Many histories of Ancient Greece center their stories on Athens, but what would that history look like if they didn't? There is another way to tell this story, one that situates Greek history in terms of the relationships between smaller Greek cities and in contact with the wider Mediterranean. In this book, author Joshua P. Nudell offers a new history of the period from the Persian wars to war…
This publication explores the accuracy of advanced learner language of students of English philology, and the possibilities of enhancing it. It aims to verify the efficacy of targeted educational intervention aimed at raising awarenness of errors typically committed by Czech and Slovak learners of English, and at limiting the number of errors. Quasi-experimental methodology adopting pre-test an…
This volume stems from a conference organised in November 2018 at the University of Bucharest in the frame of the European Research Council project CASTELLANY ACCOUNTS, “Record-keeping, fiscal reform, and the rise of institutional accountability in late-medieval Savoy: A source-oriented approach”. Both the conference and the volume have received funding from the European Research Council (E…
Many scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in the cultural sector argue that Canadian cultural policy is at a crossroads: that the environment for cultural policy-making has evolved substantially and that traditional rationales for state intervention no longer apply. The concept of cultural citizenship is a relative newcomer to the cultural policy landscape, and offers a potentially compe…
In this Open Access publication Claudia Lemke develops a comprehensive Multi-Level Sustainable Development Index (MLSDI) that is applicable to micro, meso, and macro objects by conducting methodological and empirical research. Multi-level comparability is crucial because the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at macro level can only be achieved if micro and meso objects contribute. The author…
Dengan volume ini, para editor Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie, dan Gianna Zocco mengusulkan perluasan dari konsepsi tradisional imagologi sebagai teori dan metode untuk mempelajari konstruksi budaya dan representasi sastra dari karakter nasional, biasanya karakter Eropa. Terdiri dari pengantar yang informatif dan 21 artikel, buku ini mengaitkan sub-k field sastra komparatif ini dengan perke…
Penggalian Jerman yang terkenal antara tahun 1906 dan 1908 di Pulau Elephantine di Mesir menghasilkan beberapa sumber Aram paling penting untuk memahami sejarah Yahudi dan Aram yang tinggal di Mesir pada abad ke-5 SM di bawah pendudukan Persia. Tidak diketahui oleh dunia, banyak fragmen papirus dari penggalian tersebut tetap tidak terdaftar di Museum Berlin. Dalam New Aramaic Papyri from Elepha…
We have spent a great deal of time on the continued development of accounting and auditing standards, which are used as a primary component of corporate reporting, to reach today's financial reporting framework. However, is it possible to say that, currently, financial statements provide full and prompt disclosure? Or will they still be useful as a primary element with their current structures …
Institutional crises have been continuously embeded in weak accountability. In Latin America, human rights’ violations catalyze the outcomes of such crises. In the aim of understanding the housing crisis, this research evidenced a vicious cycle in Brazil and Chile: despite the creation of massive social housing programs, the lack of adequate housing particularly affects the most-poor due to w…
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