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Oumar Ba
Oumar Ba is the author of States of Justice: The Politics of the International Criminal Court. In this Q&A, he discusses his research and his current work, and gives us an insight into his writing process. How would you like someone who has read your book to sum it up in one sentence? It’s complicated. […]
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Bikramjit Basu
In 2005, when I started my move from Engineering Ceramics to Biomaterials, I was looking for a text, which covered the core principles of Biomaterials Science to a novice without any academic training in biology. I started reading the available books and those either an edited compilation on many not-so-well-aligned topics or focusing only on […]
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The fifth volume of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway spans January 1932 through May 1934. With the critical and commercial success of his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway had achieved international renown and entered his prime. During this period he completed and published Death in the Afternoon (1932), his nonfiction treatise on bullfighting […]
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Ralph L. Keeney
Your decisions collectively empower you to create the life that you desire. If you want to improve your professional skills, enhance a relationship, eat a more healthy diet, contribute more at work, or mentor young people, you need to make decisions. Your decisions turn your plans into reality and improve the quality of your life. […]
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Clifford Williams
Boredom“How dreadful boredom is,” declared Soren Kierkegaard in Either/Or. He didn’t say whether he was referring to everyday boredom or whole-life boredom. We might regard the first as merely unpleasant—we can’t wait until an uninteresting lecture gets done, or we don’t know what to do on a slow Saturday afternoon. In whole-life boredom, however, nothing […]
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Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House
When we examine the relationship between interactional rituals and social distancing, we need to ask ourselves what type of ritual we are dealing with. Dániel Kádár (2013) distinguished 4 types of ritual in his book Relational Rituals and Communication: Ritual Interaction in Groups, namely: Social rituals In-group rituals Personal rituals Clinical (covert) rituals Obviously, many […]
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Catrina Denvir
What was once characterised as a relatively stable profession, unfettered by the influence of modernity and strongly resistant to external forces, the legal services sector has in recent years exhibited marked change. Key among these changes has been the profession’s growing receptiveness to digital technologies. Change is also seen in the type of recruit that […]
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Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House
Why are interactional rituals such an integral part of our daily lives? This is a particularly interesting question and one which is worth investigating. Rituals have existed since the dawn of humanity and, according to many historians, human societies have undergone a major ‘deritualisation’ process. ‘Deritualisation’ refers to how, following the industrialisation of many societies, […]
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Oumar Ba
Oumar Ba is the author of States of Justice: The Politics of the International Criminal Court. In this Q&A, he discusses his research and his current work, and gives us an insight into his writing process. How would you like someone who has read your book to sum it up in one sentence? It’s complicated. […]
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Bikramjit Basu
In 2005, when I started my move from Engineering Ceramics to Biomaterials, I was looking for a text, which covered the core principles of Biomaterials Science to a novice without any academic training in biology. I started reading the available books and those either an edited compilation on many not-so-well-aligned topics or focusing only on […]
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The fifth volume of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway spans January 1932 through May 1934. With the critical and commercial success of his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway had achieved international renown and entered his prime. During this period he completed and published Death in the Afternoon (1932), his nonfiction treatise on bullfighting […]
Read More
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Ralph L. Keeney
Your decisions collectively empower you to create the life that you desire. If you want to improve your professional skills, enhance a relationship, eat a more healthy diet, contribute more at work, or mentor young people, you need to make decisions. Your decisions turn your plans into reality and improve the quality of your life. […]
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Clifford Williams
Boredom“How dreadful boredom is,” declared Soren Kierkegaard in Either/Or. He didn’t say whether he was referring to everyday boredom or whole-life boredom. We might regard the first as merely unpleasant—we can’t wait until an uninteresting lecture gets done, or we don’t know what to do on a slow Saturday afternoon. In whole-life boredom, however, nothing […]
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Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House
When we examine the relationship between interactional rituals and social distancing, we need to ask ourselves what type of ritual we are dealing with. Dániel Kádár (2013) distinguished 4 types of ritual in his book Relational Rituals and Communication: Ritual Interaction in Groups, namely: Social rituals In-group rituals Personal rituals Clinical (covert) rituals Obviously, many […]
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Catrina Denvir
What was once characterised as a relatively stable profession, unfettered by the influence of modernity and strongly resistant to external forces, the legal services sector has in recent years exhibited marked change. Key among these changes has been the profession’s growing receptiveness to digital technologies. Change is also seen in the type of recruit that […]
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Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House
Why are interactional rituals such an integral part of our daily lives? This is a particularly interesting question and one which is worth investigating. Rituals have existed since the dawn of humanity and, according to many historians, human societies have undergone a major ‘deritualisation’ process. ‘Deritualisation’ refers to how, following the industrialisation of many societies, […]
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