William James and the Metaphysics of Experience. by Lamberth, David C.

Table of Contents: “…Preliminaries; Contents; Note on the text; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: James's radically empiricist Weltanschauung; Chapter 2: From psychology to religion: pure experience and radical empiricism in the 1890s; Chapter 3: The Varieties of Religious Experience: indications of a philosophy adapted to normal religious needs; Chapter 4: Squaring logic and life: making philosophy intimate in A Pluralistic Universe; Chapter 5: Estimations and anticipations; Select Bibliography; Index.…”
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The Everglades experiments : lessons for ecosystem restoration / by Richardson, Curtis J.

Table of Contents: “…Everglades Ecosystem -- Overview of Gradient Studies and Experiments -- Ecological Status of the Everglades: Environmental and Human Factors that Control the Peatland Complex on the Landscape -- Soil Characteristics of the Everglades Peatland -- Vegetation and Algae of the Everglades Fen -- Nutrient and Hydrologic Gradient Studies -- to the Gradient Studies -- Enrichment Gradients in WCA-2A and Northern WCA-3A: Water, Soil, Plant Biomass, and Nutrient Storage Responses -- Geologic Settings and Hydrology Gradients in the Everglades -- Effects of Hydrologic Management Decisions on Everglades Tree Islands -- Macrophyte Community Responses in the Everglades with an Emphasis on Cattail (Typha domingensis) and Sawgrass (Cladium jamaicense) Interactions along a Gradient of Long-Term Nutrient Additions, Altered Hydroperiod, and Fire -- Algal Responses to Long-Term Nutrient Additions -- Macroinvertebrate Responses to a Gradient of Long-Term Nutrient Additions, Altered Hydroperiod, and Fire -- Historical Changes in Water Quality and Vegetation in WCA-2A Determined by Paleoecological Analyses -- Carbon Cycling and Dissolved Organic Matter Export in the Northern Everglades -- Everglades Experiments -- to a Mesocosm Approach for Establishment of Phosphorus Gradient Experiments -- Water Quality, Soil Chemistry, and Ecosystem Responses to P Dosing -- Macrophyte Slough Community Response to Experimental Phosphorus Enrichment and Periphyton Removal -- Decomposition of Litter and Peat in the Everglades: The Influence of P Concentrations -- Experimental Assessment of Phosphorus Effects on Algal Assemblages in Dosing Mesocosms -- Macroinvertebrate and Fish Responses to Experimental P Additions in Everglades Sloughs -- Plant Community Response to Long-Term N and P Fertilization -- The Effects of Disturbance, Phosphorus, and Water Level on Plant Succession in the Everglades -- Establishment and Seedling Growth of Sawgrass and Cattail from the Everglades -- Modeling Ecosystem Responses to Phosphorus Additions -- Long-Term Phosphorus Assimilative Capacity (PAC) in the Everglades -- Spatial Distributions of Total Phosphorus and Phosphorus Accretion Rates in Everglades Soils -- An Ecological Basis for Establishment of a Phosphorus Threshold for the Everglades Ecosystem -- Lessons for Restoration of the Everglades -- An Ecological Approach for Restoration of the Everglades Fen.…”
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Observation and experiment : an introduction to causal inference / by Rosenbaum, Paul R.

Table of Contents: “…Between observational studies and experiments -- Natural experiments -- Elaborate theories -- Quasi-experimental devices -- Sensitivity to bias -- Design sensitivity -- Matching techniques -- Biases from general dispositions -- Instruments -- Conclusion.…”


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Observation and experiment : an introduction to causal inference / by Rosenbaum, Paul R.

Table of Contents: “…Observational studies: Between observational studies and experiments -- Natural experiments -- Elaborate theories -- Quasi-experimental devices -- Sensitivity to bias -- Design sensitivity -- Matching techniques -- Biases from general dispositions -- Instruments -- Conclusion.…”
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Discipline and Experience : the Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution. by Dear, Peter, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on Citations and Translations; Introduction: The Measure of All Things; One Induction in Early-Modern Europe; Two Experience and Jesuit Mathematical Science: The Practical Importance of Methodology; Three Expertise, Novel Claims, and Experimental Events; Four Apostolic Succession, Astronomical Knowledge, and Scientific Traditions; Five The Uses of Experience; Six Art, Nature, Metaphor: The Growth of Physico-Mathematics; Seven Pascal's Void, Natural Philosophers, and Mathematical Experience; Eight Barrow, Newton, and Constructivist Experiment.…”
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The film experience : an introduction / by Corrigan, Timothy, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Preparing viewers and views: distribution, promotion, and exhibition -- Exploring a material world: mise-en-scène -- Seeing through the image: cinematography -- Relating images: editing -- Listening to the cinema: film sound -- Telling stories about time: narrative films -- Other cinematic shapes: documentary and experimental films -- Rituals, conventions, archetypes, and formulas: movie genres -- Conventional film history: evolutions, masterpieces, and periodization -- Global and local: inclusive histories of the movies -- Reading about film: critical methods and theories -- Writing a film essay: observations, arguments, research, and analysis.…”


