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Table of Contents “...On the social nature of reading -- Nineteenth-century white women's reading groups : literary inspiration and social reform -- Between past and present : introductory reflections on the changing nature of women's reading groups -- Exploring the social world of Houston's reading groups -- Book selection : negotiating group identity through literature -- Conversing with books, fashioning subjectivity, dealing with difference -- Reading groups and the challenge of mass communication and marketing -- At the end....”

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Table of Contents “...Re-searching racial projects in the technoculture: Mongrel's Natural selection, the search engine, and the politics of British culture and national identity in the 1990s -- Re-playing "racial knowledge" and cybercultural subjectivity: Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes's Temple of confessions, public opinion polling, and the cultural politics of Internet identity play -- Re-collecting cyberculture and racial identification in a minoritarian frame of reference: Keith Obadike's Blackness for sale, eBay, and the counter-performance of blackness in cyberspace -- Re-posing cyberporn and the racialized subject in cyberculture: Prema Murthy's BindiGirl, cyberfeminism, and the cultural politics of orientalist pornography on the Internet -- Conclusion: addressing the post-9/11 crisis of racialization....”

Table of Contents “...Melted ice destroys a city : Huaraz, 1941 -- Georacial disorder beneath enchanted lakes -- Engineering the Andes, nationalizing natural disaster -- High development follows disasters -- In pursuit of danger : defining and defending hazard zones -- The story of vanishing water towers -- The risk of neoliberal glaciers -- Appendix 1: Selected Cordillera Blanca glacial lake security projects -- Appendix 2: Glacier-related disasters in Cordillera Blanca history -- Appendix 3: Government entities conducting glacier and glacial lake projects....”

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Table of Contents “...PART I: EDUCATION AND CULTURE : THE CULTURAL TURN -- Nature and Culture -- Culture and Experience -- Education and Social Life -- Formal and Informal Education -- Interaction, Transaction, and Communication -- Selection of Target Texts -- PART II: EDUCATION AS RECONSTRUCTION OF EXPERIENCE : THE CONSTRUCTIVE TURN -- Experience and Education: The biological Dimension -- Experience and Education: The social Dimension -- Experience and Education: Growth -- The Reflex Arc Concept -- Habits, Impulse, and Intelligence -- Inquiry and the Five Steps of Research and Reflective Learning -- Re/De/Construction -- Selection of Target Texts -- PART III: EDUCATION, COMMUNICATION, AND DEMOCRACY : THE COMMUNICATIVE TURN -- Education and Communication -- Learning and Joint Activities -- The Democratic Vision -- Participation and Diversity -- Social Intelligence and Democratic Reconstruction -- Selection of Target Texts -- PART IV: CRITICISM AND CONCERNS : RECONSTRUCTING DEWEY FOR OUR TIMES -- Introduction -- Bauman -- Foucault -- Bourdieu -- Derrida -- Levinas -- Rorty....”
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Table of Contents “...Claflin -- Recreation for special populations : a wheelchair athlete's perspective / William Bowness -- Outdoor recreation and natural resource lands / David E. Simcox -- Leisure in selected countries -- Leisure in the future / Michael Leitner, Gil-Ad Ariely....”

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Table of Contents “...A tangled web, or 'On the origins of species by means of natural selection and all sorts of other things" --...”

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