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Conspiracy Theories and the Failure of Intellectual Critique

By: Kurtis Hagen

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Conspiracy Theories and the Failure of Intellectual Critique

By: Kurtis Hagen

Conspiracy Theories and the Failure of Intellectual Critique argues that conspiracy theories, including those that conflict with official accounts and suggest that prominent people in Western democracies have engaged in appalling behavior, should be taken seriously and judged on their merits and problems on a case-by-case basis. It builds on the philosophical work on this topic that has developed over the past quarter century, challenging some of it, but affirming the emerging consensus: each conspiracy theory ought to be judged on its particular merits and faults. The philosophical consensus contrasts starkly with what one finds in the social science literature. Kurtis Hagen argues that significant aspects of that literature, especially the psychological study of conspiracy theorists, has turned out to be flawed and misleading. Those flaws are not randomly directed; rather, they consistently serve to disparage conspiracy theorists unfairly. This suggests that there may be a bias against conspiracy theorists in the academy, skewing “scientific” results. Conspiracy Theories and the Failure of Intellectual Critique argues that social scientists who study conspiracy theories and/or conspiracy theorists would do well to better absorb the implications of the philosophical literature.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472220349

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9780472220342

The Culture of the Book in Tibet

By: Kurtis R. Schaeffer

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The Culture of the Book in Tibet

By: Kurtis R. Schaeffer

The history of the book in Tibet involves more than literary trends and trade routes. Functioning as material, intellectual, and symbolic object, the book has been an instrumental tool in the construction of Tibetan power and authority, and its history opens a crucial window onto the cultural, intellectual, and economic life of an immensely influential Buddhist society. Spanning the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Kurtis R. Schaeffer envisions the scholars and hermits, madmen and ministers, kings and queens who produced Tibet's massive canons. He describes how Tibetan scholars edited and printed works of religion, literature, art, and science and what this indicates about the interrelation of material and cultural practices. The Tibetan book is at once the embodiment of the Buddha's voice, a principal means of education, a source of tradition and authority, an economic product, a finely crafted aesthetic object, a medium of Buddhist written culture, and a symbol of the religion itself. Books stood at the center of debates on the role of libraries in religious institutions, the relative merits of oral and written teachings, and the economy of religion in Tibet. A meticulous study that draws on more than 150 understudied Tibetan sources, The Culture of the Book in Tibet is the first volume to trace this singular history. Through a single object, Schaeffer accesses a greater understanding of the cultural and social history of the Tibetan plateau.

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Columbia University Press

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0231147171

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9780231147170

Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Illuminated Manuscripts

English Language Edition

By: Thomas Kren,Elizabeth C. Teviotdale,Adam S. Cohen,Kurtis Barstow

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Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Illuminated Manuscripts

English Language Edition

By: Thomas Kren,Elizabeth C. Teviotdale,Adam S. Cohen,Kurtis Barstow

The Getty Museum’s collection of illuminated manuscripts, featured in this book, comprises masterpieces of medieval and Renaissance art. Dating from the tenth to the sixteenth century, they were produced in France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, England, Spain, Poland, and the eastern Mediterranean. Among the highlights are four Ottonian manuscripts, Romanesque treasures from Germany, Italy, and France, an English Gothic Apocalypse, and late medieval manuscripts painted by such masters as Jean Fouquet, Girolamo da Cremona, Simon Marmion, and Joris Hoefnagel. Included are glistening liturgical books, intimate and touching devotional books for private use, books of the Bible, lively histories by Giovanni Boccaccio and Jean Froissart, and a breathtaking Model Book of Calligraphy.

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130

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Getty Publications

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0892364467

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9780892364466

Daniel Peters, Ace Reporter B-29 Found

By: Rick Kurtis

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Daniel Peters, Ace Reporter B-29 Found

By: Rick Kurtis

An ace reporter for the Daily Post is connected to a kindred spirit through his repeating dreams. Follow him in his daily life dealing with work, his boss, a new relationship, fatherhood, and his dreams, while being shot at, getting the story of the year, and being honored and suspended all at the same time. This compels him to go on a quest and follow his haunting dreams back to the year of 1952.

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Fulton Books, Inc.

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1633387933

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9781633387935

Hebrew Lexical Semantics and Daily Life in Ancient Israel

What's Cooking in Biblical Hebrew?

By: Kurtis Peters

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Hebrew Lexical Semantics and Daily Life in Ancient Israel

What's Cooking in Biblical Hebrew?