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Experimenting Landscapes : Testing the Limits of the Garden. by Festival, Métis International Garden

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The prison experience : disciplinary institutions and their inmates in early modern Europe / by Spierenburg, Petrus Cornelis

Table of Contents: “…Table of Contents; Part One: The Origins; Part Two: Prisoners and Forced Labor; 3. The Period of Experimentation Prison Workhouses on the Continent, 1588-1650; 4. …”
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The film experience : an introduction / by Corrigan, Timothy

Table of Contents: “…Contexts: making, watching, and studying movies -- Introduction to the film experience -- Preparing viewers and views: production, distribution, promotion, and exhibition -- Compositions: film scenes, shots, cuts, and sounds -- Exploring a material world: mise-en-scène -- Seeing through the image: cinematography -- Relating images: editing -- Listening to the cinema: film sound -- Organizational structures: from stories to genres -- Telling stories about time: narrative films -- Representing the real: documentary films -- Experimental screens: avant-garde film, video art, and new media -- Rituals, conventions, archetypes, and formulas: movie genres -- Hollywood and the world -- Conventional film history: evolutions, masterpieces, and periodization -- Global and local: inclusive histories of the movies -- Reactions: reading and writing about film -- Reading about film: critical theories and methods -- Writing a film essay: observations, arguments, research, and analysis.…”


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Designing Experiments /

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Thought experiments / by Sorensen, Roy A.

Table of Contents: “…Our most curious device -- Skepticism about thought experiments -- Mach and inner cognitive Africa -- The wonder of armchair inquiry -- Kuhntradictions -- The logical structure of thought experiments -- Conflict vagueness and precisification -- The evolution of thought experiment -- Are thought experiments experiments -- Fallacies and antifallacies.…”


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Experiments in sound / by Beeler, Nelson F. (Nelson Frederick), 1910-1978

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Experiments in ethics / by Appiah, Anthony

Table of Contents: “…The waterless moat -- The case against character -- The case against intuition -- The varieties of moral experience -- The ends of ethics.…”


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Investigating science with rubber bands by White, Laurence B.

Subjects: “…Science Experiments Juvenile literature. sh2008111312…”


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The film experience : an introduction / by Corrigan, Timothy, 1951-, White, Patricia, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Studying film : culture and experience -- Encountering film : from preproduction to exhibition -- History and historiography : Hollywood and beyond -- Formal Compositions : Film Scenes, Shots, Cuts, and Sounds. …”


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The experience of learning : approaches to sustainability & ethics education /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Editorial boards; Guest editorial; Comparative analysis of International Service Learning Programs; "Rules of engagement"; Walking with intangibles:experiencing organisational learning; The interaction between learning styles, ethics education, and ethical climate; Dilemmas in sustainability; Student engagement and learning; Application of the experiential simulation learning approach (ELSA) model to teach sustainability to international business management undergraduate students.…”
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The experience economy / by Pine, B. Joseph

Table of Contents: “…Preview to the updated edition: Beyond goods and services -- Preview: step right up : Welcome to the experience economy -- Setting the stage -- The show must go on -- Get your act together -- Experiencing less sacrifice -- Intermission: a refreshing experience : Work is theatre -- Performing to form -- Now act your part -- The customer is the product -- Finding your role in the world -- Encore: exit, stage right.…”


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Exhibition experiments /

Table of Contents: “…en / edited by Clare Carolin and Cathy Haynes -- From exhibiting to installing ethnography : experiments at the Museum of Anthropology of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, 1999-2005 / Nuno Porto -- Raising specters : welcoming hybrid phantoms at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry / Anne Lorimer -- Exposing expo : exhibition entrepreneurship and experimental reflexivity in late modernity / Alexa F?…”
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Experiences of depression : a study in phenomenology / by Ratcliffe, Matthew, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Series; Experiences of Depression A Study in Phenomenology; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1 The World of Depression; 2 Experiencing the Possible; 3 Depression and the Body ; 4 Loss of Hope; 5 Depth, Guilt, and Narrative; 6 Agency and Free Will; 7 Time; 8 Other People; 9 Depression and Empathy; 10 The Nature of Depression; Appendix: Details of Depression Questionnaire Respondents; References; Author Index; Subject Index.…”
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Tourist experience : contemporary perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Contributors; Introduction: Thinking about the tourist experience; 1 Ways of conceptualising the tourist experience: a review of literature; Section 1 Dark tourism experiences: mediating between life and death; 2 Exploring the conceptual and analytical framing of dark tourism: from darkness to intentionality; 3 Thanatourism and the commodification of space in post-war Croatia and Bosnia; Section 2 Experiencing poor places.…”
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