In his philosophical project of a “deconstruction monotheism,” Jean-Luc Nancy explores the hypothesis that historical roots secularization should be traced back to beginnings monotheistic traditions. The secular is not exclusively feature modern culture. complex connections and tensions between secularity religion in recent decades can only analyzed effectively if one rethinks notion along thes...

A standard problem in finance is that of an agent, with an asset, who seeks to raise a fixed amount of money by selling part of it. For example, consider an entrepreneur who sells shares in his company to raise a fixed amount of money from venture capitalists, or a firm in financial distress that has to sell off some of its assets to settle its obligations. These sales differ from the standard ...

An increasingly prevalent family constellation is a home headed by a grandparent who is raising grandchildren. We explore the state of our knowledge about such grandparents with particular attention to its implications for service providers and researchers. In our review we address several key areas: (a) the costs and benefits of raising a grandchild; (b) the heterogeneity of custodial grandpar...

Within days of taking office, Colin Blakemore, former professor of physiology at the University of Oxford and now head of the Medical Research Council, was on the road. In the first few months of his appointment he is spending as much time as possible learning at first hand about the strategies for medical research in UK universities, sharing his initial thoughts about the role of the MRC, and ...

Various languages allow instances of external possession—possessive encoding without a possessive structure in DP. The analysis of these cases has long been a battleground of raising versus control. I provide a new argument from Nez Perce in support of possessor raising of a type thematically parallel to raising to subject. The possessor phrase moves from a possessum-DP-internal position to an ...