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Conducting Practitioner Research in Physical Education and Youth Sport : Reflecting on Practice / by Casey, Ashley, Fletcher, Tim, Schaefer, Lee, Gleddie, Doug, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Taking practitioner research onto the field -- Action research -- Narrative inquiry -- Autoethnography -- Self-study of practice -- Using action research to promote learning in the affective domain -- Using narrative inquiry in physical education and youth sport: reflecting on process -- Using autoethnography to explore a culture of school sport -- Using self-study of practice to examine pedagogies that promote meaningful participation -- Acknowledging bias -- Ethical responsibilities of being a practitioner researcher -- Aligning beliefs and actions -- Overview of practitioner research.…”
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The equation of knowledge : from Bayes' rule to a unified philosophy of science / by Hoang, Lê Nguyên

Table of Contents: “…-- Exponentially counter-intuitive -- Ockham cuts to the chase -- Facts are misleading -- Quick and not too dirty -- Wish me luck -- Down memory lane -- Let's sleep on it -- The unreasonable effectiveness of abstraction -- The Bayesian brain -- It's all fictions -- Exploring the origins of beliefs -- Beyond Bayesianism.…”
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The neurobiology of decision making a window on cognition /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Neurobiology -- Decision making -- Neural mechanisms of decision making -- Perceptual decisions -- Representation of evidence in visual cortex (area MT/V5) -- Direction selective neurons -- Representation of accumulated evidence in parietal cortex -- Lateral intraparietal area (LIP) -- Bounded evidence accumulation -- Diffusion models of decision making -- Confidence and "degree of belief" -- Post-decision wagering -- Probabilistic reasoning -- A neural mechanism for reasoning -- log likelihood ratio -- Decision making as a window on cognitive function in general -- Intentional framework for information processing.…”
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Why the Center Can't Hold: A Diagnosis of Puritanized America / by O'Neill, Tom

Table of Contents: “…Our accelerating disinvestment in education -- The growing ascendance of the rich -- Our tenaciously expanding belief in force -- The sense nature can take whatever we dish out -- How the signs of incoherence cohere in pointing toward disintegration -- Skepticism about history -- Skepticism about beauty -- Skepticism about morality -- Skepticism about anything being known absolutely (absolute skepticism) -- "Fundamentalism will save us!" …”
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The secret revealed : exposing the truth about the law of attraction / by Garlow, James L.

Table of Contents: “…Brain dead-belief : keep your mind engaged -- The flaw of attraction-conspiracy : stop imagining -- It's all about me-self : check your ego -- For everything else, there's mastercard(r)-wealth : find true prosperity -- Faulty transmissions-thinking : reason soundly -- Bridge out-delusion : avoid make-believe -- But wait, there's more-scams : be discerning -- Quantum leaps of faith-science : seek reality -- Epicenter of the universe-God : surrender grandiose delusions -- Looking in all ihe wrong places-love : act kindly -- The word that disappeared-sin : know evil exists -- Surviving today-life : cope with circumstances -- What was she thinking-origin : comprehend secretive sources -- A passionate appeal-culture : look what's coming -- Beyond the secret-mystery : visit Mars Hill.…”
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Go figure energies, forms, and institutions in the early modern world /

Table of Contents: “…Spenser's giant and the new science / Mary Thomas Crane -- The sacramental neuter and the missing body in Robert Southwell's poetics / Lowell Gallagher -- Reconfiguring Figuring: John Donne as Narrative Poet / Heather Dubrow -- The Narrative Turn against Metaphor: Metonymy, Identification, and Roger Boyle's Parthenissa / Amelia Zurcher -- Caterpillage : Death and Truthiness in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life Painting / Harry Berger, Jr. -- Figuring belief : George Herbert's devotional creatures / David Glimp -- Entertaining Friends : Falstaff's Parasitology / Donald Hedrick -- Skin Merchants : Jack Cade's Futures and the Figural Politics of Henry VI, Part II / Julian Yates.…”
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Republican treason Republican fascism exposed / by Burrell, Joseph, 1930-

Table of Contents: “…Imperialism in the New World -- US imperialism -- Attacking Iraq -- Attacking Iraq again -- Killing -- Torture -- Dissent -- Aftermath -- pt. 3. The Conservative belief system -- Democracy -- Secularism and relativism -- Christian and capitalist exceptionalism -- Social Darwinism -- pt. 4. …”
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Naturalism, reference, and ontology essays in honor of Roger F. Gibson /

Table of Contents: “…/ David Henderson and Terence Horgan -- Naturalism and belief-centered epistemology / Chase B. Wrenn -- Intuitional content, nonconceptual content and perceptual justification / Josefa Toribio -- Defending Quine's naturalistic ontology / J. …”
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Catholics in the American century recasting narratives of U.S. history /

Table of Contents: “…Marie Griffith -- The new turn in Chicano/Mexicano history : integrating religious belief and practice / David Gutierrez -- The Catholic moment in American social thought / Wilfred M. …”
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Cooperative collegial democracy for Africa and multi-ethnic societies democracy without tears / by Ezeani, Emefiena

