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Cultural evolution and prosociality: widening the hypothesis space [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Norenzayan and colleagues suggest that Big Gods can be replaced by Big Governments. We examine forms of social and self-monitoring and ritual practice that emerged in Classical China, heterarchical societies like those that emerged in pre-Columbian ...
Huebner, Bryce, Sarkissian, Hagop
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Preventing financial ruin: How the West India trade fostered creativity in crisis lending by the Bank of England

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 57-88, February 2026.
Abstract This paper contributes to the understanding of the complex relationship between British economic performance during the Napoleonic wars and the ‘West Indies’, as the Caribbean slave colonies were called. Not only did profits from slave‐based commerce provide financing for the growth of the financial sector, as has been claimed, but the risk of
Carolyn Sissoko, Mina Ishizu
wiley   +1 more source

“In Pursuit Of Purified Persuasions”: Making (Some) Sense of the Modern Mind [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
What is more essential to the philosophical act, what we study or how we study? Taking its cue from a line by Thomas Aquinas on the corruptibility of the natural law, this essay seeks to make some sense of the ways in which our way of knowing and ...
Clarke, John Emmet
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Tree Regeneration After Unprecedented Forest Disturbances in Central Europe Is Robust but Maladapted to Future Climate Change

open access: yesGlobal Change Biology, Volume 32, Issue 2, February 2026.
Central European forests became hotspots of tree mortality from drought and bark beetles between 2018 and 2020, raising concerns about forest recovery. Based on field surveys from 849 disturbed sites in ten European countries, we found that forests are regenerating quickly, with new trees present on most sites within a few years, especially under warm ...
Mária Potterf   +30 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Cowl - v.8 - n.19 - Mar 5, 1943 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1943
The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 8, Number 19 - Mar 5, 1943.

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Witten genera of complete intersections

open access: yesBulletin of the London Mathematical Society, Volume 58, Issue 2, February 2026.
Abstract We prove vanishing results for Witten genera of string generalized complete intersections in homogeneous Spinc$\text{Spin}^c$‐manifolds and in other Spinc$\text{Spin}^c$‐manifolds with Lie group actions. By applying these results to Fano manifolds with second Betti number equal to one we get new evidence for a conjecture of Stolz.
Michael Wiemeler
wiley   +1 more source

Saraband: The Memoirs of E L Mascall [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
Reviewed Book: Mascall, Eric Lionel. Saraband: The Memoirs of E L Mascall.
Erb, Peter C.
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THE LABYRINTH OF PHILOSOPHY IN ISLAM [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper focuses on the methodological issues related to the obstacles and potential horizons of approaching the philosophical traditions in Islam from the standpoint of comparative studies in philosophy, while also presenting selected case-studies ...
El-Bizri, Nader
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Augustinianisms and Thomisms (Chapter Nine of the Cambridge Companion to Political Theology)

open access: yes, 2015
Excerpt: The standard linage of Augustine and Aquinas that emerges in twentieth-century textbooks of political philosophy is that of two fundamentally opposed theological approaches to the political.
Clair, Joseph, Gregory, Eric
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