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Pastimes : from art and antiquarianism to modern Chinese historiography / by Brown, Shana Julia

Table of Contents: “…Antiquarianism and its genealogies -- Antiquarianism in an age of reform -- A passion for antiquity, in two dimensions and in three -- Wu Dacheng's paleography and artifact studies -- The discovery of the oracle bone inscriptions -- Luo Zhenyu and the dilemmas of the private scholar -- Wang Guowei, from antiquarianism to history.…”
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A Jewish orchestra in Nazi Germany musical politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League / by Hirsch, Lily E., 1979-

Table of Contents: “…-- What is Jewish music? the League and the dilemmas of musical identity -- Performing a "Jewish repertoire" : Weill, Schoenberg, and Bloch -- "German music," lieder, and the Austrian Franz Schubert -- Handel, Verdi, and national pride -- Beyond ethnic loyalties -- The legacy of the League.…”
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A short guide to equality risk by Morden, Tony, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Some EDD realities -- EDD categories, EDD risk, and cost -- EDD principles -- EDD risk and national culture variables -- EDD risk and management dilemmas -- EDD risk, leadership, and performance management -- EDD risk and change management -- EDD risk management strategies.…”
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Drugs and justice seeking a consistent, coherent, comprehensive view /

Table of Contents: “…-- Drug regulatory agencies and the underlying rationales for drug policy -- Core conceptual problems : addiction -- Core conceptual problems : harm (and benefit) -- Dilemmas of drug management and control -- Toward justice in drug theory, policy, and practice.…”
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Moral stealth how "correct behavior" insinuates itself into psychotherapeutic practice / by Goldberg, Arnold, 1929-

Table of Contents: “…Setting the stage -- Positioning psychoanalysis and psychotherapy for moral concerns -- Moral stealth -- The moral posture of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy: the case for moral ambiguity -- A risk of confidentiality -- On the nature of thoughtlessness -- I wish the hour were over: elements of a moral dilemma -- Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and the problem of ownership: an effort at resolution -- Who owns the countertransference? …”
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Inside the presidential debates their improbable past and promising future / by Minow, Newton N., 1926-

Table of Contents: “…-- The commission on presidential debates and its critics -- The dilemma : who debates? -- How to improve the presidential debates.…”
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Oxford Jackson architecture, education, status, and style 1835-1924 / by Whyte, William

Table of Contents: “…'Recording our eclectic age' : Jackson and the dilemma of style -- 'The unity of art' : Jackson and the arts and crafts -- 'The maker of modern Oxford' : Jackson and the architecture of progress -- 'In the shadow of Anglo-Jackson' : Jackson and the public schools -- 'Cambridge at last!' …”
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Politics of urban runoff nature, technology, and the sustainable city / by Karvonen, Andrew, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…The dilemma of water in the city -- Urban runoff and the city of relations -- Saving the springs : urban expansion and water quality in Austin -- After the flood : retrofitting Austin's urban core to accommodate growth -- Metronatural : inventing and taming nature in Seattle -- Reasserting the place of nature in Seattle's urban creeks -- Politics of urban runoff : building relations through active citizenship -- Towards the relational city : imaginaries, expertise, experiments.…”
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Leaders make the future ten new leadership skills for an uncertain world / by Johansen, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Ryan, President and CEO, Center for Creative -- Introduction: listening for the future -- Maker instinct -- Clarity -- Dilemma flipping -- Immersive learning ability -- Bio-empathy -- Constructive depolarizing -- Quiet transparency -- Rapid prototyping -- Smart-mob organizing -- Commons creating -- Future immersion for leadership development -- Learning the ten future leadership skills yourself -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the author -- About IFTF.…”
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Lines in the sand congressional redistricting in Texas and the downfall of Tom DeLay / by Bickerstaff, Steve

