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Transforming terror remembering the soul of the world /

Table of Contents: “…A deeper look -- Terror and terrorism -- An unbearable heartache : trauma and memory -- Denial, dogma and the heroic myth -- Paths to transformation -- In a dark time -- Truth telling and justice as redemption -- Reclaiming our selves -- Compassion and the interdependence of peace -- Paths to transformation.…”
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All stories are true history, myth, and trauma in the work of John Edgar Wideman / by Guzzio, Tracie Church

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- "All stories are true": palimpsestic storytelling -- Deconstructing history: trauma and the alienation narratives -- Return home: mythic narratives and family history -- Journey back (again): the post-traumatic narratives -- Truth and reconciliation: the blues and the heroic romance -- Conclusion.…”
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Ordering chaos the self and the cosmos in twelfth-century Latin prosimetrum / by Balint, Bridget K.

Table of Contents: “…The writing of prosimetrum in the Middle Ages -- The authority of the consolation -- The interlocutors -- Situating the self -- Truth and instability in the prosimetra -- Fabulous philosophizing after 1170 -- Prose and poetry in the prosimetra -- Hildebert of Lavardin, The complaint and quarrel of the body and the soul -- Lawrence of Durham, Consolation on the death of a friend.…”
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Crusade against slavery Edward Coles, pioneer of freedom / by Leichtle, Kurt E., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…"Dust in the balance" : an introduction -- River and opportunity -- Man of property -- Release -- Beginning -- A rough land of great promise -- Contest and convention -- A prairie firestorm -- The chasm -- The complaint -- The emancipator -- The devastating truth of Madison's will -- The aging historian -- The preacher -- Prodigal Virginian -- The woodlands.…”
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The last fumes nihilism and the nature of philosophical concepts / by D'Agostini, Franca, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…-- The epistemological liar -- Unnatural certainties -- Trivialism, nihilism, and philosophy -- What is dogmatism? -- There is no truth, there might be nothing -- The thinkability of nothing -- How many (true) contradictions are there? …”
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Desiring Arabs by Massad, Joseph Andoni, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Anxiety in civilization -- Remembrances of desires past -- Re-orienting desire: the gay international and the Arab world -- Sin, crimes, and disease: taxonomies of desires present -- Deviant fictions -- The truth of fictional desires -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Name index -- Subject index.…”
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Senator Sam Ervin, last of the founding fathers by Campbell, Karl E. (Karl Edward)

Table of Contents: “…Tar heel born, tar heel bred -- Just a country lawyer -- Senator Sam -- The soft southern strategy -- Claghorn's Hammurabi -- Conservative civil libertarian -- Privacy and the false prophets -- A time of doubt and fear -- Rehearsal for Watergate -- Truth and honor.…”
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Approaching the theater of Antonio Buero Vallejo contemporary literary analyses from structuralism to postmodernism / by Pennington, Eric Wayne

Table of Contents: “…Valmy as subjective drama -- Freudian fundamentals : life, death, and love in El tragaluz -- From the periphery to the center : the forgotten muñeco of El tragaluz -- El misterio de elche as polysemic intertext -- Philosophy and interpretation : the mercantile modernist versus the situated self in El tragaluz -- The uchronian quest for simple truth in El tragaluz -- Foucault on punishment : power and fear in El sueño de la razón -- Deconstructing the soft bottoms in La fundación -- Jungian psychology : masks of mortals in Diálogo secreto -- Perspectival truth and Buero's controversial premise in Diálogo secreto -- Validating the feminine through art and music in Diálogo secreto -- Misión al pueblo desierto : a cultural study.…”
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Language without soil Adorno and late philosophical modernity /

Table of Contents: “…Kelley -- The idiom of crisis : on the historical immanence of language in Adorno / Neil Larsen -- Aesthetic theory and nonpropositional truth content in Adorno / Gerhard Richter -- The homeland of language : a note on truth and knowledge in Adorno / Mirko Wischke -- Of stones and glass houses : minima moralia as critique of transparency / Eric Jarosinski -- The polemic of the late work : Adorno's Hölderlin / Robert Savage -- Twelve anacoluthic theses on Adorno's "Parataxis : on Hölderlin's late poetry" / David Farrell Krell -- The ephemeral and the absolute : provisional notes to Adorno's Aesthetic theory / Peter Uwe Hohendahl.…”
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The Question of Ethics : Nietzsche, Foucault, Heidegger / by Scott, Charles E.

