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Everyday information the evolution of information seeking in America /

Table of Contents: “…100 years of car buying / William Aspray -- Informed giving : information on philanthropy in everyday life / Barbara Hayes -- Airline travel : a history of information seeking behavior by leisure and business passengers / Rachel Little, Cecelia Williams, and Jeffrey Yost -- Genealogy as a hobby / James Cortada -- Sports fans and their information gathering habits : how media technologies have brought fans closer to their teams over time / Jameson Otto, Sara Metz, and Nathan Ensmenger -- Information in the hobby of gourmet cooking : four contexts / Jenna Hartel -- The transformation of public information in the United States / Gary Chapman and Angela Newell -- Active readership : the case of the American comic reader / George Royer, Beth Nettels, and William Aspray -- Information exchange and relationship maintenance among American youth : the case of text messaging / Arturo Longoria, Gesse Stark-Smith, and Barbara Hayes.…”
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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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Everyday information the evolution of information seeking in America /

Table of Contents: “…100 years of car buying / William Aspray -- Informed giving : information on philanthropy in everyday life / Barbara Hayes -- Airline travel : a history of information seeking behavior by leisure and business passengers / Rachel Little, Cecelia Williams, and Jeffrey Yost -- Genealogy as a hobby / James Cortada -- Sports fans and their information gathering habits : how media technologies have brought fans closer to their teams over time / Jameson Otto, Sara Metz, and Nathan Ensmenger -- Information in the hobby of gourmet cooking : four contexts / Jenna Hartel -- The transformation of public information in the United States / Gary Chapman and Angela Newell -- Active readership : the case of the American comic reader / George Royer, Beth Nettels, and William Aspray -- Information exchange and relationship maintenance among American youth : the case of text messaging / Arturo Longoria, Gesse Stark-Smith, and Barbara Hayes.…”
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On global justice by Risse, Mathias, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…: the institutional stance, human rights, and nonrelationism -- Hugo Grotius revisited : collective ownership of the Earth and global public reason -- "Our sole habitation" : a contemporary approach to collective ownership of the earth -- Toward a contingent derivation of human rights -- Proportionate use : immigration and original ownership of the Earth -- "But the earth abideth for ever" : obligations to future generations -- Climate change and ownership of the atmosphere -- Human rights as membership rights in the global order -- Arguing for human rights : essential pharmaceuticals -- Arguing for human rights : labor rights as human rights -- Justice and trade -- The way we live now -- "Imagine there's no countries" : a reply to John Lennon -- Justice and accountability : the state -- Justice and accountability : the World Trade Organization.…”
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Re-reading Richard Hoggart life, literature, language, education /

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence / Sean Matthews -- The anxiety of influence : Hoggart, liminality and Melvyn Bragg's Crossing the line / Katie Wales -- Stances and tones before life : Richard Hoggart and the question of voice / Simon Grimble -- Local habitations : working-class childhood and its uses in the memoirs of Richard Hoggart and others / Michael Rosenfeld -- Questions of taste and class : Richard Hoggart and Bonamy Dobrée / Tom Steele -- Promoting international understanding and cooperation : Richard Hoggart's UNESCO years (1970-1975) / Malcolm Hadley -- Letter from W.H. …”
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On global justice by Risse, Mathias, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…: the institutional stance, human rights, and nonrelationism -- Hugo Grotius revisited : collective ownership of the Earth and global public reason -- "Our sole habitation" : a contemporary approach to collective ownership of the earth -- Toward a contingent derivation of human rights -- Proportionate use : immigration and original ownership of the Earth -- "But the earth abideth for ever" : obligations to future generations -- Climate change and ownership of the atmosphere -- Human rights as membership rights in the global order -- Arguing for human rights : essential pharmaceuticals -- Arguing for human rights : labor rights as human rights -- Justice and trade -- The way we live now -- "Imagine there's no countries" : a reply to John Lennon -- Justice and accountability : the state -- Justice and accountability : the World Trade Organization.…”
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Re-reading Richard Hoggart life, literature, language, education /

