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The Bible in theory : critical and postcritical essays by Moore, Stephen D., 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Illuminating the Gospels without the benefit of color : a plea for concrete criticism ; The gospel of the look ; Are there impurities in the living water that the Johannine Jesus dispenses? : deconstruction, feminism, and the Samaritan woman ; The quest of the New Historicist Jesus / co-authored with Susan Lochrie Graham ; Further reading on poststructuralism and New Historicism -- Autobiography. …”
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Style in theory : between literature and philosophy

Table of Contents: “…7 Style and arrogance: The ethics of Heidegger's styleIntroduction: Style and the desolation of responsibility; The question of being as a question of style; Style as ethics: The task of seeing in thinking; 8 Style is the man: Meillassoux, Heidegger, and finitude; Correlated style; Dasein styles; Style: Our impossible possibility; 9 Style in communication: The hip swing of Hélio Oiticica's Parangolés; Style in communication and the limitations of theory; The hip swing of Hélio Oiticica's Parangolés; 10 St!le-in-deconstruction; Introduction; Flori-legium : What was style (,) in theory.…”
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The singing teacher's guide to transgender voices by Jackson Hearns, Liz, Kremer, Brian

Table of Contents: “…Deconstructing gender -- Communication -- Voice classification and repertoire -- Psychological perspective : an interview with Kelly George, licensed clinical professional counselor and psychotherapist -- Respiration and special considerations for transgender singers -- Hormone therapy and voice -- Pitch and registration -- Resonance and articulation -- Voice health for transgender singers -- Trans singers on singing…”
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After poststructuralism : writing the intellectual history of theory

Table of Contents: “…Some theoretical and historical complications in Hegel's aesthetics of comedy / Stanley Corngold -- The double detour : Satre, Heidegger, and the genealogy of deconstruction / Tilottama Rajan -- The premodern condition : neo-primitivism in Baudrillard and Lyotard / Victor Li -- The sublime between history and theory : Hegel, de Man, and beyond / Ian Balfour.…”
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The varieties of pragmatism : truth, realism, and knowledge from James to Rorty by McDermid, Douglas

Table of Contents: “…Pragmatism and epistemology : deconstruction or reconstruction? -- The decline and fall of correspondence -- Keeping reality in mind : the comparison objection -- Neither worldmakers nor mirrors : the constructivist objection -- Towards a pragmatist epistemology -- Rorty's brave new pragmatism -- Anti-foundationalism : from the ground up -- Anti-representationalism and its discontents.…”
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Faith and resistance : the politics of love and war in Lebanon by Marusek, Sarah

Table of Contents: “…The Rise of Religious Activism in Lebanon and Beyond; 3. Deconstructing Terrorism and Resistance; 4. Lebanon's Resistance Charities; 5. …”
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Latinamericanism after 9/11 by Beverley, John, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Latinamericanism after 9/11 -- The persistence of the nation (against empire) -- Deconstruction and Latinamericanism (apropos Alberto Moreiras's the Exhaustion of difference) -- Between Ariel and Caliban : on the politics of location of Latinamericanism and the question of solidarity -- The neoconservative turn -- Beyond the paradigm of disillusion : rethinking the armed struggle in Latin America -- The subaltern and the state.…”
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The greening of pharmaceutical and chemical. by Islam, Rafiqul, 1959-, Islam, Jaan S., Zatzman, Gary M., Rahman, M. Safiur, Mughal, M. A. H.

Table of Contents: “…630 6.6 Deconstruction of Einstein's concept of reality, mass, time,…”
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Citizen participation in decision making : towards inclusive development in Kenya

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The Postmodern Brain. by Globus, Gordon G.

Table of Contents: “…THE ERUPTION OF OTHER AND SELF; I.A DECONSTRUCTION OF CLASSICAL DYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY; II. …”
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Sovereignty and superheroes by Curtis, Neal

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Unbending Gender : Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It. by Williams, Joan

Table of Contents: “…; CHAPTER TWO: From Full Commodification to Reconstructive Feminism; CHAPTER THREE: Deconstructing the Ideal-Worker Norm in Market Work; CHAPTER FOUR: Deconstructing the Ideal-Worker Norm in Family Entitlements; PART II: Unbending Gender Talk (Including Feminism); CHAPTER FIVE: How Domesticity's Gender Wars Take on Elements of Class and Race Conflict.…”
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The narrative reader

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; How to use this book; Introduction: Aporias of Writing: Narrative and Subjectivity; 1 Form and Discourse; 2 Structuralism; 3 Post-narratology; 4 Psychoanalysis; 5 Sexual Difference; 6 Deconstruction; 7 Phenomenology; 8 History; 9 Race; Index.…”
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Presence in play : a critique of theories of presence in the theatre by Power, Cormac

Table of Contents: “…Being present: the literal mode of presence -- ch. 4. Deconstructing presence -- ch. 5. The presence of liveness -- ch. 6. …”
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Accounting theory : essays by Carl Thomas Devine by Devine, Carl Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Editor's preface; Responsibilities, ethics, and legitimacy; Leading accountants: ethical backgrounds; Addendum: different views of natural man; Hermeneutics and communication theory; Deconstruction as methodology; Comments on academic publications; Comments on higher education: the Florida case; Rational models and subjective probability assessments; Index.…”
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Converts, heretics, and lepers : Maimonides and the outsider by Diamond, James Arthur

