The gender of happiness (France, 1945-1970s)

The U.S. Influence on the Evolution of Management Consultancies in Britain, France, and Germany Since 1945

In Europe today U.S. management consultancies occupy a dominant position among the largest service providers. In a "league table," published in the Financial Times of September 12, 1995, almost all of the top ten and more than half of the top forty European consultancies were of American origin. Over the past few years, many formerly independent ational consultancies have been taken over by for...

Nuclear Safety and Security in France in the 1970s: A Turning Point for the Media

In France, in the main media, the concern about nuclear safety and security has not really appeared before the beginning of the 1970s. The gradual changes in its perception are studied here through the arguments given in the main French news magazines, linked with several parameters. As this represents a considerable amount of copies and thus of information, are selected here the main articles ...

Science and sensibility: gender and scientific enquiry, 1780–1945

and the special positions of Jews, Muslims and women in the field of medical care. From their special knowledge of the archives, they are able to present new details on the demographic distribution of medical practitioners throughout the Kingdom of Valencia during the fourteenth century. McVaugh, Garcia Ballester and Rubio Vela are at their most speculative when attempting to explain the increa...

[Development of hazards in the petroleum industry in France. Refinement and distribution 1945-1965].

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...