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This issue of 19, celebrating the bicentenary of the woman who became known as George Eliot, revisits the woman of letters, discovers new connections between novels and artistic form, and reassesses the extraordinary achievements of the late work.
Carolyn Burdett, Isobel Armstrong
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This article provides a view on the tensions and political quarrels which emerged around the organization of the festivities celebrating the Indepence Bicentenary in 2010, identifying political practices and transformations of the National Holiday ...
César Iván Vilchis Ortega +1 more
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Teaching science out-of-doors [PDF]
Currently there are moves to increase learning out-of-doors and to represent the work of inspirational scientists in the secondary science curriculum. In 2009 the scientific processes and knowledge derived from Darwin's work, much of which was undertaken
Johnson, Sue
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A Tricentenary history of the Law of Large Numbers
The Weak Law of Large Numbers is traced chronologically from its inception as Jacob Bernoulli's Theorem in 1713, through De Moivre's Theorem, to ultimate forms due to Uspensky and Khinchin in the 1930s, and beyond.
Seneta, Eugene
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La regina Vittoria icona di moda: la passione per i merletti e la statua di La Valletta [PDF]
A tribute to her Majesty Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as an icon of fashion and international style in the bicentenary of her birth, between passion for lace and the monument dedicated to her in Valletta (Malta)
Cruciata Roberta
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The scarcity of functional females in wild Centropomus undecimalis populations limits broodstock development for aquaculture. This study evaluated feminization of this protandrous hermaphroditic teleost under different salinity conditions using 17β‐estradiol (E2), administered orally to juveniles and via intramuscular implants to adults.
Saeko Gaitán-Ibarra +4 more
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2007 marked the bicentenary of Britain’s abolition of its slave trade. This paper outlines the findings of interviews undertaken with 1498 visitors to eight museum exhibitions marking the bicentenary.
Laurajane Smith
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This contribution presents reflections on the contributions of and the debate between David Harvey and Michael Hardt/Toni Negri that we feature as the opening part of the tripleC-special issue “Marx@200: Debating Capitalism & Perspectives for the Future
Christian Fuchs
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Between compassion and conservatism: a genealogy of British humanitarian sensibilities [PDF]
: The chapter explores continuities in modern British humanitarianism at its birth two hundred years ago and today. Modern British humanitarianism arose out of the contradictions between humanist ideals, expanding social sympathies, and fears of radical ...
Pupavac, Vanessa
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Seasonal excess: Moving with place and produce through creative fieldwork
In this visual essay, we explore place‐based and creative approaches towards excess seasonal produce. We foreground the situated, place‐based, and rural perspectives towards farming, food waste, and notions of excess. We use reflections of creative fieldwork activities to bring into dialogue notions of coloniality, belonging, and rural livelihoods ...
Kaya Barry, Emily House, Willow Ross
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