Table of Contents: “…The convert (ger): metaphor of Jewishness -- The leper: illness as contemplative metaphor -- Elisha ben Abuyah and the hubris of the heretic -- The king: the ethics of imperial humility -- The sage/philosopher: a solitude of universalism -- God, the supreme outsider: indwelling (shekhinah) as metaphor for outdwelling -- Deconstructing God's indwelling: the challenge to Halevi -- Sabbath: the temporal outsider.…”
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Jobs for the boys : patronage and the state in comparative perspective by Grindle, Merilee, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Weber's ghost -- A system for all seasons -- Politics in the construction of reform -- Apres reform : deconstruction and reconstruction -- Latin America : patterns of patronage and politics -- Roots and branches -- Crafting reform : elite projects and political moments -- Ambiguous futures: the politics of implementation -- Conclusion: the politics of institutional creation and re-creation.…”
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Manifold witness : the plurality of truth by Franke, John R.

Table of Contents: “…-- Community, tradition, and the emerging church -- Jesus, truth, and the Trinity -- The life of God -- God speaks -- Scripture as the word of God -- Scripture as manifold witness -- Manifold witness and the other -- Manifold witness and deconstruction -- Theology as manifold witness -- The many and the one.…”
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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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Understanding poststructuralism by Williams, James, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…-- Poststructuralism as deconstruction: Jacques Derrida's Of grammatology -- Poststructuralism as philosophy of difference: Gilles Deleuze's Difference and repetition -- Poststructuralism as philosophy of the event: Lyotard's Discours, figure -- Poststructuralism, history, genealogy: Michel Foucault's The archaeology of knowledge -- Poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, linguistics: Julia Kristeva's Revolution in poetic language -- Poststructuralism into the future.…”
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Unsettling Sikh and Muslim conflict : mistaken identities, forced conversions, and postcolonial formations by Sian, Katy P., 1984-

Table of Contents: “…: the art of storytelling -- Deconstructing Sikhs: what's in a name? -- The development of the Sikh diaspora -- A history of conflict -- Explaining conflict -- Sweet seduction: "Forced" conversion narratives -- Accounting for Sikh and Muslim conflict -- Sikhs and the British ethnoscapes -- Sikh not Muslim: Questioning Sikh Islamophobia -- "Who is a Sikh?"…”
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Place, commonality and judgement : continental philosophy and the ancient Greeks / Place, commonality and judgment by Benjamin, Andrew E.

Table of Contents: “…Staging the ground: place, commonality, and judgement -- Commonality and human being: working through Heraclitus -- Spacing as the shared: Heraclitus, Pindar, Agamben -- Political translations: Hilderlin's das hichste -- Placing speaking, notes on the first stasimon of Sophocles' Antigone -- Possible returns: deconstruction and the placing of Greek philosophy -- The inoperative Jew, Agamben's Paul.…”
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African American history reconsidered by Dagbovie, Pero Gaglo

Table of Contents: “…Woodson's appeal, black history, and black radical thought -- Ample proof of this may be found : early black women historians -- Shadow vs. substance : deconstructing Booker T. Washington -- Genocide and African American history.…”

Forms of Fanonism : Frantz Fanon's critical theory and the dialectics of decolonization by Rabaka, Reiland, 1972-

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On Affirmation and Becoming : a Deleuzian Introduction to Nietzsche's Ethics and Ontology. by Bolaños, Paolo A.

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Reading De Man Reading. by Waters, Lindsay

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Abbreviations; Prefatory Note; Looking Back on Paul de Man; Psyche: Inventions of the Other; A Defence of Rhetoric / The Triumph of Reading; Lurid Figures; Allegories of Reading Paul de Man; Paul de Man's History; Pieces of Resistance; "Reading" Part of a Paragraph in Allegories of Reading; LECTIO: de Man's Imperative; Response to Paul de Man; Aberrations: de Man (and) the Machine; The Deconstruction of Politics; Lessons of Remembering and Forgetting; In-Difference to Philosophy: de Man on Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche; Notes on Contributors; Index.…”
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The Innate Capacity : Mysticism, Psychology, and Philosophy. by Forman, Robert K. C.