By: Kurtis Peters

In Hebrew Lexical Semantics and Daily Life in Ancient Israel, Kurtis Peters hitches the world of Biblical Studies to that of modern linguistic research. Often the insights of linguistics do not appear in the study of Biblical Hebrew, and if they do, the theory remains esoteric. Peters finds a way to maintain linguistic integrity and yet simplify cognitive linguistic methods to provide non-specialists an access point. By employing a cognitive approach one can coordinate the world of the biblical text with the world of its surroundings. The language of cooking affords such a possibility – Peters evaluates not only the words or lexemes related to cooking in the Hebrew Bible, but also the world of cooking as excavated by archaeology.

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246

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BRILL

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9004325980

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9789004325982

Sound Check

How Worship Teams Can Pursue Authenticity, Excellence, and Purpose

By: Kurtis Parks

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How Worship Teams Can Pursue Authenticity, Excellence, and Purpose

By: Kurtis Parks

Author Kurtis Parks understands the realities of being a worship leader. In Sound Check he offers insights about: What it means to worship with authenticity How to cast a vision of excellence for a worship team Ways to rely on the Holy Spirit in leading worship Practical approaches to spiritual disciplines What to do about the ongoing struggle of separating performance and worship How seeking God’s presence leads to hearing His voice Parks’s powerful message is that when worship leaders cultivate a private life of worship, God will prepare them to lead from the stage.

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149

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David C Cook

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1434710521

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9781434710529

We Interrupt this Broadcast

The Events that Stopped Our Lives-- : from the Hindenburg Explosion to the Attacks of September 11

By: Joe Garner,Bill Kurtis

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We Interrupt this Broadcast

The Events that Stopped Our Lives-- : from the Hindenburg Explosion to the Attacks of September 11

By: Joe Garner,Bill Kurtis

An illustrated book and two audio CDs provide actual news broadcasts and background information for 44 events in the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1570719748

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9781570719745

Lila's Hamsa

By: Arlene Kurtis

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Lila's Hamsa

By: Arlene Kurtis

No deception ever lasts, does it, Rabbi?" Lila bowed her head in shame. After fleeing a disastrous marriage, she arrived in the small town of St. George where her hamsa became the key that opened a gate to her Garden of Eden. There she found ideals she could believe in, and the love that she yearned for. But the time would come when her past would overwhelm her present, and then the good luck charm's magic could no longer protect her.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1499060408

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9781499060409

The Tanglewood Terror

By: Kurtis Scaletta

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The Tanglewood Terror

By: Kurtis Scaletta

When a giant glowing fungus encroaches upon thirteen-year-old Eric's small town, he, his little brother Brian, and a runaway girl try to stop it--and figure out what happened to the Puritan town that had mysteriously disappeared from the same spot.

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Yearling

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037586542X

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9780375865428

The Prairie Table Cookbook

77 Delicious Recipes for Western Prairie Living

By: Bill Kurtis

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The Prairie Table Cookbook

77 Delicious Recipes for Western Prairie Living

By: Bill Kurtis

The Prairie Table Cookbook blends comforting rancher food recipes with a fascinating look at life and food on the historic cattle trails and cowboys of the 19th century. There's a prairie fire sweeping across America, one that comes from the people looking for more natural, healthy, and harmonious ways to eat meat from the land. Tallgrass Beef represents a return to "classic" ranching, and produces meat that consistently tastes better and is better for you than grain-fed. The Prairie Table Cookbook will immerse readers in the cowboy's world with delicious recipes to sustain any hungry family or famished cowboy. From hearty chilli to Texas Beef tips, scrumptious sourdough biscuits and corn fritters, these modern and classic recipes show range from simple homesteader to the more adventurous modern chef, and include contributions from celebrity chefs such as Charlie Trotter and Rick Baylis. Accompanied by anecdotes, letters and photographs from the heyday of the Kansas cattle trade, this cookbook will be a staple for any American looking to eat a better kind of beef around a cozy dinner table or glowing campfire.

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1402248687

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9781402248689

Lead Them with Virtue

A Confucian Alternative to War

By: Kurtis Hagen

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Lead Them with Virtue

A Confucian Alternative to War

By: Kurtis Hagen

Recent scholarship has framed early Confucians as just war theorists with relatively permissive criteria for the just use of violence. Lead Them with Virtue: A Confucian Alternative to War makes the case that such interpretations conflict with what Mencius and Xunzi were trying to do. Kurtis Hagen argues that they both strove to prevent war by contrasting the situations of their day with idealized versions of the semi-mythic activities of sage-kings, which represent appropriate use of the military. These stories imply support for the offensive use of the military only when actual war—with its characteristic horrors—would not ensue. Following this logic, military interventions are just only in circumstances that do not actually occur. Confucians advocate, instead, a long-term strategy of ameliorating unjust circumstances by leveraging the credibility and influence that stems from consistently practicing genuinely benevolent governance. Passages that imply pacifistic readings of these texts are routinely dismissed by scholars as too naïve to be taken seriously. Hagen argues that the relatively pacifistic position implied by these passages is not in fact naïve, but is rather reasonable, and indeed should be supported, at least by contemporary Confucians.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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179363971X

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9781793639714

Life on an African Slave Ship

By: Joseph Kleinman,Eileen Kurtis-Kleinman

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Life on an African Slave Ship

By: Joseph Kleinman,Eileen Kurtis-Kleinman

Describes the conditions that existed on the ships bringing African slaves to the New World.

