Search Results - Political science

The creation of God by Pinxten, Rik

Table of Contents: “…The creation of heaven and the earth -- Religious artifacts -- Politics, ethics and fundamentalism -- Atheistic religiosity?.…”
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Rebranding Islam : piety, prosperity, and a self-help guru / by Hoesterey, James Bourk, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : authority, subjectivity, and the cultural politics of public piety -- Branding Islam : autobiography, authenticity, and religious authority -- Enchanting science : popular psychology as religious wisdom -- Ethical entrepreneurs : Islamic ethics and the spirit of capitalism -- Prophetic cosmopolitanism : the Prophet Muhammad as psycho-civic exemplar -- Shaming the state : pornography and the moral psychology of statecraft -- Sincerity and scandal : the moral and market logics of religious authority -- Conclusion : figuring Islam : popular culture and the cutting edge of public piety.…”
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Complementary and alternative medicine : containing and expanding therapeutic possibilities / by Dew, Kevin

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The Enlightenment a genealogy / by Edelstein, Dan

Table of Contents: “…-- The spirit of the moderns: from the new science to the Enlightenment -- Society, the subject of the modern story -- Quarrel in the Academy: the ancients strike back -- Humanism and Enlightenment: the classical style of the philosophes -- The philosophical spirit of the laws: politics and antiquity -- An ancient god: pagans and philosophers -- Post tenebras lux: Begriffsgeschichte or regime d'historicité? …”
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Knowledge, power, and discipline German studies and national identity / by Bontempelli, Pier Carlo

Table of Contents: “…The metamorphoses of domination and the subject of German studies -- The origins of modern German studies -- Under the aegis of Goethe : liberal historiography from Gervinus to Dilthey -- The science of literature and the steam engine : Wilhelm Scherer and the positivist school -- Wilhelm Dilthey and Geistesgeschichte -- German studies in the years of National Socialism -- The break in political continuity and the continuity of the disciplinary apparatus, 1945-1968 -- The dialectics of rebellion : 1968 and its consequences -- After 1968 : transforming the canon, shifting the paradigms -- Beyond the year 2000 : German studies between new approaches and the resurgence of philology.…”
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Shanghai and the edges of empires by Meng, Yue, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…The shifting locations of the translation of science -- 2. Semiotic modernity: the politics of philology and compilation -- Part II. …”
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Torah in the observatory Gersonides, Maimonides, Song of Songs / by Kellner, Menachem Marc, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Providence and the rabbinic tradition -- Mosaic prophecy: Maimonides and Gersonides -- Eschatology and miracles -- Creation, miracles, revelation -- Song of Songs and Gersonides' world -- Maimonides and Gersonides on astronomy and metaphysics -- Gersonides on the Song of Songs and the nature of science -- Politics and perfection: Gersonides vs. …”
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Shock therapy a history of electroconvulsive treatment in mental illness / by Shorter, Edward

Table of Contents: “…-- Epilogue: irrational science.…”
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Tears from iron cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China / by Edgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Shanxi, greater China, and the famine -- Experiencing the famine : the hierarchy of suffering in a famine song from Xiezhou -- The wrath of heaven versus human greed -- Qing officialdom and the politics of famine -- Views from the outside : science, railroads, and laissez-faire economics -- Hybrid voices : the famine and Jiangnan activism -- Family and gender in famine -- The "feminization of famine" and the feminization of nationalism -- Eating culture : cannibalism and the semiotics of starvation, 1870-2001 -- Epilogue. …”
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Deconstructing human development : from the Washington consensus to the 2030 agenda / by Telleria, Juan

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Language and society : anthropological issues /

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Capital formation in Canada, 1896-1930 by Buckley, Kenneth A. H.

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The management bible by Nelson, Bob, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…The art and science of management -- What managers do -- The challenge of change -- Leadership : the people thing -- Hiring and retaining the best people -- Motivating employees -- Coaching & development -- Mentoring employees -- Execution : getting the job done -- Setting goals -- Using delegation to your advantage -- Monitoring employee performance -- Building employee accountability -- Building high-performance teams -- Improving communication -- Working with teams -- Making meetings more effective -- Management challenges -- Discipline and corrective action -- Terminating employees when necessary -- Ethics and office politics.…”
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The folly of Jim Crow rethinking the segregated South /

Table of Contents: “…the politics of intimacy in the Jim Crow era / Jane Dailey.…”
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John Dewey and Continental philosophy

Table of Contents: “…Good, Jim Garrison -- Pragmatism and Gay Science : Comparing Dewey and Nietzsche / Barry Allen -- Dewey, Nietzsche, and the Self-Image of Philosophy / Paul Fairfield -- Heidegger : A Pragmatist by Any Means / Joseph Margolis -- Science, Nature, and Philosophic Foundations: Dewey and Heidegger / Sandra B. …”
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Care ethics and the refugee crisis : emotions, contestation, and agency / by Morgan, Marcia, 1970-

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Rural lifestyles, community well-being and social change : lessons from country Australia for global citizens /

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Between equal rights a Marxist theory of international law / by Miéville, China

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Thinking Like a Climate : Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change / by Knox, Hannah, 1977-

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Reconstructing postmodernism critical debates /

Table of Contents: “…Self-identity and personhood in social analysis : the inadequacies of postmodernism and social constructionism / Derek Layder -- Cognitive relativism : between positivistic and relativistic thinking in the social sciences / Nicos Mouzelis -- An excursus in post-postmodern social science / Roger Sibeon -- Postmodern social theory and sociology : on symbolic exchange with a "dead" theory / George Ritzer and J. …”
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