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That sinkin’ feeling: Environmentally induced distress on a disappearing island
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Residents of Tangier Island, Virginia, a subsiding island in the Chesapeake Bay, embody psychosocial dimensions of environmental change. Analysis of ethnographic data shows islanders’ experiences and articulations of anxiety, panic, and despair as “that sinkin’ feeling,” resulting from the stress of living with the long‐term threat of imminent
Jonna Yarrington
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The Social Origins and Education of the British Civil Service Elite, 1945–2022
Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We provide a fuller account than previously available of the extent of change in the social backgrounds of the British civil service elite from 1945 onwards. We consider our findings in relation to questions of meritocracy in recruitment to the elite and of the representativeness of the elite of the population at large.
Erzsébet Bukodi +2 more
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In memoriam Gianfranco Fiaccadori (1957–2015)
Aethiopica, 2016 Obituary
Beatrice Daskas, Agostino Soldati
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Collecting, connoisseurship and commerce: an examination of the life and career of Stephen Wootton Bushell (1844-1908) [PDF]
, 2005 No abstract ...
Pearce, N.
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Pseudoscience and the Claim of Practical Utility: The Case of Thomas Erikson's Surrounded by Idiots
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It has been suggested that, by definition, pseudoscientists must assert that their theories are scientific or represent the best available knowledge. However, in business consultation and self‐help literature, pseudoscientists do not often make such strong claims. Instead, they commonly appeal to the practical utility of their theories.
Kaisa Luoma, Ilmari Hirvonen
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In Silico Biology, 2012 Delegates at RCN congress in Harrogate gave a rousing minute's applause in tribute to Khalil Dale, the English nurse and college member kidnapped and murdered in the Pakistan city of Quetta, near the border with Afghanistan.
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Giuliano Massimo Barale, 1941-2015
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2015 Obituary
Alfredo Ferrarin
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