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  • the most important British moral philosopher of his time.[https://www.thetimes ... for his attempt to return the study of moral philosophy to its foundations: ...
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  • rule," which predicts the number of phases that a substance can ... Josiah Willard Gibbs was the only son and the fourth of five children ...
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  • science, education, and entertainment. One of the "big three" American ... time, Newsweek has developed a full spectrum of news-magazine material, from ...
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  • schizoanalysis. He also developed a concept of three interacting and interdependent ... Guattari was a leading thinker of what came to be called Post-structuralism ...
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  • 14, 1936) was an influential English writer of the early twentieth century ... Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox." ...
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  • applying evolutionary theory to the study of politics and ethics. He coined ... Herbert Spencer was born in Derby, England on April 27, 1820, the ...
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  • if both can be measured in the same unit of measurement. For example, a ... In the philosophy of science, two theories are said to be incommensurable ...
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  • in 1919 after serving on the city council of Metz, he was arrested in 1940 ... Schumans's concept of supra-national democracy and his vision ...
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  • ministry. However, while at the University of Edinburgh he lost his Christian ... a divine will that worked through the agency of heroes and leaders. In his ...
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  • |alma_mater = Tufts University (BA, MA, Ph.D)London School of Economics ... as a Fulbright fellow at the London School of Economics. He later received ...
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  • oeuvre spans almost every scholarly subject of his time, each displayed and ... While the popularity of his philosophy was short-lived (though this ...
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  • London, situated in south-eastern England at the head of the River ... institutions, such as the London School of Economics, SOAS, the Royal ...
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  • ” Widely considered to be the father of modern management, his many ... Having experienced the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s, observed ...
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  • founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in ... continues to be a leader in several areas. Of particular note is its world ...
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  • |name=The University of Chicago | year=2007 | publisher=The University of Chicago | url= ...
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  • Academic publishing is the subfield of publishing which distributes ... transitions from print to electronic formats of publication; publications on ...
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  • and Byzantine History), the London School of Economics and the Royal Institute ... (1970), Elie Kedourie of the London School of Economics, a historian of ...
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  • organization, established on the basis of the Treaty of Brussels of 1948 ... resort and wishes to see the "scourge of war" banished for all ...
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  • in Palestine. He was the first person of color to be so honored in the ... at Northwestern University, the London School of Economics, at Capetown University ...
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  • Category:Economics valorem tax that an owner pays on the value of the property being taxed. There ...
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  • Category:Economics Category:Industry and business [[Image:1903sweatshopchicago ... There exists a fierce debate over the use of factories that have come to ...
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  • The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study ... distinct disciplines. However, the origins of their ideas and goals are located ...
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  • to hold the office as Executive president) of Sri Lanka (November 12, 1994 ... President. In power, she pursued a policy of economic liberation and emphasized ...
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  • philosopher, theologian and historian of science. His surname is pronounced ... Whewell’s philosophy of science included the claim that through ...
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  • jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 ... opinions, and his deference to the decisions of elected legislatures, he is ...
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  • education, is a broad term for the practice of teaching and educating adults ... and also due to the increasing consciousness of the rights of all people to ...
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  • known as H. G. Wells, was an English author of science fiction novels such ... Wells was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, producing ...
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  • result it's often called the birthplace of feminism. Prominent at the ... times have turned to the founding documents of the United States to meet their ...
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  • writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature ... from home. Paz was raised in the village of Mixcoac (now a part of Mexico ...
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  • Marxism." Later, he was a founder of the Constitutional Democratic ... Peter Struve is probably the best known member of the Russian branch ...
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  • also found in almanacs, such as the times of the rising and setting of the ... The almanac is a natural byproduct of the calender and serves as ...
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  • day Tunisia, and is sometimes viewed as one of the forerunners of modern historiography ... and Muslim society. During his period of exile in Andalusia, 1364–1365 ...
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  • Category:Economics [[Image:Jan de Bray 002.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Governors of the ...
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  • Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements ... establish and define the modern theory of socialism, societal problems ...
