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The consequences of decision-making by Brunsson, Nils, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Decision as institution -- Deciding for responsibility and legitimation : alternative interpretations of organizational decision-making -- The irrationality of action and action rationality : decisions, ideologies, and organizational actions -- Implentating reforms -- Responsibility as an impediment to influence : the case of budgeting -- Industrial policy as implementation or legitimation -- Organized hypocrisy -- Ideas and actions : justification and hypocrisy as alternatives to control.…”
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Blood Libel : The Ritual Murder Accusation at the Limit of Jewish History / by Johnson, Hannah R., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…The ethical dimensions of historical interpretation; the blood libel as limit case -- Thomas of Monmouth and the juridical discourse of ritual murder -- Moralization and method in Gavin Langmuir's history of antisemitism -- On being implicated: Israel Yuval and the new history of medieval Jewish-Christian relations -- Beyond implication: the Ariel Toaff affair and the question of complicity.…”
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Productive Fandom : Intermediality and Affective Reception in Fan Cultures / by Lamerichs, Nicolle

Table of Contents: “…Shared narratives : intermediality in fandom -- Fan membership : traditional and digital fieldwork -- Naturalizing Sherlock : Dutch fans interpret the famous -- Queer teen drama : rewriting and narrative closure in Glee -- Transmedia play : approaching the possible worlds of Firefly -- Embodied characters : the affective process of cosplay -- Conclusion : prospects for fan studies.…”
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Linguistics and the Teaching of English / by Marckwardt, Albert H. (Albert Henry), 1903-1975

Table of Contents: “…Usage: finding and interpreting the facts -- 5. Linguistics and the teaching of composition -- 6. …”
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The making of a nation in the Balkans historiography of the Bulgarian revival / by Daskalov, Rumen

Table of Contents: “…The national interpretation -- Concepts of the (Bulgarian) nation -- Nationalism and romanticism -- The national and the spiritual (cultural) meanings -- The analogy with the renaissance -- The Bulgarian revival and the enlightenment -- Analogies with the reformation -- The Bulgarian revival and European development -- Modernity and modernization -- The transition from feudalism to capitalism -- Capitalism during the revival -- Ottoman feudalism -- The social (bourgeois) revolution and the agrarian thesis -- The economic and the national-spiritual interpretation -- Excursus on periodization -- The urban "estate" and social struggles in older historiography -- Bourgeoisie and notables in earlier Marxist controversies -- Toward rehabilitation -- The peasants -- The intelligentsia -- The class struggles between the social and national -- Vulgar Marxist sociologism and its abandoning -- Paisii as a problem -- Evolutionists and revolutionaries -- The hierarchy of national heroes : Rakovski, Karavelov, Levski, Botev : reappraisals and reshuffling -- The April uprising and the Russo-Turkish war -- The revolution -- Revisions and reappraisal -- Rightist visions of the Bulgarian revival -- The democratic image -- The battle of the Communists for the legacy of the revival.…”
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The making of a nation in the Balkans historiography of the Bulgarian revival / by Daskalov, Rumen

Table of Contents: “…The national interpretation -- Concepts of the (Bulgarian) nation -- Nationalism and romanticism -- The national and the spiritual (cultural) meanings -- The analogy with the renaissance -- The Bulgarian revival and the enlightenment -- Analogies with the reformation -- The Bulgarian revival and European development -- Modernity and modernization -- The transition from feudalism to capitalism -- Capitalism during the revival -- Ottoman feudalism -- The social (bourgeois) revolution and the agrarian thesis -- The economic and the national-spiritual interpretation -- Excursus on periodization -- The urban "estate" and social struggles in older historiography -- Bourgeoisie and notables in earlier Marxist controversies -- Toward rehabilitation -- The peasants -- The intelligentsia -- The class struggles between the social and national -- Vulgar Marxist sociologism and its abandoning -- Paisii as a problem -- Evolutionists and revolutionaries -- The hierarchy of national heroes : Rakovski, Karavelov, Levski, Botev : reappraisals and reshuffling -- The April uprising and the Russo-Turkish war -- The revolution -- Revisions and reappraisal -- Rightist visions of the Bulgarian revival -- The democratic image -- The battle of the Communists for the legacy of the revival.…”
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Producing desire changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 / by Zeʼevi, Dror, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The body sexual: medicine and physiognomy -- Regulating desire: sharīʻa and kanun -- Morality wars: orthodoxy, Sufism, and beardless youths -- Dream interpretation and the unconscious -- Boys in the hood: shadow theater as a sexual counter-script -- The view from without: sexuality in travel accounts -- Conclusion: modernity and sexual discourse -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Understanding information systems what they do and why we need them / by Ratzan, Lee

