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Just wars and moral victories surprise, deception and the normative framework of European war in the later Middle Ages / by Whetham, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Metaphysical and moral context -- The role of war as a legal instrument in the Middle Ages -- The epitome of military science -- The works of Geoffroy de Charny -- Froissart : the management of chivalric expectation -- Conclusion.…”
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Betwixt engelaunde and englene londe dialogic poetics in early religious lyric / by Kowalik, Barbara

Table of Contents: “…Dramatic interactions in dialogue lyrics and dialogic groups of lyrics -- Cultural transactions in prayer poems -- A latent metaphysics of communication -- In lieu of conclusion: continuations of dialogic poetics in Renaissance religious lyric.…”
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The philosophical vision of John Duns Scotus an introduction / by Ingham, Mary Beth, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…The historical moment -- Knowing reality -- Metaphysics and natural knowledge of God -- Modes of being : will and nature -- The foundations of a science of praxis -- The rational will and freedom -- Practical wisdom and moral goodness -- Scotus's legacy.…”
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Developmental theism from pure will to unbounded love / by Forrest, Peter, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Overview -- Theism, simplicity, and properly anthropocentric metaphysics -- Materialism and dualism -- The power, knowledge, and motives of the primordial God -- The existence of the primordial God -- God changes -- Understanding evil -- The Trinity -- The Incarnation -- Concluding remarks.…”
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Prophetic politics Emmanuel Levinas and the sanctification of suffering / by Harold, Philip J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Death, escape, and thinking beyond being -- Play and responsibility -- The philosophical ethics of totality and infinity -- The turning point : "violence and metaphysics" -- Tradition and finite freedom -- The political reversal of substitution -- Justice and incommunicable suffering.…”
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Prophetic politics Emmanuel Levinas and the sanctification of suffering / by Harold, Philip J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Death, escape, and thinking beyond being -- Play and responsibility -- The philosophical ethics of totality and infinity -- The turning point : "violence and metaphysics" -- Tradition and finite freedom -- The political reversal of substitution -- Justice and incommunicable suffering.…”
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Developmental theism from pure will to unbounded love / by Forrest, Peter, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Overview -- Theism, simplicity, and properly anthropocentric metaphysics -- Materialism and dualism -- The power, knowledge, and motives of the primordial God -- The existence of the primordial God -- God changes -- Understanding evil -- The Trinity -- The Incarnation -- Concluding remarks.…”
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When customers talk --turn what they tell you into sales / by Gross, T. Scott

Table of Contents: “…We see tomorrow -- Foreknowledge -- The big idea -- The physical and metaphysical components -- How to listen to your customers -- How customers want to be served -- Engineer the experience -- Retailers and service providers who get it right -- On the horizon.…”
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Repetition, difference, and knowledge in the work of Samuel Beckett, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze by Gendron, Sarah, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…The unthinkable : a history and evolution of repetition in Western thought -- A critical reader : repetition, difference, and genre -- "The text which is not one" : the multiplicity of writing and the singularity of translation -- "The ether of metaphysics" : repetition and presence on stage and page.…”
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Repetition, difference, and knowledge in the work of Samuel Beckett, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze by Gendron, Sarah, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…The unthinkable : a history and evolution of repetition in Western thought -- A critical reader : repetition, difference, and genre -- "The text which is not one" : the multiplicity of writing and the singularity of translation -- "The ether of metaphysics" : repetition and presence on stage and page.…”
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When customers talk --turn what they tell you into sales / by Gross, T. Scott

Table of Contents: “…We see tomorrow -- Foreknowledge -- The big idea -- The physical and metaphysical components -- How to listen to your customers -- How customers want to be served -- Engineer the experience -- Retailers and service providers who get it right -- On the horizon.…”
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Unlearning to fly by Brice, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…At the airport : a romance -- Lullaby for Lloyd -- Wild music : reflections on big oil and innocence -- Three paragraphs -- Grease monkey -- My mother's body -- The metaphysics of being stuck -- Angle of attack -- Blue storm -- Unlearning to fly.…”
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The figure of the detective : a literary history and analysis / by Brownson, Charles, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The pre-classical detective -- Sherlock Holmes-rationality and the detective artist -- The English classic -- Psycho-ntuitive and noir -- Hard-boiled, spies and thrillers -- The neoclassic revival -- Metaphysical modern -- Appendix: Chronological list of films mentioned in the text.…”
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The figure of the detective : a literary history and analysis / by Brownson, Charles, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The pre-classical detective -- Sherlock Holmes-rationality and the detective artist -- The English classic -- Psycho-ntuitive and noir -- Hard-boiled, spies and thrillers -- The neoclassic revival -- Metaphysical modern -- Appendix: Chronological list of films mentioned in the text.…”
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Unlearning to fly by Brice, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…At the airport : a romance -- Lullaby for Lloyd -- Wild music : reflections on big oil and innocence -- Three paragraphs -- Grease monkey -- My mother's body -- The metaphysics of being stuck -- Angle of attack -- Blue storm -- Unlearning to fly.…”
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The creative retrieval of Saint Thomas Aquinas essays in Thomistic philosophy, new and old / by Clarke, W. Norris (William Norris), 1915-

Table of Contents: “…-- Conscience and the person -- Democracy, ethics, religion : an intrinsic connection -- What cannot be said in Saint Thomas's essence-existence doctrine -- Living on the edge : the human person as "frontier being" and microcosm -- The metaphysics of religious art : reflections on a text of Saint Thomas -- Part II: New articles -- The immediate creation of the human soul by God and some contemporary challenges -- The creative imagination : unique expression of our soul-body unity -- The creative imagination as treated in Western thought -- The integration of personalism and Thomistic metaphysics in twenty-first-century Thomism.…”
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The creative retrieval of Saint Thomas Aquinas essays in Thomistic philosophy, new and old / by Clarke, W. Norris (William Norris), 1915-

Table of Contents: “…-- Conscience and the person -- Democracy, ethics, religion : an intrinsic connection -- What cannot be said in Saint Thomas's essence-existence doctrine -- Living on the edge : the human person as "frontier being" and microcosm -- The metaphysics of religious art : reflections on a text of Saint Thomas -- Part II: New articles -- The immediate creation of the human soul by God and some contemporary challenges -- The creative imagination : unique expression of our soul-body unity -- The creative imagination as treated in Western thought -- The integration of personalism and Thomistic metaphysics in twenty-first-century Thomism.…”
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Truth and genesis philosophy as differential ontology / by Beistegui, Miguel de, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…The origins of onto-tauto-logy -- Absolute identity -- Eventful being : on Ereignis -- Abyssal being : on time-space -- Intersticial being : on dif-ference -- Physics beyond metaphysics? -- The renewal of ontology -- Virtual multiplicities -- Smooth space and volcanic time.…”
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Truth and genesis philosophy as differential ontology / by Beistegui, Miguel de, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…The origins of onto-tauto-logy -- Absolute identity -- Eventful being : on Ereignis -- Abyssal being : on time-space -- Intersticial being : on dif-ference -- Physics beyond metaphysics? -- The renewal of ontology -- Virtual multiplicities -- Smooth space and volcanic time.…”
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Confronting American labor the New Left dilemma / by Coker, Jeffrey W.

Table of Contents: “…Labor and the search for American socialism -- The exceptionalism of American labor -- The intellectual's role in the workers' movement -- Abandonment of the "labor metaphysic" -- The promise of insurgent labor -- New lefts, new insurgents -- The new labor history and the revival of the proletariat -- The historian's search for power.…”
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