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Specific Reading Disability in Historically Famous Persons

Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1988
Apres avoir rappele les principaux aspects cognitifs, biologiques et neuro-psychologiques de la dyslexie, les auteurs examinent leur presence chez quatre personnages celebres qu'on a decrits comme dyslexiques: Thomas Alva Edison, Woodrow Wilson, Hano Christian Andersen et Leonard de ...
P G, Aaron, S, Phillips, S, Larsen
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The specific historical process of urbanization in China

OOO "Zhurnal "Voprosy Istorii", 2023
The article analyzes the published in 2019 “The Way of Urbanizing China' by professor Liu Shilin. The European and American urbanization models have a great influence in the world. The PRC's urbanization is deeply influenced by them, but the process of China's urbanization is significantly faster than that of Europe and America.
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The Problem of Historical Specificity

2007
This book is based on the premise that mainstream economics has become excessively specialized and formalized, entering a state of de facto withdrawal from the study of the economy in favour of exercises in applied mathematics. The editors believe that there is much scope for synergies by engaging in an encounter with economics and the other social ...
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The Historical Specificity of the Peace Process

2003
When trying to understand the peace process in Northern Ireland and South Africa it is tempting to emphasise exclusively the role of key people, as if they were special charismatic men and women without whom history would not exist. The peace process would thus become reduced to the effects of the biographical experiences and strategies of people like ...
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Institutional Economics and the Problem of Historical Specificity

2002
The problem of historical specificity starts from the supposition that different socio-economic phenomena require theories that are in some respects different from each other. An adequate theory of, say) the feudal system will differ from an adequate theory of, (say) capitalism.
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Historical Materialism and the Specificity of Capitalism

2018
This chapter emphasizes the extent to which Marx’s conception of capitalist society captures its inherent and integral totality. It is in this regard that Capital (and before it the Grundrisse) reflects an approach that recalls Hegel’s method. What is crucial, however, is that the abstract, totalizing logic that exists in capitalism is not general to ...
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Women, Gender, and "Specifically Historical" Research on Ghana: A Retrospective

Ghana Studies, 2018
This essay identifies some divergences in understandings and applications of the terms "women" and "gender" since the 1980s. It suggests how these divergences might help us to analyze the Ghana-focused scholarship in relation to broader trends in African studies, women's history, and gender history.
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Lacking Historical Specificity and Prone to Clichés

TOPIA, 2010
I don’t pretend to know the University of Regina student movement intimately after I left in 1966. During the tumultuous late sixties, I was at Simon Fraser University where I helped form the Students for a Democratic University. But I participated in the emerging student movement at Regina in various capacities in the early 1960s, including as student
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