Search Results - "habitability"

Bloody Bill Longley the mythology of a gunfighter / by Miller, Rick, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…A good-hearted boy -- These desperate scoundrels and out laws -- Murdering, robbing, and ravishing -- I kept on pumping lead -- We set out in fine spirit -- A man of low instinct and habits -- The worst Indian-- Who in the hell are you? …”
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Popular culture and working-class taste in Britain, 1930-39 a round of cheap diversions? / by James, Robert, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…'The people's amusement': the growth in cinema-going and reading habits -- 'Fouling civilisation?: official attitudes towards popular film and literature -- Trade attitudes towards audience taste -- 'What made you put that rubbish on?'…”
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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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Bloody Bill Longley the mythology of a gunfighter / by Miller, Rick, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…A good-hearted boy -- These desperate scoundrels and out laws -- Murdering, robbing, and ravishing -- I kept on pumping lead -- We set out in fine spirit -- A man of low instinct and habits -- The worst Indian-- Who in the hell are you? …”
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Popular culture and working-class taste in Britain, 1930-39 a round of cheap diversions? / by James, Robert, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…'The people's amusement': the growth in cinema-going and reading habits -- 'Fouling civilisation?: official attitudes towards popular film and literature -- Trade attitudes towards audience taste -- 'What made you put that rubbish on?'…”
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Postscripts retrospections on time and place / by Root, Robert L.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : words in the wind (the Green Mountains, Vermont) -- To think of time (the Habitation, Nova Scotia) -- The pattern of life indelible (Belgrade Lakes, Maine) -- The everlastingly great look of the sky (Walden Pond, Massachusetts) -- Here is New York (New York, New York) -- Anasazi (the Four Corners) -- Knowing where you've been (the Bitterroot Mountains, Montana) -- Shore lines (the Great Lakes) -- Of trees and time (Warren Woods, Michigan) -- Malabar Farm (Malabar Farm State Park, Ohio) -- Terra cognita (Acadia National Park, Maine) -- Time and tide (Acadia National Park, Maine) -- Epilogue : postscript to a postscript to "the ring of time" (Sarasota, Florida).…”
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Postscripts retrospections on time and place / by Root, Robert L.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : words in the wind (the Green Mountains, Vermont) -- To think of time (the Habitation, Nova Scotia) -- The pattern of life indelible (Belgrade Lakes, Maine) -- The everlastingly great look of the sky (Walden Pond, Massachusetts) -- Here is New York (New York, New York) -- Anasazi (the Four Corners) -- Knowing where you've been (the Bitterroot Mountains, Montana) -- Shore lines (the Great Lakes) -- Of trees and time (Warren Woods, Michigan) -- Malabar Farm (Malabar Farm State Park, Ohio) -- Terra cognita (Acadia National Park, Maine) -- Time and tide (Acadia National Park, Maine) -- Epilogue : postscript to a postscript to "the ring of time" (Sarasota, Florida).…”
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Teaching​ Information Literacy and Writing Studies : Volume 2, Upper-Level and Graduate Courses /

Table of Contents: “…Writing as a way of knowing -- Information literacy and writing studies -- Information in the making -- Teaching "digital natives" to think -- Common dispositions and habits of mind -- Using beam to integrate information literacy and writing -- Molding of ideas -- Creative invention -- Toward a research ethos -- In, into, among, between -- Reading to write -- Crossing the bridge -- Problem-based learning and information literacy -- Teaching the literature review -- Librarian intervention -- No more first-year writing -- Not just research partners -- How to talk about copyright so kids will listen, and how to listen about copyright so kids will talk -- Information literacy instruction and citation generators -- Learning in the middle -- A conversation.…”
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Teaching​ Information Literacy and Writing Studies : Volume 2, Upper-Level and Graduate Courses /

Table of Contents: “…Writing as a way of knowing -- Information literacy and writing studies -- Information in the making -- Teaching "digital natives" to think -- Common dispositions and habits of mind -- Using beam to integrate information literacy and writing -- Molding of ideas -- Creative invention -- Toward a research ethos -- In, into, among, between -- Reading to write -- Crossing the bridge -- Problem-based learning and information literacy -- Teaching the literature review -- Librarian intervention -- No more first-year writing -- Not just research partners -- How to talk about copyright so kids will listen, and how to listen about copyright so kids will talk -- Information literacy instruction and citation generators -- Learning in the middle -- A conversation.…”
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Pragmatism as post-postmodernism lessons from John Dewey / by Hickman, Larry A., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…-- Cultivating a common faith : Dewey's religion -- Beyond the epistemology industry : Dewey's theory of inquiry -- The homo faber debate in Dewey and Max Scheler -- Productive pragmatism : habits as artifacts in Peirce and Dewey.…”
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Nothingness and desire : an East-West philosophical antiphony / by Heisig, James W., 1944-

