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Evolutionary analyses of ethnic solidarity: an overview
The author presents an overview of the contribution that evolutionary theory has made, and can make, to studies of ethnically based social cohesion in the social sciences. INTRODUCTION Evolutionary approaches have a minor though persistent place in the study of ethnicity and nationalism, probably due to the social...
Tags: A., C., Culture, D., E., Ed, Electronic Data Systems Corp., F., H., J., L., M., Oxford University Press, P., Press, S., Social, W., Wilson
Research articles 2008-06-01
Presidential biographies: you've lived through the ups and the downs of more than a few presidential administrations, and here's your chance to know even more. We've consulted the experts on presidential biographies from different eras
Douglas L. Wilson CODIRECTOR OF THE LINCOLN STUDIES CENTER, KNOX COLLEGE Douglas L. Wilson is codirector of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College. He has written extensively on Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. With his partner Rodney O. Davis, he has edited The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (forthcoming 2008)....
Tags: Lincoln, Randall, Thomas, Wilson
Research articles 2008-05-01
'Why can't a woman be more like a man?': American and Australian approaches to exclusionary conduct
[Much of antitrust law in the United States or trade practices law in Australia is" about 'exclusionary conduct': things that large firms do to acquire an even larger share of the market or preserve their large market share .from being eroded by smaller rivals or new entrants. The object of...
Tags: Australian, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Court, Edwards, F, O'Connor, Rural Press Ltd., S, Section, Stevens, Thomas, Williams, Wilson
Research articles 2007-12-01
Removing the government's immunity from suit in federal cases
[A citizen cannot sue the government without a 'right to proceed', that is, a law removing the government's immunity from suit. Current High Court doctrine holds that, in cases in federal jurisdiction, a right to proceed derives by implication from the grant of jurisdiction. This article subjects that doctrine to...
Tags: Australian, British American Tobacco Plc., Constitution, Deane, High Court, Justice, Section, Western, Wilson
Research articles 2006-12-01
Competition law, adjudication and the High Court
[This article explores the statutory interpretative practices and debates in recent competition law cases considered by the High Court. While these debates appear to centre on 'textual/literal' versus 'contextual/purposive' interpretative practices, further examination reveals that these theoretical differences do not adequately predict outcomes. Instead, these practices often mask undisclosed policy...
Tags: Australian, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, John, Journal, Justice, Power, Rural Press Ltd., Wilson
Research articles 2006-12-01
Fellow-employee exclusion valid, MD Court of Appeals holds
In a case with major ramifications for insurance coverage, the Court of Appeals has upheld an exclusion in a commercial automobile policy for injuries to one worker caused by another. As long as the exclusion provides for the statutory minimum coverage, it is acceptable, the court held. ...
Tags: Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co., Wilson
Research articles 2006-11-20
The shadow side of social gift-giving: miscommunication and failed gifts
I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received. --Porchia (1969) 1. Gifting as Dilemma: Gifts Do Not Speak for Themselves From the day you are born until the day you die, you stand in the midst of gift-giving and gift-receiving...
Tags: A., American, Belk Inc., C., Christmas, D., F., Gender, J., Journal, Jr., Levy, M., McGrath, Men, R., Ruth, S., Sherry, Smith, Social, T., W., Wilson
Research articles 2006-09-01
English Calvinism and the crowd: Coriolanus and the history of religious reform
Late Tudor London comes alive when Stephen Greenblatt's acclaimed biography of William Shakespeare, shadowing its subject, takes to the streets. "The unprecedented concentration of bodies jostling ... crossing and recrossing the great bridge, pressing into taverns and theaters and churches," Greenblatt suggests, is a "key to the whole spectacle" of...
Tags: Cambridge University Press, Catholic, Christians, David, Early, English, God, History, James, John, Life, Oxford University Press, Patrick, Press, Rome, Thomas, William, Wilson
Research articles 2006-06-01
Provincializing Christendom: the case of Great Britain
The insular traditions of British ecclesiastical history have been transformed since the 1960s, when scholars began to pay attention to the theory of secularization, an inherently comparative and global theory of social change. More recently a wave of interest in imperial and colonial history has brought the foreign missionary enterprise...
Tags: American, Bryan, Christendom, Church, David, History, J., Jeffrey, Martin, Oxford University Press, Religion, Social, Society, Wilson
Research articles 2006-03-01
PROMINENT AFRICAN AMERICAN EPISCOPALIANS, 1746-2005: A GUIDE TO HISTORICAL RESOURCES IN THE BISHOP PAYNE LIBRARY, VIRGINIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
INTRODUCTIONThis bibliography was compiled primarily to provide assistance to researchers in locating information in The Bishop Payne Library collection about African Americans who have been ordained in the Episcopal Church. The sources cited herein complement the documents held in the African American Episcopal Historical Collection housed in the Bishop Payne...