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1560066539

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9781560066538

Day of the Cross

By: Rick Kurtis

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Day of the Cross

By: Rick Kurtis

In today's society, there is always controversy. Day of the Cross is about a teenage boy who is chosen to prepare the world for the second coming of Christ. It is an event that could have happened, is happening, or will happen in the near future. This boy of the modern century is troubled with his religion. He is taken back to walk with Jesus and learns of his new quest in life. He watches and learns the teachings of Christ and notices how difficult the people are and how, even toda

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Fulton Books, Inc.

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1633386139

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9781633386136

Death Penalty on Trial

Crisis in American Justice

By: Bill Kurtis

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Death Penalty on Trial

Crisis in American Justice

By: Bill Kurtis

Bill Kurtis, anchor of the wildly popular true-crime TV series Cold Case Files and American Justice, used to support the death penalty. But after observing the machinations of the justice system for thirty years, he came to a stunning realization that changed his life: Capital punishment is wrong. There can be no real justice in America until it is abolished. In The Death Penalty on Trial, Kurtis takes readers on his most remarkable investigative journey yet. Together, we revisit murder scenes, study the evidence, and explore the tactical decisions made before and during trials that send innocent people to death row. We examine the eight main reasons why the wrong people are condemned to death, including overzealous and dishonest prosecutors, corrupt policemen, unreliable witnesses and expert witnesses, incompetent defense attorneys, bias judges, and jailhouse informants. We see why the new jewel of forensic science, DNA, is revealing more than innocence and guilt, opening a window into the criminal justice system that could touch off a revolution of reform. Ultimately we come to a remarkable conclusion: The possibility for error in our justice system is simply too great to allow the death penalty to stand as our ultimate punishment.

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PublicAffairs

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0786734035

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9780786734030

Dreaming the Great Brahmin

Tibetan Traditions of the Buddhist Poet-Saint Saraha

By: Kurtis R. Schaeffer

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Dreaming the Great Brahmin

Tibetan Traditions of the Buddhist Poet-Saint Saraha

By: Kurtis R. Schaeffer

Dreaming the Great Brahmin explores the creation and recreation of Buddhist saints through narratives, poetry, art, ritual, and even dream visions. The first comprehensive cultural and literary history of the well-known Indian Buddhist poet saint Saraha, known as the Great Brahmin, this book argues that we should view Saraha not as the founder of a tradition, but rather as its product. Kurtis Schaeffer shows how images, tales, and teachings of Saraha were transmitted, transformed, and created by members of diverse Buddhist traditions in Tibet, India, Nepal, and Mongolia. The result is that there is not one Great Brahmin, but many. More broadly, Schaeffer argues that the immense importance of saints for Buddhism is best understood by looking at the creative adaptations of such figures that perpetuated their fame, for it is there that these saints come to life.

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Oxford University Press

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0195173732

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9780195173734

Book's by Kurtis Joseph

Conspiracy Theories and the Failure of Intellectual Critique

Conspiracy Theories and the Failure of Intellectual Critique

The Culture of the Book in Tibet

The Culture of the Book in Tibet

Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Illuminated Manuscripts

Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Illuminated Manuscripts

Daniel Peters, Ace Reporter B-29 Found

Daniel Peters, Ace Reporter B-29 Found

Hebrew Lexical Semantics and Daily Life in Ancient Israel

Hebrew Lexical Semantics and Daily Life in Ancient Israel

Sound Check

Sound Check

We Interrupt this Broadcast

We Interrupt this Broadcast

Lila's Hamsa

Lila's Hamsa

The Tanglewood Terror

The Tanglewood Terror

The Prairie Table Cookbook

The Prairie Table Cookbook

Lead Them with Virtue

Lead Them with Virtue

Life on an African Slave Ship

Life on an African Slave Ship

Day of the Cross

Day of the Cross

Death Penalty on Trial

Death Penalty on Trial

Dreaming the Great Brahmin

Dreaming the Great Brahmin

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