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Shimmering screens making media in an aboriginal community / by Deger, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Culture and complicities : an indigenous media research project -- (In)visible difference : framing questions of culture, media, and technology -- Tuning in : mediated imaginaries and problems of deafness and forgetting -- On the "mimetic faculty" and the refractions of culture -- Taking pictures : media technologies and a Yolngu politics of presencing -- Flowers and photographs : death, memory, and techno mimetics -- Technology, techne, and Yolngu videomaking -- Shimmering verisimilitudes : making video, managing images, manifesting truths -- Worlding a Yolngu world : radiant visions and the flash of recognition -- Conclusion.…”
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Vanishing Sands : Losing Beaches to Mining / by Pilkey, Orrin H., 1934-, Hayes, Hannah L., Pilkey, Keith C., 1965-, Rangel-Buitrago, Nelson, Neal, William J., Longo, Norma J., 1943-

Table of Contents: “…-- Sand: Earth's Most Remarkable Mineral Resource -- Singapore Sand Bandits: Sitting on Asia's Sandpile -- The Sands of Crime: Mafia, Sand Robbers, and Law Benders -- Sand Rivers to the Beach: Choked Flow -- Barbuda and Other Islands: Lessons from the Caribbean -- A Summoner's Thirteen Tales: South America's Coastal Sand Mining -- A Different Kind of Sand Mining: Legal but Destructive -- Africa Sands: Desert Abundance-Coastal Dearth -- Beach Mining: Truths and Solutions.…”
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Cognitive Disability Aesthetics : Visual Culture, Disability Representations, and the (In)Visibility of Cognitive Difference / by Fraser, Benjamin

Table of Contents: “…On the (In)visibility of cognitive disability -- Signification and staring: icon, index, and symbol in visual media -- Disability scholarship at the seam: the materiality of visual narrative -- Visualizing down syndrome and autism: the Trazos Singulares (Singular Strokes) (2011) exhibition and María cumple 20 años (Maria Turns Twenty) (2015) -- Sequencing Alzheimer's dementia: Paco Roca's graphic novel Arrugas (Wrinkles) (2008) -- Screening schizophrenia: documentary cinema, cognitive disability, and Abel García Roure's Una cierta verdad (A Certain Truth).…”
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Sounds from the Other Side : Afro–South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music / by Powell, Elliott H.

Table of Contents: “…A Desi Love Supreme : John Coltrane, James Baldwin, and the Life Side of Afro-South Asian Music -- Corner Politics : The Queer and South Asian Coalitional Black Politics of Miles Davis -- Punks, Freaks, OutKasts, and ATLiens : The Afro-South Asian Imaginings of Rick James and Andre -- Recovering Addict(ive) : The Afro-South Asian Sexual Politics of Truth Hurts's "Addictive" -- Do(ing) Something Different : Cross-Cultural Collaboration in the Work of Timbaland and Raje Shwari.…”
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Valentinian ethics and paraenetic discourse determining the social function of moral exhortation in Valentinian Christianity / by Tite, Philip L., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Constructing social identity through discourse : a socio-rhetorical approach for the study of Valentinian paraenesis -- Defining paraenesis I : historical phases within the academic study of paraenesis -- Defining paraenesis II : towards a functional understanding of paraenesis -- Literary aspects of paraenesis : indicators of moral exhortation from the Greco-Roman world within Valentinianism -- Two schools and the call to reconciliation : literary and social aspects of moral exhortation in the Interpretation of knowledge -- Existing in error : literary and social aspects of moral exhortation in the Gospel of truth -- Conclusion.…”
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The fight for Jerusalem radical Islam, the west, and the future of the Holy City / by Gold, Dore

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The French idea of history Joseph de Maistre and his heirs, 1794-1854 / by Armenteros, Carolina

Table of Contents: “…Historical thought in France, 1798-1845: The new truth of historical knowledge : liberty, order, and the rise of the social fact, 1797-1848 ; Historical progress and the logic of sacrifice, 1822-54 ; The metapolitics of history : socialism, positivism, and tradition, 1820-48.…”
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The godfather of tabloid Generoso Pope Jr. and the National enquirer / by Vitek, Jack

Table of Contents: “…-- Washington garbage -- Manufacturing "truth" -- The peak of tabloid : Elvis -- Reporter as gladiator -- Star wars : Hollywood versus the Enquirer -- Wacky world news (tabloid II) -- Anger as satire -- Second peak (two gardeners' stories) -- Sudden death, ironically -- The Enquirer after Pope -- Pope in perspective.…”
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The Mapuche in modern Chile a cultural history / by Crow, Joanna

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Mythical objects and political subjects -- Histories of conquest: the occupation of Araucanía and its consequences, 1862-1910 -- Renewed struggles for survival: national festivities and Mapuche political activism, 1910-1938 -- Caudillos, poets, and sopranos: articulating Mapuche identities on the national and international stage, 1938-1964 -- Revolutionary transformations and new representational challenges, 1964-1973 -- The Pinochet dictatorship: conflicting histories and memories, 1973-1990 -- Claiming historical truth in the era of neoliberal multiculturalism, 1990-2010 -- Conclusion: a defiant history of difference.…”
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Nature in American philosophy

Table of Contents: “…Peirce's theory of reality and truth / Karl-Otto Apel -- Homegrown positivism : Charles Darwin and Chauncey Wright / Jean de Groot -- William James and German naturalism / Stefano Poggi -- C.S. …”
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The History Manifesto / by Guldi, Jo, Armitage, David

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The History Manifesto / by Guldi, Jo, Armitage, David

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Happiness and the Christian moral life an introduction to Christian ethics / by Wadell, Paul J.

