Sweden is usually ranking very highly in terms of global democracy and transparency indexes. The 2018 elections were divisive bitterly fought, where there was an open conflict between the mainstream political establishment parties anti-political Swedish Democrats. Mainstream media not neutral bystanders election coverage, months before after September elections. coverage framing featured ideali...

Abstract A majority of scholars view the Hasmonean-Spartan correspondence, reported in 1 Maccabees, as inauthentic, since it contains many improbabilities, including assertion that Jews and Spartans are fraternal nations. However, its patent implausibility also renders unimaginable correspondence was intended to be understood literally. Hence, binary choice offered research, whereby is either a...

Paul Samuelson was fond of labeling mathematical models with extremely strong and empirically unrealistic assumptions, Santa Claus economics. But there one economic result that, in Samuelson’s view, could not be captured even a world: the Coase theorem, an object his repeated derision. His friend George Stigler, though, had no such problems and, indeed, perhaps biggest cheerleader for theorem. ...

by Lincoln Williams. Edgar Backus, Leicester6/-. This small book takes only a few minutes to read and naturally deals only very superficially with the problem of alcoholism. It is "addressed to the man in the street, and his doctor too" but it will scarcely give the latter much he doesn't know, and its main purpose must be to provide an encouragement for the sufferer and for his family, by emph...

Shame has been called the `negative side of an individual’s motivational scheme’ (Giddens 1991:64) but such statements have not been reflected in work analysing how shame influences motivation. Shame has been identified as having an important role in self-regulation in its capacity to establish or modify a person’s behaviour and thoughts, usually as the result of an act or omission, or a sense ...

The other day, I was talking to a physician whose patient wanted insurance. I was clarifying some comments that the physician had inscribed in his patient record and the physician was being somewhat obtuse. As the conversation progressed, I could hardly miss the derision in his tone. He held me, the insurance company medical director, responsible for the increasing physician hassle factor, sill...

Building on youth literacies in formal learning spaces is a promising direction for asset-based literacy designs. However, response to ways that academic can deaden passionate study, it important attend the resulting affective flows of such practices. This study traces how affect was sustained and dampened high school English classroom intentionally brought together fandom We listened encounter...