Table of Contents: “…The 2003 regular session -- No better option: the Democrats break the quorum in the House of Representatives -- Personal dilemmas: the first special session -- Is there a Democratic endgame? …”
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Tales of Research Misconduct A Lacanian Diagnostics of Integrity Challenges in Science Novels / by Zwart, Hub

Table of Contents: “…Crisis and credibility (Carl Djerassi – Cantor’s Dilemma, 1989) -- Chapter 6. Tainted texts (Pascal Mercier – Perlmann’s Silence, 1995) -- Chapter 7. …”
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Enemies of All Humankind : Fictions of Legitimate Violence / by Schillings, Sonja

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The emperor and the pirate: legitimate violence as a modern dilemma. Augustine of Hippo: The city of God; Charles Johnson: A general history of the pyrates; Charles Ellms: The pirates' own book -- Race, space, and the formation of the hostis humani generis constellation. …”
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Taking ethics seriously : why ethics is an essential tool for the modern workplace / by Hooker, John, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…The central role of ethics -- Myths and misconceptions -- The generalization principle -- The utilitarian principle -- Everyday dilemmas -- Moral agency and autonomy -- Virtue ethics -- Buying and selling -- Ethics in education -- Using study drugs -- Job search ethics -- Ethics on the job -- Organizational policy -- Medical ethics -- Ethics and artificial intelligence.…”
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Safe haven? a history of refugees in America / by Haines, David

Table of Contents: “…Refugees and America : moral commitments and practical challenges -- A new land : loss, hope, and an ambiguous future -- Perfectly American : constructing the refugee experience -- Ethnicity's shadows : dilemmas of identity -- Binding the generations : households and refugee adaptation -- The logic of resettlement policy : English and self-sufficiency -- Refuge in America.…”
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The women of CourtWatch reforming a corrupt family court system / by Ford, Carole Bell, 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Before CourtWatch : a broken system -- Florence : a woman in two worlds -- Gender bias and the law : the blind maiden -- Ethical dilemmas : practicing family law -- Florence, Melanie, and Diana : "housewives dabbling in politics" -- The election of 1994 : "the babes that slew the goliath" -- Houston : after CourtWatch.…”
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On truth and meaning language, logic and the grounds of belief / by Norris, Christopher, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…: normativity, truth, and epistemic warrant -- Meaning, truth and causal explanation : the "humean condition" revisited -- Epistemology, language, and the realism debate -- The blank and the die : more dilemmas of post-empiricism -- Ethics, autonomy, and the grounds of belief -- Kripkenstein's monsters : anti-realism, scepticism, and the rule-following debate.…”
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Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren the revolutionary Atlantic and the politics of gender / by Davies, Kate, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Catharine Macaulay, Thomas Hollis, and the London opposition -- Out Cornelia-izing Cornelia : portraits, profession, and the gendered character of learning -- Belle sauvage : Catharine Macaulay and the American war in Britain -- Mercy Otis Warren's revolutionary letters -- Free and easy : Boston's fashionable dilemma -- Mercy Otis Warren's independence.…”
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Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns connected lives and legends / by Szasz, Ferenc Morton, 1940-2010

Table of Contents: “…Robert Burns : a brief biography -- Burns' poetry comes to America -- The Lincoln-Burns connection -- Scottish émigrés and Scottish ideas in Lincoln's world -- Burns and Lincoln in historical memory -- Epilogue : the dilemmas of democratic fame -- Appendix A : selected Burns verses -- Appendix B : selected Lincoln documents.…”
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The Bilingual Muse : Self-Translation among Russian Poets / by Wanner, Adrian, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction "The Trick of Doubling Oneself" -- Elizaveta Kul'man: The Most Polyglot of Russian Poets -- Wassily Kandinsky's Trilingual Poetry -- Marina Tsvetaeva's Self-Translation into French -- Vladimir Nabokov's Dilemma of Self-Translation -- Joseph Brodsky in English -- Self-Translation among Contemporary Russian-American Poets -- Conclusion…”
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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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