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Feelings of Believing

Psychology, History, Phenomenology

By: Ryan Hickerson

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Feelings of Believing

Psychology, History, Phenomenology

By: Ryan Hickerson

In Feelings of Believing: Psychology, History, Phenomenology, Ryan Hickerson demonstrates that philosophers as diverse as Hume, Descartes, Husserl, and William James all treated believing as feeling. He argues that doxastic sentimentalism, therefore, is considerably more central to modern epistemology than philosophers have recognized. When the empirical psychology of overconfidence and attention is brought to bear on the history of philosophy and the phenomenology of believing, all point toward belief as fundamentally affective. Understanding believing as feeling has the potential to make us better believers, both by encouraging suspicion of unexamined certainties and by focusing attention on credulity. Hickerson argues that believing is typically felt but not given attention by the believer, and he suggests that virtuous believers are those who pay careful attention to their own sentiments-- who attempt to raise their beliefs to the level of judgments.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498577180

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9781498577182

Cajun Breakdown

The Emergence of an American-Made Music

By: Ryan Andre Brasseaux

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Cajun Breakdown

The Emergence of an American-Made Music

By: Ryan Andre Brasseaux

In 1946, Harry Choates, a Cajun fiddle virtuoso, changed the course of American musical history when his recording of the so-called Cajun national anthem "Jole Blon" reached number four on the national Billboard charts. Cajun music became part of the American consciousness for the first time thanks to the unprecedented success of this issue, as the French tune crossed cultural, ethnic, racial, and socio-economic boundaries. Country music stars Moon Mullican, Roy Acuff, Bob Wills, and Hank Snow rushed into the studio to record their own interpretations of the waltz-followed years later by Waylon Jennings and Bruce Springsteen. The cross-cultural musical legacy of this plaintive waltz also paved the way for Hank Williams Sr.'s Cajun-influenced hit "Jamabalaya." Choates' "Jole Blon" represents the culmination of a centuries-old dialogue between the Cajun community and the rest of America. Joining into this dialogue is the most thoroughly researched and broadly conceived history of Cajun music yet published, Cajun Breakdown. Furthermore, the book examines the social and cultural roots of Cajun music's development through 1950 by raising broad questions about the ethnic experience in America and nature of indigenous American music. Since its inception, the Cajun community constantly refashioned influences from the American musical landscape despite the pressures of marginalization, denigration, and poverty. European and North American French songs, minstrel tunes, blues, jazz, hillbilly, Tin Pan Alley melodies, and western swing all became part of the Cajun musical equation. The idiom's synthetic nature suggests an extensive and intensive dialogue with popular culture, extinguishing the myth that Cajuns were an isolated folk group astray in the American South. Ryan André Brasseaux's work constitutes a bold and innovative exploration of a forgotten chapter in America's musical odyssey.

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Oxford University Press

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0199711313

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9780199711314

Chinese Attitudes Toward Nuclear Weapons: China and the United States During the Korean War

China and the United States During the Korean War

By: Mark A. Ryan

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Chinese Attitudes Toward Nuclear Weapons: China and the United States During the Korean War

China and the United States During the Korean War

By: Mark A. Ryan

This book examines the crucial formative period of Chinese attitudes toward nuclear weapons - the immediate post-Hiroshima/Nagasaki period and the Korean War. It provides a detailed account of U.S. actions and attitudes during this period and China's response, which was especially acute after both countries had entered the Korean conflict as enemies. This response dispels some of the myths that have long existed regarding China's perceptions of nuclear war.