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Contributors; ONE: Introduction: Mystical Consciousness, the Innate Capacity, and the Perennial Philosophy; TWO: Discriminating the Innate Capacity: Salvation Mysticism of Classical Samkya-Yoga; THREE: Parables of Deconstruction in the Lotus Sutra; FOUR: Between the Yes and the No: Ibn al-'Arabi on Wujud and the Innate Capacity; FIVE: Mysticism, Mediation, and Consciousness: The Innate Capacity in John Ruusbroec; SIX: The Innate Capacity: Jung and the Mystical Imperative; SEVEN: The Swami and the Rorschach: Spiritual Practice, Religious Experience, and Perception.…”
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Beyond superstructuralism : the syntagmatic side of language by Harland, Richard, 1947-

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Africa writes back to self : metafiction, gender, sexuality by Mwangi, Evan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : writing back to self -- Genealogies and functions of self-reflexive fiction -- (En)countering sex in the nationalist canon -- Potentials and pitfalls of national language literatures -- Orature and deconstructed folklore -- Politicized palimpsests and gendered intertexts -- Painted metaphors : the gendered deployment of visual arts -- Refiguring (out) queer sexualities -- Gendered theoretical recalibrations.…”
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Theology and the end of doctrine by Helmer, Christine

Table of Contents: “…Theology and doctrine -- From Ritschl to Brunner : neither mysticism nor metaphysics, but the problem with Schleiermacher -- From Trinitarian representation to the epistemic-advantage model : word, doctrine, theology -- Language and reality : a theological epistemology with some help from Schleiermacher -- Acknowledging social construction and moving beyond deconstruction : doctrine for theology and religious studies.…”
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Defining music therapy by Bruscia, Kenneth E.

Table of Contents: “…Shaping Flexible Goals and Strategies -- Consider Levels of Directiveness -- Using Music Experiences -- Take Different Roles as Therapist -- Decide Criteria for Evaluation -- Shift Area or Level of Practice -- Stay Reflexive -- Implications -- ch. 30 Conclusions and Implications -- For the Discipline -- For the Profession -- The Future of Defining -- Notes -- 2A: Building on Cultural and Discursive Constructions of Music Therapy -- 2B: Different Conceptions of Discipline and Profession -- 5: Intervention -- Deconstructed -- 6A: Systematic -- Deconstructed -- 6B: The Fallacies of Holism -- 6C: Nondirectiveness: An Illusion -- 8A: Help -- Deconstructed -- 8B: The Role of Power in Therapy -- 8C: Help and Hierarchy in Therapy -- 9: Client -- Deconstructed -- 10: Promote Health -- Deconstructed -- 11: Music Experiences and Relationships -- Deconstructed -- 17: Dynamic Forces -- Deconstructed -- 18: Change -- Deconstructed.…”
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Place-ing the prison officer : the 'warder' in the British literary and cultural imagination by Wächter, Cornelia

Table of Contents: “…Perspective Structures and the Deconstruction of Stereotypes: Louise Dean's This Human Season; Conclusion and Outlook; Works Cited; Index.…”
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Postmodern management and organization theory

Table of Contents: “…Part I. Deconstructing organizational analysis : critique, reflections, and alternatives -- part II. …”
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The strange case of William Mumler, spirit photographer by Kaplan, Louis, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…SPOOKED THEORIES: DECONSTRUCTION, PSYCHOANALYSIS, AND THE SPECTERS OF MUMLER; NOTES; INDEX.…”
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Thermophilic Microorganisms

Table of Contents: “…Lignocellulosic Biomass Deconstruction by the Extremely Thermophilic Genus Caldicellulosiruptor; Introduction; Carbohydrate active enzymes (CAZymes); Biomass deconstruction by cellulolytic microorganisms; Biomass degradation by the genus Caldicellulosiruptor; Conclusions; Future trends; 5. …”
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A passion for the impossible : John D. Caputo in focus

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Education, Philosophy and Politics : the Selected Works of Michael A. Peters. by Peters, Michael A. A.

Table of Contents: “…GeophilosophyAn excursus: the principle of territory and the geography of reason; Capitalism, philosophy and the state; Notes; References; CHAPTER10 Humanism, Derrida and the new humanities; Introduction; Renaissance humanism and education; Martin Heidegger's Letter on Humanism; Derrida, humanism and the new humanities; Notes; References; CHAPTER11 Politics and deconstruction: Derrida, neoliberalism and democracy to come; Introduction: politics and deconstruction; Derrida, neoliberalism and anti-Nietzscheanism: re-writing the subject; Democracy to come; Notes; References.…”
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Fictions of feminist ethnography by Visweswaran, Kamala

Table of Contents: “…Feminist Reflections on Deconstructive Ethnography; 6. Feminist Ethnography as Failure; 7. …”
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A Victorian muse : the afterlife of Dante's Beatrice in nineteenth-century literature by Straub, Julia

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Beatrice's Victorian afterlife -- Seeing Beatrice: the visualization of Beatrice in Victorian culture -- Looking for the real Beatrice: the Rossetti family -- Ideal visions: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti -- Deconstruction of an ideal: George Eliot's Romola -- Mourning a male Beatrice: Alfred Lord Tennyson's In memoriam -- Construction of a new ideal: Walter Pater's 'diaphaneitè' -- Conclusion.…”
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Around the book : systems and literacy by Sussman, Henry

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : around the book -- Extraterrestrial Kafka : ahead to the graphic novel -- Kafka's imaginary : a psychoanalytical footnote -- Booking Benjamin : the fate of a medium -- Pulsations of respect, or, Winged impossibility : poetic deconstruction -- Hegel, Glas, and the broader modernity -- Systems, games, and the player : did we manage to become human? …”
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