INTRODUCTION We exist as a human being. As a human being we are different from animals. Since we are more rational‚ can ponder upon our past and manipulate our present and future. But is it sufficient to be human? To have a “self” is one of the most important elements of realizing human existence. This self has been called differently by different traditions according to the way they interpret it to be. For instance‚ in Indian philosophy it is taken as atman‚ and most of them make distinction
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Abolitionist favors the abolition of a practice or institution‚ esp. capital punishment or (formerly) slavery Abstract art Generally representational‚ but greatly simplified and or geometrified. In common usage as it is applied to modern twentieth-century art‚ an abstract work implies considerable simplification‚ distortion‚ and often a geometrification of forms. Nevertheless‚ most twentieth-century art is still representational‚ in that one can recognize figures derived from the natural world
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Quality of Working Life‚ Industrial Relations and Labour Productivity Report from two workshops in WORK-IN-NET Stockholm‚ May 25-27‚ 2005 Horst Hart‚ Erling Ribbing‚ Kenneth Abrahamsson WORK-IN-NET Labour and innovation: Work-oriented innovations – a key to better employment‚ cohesion and competitiveness in a knowledge-intensive society -2- WIN-Coordinator’s Foreword This report is based on the main findings of two workshops on Quality of Working Life‚ Industrial Relations and Labour Productivity
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1403_914850_02_previ.fm Page v Tuesday‚ May 8‚ 2007 6:13 PM Contents List of Tables and Figures vii Notes on the Contributors viii List of Abbreviations xi 1 Politicizing Gender in Discourse: Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis as Political Perspective and Praxis Michelle M. Lazar Part I 1 Post-Equality? Analyses of Subtle Sexism 2 Power and Discourse at Work: Is Gender Relevant? Janet Holmes 31 3 The Gender of Power: The Female Style in Labour Organizations Luisa Martín Rojo and Concepción
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J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (1951) is a twentieth-century classic. Despite being one of the most frequently banned books in America‚ generations of readers have identified with the narrator‚ Holden Caulfield‚ an angry young man who articulates the confusion‚ cynicism and vulnerability of adolescence with humour and sincerity. This guide to Salinger’s provocative novel offers: • an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of The Catcher
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Semiotics for Beginners Daniel Chandler Glossary of Key Terms * Abduction: This is a term used by Peirce to refer to a form of inference (alongside deduction and induction) by which we treat a signifier as an instance of a rule from a familiar code‚ and then infer what it signifies by applying that rule. * Aberrant decoding: Eco’s term referring to decoding a text by means of a different code from that used to encode it. See also: Codes‚ Decoding‚ Encoding and decoding
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