Part 1: What is a Political Map Among the most commonly used reference maps are "political maps." They hang on the walls of classrooms all over the world showing the geographical boundaries that separate administrative units such as nations, states, and counties. They depict major water ...
As Peter Berger and Thomas Luckman describe …institutions delineate a symbolic area which they call reality, and define and regulate relations and actions within that area.Knowledge generated within this area ‘is socially objectivated as knowledge, that is, as a body of generally valid truths ab...
A mountain differs from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is larger than a hill, typically rising at least 300 metres (1000 feet) above the surrounding land. Massif In geology, a massif ( or ) is a section of a planet's crust that is demarcated by faults or flexures. ...
In contrast to the tradition of semantic analyses in the philosophy of science, which is mainly interested in the epistemic impact of metaphors (Blumenberg 2010), my study is based on a strand of historical semantics rooted in historical studies on the dawn of modernity. It focuses on key con...
This is the first Journal dedicated solely to Sierra Leone to have been published for a long time. We hope that it will be of use to academics, students and anyone with an interest in what for many is a rather 'special' country. The Journal will not concentrate on one area of academic...