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492

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Routledge

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1315492156

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9781315492155

Death Along the Natchez Trace

By: Josh Foreman and Ryan Starrett

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Death Along the Natchez Trace

By: Josh Foreman and Ryan Starrett

The Natchez Trace is the "Path of Nations," a 450-mile-long game trail stamped into the earth by primeval bison. Once the domain of the Natchez, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and Cherokee tribes, the Trace nurtured these groups, but it was also watered with the blood of tribesmen long before any white man trod on it. European settlers eventually used the path to navigate between the backwoods Cumberland settlements and the cosmopolitan city of Natchez, with Spanish gold clinking in the seams of their clothes and wads of tough jerky turning in their cheeks. Today, the Natchez Trace stands as one of the prettiest and most history-soaked pathways in the United States. Join authors Ryan Starrett and Josh Foreman as they look at the myriad ways people have lived and died along it.

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160

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467149772

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9781467149778

Diplomacy and War at NATO

The Secretary General and Military Action After the Cold War

By: Ryan C. Hendrickson

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Diplomacy and War at NATO

The Secretary General and Military Action After the Cold War

By: Ryan C. Hendrickson

NATO is an alliance transformed. Originally created to confront Soviet aggression, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization evolved in the 1990s as a military alliance with a broader agenda. Whether conducting combat operations in the Balkans or defending Turkey from an Iraqi threat in 2003, NATO continues to face new security challenges on several fronts. Although a number of studies have addressed NATO's historic evolution, conceptual changes, and military activities, none has considered the role in this transformation of the secretary general, who is most often seen as a minor player operating under severe political constraints. In Diplomacy and War at NATO, Ryan C. Hendrickson examines the first four post-Cold War secretaries general and establishes their roles in moving the alliance toward military action. Drawing on interviews with former NATO ambassadors, alliance military leaders, and senior NATO officials, Hendrickson shows that these leaders played critical roles when military force was used and were often instrumental in promoting transatlantic consensus. Hendrickson offers a focus on actual diplomacy within NATO unmatched by any other study, providing previously unreported accounts of closed sessions of the North Atlantic Council to show how these four leaders differed in their impacts on the alliance but were all critical players in explaining how and when NATO used force. He examines Manfred Wörner's role in moving the alliance toward military action in the Balkans; Willy Claes's influence in shaping alliance policies regarding NATO's 1995 bombing campaign on the Bosnian Serbs; Javier Solana's part in shaping political and military agendas in the Yugoslavian war; and George Robertson's efforts to promote consensus on the Iraqi issue, which culminated in NATO's decision to provide Turkey with military defensive measures. Through each case, Hendrickson demonstrates that the secretary general is often the central diplomat in generating cooperation within NATO. As the alliance has expanded its membership and undertaken new peacekeeping missions, it now confronts new threats in international security. Diplomacy and War at NATO offers readers a more complete understanding of the alliance's post-Cold War transformation as well as policy recommendations for the improvement of transatlantic tensions.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826265243

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9780826265241

A Baby Boomer's Guide to Their Second Sixties

By: Ryan Custer Amacher

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A Baby Boomer's Guide to Their Second Sixties

By: Ryan Custer Amacher

While this book was written for male Baby Boomers and their significant others, it also includes Boomer history and what lies ahead as we experience the decade of our own sixties. This story reviews our Boomer luck, recounts the great history of being a kid in the 1950s, and the great opportunities provided by improved education in the 1960s, not to ignore a seemingly mind expanding culture. Turning sixty is not for the faint hearted. There are issues ahead. The first thing we all face is taking care of aging parents or what the author refers to as helping your parents check out. Then there are our own Boomer health issues including cataracts and prostate cancer. You likely think there is nothing funny about these topics but the quirky economist author finds humor in all of our aging experiences. This book covers Boomer issues, all in the context of our Boomer culture. We Boomers thought we would be young forever. Maybe that is why it is so amusing. RYAN CUSTER AMACHER was born 52 days too early to be an “official” Baby Boomer, but he in no way ever considered himself a member of Tom Brokaw’s “Greatest Generation.” In this book, the author chronicles the good luck of the first sixty years of the Boomer experience and guides Boomers into the humorous, but sobering experience of their personal sixties. Amacher, an economist, has a BA degree from Ripon College and a PhD from the University of Virginia. He has been a professor at the University of Oklahoma, Economics Department Chair at Arizona State, Business Dean at Clemson University, and President of the University of Texas at Arlington where he is now a Professor of Economics. He has worked at the Pentagon, writing a market plan for the All-Volunteer Army, the Federal Trade Commission as a consultant, and the US Treasury, on the Law of The Sea negotiations.