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence / Sean Matthews -- The anxiety of influence : Hoggart, liminality and Melvyn Bragg's Crossing the line / Katie Wales -- Stances and tones before life : Richard Hoggart and the question of voice / Simon Grimble -- Local habitations : working-class childhood and its uses in the memoirs of Richard Hoggart and others / Michael Rosenfeld -- Questions of taste and class : Richard Hoggart and Bonamy Dobrée / Tom Steele -- Promoting international understanding and cooperation : Richard Hoggart's UNESCO years (1970-1975) / Malcolm Hadley -- Letter from W.H. …”
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Pindar's poetry, patrons, and festivals from archaic Greece to the Roman Empire /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Simon Hornblower and Catherine Morgan -- The origins of the festivals, especially Delphi and the Pythia / John Davies -- Origins of the Olympics / Stephen Instone -- Pindar, athletes, and the early Greek statue habit / R.R.R. Smith -- Fame, memorial, and choral poetry : the origins of epinikian poetry : an historical study / Rosalind Thomas -- Epinikian eidography / N.J. …”
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Pindar's poetry, patrons, and festivals from archaic Greece to the Roman Empire /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Simon Hornblower and Catherine Morgan -- The origins of the festivals, especially Delphi and the Pythia / John Davies -- Origins of the Olympics / Stephen Instone -- Pindar, athletes, and the early Greek statue habit / R.R.R. Smith -- Fame, memorial, and choral poetry : the origins of epinikian poetry : an historical study / Rosalind Thomas -- Epinikian eidography / N.J. …”
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The metaphysical vision Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of art and life and Samuel Beckett's own way to make use of it / by Pothast, Ulrich

Table of Contents: “…Metaphysical vision -- Schopenhauer out of fashion : Beckett his student -- Intentions and limits -- Metaphysics of art and life -- On Schopenhauer's aesthetics and world view -- Premises from Schopenhauer's theory of knowledge and metaphysics -- Dissolution of self and creation of art -- The truly metaphysical activity of this life -- Idea and sensory perception -- Symbols trivial -- Realism vulgar -- Every thing beautiful -- Genius objective -- Bliss, not just pleasure -- Will-less, not just disinterested -- Music -- Tragedy and the vanity of life -- Denial of the will-to-live -- Affirmation of the will-to-live -- Happiness negative -- Suffering productive -- The metaphysical drama -- Timeless present, no ending - Life pensum, suicide no escape -- The primacy of nothingness -- Beckett's philosophical view of art and life in Proust -- True reality and caricature of reality -- Idea versus concept -- Causality, time, will -- Habit -- Two kinds of memory -- Vulgarity -- Death of habit: waking madness -- Purity, impurity -- The necessity of art -- Schopenhauer made use of -- Schopenhauer altered -- The proustian equation, the proustian solution -- Affirmation of the will, voluntarily tantalus -- Desert of loneliness, no morality -- Existence of the artist -- On some details in Beckett's literary work -- Murphy -- I am not of the big world, I am of the little world -- Vision -- Will-lessness, yearning for nothing -- Moran -- Remnants of a pensum -- A work which will subsist -- Finality without end -- Images of that kind the will cannot revive -- Dispossessed of self -- The unnamable -- What if we were one and the same after all -- There is no pronoun for me -- I have a pensum to discharge -- I'm all these words -- I am doing my best and failing : new thoughts about art and the artist -- Gogo and Didi, Hamm and Clov -- In a cage out of time and space -- In a single night -- You pollute the air -- Is it not time for my pain-killer? …”
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The metaphysical vision Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of art and life and Samuel Beckett's own way to make use of it / by Pothast, Ulrich

