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Schindler, Clemens Philipp, and Harald Stingl. Cross-border mergers in CEE/SEE: Practitioner's guide. Wien: LexisNexis, 2009.
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Koivistoinen, Kari. Yritysoston onnistuminen: Yritysoston onnistumisen selitysmalli ja sen empiirinen koettelu. Helsinki: [Helsingin Kauppakorkeakoulu], 1989.
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Greene, Edward F. Current SEC and cross-border M&A developments. New York: Practising Law Institute, 2000.
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Jenrette, Rita. Conglomerate. Toronto: PaperJacks Ltd., 1987.
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Commission, Great Britain Competition. Stena AB and The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company: A report on the proposed acquisition of certain assets relating to the supply of ferry services on the Irish Sea between Liverpool-Dublin and Fleetwood-Larne. London: TSO, 2004.
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Strohmaier, Alena, and Angela Krewani, eds. Media and Mapping Practices in the Middle East and North Africa. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462989092.
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A few months into the popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in 2009/10, the promises of social media, including its ability to influence a participatory governance model, grassroots civic engagement, new social dynamics, inclusive societies and new opportunities for businesses and entrepreneurs, became more evident than ever. Simultaneously, cartography received new considerable interest as it merged with social media platforms. In an attempt to rearticulate the relationship between media and mapping practices, whilst also addressing new and social media, this interdisciplinary book abides by one relatively clear point: space is a media product. The overall focus of this book is accordingly not so much on the role of new technologies and social networks as it is on how media and mapping practices expand the very notion of cultural engagement, political activism, popular protest and social participation.
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Waern, Annika, and Anders Sundnes Løvlie. Hybrid Museum Experiences. Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam Nederland: Amsterdam University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463726443.
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"So you're the one getting this gift? Lucky you! Someone who knows you has visited the museum. They searched out things they thought you would care about, and they took photos and left messages for you." This is the welcoming message for the Gift app, designed to create a very personal museum visit. Hybrid Museum Experiences use new technologies to augment, expand or alter the physical experience of visiting the museum. They are designed to be experienced in close relation to the physical space and exhibit. In this book we discuss three forms of hybridity in museum experiences: Incorporating the digital and the physical, creating social, yet personal and intimate experiences, and exploring ways to balance visitor participation and museum curation. This book reports on a 3-year cross-disciplinary research project in which artists, design researchers and museum professionals have collaborated to create technology-mediated experiences that merge with the museum environment.
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Snider, Debra H. A Merger of Equals. MJS Publishing Group, LLC, 2006.
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Grewal, J. S. Failure of the Compromise. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199467099.003.0022.
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On the basis of the Regional Formula, Pepsu was merged with the Punjab and the new state was inaugurated on 1 November 1956. The other provisions of the Regional Formula were diluted or indefinitely delayed. Apart from the ‘Save Hindi’ agitation, Master Tara Singh differed widely with Nehru on three major issues. The first related to their understanding about the number of seats to be given to the Akali candidates. The second issue was the defection of Gian Singh Rarewala to join the Congress before the decision of the Akali Dal in favour of merger. The third issue was Nehru’s all-out support to Partap Singh Kairon despite serious charges of misuse of office. By October 1958, the Regional Formula was dead so far as Master Tara Singh was concerned.
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Williams, Sonja D. Moving On. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039874.003.0008.
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This chapter focuses on Richard Durham's efforts to find a new home for Destination Freedom once it ended its run at NBC. Perhaps inspired by his involvement with the Du Bois Theater Guild, Durham planned on writing “a major play” about Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman. When NBC and the WMAQ radio station announced that they were reviving Durham's Destination Freedom series without his consent or input, Durham filed a lawsuit. Also during this time, his and Clarice's small apartment occasionally served as a gathering place for his politically active friends, including members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA). In the UPWA's Anti-Discrimination Department, Durham found an outlet for his crusading desire to eradicate inequality and promote justice. He also championed women's rights issues. When the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), UPWA's parent organization, engaged in merger negotiations with the American Federation of Labor (AFL), Durham was able to set up the election of several black officials to the merged leadership.
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The merger of the SEC and the CFTC: A pro/con analysis. [Washington, D.C.]: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 1990.
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SEC regulation of corporation takeovers. CCH Inc, 2000.
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Steinberg, Marc I. The SEC’s Impact on the Federalization of Corporate Governance—A Traditional Perspective. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199934546.003.0003.
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This chapter examines, from a traditional perspective, several areas where the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has impacted corporate governance in a meaningful way. By way of example, these subjects include insider trading, qualitative materiality, the role of gatekeepers (such as outside directors, attorneys, and accountants), the Commission’s use of disclosure to influence conduct, the implementation by subject companies of undertakings pursuant to SEC enforcement proceedings, and mergers and acquisitions (including tender offers and going-private transactions). This chapter’s focus is on the manner in which the SEC for well over 50 years has impacted corporate governance by means of exercising its rule-making and oversight authority.
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Russo, Charles J. Religion, Extracurricular Activities, and Access to Public School Facilities. Edited by Michael D. Waggoner and Nathan C. Walker. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199386819.013.23.