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Sunstone Press

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1611390702

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9781611390704

The Vision of Anglo-America

The US-UK Alliance and the Emerging Cold War, 1943-1946

By: Henry Butterfield Ryan

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The Vision of Anglo-America

The US-UK Alliance and the Emerging Cold War, 1943-1946

By: Henry Butterfield Ryan

This study demonstrates the importance of the decline of British power in the creation of the Cold War.

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248

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Cambridge University Press

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0521892848

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9780521892841

The Fiddler's Almanac

By: Ryan J. Thomson

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The Fiddler's Almanac

By: Ryan J. Thomson

Includes a wealth of fiddling lore and illustrations; a guide to buying a fiddle and bow; tips on learning and playing the fiddle; over 800 listings of books, records, fiddling and bluegrass organizations, fiddling schools and camps, violin making supplies, films, etc.; information about fiddle contests.

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Captain Fiddle Publications

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0931877008

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9780931877001

Radio Drama and Comedy Writers, 1928-1962

By: Ryan Ellett

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Radio Drama and Comedy Writers, 1928-1962

By: Ryan Ellett

More than 700 uncredited scriptwriters who created the memorable characters and thrilling stories of radio's Golden Age receive due recognition in this reference work. For some, radio was a stepping stone on the way to greater achievements in film or television, on the stage or in literature. For others, it was the culmination of a life spent writing newspaper copy. Established authors dabbled in radio as a new medium, while working writers saw it as another opportunity to earn a paycheck. When these men and women came to broadcasting, they crafted a body of work still appreciated by modern listeners.

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McFarland

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1476665931

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Reckless & Real Something Wild Prequel

Something Wild

By: Lexi Ryan

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Reckless & Real Something Wild Prequel

Something Wild

By: Lexi Ryan

LA SÉRIE RECKLESS & REAL (triptyque) de Lexi Ryan, dont l'action se situe à New Hope (Indiana), une petite ville de province américaine en proie à des luttes politiques et familiales, raconte l'histoire d'amour tourmentée de Liz célibataire de 24 ans et Sam, son ex-boyfriend qu'elle fuit mais dont elle est toujours amoureuse. Sur fond de campagne électorale, une passion que tout le monde s'emploie à briser dans une ville où tout se sait et où tout le monde se connaît. Cette série épicée plonge le lecteur dans un monde de faux-semblants, de sexe, de trahisons et de scandales en tout genre.

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Hugo Roman

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2755627670

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9782755627671

Reckless & Real Something dangerous - tome 1

Something dangerous

By: Lexi Ryan

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Reckless & Real Something dangerous - tome 1

Something dangerous

By: Lexi Ryan

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2755627158

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Feelings of Believing

Feelings of Believing

Cajun Breakdown

Cajun Breakdown

Chinese Attitudes Toward Nuclear Weapons: China and the United States During the Korean War

Chinese Attitudes Toward Nuclear Weapons: China and the United States During the Korean War

Death Along the Natchez Trace

Death Along the Natchez Trace

Diplomacy and War at NATO

Diplomacy and War at NATO

A Baby Boomer's Guide to Their Second Sixties

A Baby Boomer's Guide to Their Second Sixties

The Vision of Anglo-America

The Vision of Anglo-America

The Fiddler's Almanac

The Fiddler's Almanac

Radio Drama and Comedy Writers, 1928-1962

Radio Drama and Comedy Writers, 1928-1962

Reckless & Real Something Wild Prequel

Reckless & Real Something Wild Prequel

Reckless & Real Something dangerous - tome 1

Reckless & Real Something dangerous - tome 1

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