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The essence of liberty free black women during the slave era / by King, Wilma, 1942-

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Compelled to write alternative rhetoric in theory and practice / by Wallace, David L., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 1.Defining Alternative Rhetoric: Embracing Intersectionality and Owning Opacity -- Interchapter: Piano Lessons -- 2.Sarah Grimke: Breaking the Bonds of Womanhood -- Interchapter: Jumper Cables and Double Consciousness as a Habit of Mind -- 3.Frederick Douglass: Taking an Ell to Claim Humanity -- Interchapter: Pickles -- 4.Gloria Anzaldua: Borderlands and Fences; Literacy and Rhetoric -- Interchapter: The Light of the World -- 5.David Sedaris: Expanding Epideictic -- A Rhetoric of Indirection -- Interchapter: Day Four in Paris -- 6.Alternative Rhetoric and Marked Writing -- Interchapter: God Abhors You.…”
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AT HOME IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE SOUL exploring jungian discourse and psyche's grammar of... transformation. by Evetts-Secker, Josephine

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The motivated student unlocking the enthusiasm for learning / by Sullo, Robert A., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Eliminate fear from the classroom -- Minimize your use of coercion -- Eliminate external rewards for learning -- Discover the power of internal motivation -- Teach routines, rituals, and procedures -- Be enthusiastic and enjoy what you do -- Build positive relationships with students -- Create lesson plans that are relevant -- Create realistic expectations for your students -- Plan with the students' needs in mind -- Teach your students to consciously self-evaluate -- Teach your students about the components of behavior -- Teach less, teach deeply -- Create your professional identity -- Final thoughts.…”
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Integral economics releasing the economic genius of your society / by Lessem, Ronnie

Table of Contents: “…Re-inventing economics : starting the journey -- Revisiting mainstream economics -- The moral economic core -- The centered enterprise -- Economic commons : philosophical grounding of the self-sufficient economy -- Grassroots economics -- Subsistence economics -- The social business -- Co-evolutionary economics : philosophical grounding of the developmental economy -- Conscious economics : contextual emergence of the developmental economy -- Associative economics -- The developmental enterprise -- Economics of the common good -- Social learning and the network economy -- Open economics : theoretical navigation of the social economy -- The cooperative enterprise -- New economics -- Real economics -- Well-being economics -- The sustainable enterprise.…”
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An inquiry into the philosophical foundations of the human sciences by Claassen, Alfred

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Sectoralism and the basic dimensions of the human -- The consummatory and instrumental -- Levels of reflexivity -- Id, ego, superid, and superego -- Community, association, supercommunity, and superassociation -- The ideal and real -- Individualism and collectivism -- Consciousness, character, space, and time -- The impasse of sectoralism -- Part II: Universalism and the complex dimensions of the human -- The rational universal -- Religion -- Ethics -- Individualism and collectivism in the universal -- Balancing the balancing mechanism -- Harmony and conflict -- Part III: The epistemics of the human sciences -- Dialectical historicism -- Phenomenology and method in the human sciences -- Aesthetics -- Overcoming skepticism and radical relativism -- Reunifying the human sciences under philosophy.…”
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Micro-, Meso- and Macro-Dynamics of the Brain

Table of Contents: “…Hippocampal mechanisms for the segmentation of space by goals and boundaries -- Cortical Evolution: Introduction to the Reptilian Cortex -- Flow of information underlying a tactile decision in mice -- The Visual Brain: Computing through Multiscale Complexity -- Grid cells and spatial maps in entorhinal cortex and hippocampus -- The striatum and decision-making based on value -- Decoding the dynamics of conscious perception: The temporal generalization method -- Sleep and synaptic down-selection -- Federating and integrating what we know about the brain at all scales - a challenge for the future. …”
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Communities of Saint Martin : Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours / by Farmer, Sharon A.

Table of Contents: “…Part 1 : Martin's town : from unity to duality -- Martinopolis (ca. 371-1050) -- Excluding the center : monastic exemption and liturgical realignment in tours -- Part 2 : Marmoutier -- History, legitimacy, and motivation in Marmoutier's literature for the Angevins -- Marmoutier and the salvation of the Counts of Blois -- Individual motivation, Collective responsibility : reinforcing bonds of community -- Preservation through time : historical consciousness at Marmoutier -- Part 3 : The chapter of Saint-Martin -- The corporate identity of the canons of Saint-Martin -- Saint Martin's diocese : the appropriation of Episcopal symbols -- Martin's new town : dominance and resistance in Châteauneuf.…”
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Psychological anthropology. / by Hsu, Francis L. K., 1909-

Table of Contents: “…--Dreams and altered states of consciousness in anthropology and psychology, by D. T. …”

Etty Hillesum and the flow of presence a Voegelinian analysis / by Coetsier, Meins G. S.

