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Cape lives of the eighteenth century
Contree, 2013 No abstract available.
Elizabeth van Heyningen
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Sustainability (CS) are historically distinct constructs that have converged to the point of conceptual confusion. This paper operates within the CSR tradition, arguing that authentic CS is structurally impossible without the ethical foundation CSR provides.
Massimo Franchi
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Impact of Geography on Institutions in Agricultural and Nomadic Societies
International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How geography affects the choice of institutions is studied in a theoretical model. In this model, nations are located around a circle. Rulers compete through choosing tax rates, the level of military spending, and the degree of formality of institutions. Geographic condition is captured by population density.
Haiwen Zhou
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An eighteenth century travelling theodolite
História, Ciências, Saúde: ManguinhosAn old topographic compass displayed in a showroom of the Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins (MAST), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, took our curiosity namely because of its resemblance to a theodolite, described by J.H. de Magellan.
Isabel Malaquias
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Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We develop and analyze a fully discrete finite difference approximation for a damped shear beam model with mixed boundary conditions and no rotational inertia. The absence of a second‐order time derivative in the rotational equation gives rise to an asymmetric temporal structure.
Anderson de Jesus Araújo Ramos +3 more
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The Republic of Pemberley: Politeness and Citizenship in Digital Sociability
19, 2008 Early theorists of online networks likened the ideals underpinning emerging cyber-communities to Jürgen Habermas's conception of the bourgeois public sphere. This association is evoked by the online Jane Austen community, The Republic of Pemberley, which
Fiona Brideoake
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Technical wildness: Modernity, romanticism, and the technocratic turn in Scottish rewilding
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Technical wildness is a new and increasingly influential culture of nature. This paper marks its emergence in Scotland in the early 2020s. Focusing on Scotland's rapidly evolving land management sector, the paper traces how private rewilding companies position science‐led land management and natural capital markets as the most effective ...
Theo Stanley
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Music and Narrative in the Eighteenth Century: Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide as Dramatic Tableau
Open Library of Humanities, 2019 This article puts forward a new theory for discussing eighteenth-century music as narrative by combining literary theories of narrative with an analytical and historical exploration of the eighteenth-century opera overture. Through a consideration of how
Kieran Fenby-Hulse
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainable development depends on economic, social, and environmental aspects, all of which play a key role in long‐term societal well‐being. While much of the existing literature emphasizes environmental aspects, the economic and social components, crucial for achieving SDG8, SDG10, and SDG16, are often overlooked in sustainable development ...
Tunahan Degirmenci
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Aspecte ale paradigmei culturale a secolului al XVIII-lea: interdicția întru surparea superstiției norodului [PDF]
Revista de Istorie și Teorie Literară, 2016 The paper proposes a gradual presentation of main forms of superstitions of the Middle Age. It was taken into account the statements expressed by the representatives of the church (official, semiofficial and personal) on the one hand and on the other ...
Laura Bădescu
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