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2008

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Uma Filosofia Constitucional Comum (Luso-Brasileira), Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha Dec 2007

Uma Filosofia Constitucional Comum (Luso-Brasileira), Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Onde melhor se pode aquilatar de uma filosofia constitucional? Além do cunho da constitução, que já vimos ser liberal na fórmula política (porque moderna ecodificada) e social na social, cultural e económica, o que mais exprime uma filosofia constitucional é a ética constitucional, e, antes de mais, são os valores. A Constituição cidadão brasileira e a Constituição portuguesa de 1976 comungam, em grande medida, dos meus valores de liberdade, igualdade, justiça, e outros, progressivos e de cidadania.

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The Grayest Of Days, Rebecca Saunders Dec 2007

The Grayest Of Days, Rebecca Saunders

Rebecca Saunders

No abstract provided.

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Boom De A Da, Rebecca Saunders Dec 2007

Boom De A Da, Rebecca Saunders

Rebecca Saunders

Preface: It’s quite possible that none of these events really happened. But it sure felt like what happened to Cleo and Nadia one morning in February.

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Of Ghosts And Angels: Derrida, Kushner, And The Impossibility Of Forgiveness, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein Dec 2007

Of Ghosts And Angels: Derrida, Kushner, And The Impossibility Of Forgiveness, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

No abstract provided.

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Review Of Il Capitolo Di San Lorenzo Nel Quattrocento, Brian Maxson Dec 2007

Review Of Il Capitolo Di San Lorenzo Nel Quattrocento, Brian Maxson

Brian J. Maxson

Paolo Viti's edited collection In Capitolo di San Lorenzo nel Quattrocento offers twenty one meticulously researched articles focused on biographical and cultural studies of the fifteenth-century canons at San Lorenzo in Florence. According to the books introduction, the goal of the studies is to make a "new contribution to the knowledge of the history of the Laurenzian Basilica and of its canons of the fifteenth century in the fuller and more complex panoramic of the history of the Florentine Church" (ix). The book achieves this goal by offering a wealth of new information about individuals prominent in the chapter of …

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Review Of La Sfortuna Di Jacopo Piccinino: Storia Dei Bracceschi In Italia 1423-1465, Brian Maxson Dec 2007

Review Of La Sfortuna Di Jacopo Piccinino: Storia Dei Bracceschi In Italia 1423-1465, Brian Maxson

Brian J. Maxson

Serena Ferente argues that the military and political leader Jacopo Piccinino was at the head of several groups who were on the outside of the Italian League after the mid- 1450s. In this role, Jacopo Piccinino was the last condottiere both to command a base across Italy and to propagate the old filo-French allegiances of several groups in opposition to the hardening of the Italian state system. Ferente bases her claims on an impressive array of contemporary and early modern literary sources combined with a deep knowledge of fifteenth-century diplomatic documents.

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Regionalism And The Realities Of Naming, Stephen C. Behrendt Dec 2007

Regionalism And The Realities Of Naming, Stephen C. Behrendt

Stephen C Behrendt

No abstract provided.

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Thomas Clarkson, Ambassadeur Et Promoteur De La PremièRe Campagne Contre La Traite (1787-1807), Francoise Le Jeune Pr Dec 2007

Thomas Clarkson, Ambassadeur Et Promoteur De La PremièRe Campagne Contre La Traite (1787-1807), Francoise Le Jeune Pr

Francoise LE JEUNE

No abstract provided.

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Warning! Experts May Be Hazardous To Your Health, Malla Pollack Dec 2007

Warning! Experts May Be Hazardous To Your Health, Malla Pollack

Malla Pollack

The academy is now emphasizing inter-disciplinary scholarship and decision-making, especially the use of science to guide legal and political policy. This approach has many strengths, however, some caution is also appropriate. Using inter-disciplinary sources, this article discusses four inter-related problems with the scientific solution to social problems. First, and most central, science is about means, not ends. Second, expertise is often applied beyond its relevant field. Third, non-experts have difficulty judging competing experts. Fourth, experts’ predictions are often wrong. The United States is presented as a horrible example of over-valuing expertise, specifically economic theory. In conditions of uncertainty, decision-makers are …

