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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction. Exploring the Evolution of Pragmatism in India -- One. Ambedkar and Dewey at Columbia University -- Two. The Genesis of Ambedkar's Reconstructive Rhetoric -- Three. Reconstructive Rhetoric, Appropriation, and the Strategic Use of Reference -- Four. Pragmatism, Reflection, and the Annihilation of Caste -- Five. Education, Force, and the Will to Convert -- Conclusion. The Vision of Ambedkar's Navayana Pragmatism -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Problems of Art and Life -- 2 The Value of Aesthetic Experience -- 3 Dewey on Experience, Value, and Ends -- 4 Aesthetic Experience and the Experience of Moral Cultivation -- 5 Reflection and Moral Value in Aesthetic Experience -- 6 Orientational Meliorism and the Quest for the Artful Life -- 7 Practicing the Art of Living: The Case of Artful Communication -- 7 Practicing the Art of Living: The Case of Artful Communication -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures and Maps -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- PART ONE. Constraints, Methods, and Policies -- 1. Constraints on the Development of Portuguese Agriculture / Pearson, Scott R. / Manke, Eric -- 2. Methods of Analysis / Pearson, Scott R. -- 3. Commodity Policies / Josling, Timothy / Tangermann, Stefan -- 4. Agricultural Factor Markets / Manke, Eric -- PART TWO. Comparative Advantage in Portuguese Agriculture -- 5. Extensive Farming in the Alentejo / Fox, Roger -- 6. Intensive Agriculture in the Vale do Tejo / Avillez, Francisco / Langworthy, Mark -- 7. Dairying in the Azores / Langworthy, Mark -- 8. Intensive Agriculture in the Northwest / Finan, Timothy J. -- PART THREE. Agricultural Change in the Northwest -- 9. Technical Change in a Northwest Parish / Bentley, Jeffery W. -- 10. Patterns of Technical Change in the Northwest / Fox, Roger / Finan, Timothy J. -- 11. Future Technical and Structural Adjustments in Northwestern Agriculture / Fox, Roger / Finan, Timothy J. -- PART FOUR. Policies for Change -- 12. Future Commodity Policies / Josling, Timothy / Tangermann, Stefan -- 13. Future Policies Influencing Agricultural Factor Markets / Monke, Eric -- 14. Portuguese Agricultural Strategies / Pearson, Scott R. -- Index

A mental testimony -- The advent of the evolution debate -- A brief note to creationists -- The Big Bang and our universe -- The Earth -- The beginnings of life -- The six days of Genesis -- Other creation accounts -- The creation of man -- Noah's ark: a global flood? -- Authorship of the scriptures -- The word of wisdom diet -- Reproduction and the genetic revolution -- Science and religion epilogue

In recent Congresses, roughly half of the members of the U.S. House of Representatives served in whip organizations and on party committees. Rank-and-file representatives who use party service to advance their own careers benefit from this growing rate of participation in the party hierarchy, as do the party leaders who use participation in order to advance the party's agenda through coordination, communication, and persuasion. According to Scott R. Meinke, however, rising electoral competition and polarization over the past 40 years have altered the nature of party participation. In the 1970s and 1980s, the participation of a wide range of members was crucial to building consensus. Since then, in the partisan battle for control of the chamber, organizations responsible for coordination in the party have become dominated by those who follow the party line. At the same time, key leaders in the House use participatory organizations less as forums for internal deliberations over policy and strategy than as channels for exchanging information with supporters outside Congress and broadcasting sharply partisan campaign messages to the public. This transformation of leadership organizations generally serves a party's collective goals in an era of close electoral competition and ideological polarization. Yet it also hinders a party's ability to reach a strategic consensus over divisive issues and to develop its own policy alternatives. -- from back cover

This book leads the reader into a professional feasibility analysis for a renewable energy or energy efficiency project. The analysis begins with an understanding of the basic engineering description of technology in terms of capacity, efficiency, constraints, and dependability. It continues in modeling the cash flow of a project, which is affected by the installed cost, the revenues or expenses avoided by using the technology, the operating expenses of the technology, available tax credits and rebates, and laws regarding depreciation and income tax. The feasibility study is completed by discounted cash flow analysis, using an appropriate discount rate and a proper accounting for inflation, to evaluate the financial viability of the project. The elements of this analysis are illustrated using numerous examples of solar, wind, and hydroelectric power, biogas digestion, energy storage, biofuels, and energy-efficient appliances and buildings.

Unique in its approach, Invitation to the Sociology of Emotions treats neophytes as its primary audience, giving students a brief, but thorough, introduction to the sociology of emotions. Including research examples, exercises, and lists of further reading, this text explains as clearly as possible some of the most interesting theoretical concepts that animate sociological research on emotions.

1. Social Research Versus Ordinary Ways of Knowing -- 2. What is a Journal Article? -- 3. Defining Key Terms -- 4. Literature Reviews -- 5. Measurement -- 6. Sampling -- 7. Analysis -- 8. Ethics -- 9. Politics -- 10. Why Read Journal Articles -- And Think Critically about Them?

Reinhold Niebuhr remains a reference point in an ongoing national conversation about America's role in the world. Commentators with divergent political and religious views draw upon his 1951 work, 'The Irony of American History'. In this book Scott R. Erwin brings an appreciation of Niebuhr's theological vision to aid understanding of Irony

This exciting compendium brings together, for the first time, some of the foremost scholars of Ren Girard's mimetic theory, with leading imitation researchers from the cognitive, developmental, and neuro sciences. These chapters explore some of the major discoveries and developments concerning the foundational, yet previously overlooked, role of imitation in human life, revealing the unique theoretical links that can now be made from the neural basis of social interaction to the structure and evolution of human culture and religion. Together, mimetic scholars and imitation researchers are on the cutting edge of some of the most important breakthroughs in understanding the distinctive human capacity for both incredible acts of empathy and compassion as well as mass antipathy and violence. As a result, this interdisciplinary volume promises to help shed light on some of the most pressing and complex questions of our contemporary world

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