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Arguing about disability : philosophical perspectives / edited by Kristjana Kristiansen, Simo Vehmas and Tom Shakespeare.

CONTENTS: Introduction: The Unavoidable Alliance of Disability Studies and Philosophy Part 1: Metaphysics 1. Social Justice and Disability: Competing Interpretations of the Medical and Social Models 2. Definitions of Disability: Ethical and Other Values 3. The Ontology of Disability and Impairment: A Discussion of the Natural and Social Features 4. Disability and the Thinking Body Part 2: Political Philosophy 1. Personhood and the Social Inclusion of People with Disabilities: A Recognition-Theoretical Approach 2. Disability and Freedom 3. Disability, Non-Talent and Distributive Justice 4. Gender, Disability and Personal Identity: Moral and Political Problems in Community Thinking Part 3: Ethics 1. Cochlear Implants, Linguistic Rights, and ‘Open Future’ Arguments 2. The Moral Contestedness of Selecting ‘Deaf Embryos’ 3. The Role of Medical Experts in Shaping Disability Law 4. Prenatal Screening for Down Syndrome: Why We Shouldn’t? 5. Biopolitics and Bare Life: Does the Impaired Body Provide Contemporary Examples of Homo Sacer?

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The perversion of youth : controversies in the assessment and treatment of juvenile sex offenders / Frank C. DiCataldo.

CONTENTS: The birth of a moral panic -- The return of the blob : the heterogeneity of juvenile sex offenders -- Test authors in search of a clinical population : risk assessment instruments for -- Juvenile sex offenders -- The adolescent as sexual deviant : the treatment of juvenile sex offenders -- Creating the objects of our concern : normal childhood sexuality and the -- Invention of childhood sexual behavior problems -- Becoming a man : the waiver of the juvenile sex offender to adult court -- Making monsters : the civil commitment of juvenile sex offenders -- Collateral consequences : the invisible punishment of the juvenile sex offender.

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'This is not just appropriative or transphobic, it directly threatens the safety and privacy of trans women'

Update: looks like the offending site has been taken down, but there's a continuing dispute about who was responsible for it in the first place. The person who originally alerted people on LJ about the site has new entries about it, including links to various parties' Twitter accounts here

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Unlimited intimacy : reflections on the subculture of barebacking / Tim Dean.

CONTENTS: Introduction: confessions of a barebacker -- Breeding culture -- Representing raw sex -- Viral fetishism, visual fetishism -- Cruising as a way of life.

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The political psychology of democratic citizenship / edited by Eugene Borgida, Christopher M. Federico, John L. Sullivan.

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Forget memory : creating better lives for people with dementia / Anne Davis Basting.

CONTENTS: What is (and isn't) memory? : how a better understanding of memory might ease our fears about its loss -- The danger of stories : how stereotypes and the stigma of aging and dementia can hurt us -- Memory loss in the mainstream : tightly told tragedies of dementia with science as hero -- Tightly told tragedies of dementia : then versus now -- Not so tightly tragic : stories that imagine something more -- Not tragic at all : stories about memory loss without the old -- All of the above : Denny Crane as the clown of dementia -- StoryCorps and the memory loss initiative -- Memory bridge -- To whom I may concern -- TimeSlips creative storytelling project -- Songwriting works -- Dance : "Respect" and "Sea of heartbreak" -- The visual arts -- Duplex planet : the art of conversation -- The photography of Wing Young Huie -- Autobiographies by people with dementia.

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Garden & cosmos : the royal paintings of Jodhpur / Debra Diamond, Catherine Glynn, and Karni Singh Jasol ; with contributions by Jason Freitag and Rahul Jain.

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(Some of these paintings remind me a bit of the 16th century Belgian paintings I posted recently. These Indian images seem much calmer and happier--hell or some equivalent Eastern territory doesn't seem to be a preoccupation--but they're like the Belgian ones in being colorful paintings of imagined landscapes populated by legions of beings.)

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Why music moves us / Jeanette Bicknell.

Preface
Acknowledgements
The Tears if Odysseus
History: Music Gives Voice to the Ineffable
Tears, Chills and Broken Bones
The Music Itself
Explaining Strong Responses to Music (I)
Explaining Strong Responses to Music (II)
The Sublime Revisited
Conclusion: Values
References
Index

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Economies of desire : sex and tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic / Amalia L. Cabezas.

CONTENTS: Introduction: Affective economies of sexualized tourism -- Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic -- Neoliberal times in Cuba and the Dominican Republic -- Eroticizing labor in all-inclusive resorts -- Daughters of Yemayá and other luchadoras -- Tourism, sex work, and the discourse of human rights.

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Just read that William Shatner's on Conan tonight. I think I'll watch that.
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How the Beatles destroyed rock 'n' roll : an alternative history of American popular music / Elijah Wald.

CONTENTS: Amateurs and executants -- The ragtime life -- Everybody's doin' it -- Alexander's got a jazz band now -- Cake eaters and hooch drinkers -- The king of jazz -- The record, the song, and the radio -- Sons of Whiteman -- Swing that music -- Technology and its discontents -- Walking floors and jumpin' jive -- Selling the American ballad -- Rock the joint -- Big records for adults -- Teen idyll -- Twisting girls change the world -- Say you want a revolution.

