This paper examines Joseph Needham’s impact on the historiography of Chinese Science and Technology (S&T), arguing that his great achievements were marred by an East/West comparative approach, and that subsequent historians have only partly overcome these restrictions. His multi-volume Science and Civilization in China (1954-ongoing) single handedly thrust China into the Western-dominated historiography. Organized along the disciplinary lines of modern science, Needham sought to document every scientific
Paulstr. 3 | 50676 Cologne | Germany Tel. +49 (0) 221 2767-0 Fax +49 (0) 221 2767-555 www.mpifg.de info@mpifg.de Abstract Using aggregate analysis, this paper examines the core contentions of the “varieties of capitalism” perspective on comparative capitalism. We construct a coordination index to assess whether the institutional features of liberal and coordinated market economies conform to the predictions of the theory. We test the contention that institutional complementarities occur across
the powerful use the law as an instrument for oppression in order to maintain their place in hierarchy. For the critical feminists, the law is “patriarchal” and for the critical race, the domination is race. The basic idea of CLS is that the law is politics and it is not neutral or value free. Many in the CLS movement want to overturn the hierarchical structures of domination in the modern society and many of them have focused on the law as a tool in achieving this goal. CLS is also a membership organization
successfully to the challenges they currently face. 1. THE CHALLENGE OF NEW MANAGEMENT PARADIGMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 2 Managed organizations (whether a business, a church, a university, etc.) lie at the very heart of modern society. The ability of these organizations to attain their own desired results drives society forward. Good management means to be responsible for everything that affects the performance of the organization -- both for the factors
“Center” & “Spread” for Quantitative Data – Mean, median, standard deviation, etc. 5. Quantitative Graphs – DotPlots, StemPlots, Histograms, BoxPlots, Ogives. 6. Describing Quantitative Graphs – Shape, center, spread, symmetric vs. skewed, etc. 7. Comparative Plots – Graphs comparing two sets of data. 8. Reasoning – Propose an explanation for why three different people get three different answers to the same question. Who is correct? Several worksheets accompany the different sections. These worksheets
become schoolmaster, doctor, house-builder, road-maker, town-planner, public utility supplier and all the rest of it. The contrast is no recent discovery. De Tocqueville observed in 1866 that the State ‘everywhere interferes 1 H. Laski, A Grammar of Politics (Allen and Unwin, 1925), p. 578. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-70179-2 - Law and Administration, Third Edition Carol Harlow and Richard Rawlings Excerpt More information
A Historiographical Discussion of the Duel Between Aaron Burr and The duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton holds a significant relevance in American history and should be examined within the context of early American culture and politics. The recent historiography of the incident provides us with a complex, evolving web of conflicting interpretations. Since the day of this tragic duel, contemporaries and historians have puzzled over why these two prominent American statesmen
Cambridge, MA 02142 and NBER sjohnson@mit.edu James Robinson Departments of Economics and Political Science University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 1 1.1 The question Introduction The most trite yet crucial question in the field of economic growth and development is: Why are some countries much poorer than others? Traditional neoclassical growth models, following Solow (1956), Cass (1965) and Koopmans (1965), explain differences in income per capita in terms of different paths
usages of them today are on the same levels as many years ago. Knowledge and usage of them make our language and speech more intelligent, richer and more colorful. We can see that stylistic devices are used in all spheres of human activities, in politics, in science and literature. The theme of my diploma paper is “peculiarities of the lexical stylistic devices (Metaphor, Metonymy, simile, irony, and epithet) in the novel “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen”. I have chosen this very theme
Author: James O’Driscoll Oxford The chapters which you need to study for the exam are as follows: Chapters 1 – 5, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 20 – 23 plus reader 07 2538 SCC UK: Government and Monarchy Chapter 1. Country and People The British Isles lie off the north-west coast of Europe. It consists of two great isles and several much smaller ones. - Great Britain is the largest Island. - Ireland is the other large one. There are two states: - The Republic of Ireland - The United Kingdom of