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Metaphysics and the good themes from the philosophy of Robert Merrihew Adams /

Table of Contents: “…Jorgensen -- A philosophical autobiography / Robert Merrihew Adams -- Yet another anti-molinist argument / Dean Zimmerman -- The contingency of existence / Michael Nelson -- Consciousness and introspective inaccuracy / Derk Pereboom -- Kant on apriority and the spontaneity of cognition / Houston Smit -- Moral necessity in Leibniz's account of human freedom / R. …”
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George Herbert's Lyrics / by Stein, Arnold (Arnold Sidney), 1915-2002

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Brain matters translating research into classroom practice / by Wolfe, Pat

Table of Contents: “…Working memory : the conscious processing of information. Long-term memory : the brain's storage system -- pt. 3. …”
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The hermeneutic nature of analytic philosophy a study of Ernst Tugendhat / by Zabala, Santiago, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Overcoming Husserl : the metaphysics of phenomenology -- Making the nonexplicit explicit -- The hermeneutic nature of analytic philosophy -- There are no facts, only true propositions -- Correcting Heidegger : verifying Heidegger's philosophy from within -- Disclosedness beyond representation -- Disclosedness beyond truth -- Truth versus method -- Semantizing ontology : after the metaphysics of logical positivism -- Being is not a real predicate -- Semantizing being -- Nominalizing being -- Philosophizing analytically : the semantic foundation of philosophy -- The history of optical philosophy -- After the fictitious world of intuition -- The truthful aspect of language -- Language is the consciousness of man -- Epilogue : the linguistic turn as the end of metaphysics -- The dissolution of ontology into formal semantics : a dialogue with Ernst Tugendhat.…”
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Sustainable manufacturing : concepts, tools, methods, and case studies / by Vinodh, S.

Table of Contents: “…Sustainable Manufacturing Tools -- Environmental Conscious QFD. 3. Sustainable Manufacturing Tools -- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). 4. …”
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Contemporary Caribbean cultures and societies in a global context

Table of Contents: “…Knight -- Challenges to Caribbean economies in the era of globalization / Helen McBain -- Globalization, the World Bank, and the Haitian economy / Alex Dupuy -- Creolization in Havana: the oldest form of globalization / Antonio Benítez-Rojo -- Showing face: Boxing and nation building in contemporary Puerto Rico / Frances Negrón-Muntaner -- Creolité in the hood: diaspora as source and challenge / Juan Flores -- Glocal spirituality: consumerism and heritage in a Puerto Rican Afro-Latin folk religion / Raquel Romberg -- Women's grass-roots organizations in the Dominican Republic: real and imagined female figures / Valentina Peguero -- Race and politics in Cuba / Aline Helg -- Jamaican reggae and the articulation of social and historical consciousness in musical discourse / Jorge L. Giovannetti -- Rum, revolution, and globalization: past, present, and future of a Caribbean product / Anthony P. …”
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Feminism, sexuality, and politics essays / by Freedman, Estelle B., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Identities, values, and inquiries : a personal history -- Separatism as strategy : female institution building and American feminism, 1870-1930 -- Separatism revisited : women's institutions, social reform, and the career of Miriam Van Waters -- Women's networks and women's loyalties : reflections on a tenure case -- Small group pedagogy : consciousness raising in conservative times -- No turning back : the historical resilience of feminism -- The historical construction of homosexuality in the United States -- Uncontrolled desires : the response to the sexual psychopath, 1920-1960 -- The prison lesbian : race, class, and the construction of the aggressive female homosexual, 1915-1965 -- The burning of letters continues : elusive identities and the historical construction of sexuality -- When historical interpretation meets legal advocacy : abortion, sodomy, and same-sex marriage.…”
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Flashes of a southern spirit meanings of the spirit in the U.S. South / by Wilson, Charles Reagan

Table of Contents: “…The invention of southern tradition : the writing and ritualization of southern history, 1880-1930 -- The burden of southern culture -- Saturated southerners : the South's poor whites and southern regional consciousness -- Our land, our country : Faulkner, the South, and the American way of life -- The myth of the biracial South -- Beyond the Sahara of the Bozart : creativity and southern culture -- Flashes of the spirit : creativity and southern religion -- The word and the image : self-taught art, the Bible, the spirit, and southern creativity -- Apocalypse South : McKendree Long and southern evangelicalism -- "Just a little talk with Jesus" : Elvis Presley, religious music, and southern spirituality -- Richard Wright's pagan Spain : a southern Protestant abroad -- A journey to southern religious studies -- Afterword : constructing and experiencing the spirit.…”
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Global perspectives on science and spirituality