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The Equal Access Act (EAA) is a federal law enacted to permit organized groups of high school students to meet in schools during noninstructional time, periods when classes are not scheduled so that non-curriculum-related clubs can gather. The EAA was designed to remedy situations in which religious speech had been excluded from schools as a form of impermissible viewpoint discrimination. In Board of Education of Westside Community Schools v. Mergens, the Supreme Court upheld the EAA. This chapter covers the situation that existed before the EAA was enacted; the EAA itself; Mergens and later judicial developments; and the meaning of Mergens and its progeny. To date, it appears that the EAA has achieved its goal of granting equal access to religious speech even as it has been applied in ways beyond what its authors likely intended by including LGBT groups and others.
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Galpin, Timothy. Winning at the Acquisition Game. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198858560.001.0001.
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Winning at the Acquisition Game is a collection of the best materials, insights, tools, and templates which comprise the popular Mergers and Acquisitions course taught in the MBA and Executive MBA programs at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Each chapter provides readers with practical knowledge and tools to help them understand the entire mergers and acquisitions (M&A) process from pre-deal strategy and due diligence, through transaction valuation, negotiations, and closing, to post-deal implementation, workforce motivation, innovation for revenue growth, and results measurement and reporting. As a result, readers will gain valuable insights into the entire M&A process, from beginning to end, connecting traditionally distinct, “siloed” functional expertise across the process. Case examples in the chapters describe how each stage of the process has been implemented by companies across various industries. Each chapter concludes with a set of discussion questions and a self-assessment that readers can use to determine their firm’s current level of M&A capability. Practical frameworks, tools, and templates are also provided in an “M&A Workbook” that readers can apply to their own transactions, now or in the future.
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Surdam, David George. Can’t We All Get Along? 1966. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039140.003.0015.
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This chapter examines the antitrust implications of the proposed merger between the National Football League (NFL) and its rival American Football League (AFL). NFL owners had successfully resisted the All-America Football Conference in the late 1940s and monopolized professional football for the next decade. When Texas oilman Lamar Hunt was repeatedly rebuffed in his efforts to secure a team, he decided to form the AFL with other frustrated entrepreneurs seeking teams in mid-1959. The NFL and the AFL went on to fight for several years. Football owners understood that gaining a full-fledged antitrust exemption was not likely, so they concentrated on getting a merger agreement approved by Congress. This chapter discusses the Congressional hearings held in 1966 to tackle the issue of whether to grant antitrust exemptions to football, with particular emphasis on Pete Rozelle's testimony. It also considers House majority leader Hale Boggs's memorandum rebutting an argument that granting an exemption would lay the precedent for other industries to seek similar exemptions. Finally, it looks at the NFL's justification for its proposed merger with the AFL.
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Sonja, Meier. Ch.11 Plurality of obligors and of obligees, s.1: Plurality of Obligors, Art.11.1.5. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198702627.003.0218.
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This commentary analyses Article 11.1.5 of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (PICC) concerning the effect of performance or set-off. According to Art 11.1.5, performance or set-off by a joint and several obligor or set-off by the obligee against one joint and several obligor discharges the other obligors in relation to the obligee to the extent of the performance or set-off. This rule is a necessary consequence of joint and several obligations. The burden of proof of performance by an obligor rests on the co-obligor being required to perform by the obligee. The same holds true for a discharge by set-off. The PICC contain no provision on the effect of a merger of obligations between the obligee and one of the obligors.
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Akihiro, Wani. 19 Japan. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198808589.003.0019.
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This chapter provides an overview of the law of set-off in Japan. The Japanese Civil Code classifies set-off (along with performance, release, novation, and merger) as a mechanism for extinguishing an obligation. Set-off is not categorised as a right, altough it possesses certain characteristics that would warrant treating it as a right. The chapter first considers set-off between solvent parties, focusing on statutory and contractual set-off as well as the procedures for the exercise of set-off between solvent parties, before discussing set-off against insolvent parties. It examines legislation relevant to set-off, set-off in relation to the principle of equality among creditors, set-off against attaching creditors and against assignees, triangular set-off, and close-out netting of specified financial transactions. The chapter concludes with an analysis of cross-border issues relating to applicable law on statutory set-off, contractual set-off, and set-off in insolvency proceedings.
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Ted, Trautmann, ed. New SEC reform proposals: The "aircraft carrier," release 33-7606A ; regulation of takeovers, release 33-7607. Chicago: CCH, 1998.
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New SEC Reform Proposals: The "Aircraft Carrier," Release 33-7606a, Regulation of Takeovers, Release 33-7607 (CCH Special). CCH Incorporated, 1998.
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Kindler, Peter, and Jan Lieder, eds. European Corporate Law. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783845279909.
