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Deconstructive Variations : Music and Reason in Western Society. by Subotnik, Rose Rosengard

Table of Contents: “…Intimations of Reality at the Gates of the Enlightenment; 2 How Could Chopin's A-Major Prelude Be Deconstructed?; 3 Toward a Deconstruction of Structural Listening: A Critique of Schoenberg, Adorno, and Stravinsky; 4 The Closing of the American Dream? …”
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Rethinking the University : Leverage and Deconstruction. by Wortham, Simon

Table of Contents: “…; CHAPTER 2: The 'glasse' of majesty: reflections on new historicism and cultural materialism; PART 2: Institutions; CHAPTER 3: Excellence and division: the deconstruction of institutional politics; CHAPTER 4: Multiple submissions and little scrolls of parchment: censorship, knowledge and the academy; PART 3: Economies and exchanges.…”
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Deconstructing sexuality in the Middle East : challenges and discourses /

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Strangers in new homelands : the social deconstruction and reconstruction of "home" among immigrants in the disapora /

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Towards a sustainable information society : deconstructing WSIS /

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Gaming the system : deconstructing video games, games studies, and virtual worlds / by Gunkel, David J.

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The sociology of medical regulation : an introduction by Chamberlain, John Martyn, 1972-

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Cyberculture and new media

Table of Contents: “…The différance engine : videogames as deconstructive spacetime /…”
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Narratives in social science research by Czarniawska-Joerges, Barbara

Table of Contents: “…Close Readings: Poststructuralism, Interruption, Deconstruction; Chapter 8 --…”
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Diaspora, identity, and religion : new directions in theory and research

Table of Contents: “…Deconstructing and comparing diasporas /…”
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Information infrastructure(s) : boundaries, ecologies, multiplicity

Table of Contents: “…The Design Knowledge Multiple : Deconstructing Balance in an Open Source Video Game Infrastructure /…”
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Beyond mobility : planning cities for people and places by Cervero, Robert, Guerra, Erick, Al, Stefan

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Welfare discipline : discourse, governance, and globalization by Schram, Sanford

Table of Contents: “…The truth of globalization discourse -- Reversed polarities -- Truth is a woman -- Welfare as racemaking -- Recommodified discourse -- Deconstructing dependency -- Compassionate liberalism.…”
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Creating sanctuary : toward the evolution of sane societies by Bloom, Sandra L., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: fifteen years later, 1997-2013 -- Trauma theory: deconstructing the social -- Attachment: constructing the social -- Remembering the social in psychiatry -- Creating sanctuary: reconstructing the social -- Toward the evolution of sane soceities.…”
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Provocateur : images of women and minorities in advertising by Cortese, Anthony Joseph Paul

Table of Contents: “…Representations, multiculturalism, and mass media -- Visual attraction, body display, and advertising -- Constructed bodies, deconstructing ads : sexism in advertising -- Symbolic racism in advertising -- Ethnic advertising -- Speed and fragmentation : toward postmodern consciousness.…”

Designing for the Museum Visitor Experience. by Roppola, Tiina

Table of Contents: “…Designing for the Museum Visitor Experience; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Envisaging the Discipline; 2 Exhibition Design as Mediation; 3 'Experience' in Museums; 4 Deconstructing Visitor Experience; 5 Framing; 6 Resonating; 7 Channelling; 8 Broadening; 9 Design for Exhibition Ecologies; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Methodology of the oppressed by Sandoval, Chela, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…The Methodology of the Oppressed: Semiotics, Deconstruction, Meta-Ideologizing, Democratics, and Differential Movement II; PART IV . …”
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Critical fashion practice : from Westwood to Van Beirendonck by Geczy, Adam, Karaminas, Vicki

Table of Contents: “…2 REI KAWAKUBO'S DECONSTRUCTIVIST SILHOUETTEDeconstruction; Deconstruction and architecture; Deconstruction and fashion; Unclear culture; The inside and outside of clothing; Undead minimalism; 3 GARETH PUGH'S CORPOREAL UNCOMMENSURABILITIES; Masks and performance; Posthumanity and dolls; Immaterial and imaginary fashion; 4 MIUCCIA PRADA'S INDUSTRIAL MATERIALISM; Making ugly cool; Creative collaborations; Prada and cinema; 5 AITOR THROUP'S ANATOMICAL NARRATIVES; Spinozist fashion; Fields of fantasy; The work of fashion in the age of digital reproducibility.…”
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Critical Literacy : Context, Research, and Practice in the K-12 Classroom. by Stevens, Dr. Lisa Patel P.

