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Maya intellectual renaissance identity, representation, and leadership / by Montejo, Victor, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Maya identity and interethnic relations -- Pan-Mayanism : the complexity of Maya culture and the process of self-representation -- Representation via ethnography : mapping the Maya image in a Guatemalan primary-school social-studies textbook -- The multiplicity of Maya voices : Maya leadership and the politics of self-representation -- Truth, human rights, and representation : the case of Rigoberta Menchú -- The ethnohistory of Maya leadership -- Theoretical basis and strategies for Maya leadership -- Maya ways of knowing : modern Maya and the elders -- Leadership and Maya intellectuality -- Indigenous rights, security, and democracy in the Americas : the Guatemalan situation -- The twenty-first century and the future of the Maya in Guatemala.…”
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Missions and empire

Table of Contents: “…Gould -- An overview, 1700-1914 / Andrew Porter -- Humanitarians and white settlers in the nineteenth century / Alan Lester -- Where the missionary frontier ran ahead of empire / John Barker -- Christian missions and the Raj / Robert Eric Frykenberg -- New Christians as evangelists / Peggy Brock -- 'Trained to tell the truth': missionaries, converts, and narration / Gareth Griffiths -- Women and cultural exchanges / Patricia Grimshaw and Peter Sherlock -- Language / Paul Landau -- New religious movements / Rober Edgar -- Anthropology / Patrick Harries -- Education and medicine / Norman Etherington -- Decolonization / David Maxwell.…”
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Music as thought listening to the symphony in the age of Beethoven / by Bonds, Mark Evan

Table of Contents: “…Listening in a rhetorical framework ; Listening in a philosophical framework ; Art as philosophy -- Listening to truth : Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The infinite sublime ; History as knowing ; The synthesis of conscious and unconscious ; Organic coherence ; Beyond the sublime -- Listening to the aesthetic state : cosmopolitanism. …”
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Bodies as Evidence : Security, Knowledge, and Power /

Table of Contents: “…The truth of the error: making identity and security through biometric discrimination / Elida K.U. …”
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Consolidated legal texts for the Special Court for Sierra Leone by Jalloh, Charles

Table of Contents: “…UN Security Council resolution 1315 (2000) -- Agreement between the United Nations and the government of Sierra Leone on the establishment of a Special Court for Sierra Leone -- Statute of the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- Rules of procedure and evidence -- Headquarters agreement between the Republic of Sierra Leone and the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- UN Security Council resolution 1688 (2006) -- Memorandum of understanding regarding administrative arrangements between the International Criminal Court and the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- Rules governing the detention of persons awaiting trial or appeal before the Special Court for Sierra Leone or otherwise detained on the authority of the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- Code of professional conduct for counsel with the right of audience before the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- Code of ethics for interpreters and translators employed by the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- Directive on the assignment of counsel -- Practice direction on filing documents before the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- Practice direction on disclosure by the prosecution by the prosecutor pursuant to rule 66 of the rules of procedure and evidence of the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- Practice direction on filing documents under rule 72 of the rules of procedure and evidence before the Appeals Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- Practice direction on filing amicus curiae applications pursuant to rule 74 of the rules of procedure and evidence of the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- Practice direction on certain appeals before the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- Practice direction on the procedure following a request by a state, the truth and reconciliation commission, or other legitimate authority to take a statement from a person in the custody of the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- The National Constitution of Sierra Leone, 1991 (Act no. 6 of 1991) -- The Special Court Agreement, 2002 Ratication Act, 2002 -- The Special Court Agreement, 2002 (Ratication) Amendment Act, 2002 -- The Lome Peace Agreement (Ratication) Act, 1999 -- The Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act 2000 -- The Criminal Procedure Act, 1965 -- Prevention of Cruelty to Children Act -- An ordinance to prevent cruelty to children -- Malicious Damage Act, 1861 -- Peace agreement between the government of the Republic of Sierra Leone and the revolutionary united front of Sierra Leone (RUF/SL) (Abidjan Accord) -- Economic community of West African states six-month peace plan for Sierra Leone (Conakry Accord) -- Peace agreement between the government of Sierra Leone and the revolutionary united front of Sierra Leone (Lome peace agreement) -- Abuja cease're agreement between the government of Sierra Leone and the revolutionary united front (Abuja cease? …”
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A comprehensive critique of student evaluation of teaching : critical perspectives on validity, reliability, and impartiality / by Clayson, Dennis E.

Table of Contents: “…Issues and debates surrounding student evaluations of teaching -- Potential impacts of gender bias on student evaluations -- The influence of personality traits on student evaluations -- Halo effects impacting on student evaluations -- Questioning the truthfulness of student evaluations -- Rigor, grades and how they impact on student evaluations -- The association between student learning and student evaluations -- Student evaluations and the improvement of instruction -- Challenging the statistical reliability of student evaluations -- Traditional validity and SET -- Identifying valid applications of SET -- Validity and the impacts of subjectivity -- Introducing a likability hypothesis -- Justifications of the likability hypothesis -- Conclusion and recommendations : the future of SET.…”
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Modernity and the dilemma of North American Anglican identities, 1880-1950 by Katerberg, William H. (William Henry), 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Manning: Apostolic Order and Evangelical Truth -- 7 Anglicanism in North America, 1920-1950 -- 8 Carl Eckhardt Grammer: Things That Remain in Liberal Anglicanism -- 9 Henry John Cody: Modernity and Mediating Anglicanism -- lo Conclusion: The Modern Project, Fragmentation, and Anglican Identity.…”
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Artifacts of Thinking : Reading Hannah Arendt's Denktagebuch /