Table of Contents: “…Overturning In The Basic Problems Of Phenomenology -- 6. The Truth Of Ecstasis -- 7. Ethos/Ecstasis -- These Violent Passions: The Rector's Address -- "All Truth'- Is That Not A Compound lie?" …”
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Black eye escaping a marriage, writing a life / by Strasser, Judith, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Unpleasant truths -- Questions of politics -- Intimate strangers -- Losses -- True colors -- Clear vision -- Standards of performance -- Selective attention -- Tokens of love -- Diffidence -- "I Jumped for it" -- Jekyll and Hyde -- Halcyon days -- Cause and effect -- Trouble on its way -- Enormous rage -- The gift.…”
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Feminist methodology challenges and choices / by Ramazanoglu, Caroline, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…-- The structure of the book -- PART I FEMINISM'S ENLIGHTENMENT LEGACY AND ITS CONTRADICTIONS -- 2 Reason, science and progress: feminism's Enlightenment -- inheritance -- Introduction -- Enlightenment thought -- Reason, science and progress: how Enlightenment thought has -- shaped feminist approaches to methodology -- Modem humanism -- The long shadow of the Enlightenment: challenges and -- contradictions at the roots of modem feminist methodology -- Conclusion -- 3 Can feminists tell the truth? Challenges of -- scientific method -- Introduction -- Feminist research as a quest for valid knowledge of social -- realities by a knowing subject -- Feminist objections to scientific method in social research -- Objectivity, subjectivity, relativism: competing paths to truth -- Conclusion -- 4 From truth/reality to knowledge/power: taking a feminist -- standpoint -- Introduction -- The knowing feminist at the limits of modern methodology -- A methodological continuum: slipping and sliding on -- Haraway's greasy pole -- What is a feminist standpoint? …”
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Joseph Conrad and the anxiety of knowledge / by Freedman, William, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: Ambivalent fabulist, indeterminate fables -- Forbidden knowledge and the saving illusion -- The lie of fiction: Heart of darkness -- The soft spot: Lord Jim -- A more dangerous revolution: Under western eyes -- Drowning in the romance of the shallows: The rescue -- Appendix: Woman and truth, the history of an association.…”
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China's transition to modernity : the new classical vision of Dai Zhen / by Hu, Minghui

Table of Contents: “…The man and his times -- How Jesuit science conquered the Kangxi court -- Searching for truth in the origins of civilizations -- How to build a coalition around science -- An outsider enters the mainstream -- How to dethrone Jesuit science -- Bringing it home to the palace of light -- Legibility of visionary scholars.…”
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History According to Cattle /

Table of Contents: “…Imagining non-human realities / History of Others: Laura Gustafsson, Terike Haapoja -- Many faces of truth / Anne Aurasmaa -- From language of detachment toward expressiveness of affect / Elisa Aaltola -- Bad faith of zoophobia / Kris Forkasiewicz -- In search of the Indian cow / Radhika Subramaniam.…”
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History According to Cattle /

Table of Contents: “…Imagining non-human realities / History of Others: Laura Gustafsson, Terike Haapoja -- Many faces of truth / Anne Aurasmaa -- From language of detachment toward expressiveness of affect / Elisa Aaltola -- Bad faith of zoophobia / Kris Forkasiewicz -- In search of the Indian cow / Radhika Subramaniam.…”
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The Congressional Budget Office honest numbers, power, and policymaking / by Joyce, Philip G., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Truth, power and consequences -- Creating and sustaining CBO organizing for nonpartisan analysis -- CBO and macrobudgeting -- CBO and microbudgeting -- CBO and policy analysis -- The Clinton health plan : a case study in bringing it all together -- The Obama health care reform -- The Congressional Budget Office : an excellent skunk?.…”
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The master and his emissary the divided brain and the making of the Western world / by McGilchrist, Iain

Table of Contents: “…Asymmetry and the brain -- What do the two hemispheres 'do'? -- Language, truth, and music -- The nature of the two worlds -- The primacy of the right hemisphere -- The triumph of the left hemisphere -- Imitation and the evolution of culture -- The ancient world -- The Renaissance and the Reformation -- The Enlightenment -- Romanticism and the Industrial Revolution -- The modern and post-modern worlds.…”
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The master and his emissary : the divided brain and the making of the Western world / by McGilchrist, Iain

Table of Contents: “…Asymmetry and the brain -- What do the two hemispheres 'do'? -- Language, truth, and music -- The nature of the two worlds -- The primacy of the right hemisphere -- The triumph of the left hemisphere -- Imitation and the evolution of culture -- The ancient world -- The Renaissance and the Reformation -- The Enlightenment -- Romanticism and the Industrial Revolution -- The modern and post-modern worlds.…”
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Queer Roots for the Diaspora : Ghosts in the Family Tree / by Hayes, Jarrod

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Looking for roots among the mangroves -- Queer roots in Africa -- Scandals and lies : the truth about roots -- From roots that uproot to queer diasporas -- The seduction of roots and the roots of seduction -- Booger hollar and other queer sites : ghosts in the family tree -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.…”
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