I love the quote at the beginning of the introduction to this book:

"You do not have to love a work of art or a style in order to criticize it, but you need to understand its attraction to someone who does...Criticism has no significance and no importance if it is not accompanied by understanding--and that implies the comprehension of at least the possibility of love"-- Charles Rosen

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A right to discriminate? : how the case of Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale warped the law of free association / Andrew Koppelman with Tobias Barrington Wolff.
ISBN: 9780300121278

CONTENTS: Origins of the right to exclude -- Signs of the times : the Dale opinion -- The Solomon amendment litigation and other consequences of Dale -- The neolibertarian proposal -- Is the BSA being as bad as racists? : judging the BSA's antigay policy -- Why regulate the BSA?.

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The Monty Hall problem : the remarkable story of math's most contentious brainteaser / Jason Rosenhouse.

Anyone here familiar with the Monty Hall problem, and why the correct answer is what it is? We just got this book, and I'm not planning to read it, but, if anyone can give me a quick explanation, I'd appreciate it.

If you're curious what this is about: Problem is that Monty Hall (gameshow host from a while ago, I think) shows you three doors. Behind two of them, there are goats, and behind a third is a car. Presumably, you want the car, not the goats. You choose a door, but aren't allowed to open it. Monty chooses a door, always selecting one that hides a goat. He opens the door, and there's a goat. He asks if you want to stick with your originally-selected door, or pick the other door. For some reason, the mathematicians say you should always switch doors. I don't understand this at all.

Halp, plz

eta: Currently puzzling over the Wikipedia entry for "Monty Hall Problem." It's pretty comprehensive-looking, although I don't get it yet. I think the little drawings, of smiling faces, and cars, and goats, are helping.

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The modern period : menstruation in twentieth-century America / Lara Freidenfelds.

CONTENTS: Before "modern" menstrual management : keeping secrets, wearing diapers, avoiding chills -- The modern way to talk about menstruation : education, the scientific narrative, and public discussion -- The modern way to behave while menstruating : changing health beliefs and practices -- The modern way to manage menstruation : technology and bodily practices -- Tampons : a case study in controversy.

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The tactile eye : touch and the cinematic experience / Jennifer M. Barker.

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*On the origin of stories : evolution, cognition, and fiction / Brian Boyd.
ISBN: 9780674033573

CONTENTS: Introduction: animal, human, art, story -- Book 1: Evolution, art, and fiction -- Part 1: Evolution and nature -- Evolution and human nature? -- Evolution, adaptation, and adapted minds -- The evolution of intelligence -- The evolution of cooperation -- Part 2: Evolution and art -- Art as adaptation? -- Art as cognitive play -- Art and attention -- From tradition to innovation -- Part 3: Evolution and fiction -- Art, narrative, fiction -- Understanding and recalling events -- Narrative: representing events -- Fiction: inventing events -- Fiction as adaptation -- Book II: From Zeus to Seuss: origins of stories -- Part 4: Phylogeny: the Odyssey -- Earning attention (1): natural patterns: character and plot -- Earning attention (s): open-ended patterns: ironies of structure -- The evolution of intelligence (1): in the here and now -- The evolution of intelligence (2): beyond the here and now -- The evolution of cooperation (1): expanding the circle -- The evolution of cooperation (2): punishment -- Part 5: Ontogeny: Horton hears a who! -- Levels of explanation: universal, local, and individual -- Levels of explanation: individuality again -- Levels of explanation: particular -- Meanings -- Conclusion: retrospect and prospects: evolution, literature, criticism.

*Paul in ecstasy : the neurobiology of the Apostle's life and thought / Colleen Shantz.
ISBN: 9780521866101

CONTENTS: Introduction -- What ecstasy? : an assessment of the misregard -- At first sight : the cultural bias against religious ecstasy -- The view from here : biases in New Testament studies -- Cognicentrism in New Testament studies -- Ecstatics are Catholic, aren't they? -- Pauline oversight -- Paul, opponent of ecstatic abuses -- Well, maybe once, but only by accident : conversion as the catchall for Paul's ecstasy -- Through the reading glasses -- Paul's brain : the cognitive neurology of ecstasy -- Ecstatic religious experience and human neurology -- Cross-cultural ecstatic experience -- A brief history of the human brain -- The neurological and cerebral basis for ecstatic experience -- The model of neurological tuning -- Paul's ecstasy : textual and somatic -- Critical issues in the interpretation of 2 Cor. 12:1-4 -- A neurological rereading of 2 Cor. 12:1-4 -- Paul's voice : parsing Paul's ecstatic discourse -- Other features of ecstasy -- Beyond paradise -- Visions and revelations -- Corinthians 3-5 -- Romans 8 -- Ecstasy and suffering -- Paul's body of knowledge -- Transformation and union -- Embodying death -- Paul's practice : discerning ecstasies in practice -- Spirit possession -- Neurological and social anthropological features -- Spirit possession in Corinth -- Soul journey -- Social anthropological definitions -- Paul's use of ASC -- Pneumatika -- Prophecy in taxonomy of social anthropology -- Paul's comments -- Implications : Paul's public position on ASC -- The whole Paul : a short course in (non-deterministic) complexity.

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The jewel-hinged jaw : notes on the language of science fiction / Samuel R. Delany. (Revised edition)
ISBN: 9780809568830

CONTENTS: Ethical aesthetics, an introduction / by Matthew Cheney -- About 5,750 words -- Critical methods/speculative fiction -- Quarks -- Thickening the plot -- Faust and Archimedes -- Alyx -- Prisoners' sleep -- Letter to the symposium on "Women in science fiction" -- To read the dispossessed -- A fictional architecture that manages only with great difficulty not once to mention Harlan Ellison.

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