Table of Contents: “…Reconciling oneself to the impossibility of reconciliation : judgment and worldliness in Hannah Arendt's politics / Roger Berkowitz -- On the truth-and-politics section in the Denktagebuch / Ursula Ludz -- "By relating it" : on modes of writing and judgment in the Denktagebuch / Thomas Wild -- Thinking in metaphors / Wout Cornelissen -- The task of knowledgeable love : Arendt and Portmann in search of meaning / Anne O'Byrne -- Vita passiva : love in Arendt's Denktagebuch / Tatjana Noemi Tömmel -- America as exemplar : the Denktagebuch of 1951 / Tracy B. …”
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Minimal Theologies : Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas / by Vries, Hent de

Table of Contents: “…Toward a critique of theology -- A possible internal and external differentiation of Habermas's theory of rationality -- Paradox and aporia in Adorno's philosophy of nonidentity -- The construction of occidental subjectivism: reductio ad hominem versus remembrance of nature in the subject -- The breaking apart of western objectivism and the resurrection of the particular and the ephemeral in the philosophy of history -- Metaphysical experience -- Paradox and aporia in Levinas's philosophy of the ethical-religious other -- Levinas on art and truth -- The dialectics of subjectivity and the critique of objectivism -- Loosening logocentrism: language and skepticism -- From unhappy consciousness to bad conscience -- "The other theology": conceptual, historical, and political idolatry -- Appendix: The theology of the sign and the sign of theology: the apophatics of deconstruction.…”
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Responsibility of Intellectuals : Reflections by Noam Chomsky and Others after 50 years /

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Artifacts of Thinking : Reading Hannah Arendt's Denktagebuch /

Table of Contents: “…Reconciling oneself to the impossibility of reconciliation : judgment and worldliness in Hannah Arendt's politics / Roger Berkowitz -- On the truth-and-politics section in the Denktagebuch / Ursula Ludz -- "By relating it" : on modes of writing and judgment in the Denktagebuch / Thomas Wild -- Thinking in metaphors / Wout Cornelissen -- The task of knowledgeable love : Arendt and Portmann in search of meaning / Anne O'Byrne -- Vita passiva : love in Arendt's Denktagebuch / Tatjana Noemi Tömmel -- America as exemplar : the Denktagebuch of 1951 / Tracy B. …”
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Minimal Theologies : Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas / by Vries, Hent de

Table of Contents: “…Toward a critique of theology -- A possible internal and external differentiation of Habermas's theory of rationality -- Paradox and aporia in Adorno's philosophy of nonidentity -- The construction of occidental subjectivism: reductio ad hominem versus remembrance of nature in the subject -- The breaking apart of western objectivism and the resurrection of the particular and the ephemeral in the philosophy of history -- Metaphysical experience -- Paradox and aporia in Levinas's philosophy of the ethical-religious other -- Levinas on art and truth -- The dialectics of subjectivity and the critique of objectivism -- Loosening logocentrism: language and skepticism -- From unhappy consciousness to bad conscience -- "The other theology": conceptual, historical, and political idolatry -- Appendix: The theology of the sign and the sign of theology: the apophatics of deconstruction.…”
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Responsibility of Intellectuals : Reflections by Noam Chomsky and Others after 50 years /

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100 years of pragmatism William James's revolutionary philosophy /

Table of Contents: “…Gavin -- William James's pragmatism : a distinctly mixed bag / Bruce Wilshire -- The deconstruction of traditional philosophy in William James's pragmatism / Richard M. Gale -- James on truth and solidarity : the epistemology of diversity and the politics of specificity / José M. …”
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In search of the good life a pedagogy for troubled times / by Dallmayr, Fred R. (Fred Reinhard), 1928-

Table of Contents: “…Prominent searchers in the past -- A pedagogy of the heart: Saint Bonaventure's spiritual itinerary -- Walking humbly with your God: Jñanadev and the Warkari movement -- Wise ignorance: Nicolaus of Cusa's search for truth -- The natural theology of the Chinese: Leibniz and Confucianism -- Montesquieu's Persian letters: a timely classic -- Beautiful freedom: Schiller on the aesthetic education of humanity -- Pedagogy for our troubled times -- Why the classics today? …”
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Essays from the edge parerga & paralipomena / by Jay, Martin, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…: reflections on a Frankfurt school lament -- Mourning a metaphor: the revolution is over -- Cultural relativism and the visual turn -- Scopic regimes of modernity revisited -- No state of grace : violence in the garden -- Visual parrhesia? : Foucault and the truth of the gaze -- The Kremlin of modernism -- Phenomenology and lived experience -- Aesthetic experience and historical experience : a twenty-first-century constellation -- Still waiting to hear from derrida -- Pseudology : Derrida on Arendt and lying in politics -- The menace of consilience : keeping the disciplines unreconciled -- Can there be national philosophies in a transnational world? …”
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Field notes on science & nature

Table of Contents: “…Schaller -- Untangling the bank / Bernd Heinrich -- One and a half cheers for list-keeping / Kenn Kaufman -- A reflection of the truth / Roger Kitching -- Linking researchers across generations / Anna K. …”
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Outthink the competition how a new generation of strategists see options others ignore / by Krippendorff, Kaihan

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Anne Boleyn fatal attractions / by Bernard, G. W.

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The Great 'Umar Khayyam A Global Reception of the Rubáiyát /

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