Over the last century, mainstream economists have become increasingly defensive and sectarian, increasingly rigorous in excluding dissidents, sometimes blighting careers at a hint of disagreement with the standard orthodoxy, or, when someone had managed to achieve recognition outside their reach, saying—as I've heard it said about the late Ken Galbraith— " well, he's very clever, but of course ...

The spoliation of the Egyptians is an exodus theme whose interpretation difficult and often controversial. great cleavage lies between thesis a secret dishonest action that operation definitive donations within framework expulsion. addition adverb ‘κρυφη’ in Septuagint has been used to support exit from Egypt by escape with fraudulently borrowed objects. This article re-evaluates this variant s...

Share feedback about the accessibility of this item. Description The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who ...

A major obstacle to coming to terms with the full reality of bodily life is the widespread myth that the body can be controlled. [...] The essence of the myth of control is the belief that it is possible, by means of human actions, to have the bodies we want and to prevent illness, disability, and death. Like many myths, the myth of control contains a significant element of truth; we do have so...

This paper is concerned with why and how multinational companies (MNCs) voluntarily engage in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), especially in social standards. The first part describes the prevailing perspectives on the CSR debate. Then, with the New Institutionalism in Sociology, an alternative view on CSR is discussed. The third part develops the argument that the ‘traditional’ rational ...

abounovas is of unique character who has  always stimulates old and new critics to battle against each other as far as each person makes a character for him based on their understanding and special orientation instead of discovering his true  character. to recognize his real character ,however, his biography must be reread and to have a correct and real conclusion we have to refer to  reliable ...

BACKGROUND In the United States, the social myth that abortion clinics are unsafe, lonely places is pervasive. Little research has investigated the extent to which women's negative experiences of clinic interactions and processes confirm or contest this myth. STUDY DESIGN Semistructured interviews with 41 women who received an abortion at a clinic were conducted and analyzed using qualitative...

. A properly designed 2-dimensional parallel computer of size n can do both jobs in time n. A serial computer for either problem is much, much, much slower and can’t be much smaller: it needs n serial accesses to n bits of memory. A related myth is that analyzing the time of a computation on a huge serial computer is equivalent to analyzing the price and performance of parallel versions of the ...

The differing activities and proclivities of males and females over the ages mean that Y-chromosomal DNA and mitochondrial DNA allow us to open a window on population histories, and put some flesh on the bare bones of legend and myth. Perhaps surprisingly, this approach is bearing significant fruit, some of which borders on the shocking. In 2003, Zerjal et al. reported an astonishingly high car...