Spies and holy wars : the Middle East in 20th-century crime fiction by Simon, Reeva S.

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Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary Woolf. by Martin, Ann

Table of Contents: “…Dalloway; Clarissa's Glacial Skepticism: John Tyndall and "Deep Time" in Mrs. Dalloway ; Apollonian Illusion and Dionysian Truth in Mrs. …”
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Unquiet things : poems by May, James Davis, 1982-

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Writing religion : the case for the critical study of religion

Table of Contents: “…Personal Self-Disclosure, Religious Studies Pedagogy, and the Skeptical Mission of the Public University / Martin S. …”
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Power of problem-based learning.

Table of Contents: “…Using Problem-Based Learning in General Chemistry ; Appendix to Chapter 18 ; 19. A Skeptic's Look at PBL ; 20. PBL in Preservice Teacher Education.…”
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Reflections on constitutional law by Anastaplo, George, 1925-2014

Table of Contents: “…-- Realism and the study of constitutional law -- The challenges of skepticism for the constitutionalist -- Constitutionalism and the common law: the Erie problem reconsidered -- The Confederate Constitution (1861-1865) -- The Japanese relocation cases (1943,1944) -- Calder v. …”
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Soluble fish by Gillett, Mary Jo Firth, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; One; Itch, Scratch; Like a Deity, Like a Diatom; Of Pavlov; Sea Monkeys; Pollywog; Memory; Chicken Tile; Camping Out in the '50s; Hand-Me-Down Pantown; Grandma's Fingerless Gloves; Airborne; Segue; Lighthouse; Fish Tales; Two; I ask-; Word; Poem for the Hibiscus; Cardinal; Higgins Lake, Michigan, 9-11; Farmer, 1938; Dear Departed Reverend Grandfathers, ; Watching Dad Filet a Bass; Valences; Snowflake Obsidian; Of Snakes, Of Gluttony; A Note to the Skeptics; The bag lady; Hotel, Soldiers Field Road, Boston; Small losses ... ; Ladybug.…”
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Johanssonian investigations : essays in honour of Ingvar Johansson on his seventieth birthday

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Living with Uncertainty -- A Plea for Enlightened Skepticism; An Argument Against Disjunctivism; Is Experience a Reason for Accepting Basic Statements?…”
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What is Enlightenment? : eighteenth-century answers and twentieth-century questions

Table of Contents: “…Beiser -- Progress : ideas, skepticism, and critique-- the heritage of the Enlightenment / Rudolph Vierhaus.…”
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Philosophers of the Renaissance

Table of Contents: “…Kuhn -- Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535) : philosophical magic, empiricism, and skepticism / Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke and Paul Richard Blum -- Juan Luis Vives (1492/93-1540) : a pious eclectic / D.C. …”
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The new order and last orientation by Voegelin, Eric, 1901-1985

Table of Contents: “…The Second Cycle: The Reassertion of Spirit; 3. Spleen and Skepticism; 4. Montesquieu; 5. The Enlargement of the Geographical Horizon: The Biological Diversification of Mankind; PART EIGHT LAST ORIENTATION; Introductory Remarks; Phenomenalism; 1. …”
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Introduction to logic and theory of knowledge : lectures 1906/07 by Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938

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A decade of dark humor : how comedy, irony, and satire shaped post-9/11 America

Table of Contents: “…Laughs, tears, and breakfast cereals: rethinking trauma and post 9-11 politics in Art Spiegelman's In the shadow of no towers / Ted Gournelos -- Republican decline and culture wars in 9-11 humor / David Holloway -- Critique, counternarratives, and ironic intervention in South Park and Stephen Colbert / Viveca Greene -- Humoring 9/11 skepticism / Michael Truscello -- Rethinking post-9/11 politics. …”
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Logic : the question of truth by Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976

