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Tribes of Burning Man how an experimental city in the desert is shaping the new American counterculture / by Jones, Steven

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Psychology and the internet intrapersonal, interpersonal, and transpersonal implications /

Table of Contents: “…Noonan -- Males, females, and the Internet / Janet Morahan-Martin -- Work and community via computer-mediated communication / Caroline Haythornthwaite, Barry Wellman, and Laura Garton -- Virtual societies : their prospects and dilemmas / Magid Igbaria, Conrad Shayo, and Lorne Olfman -- The transpersonal : on the net and the net itself -- From mediated environments to the development of consciousness / Joan M. Preston -- World wide brain : self-organizing Internet intelligence as the actualization of the collective unconscious / Ben Goertzel -- The coevolution of technology and consciousness / Jayne Gackenbach, Greg Guthrie, and Jim Karpen.…”
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Philosophical insights about modern science

Table of Contents: “…/ Urban Kordeš -- Consciousness and vision / Mitja Peruš -- Natural and machine learning, intelligence and consciousness / Igor Kononenko -- Philosophical reflections on the history and future of science and spirituality / Thomas C. …”
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Laughter out of place race, class, violence, and sexuality in a Rio shantytown / by Goldstein, Donna M.

Table of Contents: “…Laughter out of place -- The aesthetics of domination -- Color-blind erotic democracies, black consciousness politics, and the black Cinderellas of Felicidade Eterna -- No time for childhood -- State terror, gangs, and everyday violence in Rio de Janeiro -- Partial truths, or, the carnivalization of desire -- What's so funny about rape?…”
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Kabbalah and postmodernism a dialogue / by Drob, Sanford L.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Postmodernism and Jewish mysticism -- Derrida and Jewish mysticism -- Tzimtzum and différance -- The shevirah and deconstruction -- A-systematic theology -- The doctrine of coincidentia oppositorum in Jewish mysticism -- The Torah of the tree of life -- Beyond the bounds of language -- Creation ex nihilo and the impossible Messiah -- Kabbalah, forms of consciousness and the structure of language.…”
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Imagining the Turkish house collective visions of home / by Bertram, Carel, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: welcome to the house -- Bringing the Turkish house into focus -- House takes on the weight of historical consciousness -- How fiction positioned the Turkish house on a memory chain of values -- How literature is spiritual space, and how the heart is superior to the mind -- New Turkish landscape and the desire to remember -- Cast of characters.…”
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Worldview and mind religious thought and psychological development / by Webb, Eugene, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The power of worldviews -- The idea of a psychology of worldviews -- Jean Piaget and Bernard Lonergan -- From psychological stages to orders of consciousness -- Death anxiety and symbols of immortality -- Mimetic theory -- From psychology to theology -- The dynamic diversity of religious worldviews -- Religion and personhood -- Dialogical faith -- Conclusion: The future of religion.…”
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New women of the old faith gender and American Catholicism in the progressive era / by Cummings, Kathleen Sprows

