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«La penna l’ho lasciata a casa»: Letteratura e potere

Between, 2015
The current situation of the humanities, which have been resized both in university and in secondary education, seems to many the sign of a crisis that involves the role of literary knowledge, its social authority, the education of students and the ...
Cristina Nesi
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Humanities: an Unfinished Project

Teksty Drugie, 2015
Discussing four contemporary approaches to the humanities, those expressed by Marquard, Nussbaum, Rorty, and Fish, the author takes the side of those who believe that humanities have a political impact on society, regardless of what liberal partisans of ...
Michał Paweł Markowski
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Strategies for the development of humanities education in the age of technocratism and globalization

Філософія освіти, 2020
The article is devoted to the study of basic strategies for the development of humanities education in the technocratic and global world. It is stated that total pragmatism and technocratism of our lives causes a deep crisis of study of humanities and ...
Nataliia Petruk
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Economists as Worldly Philosophers [PDF]

While leading figures in the early history of economics conceived of it as inseparable from philosophy and other humanities, there has been movement, especially in recent decades, towards its becoming an essentially technical field with narrowly ...
Robert J. Shiller, Virginia M. Shiller
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Risk Management for Nonprofits [PDF]

, 2016
Our research, based on the first comprehensive financial analysis of New York's nonprofit sector, found that 10% of the city's nonprofits were insolvent and 40% had virtually no cash reserves. Less than 30% were financially strong.
Daniel Millenson, Dylan Roberts, George Morris, John MacIntosh   +3 more
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Writing About Comics and Copyright [PDF]

, 2013
Academics who research and write about the visual world often complain about the way in which copyright law can hinder their scholarly endeavours, and with good reason.
Deazley, Ronan, Mathis, Jason
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Applied Mathematics in the Humanities: Review of Nonparametric Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences by Sidney Siegel and N. John Castellan, Jr. (2nd ed., 1988)

Numeracy, 2016
Sydney Siegel and N. John Castellan, Jr. Nonparametric Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, Second Edition (New York NY: McGraw Hill, 1988). 399 pp. ISBN: 9780070573574.
Paul H. Grawe
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Can the University of Maine afford to concede to its regional competitors? A 21st century road map for postsecondary language education [PDF]

, 2019
The University of Maine Flagship Match program is designed to recruit students from neighboring states and offset enrollment declines. However, language faculty retrenchment at the university a decade ago, combined with the effective double-degree ...
Hoecherl-Alden, Gisela
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Reflections on Key Issues in Human Life: Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan, Dante’s Divina Commedia, Boccaccio’s Decameron, Michael Ende’s Momo, and Fatih Akın’s Soul Kitchen—Manifesto in Support of the Humanities—What Truly Matters in the End?

Humanities, 2020
There are available by now many arguments concerning the intrinsic and endemic value of the humanities, and both from a medievalist and a modernist perspective.
Albrecht Classen
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Bowls, Bobbins and Bones: Resolving the human remains crisis in British archaeology, a response [PDF]

, 2011
In 2010 and 2011 a series of articles appeared in British Archaeology describing a crisis surrounding the archaeological investigation of human remains.
Sayer, Duncan
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