Table of Contents: “…The first, most literal meaning of the word "logic" -- A first indication of the concept of the subject matter of "logic" -- A philosophizing logic and traditional scholastic logic -- The possibility and the being of truth in general ; Skepticism -- Outline of the course ; Bibliography -- Psychologism : the name and the concept -- Husserl's critique of psychologism -- The presuppositions of Husserl's critique : a specific concept of truth as the guiding idea -- The roots of these presuppositions -- Anti-critical questions ; The need to take the question of the essence of truth back to Aristotle -- The place of truth, and logos (proposition) -- The basic structure of logos and the phenomenon of making sense -- The conditions of the possibility of logos being false ; The question of truth -- The presupposition for Aristotle's interpretation of truth as the authentic determination of being -- The idea of a phenomenological chronology -- The conditions of the possibility of falsehood within the horizon of the analysis of existence -- Care as the being of existence ; Concern-for and concern-about, authenticity and inauthenticity -- The ur-temporality of care -- Preparatory considerations toward attaining an original understanding of time ; A return to the history of the philosophical interpretation of the concept of time -- Hegel's interpretation of time in the Encyclopaedia -- The influence of Aristotle on Hegel's and Bergson's interpretation of time -- A preliminary look at the meaning of time in Kant's Critique of pure reason -- The interpretation of time in the Transcendental Analytic -- The function of time in the Transcendental Logic ; A characterization of the problematic ; The question of the unity of nature ; The original a priori of all combining--the transcendental unity of apperception -- Time as the universal a priori form of all appearances -- Time as original pure self-affection -- The question about the connection between time as original self-affection and the "I think" -- Interpretation of the First Analogy of Experience in the light of our interpretation of time -- The schematism of the pure concepts of the understanding -- Number as the schema of quantity -- Sensation as the schema of reality -- Persistence as the schema of substance -- The now-structure that we have attained : its character of referral and of making present ; The phenomenal demonstrability and limits of Kant's interpretation of time -- Time as an existential of human existence--temporality and the structure of care ; The statement as a making-present.…”
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The Radical Reformation and the Making of Modern Europe : a Lasting Heritage. by Biagioni, Mario

Table of Contents: “…4.1 The Infinite Amplitude of the Kingdom of God4.2 Erasmian Affinities: Francesco Pucci and Giordano Bruno; 4.3 A Lasting Heritage: A Brief History of Puccianism in the Seventeenth Century; Chapter 5 Christian Francken and the Skepticism of the Sixteenth Century; 5.1 The Descent of Christian Francken "in immensum"; 5.2 Christian Francken and the Criterion of Truth; 5.3 Christian Francken and the "Dispute between a Theologian and a Philosopher on the Uncertainty of Christian Religion"; 5.4 Christian Francken and the Sixteenth-Century Origins of the Treatise "De tribus impostoribus."…”
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Philosophers of the Renaissance

Table of Contents: “…Kuhn -- Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535) : philosophical magic, empiricism, and skepticism / Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke and Paul Richard Blum -- Juan Luis Vives (1492/93-1540) : a pious eclectic / D.C. …”
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All in the Mind Psychology for the Curious. by Furnham, Adrian

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Chapter Descriptions -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Some Quirky Quotes About Psychology -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Public Ignorance About Psychology -- 1.3 Tackling Student Skepticism About Psychology -- 1.4 Psychology and Control -- 1.5 How People Get Tricked -- 1.6 Conclusion -- 2 "Untangling" Myths and Psychological Realities -- 2.1 Popular Myths -- 2.2 Mind and Brain Myths -- 2.3 Myths about Happiness -- 2.4 Modern Myths of Popular Psychology -- 2.5 Conclusion…”
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Introducing Social Research Methods Essentials for Getting the Edge. by Ruane, Janet M.

Table of Contents: “…Empirical evidence -- Systematic, Methodical Rules -- Commitment to Causal Analysis -- Replication -- Science is a Public Endeavor -- Tentative -- Science as an Exercise in Skepticism -- Using Research Methods to Become Critical Consumers of Information -- TAKE AWAYS -- Sharpening the Edge: More Reading and Searching -- Exercises -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 The Language of Science and Research: Learning to Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk -- FIRST TAKES -- Units of Analysis -- Variables -- The Nuanced Language of Variables -- Data -- Correlations -- The Causal Relationship…”
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The Trust Crisis in Healthcare. by Shore, David A.

Table of Contents: “…Shore -- Why Americans don't trust the government and don't trust healthcare / Robert J. Blendon -- Skeptical patients: performance, social capital, and culture / Pippa Norris -- Building quality in the healthcare environment / Donald M. …”
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The Problem of Evil : Selected Readings, Second Edition. by Peterson, Michael L.

Table of Contents: “…The Evidential Problem CHAPTER 9 Evil, Evidence, and Skeptical Theism-A Debate ; CHAPTER 10 Christian Theism and the Evidential Argument from Evil ; The Existential Problem ; CHAPTER 11 On Regretting the Evils of This World.…”
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Politics of practical reasoning : integrating action, discourse, and argument

Table of Contents: “…Philosophia sine qua non : John Rawls's Transcendental-Political Reflections / Sebastian Lalla -- 13. Skeptical Wisdom : Descartes, Pascal and the Challenge of Pyrrhonism / Felix O. …”
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Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in the 16th-17th Centuries

Table of Contents: “…Principles of Jewish Skeptical Thought. The Case of Judah Moscato and Simone Luzzatto; 3. …”
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"They say / I say" : the Moves that Matter in Academic Writing by Graff, Gerald

Table of Contents: “…Yes/no/okay, but : three ways to respond ; And yet : distinguishing what you say from what they say ; Skeptics may object : planting a naysayer in your text ; So what? …”

