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The strategic bombing of German cities during World War II and its impact on city growth [PDF]
It is a stylized fact that city size distributions are rather stable over time. Explanations for city growth and the resulting city-size distributions fall into two broad groups.
Brakman, Steven +2 more
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Affective Infrastructure: Capitalism's Specters in the Ecovillage Findhorn Community
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT The Ecovillage Findhorn Community (EFC) in Northeast Scotland seeks to live in harmony with nature. How the community has done this over its 60‐plus years has changed from social communalism, where residents lived in cheap caravans, to now mostly privately‐owned expensive ‘eco’ houses with green technology.
Kelsey D. Grubbs
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Outside Matter Components of English-Latvian Dictionaries Compiled before World War II
Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture, 2013 The study focuses on the investigation of outside matter components included in the general English-Latvian dictionaries published before World War II (WWII). The first English-Latvian dictionary was published in 1924, six more dictionaries of various
Laura Karpinska
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The Welfare Cost of Macroeconomic Uncertainty in the Post-War Period [PDF]
Lucas (1987) has shown the surprising result that the welfare cost of business cycles is quite small. Using standard assumptions on preferences and a fully-fledged econometric model we computed the welfare costs of macroeconomic uncertainty for the post ...
Afonso Arinos de Mello Franco +2 more
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The “Pesticide Chip”: Chemical Legacies and Agrarian Futures in Costa Rica
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.Abstract For decades, agro‐industrial capital has adopted cascading chemical and biotechnical interventions, or fixes, to secure accumulation through the cultivation of monocrops. We develop a framework that centres on how monocrop‐induced susceptibility to pests and pathogens—and the patchwork of fixes to address these—produces uneven chemical ...
Soledad Castro‐Vargas, Marion Werner
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Ostarbeiters in Luxembourg during WWII
, 2023 The talk was held as a part of the public outreach of the ZWANG project which considers the fate of the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian forced labourers called Ostarbeiters and the Soviet prisoners of ...
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A Century of Shocks: The Evolution of the German City Size Distribution 1925 – 1999 [PDF]
The empirical literature on city size distributions has mainly focused on the USA. The first major contribution of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the evolution and structure of the West-German city size distribution. Using a unique annual
Harry Garretsen +3 more
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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.Abstract In British Columbia (BC), Canada, industry advocates are increasingly mobilising bioenergy as a renewable and carbon neutral fuel source in energy transition and climate change mitigation strategies. At the same time, changing climate conditions have exacerbated the extent and severity of beetle and fire activity in the region, and trees ...
Sinead Earley
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Religion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 2, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT In September 1976, British Tidings, a publication of the Neo‐Nazi political organisation, BM, announced they were to begin a women's division. Their Headquarter was based in Queensferry, Flintshire, North Wales; on the cusp of the English border.
Katherine Niamh McCoubrey
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Povertà e ambiente postbellico nel cinema animato giapponese e italiano (1946-1948) [PDF]
Diacronie. Studi di Storia ContemporaneaThe essay analyzes the filmic representation of postwar spaces of two nations which lost WWII through two case studies, namely the Japanese animation short Mahō no Pen (The Magic Pen, 1946), directed by M.
Massimo BONURA
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