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  • 13, 1922 - October 14, 1999) was President of Tanzania (previously Tanganyika ... He also battled the International Monetary Fund over the issue of ...
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  • climate which led to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. He is known ... Herzen was an illegitimate child of a rich Russian landowner, Ivan ...
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  • is an apparently true statement or group of statements that leads to a ... cannot all be true together. The recognition of ambiguities, equivocations ...
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  • was an American industrialist, the founder of the Getty Oil Company. He built ... The Getty family serves as a good example of the old saying that ...
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  • who served as Bundeskanzler (Chancellor) of West Germany from 1974 to 1982 ... the conditions for peaceful resolution of conflict, and to end war. Speaking ...
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  • eras. Ruskin is also known for his advocacy of "Christian socialism. ... Ruskin was born in London, and raised in south London, the son of ...
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  • Reverse engineering (RE) is the process of discovering the technological ... often is done because the documentation of a particular device has been ...
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  • B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato, and teacher of Alexander ... and Islamic philosophy. The beginning of "modern" philosophy ...
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  • Luksemburg) was a Polish revolutionary of Jewish ancestry. She rose up ... and revolutionary. She was a theorist of the Social Democratic Party ...
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  • as a political economist, and an organizer of the International Workingmen ... Marx developed his revolutionary theories over a period of four decades ...
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  • he is sometimes called "the father of scientific management." ... #039;s views may be too naive in terms of the relationship between workers ...
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  • Criminology is the scientific study of crime as an individual and ... crime and ensuring the safety and well-being of all members of society. The ...
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  • The Occupation of the Channel Islands refers to the military occupation ... The islands were too small to serve as a launching pad for an invasion ...
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  • in Physics for his work on the scattering of light and his discovery of ... father, Chandrasekhara Iyer, studied in a school in Kumbakonam and passed ...
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  • Carol I of Romania, original name Prince Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus ... During the Independence War of 1877-1878, Prince Charles personally ...
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  • Historically, Japan experienced periods of intense cultural and political ... While Western philosophy is closely related to conceptual components ...
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  • Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of complex ... then behaves, with all this in service of a goal or goals. This "circular ...
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  • Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC (March ... and a respected academic at the London School of Economics. Laski encouraged ...
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  • Muslim state. She was elected Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1988, only to be ... Bhutto achieved the distinction of becoming the first female head ...
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  • Mordechai Anielewicz (1919 – May 8, 1943) was the commander of the ... enter the ghetto to round up another group of people for deportation. During ...
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  • Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (March 11 ... Wilson is generally recognized as a man of profound intellect but ...
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  • historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science. His work belongs ... Girard's theoretical work began with his discovery of mimetic ...
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  • The Victorian era of the United Kingdom and its overseas Empire was ... The era is often characterized as a long period of peace, known as ...
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  • institution which has formed the foundation of the family throughout history ... Challenges to the institution of marriage in the twentieth century ...
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  • in the late eleventh century in the heart of the Alborz Mountains of northern ... Surrounded by enemies, Hassan dispatched teams of trained assassins ...
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  • Critical theory is a term applied to a wide variety of critical approaches ... as well as second-generation Frankfurt School scholars, notably Jürgen ...
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  • Christmas or Christmas Day commemorates and celebrates the birth of ... It is a contraction meaning "Christ's mass." The name ...
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  • who served as the last General-Secretary of the International Missionary ... order, that bishops, symbolizing unity of faith and practice, can gather ...
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  • Philosophy of history or historiosophy is an area of philosophy concerning ... A philosophy of history begins with a few basic assumptions. First ...
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  • educator, and social thinker. The founder of "anthroposophy," ... into Burgenland, Austria, in the foothills of the eastern Alps. ...
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  • storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information. Information science ... understanding problems from the perspective of the stakeholders involved and ...
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  • Working Paper No 12/05 (London: London School of Economics, 2005). John M ... Working Paper No 12/05. London: London School of Economics, 2005. ...
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  • Review in 1955, hosted 1429 episodes of the television show Firing ... Buckley was the spiritual "godfather" of the modern American ...
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  • #039;s deputy in the Nazi Party. On the eve of war with the Soviet Union, ... 039;s real interests lay with "a policy of friendship with Germany" ...