Tags: A., African, Alexander, American, Blacks, Chapel, Church, David, E., Early, Education, F., G., God, Harris, History, II, J., James, John, Jones, Journal, Living, Marquis, Mission, MN, Oxford University Press, Paul, PROCEEDINGS, Routledge, S., T., Theology, Walter, Williams, Wilson, Witness
Research articles 2005-12-01
The lives of animals, the lives of prisoners, and the revelations of Abu Ghraib
TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION II. THE LIVES OF ANIMALS III. THE LIVES OF PRISONERS IV. THE REVELATIONS OF ABU GHRAIB A. The System Works B. Have We Descended to the Level of ...
Tags: A14, Allen, American, American General, Americans, Army, Bush, Charles, David, Douglas, Ed, Elliott, Graham, J., James, John, L., S., Smith, White House, Wilson, Wright
Research articles 2004-11-01
7 Kitchen & bath. (Product Guide).
7.1 Appliances Central Vacuuming Systems Beam Industries ...
Tags: American, Armstrong, Assn, Central, Corp., Design, Eye, Group, Kohler Co., St., Steel, Whirlpool Corp., Wilson, Works
Research articles 2003-08-01
Plumbing the depths: Irish realism and the working class from Shaw to O'Casey
Early in 1899 the seedling Irish Socialist Republican Party held a public meeting to consider what had become a salient question. The minutes record that on 12 February Frederick Ryan 'delivered a lecture entitled "A Word on the Democratic Drama" in the course of which he dealt with and read...
Tags: Allen, Bernard, February Frederick Ryan, Fred, George, Holocaust, Ibsen, James, Moore, Oxford University Press, Shaw, Theatre, Union, W., William, Williams, Wilson
Research articles 2003-03-22
Wilson expects uninspiring conditions to continue.
Nov 28, 2002 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Australian listed fund manager, Wilson Asset Management WAM, believes negative sentiment will continue. On 28 November 2002, chairman, Geoff Wilson, told shareholders at the AGM that there would be no return to bull-market...
Tags: Insurance Australia Group Ltd., Wilson
Research articles 2002-11-29
Wilson HTM to ride acquisition trail.
Oct 11, 2002 (Money Management - ABIX via COMTEX) Wilson HTM finalised its purchase of BNP Paribas's Australian asset management business in the week ending 4 October 2002. The purchase means that Wilson HTM's funds management division now has some $A800 million in funds...
Tags: BNP Paribas SA, Wilson
Research articles 2002-10-11
Agrium finds Australia very attractive.
Jul 19, 2002 (Oil & Gas Australia ABIX via COMTEX) -- A top official of giant Canadian group, Agrium, is impressed with Australia as an investment location. Mike Wilson, Agrium's chief operating officer was addressing an industry briefing in Perth, after his company accepted...
Tags: Agrium Inc., Wilson
Research articles 2002-07-19
APN snares Kiwi media group.
Nov 1, 2001 The Mercury ABIX via COMTEX -- Australia's APN News & Media has acquired New Zealand newspaper group Wilson & Horton for $1.2bn. Sir Anthony O'Reilly's British-based Independent News & Media was the largest shareholder in Wilson & Horton, and is also...
Tags: APN News & Media Ltd., Wilson
Research articles 2001-10-31
NZ buy gives APN the taste for Fairfax.
Nov 1, 2001 The Sydney Morning Herald ABIX via COMTEX -- Queensland-based media group, APN News & Media, has revealed that it will buy New Zealand newspaper group, Wilson & Horton. APN will pay $A809m to acquire Wilson & Horton from its Irish parent,...
Tags: APN News & Media Ltd., Wilson
Research articles 2001-10-31
Defining Moments and Recurring Myths: Comparing Canadians and Americans after the American Revolution
Dans cet article, nous examinons la celebre these de S.M. Lipset, qui affirme que la revolution americaine a cree des differences durables entre les valeurs canadiennes et americaines. Nous reconsiderons tout d'abord l'affirmation centrale de la these selon laquelle l'exode des loyalistes vers le Canada a ancre de facon permanente...
Tags: American, Americans, Brown, Catholic, Church, Craig, Curtis, English, G., Harris, History, II, James, John, Macmillan, McClelland, Miller, Oxford, Protestant, Randall, Roman, Smyth, Social, Stewart, Thompson, Vol, W., Wilson
Research articles 2000-11-01
Birds of the Grand Calumet River basin
ABSTRACT Bird life in the Grand Calumet River Basin is unusually rich. The literature reveals that a minimum of 163 species was recorded in the pre-settlement era. Current data document that the basin hosts at least 41 species in winter, 64 species during the breeding season, and more than...
Tags: American, Black, Brown, C., E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., Eastern, Franklin, Grand, House, Lake, Marsh, Nelson, Northern, Song, Western, Wilson, Wood
Research articles 1999-01-01
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