Table of Contents: “…Describing information -- Representing information -- Organizing information -- Retrieving information -- Networking information -- Securing information -- Concealing information -- Measuring information -- Counting information -- Numbering information -- Managing information -- The computer as an information system -- The Internet as an information system -- Music as an information system -- Interpreting information : numbers as meanings -- Counter-intuitive information.…”
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Debugging the link between social theory and social insects by Rodgers, Diane M., 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Insect sociality and why it matters for human sociality -- The need for a critical approach -- A bee or not a bee : historical and cross-cultural interpretations -- Entomologists and sociologists : common ground -- Despite the differences : insect sociality and comparative method -- Naturalizing hierarchical sociality through discourse -- Alternative visions of insect and (human) sociality.…”
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Democracy and administration Woodrow Wilson's ideas and the challenges of public management / by Cook, Brian J., 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Remaking the public executive -- The character of modern democracy -- Situating administration in the modern democratic state -- Enhancing democracy through administrative design and organizational practice -- Administrative reform and expansion -- Legal structure, cabinet government, and interpretive leadership -- The continuing relevance of Wilson's ideas -- Public management, representative government, and the continuation of Wilson's quest.…”
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Scripturalist Islam the history and doctrines of the Akhbārī Shīʻī school / by Gleave, R. (Robert)

Table of Contents: “…The Akhbārī-Uṣūlī dispute and the early "Akhbārī" school -- Muḥammad Amīn al-Astarābādī and the formation of the Akhbārī school -- Astarābādī's legal thought -- Astarābādī's theological and philosophical thought -- The spread of Akhbarism after Astarābādī -- Defining the Akhbārī-Uṣūlī conflict -- Akhbārī Qurʼanic interpretation -- Sunna and the Akhbār in Akhbārī jurisprudence -- Akhbārī hermeneutics -- Conclusions.…”
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Preaching to second generation Korean Americans towards a possible selves contextual homiletic / by Kim, Matthew D., 1977-

Table of Contents: “…A journey toward possible selves : Korean American experiences -- Re-interpreting experiences : a possible selves homiletic solution -- Research design and methods -- Embodied and relational possible selves -- Spiritual possible selves -- Naming the invisible : themes in second generation preaching -- Conclusion : towards a possible selves homiletic.…”
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Ontological proofs today

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- pt. 2. Interpretation of old ontological proofs : God's attributes -- pt. 3. …”
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The aesthetics of strangeness : eccentricity and madness in early modern Japan / by Brecher, W. Puck

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: strange interpretations -- Contexts of strangeness in 17th century Japan -- Cultural eccentricity and its vanguard -- Strange thoughts: a confluence of intellectual heterodoxies -- Kinsei kijinden and social value: biography reinvents the eccentric -- Strangeness in the early 19th century: commercialism, conservatism, and diffusion -- Reevaluating strangeness in late Tokugawa.…”
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Preaching to second generation Korean Americans towards a possible selves contextual homiletic / by Kim, Matthew D., 1977-

Table of Contents: “…A journey toward possible selves : Korean American experiences -- Re-interpreting experiences : a possible selves homiletic solution -- Research design and methods -- Embodied and relational possible selves -- Spiritual possible selves -- Naming the invisible : themes in second generation preaching -- Conclusion : towards a possible selves homiletic.…”
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Ontological proofs today

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- pt. 2. Interpretation of old ontological proofs : God's attributes -- pt. 3. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The aesthetics of strangeness : eccentricity and madness in early modern Japan / by Brecher, W. Puck

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: strange interpretations -- Contexts of strangeness in 17th century Japan -- Cultural eccentricity and its vanguard -- Strange thoughts: a confluence of intellectual heterodoxies -- Kinsei kijinden and social value: biography reinvents the eccentric -- Strangeness in the early 19th century: commercialism, conservatism, and diffusion -- Reevaluating strangeness in late Tokugawa.…”
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Producing desire changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 / by Zeʼevi, Dror, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The body sexual: medicine and physiognomy -- Regulating desire: sharīʻa and kanun -- Morality wars: orthodoxy, Sufism, and beardless youths -- Dream interpretation and the unconscious -- Boys in the hood: shadow theater as a sexual counter-script -- The view from without: sexuality in travel accounts -- Conclusion: modernity and sexual discourse -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Understanding information systems what they do and why we need them / by Ratzan, Lee

Table of Contents: “…Describing information -- Representing information -- Organizing information -- Retrieving information -- Networking information -- Securing information -- Concealing information -- Measuring information -- Counting information -- Numbering information -- Managing information -- The computer as an information system -- The Internet as an information system -- Music as an information system -- Interpreting information : numbers as meanings -- Counter-intuitive information.…”
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Debugging the link between social theory and social insects by Rodgers, Diane M., 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Insect sociality and why it matters for human sociality -- The need for a critical approach -- A bee or not a bee : historical and cross-cultural interpretations -- Entomologists and sociologists : common ground -- Despite the differences : insect sociality and comparative method -- Naturalizing hierarchical sociality through discourse -- Alternative visions of insect and (human) sociality.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view