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  • politician who was the 22nd Prime Minister of Australia. He came to power ... and in some respects, colonial view of Australia and of Australian ...
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  • center-right politician who was President of the French Republic from 1974 ... Union states. Speaking at the London School of Economics on February 28 ...
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  • A Benedictine is an adherent of the teachings of Saint Benedict of ... Beyond its religious influences, the Rule of St Benedict has been ...
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  • ) is the capital of Uzbekistan and the Tashkent Province. The city ... past remain, most destroyed as a result of the late nineteenth century ...
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  • Pretoria is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving ... In the mid-twentieth century racial segregation in the form of apartheid ...
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  • 28, 1925 - October 10, 2005), Prime Minister of Uganda from 1962 to 1966 and ... While attending a meeting of the British Commonwealth in 1971, he ...
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  • Victorian literature is the body of poetry, fiction, essays, and letters ... During the nineteenth century the novel become the leading form of ...
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  • (January 31, 1938 - ) reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until ... so Beatrix followed in the footsteps of four remarkable women. The ...
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  • Kelly was a major exponent of twentieth century filmed dance, known ... Gene was the third son of James Kelly, a phonograph salesman, and ...
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  • Category:Economics Category:Sociology a person or organization as an expression of protest or as a means of economic ...
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  • A library classification is a system of coding and organizing library ... Library classification forms part of the field of library and information ...
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  • 1916 – July 17, 2005) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 ... he did as Prime Minister. He was a member of the Brandt Commission on International ...
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  • The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the ... There was a second set of trials of lesser war criminals that was ...
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  • movements that are concerned with notions of cultural decline or decadence ... Fascists promote a type of national unity that is usually based on ...
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  • ; also spelled Kweichow) is a province of the People's Republic ... Guizhou sat on the fringe of the Chinese empire until the Ming dynasty ...
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  • though he worked in a wide range of areas. He was a prolific writer ... on the nose during a talk at the London School of Economics. In 1969, Eysenck’s ...
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  • eve 02.jpg|thumb|right|300px|A community of interest gathers at Stonehenge ... preferences, needs, risks and a number of other conditions may be present ...
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  • 7, 1944), German politician, was Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. ... diplomacy and negotiation must replace use of force not only in resolving ...
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  • economic, military and cultural influence of the United States. The concept ... The sources and proponents of this concept range from classical Marxist ...
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  • with police in the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934.]] Riots occur when crowds or even small groups of people gather to commit ...
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  • tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment ... Education means "to draw out," facilitating the realization ...
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  • Marxism, in a narrow sense, refers to the thoughts and theories of ... thoughts, theories, and movements of Marxism have emerged since ...
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  • Industrialization in the Soviet Union occurred as a process of accelerated ... The official task of industrialization was the transformation of the ...
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  • – March 1, 1938, Gardone Riviera, province of Brescia) was an Italian poet ... ego, sensuous pleasure, and glorification of self, exalt a certain type ...
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  • Lenin and Leon Trotsky. After the revolution of February 1917, he returned ... 1921. His strong support for and defense of the New Economic Policy (NEP ...
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  • Copenhagen, the capital and largest city of Denmark, is located on ... " in the tenth century the city of Copenhagen was officially founded ...
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  • important and controversial English writer of the twentieth century, and ... Although he is now esteemed as one of the most important figures in ...
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  • Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland. It is the seventh largest ... Located in the southeast of Scotland, Edinburgh lies on the east coast ...
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  • |Place of Birth: |Thessaloníki (Selânik) |- |Death: |November 10, 1938 ... |Place of Death: |Istanbul |- |Political Party: |As PM: Republican ...
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  • Category:Economics Category:Politics and social sciences KaihsuTai.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A rally of the trade union UNISON in Oxford ...
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  • (March 10, 1957 - May 2, 2011) was a founder of the militant Islamist al-Qaeda ... quot; or "Usama bin Ladin," both of which are abbreviated to UBL. ...
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  • is one of the seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates ... The modern emirate of Dubai was created with the formation of the ...
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