... escalated into major warfare in 1817.Theeventualvictor was Shaka, the son of a minor chief among the Mthethwa, who incorpo-rated the whole region into his new Zulu kingdom before he was assassinated in ... year during the late nineteenth century. The main export was ivory,whose continuously rising price drove the traders ever deeper inland. Slaveexports rose to rival it during the mid -century, ... himself’.11 The western savanna also experienced two jihads during the nineteenth century, but they created less stability. The first, in 1818, was inthe internaldelta of the Niger, hitherto controlled...
... in holding the castle in 1217. Indeed, Nichola’s defence of power and portrayal 23 Lincoln in 1217 was a significant factor in turning the tide of events in favour of King John. According ... a monk,of Reading, whointhe mid-twelfth century wrote nine obituaries forhis mother which he sent to his twin brother.25Orderic voices most approval for women who act within the contextof ... appliesto other twelfth -century saints.44 Women’s testimony and role as sourcesof information on the saint are therefore one way in which they could in uence the shape and content of the text....
... minimum drink-ing law, which severely increases the cost of drinking if the youth is caught.† Gross-man et al.10 simulate the hypothetical effect of having all states changing their age ... be justified depend-ing on the willingness of policy makers to intervene into family life. In addition, there is an argument to be made to intervene on the well-being of the individual. Although ... through the interjection of a reverse economic model originally intended to give the middle tier the monopoly of economic control. As authors in the original text point out, in an ever-expanding...
... Cooperation in Business: Managing Dilemmas inthe 21st Century, we take the first steps in exploring thisemerging field of knowledge and practice, lookingfor ways to think about two key business ... result of the largely unconscious evolution ofinstitutions of collective action. Ostrom has taken the lead in making the management principles forthese institutions explicit, combining theory ... exam-ple, in Ostrom’s study of water-use arrangements in the Los Angeles basin, an outside institution (the U.S. Geological Survey [USGS]) was charged withmonitoring, among other things, the salinity...
... pounds sterling.[21] In view of the prevailing east wind in these regions, and the maze of reefs, cays and shoals extending far outto sea from the Mosquito Coast, the galleons, in making their course ... workmen, the increase of imposts, and the prejudice against the mechanic arts, industry was being ruined; while the increased depopulation of the realm, the mainmort of ecclesiastical lands, the majorats ... between the Virginian Capes and the Bermudas to about 38°, in order to recover the strong northerly winds, and then east to the Azores. In winter the galleons sometimes ran south of the Bermudas,...
... with the addition of new vaccine products to the recommended childhood schedule. In diagnosing the problems facing the vaccine financing system, the Insti-tute of Medicine’s Committee on the ... caresetting. Assuring access and sustaining incentives that contribute to the availability of safe and effective vaccines are the twin goals that mustguide vaccine finance strategies inthe 21st century. ... 20 FINANCING VACCINES INTHE 21ST CENTURY health sectors in adapting to foreseeable changes in vaccine development in the decades ahead. The public and private partnership that supports the immunization...
... at the end of the19th and beginning of the 20th century. Maintaining stability is likely to become more difficult because the region is producing two rising great powers: China and India. Theyare ... challenge continues to be the continuing inabilityof the United States, its allies, and the Iraqi opposition to get rid of the Iraqi strongman, Saddam Hussein. Through the end of the Clinton administration, ... role in securing U.S. interests, in promot-ing American values, and in protecting human rights. While the USAF has had significant success in employing aerospace power in the recent past, emerging...
... The English, being greatly inferior in numbers, lay waiting for them inside the Spit. The morning after the French came in was still and sultry. The English could not move for want of wind. The ... won, the wisest inthe devising ofenterprises, the calmest in danger, the first to set an example of energy in difficulties, and, above all, the firmest in maintaining order and discipline. The ... were killed; the rest were seen flingingthemselves into the water and swimming off to the ships. At the same instant the guns of the galleons and of the shore batteries opened fire on the Jesus...
... always involved the hiding and covering up of one’sflaws.Think of the many presidents who had an affair during the course of their tenure inthe WhiteHouse. In some cases the press knew about the ... that the group believes promotes its best interest. In seeking to avoid shame, group members areimpelled to submerge their own personal interests for the sake of the common good. In the increasingly ... became increasinglyunwilling to deny their own personal needs for the good of the group. They rebelled againstauthority — the man” — and the idea that a common good should be dictated. In the...
... Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scien-tific and engineering communities. The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute ... corporation’s intent is the pursuit of private interests and profits for owners of the company, they increasingly are bearing the marks of an undertaking and, to an increasing degree, have been serving the ... (EPA), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the insurance industry to incorporate ele-ments of Responsible Caređ in their decision making. In May 2004, the ACC began publishing...
... habits? The dilemma was whether to increase incentives to large depositors inthe CEMG and invest inthe booming market, running the risk of illiquidity, or to persist inthe policy of favoring ... the Growing from Crises. The Portuguese Saving Bank Montepio Geral inthe nineteenth -century Introduction We started inthe last fall a doctoral thesis dedicated to savings banks in Portugal ... deal to the advance of these queries. Indeed, by analyzing the behavior of CEMG during the two major economic events that occurred in Portugal inthe second half of nineteenth century, we intend...
... directly in point: (1) the quotations from the OldTestament inthe New; (2) the quotations from the Old Testament inthe same early writers whose quotationsfrom the New Testament are the point in ... inserted in one instance and not inthe other.Justin's reading is found also exactly in Clement of Alexandria, and a similar reading (though with the [Greek:aeto] of James) in Epiphanius. These ... often inthe works of thatwriter than in all the rest of the New Testament put together. In narrating the institution of the Lord's Supper Justin has the clause which is found only in St....
... any business working in 2013 can get away with ignoring the Internet. I mean, when was the last time you looked up the Yellow Pages to find a business service rather than searching online? I’m ... own theory on the correct way to run a winning small business strategy inthe digital age. Inthe middle of 2012 I setup the 21st Century SME blog to share these ideas. Both before and during ... we can get so caught up inthe business, so involved in all of the tiny details of the day to day running of the business that our perspective becomes flawed. We become inwardly focused and can...
... character of the painting is by referring him to the engravings of Albert Durer and the serious partsof Chaucer. There is the same want of proper costume the same intense feeling of the human being, ... 'Song of the Cliffords,' I think, is the name." But the exultant strain ceases and the poet himself speaks, and with the transition in feeling comes a change inthe verse; the minstrel's ... poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination....