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Corbeil, Jessica. A movement of ideas: The world social forum, is it a model for political change? Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Saskatchewan office, 2009.

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Popadyuk, Tat'yana, Irina Smirnova, Nataliya Linder, et al. Innovations and modern business models. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1876532.

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The textbook gives a general idea of innovations and modern business models. The concept and role of innovations in the modern world are considered, including the theory of innovations and their classification, the structure and dynamics of the innovation process; the concept of a business model, types of business models, as well as the development of business modeling in the digital economy are highlighted. Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation. For students of higher educational institutions studying in the

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James, Piereson, ed. The pursuit of liberty: Can the ideals that made America great provide a model for the world? Encounter Books, 2009.

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Cattani, Adelino, and Bruno Mastroianni, eds. Competing, cooperating, deciding: towards a model of deliberative debate. Firenze University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-329-1.

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Will there be any ‘happy dispute’ again? A debate among people holding different opinions that does not end with a repetition of the initial idea, but rather with an improvement of one’s own beliefs and those of others? In order to achieve this, we need to rely on education which, through deliberative debate training activities, can foster the development of rhetorical and dialectical skills (the ability to persuade and compete) as well as critical thinking and open-mindedness (living together and cooperating). A number of scholars from around the world reflect on the topic both from a theoret

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Pogodina, Svetlana. The development of children's visual creativity under the influence of artistic standards within the framework of the concept of transformable aesthetic archetypes. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1857069.

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The monograph, based on many years of experimental research and analysis of scientific sources, analyzes psychological and pedagogical ideas in the field of children's productive activity and substantiates a new methodology for the development of visual creativity in preschool and primary school children in educational institutions of various types. The educational model of the development of children's visual creativity, proposed and substantiated by the author, creates favorable environmental and methodological conditions for the manifestation of creative initiative, stimulates imaginative t

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Konstan, David. Comedy and the Athenian Ideal. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198748472.003.0006.

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New Comedy was a Panhellenic phenomenon. It may be that a performance in Athens was still the acme of a comic playwright’s career, but Athens was no longer the exclusive venue of the genre. Yet Athens, or an idealized version of Athens, remained the setting or backdrop for New Comedy, whatever its provenance or intended audience. New Comedy was thus an important vehicle for the dissemination of the Athenian polis model throughout the Hellenistic world, and it was a factor in what has been termed ‘the great convergence’. The role of New Comedy in projecting an idealized image of the city-state

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Vasalou, Sophia. Al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198912477.001.0001.

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Abstract The idea that improving our character requires modelling ourselves on another will seem natural to many. But what might it mean to take God as a model for virtue? This book investigates how Muslim thinkers developed this idea against a rich backdrop of historical reflection on the topic and how one particular intellectual, Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī, shaped the conversation. In philosophy, the idea that becoming virtuous means becoming like God has a long history. It was a calling card of Plato’s philosophy and popular among many of the ancient schools. In the Islamic world, it assumed a vi

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Miguélez, Alicia. Circulation of People, Models, and Ideas in the Middle Ages. Arc Humanities Press, 2019.

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Miguélez, Alicia. Circulation of People, Models, and Ideas in the Middle Ages. Arc Humanities Press, 2019.

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Leubner, Aaron. Unternehmensdemokratie : Als ethisches Ideal und praxistaugliches Modell. Technische Universität Dresden, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.25368/2022.403.

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The demand for economic democracy is closely linked to the historical process of industrialization. How democracy should be designed in companies, the positions of the responsible actors diverge, depending on the values, the social position, the preconceptions, the interests, etc. The current 'standards of democracy in companies' have come under the term of 'And have not been further developed legally since the early phase of the Federal Republic of Germany. However, democracy does not mean a perfect static state, but a dialogue-oriented process with the aim of restricting the rule of people o

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Piereson, James. Pursuit of Liberty: Can the Ideals That Made America Great Provide a Model for the World? Encounter Books, 2010.

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Laver, Michael, and Ernest Sergenti. Benchmarking the Baseline Model. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691139036.003.0005.

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This chapter begins the investigation of multiparty competition using the baseline model specified in Chapter 3 and methods and procedures specified in Chapter 4. The most significant results concern the representativeness of evolved configurations of party policy positions. In symmetric populations, the ideal points of voters are not best represented by a set of (Hunter) parties who compete for their support by trying to find popular policy positions. Instead, voter preferences are better represented by a set of (Aggregator) parties that do not compete with each other on policy at all but ins

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Zilczer, Judith. American Rhapsody. Edited by Yael Kaduri. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199841547.013.5.

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The opening decades of the twentieth century saw painters renounce mimetic representation for the formal rigors and spiritual transcendence of visual art divorced from reproduction of the visible world. That they chose to do so in no small measure resulted from a profound shift in aesthetic values: music became the paradigm for visual art. While the concept of visual music gained international currency, this seductive aesthetic model had particular resonance in the United States. Between 1910 and 1930, leaders of the American avant-garde, such as Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe,

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Rosenberg, Michael. Signs of Virginity. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190845896.001.0001.

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The notion that bleeding “should” accompany the “loss” of female virginity—a mode of thinking about virginity that encourages male sexual aggression—is so widespread that it is often taken for granted. Yet, Michael Rosenberg argues in Signs of Virginity that this idea is a specific product of Deut. 22:13–21. Deuteronomy’s violent virginity has held sway in Jewish and Christian circles more or less ever since, but Rosenberg points to two writers—Augustine of Hippo and the rabbinic collective that produced the Babylonian Talmud—who, even as they perpetuate patriarchal assumptions about female vi

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Acuto, Michele. How to Build a Global City. Cornell University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501759703.001.0001.

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This book considers the rise of a new generation of so-called global cities—Singapore, Sydney, and Dubai—and the power that this concept had in their ascent, in order to analyze the general relationship between global city theory and its urban public policy practice. The global city is often invoked in theory and practice as an ideal model of development and a logic of internationalization for cities the world over. But the global city also creates deep social polarization and challenges how much local planning can achieve in a world economy. Presenting a unique elite ethnography in Singapore,

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Schorch, Philipp, and Conal McCarthy, eds. Curatopia. Manchester University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526118196.001.0001.

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What is the future of curatorial practice? How can the relationships between Indigenous people in the Pacific, collections in Euro-American institutions, and curatorial knowledge in museums globally be (re)conceptualised in reciprocal and symmetrical ways? Is there an ideal model, a ‘curatopia,’ whether in the form of a utopia or dystopia, which can enable the reinvention of ethnographic museums and address their difficult colonial legacies? This volume addresses these questions by considering the current state of the play in curatorial practice, reviewing the different models and approaches o

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Yalcin, Seth. Semantics as Model-Based Science. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198739548.003.0012.

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This chapter critiques a number of standard ways of understanding the role of the metalanguage in a semantic theory for natural language, including the idea that disquotation plays a nontrivial role in any explanatory natural language semantics. It then proposes that the best way to understand the role of a semantic metalanguage involves recognizing that semantics is a model-based science. The metalanguage of semantics is language for articulating features of the theorist’s model. Models are understood as mediating instruments—idealized structures used to represent select aspects of the world,

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Hass, Andrew W., ed. Sacred Modes of Being in a Postsecular World. Cambridge University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009047944.

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How do we talk meaningfully about the sacred in contexts where conventional religious expression has so often lost its power? Inspired by the influential work of David Jasper, this important volume builds on his thinking to identify sacrality in a world where the old religious and secular debates have exhausted themselves and theology struggles for a new language in their wake. Distinguished writers explore here the idea of the sacred as one that exists, paradoxically, in a space that is both possible and impossible: profoundly theological on the one hand, but also deeply this-worldly and irre

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Hain, Richard D. W., and Satbir Singh Jassal. Models of paediatric palliative care. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198745457.003.0002.

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The UK has a variety of resources for children with life-limiting conditions that are perhaps unrivalled in the world. This is both good and bad. It offers the potential for children and their families to have choices about the location of their care. On the other hand, a multiplicity of agencies brings with it the risk of miscommunication and internecine strife. This chapter summarizes ideal models of palliative care, defining the four categories of life-limiting conditions in childhood and the role of paediatric palliative medicine specialists.