Table of Contents: “…The guiding fictions -- Desire and its objects -- Desire without a proper object -- Nothingness and being -- The nothingness of desire and the desire for nothingness -- Defining self through no-self -- Getting over one's self -- The mind of nothingness -- The self with its desires -- No-self with its desire -- No-self and self-transcendence -- God and death -- From God to nothingness -- God and life -- Displacing the personal God -- Towards an impersonal god -- The absolute of relatedness -- The god of nothingness -- The place of morality -- Convivial harmony -- Customs, habits, decisions -- Morality and religion -- The moral subject in love -- The experience of happiness -- Giving and receiving -- The body as property -- Detachment -- Orthoaesthesis -- Consumption -- Sufficiency -- An elusive horizon -- Rewriting the history of philosophy -- Philosophical antiphony -- Cultural disarmament -- Philosophy beyond the divide.…”
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Pragmatism as post-postmodernism lessons from John Dewey / by Hickman, Larry A., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…-- Cultivating a common faith : Dewey's religion -- Beyond the epistemology industry : Dewey's theory of inquiry -- The homo faber debate in Dewey and Max Scheler -- Productive pragmatism : habits as artifacts in Peirce and Dewey.…”
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Nothingness and desire : an East-West philosophical antiphony / by Heisig, James W., 1944-

Table of Contents: “…The guiding fictions -- Desire and its objects -- Desire without a proper object -- Nothingness and being -- The nothingness of desire and the desire for nothingness -- Defining self through no-self -- Getting over one's self -- The mind of nothingness -- The self with its desires -- No-self with its desire -- No-self and self-transcendence -- God and death -- From God to nothingness -- God and life -- Displacing the personal God -- Towards an impersonal god -- The absolute of relatedness -- The god of nothingness -- The place of morality -- Convivial harmony -- Customs, habits, decisions -- Morality and religion -- The moral subject in love -- The experience of happiness -- Giving and receiving -- The body as property -- Detachment -- Orthoaesthesis -- Consumption -- Sufficiency -- An elusive horizon -- Rewriting the history of philosophy -- Philosophical antiphony -- Cultural disarmament -- Philosophy beyond the divide.…”
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Pragmatism as Post-Postmodernism : Lessons from John Dewey / by Hickman, Larry A., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…-- Cultivating a common faith : Dewey's religion -- Beyond the epistemology industry : Dewey's theory of inquiry -- The homo faber debate in Dewey and Max Scheler -- Productive pragmatism : habits as artifacts in Peirce and Dewey.…”
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Pragmatism as Post-Postmodernism : Lessons from John Dewey / by Hickman, Larry A., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…-- Cultivating a common faith : Dewey's religion -- Beyond the epistemology industry : Dewey's theory of inquiry -- The homo faber debate in Dewey and Max Scheler -- Productive pragmatism : habits as artifacts in Peirce and Dewey.…”
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Hidden keys to loving relationships : by Smalley, Gary

Table of Contents: “…(Tape 11): "Keys to changing behavior and habits".…”

Juvenilia by Chen, Ken, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…-- "Love is like tautology in the same way like is like tautology" -- Heartbreak is a leak of self -- It is a city you see through water -- The city of habits -- In the city I drowned all night in the nothing search for you -- Evaporate -- The invisible memoir.…”
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Juvenilia by Chen, Ken, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…-- "Love is like tautology in the same way like is like tautology" -- Heartbreak is a leak of self -- It is a city you see through water -- The city of habits -- In the city I drowned all night in the nothing search for you -- Evaporate -- The invisible memoir.…”
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Hidden keys to loving relationships : by Smalley, Gary

Table of Contents: “…(Tape 11): "Keys to changing behavior and habits".…”

The rise of global civil society building communities and nations from the bottom up / by Eberly, Don E.

Table of Contents: “…-- From aid bureaucracy to civil society -- Toward participation and partnerships -- Wealth, poverty, and the rise of corporate citizenship -- Micro-enterprise : tapping native capability at the bottom of the pyramid -- America's most generous gift : the great tsunami of 2005 -- Conflict or collaboration : religion and civil society -- Understanding and confronting anti-americanism -- Civil society and nation building : prospects for democratization -- Conflict and reconciliation in the context of nation building -- Habits of the heart : building civic community -- Looking ahead : a roadmap for building communities and nations through indigenous civil society, markets, and rule of law -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.…”
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