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Heads or Tails? How leaving the selection of public offices to chance could revitalise democracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Representative democracy has come under severe criticism lately, with a number of commentators pointing at the way it restrains public participation. In this blog post, Romance Porrot seeks to explore the way in which sortition – i.e.
Porrot, Romance
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Linguistic Preservation in the Digital Age: Anglicisms in French and Quebec IT Terminology – A Survey of IT Students

open access: yesHermes
This study explores the prevalence and integration of Anglicisms in French and Quebec IT terminology, analysing the tension between global linguistic influences and local preservation efforts.
Pavla Zubkova, Jan Lazar
doaj   +1 more source

Breaking the Hard Limits: Romance, Pornography, and the Question of Genre in the Fifty Shades Trilogy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The Fifty Shades series has brought erotic fiction to a broader and more mainstream audience than ever before. In its wake, a number of erotic romance series have achieved unprecedented popularity, such as Sylvia Day’s Crossfire series and Lisa Renee ...
McAlister, Jodi
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Secuestros de doncellas. El control jurisdiccional del matrimonio en el obispado de Barcelona de 1600 a 1700 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
En el III Concilio de Toledo (año 589) los obispos asumen la protección de los desvalidos en la figura del defensors civitatis, que pervive en los visigodos desde que los romanos lo instauraron como Tribuni Plebs, o tribuno de la plebe; estos podían ...
Romance Ullod, Joan
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Evolutionary Games defined at the Network Mesoscale: The Public Goods game

open access: yes, 2010
The evolutionary dynamics of the Public Goods game addresses the emergence of cooperation within groups of individuals. However, the Public Goods game on large populations of interconnected individuals has been usually modeled without any knowledge about
Criado, R.   +4 more
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Reading and Annotating Galen between 1515–1531: on some Latin Galen Editions in the Library of the Carmelites in Cracow

open access: yesStudia Ceranea, 2019
Copies of early-printed books have been of interest to to-day’s collectors and researchers not only for their material aspects (names of publishers and places of printing, fonts and composition, number of known copies etc.), but also because they bear ...
Magdalena Koźluk, Justyna Sowińska
doaj   +1 more source

The California gold rush romance collection (Book Review)

open access: yes, 2017
A review of Barratt, A., Bell, A., Christner, D., Harris, L. F., Hickey, C., Hillman, P., ... Wright, J. J. (2016). The California gold rush romance collection. Uhrichsville, OH: Barbour Books. 444 pp. $14.99.
Gaskin, Christine S.
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Sigurðar saga fóts (The Saga of Sigurðr Foot): A Translation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This is the first English translation of the short Icelandic romance Sigurðar saga fóts, with an introduction presenting the evidence for its dating and immediate literary context.
Hall, ATP   +21 more
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Copla y supervivencia: Conchita Piquer, “Tatuaje”, y el duelo de los vencidos

open access: yesRevista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares, 2011
El presente estudio es una lectura de “Tatuaje” (1941), la copla más emblemática de Conchita Piquer, a la sombra de las fosas comunes del terror franquista.
Stephanie Sieburth
doaj   +1 more source

Online-Dating Romance Scam in Malaysia: An Analysis of Online Conversations between Scammers and Victims

open access: yesGEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies, 2019
The study of online romance scam is still at its infancy in Malaysia, despite the increase in the number of reported cases in this country. This research primarily aims to identify the steps and strategies involved in the online romance scam in Malaysia.
Azianura Hani Shaari   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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