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Casa come me. Villa Malaparte: storia di una metafora annunciata

open access: yesPhilosophy Kitchen, 2022
There are countless metaphors that have tried to solve villa Malaparte’s architecture in Capri. Designed by an architect, Adalberto Libera, and built by a man of letters, Curzio Malaparte, the architectural history of the villa remains a contentious ...
Mariacarla Molè
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“Women of the Happy Life”: Prostitution, Public Morality, and Venereal Disease in US‐Occupied Nicaragua, 1912–33

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
wiley   +1 more source

Teatrul albanez sub dictatură (Aspecte ale evoluției teatrului din Albania în perioada 1944-1990)

open access: yesSymbolon, 2021
Albanian theatre under dictatorship (Aspects of the evolution of theatre in Albania during 1944-1990) The evolution of Albanian theatre between 1944 and 1990 mirrors the deformation and even unnatural extraction of Eastern societies’ conflicts from plays
Ardian Kycyku
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The Game’s the Thing: Politics and Play in Middleton’s A Game at Chess

open access: yesEtudes Epistémè, 2021
Readings of Middleton’s A Game at Chess have tended to focus on its political and historical implications, viewing the chess game itself as an allegorical device that simply presents itself for decoding.
Supriya Chaudhuri
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Tewdwr: Eponymous Ancestor of the Tudor Dynasty

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract The standard derivation of the dynastic name Tudor from Welsh Tudur, surname of the grandfather of Henry VII, is problematic on phonological grounds, as well as the fact that Tudur was never used as a surname by Henry himself, being attributed to him only by his enemies with implication of lowly origins.
DAFYDD JOHNSTON
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Devising dialogue : structuring intercultural encounters through the process of workshop theatre [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-82).This dissertation explores the efficacy of workshop theatre processes in nurturing intercultural dialogue among members of a multicultural group.
Leffler, Elliot
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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
wiley   +1 more source

Architecture between heteronomy and self-generation

open access: yesTechne, 2021
Introduction «I have never worked in the technocratic exaltation, solving a constructive problem and that’s it. I’ve always tried to interpret the space of human life» (Vittorio Garatti).
Luigi Alini
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Peri‐operative management of patients having day surgery: a consensus statement from the Association of Anaesthetists, British Association for Day Surgery and the Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists, Great Britain and Ireland

open access: yesAnaesthesia, EarlyView.
Summary Introduction Day surgery is now recognised widely as being a vital component of modern healthcare delivery with overall day surgery rates in the UK now > 85%. Day surgery offers an enhanced experience for patients with reduced risk of postoperative complications (e.g.
Craig R. Bailey   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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