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Sensations and Phenomenology / by Chapman, Harmon M. (Harmon Marbold)

Table of Contents: “…Is the world internal to consciousness? -- pt. 8. Conclusion : The purge.…”
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Xenophobia in seventeenth-century India by Kruijtzer, Gijs

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The construction of knowledge in Islamic civilization Qudāma b. Jaʻfar and his Kitāb al-Kharāj wa-ṣināʻat al-kitāba / by Heck, Paul L.

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Chapter One: Introduction1 -- Chapter Two: Language And Administration26 -- Introduction26 -- E pistles39 -- The Grammatical Category44 -- Ibn Qutayba45 -- Qudama and the Grammatical Category: I 48 -- al-Nahhas 51 -- Qudama and the Grammatical Category: -- II5 8 -- The Bureaucratic Category60 -- al-Baghdadi60 --6 5 -- Qudama and the Bureaucratic Category72 -- The Linguistic Categor)79 -- Qudama and the Linguistic Category85 -- Qudama's Category89 -- Conclusion92 -- Chapter Three: Geography94 -- Introduction94 -- Preface to Section VI101 -- The Ptolemaic Approach103 -- The Administrative Approach111 -- The Descriptive Approach123 -- The Literary Approach136 -- Conclusion144 -- Chapter Four: Fiscal Jurisprudence146 -- Introduction146 -- Kitaba-consciousness157 -- Sharfa-consciousness179 -- Conclusion191 -- Chapter Five: Political Thought194 -- Introduction194 -- The Philosophical Strand205 -- The Administrative Strand213 -- Fitrespieg 225 -- Conclusion239 -- Chapter Six: Concluding Remarks240 -- Appendix (Arabic Citations)245 -- Bibliography265 -- Index277.…”
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ChicaNerds in Chicana young adult literature : Brown and Nerdy / by Herrera, Cristina (Chicano studies professor)

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All good books are Catholic books print culture, censorship, and modernity in twentieth-century America /

Table of Contents: “…Catholic literary aesthetics -- Modernisms literary and theological -- Declining oppositions -- The history and function of Catholic censorship, as told to the twentieth century -- Censorship in the land of "thinking on one's own" -- Art and freedom in the era of "the church of your choice" -- Reclaiming the modernists, reclaiming the modern -- Peculiarly possessed of the modern consciousness -- Epilogue : the abrogation of the index.…”
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Textual Contraception : Birth Control and Modern American Fiction / by Capo, Beth Widmaier, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…"Lewd and lascivious" literature -- "As red and flaming as possible": radical rhetoric of the 1910s -- "For married women only": birth control and modern marriage -- "Conscious makers of people": achieving a free motherhood -- Reading the body, controlling the race: birth control and the eugenic impetus of the 1920s and 1930s -- The economics of desire and despair: birth control and the depression era -- Conclusion: textual contraception.…”
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The gothic novel in Ireland : c. 1760–1829 / by Morin, Christina

Table of Contents: “…Gothic geographies : the cartographic consciousness of Irish gothic fiction -- 4. Gothic materialities : Regina Maria Roche, the Minerva Press, and the bibliographic spread of Irish gothic fiction.…”
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Reflections on Human Nature / by Lovejoy, Arthur O. (Arthur Oncken), 1873-1962

Table of Contents: “…The self-appraisal of man -- The theory of human nature in the American constitution and the method of counterpoise -- The desires of the self-conscious animal -- Approbativeness as the universal, distinctive, and dominant passion of man -- The "love of praise" as the indispensable substitute for "reason and virtue" in Seventeenth and Eighteenth century theories of human nature -- Approbativeness and "pride" in political and economic thought -- The indictment of pride -- Some ethical reflections.…”
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Amazigh arts in Morocco women shaping Berber identity / by Becker, Cynthia J., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Ait Khabbash textiles : weaving metaphors of identity -- The art of dressing the body -- Dance performances : negotiating gender and social change -- Women as public symbols of identity : the adornment of the bride and groom -- Performing Amazigh gender roles : wedding ceremonies -- Oh, my Sudanese mother : the legacy of slavery in Ait Khabbash art -- Contemporary Amazigh arts : giving material form to Amazigh consciousness.…”
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The guardian of every other right a constitutional history of property rights / by Ely, James W., 1938-

Table of Contents: “…The origins of property rights : the colonial period -- The Revolutionary era, 1765-1787 -- "Property must be secured" : establishing a new constitutional order -- The development of property rights in the antebellum era, 1791-1861 -- The Gilded Age and the challenge of industrialization -- Progressive reform and judicial conservatism, 1900-1932 -- The new deal and the demise of property-conscious constitutionalism -- Property rights and the regulatory state.…”
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Voyages of the self pairs, parallels, and patterns in American art and literature / by Novak, Barbara

