For obvious reasons the first documentary publications about the FamineGenocide of 1932-1933 could not be based on the Ukrainian archives. Western scholars and researchers from the Ukrainian diaspora took the lead in publishing sources in order to reveal this crime. For more than half a century the only documents to bear witness to the Famine-Genocide were ones that remained outside the control...

The article subjects the assumptions and prescriptions of the 'Corporate Culture' literature to critical scrutiny . The body of the article is devoted to teasing out the distinctive basis of its appeal compared with earlier management theory . It is seen to build upon earlier efforts (e .g . 'theory Y') to constitute a self-disciplining form of employee subjectivity by asserting that 'practical...

Countries in Central Europe undergo various transformations in society and economics; interpersonal relationships change, and new civic and political structures emerge. All changes take place in a relatively short period, and they are directed to establish the same organisation of public affairs that is common in Western Europe. For this reason we can also see these countries as a natural socio...

The theory of ritual presented in this article is based on the notion “territory.” Ritual performance encompasses a set of techniques to affect the identity of participants: away from individuality and by communal demarcation of a symbolic territorial model in space or time. The form of ritual is seen as autonomous, i.e. as relatively independent of meaning. As a set of identity-affecting techn...

the summer and autumn of 1939, the prophets nad a great time. We learnt then what we were to xPect. Our large cities would be destroyed by air ornbardments. Whole sections of the population would be wiped out by poison gas, and civilization, we knew it, was bound to disappear. Among ne minor prophets were those who were able to oretell the effect of totalitarian war upon the nervous cms of both...

The second law of thermodynamics—the usual statement of the arrow of time—has been called the most fundamental law of physics. It is thus difficult to conceive that a single dynamical system could contain subsystems, in significant mutual contact, possessing opposite thermodynamic arrows of time. By examining cosmological justification for the usual arrow it is found that a consistent way to es...

This paper takes on a contrarian view of Banville and Landry’s (1989) landmark article “Can the Field of MIS Be Disciplined?” Notwithstanding its valuable contribution to the discussion concerning the progress of the IS field and its considerable influence on IS research, the article’s interpretations of Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and proposed model for the IS field h...

In the famous Pink Floyd song, education fails as it reduces every pupil in a totalitarian way to ‘another brick in the wall’. Recently, much attention has been paid to timely referral and multidisciplinary predialysis education (MPE) programmes (for review see [1]). In this issue of Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (NDT), Wu et al. [2] report the results of a non-randomized observational tr...