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Doing film studies : a subject guide for students by Benyahia, Sarah Casey

Table of Contents: “…The canon in practice -- The history of the discipline, or how It became possible to study film -- The history of the canon: the development (and deconstruction) of the film studies canon -- Key approaches: genre theory -- Competing approaches: screen theory -- Reading a film -- Film studies and narrative theories -- Spectatorship and audience studies -- Creative engagement -- Film and identity -- Postmodernism and cultural studies -- Film as industry…”
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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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Redirecting philosophy : reflections on the nature of knowledge from Plato to Lonergan by Meynell, Hugo A. (Hugo Anthony), 1936-

Table of Contents: “…Scepticism -- Truth -- Data -- Reality -- Limits of sociology : Wittgenstein, Bloor, and Barnes -- Primitives and paradigms : Winch and Kuhn -- Anarchy and falsification : Feyerabend and Popper -- The self-immolation of scientism : Sellars and Rorty -- Consciousness and existence : Husserl and Heidegger -- Deconstruction and the ubiquity of power : Derrida and Foucault -- An unstable compromise : Habermas -- How right Plato was -- On being an Aristotelian -- Two methods : Descartes and Lonergan.…”
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My word! : plagiarism and college culture by Blum, Susan Debra

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : plagiarism in college -- A question of judgment : plagiarism is not one thing, once and for all -- Intertexuality, authorship, and plagiarism : my word, your word, their word [arrow] our word -- Observing the performance self : multiplicity versus authenticity -- Growing up in the college bubble : the tasks and temptations of adolescence -- No magic bullet : deconstructing plagiarism -- Conclusion : what is to be done?…”

Hunting the Dark Knight : twenty-first century Batman by Brooker, Will, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The Never-Ending War: Deconstruction and the Dark Knight; Epilogue: Time and the Batman; Notes; Select Bibliography.…”
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Urban reform and sexual vice in progressive-era Philadelphia : the faithful and the fallen by Adams, James H., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…American maidens and fallen women: defining the Gilded Age prostitute -- Schools of vice or virtue: constructing the tenderloin -- Reform through eternal vigilance: white slavery and the vice commission -- Arguing success: deconstructing the vice syndicate -- The color of vice: "Negro tenderloins" in Camden and Bethel Court -- The politics of prostitution: the rise of the "charity girl" -- Back to basics: the unseen prostitute, 1919-1940.…”
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The films of Woody Allen by Girgus, Sam B., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to the revised edition: The prisoner of aura : the lost world of Woody Allen -- Reconstruction and revision in Woody Allen's films -- Desire and narrativety in Annie Hall -- Love in Manhattan -- Zelig and The Purple Rose of Cairo : Allen and poststructural anxiety -- Happy ending : Hannah and Her Sisters -- Eyes of God : seeking justice in Crimes and Misdemeanors -- Allen's fall : mind, morals, and meaning in Deconstructing Harry.…”
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Just between us : an ethnography of male identity and intimacy in rural communities of northern mexico by Núñez Noriega, Guillermo

Table of Contents: “…The social regulationof male identity and intimacy -- Disputes over the meaning of "Being a man" in Mexico: applications of queer theory -- Acá entre nos (Just between us): cultural notions about Rajarse, the body, and the negotiation of male intimacy -- Male intimacy and homophobia: different subjectivities, powers, and resistances -- Acknowledging pleasures, deconstructing identities: anthropology, patriarchy, and homoerotic experience in Mexico.…”
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Re-thinking the cogito : naturalism, reason and the venture of thought by Norris, Christopher, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : naturalism and/or rationalism : contexts of the current debate -- Living with naturalism, full-strength : why philosophers find it hard -- Frankfurt on second-order desires and the concept of a person -- Deflating the cogito : thought, knowledge, and the limits of consciousness -- Catching up with Spinoza : naturalism, rationalism and cognitive science -- Alain Badiou : mathematics, politics, and the venture of thought -- Deconstruction naturalized : beyond the linguistic turn.…”
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Beyond the classroom walls : ethnographic inquiry as pedagogy / Ethnographic inquiry as pedagogy by Gordon, June A., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Students re-engaging their home communities -- Immigrants and education -- Future teachers assist in urban, low-income, multicultural classrooms -- "Masks of normality": teacher training on a military base -- Confronting the larger community of helping professionals -- Homevisits -- Deconstructing youth at-risk -- Adult educators inquire into workplace stress -- First quarter attrition: community college staff and faculty ask why.…”
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Unsettling opera : staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky by Levin, David J., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Dramaturgy and mise-en-scène -- Reading a staging/staging a reading : Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in performance -- Fidelity in translation : Mozart and Da Ponte's Le nozze di Figaro -- Deconstructing Singspiel : Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail -- Between sublimation and audacity : Verdi's Don Carlos -- Beyond the canon : Zemlinsky's Der König Kandaules.…”
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All Stories Are True : History, Myth, and Trauma in the Work of John Edgar Wideman. by Church Guzzio, Tracie

