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Doing Business in Zones of Legal Risk: Patterns of Corporate Involvement in Atrocity Crimes Since World War II

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Involvement of corporations in international crimes and conflict atrocities, such as crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, are neither isolated events nor uncommon. Importantly, corporate involvement in atrocity crimes is shaped by conditions in “zones of legal risk” (International Commission of Jurists), where gross human rights ...
Susanne Karstedt   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

WWII Veteran's Administration (SI_B23_F1252_001)

open access: yes, 2019
WWII Veteran's Administration. Administered G.I. bill after WWII. This house faced an alley which ran behind old Knight Hall. On steps: Robert Cross.
University of Akron
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Contested Refugeeness in the Lavrio Kurdish Camp After the 2015 Reception Crisis in Greece

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the meanings of refugeeness among Kurdish residents of the self‐managed Lavrio refugee camp in Greece in the aftermath of the 2015 reception crisis. Focusing on how Kurdish camp residents make sense of their political identities and on how they distinguish themselves from those they call ‘non‐political refugees’, the ...
Filyra Vlastou‐Dimopoulou
wiley   +1 more source

The Evolution of Income Concentration in Japan, 1886-2002: Evidence from Income Tax Statistics [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper studies the evolution of income concentration in Japan from 1886 to 2002 by constructing long-run series of top income shares and top wage income shares, using income tax statistics.
Emmanuel Saez, Chiaki Moriguchi
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A fragmented WWII communication.

open access: yes, 2016
1. Secret-Sharing System: a recreated WWII communication was encoded across six DNA molecules and included watermarks, a combination key, a desired message, and a decoy message. 2.
Peter A. Carr (75169)   +2 more
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A climate‐sensitive tropical urbanism under extreme heat†

open access: yesSingapore Journal of Tropical Geography, EarlyView.
Tropical urban dwellers face twin climate challenges that impinge on their quality of life: climate overheating and the urban heat island (UHI). The latter superimposed on the former to lead to high levels of thermal discomfort, carbon and energy consequences.
Rohinton Emmanuel
wiley   +1 more source

Money supply and Greek history monetary statistics: definition, construction, sources and data [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper attempts to provide, for the first time, a survey of the construction of estimates of the quantity of money in Greece since the inception of the National Bank of Greece in 1842 until the eve of WWII.
Sophia Lazaretou
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‘In Curaçao They Celebrate King's Day Abundantly!’ – Diachronic Representation of (Post)colonial Communities in Dutch Geography Textbook Discourse (1946–2018)

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract Postcolonial textbook research leads us to reflect on the representation of (post)colonial communities in educational media for adolescents in geography education. This paper contributes to this scholarship through Critical Discourse Analysis tracing how nine Dutch geography textbooks (1946–2018) have represented such communities from ...
Marthe Wierenga, Dietha Koster
wiley   +1 more source

Children of War: The Long-Run Effects of Large-Scale Physical Destruction and Warfare on Children [PDF]

open access: yes
During World War II, more than one-half million tons of bombs were dropped in aerial raids on German cities, destroying about one-third of the total housing stock nationwide.
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude
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The orphaned orchard in Crimea, the dead poets, and the persistence of Ukrainian cultural legacy

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
Abstract This essay draws from the author's personal experiences to examine how forgetting and remembering operate in Ukrainian society following the totalitarian era, particularly under the ongoing full‐scale Russian invasion. It draws on ideas from Paul Connerton, Alexander Etkind, and Tamara Hundorova regarding memory and the effects of violence on ...
Julia Buyskykh
wiley   +1 more source

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