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Pranab Das -- The puzzle of consciousness and experiential primacy : agency in cognitive sciences and spiritual experiences / Sangeetha Menon -- Religion, science, and lebenswelt : new interdisciplinary crossroads / Ilya Kasavin -- Science and spirituality in modern India / Makarand Paranjape -- Kokoro [mind-heart-spirit] : affirming science and religion in the Japanese context / Paul Swanson -- Daoism and the uncertainty principle / Jiang Sheng -- Whitehead reconsidered from a Buddhist perspective / Ryusei Takeda -- Sanctity of life : a reflection on human embryonic stem cell debates from an east Asian perspective / Heup Young Kim -- Aut Moses, aut Darwin? …”
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Amazon : understanding a global communication giant / by Brevini, Benedetta, 1976-, Swiatek, Lukasz

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Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan : A Transdisciplinary Perspective /

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Last Year at Betty and Bob's: An Adventure / by Doruff, Sher

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Music as thought listening to the symphony in the age of Beethoven / by Bonds, Mark Evan

Table of Contents: “…The infinite sublime ; History as knowing ; The synthesis of conscious and unconscious ; Organic coherence ; Beyond the sublime -- Listening to the aesthetic state : cosmopolitanism. …”
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Tapping and mapping the processes of translation and interpreting outlooks on empirical research /

Table of Contents: “…/ Janet Fraser -- Incertainty in translation processes / Sonja Tirkkonen-Condit -- Management issues in the translation process / Candace Séguinot -- Consciousness and the strategic use of aids in translation / Juliane House -- Multidisciplinarity in process research / Kirsten Malmkjaer.…”
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Neuroscience in science fiction films / by Packer, Sharon

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Iron man, "extremis" and analysis -- Neuroscience fiction film in post-psychoanalytic society -- Movies and the mind (and the rebirth of the brain) -- The legacy of 19th century literature -- Automatons, androids, replicants and robocops -- Human-ape brain exchanges, Darwinian debates and the "monkey gland man" -- Sputnik, space aliens and brains from outer space -- Science fiction in social problems films -- Brain drains, brain chips and brain machines -- Flashbacks, flash-forwards and flash drives -- Memory, mentation and medication: before birth and after Alzheimer's -- Dream scenes: from silent cinema to Salvador Dali to CGI -- Video games, virtual reality and "reality testing" -- Drugs, dystopias and utopias -- Computers, consciousness and control -- Conclusion: Hive minds, herds and Jung's collective unconscious.…”
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Secret histories : reading twentieth-century American literature / by Wyatt, David, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The body and the corporation: Norris, Chambers -- Double consciousness: Johnson, Chesnutt, Du Bois, Washington -- Pioneering women: Austin, Eaton, Stein, Eliot, Williams, Cather -- Performing maleness: Hemingway -- Colored me: Toomer, Hurston -- The rumor of race: Faulkner -- The depression: Dreiser, Fitzgerald, Yesierska, Di Donato, Himes, Farrell, Steinbeck -- The second World War: Mori, Vonnegut, Pynchon, Silko, Hersey -- Civil rights: Wright, Gaines, Baldwin, Walker, King, Clark -- Love and separateness: Welty, Petry, Douglas, Mary Mccarthy, Friedan, Steinbeck -- Revolt and reaction: Mailer, Didion -- The postmodern: Shepard, Beattie, Carver, Delillo, Gaddis -- Studying war: Cormac Mccarthy, Herr -- Slavery and memory: Morrison -- Pa not pa: Kingston, Walker, Ellison, Lee, Rodriguez -- After innocence: Roth.…”
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Language, nations and multilingualism : questioning the Herderian ideal /

Table of Contents: “…Chen -- Nationalism, multilingualism, and language planning in postcolonial Africa / Nkonko Kamwangamalu -- Language and National Consciousness in the Postcolonial Caribbean / Andrew Daily -- The Myth of Multilingualism in Singapore Ying-Ying Tan.…”
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On endings American postmodern fiction and the Cold War / by Grausam, Daniel, 1975-

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Dark traces of the past psychoanalysis and historical thinking /

Table of Contents: “…Emrich -- Transgenerational trauma, identification and historical consciousness / Werner Bohleber -- On the myth of objective research after Auschwitz : unconscious entanglements with the national socialist past in the investigation of long-term psychosocial consequences of the Shoah in the Federal Republic of Germany / Kurt Grunberg -- Understanding transgenerational transmission : the burden of history in families of Jewish victims and their national socialist perpetrators / J�urgen Straub -- On social and psychological foundations of anti-semitism / Karola Brede -- From religious fantasies of omnipotence to scientific myths of emancipation : Freud and the dialectics of psychohistory / Jose Brunner -- Working towards a discourse of shame : (working with shame discourse)--a psychoanalytical perspective on postwar German literary criticism / Irmgard Wagner.…”
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