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Chiefly among women : the old faith, the new woman, and the creation of a usable past -- Enlarging our lives : higher education, Americanism, and Trinity College for Catholic women -- The wageless work of paradise : Catholic sisters, professionalization, and the school question -- The morbid consciousness of womanhood : Catholicism, antisuffrage, and the limits of sisterhood.…”
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Money, sex, war, karma notes for a Buddhist revolution / by Loy, David, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…-- The three poisons, institutionalized -- Consciousness commodified: the attention-deficit society -- Healing ecology -- The karma of food -- Why we love war.…”
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The martial arts cinema of the Chinese diaspora Ang Lee, John Woo, and Jackie Chan in Hollywood / by Szeto, Kin-Yan, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : cosmopolitical consciousness and martial arts cinema -- The martial arts cinema of the Chinese diaspora and Hollywood -- Ang Lee's Crouching tiger, hidden dragon in a cosmopolitical perspective -- Facing off east and west in the cinema of John Woo -- Jackie Chan's transnational film trajectory and politics of comic displacement -- Conclusion.…”
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Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siecle : The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman's Press on the Development of the Novel / by Youngkin, Molly, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The woman's press at the fin de siecle -- "They are learning to think ... for themselves" : consciousness raised -- "What the girl says" : spoken word as political tool -- Women at work, at war, and on the go : feminist action -- "The realistic method in its best expression" : successful representations of woman's agency and literary reputations -- Engaging and shaping modernism.…”
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Environmental planning and management by Madu, Christian N. (Christian Ndubisi)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to environmental planning and management -- Sustainable manufacturing -- Environmentally conscious manufacturing -- The ISO 14000 model -- Environmental planning -- Life cycle assessment -- Design for the environment, part I -- Design for the environment, part II -- Manufacturing strategies: agile, lean and flow manufacturing -- Environmental risk assessment and management -- Competing on environmental management.…”
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Cooptation, complicity, and representation desire and limits for intellectuals in twentieth-century Mexican fiction / by Mato, Shigeko, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Juan Rulfo as the "author function" : coopted imagination of Mexicanness in Pedro Páramo -- Wanting to philosophize the marginal : on Hasta no verte, Jesús mío -- Insufficiency of benevolence in Ciudad Real : Rosario Castellanos' challenge -- Impossibility of re-writing the once vanished history : Llanto, novelas imposibles -- Subcomandante Marcos' performance : intellectual consciousness and appropriation.…”
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Collective terms race, culture, and community in a state-planned city in France / by Epstein, Beth

Table of Contents: “…To be exclu -- ch. 4. Race-conscious and race-blind : a housing crisis -- ch. 5. …”
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Melville's Thematics of Form : The Great Art of Telling the Truth / by Dryden, Edgar A.

Table of Contents: “…A note on texts -- Metaphysics and the art of the novel -- Portraits of the artist as a young man: narrative form in Melville's early novels -- Ishmael as teller: self-conscious form in Moby-Dick -- The failure of the author-hero: narrative form in Pierre and Israel Potter -- The novelist as impostor: subversive form in The confidence-man -- Epilogue.…”
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Hidden heritage the legacy of the Crypto-Jews / by Jacobs, Janet Liebman

Table of Contents: “…Secrecy, antisemitism, and the dangers of Jewishness -- Women and the persistence of culture : ritual, custom, and the recovery of Sephardic ancestry -- The self-in-relation and the transformation of religious consciousness -- Syncretism and faith blending in modern Crypto-Judaism -- Conversion and the rekindling of the Jewish soul -- Jewish ancestry and the social construction of ethnic identity -- Conclusion. …”
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Technology matters questions to live with / by Nye, David E., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…-- More security, or escalating dangers? -- Expanding consciousness, or encapsulation? -- Not just one future.…”
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The figural Jew politics and identity in postwar French thought / by Hammerschlag, Sarah

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Roots, rootlessness, and fin de siècle France -- Stranger and self: Sartre's Jew -- Anti-Semite and Jew -- Dialectical history, unhappy consciousness, and the Messiah -- The ethics of uprootedness: Emmanuel Levinas's postwar project -- Literary unrest: Maurice Blanchot's rewriting of Levinas --"The Last of the Jews": Jacques Derrida and the case of the figure -- The cut -- The exemplar -- Conclusion.…”
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John Searle by Rust, Joshua

Table of Contents: “…Fundamental ontology : external realism and scientific naturalism -- Consciousness and materialist theories of mind -- Intentional mental states -- Reason and action -- From acts to speech acts : the intention to communicate -- From sounds to words : the intention to represent -- On the meaning of meaning : critical remarks -- The construction of social reality -- Topics concerning institutional reality : reasons, language, politics, and the background.…”
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Marcel Proust in the light of William James : in search of a lost source / by Sachs, Marilyn M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Seeing Proust in a new light -- Text in context: points of contact and circles of acquaintance -- The Jamesian stream and the Proustian art of consciousness -- Parallels in the penumbra: tracking James's psychology in Proust's novel -- From Jean to Je: experience in the first person singular -- Patterns of palimpsest: James's theories and Proust's prose in the purview of neuro-cognitive science.…”
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