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Adaptation, Activism, and the Looming Climate Disaster†

open access: yesEducational Theory, Volume 73, Issue 6, Page 801-821, December 2023., 2023
Abstract It is likely that the process of global climate change will continue to accelerate. There is a lack of political will to confront the problem and the consequences for humanity — including widespread suffering and institutional destabilization — will be disastrous. How should educators respond to a catastrophic future?
Bryan R. Warnick
wiley   +1 more source

Email Romance? Elif Batuman’s 'The Idiot' as the Narrative of an “Unloving” Relationship

open access: yesAnglo Saxonica, 2023
Batuman’s debut novel The Idiot has garnered a great amount of critical attention for incorporating in its text emails that interweave the narrative of the first half of the novel. Taking into account both the on- and the offline intimacy depicted in the
Spandita Das
doaj   +1 more source

Insults according to notions of intelligence: Perspectives from education and newsmedia

open access: yesBritish Journal of Learning Disabilities, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 324-333, September 2023., 2023
Abstract Background The terms idiot, imbecile, and moron are generally associated with notions of intelligence, having served both scientific and mundane roles across cultural‐historical contexts and in many different countries. This study seeks to explore the degree to which the use of these terms is an everyday part of our lives and to map out the ...
Jonathan Rix
wiley   +1 more source

Decisions about adopting novel COVID‐19 vaccines among White adults in a rural state, USA: A qualitative study

open access: yesHealth Expectations, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 1052-1064, June 2023., 2023
Abstract Purpose Many people, especially in rural areas of the United States, choose not to receive novel COVID‐19 vaccinations despite public health recommendations. Understanding how people describe decisions to get vaccinated or not may help to address hesitancy.
Mike Kohut   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

RELIGION, BRAINS, AND PERSONS: THE CONTRIBUTION OF NEUROLOGY PATIENTS AND CLINICIANS TO UNDERSTANDING HUMAN FAITH

open access: yesZygon®, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 616-634, September 2022., 2022
Abstract This article presents a historical overview of the role played by neurology patients and clinicians in the development of understanding brain–behavior relationships and argues that, even with the advent of sophisticated functional brain imaging techniques, this clinical approach remains valuable.
Joanna Collicutt
wiley   +1 more source

Comments on a found text: “Return to Acirema: Fragments regarding twenty‐first‐century Nacirema culture”

open access: yes, 2023
American Anthropologist, Volume 125, Issue 3, Page 707-714, September 2023.
Hilary Morgan V. Leathem
wiley   +1 more source

The Concept of “Book” in Dostoevsky’s Novel The Idiot [PDF]

open access: yesДостоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал, 2023
The article is intended as part of the project “The Role and the Image of Books in F.M. Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot.” Rather than analyzing a particular book, the author focuses on the concept of “book” itself in the novel: where and how it appears and ...
Caterina Corbella
doaj   +1 more source

The Legend of Rothschild as the “Napoleon of Finance” in Dostoevsky’s Novel The Idiot [PDF]

open access: yesДостоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал, 2020
The article analyzes the Rothschild theme in the novel The Idiot, a motif strictly connected with the myth of Napoleon, in which Dostoevsky was keenly interested during all his artistic life.
Nikolai N. Podosokorsky
doaj   +1 more source

La gradabilité nominale en anglais et en français

open access: yesAnglophonia, 2018
The aim of this paper is to describe the gradability of nouns in French and in English. After a description of different conceptions of nominal gradability in the literature, we provide our definition of lexical gradability. Three classes of nouns can be
Pauline Haas, Anne Jugnet
doaj   +1 more source

A tribute to the memory of professor Alexander K. Popov

open access: yes, 2022
Nanophotonics, Volume 11, Issue 21, Page 4603-4614, December 2022.
Gennady Tartakovsky   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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