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Locating the Anglo-Indian self in Ruskin Bond a postcolonial review / by Bandyopadhyay, Debashis

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : reading 'self' in a semi-autobiographical author -- Sense of exile : an Anglo-Indian context -- Text versus context : space and time in The room on the roof and Vagrants in the valley -- Quest for an authentic literary grain : two versions of 'The eyes are not here' -- Conscious/unconscious dialectic : stories of the mid-career -- Invoking history to resist drives : tension revisited In a flight of pigeons -- Self in abject space : 'The playing fields of Shimla' -- Conclusion : self in liminal space.…”
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Tribal nation : the making of Soviet Turkmenistan / by Edgar, Adrienne Lynn, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Tribe, class, and nation in Turkmenistan -- Sources of identity in Turkmen -- Assembling the nation: the creation of a Turkmen national republic -- Ethnic preferences and ethnic conflict: the rise of a Turkmen national elite -- Helpers, not nannies: Moscow and the Turkmen Communist Party -- Dueling dialects: the creation of a Turkmen language -- A nation divided: class struggle and the assault on 'tribalism' -- Cotton and collectivization: rural resistance in Soviet Turkmenistan -- Emancipation of the unveiled: Turkmen women under Soviet rule.…”
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Culture, capitalism, and democracy in the New America by Brown, Richard Harvey

Table of Contents: “…Differences that make a difference : some exceptional features of the United States -- A peculiar democracy : race, class, and corporate power in the United States -- Ideology after the millennium : problems of legitimacy in American society -- Social movements, politics, and religion in a postliberal era -- The dialectics of American selfhood : individualism and identity in the United States -- Transformations of American space and time -- Genders and generations : new strains in the American family -- The postmodern transformation of art : from production of beauty to consumption of signs.…”
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Systems concepts in action a practitioner's toolkit / by Williams, Bob, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : about systems, thinking systemically, and being systemic -- Causal loop diagrams -- System dynamics -- Social network analysis -- Outcome mapping -- Process monitoring of impacts -- Strategic assumption surfacing and testing -- Strategic area assessment -- The CDE model -- Assumption-based planning -- Cynefin -- Solution focus -- Viable system model -- Cultural historical activity theory -- Soft systems methodology -- Dialectical methods of inquiry -- Scenario technique -- Systemic questioning -- Circular dialogues -- Critical systems heuristics.…”
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Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar, Second Edition : Martinique and the World-Economy, 1830-1848 / by Tomich, Dale W., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Sugar and slavery in an age of global transformation, 1791-1848 -- The contradictions of protectionism : colonial policy and the French sugar market, 1804-1848 -- The local face of world process -- Sugar and slavery : forces and relations of production -- The habitation sucriere : cell unit of colonial production -- Obstacles to innovation -- A calculated and calculating system : the dialectic of slave labor -- The other face of slave labor : provision grounds and internal marketing -- Conclusion the global in the local : world-economy, sugar, and the crisis of plantation slavery in Martinique.…”
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Derrida and Husserl the basic problem of phenomenology / by Lawlor, Leonard, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Genesis as the basic problem of phenomenology -- The critique of phenomenology : an investigation of "'Genesis and structure' and phenomenology" -- The critique of ontology : an investigation of "the ends of man" -- Upping the ante on dialectic : an investigation of Le problème de la genèse dans la philosophie de Husserl -- The root, that is necessarily one, of every dilemma : an investigation of the introduction to Husserl's The origin of geometry -- More metaphysical than metaphysics : an investigation of "violence and metaphysics" -- The test of the sign : an investigation of voice and phenomenon -- Looking for noon at two o'clock : an investigation of specters of Marx -- The final idea : memory and life.…”
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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 Virgin of el barrio Marian apparitions, Catholic evangelizing, and Mexican American activism / by Nabhan-Warren, Kristy

Table of Contents: “…: becoming new men and women in Mary's Ministries -- Catholic evangelization : fighting "fire with fire" -- Corporate evangelizers :: a family's "vision" for South Phoenix -- Hope and healing : the dialectics of faith and place -- Conclusion : Grassroots Catholicism.…”
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Knowledge, power, and discipline German studies and national identity / by Bontempelli, Pier Carlo

Table of Contents: “…The metamorphoses of domination and the subject of German studies -- The origins of modern German studies -- Under the aegis of Goethe : liberal historiography from Gervinus to Dilthey -- The science of literature and the steam engine : Wilhelm Scherer and the positivist school -- Wilhelm Dilthey and Geistesgeschichte -- German studies in the years of National Socialism -- The break in political continuity and the continuity of the disciplinary apparatus, 1945-1968 -- The dialectics of rebellion : 1968 and its consequences -- After 1968 : transforming the canon, shifting the paradigms -- Beyond the year 2000 : German studies between new approaches and the resurgence of philology.…”
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Lenin Reloaded : Toward a Politics of Truth, sic vii /

