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Radical moves Caribbean migrants and the politics of race in the jazz age / by Putnam, Lara

Table of Contents: “…Migrants' Routes, Ties, and Role in Empire, 1850s-1920s -- Spirits of a Mobile World : Worship, Protection, and Threat at Home and Abroad, 1900s-1930s -- Alien Everywhere : Immigrant Exclusion and Populist Bargains, 1920s-1930s -- The Transnational Black Press and Questions of the Collective, 1920s-1930s -- The Weekly Regge : Cosmopolitan Music and Race-Conscious Moves in a "World a Jazz," 1910s-1930s -- The Politics of Return and Fractures of Rule in the British Caribbean, 1930-1940.…”
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Tamil folk music as Dalit liberation theology / by Sherinian, Zoe C.

Table of Contents: “…Musical style, value, and the historical process of -- (Re)indigenization of Tamil Christian music -- Sharing the meal : a Dalit family's dialogue with the history of Tamil Christian music, 1850-1994 -- Paraṭṭai's theology : greeting God in the cēri -- Ethnography as transformative musical dialogue -- Reception and transformation from seminary to village -- Performing global Dalit consciousness.…”
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The Challenge of Bewilderment : Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford / by Armstrong, Paul B., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Jamesian bewilderment : the composing powers of consciousness -- Interpretation and ambiguity in The sacred fount -- Reality and/or interpretation in The ambassadors -- Part II. …”
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Drowning in laws labor law and Brazilian political culture / by French, John D.

Table of Contents: “…The CLT in foreign and domestic perspective -- The enigma of Brazilian labor law : Vargas and the government's bureaucratic Trabalhista Empire, 1950-1954 -- Labor law through the prism of subjectivity : legal consciousness, grievances, and class mobilization -- The politics of aphorism : the social question as a police matter (caso de polićia)…”
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Neuroscience and philosophy brain, mind, and language /

Table of Contents: “…Bennett -- Philosophy as naive anthropology: comment on Bennett and Hacker / Daniel Dennett -- Putting consciousness back in the brain: reply to Bennett and Hacker, Philosophical foundations of neuroscience / John Searle -- The conceptual presuppositions of cognitive neuroscience: a reply to critics / Maxwell R. …”
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The universal paradigm and the Islamic world-system economy, society, ethics and science / by Choudhury, Masudul Alam, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword / by Burhanuddin Abdullah -- Introduction -- Concept of worldview versus paradigm -- Unity of knowledge as the worldview -- Human consciousness -- Islamic economics and finance : the moral basis -- Tawhidi questions of technology and technological change -- Human well-being adversely affected by interest-based financing -- Problems of economic reasoning and the Islamic panacea -- Problems of financial reasoning and the Islamic alternative -- The illogical basis of interest rates -- Questioning modernity by the Tawhidi worldview -- Conclusion -- Glossary of Arabic terms -- References -- Index.…”
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Idealism and existentialism Hegel and nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophy / by Stewart, Jon (Jon Bartley)

Table of Contents: “…Hegel and the myth of reason -- Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit as a systematic fragment -- The architectonic of Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit -- Points of contact in the philosophy of religion of Hegel and Schopenhauer -- Kierkegaard's criticism of the absence of ethics in Hegel's system -- Kierkegaard's criticism of abstraction and his proposed solution: appropriation -- Kierkegaard's recurring criticism of Hegel's The good and conscience -- Hegel and Nietzsche on the death of tragedy and Greek ethical life -- Existentialist ethics -- Merleau-Ponty's criticisms of Sartre's theory of freedom -- Sartre and Merleau-Ponty on consciousness and bad faith.…”
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Early twentieth-century Continental philosophy by Lawlor, Leonard, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: structure and genesis of early twentieth-century Continental philosophy -- Thinking beyond Platonism: Bergson's "Introduction to metaphysics" (1903) -- Schizophrenic thought: Freud's "The unconscious" (1915) -- Consciousness as distance: Husserl's "Phenomenology" (the 1929 Encyclopedia Britannica entry) -- The thought of the nothing: Heidegger's "What is metaphysics?" …”
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Neuroscience : a historical introduction / by Glickstein, Mitchell

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Overview of the nervous system: structures and functions -- The structure of nerve cells and their supporting tissues -- Electrical transmission in the nervous system -- Chemical transmission and the mechanism of drug action -- Sensation -- Vision and the eye -- Vision: central mechanisms -- Audition -- Somesthesis and vestibular sense -- Chemical, heat, and electrical senses -- Reflexes -- Brain control of movement -- Learning and memory -- Motivation -- Language and the brain -- Neurological disease -- Personality and emotion -- Mental illness and the history of surgical and drug treatment -- Consciousness and the techniques for study of the human brain -- Conclusion.…”
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Cinema and community : progressivism, exhibition, and film culture in Chicago, 1907-1917 / by Luckett, Moya

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Progressivism, modernity, and transitional cinema -- From crowds to communities: Progressive Era spectatorship theories -- Progressivism and early feature films: textuality, oversight, uplift -- Celebrity, self-awareness, and the consciousness of self -- Private pleasures and public space: community culture and the dominance of neighborhood theaters -- Oversight and regulation: film censorship, local government, and social reform -- Citizenship and black cinema -- Patriotism and patronage: regional and national identity in Chicago's theaters during World War I -- Conclusion.…”
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Bastards and Foundlings : Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England / by Zunshine, Lisa

