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PROTOSALVINIA DAWSON AND ASSOCIATED CONODONTS OF THE UPPER TRACHYTERA ZONE, FAMENNIAN, UPPER DEVONIAN, IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES: ABSTRACT- Protosalvinia first occur in association with conodonts of the Upper trachytera Zone and below the Three Lick Bed in the Ohio Shale and the Ellicott Shale of the central and northern Appalachian Basin, as well as in the Clegg Creek Member of the New Albany Shale of the Illinois...; Tags: A., Appalachian, B., C., D., E., Fig, G., H., J., Journal, L., M., N., P., R., T., W, W., Ziegler Inc.; Research articles 2009-01-01
The crystallization of counter-enlightenment and philosophe identities: theological controversy and catholic enlightenment in pre-revolutionary France: RECENT works of modern French history have found it fashionable, when focusing on the eighteenth century from across the jagged shoals of nineteenth- and twentieth-century France, to reductively treat Francophone national identity as the dialogical interaction of two related "imagined communities." (1) On the one hand, as scholars such as...; Tags: American, Cartesian, Catholic, Church, Culture, D., David, De, Early, Fall, G., God, H., History, J., Jacques, Jeffrey, Jesus, John, Joseph, Journal, L., La, Les, M., O'Connor, Old, Oxford University Press, Philosophy, Politics, Society, Voltaire Inc., W.; Research articles 2008-12-01
Polygyny and Christian Marriage in Africa: The Case of Benin: Abstract: Since the arrival of European missionaries in Africa, there has been charged debate over people's marriage choices. This article outlines the major elements in the academic, theological, and popular discourses on marriage in Africa, focusing on two topics: the conceptual divide between monogamous Christian marriage and African polygyny, and...; Tags: A., African, Barrett, C., Catholic, Christians, Church, Colonial, David, East, Europeans, Family, G., Gender, Gray, H., History, INTRODUCTION, James, Jean, Journal, Mann, Marriage, Mission, N., Oxford University Press, R., Religion, Social, Thomas, West, Western; Research articles 2008-09-01
'Whatever turns you on': a response to Anna Machin, 'why handaxes just aren't that sexy': Evaluating theories and testing hypotheses that relate to the no-longer observable behaviour of hominin species which have no close analogue in the modern world is an obvious challenge. Machin argues that Kohn & Mithen (1999) did not do so in a sufficiently rigorous manner concerning their so-called 'Sexy Handaxe Theory'...; Tags: C., Cambridge University Press, Journal, S.; Research articles 2008-09-01
Dyslexia speed problems in a transparent orthography: Abstract This study was intended to help clarify the nature of dyslexia in Spanish. A sample of 30 children, 8 to 16 years old, participated in this study. Dyslexic children were compared to two control groups, a chronological age-matched control group and a reading level-matched control group. Measures included nonword...; Tags: A., C., E., Ed, English, F., G., H., International Dyslexia Association, J., Journal, K., L., M., P., R., Reading, S., Spanish, T., Ziegler Inc.; Research articles 2008-06-01

Building a populist coalition in Texas, 1892-1896: THAN A HALF CENTURY HAS PASSED SINCE C. VANN WOODWARD argued that the success of the People' s or Populist Party of the 1890s hinged on construction of three somewhat improbable coalitions of the dispossessed: southerners and westerners, farmers and laborers, and blacks and poor whites in the South. (1)...; Tags: American, C., Charles, Cross, Democratic Party, East, Farmers, Gregg, H., Hill, History, James, John, Journal, L., Labor, M., Martin, Miller, Politics, Reform, Thomas, Turner, W., William; Research articles 2008-05-01
List of books received: Allen, Nicholas and Eve Patten editors, That Island Never Found: Essays and Poems for Terence Brown. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. 199 pages. EUR 55.00 hardback. Badin, Donatella, Lady Morgan's Italy: Anglo-Irish Sensibilities and Italian Realities in Post-Restoration Italy. Bethseda: Academica Press, 2007. xii + 287 pages. USD 74.95...; Tags: Journal, Oxford University Press; Research articles 2008-03-22
A shilling for Queen Elizabeth: the era of state regulation of church attendance in England, 1552-1969: Throughout Christian history, churchgoing has been widely regarded as one of the most important and tangible expressions of religious observance. Yet, before the Reformation, failure to attend services was subject solely to ecclesiastical sanctions, such as admonition, penance, and excommunication, as applied by the Episcopal courts. Partly as a consequence,...; Tags: Church, D., E., Easter, English, F., G., Gilbert, God, History, House, J., Jacob, James, John, Joseph, Journal, Lincoln, Lord, M., Macmillan, Oxford, Oxford University Press, P., Social, Society, T., Thomas, W., Wales, William, York; Research articles 2008-03-22
'The comforts of married life': Metis family life, labour, and the Hudson's Bay Company: SINCE THE 1980S, scholars have sought to understand how the Canadian fur trade shaped the Metis. Less attention has been paid to the impact of Metis concepts of family and community on the nature of their relationship with their employer, the Hudson's Bay Company HBC. This article focuses on how...; Tags: A., American, Charles, Culture, English, Frank, Green, House, Hudson's Bay Co., Indian, J., James, John, Joseph, Journal, Lake, Marie, Michel, Mission, Pierre, Raphael, Thomas, William; Research articles 2008-03-22
Igneous rock associations 10. Komatiites: SUMMARY Komatiites are ultramafic volcanic rocks that occur mainly in Archean and Paleoproterozoic greenstone belts. These olivine-rich rocks are assumed to have crystallized from magmas that have about 28-30 wt% MgO. They are characterized by spinifex texture--platy or skeletal crystals of olivine set in a glassy matrix. Chemically, komatiites...; Tags: Arndt, Ashwal, C., Campbell, Fig, G., Ga, Grove, J., Journal, L., M., Ma, Oxford University Press, S., Viljoen; Research articles 2008-03-01
