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  • Category:Economics The English Historical School of Economics, although not nearly as ...
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  • working class life in Victorian London at the end of the nineteenth ... Society and founders of the London School of Economics), Octavia Hill ...
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  • Category:Economics The Chicago School is one of the better known American ... Ronald Coase (b. 1910) graduated from the London School of Economics ...
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  • of law at the newly established London School of Economics (LSE). He stayed ... * London School of Economics. [http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/LSEHistory/dicey ...
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  • 1947) was a Hungarian-born sociologist, one of the founding fathers of classical ... a lecturer in sociology at the London School of Economics in 1933. From 1941 ...
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  • and Carl Menger, Walras developed the idea of marginal utility, but his greatest ... born in 1834, in Évreux, France, the son of the French proto-marginalist ...
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  • In business, administration consists of the performance or management ... schools” began offering a Master of Business Administration (MBA ...
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  • was an important figure in the Physiocrat school of economics, initially a ... The re-issuing of Cantillon's work at the beginning of the twenty ...
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  • in America, but fell gradually out of favor from that time on. Parsons ... After Amherst, he entered the London School of Economics, where he was introduced ...
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  • was born in Liverpool. Jevons was one of three men to simultaneously ... his remarkable insights and understanding of a wide ranges of issues. Although ...
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  • highly influential figure in the development of neo-classical economics, and ... Ysidro Francis Edgeworth (the order of his given names was later reversed ...
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  • important contributions to the development of the Austrian school of economics ... service to workers by paying them in advance of payment the owners receive ...
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  • is best known as an early advocate of utilitarianism. He was a political ... Bentham argued in favor of individual and economic freedom, including ...
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  • 16, 1774) was a French economist, founder of the Physiocratic school. He ... economic state as a balanced, circular flow of funds—a system he saw as ...
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  • [[Image:Hall Freud Jung in front of Clark 1909.jpg|thumb|Jones, middle ... was a Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst of the Freudian school. He contributed ...
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  • Category:Economics The Historical school of economics was an approach to academic economics ...
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  • theological writer, and Anglican archbishop of Dublin (1831–1863). Whately’s ... to hold public office, and state endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy. ...
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  • and was the first appointed professor of sociology in a British university ... * London School of Economics and Political Science. 2000. [http://www ...
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  • Hayek. Hayek, a professor at the London School of Economics, criticized Keynesian ... one battle in the Cambridge–London School of Economics war. ...
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  • He is famous for his successful application of the concept of microcredit ... empowered women, who represent 95 percent of the bank's clientele. ...
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  • reformer. He is best known as the author of the report Social Insurance ... appointed him director of the London School of Economics, the LSE, in 1919 ...
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  • joining the faculty of the London School of Economics (LSE) at the behest ... where he had taught: the London School of Economics, the University ...
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  • Secondary education in France falls under the jurisdiction of the ... their profession, depending on the type of baccalauréat. Public French ...
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  • primarily in Germany, held by a number of thinkers in diverse disciplines ... Historicism also often challenged the concept of truth and the notion ...
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  • universal systems theory to the possibility of human rejuvenation through ... figure, especially in the development of the Communist Party's ...
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  • [[Image:Village school in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Sudan.jpg|thumb ... College followed in 1872. The London School of Economics was also one of ...
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  • society was not based on market principles of exchange but rather on relationships ... Polanyi, chemist and philosopher. The son of a prominent member of a Hungarian ...
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  • Thomist tradition, and economist. Like many of his fellow Roman Catholic theologians ... For a New Political Economy, and at the end of his life, worked on An Essay ...
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  • most recognizable structure on the campus of Kyoto University]] It is the second oldest university and one of the leading research universities ...
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  • many fields and particularly in welfare economics. He served on a number ... the idea that government can, via a mixture of taxes and subsidies, correct ...
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  • history that coincides with the reign of King James I (1603-1625). The ... James I was caught up in this situation of flux. He was, however, a committed ...
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  • he is often mentioned as the associate of Jeremy Bentham and as the father ... James Mill was born April 6, 1773, at Northwater Bridge, in the parish ...
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  • (1963–1964) and President (1964–1978) of an independent Kenya. He is ... Bronislaw Malinowski at the London School of Economics. During all this ...
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  • |education = Makerere University (BA)London School of Economics ... in Public Finance at the London School of Economics. ==Kenya African ...
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  • Thought and in Sociology at the University of Chicago. An influential sociologist ... was reader in sociology at the London School of Economics from 1946 to 1950; ...
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  • September 19, 1940) was a British pioneer of ethnography. He conducted significant ... Reader in Anthropology in the London School of Economics, and taught there ...
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  • sociologist, famous for his development of Process Sociology, or Figurational ... supervisor Mannheim, at the London School of Economics, where he obtained ...
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  • offspring') is the social class of wage-earners, those members ... Marxist philosophy regards the proletariat under conditions of capitalism ...