Table of Contents: “…Bastard daughters and foundling heroines : rewriting illegitimacy in The conscious lovers -- Moll Flanders and the English "shelter for bastards" -- Kicking out the cubs : the wrong heirs of Richardson's Clarissa -- Tom Jones : resisting the mythologization of bastardy -- Female philanthropy, the London Foundling Hospital, and Richardson's The history of Sir Charles Grandison -- The children "owned by none" : divided bastardy in Frances Burney's Evelina -- Harriet Smith in Brunswick Square : "common sense" bastardy in Austen's Emma -- Postscript : BBC rewrites Tom Jones's illegitimacy.…”
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Relational being beyond self and community / by Gergen, Kenneth J.

Table of Contents: “…Morality : from relativism to relational responsibility ; Approaching the sacred -- Epilogue: The coming of relational consciousness.…”
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Culture Clash : Law and Science in America / by Goldberg, Steven, 1947-2010

Table of Contents: “…Consciousness and the Legal Definition of Death -- 10. …”
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Mother leads best 50 women who are changing the way organizations define leadership / by Grzelakowski, Moe

Table of Contents: “…The case for motherhood: what moms can teach us about leadership -- The dragon lady syndrome -- The motherhood decision -- Pregnancy : transitioning to a softer, more accountable, more value-conscious style -- Babies : nurturing becomes second nature -- The toddler years : managing chaos -- Elementary school : developing and motivating teams -- Tweens : listening at a higher level -- Teenagers : coaching with unconditional love -- The character of a leader : how motherhood brings out the best in people -- Applying the lessons of maternal leadership.…”
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Reading Hegel's Phenomenology by Russon, John Edward, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Sense, time, and my meaning -- From perception to philosophy -- Understanding : things, forces, and the body -- Death and desire in Hegel's epistemology : the form of Hegel's argument -- Reading and the body -- Hermeneutical pressure : intersubjectivity and objectivity -- The "freedom of self-consciousness" and early modern epistemology -- Reason and dualism -- Spirit and skepticism -- The contradictions of moral life : Hegel's critique of Kant -- Selfhood, conscience, and dialectic -- The ritual basis of self-identity -- Vision and image in Hegel's system -- Deciding to read : on the horizon (of Christianity) -- Absolute knowing : the structure and project of Hegel's system of science.…”
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The philosopher and the storyteller Eric Voegelin and twentieth-century literature / by Embry, Charles R., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…The philosopher: One of my permanent occupations" : Eric Voegelin as literary critic; The attunement of the soul" : Eric Voegelin's search of order; Writer, reader, and the adventure of participatory consciousness -- Part II. The storyteller: The barren quest : Graham Swift's Waterland; "A secret between man and God" : second reality in Heimito von Doderer's The demons; Novel of divine presence : Flannery O'Connor's The violent bear it away -- Epilogue: "Our love of life, children, our love of life."…”
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Words of witness : black women's autobiography in the post-Brown era / by Ards, Angela Ann, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Post-Brown political aesthetics -- Beyond the strong black woman in Melba Beals's Warriors Don't Cry -- Reclaiming the radicalism of social interdependence in Rosemary Bray's Unafraid of the Dark: A Memoir -- Honoring the past to move forward in June Jordan's Soldier: A Poet's Childhood -- Collective storytelling as diasporic consciousness in Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying -- Cultivating liberatory joy in Eisa Davis's Angela's Mixtape -- Epilogue: Teaching "the people": bodies, material histories, and the project of black feminist autobiography.…”
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Attention

Table of Contents: “…-- Virtual representation -- Triadic architecture -- Nonattentional systems -- Non-conscious detection of change -- Newer view of attention.…”
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Unnatural Voices : Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction / by Richardson, Brian, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Transgressing self and voice-contemporary fiction and the death of the narrator -- "At first you feel a bit lost": the varieties of second person narration -- Class and consciousness: "We" narration from Conrad to postcolonial fiction -- I, etcetera: multiperson narration and the range of contemporary narrators -- Three extreme forms of narration and a note on postmodern unreliability -- Unnatural narration in contemporary drama -- Implied authors, historical authors, and the transparent narrator: toward a new model of the narrative transaction -- Conclusion: Voicing the unspeakable.…”
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Unfelt : The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment / by Noggle, James

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : unfelt affect -- The insensible parts of Locke's essay -- David Hartley's ghost matter -- Vivacity and insensible association : Condillac and Hume -- Sentiment and secret consciousness : Haywood and Smith -- Unfeeling before sensibility -- External and invisible -- Insensible against involuntary in Burney -- Austen as coda -- The force of the thing : unfelt moeurs in French historiography -- The insensible revolution and Scottish historiography -- Gibbon in history -- The embrace of unfeeling -- Mandeville and the other happiness -- Feeling untaxed -- The money flow -- Invisible versus insensible -- Epilogue : insensible emergence of ideology.…”
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