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Theology and Sanity
by F. J. Sheed. 407 pgs.

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Foreword

Contents

Preliminary

1: Religion and the Mind

2: Examination of Intellect

God

3: He Who Is

4: The Mind Works on Infinity

5: God Tells Man

6: Three Persons in One Nature

7: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

8: Some Further Precisions

9: Concluding This Part

Creation

10: God as Creator

11: The Created Universe

12: Angels, Matter, Men

13: The Testing of Angels and Men

14: The Fall of Man

15: Between the Fall and The Redemption

16: The Mission of Christ

17 The Redeemer

19: Redemption

20: The Kingdom

21: Dispensing the Gifts

22: The Mystical Body of Christ

23: Life in the Body

24: Life After Death

25: The End of the World

Oneself

26: Habituation to Reality

27: Habituation to Man

28: The Insufficiency of Man

29: Sufficiency in the Church

30: The Life of Grace

31: The Landscape of Reality

32: Idyll and Fact

Index
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Developing Sanity in Human Affairs
by Susan Presby Kodish, Robert P. Holston. 446 pgs.

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How can humans learn to function most effectively in their individual and social lives and best approach important ethical and social concerns? Developing Sanity in Human Affairs answers this question through application of general semantics to the fields of education, counseling, communication, critical thinking, journalism, and ethics.

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Introduction

I ALFRED KORZYBSKI MEMORIAL LECTURE

Overview

1: General Semantics: The Next Generation1

II CRITICAL THINKING

Overview

2: Thinking Critically about Sources of Information1

3: Integrating Critical Thinking and General Semantics: An Interactive Panel

III FOUNDATIONS

Overview

4: Living in an "as if" World: Some Reflections on "The Map Is Not the Territory

5: The Most 'Consequential' Elementalism

6: General-Semantics and Fuzzy Logic/Sets: Similarities and Differences

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

7: How General Semantics Can Rescue Biology from Itself: A Biology with Biologists in It

NOTES

REFERENCES AND SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

8: General-Semantics: A Critical and Meta-Critical System

9: Undecidability in Quantum Physics, Chaos Theory, and Deconstruction: Implications for Politics, Ethics, and Society

10: ΣEOFS: A Fourth Non-Aristotelian Model

IV: SOCIAL/CULTURAL ISSUES

Overview

11: A General Semantics Approach to Appreciating Cultural Diversity

12: A North-South Bridge of General Semantics: The Cross-Cultural Approach in an International and a National Environment

13: How General Semantics Contributes to the Understanding of Violence

14: Breaking the Taboo: A Critical Look at Barriers to Thought and Discussion of Assisted Suicide for the Terminally Ill

15: Healing Medicine with Language1

16: The Importance of Story-Telling to Time-Binding: Crucial Issues for General Semantics to Address

REFERENCES

17: Problem Solving with General-Semantics

V EDUCATION/COUNSELING

Overview

18: A General Semantics Approach to Clinical Supervision with Drug Prevention Counselors

19: The Irving J. Lee Method of Teaching General Semantics

REFERENCES

20: "Got-to-Be, Got-to-Be, Dom-in-o's!": The Semantics of Student Responses to TV Commercials

21: An Integrated Model of Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics, Bandler/Grinder's Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Ellis's Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, and Glasser's Reality Therapy/Control Theory1

NOTES

NOTES

23: Dream Education and General Semantics

24: General Semantics and Zen: Complementary Guides for Sane Living

VI COMMUNICATION

Overview

25: Using General Semantics as the Theoretical Foundation for Teaching Media Literacy

26: Caveat Lector: "Let the Reader Beware" A General Semantic View of the Potential for Misevaluation in Medical Research Communication1

27: General Semantics and Translation Theory

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

29: General Semantics and the Ethics Agenda: New Challenges for the News Media1

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Labor and Contentially Related Lexical Items in Communist Newspeak: Cases of Soviet Russia and Socialist Germany

VII HUMANISM/ETHICS

31: Putting up Lightning Rods: General- Semantics and Secular Humanism

32: General Semantics and Secular Humanism

34: Evaluating Abortion: A General-Semantics Analysis

Index

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Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
by Alfred Korzybski. 808 pgs.