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  • John Michael Argyle (August 11, 1925 – September 6, 2002) was one ... University was, along with the London School of Economics, one of only two ...
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  • The Frankfurt school is a school of neo-Marxist social theory, social ... Frankfurt school theorists were critical of Marx-Leninism and the ...
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  • Applied ethics is a field of ethics that deals with ethical questions ... ethical questions during the early part of the twentieth century. However ...
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  • Category:Economics In economics Keynesian economics , also Keynesianism ... Kaldor and John Hicks at the London School of Economics (LSE). These were ...
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  • |image_name = Portrait of Milton Friedman.jpg ... who made major contributions to the fields of macroeconomics, microeconomics ...
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  • critic and university administrator, was one of the antirationalist Oxford ... and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics, with whom he had ...
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  • referred to by the Spanish translation of his name, Antonio Gaudí – ... so he widely studied philosophy, history, economics and aesthetics while he ...
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  • Category:Economics The history of economic thought concerns thinkers and theories in ...
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  • site in Pakistan containing the ruins of the Gandhāran city of Takshashila ... centre of learning from the sixth century B.C.E."History of Education ...
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  • work in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the ... the UDHR, Cassin worked in France on behalf of disabled war veterans and war ...
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  • and close sweatshops, and was co-founder of the National Association for ... just three days before the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. ...
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  • an influential twentieth century advocate of Pan-Africanism, and the leader ... As Ghana's leader and as an advocate of pan-Africanism, he continued ...
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  • October 17, 1938) was a leading theoretician of German Social Democracy before ... He became an important critic of the anti-democratic tendencies of ...
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  • Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (October 29, 1938 - ) is the current President ... For anyone to become head of their state is a significant achievement ...
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  • not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws ... In philosophy and theology, eclecticism is the practice of selecting ...
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  • Attlee became a lecturer at the London School of Economics in 1913, but promptly ... he returned to teaching at the London School of Economics. ...
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  • and an influential figure on matters of political and social policy ... Bosanquet’s major works include A History of Aesthetic (1892), The ...
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  • Category:Economics Category:Industry and business [[Image:Piggly-wiggly ... Retailing consists of the sale of goods or merchandise, from a fixed ...
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  • and went to study at the London School of Economics in 1952. In his ... At the London School of Economics, Feyerabend met Imre Lakatos, a ...
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  • Category:Economics Measures of national income and output are used in economics to measure ...
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  • Born in the Netherlands, he lived most of his life in England and wrote ... He was known for The Fable of the Bees (1714), which was first published ...
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  • A grammar school, a term most often used in the United Kingdom and ... education for the most able irrespective of their social or economic background ...
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  • He is credited with developing the Theory of Elitism and the doctrine of ... governi e sul governo parlamentare (Theory of Governments and Parliamentary ...
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  • who wrote on the political behavior of intellectual elites. He was ... family. In keeping with the customs of the time, he spent terms at ...
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  • American psychologist. He was a pioneer of applied psychology, extending ... He is considered by many "the father of industrial psychology ...
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  • is an ad valorem tax where only the value of land itself is taxed. This ... in their current form, by taxing the value of both land and buildings, penalize ...
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  • 1993 to 1995, and the third woman leader of a Muslim country, following ... After gaining her doctorate from the University of Connecticut, she ...
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  • City. Founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St. John ... College London, and the London School of Economics and Political Science ...
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  • 1806) was a Scottish physician and explorer of the African continent who explorations ... His career was set in the context of the early days of the European ...
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  • and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is counted among the most influential philosophers of science of the twentieth century ...
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  • Category:Economics Socialist economics is a term which refers in its descriptive sense ...
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  • Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, which studies fundamental ... existing or possible theories and practices of social, political matters, ...
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  • (a form of individualist anarchism) Ian Adams, Political Ideology Today ... capitalism. It advocates the elimination of the state; the provision of ...
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  • political leader who was the chief architect of the Constitution of India. ... at Gray's Inn and the London School of Economics, studying law and ...
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  • offering two solutions or possibilities, of which neither is acceptable ... In formal logic, the definition of a dilemma differs markedly from ...
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  • to Sōdai (早大, Sōdai), is one of the top universities in Japan ... Korea, and other Asian countries, many of whom became influential political ...
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  • anthropologist who developed the theory of "structural-functionalism ... After finishing King Edward’s High School in Birmingham, in 1901 ...
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  • closely with Karl Marx in the foundation of modern Communism. The son of ... Kautsky). Engels contributed in questions of nationality, military affairs ...
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  • at Harvard University, and the author of several books, including A ... John Bordley Rawls was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the second ...
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  • known as Shoghi Effendi, was the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith from ... structure. Before he assumed the leadership of the Faith, the Bahá'í ...
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  • research ranges from the analysis of short contacts between anonymous ... social status and the social structures of society, social change, social ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Historically, Japan experienced periods of intense cultural and political ... While Western philosophy is closely related to conceptual components ...
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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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