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The governance of female drug users : women's experiences of drug policy by Du Rose, Natasha

Table of Contents: “…Social stories ; Introduction ; Unrecognised pain; Rational, adaptive, caring, resourceful women; Victims of policy: criminals versus victims…”
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Cultural revolutions : reason versus culture in philosophy, politics, and jihad by Cahoone, Lawrence E., 1954-

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Romantic Outlaws, Beloved Prisons : the Unconscious Meanings of Crime and Punishment. by Duncan, Martha Grace

Table of Contents: “…Part one: Cradled on the sea: positive images of prison and theories of punishment -- A thousand leagues above: prison as a refuge from the prosaic -- Cradled on the sea: prison as a mother who provides and protects -- To die and become: prison as a matrix of spiritual rebirth -- Flowers are flowers: prison as a place like any other -- Methodological issues -- Positive images of prison and theories of punishment -- Part two: A strange liking: our admiration for criminals -- Reluctant admiration: the forms of our conflict over criminals -- Rationalized admiration: overt delight in camouflaged criminals -- Repressed admiration: loathing as a vicissitude of attraction to criminals -- Part three: In slime and darkness: the metaphor of filth in criminal justice -- Eject him tainted now: the criminal as filth in Western culture -- Projecting an excrementitious mass: the metaphor of filth in the history of Botany Bay -- Stirring the odorous pile: vicissitudes of the metaphor in Britain and the United States -- Conclusion: The romanticization of criminals and the defense against despair.…”
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Voluntary assisted dying : law? health? justice?

Table of Contents: “…'voluntary assisted dying', neoliberalism, and a virtue without an anchor / Daniel J Fleming -- chapter5. The neoliberal rationality of voluntary assisted dying / Marc Trabsky -- chapter6. …”
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Open society unresolved : the contemporary relevance of a contested idea

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Open society unresolved : charting the contested terrain / Christof Royer -- Human nature and the open society / Thom Scott-Phillips -- In praise of coldness : the open neighborhood and its enemies / Rachid Boutayeb -- Against identity : individuality as the foundation of open society / Gregory Lobo -- Empirical embodiment of critical rationalism : deliberative theory and open society / Gazela Pudar Draško and Predrag Krstić -- Open society as an achievement : Popper, Gaus, and the liberal tradition / Piers Norris Turner -- Nozick's meta-Utopia as an open society / Avery Fox White -- Hannah Arendt and literary pedagogy / Andrea Timár -- Can Bergson's definition of open society be useful today? …”
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Enlightened religion : from confessional churches to polite piety in the Dutch Republic

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The essential Agus : the writings of Jacob B. Agus by Agus, Jacob B. (Jacob Bernard), 1911-1986

Table of Contents: “…Blumenthal -- The rise of Jewish rationalism -- The Qabbalah -- Part three. Jacob B. …”
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Henry van de Velde : selected essays, 1889-1914 by Velde, Henry van de, 1863-1957

Table of Contents: “…Kuenzli -- Translator's Introduction / Elizabeth Tucker -- Henry van de Velde: Selected Essays, 1889-1914 -- Adrien-Joseph Heymans: A Study (1889) -- On the Peasant in Painting (1891) -- Georges Seurat (1891) -- Artistic Wallpapers (1893) -- Clearing the Terrain of Art (1894) -- Remarks on a Synthesis of Art (1895) -- Painting at the Third Exhibition of La Libre Esthétique (1896) -- The Colonial Exposition in Tervueren (1898) -- William Morris: Artisan and Socialist (1898) -- The Artistic Improvement of Women's Costume (1900) -- The Rebirth of the Applied Arts and the Social Movement (1901) -- Declaration of Principles (1902) -- Workshops for the Applied Arts (1902) -- On the Death of Otto Eckmann (1902) -- Giving Life to Matter as a Principle of Beauty (1903) -- Notes on a Journey to Greece (1905) -- On Good Taste (1905) -- The New Style (1906) -- Artists' Workshops (1906) -- The Line (1908) -- Folk Art (1909) -- Art and Industry (1910) -- Rational Beauty (1910) -- Traditional and Modern Christmas Tree Ornaments: The Lauscha -- Glassblowers at Work (1912) -- A Fountain by Hermann Obrist (1914) -- Counter-Theses (1914) -- Bibliography of Henry van de Velde's Publications, 1889-1917.…”

On "other war" : lessons from five decades of RAND counterinsurgency research by Long, Austin G

Table of Contents: “…Hearts and Minds Theory: COIN as a Problem of Modernization ; Cost/Benefit Theory: Carrots and Sticks for the Rational Peasant ; Critiques of Cost/Benefit: Ratcheted Escalation and Marginal Costs ; Moving COIN Theory Forward: Is Synthesis Possible? …”
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The philosophy of Tim Burton

Table of Contents: “…anti-intellectualism and models of rationality in Tim Burton's Sleepy hollow / Steve Benton -- Culture, hermeneutics, and the Batman / Kevin S. …”
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The politics and poetics of authenticity : a cultural genealogy of Sinhala nationalism by Rambukwella, Harshana