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International Non-Aristotelian LIbrary

Contents

Preface to the Fourth Edition 1958

Bibliographical Note

Preface to the Third Edition 1948

Introduction to the Second Edition 1941

Acknowledgements

Supplementary Bibliography To the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition 1933

Acknowledgement

Book I: A General Survey Of Non-Aristotelian Factors

Part I: Preliminaries

Part II: General on Structure

Chapter Vll: Linguistic Revision

Part III: Non-Elementalistic Structures

Part IV: Structural Factors in Non-Aristotelian Languages

Part V: On the Non-Aristotelian Language Called Mathematics

Part VI: On the Foundation of Psychophysiology

Book II: A General Introduction To Non-Aristotelian Systems And General Semantics

Part VII: On the Mechanism of Time-Binding

Book III: Additional Structural Data About Languages And The Empirical World

Prefatory Remarks

Part IX: On the Similarity of Empirical And Verbal Structures

Part X: On the Structure of 'Matter'

Supplement I: The Logic of Relativity

Supplement II: The Theory of Types

Supplement III: A Non-Aristotelian System and Its Necessity For Rigour in Mathematics and Physics

Notes and References

Bibliography

Index
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Man: The Mechanical Misfit
by G. H. Estabrooks. 254 pgs.

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Foreword

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Chapter One: The First Billion Years

Chapter Two: Mammal, Monkey, and Man

Chapter Three: Why Skid?

Chapter Four: The Skeleton in Your Closet

Chapter Five: Civilization--The Organ Grinder

Chapter Six: The Vampire Brain

Chapter Seven: The Sanity of Insanity and The Insanity of Sanity

Chapter Eight: Our Friend--The Enemy

Chapter Nine: The Wages of Biological Sin Is Evolutionary Death

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Rethinking Criminal Law
by George P. Fletcher. 900 pgs.

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This is a reprint of a book first published by Little, Brown in 1978. George Fletcher is working on a new edition, which will be published by Oxford in three volumes, the first of which is scheduled to appear in January of 2001. Rethinking Criminal Law is still perhaps the most influential and often cited theoretical work on American criminal law. This reprint will keep this classic work available until the new edition can be published.

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Preface

Table of Abbreviations and Short-Form Citations

Part One: Part One Rethinking Specific Offenses

Chapter One: The Topology of Theft

Chapter Two: Common-Law Larceny and Its Metamorphosis

Chapter Three: Two Patterns of Criminality

Chapter Four: Homicide:Three Lines of Liability

Chapter Five: The Jurisprudence of Homicide

Part Two: Rethinking the General Part

Chapter Six: The Quest for the General Part

Chapter Seven: The Structure of Wrongdoing

Chapter Eight: The Theory of Derivative Liability

Chapter Nine: The Theory of Mistake

Chapter Ten: The Theory of Justification and Excuse

Table of Cases

Index
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Sensitive Inquiry: A Sane Mind in a Savvy Body, in Re-vision
by Don Hanlon Johnson. 8 pgs.

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Hitler's Death Camps: The Sanity of Madness
by Konnilyn G. Feig. 547 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Camp Names and Locations

Preface

Part One: A Beginning

Part Two: The Camps

The Pre-War Camps: Dachau: a Perfect Model

The Polish Camps

The German Camps

The Czechoslovakian Center

The Killing Centersexclusive Function Camps

The Labor/ Extermination Complexes

Liberation

Poland

Part Three: The Indifferent the SlaughterÉrs the Strugglers

Appendix I: Camp Directions

Appendix II: The Camps and Commandants

Appendix III: The Fate of the Commandants

Notes

Sources

Bibliography

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Mental Disorder in the Criminal Process: Stan Stress and the Vietnam/Sports Conspiracy
by Grant H. Morris, Allen C. Snyder. 305 pgs.

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With its short and lively case history, basic documents, and expert commentary, this text is an ideal teaching tool for all who want to evaluate for themselves how society deals with the mentally disordered in the criminal justice process. A chronological account of Stan Stress's important case and his obsessive belief in a Vietnam/sports conspiracy is interlaced with evaluations by lawyers, psychologists, and psychiatrists and with the authors' critiques and questions about key issues in the interface between law and psychiatry.

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Introduction

Chapter 1 Pre-1983

Notes

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Chapter 2 January 1983-October 1983

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Chapter 3 November 1983-June 1985

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Chapter 4 July 1985-October 1986

Notes

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Chapter 5 October 1986-January 1987

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Chapter 6 February 1987-August 1989

Bibliography

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