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Using Virtual Exchange for Teaching BELF Pragmatics: Developing an Online Negotiation Activity

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Teaching Business English (BE) is experiencing a paradigm shift to reflect the communicative needs of the global workplace. With the majority of interactions in English now taking place among multilingual speakers, there are increasing calls to integrate perspectives of English as a business lingua franca (BELF) into English language and ...
Miya Komori‐Glatz   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Jerzy Lukowski : Liberty's Folly. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Eighteenth Century, 1697-1795, 1991

open access: yes, 1992
Michaud Claude. Jerzy Lukowski : Liberty's Folly. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Eighteenth Century, 1697-1795, 1991. In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°24, 1992. Le matérialisme des Lumières. pp.
Michaud, Claude
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News of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Antwerp and Brussels Press of the 1620s

open access: yes
The great mercantile city Antwerp and the Habsburg courtly residence Brussels were major centres of international communication and news exchange in sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Europe, dominating postal interchanges.
Arblaster, Paul   +1 more
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The Younger Europe - or the older? Visions of politics in the Early Modern Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

open access: yes
This essay explores the trajectory of Polish–Lithuanian political thought from 1569 to 1795, focusing particularly on elements of modern state concepts that did not find their way into Polish–Lithuanian discourse.
Grzeskowiak-Krwawicz, Anna
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Jesuit Community in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Between Tradition and Change

open access: yes, 2019
When discussing the composition of the Polish and Lithuanian provinces of the Society of Jesus, this article is part of the trend of prosopographic and socio-historical research devoted to the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church.
Mariani, Andrea
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How to stay wild in a highly domesticated landscape? Spatiotemporal behaviour of wolves in Germany

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Wild animals can adapt to the increasing presence of humans by either becoming accustomed to it or by avoiding humans by spatiotemporal separation. The return of the wolf to the German lowlands raised the opportunity to study wolf behaviour in one of the most densely populated and fragmented countries in Europe, in an area where topography offers no ...
Ilka Reinhardt   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global Inequality of Opportunity in Education Decreased During the 20th Century

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We document changes in global inequality of opportunity in education for women and men born between 1941 and 1983, using individual‐level census and survey data on 46.7 million individuals from 95 countries, representing all major regions of the world.
Michael Grätz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Students from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Rzeczpospolita) at the Prague university in the 17th and 18th century

open access: yes, 2016
Reikšminiai žodžiai: Abiejų Tautų Respublika (ATR; Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów; Žečpospolita; Sandrauga; Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth); Akademinės kelionės; Praha (Prague); Prozopografija; Studentai; Universitetas; 17 amžius; 18 amžius; 17th and 18th
Tomczak, Robert T
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Corporate Tax System Complexity and Investment Sensitivity to Tax Policy Changes

open access: yesJournal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Effective policymakers must balance the demands of formulating a corporate tax system that raises revenue and spurs economic activity (e.g., investment) while promoting a “level playing field” across firms. Balancing these tradeoffs has likely caused tax systems to become more complex over time, increasing firms’ difficulty in understanding ...
HARALD AMBERGER   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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