Unbounded naturalism: INTRODUCTION John McDowell's explicit aim in his seminal work Mind and World is to provide a spirited defense of common sense realism. To go about this, McDowell takes seriously Kant's famous dictum on empirical judgments, 'Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind', in hopes of calling...; Tags: A.V., Adorno, Bildung, Cambridge University Press, Critique, Descartes, Friedman, God, Hegel, Heidegger, John, Journal, Kant, Kantian, Lyotard, Miller, Mind, Oxford University Press, Philosophy, Press, Robert, Spirit, Stern, Weber; Research articles 2008-01-01
Cognition and religion: Consider the following: A social scientist conducts a survey of college students to see whether or not they pray and, if so, what they pray about. He finds that students usually pray for something mental, such as asking God to help them remember a formula for a test; something emotional,...; Tags: A., American, Barrett, Berkeley, Boundaries, Cambridge University Press, Culture, Gelman, God, Heaven, Journal, Life, Mind, Moses, Narrative, NJ, Pp, Press, Princeton University, Religion, Review, Robert, Science, Smith, Social; Research articles 2007-12-22
Orality and literacy 25 years later: 1. Introduction Walter Ong, S.J., published Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word 25 years ago, in 1982. The book appeared in Methuen Press's New Accents series, under the general editorship of Terence Hawkes, along with titles on literature, literary criticism, and popular culture. The series holds particular...; Tags: African, American, Asian, Communication, E., Ed, English, F., G., History, INTRODUCTION, J., Journal, Oxford University Press, REFLECTIONS, Research, Science, T., Trans, Walter; Research articles 2007-12-01
Effects of experimental egg composition on rejection by village weavers: It is advantageous for individual birds to be able to recognize their own eggs and to remove foreign eggs from their nests when exposed to brood parasitism (Davies and Brooke 1989, Rothstein 1990, Ortega 1998, Peer et al. 2005). Addition of experimental eggs to nests of Old World cuckoo (Cuculus...; Tags: A., Brooke, C., Cruz, D., E., H., J., Journal, M., Oxford University Press, P., Peer, Robinson, S., T., W., Wiley; Research articles 2007-12-01
Mekeo chiefs and sorcerers: metaphor, ideology and practice: But the mind attempts to contrive a principle of order and regularity into certain parts of the mass of signs, and this is the role of relative motivation. (Ferdinand de Saussure 1974:133) Il y a trop...; Tags: A., American, C., Cambridge University Press, Communion, D., East, English, J., Jones, Journal, L, M., North, Press, S., T., West; Research articles 2007-11-01
Pentecostalism beyond belief: trust and democracy in a Malawian township: ABSTRACT The concept of belief, when applied in its strong sense, assumes an inner state that sets believers apart from non-believers. This article suggests that a concept of trust is more appropriate for the study of the religious orientation among Pentecostal Christians in Chinsapo, an impoverished township in Malawi's...; Tags: A., African, Belief, Christians, D., E., English, God, Green, H., J., Jesus, Jesus Christ, Journal, M., Oxford University Press, Power, T., Trust, W., West; Research articles 2007-09-22
Violence, sacrifice and chiefship in Central Equatoria, Southern Sudan: ABSTRACT This article explores specific oral histories and chiefship debates in the aftermath of the SPLA war in two Southern Sudanese chiefdoms. It argues that these local histories reveal much about the historical relationship between state and society--and in particular the mediation with external violence--which is central to understanding...; Tags: A., African, Alexander, C., E., G., J., James, Johnson, Joseph, Journal, M., Oxford, Oxford University Press, S., Sierra, West; Research articles 2007-09-22
Ritual time in British Plantation Colonies, 1650-1780: Four thousand miles of ocean divided the plantation colonies of the first British Empire from the English metropole, a great physical distance that was augmented by the cultural divergence that divided those slave societies from England. Colonists in Barbados, Jamaica, and South Carolina thus made the re-creation of English ritual...; Tags: African, American, Assembly, Black, Chapel, Christmas, Church, Council, Culture, Early, Easter, English, God, Hall, History, J., James, John, Johnson, Joseph, Journal, Kingston Technology Corp., Lord, Oxford University Press, Protestant, Testing, Thomas, W.; Research articles 2007-09-01
The use of humour to stimulate creative writing in the teaching of Afrikaans: a case study/Die gebruik van humor om kreatiewe skryf in die onderrig van Afrikaans te stimuleer: 'n gevallestudie: Thomas Edison: 'I never did a day's work in my life--it was all fun.' (Torok et al., 2004.) Abstract The use of humour to stimulate creative writing In the teaching of Afrikaans: a case study This article reports on of a qualitative research programme in which humouristic...; Tags: A., Allen, E., J., Journal, Kruger Inc., M., Muller, P., Search; Research articles 2007-08-01
A program for "naturalizing" metaphysics, with application to the ontology of events: 1. Metaphysics and Cognitive Science I wish to advance a certain program for doing metaphysics, a program in which cognitive science would play an important role. (1) This proposed ingredient is absent from most contemporary metaphysics. There are one or two local parts of metaphysics where a role for...; Tags: A., D., E., J., John, Journal, L., M., Oxford University Press, P., Paul, Philosophy, Rozin, S., T.; Research articles 2007-07-01