Table of Contents: “…Cover; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: "ALL STORIES ARE TRUE": PALIMPSESTIC STORYTELLING; CHAPTER TWO: DECONSTRUCTING HISTORY: TRAUMA AND THE ALIENATION NARRATIVES; CHAPTER THREE: THE RETURN HOME: MYTHIC NARRATIVES AND FAMILY HISTORY; CHAPTER FOUR: THE JOURNEY BACK (AGAIN): THE POST-TRAUMATIC NARRATIVES; CHAPTER FIVE: TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION: THE BLUES AND THE HEROIC ROMANCE; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.…”
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Being Different : More Neoplatonism after Derrida. by Gersh, Stephen

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Unremarkable Wordsworth. by Hartman, Geoffrey H.

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Atlantis destroyed by Castleden, Rodney

Table of Contents: “…Preliminaries; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements and preface; 1 All the island and many other islands also'; 2 Preludes to discovery; 3 Thera: the second rediscovery; 4 The bronze age city of Thera emerges; 5 Atlantean arts and crafts; 6 Theran food and trade; 7 Writing and wall-painting; 8 Art, religion and society; 9 The last days of Akrotiri; 10 Atlantis destroyed; 11 Deconstruction of Atlantis; Appendix Dating the Thera eruption: a major controversy; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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The entangled city : crime as urban fabric in Saô Paulo by Feltran, Gabriel de Santis

Table of Contents: “…Foreword by Brodwyn Fischer; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Boundaries of difference: on essence and deconstruction; 2 Legitimacy in dispute: the boundaries of the 'world of crime' in São Paulo; 3 Coexistence; 4 Crime and punishment in the city: repertories of justice and homicides in São Paulo; 5 Violence and its management; 6 Government produces crime, crime produces government: São Paulo's apparatus for homicide; management; Conclusion; Notes; References…”
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Studies in sports coaching by Jones, Robyn L.

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Latin Americanism. by De la Campa, Romn

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The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments Jacques Derrida's Final Seminar. by Naas, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Reinventing the Wheel: Of Sovereignty, Autobiography, and Deconstruction -- 5. Pray Tell: Derrida's Performative Justice…”
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The Derrida dictionary by Wortham, Simon

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Material difference : modernism and the allegories of discourse by Melaney, William D.

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Uses of the Other : "The East" in European Identity Formation. by Neumann, Iver B.

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The Oxford history of Mexico / History of Mexico

Table of Contents: “…Sherman -- The time of the technocrats and deconstruction of the revolution / Roderic Ai Camp -- Mass media and popular culture in the postrevolutionary era / Anne Rubenstein.…”

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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Sociology on culture by Hall, John R.

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; Culture and society; Culture, self, and society; Social stratification and culture; Cultural structurations and modernity; Cultural constructions of "the Other"; Preindustrial sources of contemporary culture; Industrialism and mass culture; Deconstructing the postmodern; Cultural forms, processes, and change; Power and culture; The production of culture; Cultural objects, audiences, and meaning; Culture, action, and change; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Atlantic Gandhi : the Mahatma Overseas. by Natarajan, Nalini

Table of Contents: “…Cover ; Contents; Preface ; Acknowledgements ; 1 -- From Kathiawar ; 2 -- Sailing the High Seas ; 3 -- Deconstructing the Coolie ; 4 -- Plotting a Diasporic Nation ; 5 -- Local Cosmopolitan and Modern Anti-Modern: Hind Swaraj and Satyagraha in South Africa ; 6 -- The Tamil Women of the Transvaal ; 7 -- Gandhi and Atlantic Modernity ; 8 -- 'Prophet in Homespun' ; 9 -- Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index ; About the Author.…”
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Journalism and the political : discursive tensions in news coverage of Russia by Macgilchrist, Felicitas

Table of Contents: “…Journalism and the Political; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; part I; Developing a story; Pragmatic deconstruction; The circulation of discourse; Metaphorical politics; Part II; Responsibility management; Balance and binaries; Complexity reduction; Part III; Positive' discourse analysis; Concluding thoughts; References; Index; The series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture.…”
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Chronologies, Periods and Events in Management and Business History. by Tennent, Kevin

