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Abstract This article examines how online tutoring platforms (OTPs) have facilitated new forms of (im)mobility—and discourses of (im)mobility—among online English tutors. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with online tutors, the article critically interrogates OTPs' primary selling point: that online tutors can work “anytime, anywhere.” While OTPs ...
Nate Ming Curran
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Feature Article: ELT Materials
Abstract After providing a working definition of ELT materials that encompasses both commercial and noncommercial instructional resources, I differentiate between studies of materials content, consumption, and production, reviewing notable studies of each type, most of which have appeared in the pages of TQ.
Nigel Harwood
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Guanxi and Wasta: 20 Years of Evolution and Future Directions for Informal Network Research
ABSTRACT This article provides an examination of the evolution of networking in China and the Arab world over two decades and provides an update to, and new insights arising from, an article called Guanxi and Wasta; A Comparison, published in Thunderbird International Business Review in 2006.
Kate Hutchings +3 more
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Al-Razi's Conception of the Soul: Psychological Background to His Ethics [PDF]
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Druart, Thérèse-Anne
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Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro +5 more
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Comparative Ontology: Challenges and Defects. A Critic of the Book “HerameHasti (Pyramid of Being): A Critic of the Foundations of Comparative Ontology” [PDF]
One of the most important subjects for investigation in the humanities, especially in philosophy and theology, is the comparative investigation. Today in many countries, comparative philosophy is an independent discipline that has different especial ...
Hasan Ahmadizade
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The Shared Concerns of Nietzsche and Rumi on Humanity [PDF]
Nietzsche and Rumi belong to two different time and spaces: one a Germen Post-modern Philosopher, the other an Afghani Middle Ages Sufi. After an introduction about both figures and methodology used here, this paper presents a detailed discussion on ...
Akhlaq, Sayed Hassan Hussaini
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Inside-Out: Perception of Key Finance Professionals about Theory and Practice of Islamic Banking [PDF]
Islamic banking has shown tremendous growth in the first decade of 21st century. By the end of 2008, global volume of assets under Islamic banking reached US$951 billion. In Pakistan, Islamic banking has displayed a tremendous annual average growth of 76%
Hanif, Muhammad, Iqbal, Abdullah
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When was medieval philosophy? [PDF]
Typescript of an Inaugural Lecture by John Marenbon, as Honorary Professor of Medieval Philosophy in the University of Cambridge, delivered November 30, 2011.John Marenbon argues against the usual chronological division, according to which there was a ...
Marenbon, John
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Economy, Technology and the Environment: The Islamic Middle Way [PDF]
Dr. Ahmad considers some specifics of the ways in which the Qur\'an, the Prophetic traditions and Islamic law lead toward a path of moderation between extremes, in terms of both belief and behavior: in favor of free markets, but with property rights ...
Ahmad, Imad-ad-Dean
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