“…Historically, this type of pre-market society has been described in every continent, but East Africa provides the principal surviving region of age-based societies, among whom the Maasai are the best known. …”

“…This society was dominated by a group of important merchants intimately associated by marriage ties and also by personal interest to the principal shaykh families as well as the military milieu which, despite their having been reined in by the central political authority, still managed to wield economic and social importance. …”

“…He offers an extended examination of the framing story of Boccaccio's Decameron. Although intended principally as a contribution to the history of medieval literary theory and criticism, Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages makes use of medical, psychological, and sociological insights that lead to a fuller understanding of late medieval secular culture…”

“…Le 15 juin, le Conseil constitutionnel estime que le préambule de la Charte comporte des clauses contraires à plusieurs principes fondamentaux de la Constitution. Le 24 juin, le président de la République refuse au Premier ministre sa demande de révision constitutionnelle. …”

“…Al parecer, su economía ha superado los desafíos impuestos por las nuevas realidades internacionales, pero la estructura interna de los intereses de la relación entre burócratas, empresarios y políticos entró en una fase de reacomodo que no ha encontrado aún definiciones precisas. El argumento principal del presente trabajo vincula una política financiera contra otra de seguridad nacional en la medida en que el gobierno ejerce su poder sobre el precio de la producción interna, los bienes y servicios y las exportaciones e importaciones, ya que por la vía de los impuestos o por reglamentaciones que optimizan, promueven o protegen la función de los instrumentos financieros y los flujos monetarios útiles para la actividad y evolución de la economía nacional…”

“…The story of Emil Henry Marks and the LH7 Ranch he founded records not only the history of a unique family but also tells something of the cattle business on the coastal prairies of Texas when ranching was the principal industry of the region, before Houston became a major metropolitan center and industry became king. …”

“…McKenna's presence at the hub of political life in the first half of the century is now clear: in the radical Liberal governments of 1905–16, where he acted as a lightning conductor for the party; during the war, where he served as the Prime Minister's deputy and the principal voice for restraint in the conduct of the war; and as chairman of the world's largest bank, where until his death in office aged eighty, he prompted progressive policies to deal with the issues of war debt, trade, mass unemployment, and the return to gold…”

“…La Universidad del Rosario, por conducto de su Observatorio Legislativo y del Grupo de Investigación en Derechos Humanos de la Facultad de Jurisprudencia, se asoció con la Fundación Hanns Seidel para organizar el Foro “Protección internacional de los derechos humanos en un marco de justicia transicional”. El objetivo principal del foro fue crear un espacio para hacer una reflexión, desde diversas perspectivas, alrededor de las discusiones actuales sobre derechos humanos y su protección internacional, en especial, por la coyuntura que vive nuestro país con ocasión del proceso de paz iniciado en 2012 y un eventual escenario de posconflicto derivado de éste, en el marco del derecho internacional de los derechos humanos y de la mano de expertos nacionales e internacionales en la materia…”

“…Mais en découvrant que l'on est capable d'appliquer les principes de base de toute science, on peut aussi décider d'utiliser la démarche des scientifiques et ainsi aboutir à plus d'exactitude Cet ouvrage, qui s'appuie sur de nombreuses situations concrètes, a pour objectif de montrer que la science, c'est simple, et que tout le monde peut rapidement utiliser sa méthode. …”

“…Questions concerning free will are intertwined with issues in almost every area of philosophy, from metaphysics to philosophy of mind to moral philosophy, and are also informed by work in different areas of science (principally physics, neuroscience and social psychology) Free will is also a perennial concern of serious thinkers in theology and in non-western traditions. …”

“…Nesta obra, Jefferson Rodrigues Barbosa investiga as ramificações na sociedade brasileira do integralismo, movimento de extrema direita surgido no início do século XX e que teve em Plínio Salgado seu principal líder. O objetivo da pesquisa aqui coligida é compreender a configuração ideológica da militância integralista, relacionando suas concepções e seus valores com o ideário que originou tal perspectiva política. …”

“…By way of grappling with Empire's discursive field and charting new modes of producing meaning in opposition to that of Empire, the texts read from Brazil, Cabo Verde, East Timor, Portugal, and São Tomé and Príncipe open new inquiries for Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies while contributing theoretical debates to the study of Lusophone cultures…”

“…. - Irrigated agriculture requires special attention as it is the principal water consumer and alterations of both precipitation and temperature patterns will directly affect agriculture yields and incomes. - Integrated water resources management (IWRM) requires multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, with climate change to be an emerging cornerstone in the IWRM concept…”

“…L'Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques (OCDE) et le Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement (PNUD) travaillent ensemble pour effectuer le suivi des progrès réalisés dans l'utilisation des principes d'efficacité de la coopération pour le développement. …”

“…Students may also choose to complete additional questionnaires: one about their future studies and career, a second about their familiarity with information and communication technologies. School principals complete a questionnaire about the learning environment in their schools, and parents of students who sit the PISA test can choose to complete a questionnaire about the home environment. …”

“…The dual purposes of this paper are to establish whether survey-based measures of innovation are related to more widely used intermediate measures, such as R&D and patents, and to identify the principal factors that affect the probability of successful innovation. …”

“…Fiscal equalisation is a transfer of fiscal resources across jurisdictions with the aim of offsetting differences in revenue raising capacity or public service cost. Its principal objective is to allow sub-central governments to provide their citizens with similar sets of public services at a similar tax burden. …”

“…It argues that moving toward a framework that focuses on enhancing accessibility rather than principally mobility would better represent the long-term impacts of capital investments while also promoting the interests of mobility-disadvantaged populations…”

“…The financial services sector in the United States spent USD 3.4 billion lobbying the federal government between 1998 and 2008, principally promoting the deregulation of the financial sector. …”

“…L’évaluation environnementale stratégique (EES) est un des principaux outils propres à assurer l’intégration des principes du développement durable dans les politiques et programmes nationaux. …”