Table of Contents: “…-- Centripetalism : a competitive model of democracy -- Consociationalism : a quasi-cooperative model of democracy -- Democracy in pre-colonial and post-colonial Africa -- Ethnicity, religion, the judiciary and liberal democracy in a multi-ethnic society -- Godfatherism, privatisation of the state and diminution of political space -- Giovanni Sartori : political parties, party-less state and competitive democracy -- The unanswered national questions and the party model of democracy -- The party system and some specific issues -- Voting under the veil of ignorance and the belief in the people's power -- Cooperative collegial democracy : a workable model for Africa and multi-ethnic societies -- Epilogue : corruption and democracy : learning from the Nigerian experience.…”
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Rethinking the messianic idea in Judaism /

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Evil : a guide for the perplexed / by Meister, Chad V., 1965-

Reasonable perspectives on religion

Table of Contents: “…Sense and Nonsense in Religion and Belief / James Carse -- 4. All Religions Are Cousins: Religion in Human Evolution / Robert N. …”
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Theodor Storm's Craft of Fiction : The Torment of a Narrator / by Bernd, Clifford A.

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Skepticism in the modern age building on the work of Richard Popkin /

Table of Contents: “…Skepticism and religious belief in A treatise of human nature / Lívia Guimarães -- Criticism and science in Hume / Frédéric Brahami.…”
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On the edge of the law culture, labor, and deviance on the south Texas border / by Richardson, Chad, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: earthquakes and volcanoes along the south Texas border -- Traditional health care practices / with Cristina De Juana -- Other cultural beliefs and practices / with Ana Leos and María Isabel Ayala -- Displaced workers / with Priti Verma -- Undocumented workers / with Alberto Rodriguez -- Immigration enforcement issues / with Cristina De Juana -- Drug smuggling / with Lupe Treviño -- Property crime (shoplifting and auto theft) along the border / with Jesse Garcia and Hector Garcia -- American lives, Mexican justice / with Juan José Bustamante -- Dropping out / with John Cavazos -- Conclusion.…”
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After the baby boomers how twenty- and thirty-somethings are shaping the future of American religion / by Wuthnow, Robert

Table of Contents: “…-- The major faith communities : thinking beyond winners and losers -- The Bible tells me so (I think) : recent trends in religious beliefs -- Spirituality and spiritual practices : the role of faith in personal life -- Faith and family : facing the difficult choices -- The divided generation : religion and public life -- Emerging trends : immigration and ethnic diversity -- The virtual church : religious uses of the Internet -- Vital congregations : youthful and diverse.…”
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The AIDS conspiracy science fights back / by Nattrass, Nicoli

Table of Contents: “…The conspiratorial move against HIV science and its consequences -- AIDS origin conspiracy theories in the United States and South Africa -- Who believes AIDS conspiracy theories and why leadership matters -- Science, politics, and credibility : David Gilbert fights AIDS conspiracy beliefs in US prisons -- Science, conspiracy theory, and the South African AIDS policy tragedy -- Hero scientists, cultropreneurs, living icons, and praise-singers : AIDS denialism as community -- Defending the imprimatur of science : Duesberg and the medical hypotheses saga -- The conspiratorial move and the struggle for evidence-based medicine.…”
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Psychopathology and philosophy of mind : what mental disorders can tell us about our minds /

Table of Contents: “…Johnson-Laird -- Reasoning and goals : from psychopathological patients to healthy people / Amelia Gangemi and Francesco Mancini -- Reasoning, trauma, and PTSD : insights into the emotion-cognition interaction / Isabelle Blanchette and Sara-Valérie Giroux -- The distinction between altruistic and deontological guilt feelings : insights from psychopathology / Francesco Mancini, Guyonne Rogier and Amelia Gangemi -- The narrative self in schizophrenia and its cognitive underpinnings / Ines Adornetti and Francesco Ferretti -- Delusions and pathologies of belief : making sense of conspiracy beliefs via the psychosis continuum / Niall Galbraith -- Normality at the mirror of madness : historical considerations on a chimeric boundary / Francesco Paolo Tocco -- "There is a system in lunacy" : morality and normativity in mental disorders / Leonarda Vaiana -- The dark side of language / Valentina Cardella and Alessandra Falzone -- Identity, narratives and psychopathology : a critical perspective / Pietro Perconti -- Bodies that love themselves and bodies that hate themselves : the role of lived experience in body integrity dysphoria / Antonino Pennisi and Alessandro Capodici -- Lost in love : why is it so painful when romance goes wrong? …”
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Nursing student retention understanding the process and making a difference / by Jeffreys, Marianne R.

Table of Contents: “…Overview of student retention -- Student profile characteristics -- Cultural values and beliefs, self-efficacy, and motivation : important considerations -- Academic factors -- Environmental factors -- Professional integration and socialization -- Academic and psychological outcomes -- The outside climate : forecast, impact, and action -- Dropout, stopout, or go on? …”
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