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Randomness and recurrence in dynamical systems a real analysis approach / by Nillsen, Rodney Victor, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Background ideas and knowledge -- Irrational numbers and dynamical systems -- Probability and randomness -- Recurrence -- Averaging in time and space.…”
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The Affective Life of the Average Man : The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market Graph / by Fakhri, Ahmed, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Middlemarch : the affective life of the average man -- Market character -- Trollope in the stock market : irrational exuberance and the prime minister -- David Copperfield's happiness economics.…”
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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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The paradoxical rationality of Søren Kierkegaard by McCombs, Richard Phillip

Table of Contents: “…A pretense of irrationalism -- Paradoxical rationality -- Reverse theology -- The subtle power of simplicity -- A critique of indirect communication -- The figure of Socrates and the climacean capacity of paradoxical reason -- The figure of Socrates and the downfall of paradoxical reason -- The proof of paradoxical reason.…”
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The failure of corporate law fundamental flaws and progressive possibilities / by Greenfield, Kent

Table of Contents: “…September 11 and corporate law -- Corporate law as public law -- Workers, shareholders, and the purpose of corporations -- Corporations and the duty to obey the law -- Democracy and the dominance of Delaware -- New principles, new policies -- Corporate governance as a public policy tool -- Workers and corporate fraud -- Irrationality and the business judgment rule.…”
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What intelligence tests miss the psychology of rational thought / by Stanovich, Keith E., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…-- A different pitfall of the cognitive miser : thinking a lot, but losing -- Mindware gaps -- Contaminated mindware -- How many ways can thinking go wrong? A taxonomy of irrational thinking tendencies and their relation to intelligence -- The social benefits of increasing human rationality, and meliorating irrationality.…”
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Common minds themes from the philosophy of Philip Pettit /

Table of Contents: “…Beyond program explanation -- Mental causation on the program model -- Can hunter-gatherers hear color? -- Structural irrationality -- Freedom, coercion, and discursive control -- Conversability and deliberation -- Petit's molecule -- Contestatory citizenship : deliberative denizenship -- Crime, responsibility, and institutional design -- Disenfranchised silence -- Joining the dots.…”
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The problem of love in the Middle Ages a historical contribution / by Rousselot, Pierre, 1878-1915

Table of Contents: “…Thomist solution to the problem of love -- Remarks on the elements of the Thomist solution in Greek and medieval thought -- Two medieval sketches of the physical theory -- First characteristic : duality of the lover and the beloved -- Second characteristic : the violence of love -- Third characteristic : irrational love -- Fourth characteristic : love as the final end.…”
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Institutional barriers to sustainable transport by Curtis, Carey

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Sustainable transport and institutional barriers -- The irrationality of path dependence -- Transport planning in Australia -- How organizations shape infrastructure : roads organizations -- How organizations shape infrastructure : public transport planning -- Transport plans in Melbourne, Sydney, and Perth -- The discourse of roads -- The discourse of public transport -- Stakeholder groups -- Contemporary mental models -- Overcoming the barriers.…”
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Confronting Aristotle's Ethics ancient and modern morality / by Garver, Eugene

Table of Contents: “…What Aristotle's Rhetoric can tell us about the rationality of virtue -- Decision, rational powers, and irrational powers -- The varieties of moral failure -- Passion and the two sides of virtue -- Aristotle's ethical virtues are political virtues -- The ethical dimensions of Aristotle's Metaphysics -- Living politically and living rationally : choosing ends and choosing lives.…”
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Eros and inwardness in Vienna Weininger, Musil, Doderer / by Luft, David S.

Table of Contents: “…Liberal Vienna -- Scientific materialism -- Philosophical irrationalism -- Thinking about sexuality and gender -- Gender and character -- Gender and method -- Gender and ethics -- Gender and modernity -- Science and the writer -- Sexuality and ethics -- Ideology and soul -- Gender and the other condition -- The war and the writer -- The novel and national socialism -- Eros and apperception : 1938-1955 -- Ideology and the novel.…”
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Rational Man : A Modern Interpretation of Aristotelian Ethics / by Veatch, Henry Babcock

Table of Contents: “…-- Existentialism and the claims of irrational man.…”
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The Self and Its Pleasures : Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject / by Dean, Carolyn J. (Carolyn Janice), 1960-

Table of Contents: “…The legal status of the irrational -- 2. Gender complexes -- 3. Sight unseen (reading the unconscious) -- Part two. …”
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Number theory through inquiry by Marshall, David C.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Divide and conquer -- Prime time -- A modular world -- Fermat's Little Theorem and Euler's Theorem -- Public key cryptography -- Polynomial congruences and primitive roots -- The golden rule : quadratic reciprocity -- Pythagorean triples, sums of squares, and Fermat's Last Theorem -- Rationals close to irrationals and the Pell equation -- The search for primes -- Mathematical induction : the domino effect.…”
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The essential Davidson by Davidson, Donald, 1917-2003

Table of Contents: “…(1969) -- Individuation of events (1969) -- Mental events (1970) ; Appendix : Emeroses by other names (1966) -- Intending (1978) -- Paradoxes of irrationality (1982) -- Truth and meaning (1967) -- On saying that (1968) -- Radical interpretation (1973) -- On the very idea of a conceptual scheme (1974) -- What metaphors mean (1978) -- A coherence theory of truth and knowledge (1983) ; Appendix : Afterthoughts (1987) -- First person authority (1984) -- A nice derangement of epitaphs (1986).…”
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Changing party coalitions the mystery of the red state-blue state alignment / by Hough, Jerry F., 1935-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The "irrational" North-South coalition after the Civil War -- The ethnic and religious character of parties in the North -- The making of "the whites" and party change : changing ideas of race -- The making of "the whites" and party change : the transformation of race -- The institutional base for realignment -- The origins of the Republican red-state strategy -- The origins of the Democrats' blue-state strategy -- The red state-blue state polarization and the issue of nationalism -- Conclusion.…”
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Economies of destruction : how the systematic destruction of valuables created value in Bronze Age Europe, c. 2300-500 BC / by Fontijn, David R.

Table of Contents: “…Systematic irrationalities? The Bronze Age "destructive economy" -- Selective deposition: what does it entail and how can it be studied? …”
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Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict, and others essays on culture and personality /

Table of Contents: “…Essays on culture and personality -- Anthropology and the science of the irrational / George W. Stocking, Jr. -- Unconventional character and disciplinary convention / Jeremy MacClancy -- Abram Kardiner and the Neo-Freudian alternative in culture and personality / William C. …”
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Shock therapy a history of electroconvulsive treatment in mental illness / by Shorter, Edward

Table of Contents: “…-- The end of "Bedlam" and the age of psychopharmacology -- The swinging pendulum: the effects of politics, law, and changes in medical culture on ECT -- Electrogirl and the new ECT -- Magnets and implants: new therapies for a new century? -- Epilogue: irrational science.…”
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Transforming nurses' stress and anger steps toward healing / by Thomas, Sandra P.

Table of Contents: “…-- Exposing the consequences of mismanaged anger -- Differentiating between rational and irrational anger -- Modifying nonproductive anger styles -- Improving interactions with colleagues -- Forging alliances with patients -- Examining what we learned about anger when growing up -- Overcoming the legacy of a painful or abusive past -- Managing stress and caring for the self -- Claiming our power and using it -- Taking a new stance toward the concept of power -- Solving problems -- Dreaming the future of nursing.…”
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