Table of Contents: “…Copley and Edwards : self, consciousness, and thing -- Emerson and Lane : luminist time and the transcendental aboriginal self -- Thoreau and Indian selfhood : circles, silence, and democratic land -- Whitman and Church : transcendent optimism and the democratic self -- Homer and James : the pragmatic self made concrete -- Dickinson and Ryder : immortality, eternity, and the reclusive self -- Pollock and Olson : time, space, and the activated bodily self.…”
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Otherness in Hollywood cinema by Richardson, Michael, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Hollywood cinema and the "Other" -- The Other and the wilderness -- The myth of the frontier -- Chasing Chinese shadows : the Yellow Peril reconsidered -- The exotic as spectacle -- Otherness in the night : film noir -- Of monsters and cold wars -- The myth of the zombie -- Apocalypse now on a borderline of consciousness -- Refigurations of the exotic in contemporary cinema -- Steven Spielberg and the sanctification of difference -- Jim Jarmusch or communication in crisis -- The persistence of King Kong.…”
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Formative fictions nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman / by Boes, Tobias, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…The limits of national form : normativity and performativity in Bildungsroman criticism -- Apprenticeship of the novel : Goethe and the invention of history -- Epigonal consciousness : Stendhal, Immermann, and the "problem of generations" around 1830 -- Long-distance fantasies : Freytag, Eliot, and national literature in the age of empire -- Urban vernaculars : Joyce, Döblin, and the "individuating rhythm" of modernity -- Conclusion : apocalipsis cum figuris : Thomas Mann and the Bildungsroman at the ends of time.…”
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William James in focus willing to believe / by Gavin, W. J. (William J.), 1943-

Table of Contents: “…James's life: will to believe as affirmation -- "Will to believe": policing versus free-roaming -- Principles of psychology: consciousness as a constitutive stream -- Varieties of religious experience: mysticism as a vague "exemplar" -- Pragmatism: corridor as "latent" and "the will to believe" -- Metaphysics: radical empiricism and pure experience -- "Pure" versus "impure" experience: examples of pure experience -- Challenges to "the will to believe" -- Conclusion: pragmatism, death, and "the will to believe".…”
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The madwoman in the attic the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination / by Gilbert, Sandra M.

Table of Contents: “…The spectral selves of Charlotte Brontë -- pt. V. Captivity and consciousness in George Eliot's fiction -- pt. VI. Strength in agony : nineteenth-century poetry by women.…”
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City of islands : Caribbean intellectuals in New York / by Brown, Tammy L., 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Moore and Pan-Caribbean consciousness -- Pearl Primus and the performance of African diasporic identities -- Shirley Chisholm and the style of multicultural democracy -- Paule Marshall and the voice of black immigrant women -- Coda: "Garvey's ghost" : life after death.…”
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Shakespeare and interpretation, or what you will by Polka, Brayton

Table of Contents: “…Modernity, the Bible, and the interpretation of Shakespeare -- Macbeth : consciousness and the consequences of action -- I love, therefore I doubt : Othello and the proofs of love -- Twelfth Night, or What You Will : the truth of willing deception -- All's Well That Ends Well: the divine truth of self-knowledge -- Julius Caesar : the honorable revenge of deception -- Troilus and Cressida : revenge and the unknowability of good and evil -- Hamlet and the truth of providence.…”
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Formative Fictions Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the "Bildungsroman" / by Boes, Tobias, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…The limits of national form : normativity and performativity in Bildungsroman criticism -- Apprenticeship of the novel : Goethe and the invention of history -- Epigonal consciousness : Stendhal, Immermann, and the "problem of generations" around 1830 -- Long-distance fantasies : Freytag, Eliot, and national literature in the age of empire -- Urban vernaculars : Joyce, Döblin, and the "individuating rhythm" of modernity -- Conclusion : apocalipsis cum figuris : Thomas Mann and the Bildungsroman at the ends of time.…”
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Formative Fictions : Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman / by Boes, Tobias, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…The limits of national form : normativity and performativity in Bildungsroman criticism -- Apprenticeship of the novel : Goethe and the invention of history -- Epigonal consciousness : Stendhal, Immermann, and the "problem of generations" around 1830 -- Long-distance fantasies : Freytag, Eliot, and national literature in the age of empire -- Urban vernaculars : Joyce, Döblin, and the "individuating rhythm" of modernity -- Conclusion : apocalipsis cum figuris : Thomas Mann and the Bildungsroman at the ends of time.…”
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Definitions of Irishness in the 'Library of Ireland' literary anthologies by MacCarthy, Anne, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Definition of an anthology; The compiler and the reader's self-consciousness; Common consciousness; Titles; Spatial and temporal dimensions in titles; Book sizes and editing of poems to fit into short books; Literary history; Anthologies as educative instruments; Language -- Educating to be free. …”
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