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Pursuit of Liberty: Can the Ideals That Made America Great Provide a Model for the World? ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited, 2010.

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Randall, David. Court, Salon and Republic of Letters. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430104.003.0006.

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The humanist educational project to educate the elite of Western Europe produced as one of its dizzy successes the application of conversation to the speech and behavior of nobleman at court. This, the development of the ideal of the courtier, took conversation from the leisurely retreat from the ancient political world to the courtly heart of the Renaissance political world. The salons of seventeenth-century France further transformed the conversational tradition of the court: in principle, the conversation of the salons began quietly to set itself to rival the world of oratory, to address it

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Mulhall, Stephen. The Ascetic Ideal. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192896889.001.0001.

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This book develops a reading of Nietzsche’s concept of ‘the ascetic ideal’, through which he tracks the evolution, mutation, and expansion of the system of slave moral values that he associates primarily with Judaeo-Christian religious belief through diverse fields of Western European culture—not just religion and morality, but aesthetics, science, and philosophy. The work of Stanley Cavell and Michael Fried, and its impact in the philosophy of film and literature, is central here, as is J. M.Coetzee’s on the philosophy of autobiography; Martin Heidegger’s critique of science and technology is

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Van Den Meerssche, Dimitri. The World Bank's Lawyers. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192846495.001.0001.

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Abstract The World Bank’s Lawyers provides an original socio-legal account of the evolving institutional life of international law. Informed by oral archives, months of participant observation, interviews, legal memoranda and documents obtained through freedom-of-information requests, it tells an untold story of the World Bank’s legal department between 1983 and 2016. This is a story of people and the beliefs they have, the influence they seek and the tools they employ. It is an account of the practices they cling to and how these practices gain traction, or how they fail to do so, in an inter

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Barnett, Michael N., Jon C. W. Pevehouse, and Kal Raustiala, eds. Global Governance in a World of Change. Cambridge University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108915199.

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Global governance has come under increasing pressure since the end of the Cold War. In some issue areas, these pressures have led to significant changes in the architecture of governance institutions. In others, institutions have resisted pressures for change. This volume explores what accounts for this divergence in architecture by identifying three modes of governance: hierarchies, networks, and markets. The authors apply these ideal types to different issue areas in order to assess how global governance has changed and why. In most issue areas, hierarchical modes of governance, established

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Speaks, Jeff. The Idea of a Greatest Possible Being. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826811.003.0002.

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Perfect being theology is the attempt to derive the attributes of God from the principle that God is the greatest possible being. This chapter explains what would have to be done for such a derivation to succeed. Basically, one needs a modal claim about God, and a condition on properties such that it follows from the modal claim and the fact that some property satisfies the condition that the property is a property of God. The first is called a modal principle, and the second a greatness condition.

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Kirichenko, Alexander. Greek Literature and the Ideal. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192866707.001.0001.

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Abstract The contention of this book is that the development of Greek literature was motivated by the need to endow political geography with a sense of purposeful structure. It views Greek literature as a crucial factor in the cultural production of space and Greek geography as a crucial factor in the production of literary meaning. Its focus is on the idealizing images that Greek literature created of three spatial patterns of power distribution—a decentralized network of aristocratically governed communities (archaic Greece), a democratic city controlling an empire (classical Athens), and a

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Mills, Kenneth. Religion in the Atlantic World. Edited by Nicholas Canny and Philip Morgan. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199210879.013.0025.

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Writing on the diffusion of artistic forms in a transoceanic context, the art historian George Kubler likened an important work of art to a lighthouse emitting ‘signals’, which might be transferred officially, but might also be carried by ‘unexpected bearers’ to be ‘relayed’ to diverse people, including unintended recipients. This article adapts Kubler's model of diffusion and transformation to the transatlantic afterlives of a broader set of European forms and ideas, particularly those relating to religion. It contends that episodes suggesting religious transformation across the Atlantic worl

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Miller-Davenport, Sarah. Gateway State. Princeton University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691181233.001.0001.