Table of Contents: “…Metaphysical vision -- Schopenhauer out of fashion : Beckett his student -- Intentions and limits -- Metaphysics of art and life -- On Schopenhauer's aesthetics and world view -- Premises from Schopenhauer's theory of knowledge and metaphysics -- Dissolution of self and creation of art -- The truly metaphysical activity of this life -- Idea and sensory perception -- Symbols trivial -- Realism vulgar -- Every thing beautiful -- Genius objective -- Bliss, not just pleasure -- Will-less, not just disinterested -- Music -- Tragedy and the vanity of life -- Denial of the will-to-live -- Affirmation of the will-to-live -- Happiness negative -- Suffering productive -- The metaphysical drama -- Timeless present, no ending - Life pensum, suicide no escape -- The primacy of nothingness -- Beckett's philosophical view of art and life in Proust -- True reality and caricature of reality -- Idea versus concept -- Causality, time, will -- Habit -- Two kinds of memory -- Vulgarity -- Death of habit: waking madness -- Purity, impurity -- The necessity of art -- Schopenhauer made use of -- Schopenhauer altered -- The proustian equation, the proustian solution -- Affirmation of the will, voluntarily tantalus -- Desert of loneliness, no morality -- Existence of the artist -- On some details in Beckett's literary work -- Murphy -- I am not of the big world, I am of the little world -- Vision -- Will-lessness, yearning for nothing -- Moran -- Remnants of a pensum -- A work which will subsist -- Finality without end -- Images of that kind the will cannot revive -- Dispossessed of self -- The unnamable -- What if we were one and the same after all -- There is no pronoun for me -- I have a pensum to discharge -- I'm all these words -- I am doing my best and failing : new thoughts about art and the artist -- Gogo and Didi, Hamm and Clov -- In a cage out of time and space -- In a single night -- You pollute the air -- Is it not time for my pain-killer? …”
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The sites of Rome time, space, memory /

Table of Contents: “…Larmour -- Victim and voyeur : Rome as a character in Tacitus' Histories 3 / Rhiannon Ash -- The gates of Janus : Bakhtin and Plutarch's Roman meta-chronotope / Jason Banta -- Staging Rome : the Renaissance, Rome, and humanism's classical crisis / Jacob Blevins -- Sizing up Rome, or theorizing the overview / Caroline Vout -- Ancient Rome for little comrades : the legacy of classical antiquity in Soviet childrens' literature / Marina Balina -- The sites and sights of Rome in Fellini's films : 'not a human habitation but a psychical entity' / Elena Theodorakopoulos.…”
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Making Furniture in Preindustrial America : The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut / by Cooke, Edward S.

Table of Contents: “…List of Tables and Charts -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Need for the Artisanal Voice (starting p. 3) -- 1 The Preindustrial Joiner in Western Connecticut, 1760-1820 (starting p. 13) -- 2 The Social Economy of the Preindustrial Joiner (starting p. 33) -- 3 The Joiners of Newtown and Woodbury (starting p. 49) -- 4 Socioeconomic Structure in Newtown and Woodbury (starting p. 69) -- 5 Consumer Behavior in Newtown and Woodbury (starting p. 91) -- 6 Workmanship of Habit: The Furniture of Newtown (starting p. 118) -- 7 Workmanship of Competition: The Furniture of Woodbury (starting p. 151) -- Conclusion: The Response to Market Capitalism (starting p. 190) -- Appendix A: Biographies of Newtown Joiners, 1760-1820 (starting p. 201) -- Appendix B: Biographies of Woodbury Joiners, 1760-1820 (starting p. 217) -- Notes (starting p. 233) -- Glossary of Furniture Terms (starting p. 273) -- Note on Sources and Methods (starting p. 277) -- Index (starting p. 285)…”
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The sites of Rome time, space, memory /

Table of Contents: “…Larmour -- Victim and voyeur : Rome as a character in Tacitus' Histories 3 / Rhiannon Ash -- The gates of Janus : Bakhtin and Plutarch's Roman meta-chronotope / Jason Banta -- Staging Rome : the Renaissance, Rome, and humanism's classical crisis / Jacob Blevins -- Sizing up Rome, or theorizing the overview / Caroline Vout -- Ancient Rome for little comrades : the legacy of classical antiquity in Soviet childrens' literature / Marina Balina -- The sites and sights of Rome in Fellini's films : 'not a human habitation but a psychical entity' / Elena Theodorakopoulos.…”
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Making Furniture in Preindustrial America : The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut / by Cooke, Edward S.