Table of Contents: “…Redefining literacy -- Why we need critical literacy: dynamic texts and identity formation -- Critical literacy and teacher education -- Critical literacy at the nexus of praxis -- Praxis point 1: popular culture, fandom, and boundaries -- Praxis point 2: Critical numeracy across the curriculum -- Praxis point 3: cycles of deconstruction and reconstruction -- Critical literacy and educational policy texts -- Critical policy analysis in local contexts.…”
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The Sorcery of Color : Identity, Race, and Gender in Brazil. by Nascimento, Elisa

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Foreword by Kabengele Munanga; Introduction; Identity, Race, and Gender; Brazil and the Making of Virtual Whiteness; Constructing and Deconstructing the "Crazy Creole"; Another History: Afro-Brazilian Agency (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, 1914-1960); The Black Experimental Theater: Plots, Texts, and Actors; Concluding Remarks: The Priority of Education; Notes; List of Abbreviations; Glossary of Brazilian Words; Bibliographical Note to the English Edition; Selected Bibliography; Index.…”
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Reconstructing architecture : critical discourses and social practices

Table of Contents: “…Accommodation and Resistance: The Built Environment and the African American Experience -- 6. Deconstruction and Architecture -- 7. Subverting the Avant-Garde: Critical Theory's Real Strategy.…”
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Reconstructing architecture : critical discourses and social practices

Table of Contents: “…Accommodation and Resistance: The Built Environment and the African American Experience -- 6. Deconstruction and Architecture -- 7. Subverting the Avant-Garde: Critical Theory's Real Strategy.…”
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Beyond Goffman : Studies on Communication, Institution, and Social Interaction. by Riggins, Stephen H.

Table of Contents: “…-- The phenomenology of miscommunication -- The cross-cultural relevance of Goffman's concept of individual agency -- Erving Goffman as a precursor to post-modern sociology -- Reading Goffman: Toward the deconstruction of sociology -- II. Expanding the Scope: Forms of institutions, forms of language -- Legal decisions: A frame analytic perspective -- Making sense of religion by direct observation: An application of frame analysis -- Gender codes in women's advice books -- Forms of talk/figures of speech -- III. …”
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NFB Kids : Portrayals of Children by the National Film Board of Canada, 1939-1989. by Low, Brian J.

Table of Contents: “…1 Children in a Cinematic Society; 2 Early NFB Society: The Eyes of Democracy; 3 Lessons in Living: ''Deconstruction'' of a Rural Community in Early NFB Society; 4 Fields of Vision: Panoramas of Childhood in the Cinematic Society, 1947-67; 5 ''The New Generation'': Mental Hygiene and the Portrayals of Children by the National Film Board of Canada, 1946-67; 6 A Progressive State of Disequilibrium: Social Relations in the Cinematic Society, 1968-89; 7 Conclusion: The Century of the Cinematic Child; 8 Epilogue.…”
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Bringing back the social into the sociology of religion : critical approaches

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: an epistemology for the sociology of religion -- Protestant churches and same-sex marriage in France: "theological" criteria and sociological approaches -- Deconstructing Archer's (un)critical realism -- Spirituality and discipline: not a contradiction in terms -- Congregational studies, worship and region behaviour -- Unmasking the relations of power within the religious field -- An affective (u- )turn in the sociology of religion? …”
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We remember, we love, we grieve mortuary and memorial practice in contemporary Russia by Warner, Elizabeth, 1940-, Adonʹeva, S. B.

Table of Contents: “…The Russian Semik-Troitsa (Trinity) Ritual Complex: A Deconstruction of the Public and Private Faces of Ritual, or "A Festival of Life and Death" -- 6. …”
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Contingent lives : fertility, time, and aging in West Africa by Bledsoe, Caroline H.

Table of Contents: “…Disjunctures and Anomalies: Deconstructing Child Spacing; 6. Realizing a Reproductive Endowment in a Contingent Body; 7. …”
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The collapse of the eastern Mediterranean : climate change and the decline of the East, 950-1072 by Ellenblum, Roni

Table of Contents: “…Presenting the events ; 2. Deconstructing a 'collapse' ; 3. 950-1027--An impending disaster -- Part II. …”
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The myth of the addicted army : Vietnam and the modern war on drugs by Kuzmarov, Jeremy, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the politics of scapegoating -- "The press has done a tremendous disservice" : historical perspective -- Creating the myth of the "Nam junkie" : mass media and the rise of a drug scare -- Deconstructing the myth : the great national drug debate of the sixties and seventies -- "A generation of junkies" : the antiwar movement, the Democratic Party, and the myth -- The brass responds, part I : Nixon's war on drugs -- The brass responds, part II : from counterinsurgency to narco-insurgency in Southeast Asia -- "Get up you doped up bastard!" …”

The myth of the addicted army Vietnam and the modern war on drugs by Kuzmarov, Jeremy, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the politics of scapegoating -- "The press has done a tremendous disservice" : historical perspective -- Creating the myth of the "Nam junkie" : mass media and the rise of a drug scare -- Deconstructing the myth : the great national drug debate of the sixties and seventies -- "A generation of junkies" : the antiwar movement, the Democratic Party, and the myth -- The brass responds, part I : Nixon's war on drugs -- The brass responds, part II : from counterinsurgency to narco-insurgency in Southeast Asia -- "Get up you doped up bastard!" …”
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The construction of 'ordinariness' across media genres