Table of Contents: “…Cover; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Guest editorial; Deconstructing the reinvention of operations management; The Free-Standing Company: a "zombie" theory of international business history?…”
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Political bodies/body politic : the semiotics of gender by Juschka, Darlene M., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Sign-symbol and icon : deconstructing the Eliadean paradigm.…”
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International journal of information and learning technology, volume 32-3 : technology facilitated teaching and learning.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Editorial advisory board; From barriers to bridges:approaching accessibility in course design; Deconstructing Candy Crush: what instructional design can learn from game design; Designing the online oral language learning environment SpeakApps; The impact on educational technology of a fatal airline accident: a case study; The human factor in learningdesign, research, policy, and practice.…”
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Offending women : power, punishment, and the regulation of desire by Haney, Lynne A. (Lynne Allison), 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: an ethnographic journey across states -- Limited government: training women what to need -- Deconstructing dependency: needs, rights, and the struggle for entitlement -- Hybrid states and government from a distance -- State therapeutics: training women what to want -- The empowerment myth: social vulnerability as personal pathology -- The enemies within: fighting the sisters and numbing the self -- Conclusion: states of disentitlement and the therapeutics of neoliberalism.…”
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Embodied care : Jane Addams, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and feminist ethics by Hamington, Maurice

Table of Contents: “…: a study of same-sex marriage -- Conclusion: Experiencing one another, deconstructing otherness, joyfully moving ahead.…”
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Against white feminism : notes on disruption by Zakaria, Rafia, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…-- The White Savior Industrial Complex and the Ungrateful Brown Feminist -- White feminists and feminist wars -- Sexual liberation is women's empowerment -- Honor killings, FGC, and white feminist supremacy -- "I built a white feminist temple" -- From deconstruction to reconstruction -- Conclusion: On fear and futures.…”

Thy kingdom come : how the religious right distorts the faith and threatens America, an Evangelical's lament by Balmer, Randall Herbert

Table of Contents: “…: Roy's Rock, Roger Williams, and the First Amendment -- Deconstructing democracy: school vouchers, homeschooling, and the war on public education -- Creationism by design: the Religious Right's request for intellectual legitimacy --- Voices in the wilderness: Evangelicals and the environment -- Taking the country back -- Decoding the rhetoric of the Religious Right.…”

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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The New literary criticism and the Hebrew Bible

Table of Contents: “…Carroll -- A world established on water (Psalm 24): reader-response, deconstruction and bespoke interpretation / David J.A. …”
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How cities work : suburbs, sprawl, and the roads not taken / Suburbs, sprawl, and the roads not taken by Marshall, Alex, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…A tale of two towns : Kissimmee versus Celebration and the new urbanism -- The end of place -- The deconstructed city : the silicon valley -- Trading places : the city and the suburb -- Jackson Heights : an anachronism finds its way -- The master hand : the role of government in building cities -- Portland and Oregon : taming the forces that create the modern metropolitan area -- No place called home : community at the millennium -- Getting there : building healthy cities.…”
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A prophetic peace : Judaism, religion, and politics by Isaacs, Alick, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Lebanon II; Chapter 1 Politics, Anti-Politics, and Religion; Chapter 2 Irenic Scholarship; Chapter 3 Theological Disarmament; Chapter 4 Deconstruction and the Prophetic Voice; Chapter 5 Messianic Peace; Chapter 6 The Rabbinic Voice; Chapter 7 A Prayer for Peace; Chapter 8 Peace Education; Afterword: Beating Softly; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Lost in transition : redefining students and universities in the contemporary Kyrgyz Republic by DeYoung, Alan J.

Table of Contents: “…Education and socialization: deconstructing the Soviet imperative -- Students making decisions about the university -- On being a student at Bishkek New University: social scenes and situations -- On being a student at Bishkek New University: students, student groups, and classes -- University use and university quality: then and now -- Faculty of foreign languages: academic culture compromised -- Concluding remarks and international perspectives on the Kyrgyz higher education scene -- Appendix.…”
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The young Derrida and French philosophy, 1945-1968 by Baring, Edward, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Humanist pretensions: Catholics, communists and Sartre's struggle for existentialism in postwar France -- Derrida's "Christian" existentialism -- Normalization: the École normale supérieure and Derrida's turn to Husserl -- Genesis as a problem:Derrida reading Husserl -- The God of mathematics: Derrida and the origin of geometry -- A history of différance -- L'ambiguité du concours: the deconstruction of commentary and interpretation in Speech and Phenomena -- The ends of man: reading and writing at the ENS -- Epilogue.…”
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