Could the bad old days of economic decline be about to return Since OPEC agreed to supply-cuts in March, the price of crude oil has jumped to almost $ 26 a barrel, up from less than $10 last December. This near-tripling of oil prices calls up scary memories of the 1973 oil shocks ...
Due to themultiple responsibilitiesof the chair (Section4.2.1), the quantitative results infer that it was probably challenging for survey participants to prioritise one competence dimension over the others.Footnote2From the majority of ‘strongly agree’ and ‘agree’ responses (Figure 30, Section7.4...
Counter-Enlightenment Piety versus Moralism. Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Defining Religion as the valence of conflicting human values.
By way of conclusion, I would like to pose the question that gets to the heart of thecrises and anxieties: Why does our society need“public critics”who can dramaticallyreadjust box-office figures; decide the fates of films, filmmakers, and studios; or de-termine cinemagoers’leisure hours...
This final chapter brings together a number of key themes that have been identified in the individual leader chapters, and examines these in the context of existing literature. Initially, the authors consider what an outsider leader is, before assessing
Nabokov works through the tensions between physical geography and the abstract sense of community, emphasizing the dangers of hybridity in Lolita and Pale Fire, and in Ada suggesting the peculiar solution of collapsing spacetime through artistic distance. Rushdie transforms Nabokov's outsider artist into...
Throughout this book I have argued that the holiday film can ideologically construct feelings of national identity through its representation of the traditional British holiday. I concluded Chapter 8 by saying that national identity is not ‘fixed’ and.
and close observations of the pilot studies—that had, through a process of trial-and-error discovery, gradually led him to a procedure that could push and pull nearly all into doing what he wanted. If he wanted to achieve his preconceived goal during the first official baseline condition, al...