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Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of Time Over Five Decades [PDF]
In this paper, we use five decades of time-use surveys to document trends in the allocation of time. We find that a dramatic increase in leisure time lies behind the relatively stable number of market hours worked (per working-age adult) between 1965 and
Erik Hurst, Mark Aguiar
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The lack of a common variable for comparison has been a major obstacle to the development of Comparative Public Administration (CPA). State autonomy enables an integrative contextualization approach, allowing both the analysis of contextual individual country experiences and the generation of generalized comparable knowledge.
Wilson Wong
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No Place in Time: The Hebraic Myth in Late-Nineteenth Century American Literature
, 2018 No Place in Time: The Hebraic Myth in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature examines how the Hebraic myth, in which Jewishness became a metaphor for an ancient, pre-Christian past, was reimagined in nineteenth-century American realism.
Oster, Sharon B
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Time in Fashion: Industrial, Antilinear and Uchronic Temporalities
, 2020 This is the expanded English-language edition of Il Tempo della Moda (2019). It is twice the length of the Italian edition, and contains a rewritten and enlarged introduction of 10,000 words which includes a new discussion of the Eurocentric nature of so-
Evans, Caroline, Vaccari, Alessandra
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MYTH, WORLD TIME AND SPACE MODELS IN THE POSTMODERN WORKS OF V. PELEVIN
, 2019 В данной статье рассматривается одна из тем творчества Виктора Пелевина – миф. Исследуется миф с учетом всех его форм, вариаций и трансформаций от классической мифологии (Бог Ра), современной социальной, политической до вампирской мифологии.
Dohnal, Josef, Abaganova, Assel
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Managing wildfire risk requires consideration of complex and uncertain scientific evidence as well as trade‐offs between different values and goals. Conflicting perspectives on what values and goals are most important, what ought to be done and what trade‐offs are acceptable complicate those decisions.
Pele J. Cannon, Sarah Clement
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Różewicz: White Scarves of Childhood
Polska Myśl PedagogicznaTadeusz Różewicz had created the myth of childhood in his work, especially in later years. This myth is based on several assumptions.
Andrzej Skrendo
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A masculine circle : the charter myth of genius and its effects on women writers [PDF]
This dissertation examines the concept of artistic genius and its workings as a functional ‘charter myth’, helping to inscribe, enhance and perpetuate discriminative practices against women within the field of literature in general and novel writing ...
Chibici-Revneanu, Claudia
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Technical wildness: Modernity, romanticism, and the technocratic turn in Scottish rewilding
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Technical wildness is a new and increasingly influential culture of nature. This paper marks its emergence in Scotland in the early 2020s. Focusing on Scotland's rapidly evolving land management sector, the paper traces how private rewilding companies position science‐led land management and natural capital markets as the most effective ...
Theo Stanley
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Xylella fastidiosa is a major plant pathogen affecting crops such as grapes, citrus, almonds, and olives, with potentially severe consequences for agricultural production and rural livelihoods worldwide. This paper examines the conflict around the management of the X. fastidiosa outbreak affecting olive trees in southern Italy.
Fabio Gatti +2 more
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