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German philosophy in the twentieth century : Weber to Heidegger / by Young, Julian

Table of Contents: “…chapter Introduction -- part PART I: Frankfurt -- chapter 1 Weber: Rationalization, disenchantment and charisma -- chapter 2 Horkheimer and Adorno: The irrationality of reason -- chapter 3 Habermas: In defence of enlightenment -- chapter 4 Marcuse: Eros and utopia -- part PART II: Freiburg -- chapter 5 Husserl: Phenomenology and the crisis of humanity -- chapter 6 Early Heidegger: Existential phenomenology -- chapter 7 Gadamer: Truth versus method -- chapter 8 Arendt: The human condition -- chapter 9 Later Heidegger: Re-enchantment.…”
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The philosophy of Martin Scorsese

Table of Contents: “…McMahon ; The pupkin gambit : rationality and irrationality in The king of comedy / Richard Greene -- Vision, salvation, and the transcendental. …”
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Literary mischief Sakaguchi Ango, culture, and the war /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the scribbler and the sage / James Dorsey -- The irrational will to reason: the praxis of Sakaguchi Ango / Karatani Kojin -- Paradox at play: Ango as Japanese humanist / Ogino Anna -- Kataru koto nashi: a brief tour of Ango's native place / Robert Steen -- Sakaguchi Ango's individual cult(ure) / Doug Slaymaker -- The art of war: Sakaguchi Ango's "Pearls" and the nature of literary resistance / James Dorsey -- Works by Sakaguchi Ango. …”
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Diotima's children German aesthetic rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing / by Beiser, Frederick C., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…-- Theory of aesthetic judgment -- The rationalist aesthetic -- The meaning of rules -- Kant's paltry polemic -- Diotima versus Dionysus -- The challenge of irrationalism -- Gadamer and the rationalist tradition -- Leibniz and the roots of aesthetic rationalism -- The grandfather's strange case -- Theory of beauty -- Analysis of sense -- The classical Trinity -- Wolff and the birth of aesthetic rationalism -- Wolff and the aesthetic tradition -- Theory of the arts -- Psychology -- Theory of beauty -- Foundations of neo-classicism -- Gottsched and the high noon of rationalism -- Herr Professor Gottsched's Peruke -- The importance of taste -- Defense of tragedy -- Theory of taste -- Poetics -- The rules -- Dr. …”
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India and South Asia economic developments in the age of globalization /

Table of Contents: “…Basu -- Human capital investment and development in South Asia / Anjum Siddiqui -- Poverty in South Asia : concept, measurement and analysis / Umer Khalid -- South Asia's trade and commercial relations with Canada / Ann Weston -- Regional economic cooperation under SAARC : possibilities and constraints / Dushni Weerakoon -- Repositioning SAFTA in the regionalism debate / Saman Kelegama and Ratnakar Adhikari -- Market-oriented policy reforms and export-led industrialization : the Sri Lankan experience / Premachandra Athukorala -- Globalization and economic development / Sajid Anwar and Bob Catley -- Decentralization of governance and development / Pranab Bardhan -- Governance issues in India / Desh Gupta and Bhagwan Dahiya -- Corruption in South Asia : causes and consequences / Johann Graf Lambsdorff -- Military expenditure in South Asia : a case study of economic irrationality / Geoff Harris.…”
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Addictive Consumption : Capitalism, Modernity and Excess / by Reith, Gerda

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Realizing the Witch Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible / by Baxstrom, Richard

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Realizing the Witch : Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible / by Baxstrom, Richard

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Patient, heal thyself how the new medicine puts the patient in charge / by Veatch, Robert M.

Table of Contents: “…-- Abandoning informed consent -- Why physicians get it wrong and the alternatives to consent: patient choice and deep value pairing -- The end of prescribing: why prescription writing is irrational -- The alternatives to prescribing -- Are fat people overweight? …”
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A companion to Luis Buñuel

Table of Contents: “…/ Paul Begin -- Inside/outside: space and sexual behaviour in Belle de Jour and La Pianiste / Jimmy Hay -- Surrealist legacies: the influence of Luis Buñuel's "Irrationality" on Hiroshi Teshigahara's "Documentary-fantasy" / Felicity Gee -- Luis Buñuel's Angel and Maya Deren's Meshes: the future of surrealism, trance and the cultural iImaginary / Susan McCabe.…”
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Innovative Strategies, Statistical Solutions and Simulations for Modern Clinical Trials by Chang, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Author Bio; 1: Overview of Drug Development; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Drug Discovery; 1.2.1 Target Identification and Validation; 1.2.2 Irrational Approach; 1.2.3 Rational Approach; 1.2.4 Biologics; 1.2.5 NanoMedicine; 1.3 Preclinical Development; 1.3.1 Objectives of Preclinical Development; 1.3.2 Pharmacokinetics; 1.3.3 Pharmacodynamics; 1.3.4 Toxicology; 1.3.5 Intraspecies and Interspecies Scaling; 1.4 Clinical Development; 1.4.1 Overview of Clinical Development; 1.4.2 Classical Clinical Trial Paradigm…”
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Against autonomy justifying coercive paternalism /

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Self-talk in sport /

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A decade of delusions from speculative contagion to the great recession / by Martin, Frank K.

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Darkened enlightenment : the deterioration of democracy, human rights, and rational thought in the twenty-first century / by Delaney, Tim

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Majesty and the masses in Shakespeare and Marlowe : Western anti-monarchism, the Earl of Essex challenge, and political stagecraft / by Fitter, Christopher

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An invitation to algebraic numbers and algebraic functions / by Halter-Koch, Franz, 1944-

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