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This book explores the development of Hawaiʻi as a model for liberal multiculturalism and a tool of American global power in the era of decolonization. The establishment of Hawaiʻi statehood in 1959 was a watershed moment, not only in the ways Americans defined their nation's role on the international stage but also in the ways they understood the problems of social difference at home. Hawaiʻi's remarkable transition from territory to state heralded the emergence of postwar multiculturalism, which was a response both to independence movements abroad and to the limits of civil rights in the Uni

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Feinstein, Robert, Joseph Connelly, and Marilyn Feinstein, eds. Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190276201.001.0001.

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This book describes real-world examples and practical approaches for integrating behavioral and physical health services in primary care and some specialty medical environments. Integrated care models are patient-centered; delivered by teams of medical professionals, utilize care coordination, and a population-based approach. This book is comfortably accessible to students, residents, faculty, and all mental health professionals, primary care and medical specialists who are working in ambulatory/office-based practices. We examine the integrated care literature and recommend applying collaborat

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McNeil, Kenneth. Scottish Romanticism and Collective Memory in the British Atlantic. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474455466.001.0001.

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Charting the transatlantic movements of Scottish literature in the Age of Revolution, this book provides an in-depth examination of Scottish Romantic literary ideas on memory and their influence among various cultures in the British Atlantic. The book brings into relief a distinct Scottish historiography, in which a temporality of modernity takes shape in the forms, tropes and categories of a mode of historical understanding we now would term collective or cultural memory. The study traces this emergent mode in Scottish history writing, both fictional and non-fictional, as it circulated throug

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Russell, Jeffrey Sanford, and John Hawthorne. Possible Patterns. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198828198.003.0005.

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“There are no gaps in logical space,” writes Lewis (1986), giving voice to sentiment shared by many philosophers. But different natural ways of trying to make this sentiment precise turn out to conflict with one another. One is a pattern idea: “Any pattern of instantiation is metaphysically possible.” Another is a cut and paste idea: “For any objects in any worlds, there exists a world that contains any number of duplicates of all of those objects.” Jumping off from discussions from Forrest and Armstrong (1984) and Nolan (1996), the authors use resources from model theory to show the inconsist

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Russell, David. The Idea of Matthew Arnold. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198737827.003.0013.

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Matthew Arnold’s critical style is famous for its slogans, what he once wryly summarized as ‘sweetness and light, and all that’. We might add, seeing ‘the object as it really is’, ‘the best that is known and said’, and more. The slogans, in their vagueness and repetition, can make Arnold seem a harbinger of hollow advertising idiom or the soundbites of political discourse and management-speak. This chapter argues, however, that the repetitiousness and vagueness of Arnold’s style are not faults, but a basis of his critical practice. It considers his essays of the 1860s, when Arnold established

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Holden, Richard, and Rosalind Dixon. From Free to Fair Markets. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197625972.001.0001.

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Liberalism—and its promise of market-led prosperity—was in crisis well before Covid-19. Recent decades have seen a rise in concentrated unemployment, and a long-term stagnation in real wages, in many of the world’s leading economies. At the same time, the world has witnessed a dramatic rise of corporate power, and the wealth of the top 1%. Alongside this has been the failure of liberal societies to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time, including climate change. Covid-19 has only exacerbated the fragility of work, and the effects of corporate power and inequality. When Covid

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Sinclair, Mark. Editor’s Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786436.003.0001.

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This chapter introduces the historical approach of the volume in the context of modal doctrines in contemporary philosophy, and offers a broad survey of the history of modal metaphysics. It discusses how a statistical approach to modality in ancient Greek philosophy was overtaken by a notion of possible worlds admitting unrealized possibilities, a notion that would receive its clearest expression in the philosophy of Leibniz. I discuss how Leibniz’s ideas form the historical background to twentieth-century possible worlds theories of modality, and how those theories have been challenged recent

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Sucky, Eric, Niels Biethahn, and Jan Werner, eds. Mobility in a Globalised World 2020. University of Bamberg Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.20378/irb-50026.