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Missionary Contributions Toward The Revaluation Of Hangeul In Late Nineteenth-Century Korea, David Silva Dec 2007

Missionary Contributions Toward The Revaluation Of Hangeul In Late Nineteenth-Century Korea, David Silva

David Silva

Soon after their arrival to Korea, Christian missionaries were confronted by decisions regarding how they would present written materials to the Korean people. While many Koreans used their indigenous script (Hangeul) for ev- eryday purposes, higher status literacy materials were expected to be pre- sented using Chinese characters (Hanja), a system unfamiliar to most but considered more prestigious by all. In deciding to publish the majority of their materials in the more accessible but lower-status script, the mission- aries contributed to a revaluation of Hangeul as a fully legitimate means of written communication in a broader range of functional domains.

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El Paso, Texas, Trinity-First Methodist Church, February 16, 2008, Oscar E. Macchioni Dec 2007

El Paso, Texas, Trinity-First Methodist Church, February 16, 2008, Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

Works Performed:
Oblivion by Astor Piazzolla
Las Cuartro Estaciones Porteñas

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Entry On Reggae, Babacar Mbaye Dec 2007

Entry On Reggae, Babacar Mbaye

Babacar Mbaye

No abstract provided.

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Entry On Pan-Africanism, Babacar Mbaye Dec 2007

Entry On Pan-Africanism, Babacar Mbaye

Babacar Mbaye

No abstract provided.

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Entry On The U.N.I.A., Babacar Mbaye Dec 2007

Entry On The U.N.I.A., Babacar Mbaye

Babacar Mbaye

No abstract provided.

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Entry On African Folklore, Babacar Mbaye Dec 2007

Entry On African Folklore, Babacar Mbaye

Babacar Mbaye

No abstract provided.

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Entry On Negritude, Babacar Mbaye Dec 2007

Entry On Negritude, Babacar Mbaye

Babacar Mbaye

No abstract provided.

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Anglicans In The Postcolony: On Sex And The Limits Of Communion, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein Dec 2007

Anglicans In The Postcolony: On Sex And The Limits Of Communion, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

No abstract provided.

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Let Freedom Free: Politics And Religion At The Heart Of A Muddled Concept, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein Dec 2007

Let Freedom Free: Politics And Religion At The Heart Of A Muddled Concept, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

No abstract provided.

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Egészségpolitika És Etika (Health Policy And Ethics), Attila Tanyi, Zsofia Kollanyi Dec 2007

Egészségpolitika És Etika (Health Policy And Ethics), Attila Tanyi, Zsofia Kollanyi

Attila Tanyi

This book provides a survey of the ethical aspects of health care resources distribution. It first distinguishes health from health care in an effort to clear up the ethical landscape. After this, still with the same purpose, it makes a distinction between problems of macro-allocation and micro-allocation. In the rest of the book two questions of macro-allocation are treated in some detail. First, several approaches – in particular: utilitarian, egalitarian, communitarian, and libertarian – to the question whether we have a right to health care are assessed. Second, it is discussed how best, if we have such a right, health …

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Psiche: Platone E Freud. Desiderio, Sogno, Mania, Eros, Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2008 (Pdf: Indice)., Marco Solinas Dec 2007

Psiche: Platone E Freud. Desiderio, Sogno, Mania, Eros, Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2008 (Pdf: Indice)., Marco Solinas

Marco Solinas

Psiche istituisce un confronto ravvicinato tra la psicologia della "Repubblica" di Platone e la psicoanalisi di Freud. Convergenze e divergenze vengono discusse in relazione sia alla concezione platonica dell'emersione onirica dei desideri repressi, che prefigura la via regia per l'inconscio di Freud, sia all'analisi delle psicopatologie correlate a tali impostazioni teoriche, sia ai due approcci diagnostici e terapeutici adottati. Altro tema cruciale è l'eros platonico - la cui disamina viene estesa anche al "Simposio" e al "Fedro" - ripreso esplicitamente da Freud in relazione al concetto di libido. L'autore affronta, infine, le due tematizzazioni, di natura metapsicologica e non solo, …

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Wss Co-Sponsored Program Looks At Gender Stereotypes, Daina Dickman Dec 2007

Wss Co-Sponsored Program Looks At Gender Stereotypes, Daina Dickman

Daina Dickman, MA, MLIS, AHIP

A recap of the 2008 American Library Association Annual Meeting session “The Lady, The Tramp and the Lion King: Mixed Messages About Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in Disney’s Magic Kingdom”, co-sponsored by the Women's Studies Section, Anthropology and Sociology Section, and the African American Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.

