A Glance at Terrorist Organizations from the Perspective of Organizational Theories by Sefer Yılmaz

“…The problem of conceptualizing terrorist organization is still a controversial issue, even though it has been taken place in the literature heavily. In this essay, terrorist organizations will be approached in the context of organizational theories. …”
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Benjamin and Koolhaas: History's Afterlife by Frances Hsu

“…Both construct alternative historical narratives about the impact of technology, mass culture and economy on the city. This essay contrasts and compares the similarities and differences between the respective authors’ treatments of the nineteenth century arcade and the Manhattan skyscraper to examine how the strategies and definitions suggested by Benjamin and Koolhaas address the function of images as tools for critical architectural analysis and knowledge.…”
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A Critical Assessment of Select Editorial Opinions in The Yoruba News by Taiwo Olunlade

“…Obasa in Ibadan, especially through its editorial opinions for over two decades from 1924-1945. Tis essay is an attempt to revisit selected editions of the newspaper for critical re-assessment of the editorial opinions as regards topical issues of that period. …”
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L’Estremo Oriente di Djemil Anik. Influssi e interpolazioni delle danze giavanesi nell’attività artistica e pedagogica by Fiorella Cardinale Ciccotti

“…Questioning the topic of métissage within the French interwar context, the author of the essay aims to investigate the career of the dancer Djemil Anik (1888-1980) – of French-Malay origins and an expert in Javanese female court dances – starting from her first debut at the Théàtre des Arts in Paris until the full affirmation of her pedagogical activity. …”
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Between the Joys of Nonsense and the Excess of the Other: Foodways in Laura E. Richards’s Children’s Poems by Antonia Purk

“…Food and eating are recurring themes throughout Laura Richards’s children’s poems. This essay examines how several of Richards’s poems bring together food and education, specifically in conjunction with excess, grotesquerie, and otherness. …”
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‘Everything is Plastic’:The Faith of Unity Movement and theMaking of a Post-Catholic Religion in Uganda by Asonzeh Ukah

“…Based on an ethnographic investigation of a new religiousmovement in Uganda, this essay mobilizes some of the analytical concepts developed by Chidester to think through the material dynamics of African religious life in the context of changing socio-economic, cultural,and political contexts of Africa. …”
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Comment la fiction contemporaine travaille ses lecteurs by Nancy Murzilli

“…Literature can recognize its instrumental value, share its confidence within the fiction’s power to act on the world, and then use it as a lever for other possible purposes. This essay deals with the way in which fictions can work as inquiries on practical life and forms of individual and collective life, in the way that thought experiments fulfill their heuristic function.…”
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Weighted Dynamic Networks. Digital multiscale and time responsive design techniques by Caterina Tiazzoldi

“…In a complex structured city, where the interactions between parts intensify, the number of decision-makers and cultural scenarios overlap, interconnect (and sometimes collide), where local and global as well as physical and virtual dimensions coexist, it is necessary to identify a set of design tools which could adapt to different scales of the intervention of the modern city. The essay proposes a multiscalar and time-sensitive Weighted Networks Design methodology. …”
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Controlling the Flow of Information by Marius Buning

“…While Dutch printing privileges are often seen as legal tools primarily important for the local market, this essay shows that the ‘local’ cannot be isolated from intra- and pan-European connections. …”
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Inżynieria genetyczna w świetle dialektyki oświecenia by Ryszard F. Sadowski

“…This article presents the ambivalent character of the Enlightenment’s legacy, which aside from promised progress brought also new dangers. The essay also presents historical examples of creating a “new world” and “new human” and dangers connecting with these attempts. …”
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Festa, spazio, territorio by Alessandra Broccolini

“…In order to answer these questions, the essay seeks to explore the festivity-territory-inhabitation relation through the spatial analysis of a specific ethnographic case, the feast of the Madonna del Monte di Marta (Viterbo, Lazio), broadening the gaze from the inhabited space of the town-city, where the feast is often (but not always) produced in its ceremonial moments, to the entire territory that the feast encompasses and helps to define, both in the construction of a ‘sense of place’ and in the experience and practical action of the same. …”
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Séries literárias juvenis: autoria e circulação da cultura by Andréa Borges Leão

“…Observing the phenomenon of cultural movement since the onset of Brazilian publishing industry, the essay offers some ideas on the status of authorship in contemporary series books for young adults. …”
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The Societal Relevance of the “Rheinischer Merkur” by Regina M. Frey

“…The closure of the Rheinischer Merkur obscures even today the decisive role it played in the elaboration of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany and the substantial quality of the paper. This essay sketches the history of the Rheinischer Merkur and its self-understanding, as well as its decline, locating these in the context of the journalistic autonomies and media-ethical tensions to which every journalistic medium is subject. …”
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Becoming "La Señorita de Inglés" in the U.S. Peace Corps: My Journey From Practitioner to Ph.D. by Nilofer K. Bharwani, Thomas J. Hodges

“…Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs) serve in communities around the globe, promoting improved health, education, agriculture, and commerce. This essay provides a reflection on Peace Corps service and its impact on research.…”
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Morte e rinascita di una risorsa sostenibile: le terre d’acqua e il riso Gigante Vercelli by Davide Porporato

“…This essay provides a first insight on the recently resumed production of the “Gigante (Giant) Vercelli”, a rice cultivar created in 1936, but whose production had ceased in the 1960s. …”
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Realismo afetivo: evocar realismo além da representação by Karl Erik Schøllhammer

“…This essay will discuss different kinds of literary expression in search for ways to “realism” without giving continuity of the historical realism that appears during the 19th and 20th century. …”
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The Restoration of the Panel Painting depicting the Adoration of Shepherds with a Saint Bishop by Claudia Cricchio

“…A careful historical and artistic study as well as a diagnostic analysis preceded the restoration that aimed to re-establish a good reading of the painting. The essay focuses on the possibility to reintegrate a missing element of the frame with materials used in the 3D printing, in order to restore its function of “spatial connection” between the painting and the expositive environment. …”
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Complicating American Manhood: Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time and the Feminist Utopia as a Site for Transforming Masculinities by Michael Pitts

“…Through an analysis of masculinities in one such utopia, Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time (1976), this essay traces how contemporary female speculative writers envision and propose new masculinities that, in opposition to their patriarchal counterparts, reject hierarchical perspectives and instead value equality, fraternity, and freedom.…”
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How to Compute the Economic Impact of a Sudden Stop of Gas Imports from Russia by Tom Krebs

“…Abstract In this essay, I outline a method to compute the economic impact of a sudden stop of natural gas imports from Russia. …”
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Un-Haunted House : Spirits, Solid Citizens, and Babbitt by Russ Castronovo

“…By considering Sinclair Lewis’s 1922 novel, Babbitt, this essay examines the continuum between the paranormal and the normal, the supernatural and the natural. …”
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