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This volume presents a selection of papers from the "3rd International Conference on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages" that was held in 2014 at the University of Surrey, Guildford (UK).

The book examines the impact of firm events on bondholder wealth. First, the methodologies of papers that conduct bond event studies are reviewed. Second, the impact of synergy forecasts at M&A announcements on corporate debt and equity securities is investigated. Finally, regular debt offerings are compared to reopenings of corporate bonds.

Smart people make a smart city. Smartness is about being intelligent, networked, agile, creative, learning. A smart social system is less about technology and more about behavior. The role of leadership and adequate public governance is of upmost importance. Smart development requires application of uncommon sense in decision making.

The author treats the correspondence between the Slavist Jernej Kopitar and the Slovene patron Ziga Zois (composed between 1808-19). First, he situates it in history and within the genre of the letter, especially in regard to Enlightenment epistolography; second, he deals with its importance for the development of Slavic cultural nationalisms.

The book explores a hybrid model of broadcasting in terms of the setting of research parameters and implementation of modern managerial practices, which are suggested as relevant also for the public TV broadcasting stations operating in a market-driven environment.

The book focuses on the uncanny in the domestic space of Elizabeth Bowen's fiction. Providing a psychoanalytic reading of selected works it aims to examine the image of the house in Bowen's prose and to analyse its uncanniness in relation to the characters' identity.

The book is devoted to the effects of globalisation and global governance on the state, law and society. It provides a multidiscoursive analysis that challenges the traditional constitutional and political concepts with view to their structural and functional changes produced by the emergence of supranational constitutionalism and decision making.

This study takes as its point of departure the changes Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North underwent from its premiere, to the sound version of 1948, the film's restoration in the 1970s, and later editions on VHS and DVD.

The author analyses sources of international law with regard to the existence or emergence of an international obligation of states to promote and protect national democratic structures and a corresponding right of the people. She further investigates whether such norms challenge existing rules of international law.

This study investigates possible differences between fictional portrayals of the British Raj by Anglo-Indian authors who lived in the colony and writers who never saw the country. In an attempt to challenge Said's assumptions outlined in Orientalism, the results of the comparison will be used to discuss how consistent the colonial discourse was.

This book brings together several essays presented at the Seventh International Seminar on Culture and Power, held at the University of Alcalá in October 2001. The conference set out to study the ways in which the notions of representation and mis-representation are related to the (mis)uses of power in the English-speaking world. Topics covered in the essays include the relationship between anthropology and literature, textual depictions of the city, and the representation of the (post)colonial world. The contributors also explore the validity of the categories of class, gender and race in a literary, cultural and educational context.

This book reveals the ecclesiological values of charisms according to Congar. He understands charisms in the light of pneumatological christology. The hierarchy and the laity are complementary. The structure of the Church is not pyramidal. Congar exalts the priesthood of all the faithful and advocates prophecy of the whole Church.

Cet ouvrage traite d¿une période importante de l¿histoire européenne, qui s¿étend de la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale jusqüà la fin de la guerre froide. Elle a été marquée par l¿instauration en Europe du régime des droits de l¿homme le plus avancé du monde. Durant ce demi-siècle, le continent européen, divisé sur le plan stratégique et idéologique, dépouillé de ses possessions coloniales, confronté à un vaste afflux d¿immigrés, s¿est engagé à développer des instruments politiques, judiciaires et diplomatiques de protection et de défense des droits de l¿homme. Ce livre réunit la majeure partie des contributions du colloque tenu à Oslo en août 2000 dans le cadre du XIX Congrès international des sciences historiques. Il s¿agit d¿une des premières enquêtes historiques dans le domaine des droits de l¿homme, entreprise avec la collaboration d¿historiens de divers horizons. This book deals with a remarkable period of human history from the end of the Second World War to the end of the Cold War, when Europe established the world¿s most advanced human-rights regime. During this half century a continent, divided by arms and ideology, divested of its colonial empires, and faced with a huge influx of foreigners, drew on old ideas and on post-First World War experiments, to expand the political, judicial, and diplomatic practices of human-rights advocacy and protection. The book contains the major part of the contributions of the colloquium of the 19 International Congress of Historical Sciences held in Oslo in August 2000. It represents one of the first collaborative, historical inquiries into the field of human rights.

Films and novels are media of historical memories, fantasies, mystification and propaganda. The essays herein discuss how wars, from WWI through the Post-Cold War, are represented in selected films and novels and how these wars have been reinterpreted over time.

Since the end of the 20th century, designers have started to contract out from the laws of industrial production and have begun to personally construct the opportunities in which to intervene, designing products and processes charged with a strong narrative vocation capable of telling a complex story even before reacting to a practical function.

The subject of the book is a reconsideration of the internalistic model of composition of the Platonic type, and its application in the ontology of quantum theory. Nonseparability is at the centre of quantum ontology. Quantum wholes are atemporal wholes governed by internalistic logic, requiring a relativization of fundamental notions of mechanics.

In this volume Alojzy Z. Nowak presents articles by different authors who analyse the impact of the current crisis in the financialisation of the world economy. The contributions also discuss the ethical failures of the financial crisis in Europe and whether continued convergence is the answer to the Euro area crisis.

The book studies the language of Restoration London irregular medical practitioners emerging from their printed handbills. Findings consist of the pragmatic features of quacks' communication, including images, the strategic use of printing in advertising, and the detection of a previously unknown source of a well-spread anti-quack satiric broadsheet.

The author analyses how faith can answer to the concrete life-situation of a people via an hermeneutics which is based on the Resurrection of Christ. In particular, this book investigates theology answering to the life-situation of Africans, the Igbo.

The book underpins the importance of the shepherd theme in Mark, which complements the other important motifs in the narrative such as way, nourishment, gathering etc. The theme even merges with the motif of way, when Jesus, who came on the way of the Lord, goes ahead of the disciples to Galilee.

This book provides multidisciplinary analysis of historically determined and currently widespread migration processes of Armenians around the world. The volume explores construction of transnational Armenian migratory networks, motivation of Armenian migrants, socio-economic and gender aspects of communication, adaptation, and integration.

This study discusses second generation scientific ontological categories: substance-tradition from Aristotle to Kant, Goedel, Quine, Strawson and others, Being-thinking from Aristotle to Heidegger, and system-building from Plato to Whitehead. The resulting ontology is termed Einaic Ontology for maximalist, mutually collusive, categorial reasons.

This volume surveys the role played by social connections when students make use of the expanding opportunities offered by contemporary tertiary education. We present our empirical results, which led us to the conclusion that the resources provided by higher education institutions may be termed social capital.

This volume analyses the interface between the social, the natural, and the economic environments of tourism and focuses on an increase of competitive advantages and local value creation. This includes the social and cultural perspectives of host communities and tourists.

A diplomatic edition of the Early Middle English Sawles Warde and Wooing Group, giving parallel texts of all the manuscripts. Textual and paleographic notes are provided, along with frequency wordlists for two versions of Sawles Warde and all four manuscripts of the Wooing texts. This completes a uniform edition of the Ancrene Wisse Group.