... Groningen, the most northerly of the chief towns ofthe Netherlands, and there he went to school and to the University. He studied Dutch history and literature and also Oriental languages and mythology ... forms of life and thought in France andthe Netherlands in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the last phase of one ofthe great European eras of civilization. InEngland, where the Middle Ages ... house. The Glimeswere lords ofthe important town of Bergen-op-Zoom, which, situated between the River Scheldt and the Meuse delta, was one ofthe links between the northern andthe southern Netherlands....
... Groningen, the most northerly of the chief towns ofthe Netherlands, and there he went to school and to the University. He studied Dutch history and literature and also Oriental languages and mythology ... forms of life and thought in France andthe Netherlands in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the last phase of one ofthe great European eras of civilization. InEngland, where the Middle Ages ... withoutaltogether separating from the world, andthe congregation ofthe monastery of Windesheim, ofthe order of the regular Augustinian canons. Originating in the regions on the banks ofthe Ysel,...
... motor and it is none other than fascism. Benjamin'sessay " ;The Work of Art in theAgeof Mechanical Reproduction" provides uswith an outline ofthe history ofthe work of art andthe ... of production is the destruction of tradition andthe mode of experience whichdepends upon that tradition. While the destruction of tradition means the destruction of authenticity, ofthe originally, ... of art whichhave only exchange value, the work of art in the hands ofthe Bourgeoisie isreinjected with a type of aura, which only lead it further in the direction of losingcontrol (like the...
... radicalism; the failure of liberalism and rise ofthe New Right in the 1970s; andthe triumph and hegemony ofthe Right in the 1980s. In our interpretation, many 1960s films transcoded the discourses of ... the pointwhere they confront the need to kill the traitor in their midst, one ofthe teens asks: "what's the difference between us and them," andthe teen fascist Jed offers the ... many recent theories of ideology and finds that many of them sever the link between ideology and domination, and thereforerob ideology ofthe critical edge that it had in Marx and other neo-Marxists....
... food stocks, andthe mood ofthe garrison. The tactics of the Daily Mail captured the attention ofthe nation; the newspaperdramatized the situation ofthe town by emphasizing the danger that ... notions of Boer inhumanity towardAfricans, the pro-war argument ofthe ‘‘negrophilists.’’ The other cat-egory into which mentions of Africans fall is praise ofthe loyalty of the Cape Boys andthe ... hierarchies of race, sex, and class and ofthe ways in which, hand in hand, the New Imperialism and the New Journalism brought Britain into the twentieth century. The war at home which included the...
... (such as the booby-trapping of temples), the use of poison, the destroying of wells andthe sowing of dissension in the enemy’s ranks.46Thestruggleformoderationinwarhasbeenalongone – and one ... world of inde-pendent political communities bound together by the rule of law ratherthan by the sovereignty of a single emperor. The Chinese can thereforebe said to have been the pioneers ofthe ... rather than on the substantive ortechnical aspects ofthe law of war. It tells the story, in narrative form, of the interplay through the centuriesbetween,ontheonehand,legalideasaboutwarand,ontheotherhand,statepracticeinwarfare.Neffcovers...
... (Washington, DC: The World Bank).Chernow, Ron, 1997, The Death ofthe Banker. The Decline andthe Fall ofthe Great FinancialDynasties. The Triumph ofthe Small Investor (New York: Vintage Books, ... output stabilizes the flow of funds that firms need to re-appropriate at the end ofthe circuit process. In terms ofthe CTF model discussed above, the largerole ofthe state in the financial sector ... 7). The share of savings going to the capital marketis positive in the long-term rate of interest, Lr , and negative in the agents’ perceived uncertainty,υ , as to the future states of the...
... for these countries the existence of cointegration could not be rejected. We therefore specify the VAR models in the level ofthe variables. Nevertheless, we neither impose the number of cointegrating ... countries: the fall of residential property prices is significantly different from zero even at the 95% level in Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK andthe US. ... significant and shorter-lived than the GDP decline in the other group. The reactions ofthe other variables to a monetary policy shock are essentially the same. A third important characteristic of the...
... professional colleagues on the world. The Association has the role of coordinating the activities ofthe members in order to protect the interests ofthe members and improve the position of ... to be renewed to facilitate export and import. The General Department of Customs, the Ministry of Trade and examining bodies, andthe Bureau of Standards and Measures should have consensus ... supervision and management ofthe Department of Transport and Public Works of Ho Chi Minh City. State-owned corporations under other central government ministries are also another type of port management...
... question on the amount consumed in lians (50g/lian) per unit of time. A lian is the unit of weight in China equivalent to 50 g. The reproducibility and validity ofthe FFQ was assessed in a random ... disease between the baseline and follow-up FFQs, only dietary data from the baseline FFQ were included in this analysis. For other participants the average ofthe baseline and follow-up FFQ ... cohort of middle-aged women. Design, subjects and methods: Incident cases of type 2 DM were identified during an average of 4.6 years of follow-up in a prospective cohort study of 74,493 middle-aged,...
... less than the level of HLA-DR in the cell lysates (5ul of a 1 in 10 dilution, from 2 x 106 PBMC). The shed HLA-DR therefore seemed to represent a small fraction ofthe total HLA-DR ofthe cell, ... Microbiology and Immunology from University of Leeds, and PhD in Immunology from University of Liverpool, where she worked on the expression of HLA-DR andthe characterisation ofthe monocyte ... Director of BPL for his his help and support, the staff ofthe ITU at the RLUHT in particular the research nurses, Neal Gratton and Andrea Fazakerley for recruiting patients into the study....
... toxoplasmosis is one ofthe most com-mon parasitic zoonoses worldwide. As for other zoonoses, veterinarians play an important role in the education ofthe human population regarding the risk of infection. ... perform the task, they should wear disposable gloves and wash their hands thoroughly with soap and wa-ter afterwards. Direct contact with cats is unlikely to result in transmission of toxoplasmosis ... pregnancy and that if they follow a few very simple “rules”, liv-ing with their pets need not represent any risk for infection with Toxoplasma gondii. Cats are the definitive host of T. gondii; they...
... Development and Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in the land allocation under Decree 99. The goal of phase II is to finalize the legal framework to enable REDD + to realize the intended ... transparency and quality ofthe information, as required for REDD+. The UN-REDD Programme should build on the successful examples of previous multi-agency UN programmes. Finally, financial flows and ... REDD?In the process of implementation of REDD at site, we have met significant challenges. The participation ofthe private sector is not strong enough especially the companies working in the field...