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What you don't know about schools

Table of Contents: “…What is not known about genius /…”
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What you don't know about schools

Table of Contents: “…What is not known about genius /…”
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Who gave you the epsilon? and other tales of mathematical history /

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Who gave you the epsilon? and other tales of mathematical history /

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Sex and character an investigation of fundamental principles / by Weininger, Otto, 1880-1903

Table of Contents: “…"Men" and "women" -- Arrhenoplasm and thelyplasm -- Laws of sexual attraction -- Homosexuality and pederasty -- Characterology and morphology -- Emancipated women -- Man and woman -- Male and female sexuality -- Male and female consciousness -- Endowment and genius -- Endowment and memory -- Memory, logic, ethics -- Logic, ethics, and the self -- The problem of the self and genius -- Male and female psychology -- Motherhood and prostitution -- Eroticism and aesthetics -- The nature of woman and her purpose in the universe -- Judaism -- Woman and humanity.…”
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Sex and character an investigation of fundamental principles / by Weininger, Otto, 1880-1903

Table of Contents: “…"Men" and "women" -- Arrhenoplasm and thelyplasm -- Laws of sexual attraction -- Homosexuality and pederasty -- Characterology and morphology -- Emancipated women -- Man and woman -- Male and female sexuality -- Male and female consciousness -- Endowment and genius -- Endowment and memory -- Memory, logic, ethics -- Logic, ethics, and the self -- The problem of the self and genius -- Male and female psychology -- Motherhood and prostitution -- Eroticism and aesthetics -- The nature of woman and her purpose in the universe -- Judaism -- Woman and humanity.…”
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Creative development in Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu by Johnson, Jeffrey, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Proustian idealism -- Body and mind -- Identity -- The making of an artist -- Involuntary memory and François le Champi -- The state of genius -- Proust and the fourth dimension.…”
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Creative development in Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu by Johnson, Jeffrey, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Proustian idealism -- Body and mind -- Identity -- The making of an artist -- Involuntary memory and François le Champi -- The state of genius -- Proust and the fourth dimension.…”
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Emerson and self-culture by Lysaker, John T.

Table of Contents: “…Taking Emerson personally -- The genius of nature -- Reflecting eloquence -- Divining becoming -- On the edges of our souls -- Commended strangers, beautiful enemies -- Tending to reform.…”
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Imagining Nabokov Russia between art and politics / by Khrushcheva, Nina L., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Nabokov and us -- Nabokov's Russian return, and retreat -- Imagining Nabokov -- On the way to the author -- Poet, genius, and hero -- Nabokov as the Pushkin of the twenty-first century.…”
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Imagining Nabokov Russia between art and politics / by Khrushcheva, Nina L., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Nabokov and us -- Nabokov's Russian return, and retreat -- Imagining Nabokov -- On the way to the author -- Poet, genius, and hero -- Nabokov as the Pushkin of the twenty-first century.…”
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Emerson and self-culture by Lysaker, John T.

Table of Contents: “…Taking Emerson personally -- The genius of nature -- Reflecting eloquence -- Divining becoming -- On the edges of our souls -- Commended strangers, beautiful enemies -- Tending to reform.…”
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What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution / by Lipking, Lawrence

Table of Contents: “…: imagining life in King Lear -- The dream of Descartes -- A history of error: Robert Fludd, Thomas Browne, and the Harrow of Truth -- The century of genius (1): Measuring up -- The century of genius (2): Hooke, Newton, and the system of the world -- Revolution and its discontents: the skeptical challenge -- Appendix 1: The fable of sound -- Appendix 2: Descartes' Three dreams.…”
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What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution / by Lipking, Lawrence

Table of Contents: “…: imagining life in King Lear -- The dream of Descartes -- A history of error: Robert Fludd, Thomas Browne, and the Harrow of Truth -- The century of genius (1): Measuring up -- The century of genius (2): Hooke, Newton, and the system of the world -- Revolution and its discontents: the skeptical challenge -- Appendix 1: The fable of sound -- Appendix 2: Descartes' Three dreams.…”
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Good & plenty the creative successes of American arts funding / by Cowen, Tyler

Table of Contents: “…Warring perspectives -- Indirect subsidies: the genius of the American system -- Direct subsidies: are they too conservative? …”
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Good & plenty the creative successes of American arts funding / by Cowen, Tyler

Table of Contents: “…Warring perspectives -- Indirect subsidies: the genius of the American system -- Direct subsidies: are they too conservative? …”
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iPhone secrets do what you never thought possible with your iPhone / by Murph, Darren

Table of Contents: “…IV. Becoming a digital genius.…”
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iPhone secrets do what you never thought possible with your iPhone / by Murph, Darren

Table of Contents: “…IV. Becoming a digital genius.…”
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Diotima's children German aesthetic rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing / by Beiser, Frederick C., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Hyde -- The poets' war -- Leipzig versus Zurich -- Misreadings of the dispute -- The point in dispute -- Baumgarten's science of aesthetics -- The father of aesthetics -- A philosophical poetics -- A science of beauty -- Theory of sensation -- Analysis of beauty -- Status of aesthetics -- An ambiguous legacy -- Winckelmann and neo-classicism -- Winckelmann as philosopher -- Historical influence -- Imitating the ancients -- A neo-classical aesthetic -- Ancients versus moderns -- Aesthetic theory -- Painting and allegory -- Eros and Dionysus -- Mendelssohn's defense of reason -- The guardian of Enlightenment -- The analysis of sensation -- The grin of Silenus -- Second thoughts -- Taming the sublime -- Reckoning with Burke -- Encounter with Jean-Jacques -- The claims of genius -- First clash with Hamann -- Abelard and Fulbert's brief spat -- The three-faculty theory -- Lessing and the Reformation of aesthetic rationalism -- Lessing and the rationalist tradition -- Genius and rules -- The irrationality of genius -- Rationalism and sentimentalism in Lessing's ethics -- Laokoon : thesis and inductive argument -- Laokoon : the deductive argument -- Laokoon : its hidden agenda.…”
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Diotima's children German aesthetic rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing / by Beiser, Frederick C., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Hyde -- The poets' war -- Leipzig versus Zurich -- Misreadings of the dispute -- The point in dispute -- Baumgarten's science of aesthetics -- The father of aesthetics -- A philosophical poetics -- A science of beauty -- Theory of sensation -- Analysis of beauty -- Status of aesthetics -- An ambiguous legacy -- Winckelmann and neo-classicism -- Winckelmann as philosopher -- Historical influence -- Imitating the ancients -- A neo-classical aesthetic -- Ancients versus moderns -- Aesthetic theory -- Painting and allegory -- Eros and Dionysus -- Mendelssohn's defense of reason -- The guardian of Enlightenment -- The analysis of sensation -- The grin of Silenus -- Second thoughts -- Taming the sublime -- Reckoning with Burke -- Encounter with Jean-Jacques -- The claims of genius -- First clash with Hamann -- Abelard and Fulbert's brief spat -- The three-faculty theory -- Lessing and the Reformation of aesthetic rationalism -- Lessing and the rationalist tradition -- Genius and rules -- The irrationality of genius -- Rationalism and sentimentalism in Lessing's ethics -- Laokoon : thesis and inductive argument -- Laokoon : the deductive argument -- Laokoon : its hidden agenda.…”
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