Table of Contents: “…Bandaranaike: : the paradox of authenticity; Introduction; Bandaranaike's life and political career; Oxford memoirs of Bandaranaike -- conquering the metropolis and nationalist awakenings; Gandhi, the village and authenticity; Buddhism, rationalism and national identity; The Sinhala-only debate: Bandaranaike as the advocate of Sinhala interests; Conclusion; 5 Gunadasa Amarasekara: : the life and death of authentic things; Introduction…”
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Algorithms and the end of politics : how technology shapes 21st-century American life by Timcke, Scott

Table of Contents: “…Conclusion: The Fatal Abstractions of Capitalist Rule -- Mystification, rationalization, externalization -- References -- Index -- Back Cover…”
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Ancient worlds in film and television : gender and politics

Table of Contents: “…Mythological AncientsOver His Dead Body: Male Friendship in Homer's Iliad and Wolfgang Petersen's Troy (2004); Models of Masculinities in Troy: Achiles, Hector and Their Female Partners; "Include me out" -- Odysseus on the Margins of European Genre Cinema: Le Mépris, Ulisse, L'Odissea ; Between Mythical and Rational Worlds: Medea by Pier Paolo Pasolini ; "Universal's Religious Bigotry against Hinduism": Gender Norms and Hindu Authority in the Global Media Debate on Representing the Hindu God Krishna in Xena: Warrior Princess ; Mythological and Historical Thematics.…”
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The practice of U.S. women's history : narratives, intersections, and dialogues

Table of Contents: “…Where the girls aren't : women as reluctant migrants but rational actors in early America / Trevor G. Burnard and Ann M. …”
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Critical design in context history, theory, and practices by Malpass, Matthew

Table of Contents: “…-- Researching critical design practice -- 'Critical' in critical design practice -- Industrial design as a discipline -- The structure and approach to writing -- Chapter 2: History -- A forgotten history of critical design practice -- An emerging critical design practice -- Challenging hegemony -- Anti-design -- Participatory design -- Unikat Design: adding nothing but the concept -- Representative design -- Design Interactions -- Critical Design at the Royal College of Art -- Synergies between precedents and contemporary examples of critical design -- Chapter 3: Theories, methods and tactics -- Design as a medium for inquiry -- Post-optimal design and Para-functionality -- Rhetorical use -- Discursive design -- The aesthetics of use and meaningful presence -- Exploratory potential -- Design fiction -- Speculation and proposition -- Constructing publics -- Ambiguity -- Chapter 4: Criticism, function and discipline -- Design Art -- Design art and society -- Function in critical design practice -- The paradox of critical design in commercial use -- Modelling the field -- Design at users -- Directing critique through design practice -- Chapter 5: Practice -- Associative design -- Speculative design -- Critical design -- Design practice as satire -- The uses of narrative -- Rationality and ambiguity -- Towards a taxonomy of critical practices in design -- The taxonomy as an analytical tool -- Applications of the taxonomy -- Chapter 6: Critical design practice and its disciplinary contribution -- Summary -- Challenging disciplinary orthodoxy -- An extended role for industrial design: discipline, science and society -- Bibliography.…”
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Material women, 1750-1950 : consuming desires and collecting practices

Table of Contents: “…Iskin -- Nostalgic appetites : female desire and wartime rationing in Virginia Woolf's Between the acts and Noel Streatfeild's Saplings / Andrea Adolph -- A touch of distinction : furnishing French aristocratic homes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Elizabeth C. …”

Party rules? : dilemmas of political party regulation in Australia

Table of Contents: “…Party rules: promises and pitfalls / Marian Sawer and Anika Gauja -- Resisting legal recognition and regulation: Australian parties as rational actors? / Sarah John -- Party registration and political participation: regulating small and 'micro' parties / Norm Kelly -- Who gets what, when and how: the politics of resource allocation to parliamentary parties / Yvonne Murphy -- Putting the cartel before the house? …”
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Swedish design : a history by Brunnström, Lasse

Table of Contents: “…Broadened design commissions: 1950s to 1980s The industrial design profession finds its form Advertising becomes ever more important within design Breakthrough for female designers Factory packaging drives out bulk Rationality shapes everyday life Design protests against a grey and unjust world Design with a user focus becomes a speciality --…”
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Circa 1492 : art in the age of exploration

Table of Contents: “…Michael Rogers -- Picturing the Levant / Julian Raby -- Maps and the rationalization of geographic space / David Woodward -- Tradition and innovation : Columbus' first voyage and Portuguese navigation in the fifteenth century / Francis Maddison.…”

Between the landscape and its other by Vanderbilt, Paul

Table of Contents: “…One is not intended to know -- 28. the rational meanings -- 29. Free association in words to accompany pictures -- 30. is natural to intuitive understanding of -- 31. the secondary order evolved from chaos -- 32. …”