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Women and the double standard of ambition
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Few human qualities are as morally unstable as ambition: We seem unable to decide whether to admire or condemn the desire for self‐advancement. This instability guarantees double standards—and none has been more enduring than that of women's ambition.
Geertje J. Bol
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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Arabic phrase Allāhu a‘lam—“God knows best”—is used frequently in everyday Muslim speech and to conclude seemingly assertive statements or fatwas. At its heart lies the recognition that God is the All‐Knowing, whereas humans know next to nothing. Reflecting on this recognition, this essay discusses Sufi refusals of the ethnographic project
Amira Mittermaier
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A genetic and historical perspective on the origins of keratitis fugax hereditaria
Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose To investigate the genetic and genealogical background of keratitis fugax hereditaria (KFH), a periodic corneal disease caused by the heterozygous pathogenic variant c.61G>C in the NLRP3 gene. KFH is characterized by recurrent unilateral autoinflammatory attacks alternating between the eyes and permanent corneal opacities.
Annamari T. Immonen +7 more
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Children's Literature Digital Resources Project
, 2008 Children's Literature Digital Resources is a full text digital repository of Australian children’s literature from 1830 to 1945. Users can read online the complete texts of a selection of early Australian children’s literature, both popular and rare.\ud \
Mallan, Kerry
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Shakespeare as national discourse in contemporary children's literature [PDF]
, 2003 Accepting Stephens' assertions about some of the cultural functions of children's literature, this paper raises the question of what happens in contemporary children's novels when that which is marked as 'centrally important' to both the child ...
Hateley, Erica +2 more
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
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Deforestation and resource disputes in Papua New Guinea
Asian Economic Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Disputes over land and other resources are common in poor areas of Asia and the Pacific, where common pool resources matter for livelihoods, property rights are poorly defined, and state capacity for dispute resolution is low. For example, in Papua New Guinea (PNG), the subject of the current study, one‐quarter of households experience land ...
John Gibson
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
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Aspects and issues in the history of children's literature /
, 1995 Selection of papers originally presented at the 9th Congress of the International Research Society for Children's Literature which was held in Salamanca, Spain in 1989.Includes bibliographical references (p.
International Research Society for Children's Literature. +2 more
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article interrogates the politics of othering embedded in the taken‐for‐granted association of childhood, play, joy, and happiness. It explores how these notions are historically inscribed as forms of otherness tied to the affective normativity of joy.
Chushan Wu
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