Table of Contents: “…Finding a path for life: the quest for goodness and happiness -- Not going it alone: friendship and community in the Christian moral life -- Facing shipwreck and bandits: virtues and the quest for happiness -- Finding a story worth handing on: narrative and the moral life -- Every person's truth: made in the image of God, called to do the work of God -- Freedom: exploring a dangerous topic -- False steps on the path to happiness: losing our way and finding it back -- Doing what the good requires: conscience and prudence in the moral life -- The gift that makes all gifts possible: learning the language of love -- Reimagining the world: why the happiness of one demands justice for all.…”
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Narrative and consciousness literature, psychology, and the brain /

Table of Contents: “…Role of narrative in the development of conscious awareness -- Narrative and the emergence of a consciousness of self -- The development of the self -- The role of narrative in recollection : a view from cognitive and neuropsychology -- Material selves : bodies, memory, and autobiographical narrating -- Rethinking the fictive, reclaiming the real : autobiography, narrative time, and the burden of truth -- Dual-focalization, retrospective fictional autobiography, and the ethics of Lolita -- The pursuit of death in Holocaust narrative -- Community and coherence : narrative contributions to the psychology of conflict and loss -- Empirical evidence for a narrative concept of self -- Sexual identities and narratives of self.…”
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Breaking through to teens a new psychotherapy for the new adolescence / by Taffel, Ron

Table of Contents: “…Context: the new adolescence and a new treatment paradigm -- First meeting: getting teens to talk -- Foundation: what's necessary to build a helping relationship with teens -- The core: healing the divided-self of 21st-century teens -- Direction: advice as essential to helping teens change behavior and attitudes -- The gray zone: the truth about lying to therapists and other child professionals -- Treatment unbound: creating "flexible confidentiality" -- The parent trap: childrearing advice as essential to helping parents change behavior -- Stuck: how to conduct a "focused family session" -- The village: bringing friends into treatment -- The real in relational: challenging ourselves to stay three-dimensional with teens.…”
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Identity and modality

Table of Contents: “…The limits of contingency / Gideon Rosen -- Modal infallibilism and basic truth / Scott Sturgeon -- The modal fictionalist predicament / John Divers and Jason Hagen -- On realism about chance / Philip Percival -- Structure and identity / Stewart Shapiro -- The identity problem for realist structuralism II : a reply to Shapiro / Jukka Keränen -- The governance of identity / Stewart Shapiro -- The Julius Caesar objection : more problematic than ever / Fraser MacBride -- Sortals and the binding problem / John Campbell -- Vagueness and personal identity / Keith Hossack -- Is there a bodily criterion of personal identity? …”
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The point is to change it poetry and criticism in the continuing present / by McGann, Jerome J.

Table of Contents: “…Philological investigations -- Truth in the body of falsehood -- The alphabet, spelt from Silliman's leaves -- The apparatus of loss : Bruce Andrews writing -- Art and error, with special thanks to the poetry of Robert Duncan -- Private enigmas and critical functions, with special thanks to the poetry of Charles Bernstein -- From Sight to Shenandoah -- Marxism, romanticism, postmodernism : an American case history -- Looney tunes and unheard melodies : an Oulipian colonescapade, with a critique of "The great-ape love song corpus" and its lexicon -- The evidence of things not seen : a play -- Ivanhoe : a playful portrait -- Modernity and complicity : a conversation with Johanna Drucker.…”
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Metaphysical themes in Thomas Aquinas II by Wippel, John F.

Table of Contents: “…The possibility of a Christian philosophy : a Thomistic perspective -- The Latin Avicenna as a source of Thomas Aquinas's metaphysics -- Truth in Thomas Aquinas -- Thomas Aquinas and the axiom "what is received is received according to the mode of the receiver" -- Thomas Aquinas and the axiom that unreceived act is unlimited -- Thomas Aquinas on our knowledge of God and the axiom that every agent produces something like itself -- Thomas Aquinas on creatures as causes of esse -- Thomas Aquinas on demonstrating God's omnipotence -- Thomas Aquinas on God's freedom to create or not -- Thomas Aquinas's commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics -- Platonism and Aristotelianism in Aquinas.…”
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Doctors of deception what they don't want you to know about shock treatment / by Andre, Linda, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…The trouble with time -- Eugenic conceptions I : ticking time bombs -- Eugenic conceptions II : useless eaters -- A little brain pathology -- Informed consent and the dawn of the public relations era -- The American Psychiatric Association Task Force -- The making of an American activist -- The ECT industry cows the media -- Long strange trip : ECT and the food and drug administration -- The Committee for Truth in Psychiatry -- Anecdote or evidence? -- Shaming science -- The lie that won't die -- Erasing history -- The triumph of public relations over science -- Should shock be banned? …”
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Data warehousing in the age of big data by Krishnan, Krish

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