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The making of the slave class by Carrier, Jerry, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The not so free market -- The American class system -- The Okies, a case study -- Class traits -- One nation under God -- The European roots of Christian class culture, predestination and the divine rights of kings -- Christianity and predestination comes to America -- The early history -- The revivalist movement -- The Catholic experience in Protestant America, and growing conflicts within the working classes -- Other American working-class Christian movements -- The ghetto complex -- Christianity vs. science and modernism -- Jewish impact on America, Anti-Semitism and more class conflict -- The Ku Klux Klan & other white Christian supremacists -- Christianity & capitalism, the creation of American economic and class culture -- The first sexual revolution -- Prohibition -- War on the working class: the war on drugs -- The Christian conservatives take control of American politics -- More politics and decline of the liberals and moderates -- Christian conservatives vs. the civil rights movement -- Christian conservatives vs. the judiciary -- Father knows best, Christianity vs. women -- Class and the gay movement -- Class warfare: Christianity vs. …”
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Artificial intelligence for drug development, precision medicine, and healthcare / by Chang, Mark

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Hizmet means service : perspectives on an alternative path within Islam /

Table of Contents: “…Hizmet among the three most influential religious movements of late Ottoman and modern Turkish history / Carter Vaughn Findley -- Who is Fethullah Gulen? …”
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Therapeutic ethics in context and in dialogue / by Smith, Kevin R., 1953-

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Taxation, the state and society the fiscal sociology of interventionist democracy / by Leroy, Marc, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The importance of multidisciplinary fiscal sociology -- The fiscal state and interventionist democracy -- Tocqueville pioneer of fiscal sociology -- Tocqueville and the expenditures of democracy -- Finance, centralization, and revolution -- The founders of fiscal sociology -- The Austrian founders -- Pareto's fiscal sociology -- The Italian school (strictu sensu) -- Fiscal sociology as a social science -- The factors of institutional recognition -- Fiscal sociology viewed as a social science -- The relation of fiscal sociology to other disciplines -- The political logic of the evolution of the tax state -- The tax genesis of the modern state in Western Europe -- The modern tax state in the history of ideas (an outline) -- Typological approach of the tax state -- The public finance system -- The systemic analysis of tax revenue -- Public revenue and expenditure in the OECD -- The case of developing countries -- The elemental factors of fiscal policy -- The influence of ideas -- The institutional shaping -- Socio-economic groups -- The left-right division -- Obstacles to fiscal democracy -- Against the determinism of contectual factors -- The distorted configuration of fiscal public action -- Bureaucratic regulation -- Fiscal bureaucracy in France -- The organization of tax control -- The individual's logic in the face of taxes -- The factors involved in tax revolts -- The concrete rationality of taxpayer -- The citizen's contribution-tax -- Fiscal deviance becoming commonplace -- The phenomenon of fiscal deviance -- The deviation of fiscal state regulation -- The destabilization of the functions of the interventionist tax state -- The financial function -- The economic function -- The social function -- The ecological territorial function -- The political function -- Globalization, Europe, and taxation -- Durkheim's model of economic anomie -- Neo-liberal globalization of the economy -- The insufficiencies of the European response.…”
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Animism in contemporary Japan : voices for the Anthropocene from post-Fukushima Japan /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Style; INTRODUCTION A theoretical map: Reflections from post-Fukushima Japan; Silent springs; The Anthropocene and the enchantment of modernity; World-risk-society Japan; Spirituality as a foundation for environmental ethics; Spirituality: A lacuna in social science; Minamata and Fukushima in Japan's modern history; Connectedness as a legacy of Japan's modernity; Minamata as method; Framing animism…”
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Rethinking the messianic idea in Judaism /

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Cultural Reflections of Medusa The Shadow in the Glass. by Hedgecock, Jennifer

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Beyond Borders : Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma / by Chang, Wen-Chin, 1964-

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Crime, harm and consumerism /

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Gesture and Power : Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo / by Covington-Ward, Yolanda, 1979-

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After taste expanded practice in interior design /

Table of Contents: “…Bernstein -- Outside in/Inside out : a short history of (modern) interiority / Anthony Vidler -- Portfolio : Courtney Smith -- Expanded pedagogies and methods : a fossick for interior design pedagogies / Julieanna Preston -- Interior design as environmental design : the Parsons program in the 1960s / Joanna Merwood-Salisbury -- Technology in/and the home / Alex Kitnick -- To those who desire without end : an interview with Stephen and Timothy Quay -- Portfolio : James Casebere -- Practicing after taste. …”
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After the death of nature : Carolyn Merchant and the future of human-nature relations /

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Opening Science The Evolving Guide on How the Internet is Changing Research, Collaboration and Scholarly Publishing /

Table of Contents: “…Towards Another Scientific Revolution -- Open Science: One Term, Five Schools of Thought -- Excellence by Nonsense: The Competition for Publications in Modern Science -- Science Caught Flat-footed: How Academia Struggles with Open Science Communication -- Open Science and the Three Cultures: Expanding Open Science to All Domains of Knowledge Creation -- (Micro)blogging Science? …”
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Diplomacy, communication, and peace : selected essays / by Maley, William, 1957-

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Globalizing India perspectives from below /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Jackie Assayag and C.J. Fuller -- On the history of globalization and India : concepts, measures and debates / G. …”
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Economics and the philosophy of science by Redman, Deborah A.

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A Wise and Discerning Mind : Essays in Honor of Burke O. Long /

Table of Contents: “…De-doxifying Miriam / Alice Bach -- Goddess worship-ancient and modern / Gary Beckman -- Numinous Nomos: on the relationship between narrative and law / Adele Berlin -- A "literary sermon" in Deuteronomy 4 / Marc Z. …”
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Happiness and Utility : Essays Presented to Frederick Rosen /

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John Dewey and Continental philosophy

Table of Contents: “…Bernstein -- Dewey, Gadamer, and the Status of Poetry among the Arts / David Vessey -- Educating the Self : Dewey and Foucault / C. G. Prado -- The History and Critique of Modernity: Dewey with Foucault against Weber / Colin Koopman -- Meanings, Communication, and Politics: Dewey and Derrida / Antonio Calcagno -- Eagerness for Experience : Dewey and Deleuze on the Problematic of Thinking and Learning / Inna Semetsky.…”
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