Table of Contents: “…: Lenin, Weber, and the politics of responsibility / Alex Callinicos -- Lenin in the postmodern age / Terry Eagleton -- Lenin and revisionism / Fredric Jameson -- A Leninist gesture today: against the populist temptation / Slavoj Žižek -- Lenin in philosophy -- Lenin and the path of dialectics / Savas Michael-Matsas -- The rediscovery and persistence of the dialectic in philosophy and in world politics / Kevin B. …”
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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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Imagined Homelands : British Poetry in the Colonies / by Rudy, Jason R., 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Colonial Authenticity: Circulation, Sentiment, Adaptation -- 3. Sounding Colonial: Dialect, Song, and the Scottish Diaspora -- 4. Native Poetry: Forms of Indigeneity in the Colonies -- 5. …”
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The relevance of Bernard Lonergan's notion of self-appropriation to a mystical-political theology by Bell, Ian B., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Mystical-political theology -- Mysticism -- Evelyn Underhill -- William Johnston -- Political theology -- Gustavo Gutierrez -- Dorothee Sille -- Self-appropriation I : patterns of experience -- Biological pattern of experience -- Aesthetic pattern of experience -- Intellectual pattern of experience -- Dramatic pattern of experience -- Practical pattern of experience -- Worshipful pattern of experience -- Mystical pattern of experience -- Self-appropriation II : operations of the human subject -- Operations of the human subject -- Experiencing -- Understanding -- Judging -- Objectivity of knowing -- The role of definitions in judging -- The role of probability in judging -- Self-correcting nature of human knowing -- Common sense -- The relationship between common sense and theory -- Decision -- Freedom in deciding -- Kataphatic mysticism and the operations of the human subject -- Unity in differentiation: the spiritually integrated subject -- Self-appropriation III : conversion and the dialectic of the subject -- Conversion -- Intellectual conversion -- Religious conversion -- Moral conversion -- Feelings -- Implications of moral conversion -- The relationship between the conversions -- Dialectic of the subject -- Mysticism and the healing vector -- A clarification by contrast -- Self-appropriation and the theologian -- Self-appropriation and the mystical theologian -- Mystical theology as reflection upon personal mystical experience -- Mystical theology as the study of mystical texts -- Mystical theology as reflection on personal experience and tradition -- Self-appropriation and political theology -- Structure of the human good -- The early period -- The later period -- Self-appropriation and the human good.…”
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The new law and economic development : a critical appraisal / by Trubek, David M, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…Trubek -- The "rule of law," political choices, and development common sense / David Kennedy -- The dialectics of law and development / Scott Newton -- The future of law and development : second-generation reforms and the incorporation of the social / Kerry Rittich -- The World Bank's uses of the "rule of law" promise in economic development / Alvaro Santos.…”
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Multilingual speech processing

Table of Contents: “…Black -- Automatic language identification / Jiří Navrátil -- Other challenges : non-native speech, dialects, accents, and local interfaces / Silke Goronzy ... …”
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Refiguring Prose Style Possibilities For Writing Pedagogy /

Table of Contents: “…Goldthwaite -- The "Weird Al" style method : playful invention as serious pedagogy / Keith Rhodes -- When their voice is their problem : using imitation to teach the classroom dialect / J. Scott Farrin -- Style : the new grammar in composition studies? …”
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Political theory methods and approaches /

Table of Contents: “…/ Iwao Hirose -- Recognition as fact and norm : the method of critique / Lois McNay -- Dialectical approaches / David Leopold -- Political theory and history / Mark Philp -- Using archival sources to theorize about politics / Sudhir Hazareesingh and Karma Nabulsi -- Political theory and the boundaries of politics / Elizabeth Frazer -- Thinking politically and thinking about politics : language, interpretation, and ideology / Michael Freeden.…”
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A companion to Juan Luis Vives

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Charles Fantazzi -- Juan Luis Vives : works and days / Enrique González González -- Vives and the emarginati / Charles Fantazzi -- The social and political thought of Juan Luis Vives : concord and counsel in the Christian commonwealth / Catherine Curtis -- The De isciplinis as a model of a humanistic text / Valerio Del Nero -- Vives's contributions to rhetoric and dialectic / Peter Mack -- A philosophical treatise on the soul : De anima et vita in the context of Vives's Opus / Valerio Del Nero -- Author, adversary, and reader : a view of the De veritate fidei Christianae / Edward V. …”
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Contexts and constructions

Table of Contents: “…On de-limiting context / Marina Terkourafi -- Constructions and context : when a construction constructs the context / Henri-José Deulofeu & Jeanne-Marie Debaisieux -- Representing contextual factors in language change : between frames and constructions / Mirjam Fried -- Grammatical constructions in dialogue / Per Linell -- Interactional construction grammar : contextual features of determination in dialectal Swedish / Camilla Wide -- Contextual cues for particle placement : multiplicity, motivation, modeling / Bert Cappelle -- Conditionals and mental space set-up : evidence from German word order / Ilona Vandergriff -- Semantics and pragmatics in construction grammar : the case of modal verbs / Ronny Boogaart.…”
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The theatre of naturalism disappearing act / by Beitchman, Philip, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : ushering in the spectacle -- The mirror stage : Thérèse Raquin (Zola) -- The return of the repressed : Ghosts (Ibsen) -- The nature of the beast : The power of darkness (Tolstoy) -- The dialectic of the master and the slave : Miss Julie (Strindberg) -- The war between the classes : The weavers (Hauptmann) -- In the country of the blind : The lower depths (Gorky) -- A living like any other : Mrs. …”
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