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Representing religion essays in history, theory and crisis / by Murphy, Tim, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…The crisis of representation and the academic study of religion -- Phenomenology, consciousness, essence : critical surveys of the history of the study of religion -- Individual men in their solitude? …”
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Anthropology and the will to meaning a postcolonial critique / by Argyrou, Vassos

Table of Contents: “…What the Natives Don't Know 60 -- The Sociocultural Unconscious 60 -- Heterodox Consciousness 74 -- The 'Heroisation' of the Thinking Subject 82 -- 5. …”
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Schopenhauer's encounter with Indian thought representation and will and their Indian parallels / by Cross, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Schopenhauer in context: the "oriental renaissance" -- Schopenhauer's Indian sources: Hinduism -- Schopenhauer's Indian sources: Buddhism -- "Representation": Schopenhauer and the reality-status of the world -- The reality-status of the empirical world: the Mādhyamika teaching -- Advaita Vedānta: the world as illusory appearance -- Conclusions: Schopenhauer's doctrine of representation and its Indian affinities -- Schopenhauer's conception of the world as will -- Schopenhauer: the will in its general forms (ideas) -- Metaphysical factors behind the empirical world: Advaita Vedānta -- The arising of the empirical world in Buddhism: the Yogācāra teaching -- Conclusions: Schopenhauer's will and comparable Indian ideas -- The ontological status of will -- Beyond the will: "better consciousness" and the "pure subject of knowing" -- The hidden compass: Schopenhauer and the limits of philosophy --Schopenhauer and Indian thought.…”
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Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene / by Dionne, Craig

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Religion or halakha the philosophy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik / by Schwartz, Dov

Table of Contents: “…The opening of Halakhic man : a covert dialogue with homo religiosus -- Homo religiosus: between religion and cognition -- The first paradigm of homo religiosus : Maimonides -- The second paradigm of homo religiosus : Kant -- Halakhic man as cognitive man -- The negation of metaphysics and of the messianic idea -- Mysticism, Kabbalah, and Hasidism -- Halakhic cognition and the norm -- Halakhic man's personality structure -- Religiosity after cognition : all-inclusive consciousness -- Myth as metaphor : halakhic man as a creator of worlds -- Change or interpretation: repentance as creativity -- On providence and prophecy -- Halakhic man after twenty years : what has changed?.…”
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Mental actions

Table of Contents: “…Mental action : a case study / Alfred Mele -- Judging and the scope of mental agency / Fabian Dorsch -- Reason in action / John Gibbons -- Reason, voluntariness, and moral responsibility / Thomas Pink -- Freedom and practical judgement / David Owens -- Two kinds of agency / Pamela Hieronymi -- Trying and acting / Brian O'Shaughnessy -- Perceptual activity and the will / Thomas Crowther -- Mental action and self-awareness : epistemology / Christopher Peacocke -- Mental actions and the no-content problem / Lucy O'Brien -- Mental agency, conscious thinking, and phenomenal character / Matthew Soteriou -- Is there a sense of agency for thought? …”
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Chicago's new Negroes modernity, the great migration, & Black urban life / by Baldwin, Davarian L.

Table of Contents: “…: consumer culture and intellectual life reconsidered -- Mapping the Black metropolis: a cultural geography of the stroll -- Making do: beauty, enterprise, and the "makeover" of race womanhood -- Theaters of war: spectacles, amusements, and the emergence of urban film culture -- The birth of two nations: White fears, Black jeers, and the rise of a "race film" consciousness -- Sacred tastes: the migrant aesthetics and authority of gospel music -- The sporting life: recreation, self-reliance, and competing visions of race manhood -- Epilogue. …”
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The Cambridge introduction to eighteenth-century poetry by Sitter, John E.

Table of Contents: “…Blank verse and stanzaic poetry; Part II. Poetic Consciousness: 6. Satiric poetry; 7. Pope as metapoet; 8. …”
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Minimal Theologies : Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas / by Vries, Hent de

Table of Contents: “…Toward a critique of theology -- A possible internal and external differentiation of Habermas's theory of rationality -- Paradox and aporia in Adorno's philosophy of nonidentity -- The construction of occidental subjectivism: reductio ad hominem versus remembrance of nature in the subject -- The breaking apart of western objectivism and the resurrection of the particular and the ephemeral in the philosophy of history -- Metaphysical experience -- Paradox and aporia in Levinas's philosophy of the ethical-religious other -- Levinas on art and truth -- The dialectics of subjectivity and the critique of objectivism -- Loosening logocentrism: language and skepticism -- From unhappy consciousness to bad conscience -- "The other theology": conceptual, historical, and political idolatry -- Appendix: The theology of the sign and the sign of theology: the apophatics of deconstruction.…”
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Deleuze and the Passions /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Ceciel Meiborg & Sjoerd van Tuinen -- "Everywhere There Are Sad Passions": Gilles Deleuze and the Unhappy Consciousness / Moritz Gansen -- To Have Done with the Judgment of 'Reason': Deleuze's Aesthetic Ontology / Samantha Bankston -- Closed Vessels and Signs: Jealousy as a Passion for Reality / Arjen Kleinherenbrink -- The Drama of Ressentiment: the Philosopher versus the Priest / Sjoerd van Tuinen -- The Affective Economy: Producing and Consuming Affects in Deleuze and Guattari / Jason Read -- Deleuze's Transformation of the Ideology-Critique Project: Noology Critique / Benoit Dillet -- Passion, Cinema and the Old Materialism / Louis-Georges Schwartz -- Death of Deleuze, Birth of Passion / David U.B. …”
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