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The term mobility has different meanings in the following science disciplines. In economics, mobility is the ability of an individual or a group to improve their economic status in relation to income and wealth within their lifetime or between generations. In information systems and computer science, mobility is used for the concept of mobile computing, in which a computer is transported by a person during normal use. Logistics creates by the design of logistics networks the infrastructure for the mobility of people and goods. Electric mobility is one of today’s solutions from an engineering p

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Sucky, Eric, Niels Biethahn, Jan Werner, and Alexander Dobhan, eds. Mobility in a Globalised World 2021. University of Bamberg Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.20378/irb-54195.

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The term mobility has different meanings in the following science disciplines. In economics, mobility is the ability of an individual or a group to improve their economic status in relation to income and wealth within their lifetime or between generations. In information systems and computer science, mobility is used for the concept of mobile computing, in which a computer is transported by a person during normal use. Logistics creates by the design of logistics networks the infrastructure for the mobility of people and goods. Electric mobility is one of today’s solutions from an engineering p

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Anievas, Alexander, and Kamran Matin, eds. Historical Sociology and World History. Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd.is an affiliate of Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881812768.

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The concept of 'uneven and combined development' was originally coined by Leon Trotsky to theorise Tsarist Russia's distinctive experience of modernity and revolution. But it has re-emerged over the last decade or so as a burgeoning research programme within International Relations (IR) and historical sociology. It has been critically and creatively deployed in two main areas: the provision of a sociological foundation to international theory overcoming the chronic schism between ‘sociological’ and ‘geopolitical’ modes of enquiry; and, relatedly, in superseding prevailing Eurocentric approache

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HADFIELD, ANDREW, and PAUL HAMMOND, eds. WORDS AT WAR. British AcademyLondon, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197267622.001.0001.

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Abstract The English Civil War was not simply a conflict between two opposing, unstable, complicated alliances of various factions, but a war of words. Supporters of the King and allies of Parliament and the New Model Army clashed over ideals, ideas, and concepts as they each sought to impose their understanding of history and visions of the future, realising that victory could only be secured by establishing a political and cultural language that would guide and direct those who used it. Accordingly, the Civil War witnessed vociferous arguments over many key English words central to English l

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Lutz, Wolfgang, William P. Butz, and Samir KC, eds. World Population & Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813422.001.0001.

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Condensed into a detailed analysis and a selection of continent-wide datasets, this revised edition of World Population & Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century addresses the role of educational attainment in global population trends and models. Presenting the full chapter text of the original edition alongside a concise selection of data, it summarizes past trends in fertility, mortality, migration, and education, and examines relevant theories to identify key determining factors. Deriving from a global survey of hundreds of experts and five expert meetings on as many continents, World

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Rollinger, Robert, and Julian Degen, eds. The World of Alexander in Perspective. Contextualizing Arrian. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.13173/9783447119085.

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This volume is a collection of papers that have been given at an international conference in December 2019 in Bregenz, Austria. They focus on Arrian of Nicomedia’s Anabasis Alexandrou which is our main source for the life and reign of Alexander the Great. So far, scholarship has paid only little attention to the Anabasis as literary cosmos of its own right. The various contributions critically evaluate the still extant general opinion, that Arrian deserves a distinguished status as the main source on the Macedonian conqueror since he allegedly closely followed his sources. But the first accoun

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Toren, Christina. Human Ontogenies as Historical Processes. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198823650.003.0010.

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Across the human sciences one finds theoretical perspectives that recognize the nature–culture distinction as untenable. At the same time, the gap between demonstrating its inadequacy and developing a viable alternative approach is wide indeed. The recognition that autopoiesis (self-creation, self-production) is through and through a historical process puts paid to ideas of culture and nature as analytical categories. In the case of humans and other social organisms, autopoiesis is necessarily grounded in relations with others. This chapter explores the idea of history as lived (that is to say

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Rodriguez-Blanco, Veronica. Processes and Artifacts. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198821977.003.0010.

