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Where Three Civilizations Meet

History and Theory, 1991
In 1848, the Italian Jewish scholar Samuel David Luzzatto presented an exposition of Judaism, I giudaismo illustrate, with the purpose of instilling his coreligionists with veneration for their ancestral tradition. Luzzatto gave pride of place in his monograph to his own Italian legacy.
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Civil engineering meets geology: at the Panama Canal

Geology Today, 2020
The Panama Canal ranks high among the world's greatest feats of civil engineering. The sheer scales of its ground excavations, its concrete structures and its economic significance are truly spectacular. It is also remarkable for the geology of the massive landslides that developed within its Culebra Cut.
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Barbarity, Civilization and Decadence

chromatikon, 2009
In 1984 scientists in the former Soviet Union called for an ecological civilization. This idea was taken up in 1987 in China by Ye Qianji (2). Subsequently the notion of ecological civilization was promoted by the deputy director of China's State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), Pan Yue, incorporated into the Central Commission Report to
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Civil society meets the state: towards associational democracy?*

Socio-Economic Review, 2005
This article discusses the ‘associational democratic’ model of relationship between state and civil society organizations, which recommends devolution of as many regulatory functions as possible to local groups and associations with detailed knowledge of problems and possible solutions, extensive monitoring capacities and the potential to deliberate ...
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Civility in Hybrid Meetings: Current State of Research

2023
In recent years, the rapid evolution of work environments has given rise to hybrid models that combine remote and in-person participation during meetings. This transition has significantly impacted the dynamics of workplace interactions, particularly in terms of civility and fostering constructive dialogue.
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Bookreview Meetings, Manners and Civilization

Journal of Social History, 2001
Meetings, Manners and ...
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MEETING OF CIVILIZATION WITH ARCHAIC AND CARGO CULTS IN MELANESIA

2020
This article is about cultures in the region of Melanesia, or the “Black Islands of the southwest Pacific. In these islands, from the Indonesian Province of Irian Jaya in the west to Fiji in the east, there is the most complex ethnographic situation on earth.
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Civil Rights Meet Civil Engineering: Urban Public Space and Traffic Logic

Canadian journal of law and society, 2007
RésuméEn dépit de divergences idéologiques, les travaux savants sur l'espace public entendu comme site de rencontre entre les gens ont eu tendance à se centrer sur ses aspects éthiques et politiques. Cela s'est fait au détriment de ce que l'auteur nomme «la logique de circulation», une perspective envahissante de l'espace public qui fait valoir le ...
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Towards a Phenomenology of Civil War: Hobbes Meets Benjamin in Beirut

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2011
AbstractBased on interviews with Beirut intellectuals and architects, this essay endeavours to trace the contours for a phenomenology or anthropology of civil war. Thomas Hobbes serves as a guide, with his idea of civil war representing a relapse into the ‘state of nature’; as absence of sovereignty resulting in a ‘war of everybody against everybody ...
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Collaboration meeting on the future of our civilization's geography

üha
Collaboration meeting on the future of our civilization's ...
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