei, Alexandra Alberda, and Anna Feigenbaum -- Section V Data visualization and inequalities -- Visualizing diversity: Data deficiencies and semiotic strategies / John P. …”
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Data Visualization in Society /

Table of Contents: “…/ Lulu Pinney -- Multimodal academic argument in data visualization / Arlene Archer and Travis Noakes -- Section IV Data visualization semiotics and aesthetics -- What we talk about when we talk about beautiful data visualizations / Sara Brinch - A multimodal perspective on data visualization / Tuomo Hiippala -- Exploring narrativity in data visualization in journalism / Wibke Weber -- The data epic: Visualization practices for narrating life and death at a distance / Jonathan Gray -- What a line can say: Investigating the semiotic potential of the connecting line in data visualizations / Verena Elisabeth Lechner -- Humanizing data through 'data comics': An introduction to graphic medicine and graphic social science / Aria Alamalhodaei, Alexandra Alberda, and Anna Feigenbaum -- Section V Data visualization and inequalities -- Visualizing diversity: Data deficiencies and semiotic strategies / John P. …”
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Health Care Economics. by Davis, John B.

Table of Contents: “…; 1.2 The microeconomics of health care markets: principal-agent theory, moral hazard, and care; 1.3 Care as a market externality: caring externalities; 1.4 The problematic nature of caring externalities; 1.5 Care and the socially embedded individual; 1.6 An alternative health economics; 1.7 Outline of the argument of the book; Notes; PART I Health care notions: health economics and the biomedical approach.…”
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Big data : a tutorial-based approach / by Raheem, Nasir

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From Preschool to Prosperity : The Economic Payoff to Early Childhood Education / by Bartik, Timothy J.

Table of Contents: “…Why early childhood education makes sense now: ECE's place in the ongoing struggle for broader economic opportunities : Labor supply and labor demand ; History matters ; The continuing argument over expanding educational access ; But why early childhood education? …”
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Free trade risks and rewards /

Table of Contents: “…WILSON -- The Case of the Softwood Lumbet Industry / 147 -- BOB RAE -- A Reality Check / 151 -- JIM STANFORD -- PART FIVE FREE TRADE AND SOCIAL POLICY -- Globalization and the Social Dimension / 159 -- GERALD LAROSE -- Economic Arguments versus Ideological Ones /-166 -- GUY STANLEY -- PART SIX FREE TRADE AND DISPUTE -- SETTLEMENT -- FTA and NAFTA Dispute Settlement in Canadian Trade -- Policy / 171 -- JONATHAN T. …”
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