Russian village prose the radiant past / by Parthé, Kathleen, ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions, ProQuest (Firm)

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Transformations thinking after Heidegger / by Stenstad, Gail, ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions, ProQuest (Firm)

Table of Contents: “…Opening a way : the question of being -- Thinking : engaging language's way-making -- Timing-spacing-thinking -- Thinking as dwelling -- The radiant emptiness of be-ing -- Staying with opening.…”
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Shimmering screens making media in an aboriginal community / by Deger, Jennifer, ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions, ProQuest (Firm)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Culture and complicities : an indigenous media research project -- (In)visible difference : framing questions of culture, media, and technology -- Tuning in : mediated imaginaries and problems of deafness and forgetting -- On the "mimetic faculty" and the refractions of culture -- Taking pictures : media technologies and a Yolngu politics of presencing -- Flowers and photographs : death, memory, and techno mimetics -- Technology, techne, and Yolngu videomaking -- Shimmering verisimilitudes : making video, managing images, manifesting truths -- Worlding a Yolngu world : radiant visions and the flash of recognition -- Conclusion.…”
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The Hunger games and philosophy a critique of pure treason / by ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions, ProQuest (Firm)

Table of Contents: “…"We're fickle, stupid beings": hungering for morality in an immoral world -- pt. 3. "I am as radiant as the sun": the natural, the unnatural, and not-so-weird science -- pt. 4. …”
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The best-laid plans how government planning harms your quality of life, your pocketbook, and your future / by O'Toole, Randal, ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions, Cato Institute, ProQuest (Firm)

Table of Contents: “…-- Smart growth as oppression -- Homeownership -- Housing affordability -- Housing bubbles -- It's supply, not demand -- Portland housing -- Smart growth and crime -- Portland planning implodes -- Why planners fail -- The planning profession -- The history of planning -- The ideal communist city -- Urban renewal in the United States -- From radiant city to smart growth -- Typical planning methods -- Transportation planning -- Planning vs. chaos -- The benefits of the automobile -- Costs exaggerated -- The panic over peak oil -- Planning for congestion -- Building auto-hostile streets -- The rail transit hoax -- Transportation myths -- Why government fails -- Power and rationality -- Legislators: seeking reelection -- Special interests: looking for handouts -- Bureaucrats: maximizing budgets -- The executive: distracted by detail -- Courts and voters: the last lines of defense -- Instead of planning -- 246 varieties of cheese -- Make the market work -- Turn open-access resources into property -- Protect public goods with trusts -- Understand government's limits -- Reforming public land management -- Reforming transportation -- Reforming land use -- The American dream.…”
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