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John Henry Newman on the nature of the mind reason in religion, science, and the humanities / by Rupert, Jane, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…The closing of the mind: empirical philosophy and science -- Expansion of mind: reason in religious belief in contrast to science -- Mind in the meditative and contemplative life: the magisterial imagination and the affections -- The cultivation of the mind in liberal education: Greek sources and historical practice -- Mind and soul: intellect and sanctity at the Catholic University of Ireland.…”
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Exploring religion in ancient Egypt / by Quirke, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Belief without a book -- Finding the sacred in space and time -- Creating sacred space and time: temple architecture and festival -- Chaos and life: forces of creation and destruction -- Being good: doing, saying, making good possible -- Being well -- Attaining eternal life: sustenance and transformation.…”
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Advancing Environmental Education Practice / by Krasny, Marianne E.

Table of Contents: “…Theory of change -- Evaluation -- Environment, sustainability, and climate change -- Environmental behaviors -- Environmental action -- Knowledge and thinking -- Values, beliefs, and attitudes -- Nature of connectedness -- Sense of place -- Efficacy -- Identity -- Norms -- Social capital -- Positive youth development -- Health and wellbeing -- Conclusion : resilience : adaptation and transformation…”
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On becoming a school leader a person-centered challenge / by Combs, Arthur W. (Arthur Wright), 1912-1999

Table of Contents: “…A person-centered perspective on educational leadership -- Seeking and responding to data -- Beliefs about people and change -- Creating an environment for learning and change -- The leader's sense of self -- Developing the self in others -- Creating and responding to purpose -- Authenticity and organizations -- Leaders and their organizations -- The person-centered preparation of school leaders.…”
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Subliminal persuasion influence & marketing secrets they don't want you to know / by Lakhani, Dave, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Creating message contagion -- Leverage applied propaganda -- Position and package your legend -- Control the emotion and the content -- Get a real endorsement -- Understand beliefs and true believers -- Harness the power of the people's media -- Deliver the experience -- The subliminal power of words -- Creating a cult following -- Seduction.…”
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Morals Not Knowledge : Recasting the Contemporary U.S. Conflict between Religion and Science / by Evans, John Hyde, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The religion and science advocates in the academic debate -- The academic analysts of the relationship between religion and science -- Recent transformation of elite academic and public debates -- Existing research on the public -- Empirical tests of knowledge and belief conflict for the religious public -- Empirical tests of moral conflict for the religious public -- Conclusion.…”
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The trouble with Sauling around conversion in ethnic American autobiography, 1965-2002 / by Walker, Madeline Ruth, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the trouble with conversion -- Conversion and the intractable Saul : The autobiography of Malcolm X -- Conversion, deconversion, and reversion : Oscar Zeta Acosta's autofictions -- Serial conversion and Pauling around: Amiri Baraka's The autobiography of Leroi Jones -- Converting the church : Richard Rodriguez and the browning of catholicism -- Conclusion: Unlinking religious belief and identity.…”
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Jim Crace by Tew, Philip

Table of Contents: “…Exploring Craceland -- Communities and change: Continent (1986) and The gift of stones (1988) -- Parables of distress: Arcadia (1992) and Signals of distress (1994) -- Death, belief and nature: Quarantine (1997) and Being dead (1999) -- Excess, passion and the uncanny: The devil's larder (2001) and Six [Genesis] (2003) -- Addendum: The pesthouse (2007).…”
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Ghosts of futures past spiritualism and the cultural politics of nineteenth-century America / by McGarry, Molly

Table of Contents: “…Mourning, media, and the cultural politics of conjuring the dead -- Indian guides : haunted subjects and the politics of vanishing -- Spectral sexualities : free love, moral panic, and the making of U.S. obscenity law -- Mediomania : the spirit of science in a culture of belief and doubt -- Secular subjects : a queer genealogy of untimely sexualities.…”
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Paradise betrayed : West Papua's struggle for independence / by Martinkus, John

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The Hegemony of Psychopathy by Brons, Lajos

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The educator's guide to assessing and improving school discipline programs by Boynton, Mark, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Articulating philosophical beliefs -- Classroom and buildingwide discipline assessment -- Action plans for relationship issues -- Action plans for parameter issues -- Action plans for monitoring issues -- Action plans for consequence issues -- Improvement plans for teachers struggling with discipline -- Action plans for a challenging student -- Answers to top discipline questions.…”
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The crises of multiculturalism racism in a neoliberal age / by Lentin, Alana

Table of Contents: “…Recited truths: the contours of multicultural crisis -- Let's talk about your culture: post-race, post-racism -- Free like me: the polyphony of liberal post-racialism -- Mediating the crisis: circuits of belief -- Good and bad diversity: the shape of neoliberal racisms -- On one more condition: the politics of integration today.…”
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The future without a past the humanities in a technological society / by Russo, John Paul

Table of Contents: “…The future of the humanities in a technological society -- The great forgetting : library, media center, and Las Vegas -- The circle of knowledge : science and the humanistic curriculum from Petrarch to Trilling -- Belief and sincerity -- The tranquilized poem : the crisis of the new criticism -- The disappearance of the self : contemporary theories of autobiography -- Don Delillo : ethnicity, religion, and the critique of technology.…”
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Traditional Micronesian societies adaptation, integration, and political organization / by Petersen, Glenn

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a perspective on traditional Micronesian life -- Micronesia and Micronesians -- The prehistory of Micronesian societies -- Descent and descent groups -- Household and family, land and labor -- Chieftainship and government -- Politics and leadership -- Aesthetics, beliefs, values, and behavior -- Some exceptions to the pan-Micronesian patterns -- Epilogue : traditional Micronesian societies and modern Micronesian history.…”
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Atheism as a positive social force by Converse, Raymond W.

Table of Contents: “…The origin of religion : the earliest beliefs -- The early written records -- Modern religion in the Near East and Rome -- Christianity, Persia, and Islam -- Modern religious thought and the birth of atheism -- A redefinition of atheism -- Atheism as a positive social force -- Atheism in the U.S. -- Atheism as the arbiter of social self-interest -- The task of atheism -- Atheism and Islam.…”
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Behavioral finance and wealth management how to build investment strategies that account for investor biases / by Pompian, Michael M., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to behavioral finance -- pt. 2. Belief perseverance biases defined and illustrated -- pt. 3. …”
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Unmodern philosophy and modern philosophy by Dewey, John, 1859-1952

Table of Contents: “…Philosophy and the conflict of beliefs -- The story of nature -- The discovery of rational discourse -- The search for salvation -- From cosmic nature to human nature -- Wandering between two worlds -- The present problem of knowledge -- The supreme human art -- Things and persons -- Mind and body -- The practical and the theoretical -- The material and the ideal -- Nature and human nature -- Experience as life-function.…”
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Humanity a moral history of the twentieth century / by Glover, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…War as a trap -- pt. 5. Belief and terror : Stalin and his years -- pt. 6. …”
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Reasons without rationalism by Setiya, Kieran, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…"Squeezing the good into the right through the tubes of imperfection" -- The relevance of action theory -- A puzzle about intention -- The belief-desire model -- Acting for reasons -- Solving the puzzle -- A causal theory of action? …”
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