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This chapter proposes a model of intention as diachronically directed to an end. Thus, intention is conceived as an activity, process, or bringing about of an object or state of affairs. This model explains how we effectively produce artifacts and specific kinds of artifacts which are institutional facts, including law. The model of intention as a mental state is rejected since it cannot explain how mental states are effectively connectevd to its intended effects. The alternative solution advanced by classical tradition and some contemporary authors, such as Anscombe, provides the idea of inte

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Wildman, Wesley J. Ground-of-Being Models of Ultimate Reality. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198815990.003.0005.

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Ground-of-being models regard ultimate reality as holy or sacred (unlike subordinate-deity models) and reject the idea that ultimate reality is an aware, agential being (unlike agential-being models). Ground-of-being models are radically anti-anthropomorphic, resisting the Intentionality Attribution, Narrative Comprehensibility, and Rational Practicality dimensions of anthropomorphism simultaneously. They are strongly amenable to the scientific study of religion and to apophatic metaphysical frameworks, within which ultimate reality surpasses the complete cognitive grasp of any possible creatu

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Holmes, Chris. Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501388446.

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A study of how Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels respond to and represent the world through characters that are profoundly limited in their understanding of the systems that bind them. How has a writer known principally for his contained domestic novels come to represent the most dynamic elements of world literature? InKazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature, Chris Holmes expands our understanding of how world literature engages with the most pressing crises of the 20th and 21st centuries by examining Ishiguro’s fascination with characters who are profoundly constrained in their ability to understand gl

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Park, Joonha, Susumu Yamaguchi, Takafumi Sawaumi, and Hiroaki Morio. Dialectical Thinking and Its Influence in the World. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199348541.003.0010.

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It is often assumed that East Asians, compared with Westerners, try to reshape their personal attitudes and expectations to fit the environment rather than attempting to influence realities. A recent review of the literature revises this idea by suggesting that East Asians, just like Westerners, do attempt to influence existing realities, but via subtly different routes: East Asians employ indirect strategies, seek support from influential others, or take a long-term approach to changing the world via self-improvement. This chapter discusses East Asians’ tendency to employ various tactics in a

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Helgesen, Geir, and Ras Tind Nielsen. Ideas, Society and Politics in Northeast Asia and Northern Europe: Worlds Apart, Learning from Each Other. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2012.

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Kenworthy, Lane. Would Democratic Socialism Be Better? Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197636800.001.0001.

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The case for a modern democratic humane socialism typically has two parts. The first is that capitalism is bad, at or least not very good. In reaching this conclusion, most have either analyzed a theoretical ideal-type of capitalism or used a single country, often the United States, as a stand-in for capitalism. To fully and fairly assess democratic socialism’s desirability, we need to compare it to the best version of capitalism that humans have devised: social democratic capitalism, or what is often called the Nordic model. Each chapter in this book examines one of the things that we should

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Bornstein, David, and Susan Davis. Social Entrepreneurship. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780195396348.001.0001.

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In development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before--a decentralized and emergent force that remains our best hope for solutions that can keep pace with our problems and create a more peaceful world. David Bornstein’s previous book on social entrepreneurship, How to Change the World, was hailed by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times as “a bible in the field” and published in more than twenty countries. Now, Bornstein shifts the focus from the profiles of successful social innova

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Wang, Nadya. Her World, Women and Fashion in Singapore 1974-1989. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350465077.

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Between 1974 and 1989, significant changes were taking place in the lives of Singaporean women and in their local fashion industry. These shifts were not only reflected in but actively shaped by the magazine Her World. In Her World, Women and Fashion in Singapore, Nadya Wang uses dress as a lens through which to view fragments of the magazine over 15 years. Advocating for a new and decentred understanding of the evolution of the Singapore woman, Wang’s writing also traces the creation of a fashion industry that pivoted from seeking validation from global fashion cities to establishing itself a

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Harding, Courtenay M. Recovery from Schizophrenia. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195380095.001.0001.

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Abstract This book tells the amazing story of significant improvement and recovery of 538 people once severely and chronically disabled with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. They were “hopeless cases” in state hospitals in Vermont and Maine. As part of two studies three decades-long funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Vermonters received a pioneering rehabilitation program and the Mainers did not. Against all expectations, 68% of Vermont patients were able to reclaim their lives, while the Maine patients achieved improvement at 49%. Nine other very long-term stud

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