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Cultural criticism : a primer of key concepts by Berger, Arthur Asa, 1933-

Table of Contents: “…Literary theory and cultural criticism -- Mimesis and other theories of literature -- Texts -- Genres and texts -- Interpretation of texts -- Hermeneutics -- Reception theory -- Deconstruction -- Postmodernism -- Feminist criticism -- Phallocentric theory -- Formalism -- Defamiliarization -- Dialogical theory -- Montage and meaning -- Conclusion -- 3. …”

Integral development : realising the transformative potential of individuals, organisations and societies by Schieffer, Alexander

Table of Contents: “…2.8 The Tao of Development; 2.9 Integration; 3 Deconstruction -- Reconstruction: Steps towards Renewing Human Development; 3.1 Orientation; 3.2 Deconstruction; 3.3 Reconstruction; 3.4 Integration; Part II Integral Worlds; 4 The Integral Perspective: Holistically Renewing Development; 4.1 Orientation; 4.2 The Rise of the Integral Age; 4.3 Integral Worlds Approach; 4.4 Comparing Integral Worlds with Other Integral Approaches; 4.5 Integration; 5 A New Approach: The Integral Development Framework; 5.1 Orientation; 5.2 Initiation; 5.3 Realities; 5.4 Realms; 5.5 Rounds.…”
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Culture on drugs : narco-cultural studies of high modernity by Boothroyd, Dave

Table of Contents: “…Addiction and the decision of existenceIntoxication and dosage: doing drugs well; Sacrifice and bad conscience; Applying drug(ged) theory to the everyday drug(ged) world; 3. Deconstruction and drugs -- all mixed up; Culture and interdiction; Saying 'yes to drugs' and 'yes to deconstruction'; Rejecting transcendence; Taking drugs, for example ... ; Rewriting the drugs text and taking drugs otherwise; Living on the margins of the unforgettable; 4. …”
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Luhmann Explained : From Souls to Systems. by Moeller, Hans-Georg

Table of Contents: “…Habermas; 14. Postmodernity, Deconstruction, and Techno-Theory; 15. Conclusion: From Metanarrative to Supertheory; Notes; References; Glossary of Key Terms.…”
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Curiosity and power : the politics of inquiry by Zurn, Perry, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Jacques Derrida: Sovereign Curiosity and Deconstruction -- Part II. Archives of Political Experience -- Chapter 5. …”
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Mobile modernity : Germans, Jews, trains by Presner, Todd Samuel

Table of Contents: “…Dialectics at a standstill -- Berlin and Delos : Celan's no-places and Heidegger's homecomings : philosophy and poetry out of material history -- Sicily, New York City, and the Baranovich station : German/Jewish subject without a nation : on the meta-epistemology of mobility and mass-migration -- The North Sea : Jews on ships : or, how Heine's Reisebilder deconstruct Hegel's philosophy of world history -- Nuremburg-Fürth-Palestine : some assembly required : global anxieties and corporeal fantasies of German/Jewish nationality -- Auschwitz : "the fabrication of corpses" : Heidegger, Arendt, and the modernity of mass death -- Vienna-Rome-Prague-Antwerp-Paris : the railway ruins of modernity : Freud and Sebald on the narration of German/Jewish remains.…”
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Globalization : the paradox of organizational behavior : terrorism, foreign policy, and governance / Paradox of organizational behavior : terrorism, foreign policy, and governance by Sagini, Meshack M.

Table of Contents: “…Effects of globalization -- Globalization and the challenges of the New World Order -- The political economy of HIV/AIDS -- Terrorism and its risks -- Effects of terrorism in America: challenges to national security -- The global energy security -- Deconstructive critique: the new paradigm.…”
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Foucault and education : disciplines and knowledge

Table of Contents: “…Marshall -- Foucault under examination : the crypto-educationalist unmasked / Keith Hoskin -- The genealogy of the urban schoolteacher / Dave Jones -- Educational practices and scientific knowledge : a genealogical reinterpretation of the emergence of physiology in post-Revolutionary France / Richard Jones -- Docile bodies : commonalities in the history of psychiatry and schooling / Ivor Goodson and Ian Dowbiggin -- Deconstructing hegemony : multicultural policy and a populist response / John Knight, Richard Smith, and Judyth Sachs -- Management as moral technology : a Luddite analysis / Stephen J. …”
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Modern Rhetoric in Culture, Arts, and Media : 13 Essays. by Knape, Joachim

Table of Contents: “…A Dialog; Dialog; 5 A Rhetoric of Conversation; Rhetoric of Verbal Texts; 6 Historiography as Rhetoric in Medieval Times; 7 On the Problems of Literary Rhetoric; 8 Paratexts and the Rhetorical Factor in Literature; 9 New Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Deconstruction; 10 The Rhetoric of Music.…”
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