From Rockstar Researcher to Selfless Mentor: A DaughtersPerspective by Melissa Castillo-Garsow

“…Even in those early days, he was away a lot -- either traveling to conferences or increasingly as an invited lecturer, or at the office. …”
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Gandhi: A Man for our Times? by Judith Brown

“… Following my earlier collaboration with Martin Prozesky, my essay links with three major concerns in Prozesky’s work as he has engaged with a radical critique of religious traditions and structures in the South African context of the end of apartheid: the involvement of dominant religious traditions in sustaining power structures and inequality; the nexus between religious beliefs and organizations and violence; and the failure of many ‘religions’ to meet the needs of serious seekers after meaning and truth. …”
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THE LIBERAL CRITIQUES OF DEMOCRACY FROM TOCQUEVILLE TO HERMANN-HOPPE by Zoltán Pető

“…According to this political theory, liberty and equality do not complement each other but are in fact contradictions. In my lecture I would like to analyze how the words “democracy” and “liberty” were evaluated in the texts of the early liberals, how and why they began to be equated with each other. …”
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Les formes de l'action politique dans la révolution tunisienne by Mondher Kilani

“…These were nothing like earlier revolutions. They made no demands in the name of religion or ideology. …”
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Investigation of the Properties of Fresh Concrete with Scoria as Coarse Aggregates. by Erugu, Pius

“…In this project, the slump, yield stress and density will be further analysed basing on the experimental results obtained in the laboratory in relation to the findings by early researchers and conclusions will be drawn. …”
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Ortega on liberalism and democracy: revisiting an old discussion by Carlos Morujão

“…I also try to highlight the changes in Ortega’s concept of liberalism, from his early liberal socialism (under the influence of Paul Natorp) to the mature liberalism that follows Ortega’s acceptance of phenomenology, of which we find a document in Meditations on Quixote of 1914 and in “New and old politics”, published in the same year. …”
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The Economics of Immortality: The Demi-Immortal Oriental, Enlightenment Vitalism, and Political Economy in Dracula by J. Jeffrey Franklin

“…This character type began appearing with increasing frequency in the early nineteenth century for a range of specific historical reasons stemming from the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and Romanticism, but I will focus, secondly, on one specific historical precedent, namely “Enlightenment vitalism” and its subsequent expression as Mesmeric vitalism. …”
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Is it Time to Recognize Political Anxiety as a Social Determinant of Health? by Brandon Ambrosino

“…In the past month alone, there have been countless reported variations on a single theme: “Early polling shows the presidential race to be neck and neck, but here’s an alternative data point that might make you feel very strong.” …”
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