The black swan : the impact of the highly improbable by Taleb, Nassim Nicholas, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…The apprenticeship of an empirical skeptic ; Yevgenia's black swan ; The speculator and the prostitute ; One thousand and one days, or how not to be a sucker ; Confirmation shmonfirmation! …”
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Personality Revolution : Using AI to Understand Your Customers and Win More Business. by D'Agostino, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 3 The Biggest Challenges to Successful CommunicationChallenge #1: People Are Complex; Challenge #2: People Have Biases; Challenge #3: People Are Increasingly Skeptical of Each Other; Chapter 4 How to Understand Anyone's Personality; The Empathy Equation: A Formula for Successful Interactions; The Basics of Personality Profiles; Quick Overview of the Most Popular Personality Models; Chapter 5 The Personality Map; Where You Fall on the Personality Map; Vertical Position: How You Interact with Your Environment; Horizontal Position: How You Interact with Other People…”
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The Bloomsbury companion to analytic philosophy

Table of Contents: “…18 Meaning, Normativity, and Naturalism1 Kripke's Skeptical Paradox; 2 Straight and Skeptical Solutions; 3 Wittgenstein on Dispositions; 4 Dispositions and Normativity; 5 Can Dispositionalism Be Rescued?…”
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Higher education in the digital age by Bowen, William G.

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Making Comparisons Count. by Chang, Ruth

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Mimi's trapeze by Rosser, J. Allyn (Jill Allyn), 1957-

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The way down by Burt, John, 1955-

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World's fairs in the Cold War : science, technology, and the culture of progress

Table of Contents: “…Kargon -- 1964 and the state of the city / Katie Uva -- Advancing an optimistic technological narrative in an age of skepticism: General Electric and Walt Disneys Progressland at the 1964-1965 New York Worlds Fair / Michael Demeter -- The human spirit in an age of machines: the pieta and the computer at the 1964-1965 New York Worlds Fair / Arthur P. …”
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The critical philosophy of Hermann Cohen = La filosofia critica di Hermann Cohen by Poma, Andrea

Table of Contents: “…MATERIALISM, SPIRITUALISM, AND SKEPTICISM -- 4. IDEALISM WITHOUT A SUBJECT?…”
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Improving Institutions for Green Landscapes in Metropolitan Areas : Improving Institutions for Green Landscapes in Metropolitan Areas. by Van Rij, E.

Table of Contents: “…The planning processEvaluating the process; Lessons that can be applied from the Bloemendalerpolder case; The constraints of a cross-subsidy approach; Legal constraints; Financial constraints; Skepticism about the improvement of spatial quality; Opposition because of rising land prices, limited transparency and inclusiveness; The uniqueness of the Bloemendalerpolder case; Conclusion; Network or hierarchy; Theories on networks and hierarchies; Hierarchical and network-oriented approaches in practice; Reasons to combine hierarchical and network-oriented approaches; Conclusion.…”
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Bas van Fraassen : the Fortunes of Empiricism. by Berg-Hildebrand, Andreas

Table of Contents: “…2 Undermining the CompromiseConclusion; References; Introduction; 1 The Concept of Observation; 2 Observability realistically construed; 3 Running into a dilemma; Introduction; 1 Truth as Correspondence to the Real World; 2 Truth as indexical; 3 Remnants of Realism -- Observables in the Mind-Independent World; References; Introduction; 1 Scientific Language; 2 Experience and Metaphysics; 3 Inference to the best explanation; Conclusion; References; 1 Laws, Necessity, and a Dilemma; 2 Van Fraassen's skepticism about laws.…”
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Literary criticisms of law by Binder, Guyora

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The August War in Georgia. by Oganjanyan, Amalia

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Higher education in the digital age by Bowen, William G.

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Intellectual property rights : a critical history by May, Christopher, 1960-, Sell, Susan K.

Table of Contents: “…The International Diversity of LawFrom the Patent Controversy to Paris and Bern -- Thomas Edison: Patents as a Business Strategy -- Copyright and Works for Hire -- The Ascendance of the German Chemical Industry -- Notes -- 6-The Twentieth Century: Intellectual Property Rights Consolidated -- Trust-busting and Cartels -- Skepticism About Intellectual Property Rights After 1945 -- Property Rights Resurgent -- Twentieth-Century Copyright -- Toward a Multilateral Settlement -- Notes -- 7-The Twenty-First Century: TRIPs and Beyond -- TRIPs -- After TRIPs…”
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Literary criticisms of law by Binder, Guyora

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Judicial Review in an Age of Moral Pluralism. by Den Otter, Ronald C.

Table of Contents: “…Inevitable Reasonable Disagreement; B. Skepticism about Legal Reasoning; Four Competing Conceptions of Public Reason; I. …”
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