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Trouble in Toyland: The 24th Annual Survey of Toy Safety [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Details findings on toys that may pose choking hazards, are excessively loud, or contain lead and phthalates. Offers recommendations for consumers, policy makers, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

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Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia Politique des griefs fiscaux : impôt sur la fortune et démocratie de la race maîtresse en Bolivie post‐coup d’État

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
wiley   +1 more source

luxury marketing: internationalization strategies for brazilian jewelry companies

open access: yesInternext: Revista Eletrônica de Negócios Internacionais, 2010
This article seeks to make an analysis of the luxury market and of Brazilian jewelry companies. The main objective is to analyze the attraction of external marketing to luxury brands internationalization, emphasizing Brazilian jewelry companies.
Chaline Gasperini   +1 more
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Chapter 12 - Miscellaneous Manufactures, pp. 309-316 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1944
The Catherwood Library and ILR School at Cornell are pleased to again make available an extremely important index of major labor union publications, long out of print. It is Lloyd G. Reynolds and Charles C.
Killingsworth, Charles C   +1 more
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Amidst (waste) abundance: world‐making and struggles in hosting a municipal landfill in the Bolivian lowlands Au milieu de l'abondance (de déchets) : fabrication du monde et luttes liées à la gestion d'une décharge municipale dans les basses terres de Bolivie

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In recent decades, solid waste has proliferated worldwide, becoming a pressing global issue. This article explores the role of Indigenous people dwelling within and upon emerging waste scenarios, with a specific focus on involved forms of sociality and ontological contestation. Drawing on the case of a municipal landfill sited on a Guarani community in
Vanesa Martín Galán
wiley   +1 more source

Transient spaces [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Solo exhibition at a university in the United States, funded by Young Harris ...
Lent, Michael
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Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
wiley   +1 more source

Shape determinants of electrochemical restoration in historical metal objects

open access: yesJournal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science
The electrochemical restoration process is one of the restoration processes, in addition to electrodeposition used to form or weld corroded or missing metal parts in historical metal objects with a thickness of layers that may reach several millimeters ...
Prof. Alsaid Anwar Mohammed Al-Mulqi   +4 more
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Alumni Bulletin volume 75, no. 6 - Commencement Issue [PDF]

open access: yes, 1975
Bulletin of Bryant College - Summer 1975 Commencement ...

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From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
wiley   +1 more source

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