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Feminist Publishing Subject Of Wss Program, Daina Dickman Dec 2007

Feminist Publishing Subject Of Wss Program, Daina Dickman

Daina Dickman, MA, MLIS, AHIP

A recap of the 2008 American Library Association Annual Meeting session “Feminist Publishing:
The Evolution of a Revolution,” sponsored by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.

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New York Transfixed: Notes On The Expression Of Fear, Sharon Sliwinski Dec 2007

New York Transfixed: Notes On The Expression Of Fear, Sharon Sliwinski

Sharon Sliwinski

What does fear look like? What can photography reveal of the unconscious dimensions of terror? Working with the largest photographic archive devoted to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York City, this article studies the visual inscription of terror in the bodily gestures of eyewitness, gestures that were captured by citizen photographers.

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What Would Virginia Woolf Do?: Woolf And Social Justice In The Community College Classroom., Jill Channing Dec 2007

What Would Virginia Woolf Do?: Woolf And Social Justice In The Community College Classroom., Jill Channing

Jill Channing

What would Virginia Woolf do if she taught at a community college today? She did teach at the closest thing to a community college of her time. In her twenties, Woolf taught for three years at Morley College, an evening institute set up for working men and women in London (Bell 105).  

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El Álbum De Señoritas Y La Emancipación De La Mujer, Irene Jacobsen Dec 2007

El Álbum De Señoritas Y La Emancipación De La Mujer, Irene Jacobsen

Irene Jacobsen

This article describes the circumstances of the publication of Álbum de Señoritas (Buenos
Aires, 1854), a journal for women written by Juana Manso, an early defender of women’s
rights. It analizes its content, its reception among the female audience to whom it was addressed,
and proposes possible reasons for its commercial failure. The author concludes that the Álbum
represents a key moment in the literary and social histories of Argentina.

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Using Technology For Foreign Language Instruction: Creative Innovations, Research, And Applications, Li Jin, Tony Erben, Ruth Ban, Robert Summers, Kristina Eisenhower Dec 2007

Using Technology For Foreign Language Instruction: Creative Innovations, Research, And Applications, Li Jin, Tony Erben, Ruth Ban, Robert Summers, Kristina Eisenhower

Li Jin

No abstract provided.

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Using Instant Messaging Interaction (Imi) In Intercultural Learning, Li Jin Dec 2007

Using Instant Messaging Interaction (Imi) In Intercultural Learning, Li Jin

Li Jin

No abstract provided.

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La Militante Et L’Esclave Dans La Campagne Pour L’Abolition Immédiate De L’Esclavage (1823-1833), Francoise Le Jeune Pr Dec 2007

La Militante Et L’Esclave Dans La Campagne Pour L’Abolition Immédiate De L’Esclavage (1823-1833), Francoise Le Jeune Pr

Francoise LE JEUNE

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The Spread Of Lithobolia, Emerson Baker Dec 2007

The Spread Of Lithobolia, Emerson Baker

Emerson Baker

In the holiday 2007 issue of New England Ancestors, Diane Rapaport introduced readers to the strange case of the "Stone-Throwing Devil" that attacked the Walton family of Great Island (present-day New Castle, New Hampshire). Throughout the summer of 1682, the Waltons and their home and tavern were constantly pelted with rocks. In addition to this stony assault, objects moved about the house or disappeared, and people heard strange noises. Since no culprits were ever seen, the Waltons believed the cause was what contemporaries called "lithobolia, or the stone-throwing devil" (lithobolia is Greek for stone-thrower).

The Waltons became convinced that …

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An Introduction To Citizens Capital Accounts, Karl Widerquist Dec 2007

An Introduction To Citizens Capital Accounts, Karl Widerquist

Karl Widerquist

No abstract provided.

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