Table of Contents: “…List of Tables and Charts -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Need for the Artisanal Voice (starting p. 3) -- 1 The Preindustrial Joiner in Western Connecticut, 1760-1820 (starting p. 13) -- 2 The Social Economy of the Preindustrial Joiner (starting p. 33) -- 3 The Joiners of Newtown and Woodbury (starting p. 49) -- 4 Socioeconomic Structure in Newtown and Woodbury (starting p. 69) -- 5 Consumer Behavior in Newtown and Woodbury (starting p. 91) -- 6 Workmanship of Habit: The Furniture of Newtown (starting p. 118) -- 7 Workmanship of Competition: The Furniture of Woodbury (starting p. 151) -- Conclusion: The Response to Market Capitalism (starting p. 190) -- Appendix A: Biographies of Newtown Joiners, 1760-1820 (starting p. 201) -- Appendix B: Biographies of Woodbury Joiners, 1760-1820 (starting p. 217) -- Notes (starting p. 233) -- Glossary of Furniture Terms (starting p. 273) -- Note on Sources and Methods (starting p. 277) -- Index (starting p. 285)…”
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World cinema and the visual arts

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Projecting a more habitable globe: Hollywood's yellow peril and its refraction onto 1930s Shanghai national cinema / Lily Wong -- Berlin, the city of sound and sensation in Fritz Lang's M and E. …”
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Crafting the woman professional in the long nineteenth century artistry and industry in Britain /

Table of Contents: “…List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword / Linda Peterson -- Introduction -- Industrious amateurism -- Women's work : the history of the Victorian domestic handicraft / Talia Schaffer -- Light work : feminine leisure and the making of transparencies / John Plunkett -- Pertinacious industry : the keyboard étude and the female amateur in E ngland, 1804-20 / Elizabeth Morgan -- Dresses and drapery : female self-fashioning in muslin, 1800-50 / Alice Barnaby -- The artistic career -- Contrary to the habits of their sex? : women drawing on wood and the careers of Florence and Adelaide Claxton / Catherine Flood -- The China painter : amateur celebrities and professional status at Howell and James "Royal Academy of China painting" / Anne Anderson -- Creative industry : design, art education and the woman professional / Patricia Zakreski -- Dorothy's career and other cautionary tales / Pamela Gerrish Nunn -- The craft of self-fashioning -- Negotiating fame : mid-Victorian women writers and the romantic myth of the gentlemanly reviewer / Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi -- Towards an iconography of ouida as a woman artist / Andrew King -- "Mady's tightrope walk" : the career of Marian Huxley Collier / Valerie Sanders -- Living art : Michael Field, aestheticism and dress / Ana Parejo Vadillo.…”
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World cinema and the visual arts

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Projecting a more habitable globe: Hollywood's yellow peril and its refraction onto 1930s Shanghai national cinema / Lily Wong -- Berlin, the city of sound and sensation in Fritz Lang's M and E. …”
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Crafting the woman professional in the long nineteenth century artistry and industry in Britain /

Table of Contents: “…List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword / Linda Peterson -- Introduction -- Industrious amateurism -- Women's work : the history of the Victorian domestic handicraft / Talia Schaffer -- Light work : feminine leisure and the making of transparencies / John Plunkett -- Pertinacious industry : the keyboard étude and the female amateur in E ngland, 1804-20 / Elizabeth Morgan -- Dresses and drapery : female self-fashioning in muslin, 1800-50 / Alice Barnaby -- The artistic career -- Contrary to the habits of their sex? : women drawing on wood and the careers of Florence and Adelaide Claxton / Catherine Flood -- The China painter : amateur celebrities and professional status at Howell and James "Royal Academy of China painting" / Anne Anderson -- Creative industry : design, art education and the woman professional / Patricia Zakreski -- Dorothy's career and other cautionary tales / Pamela Gerrish Nunn -- The craft of self-fashioning -- Negotiating fame : mid-Victorian women writers and the romantic myth of the gentlemanly reviewer / Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi -- Towards an iconography of ouida as a woman artist / Andrew King -- "Mady's tightrope walk" : the career of Marian Huxley Collier / Valerie Sanders -- Living art : Michael Field, aestheticism and dress / Ana Parejo Vadillo.…”
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The Middle Included : Logos in Aristotle / by Aygün, Ömer, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Recapitulation and Reorientation; Chapter 5: Action (Logos in the Nicomachean Ethics)1. Habit; 2. Positive State; 3. Character; 4. Recapitulation and Reorientation; Chapter 6: Speech (Logos in the Politics); 1. …”
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