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- Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture
- Angela Brintlinger and Ilya Vinitsky, eds. Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. 304 pp. $70.00, cloth. Madness, with all of its manifestations, is an unruly subject for scholarship. Religious, medical, cultural, and mythological concepts of madness at times in opposition to each other...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- Iran vows to rein in media in new morality clampdown
- TEHRAN AFP — Iran's conservative Culture and Islamic Guidance Minister Mohammad-Hossein Saffar-Harandi vowed to rein in the media as part of a new clampdown on "wicked manifestations in society." The minister said there too many domestic news agencies in the Islamic republic and that their number needed to be...
- Research articles 2006-08-11
- Targets of Opportunity: On the Militarization of Thinking
- B105 2005-000953 0-8232-2476-7 Targets of opportunity; on the militarization of thinking. Weber, Samuel. Fordham University Press, [c]2005 152 p. $18.00 pa Even though they have a long-standing tradition dating back to the Old English word for shield, targa, writes Weber (comparative literature,...
- Research articles 2005-08-01
- Reconsidering the idea of high art
- In fashionable academic circles, the idea that a work of art is an exquisite manifestation of human genius expressed in terms of form, mass and color, now is widely discredited or ridiculed. Some might feel this loss to be a cultural tragedy, but not Larry Shiner, professor of philosophy at...
- Research articles 2002-03-11
- Airtech Announces Major IAQ Breakthrough, New Publicist and Aggressive Media Campaign
- Business Editors/Medical Writers DALLAS--BUSINESS WIRE--June 12, 2001 Airtech International Group, Inc. (OTCBB:AIRG) announced today a major technological breakthrough of its Titan III (in-duct) air sterilization system. The Titan III is recognized as a realistic solution to the `sick home syndrome'. The announcement and materials will be held at...
- Research articles 2001-06-12
- Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema.(Review) (book review)
- Linda Mizejewski. Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999), x + 241 pp., $49.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. In 1907, the showman Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. (1868-1932) brought to the New York stage his own Ziegfeld Follies, a four-hour-long...
- Research articles 2000-06-01
- LITHUANIA: LITHUANIAN PRESIDENT BLASTS GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC POLICY WARNS AGAINST ANTI-SEMITISM IN KAUNAS.(Adamkus)(Brief Article)
- During the speech Adamkus also issued warnings against growing radicalism in Lithuania, especially anti-Semitism displayed by the new Kaunas Mayor Vytautas Sustauskas. Adamkus said, "By no means can we tolerate anti-Semitism or hatred of other cultures and differently thinking people," Reuters reported. The president continued, ...
- Research articles 2000-04-25
- The Call of Service: A Witness to Idealism. - book reviews
- To borrow a Joycean term, this is a book of anecdotal epiphanies, those sudden and sometimes unexpected manifestations of the essential nature of a thing, person or situation, as uncovered, in this instance, by the skilled interviewer and compassionate, self-critical listener, Robert Coles, professor of psychiatry and medical humanities at...
- Research articles 1993-09-17
- Differences and Similarities in Insular and Temporal Pole MRI Gray Matter Volume Abnormalities in First-Episode Schizophrenia and Affective Psychosis
- The objective of this paper is to simultaneously evaluate multiple olfactocentric paralimbic regions, which play crucial roles in human emotion and motivation, in first-episode patients with schizophrenia and affective psychosis. Whether psychoses associated with schizophrenia and affective disorder represent manifestations of different disorders or the same disorder is an important...
- White papers 2003-11-01
Additional Resources
- ACRL Statement on Professional Development
- Professional development is an important manifestation of the academic librarian's commitment to personal excellence. It is a necessary response to a rapidly changing environment. Although professional development is an individual responsibility, it thrives on partnership with the associations and the institutions that share common goals and values with academic librarians....
- White papers 2000-07-08
- Deeper Than Skin: Why Brand Expression Matters
- To any marketer who believes packaging and design are cosmetic, or that finding the brand 'voice' is an indulgent exercise, this comment should serve as a wake up. The way a brand expresses itself on the surface is as important to its survival as how it behaves over time. It...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- end customer
- An extreme manifestation of this problem is the "bullwhip effect," when supply chain participants have limited visibility into true customer demand, further distorted by gaming behaviors leading to exaggerated perception of uncertainties in supply conditions.
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Battle Against Terrorism: A Battle for Stomachs, Hearts, and Minds
- It is now commonly believed that a root cause of the terrorism that has been unleashed against the United States is the clash of the Civilizations. The growth of Islam is a manifestation of anti-Westernism and a rejection of the West's direct and indirect dominance over the political, economic, and...
- White papers 2002-03-01
- Brand Marketing: Guinness
- The article is all about the branding strategy of Guinness. When Guinness set out to replace its outmoded visitors' center in Dublin, Ireland, the celebrated brewer knew that it wanted to build more than just a shrine to stout. Guinness as a brand is all about community. It is about...
- Case studies 2003-01-01
- Insurance Risk - Securitisation
- Convergence can be defined as the process of moving towards union or uniformity. But the true meaning is that two separate markets have started performing the same function. Initially driven by the risk transfer needs of the insurance industry, and the diversification benefits perceived by the capital markets, the convergence...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Nailing The Homeowner: The Economic Impact Of Trade Protection Of The Softwood Lumber Industry
- Even though Canada is the United States' largest trading partner and most goods flow freely across the border, one U.S. industry, softwood lumber, continues to lobby successfully for the imposition of trade barriers against our neighbor to the north. This article deals discussing the recent manifestation of Softwood Lumber Agreement,...
- White papers 2000-07-06
- One-Stop Filing
- For years, most property/casualty trade groups resolutely opposed federal regulation while calling for uniform review of insurers and insurance products by state regulators. Insurers must now confront contradictions that arise from those positions as they consider "speed to market" initiatives being proposed by a working group of the National Association...
- White papers 2001-01-01
- Missouri Federal Court: Manifestation Trigger, Late Notice Bar Coverage For Water Intrusion Damage
- This alert gives details about the case of Hammon Hotel. It discusses about the claims, procedural history, and the court's ruling f the case. It is mentioned in the alert that court found that the hotel owner knew water was leaking into hotels for years before property contracts began. The...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- Terrorism Dealing With the new Spectre
- The phenomenon of terrorism is difficult to define in unambiguous terms. It cannot be readily distinguished from other forms of violence, such as vandalism, rebellion, civil war or war, since its manifestation is highly diverse in terms of its instigators, motives, dimensions, targets and outcome. The definition this report currently...
- White papers 2002-02-15
- Related Lending
- In many countries, banks lend to firms controlled by the bank's owners. This paper examines the benefits of related lending using a newly assembled dataset for Mexico. Related lending is prevalent (20% of commercial loans) and takes place on better terms than arm's-length lending (annual interest rates are 4 percentage...
- White papers 2002-03-01
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