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The purpose of the European directives on corporate law is to enable businesses to be set up anywhere in the EU, to provide protection for shareholders and other parties with a particular interest in companies, to make business more efficient and competitive, and to encourage businesses based in different EU countries to cooperate with each other. The new Commentary on Corporate Law provides an in-depth expert analysis of all legal issues concerning the setting up and several other main issues covered by EU corporate law. With a view to offering recommendation for practical applications, the book covers, article-by-article, the following European directives: Directive (EU) 2017/1132 relating to certain aspects of company law, including - Safeguards (former Safeguards Directive, 2009/101/EC) - Disclosure requirements (former Directive concerning disclosure requirements in respect of branches, 89/666/EEC) - Public limited liability companies (former Directive concerning the formation of public limited liability companies, 2012/30/EU) - Mergers and Division (former Directives concerning of public limited liability companies, 2005/56/EC and 2011/35/EU) - Cross Border Mergers (former Directive 82/891/EEC) Directive concerning single-member private limited liability companies (2009/102/EC) Directive on Takeover Bids (2004/25/EC) Shareholder Rights Directive (2007/36/EC) Directive on the annual financial statements (2013/43 EU) and on statutory audits of annual accounts (2006/43/EC) <b>The Authors</b>: RA Dr. Klaus Bader, Dr. Martin Bialluch, RA Dr. Andreas Börner, RA Dr. Jan P. Brosius, LL.M. (King’s College London), RAin Larissa Furtwengler, David Günther, RA Dr. Simon Jobst, Maître en droit, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter Kindler, RA Karsten Kühnle, RA Dr. Michael Lamsa, RA Prof. Dr. Dieter Leuering, Prof. Dr. Jan Lieder, LL.M. (Harvard), RAin Dr. Silja Maul, Prof. Dr. Hanno Merkt, LL.M. (Chicago), RA Dr. Tobias De Raet, Prof. Dr. Alexander Schall, M.Jur. (Oxon). This publication is part of IEBL-series – Commentaries on International and European Business Law: www.iebl.info
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Current SEC and cross-border M&A developments, 2000. New York, NY: Practising Law Institute, 2000.
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Alqassas, Ahmad. A Unified Theory of Polarity Sensitivity. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197554883.001.0001.
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This book examines polarity sensitivity—a ubiquitous phenomenon involving expressions such as anybody, nobody, ever, never, and somebody and their counterparts in other languages, with particular focus on Arabic. These expressions belong to different classes such as negative and positive polarity, negative concord, and negative indefinites, which led to examining their syntax and semantics separately. In this book, Ahmad Alqassas pursues a unified approach that relies on examining the interaction between the various types of polarity sensitivity. Treating this interaction is fundamental for scrutinizing their licensing conditions. Alqassas draws on data from Standard Arabic and the major regional dialects represented by Jordanian, Egyptian, Moroccan, and Qatari. The book provides a new perspective on the syntax–semantic interface and develops a unified syntactic analysis for polarity sensitivity. Through the (micro)comparative approach, Alqassas explains the distributional contrasts with a minimal set of universal syntactic operations such as Merge, Move, and Agree, and a fine-grained inventory of negative formal features for polarity items and their licensors. The features are simple invisibles that paint a complex landscape of polarity. The results suggest that syntactic computation of Arabic polarity (externally merged in the left periphery) is subservient to the conceptual–intentional interface. Alqassas argues for last resort insertion of covert negation operators in the CP layer to interpret non-strict NCIs, which is an extra mechanism that serves the semantic interface but adds to the complexity of syntactic computation. Likewise, head NPIs in the left periphery require licensing by operators higher than the tense phrase, adding more constraints on the syntactic licensing.
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Schmied, Josef. East African English. Edited by Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, and Devyani Sharma. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199777716.013.35.
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English in East Africa is a well-developed usage variety (or a cluster of usage varieties), although it is not as indigenized as in West Africa, for instance, because many functions in the language repertoire are still taken over by Kiswahili and other African languages. The debate on developing an independent norm is not prominent, although at least English in Kenya could be classified as an outer circle variety. Theoretically, innovations, including borrowings from the national language Kiswahili, are less prominent than expansions of usages well-known from other New Englishes. Few features are really pervasive (like phoneme mergers) and accepted, so that an independent system cannot be identified easily. The socio-cognitive awareness of variation is not very pronounced, although English users are aware of national and even subnational features, especially in pronunciation, lexis, and idiomaticity. Today new internet research opportunities can complement the 20 year old data from the International Corpus of English (ICE).
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Sonja, Meier. Ch.11 Plurality of obligors and of obligees, s.2: Plurality of obligees, Art.11.2.3. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198702627.003.0230.
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This commentary analyses Article 11.2.3 of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (PICC) concerning defences that the obligor may assert against joint and several obligees. According to Art 11.2.3, the obligor may assert against any of the joint and several obligees all the defences and rights of set-off that are personal to its relationship to that obligee or that it can assert against all the co-obligees. However, the obligor may not assert defences and rights of set-off that are personal to its relationship to one or several of the other co-obligees. This provision stems from the drafters' view that plurality of obligees is, to a certain extent, a mirror image of plurality of obligors. This commentary discusses the rule on performance and set-off, the effect of a merger of obligations between the obligor and one of the obligees, the consequences of release and settlement by one of the joint and several obligees, limitation periods with regard to claims of the co-obligees, and effect of court judgment on the obligees.
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Current SEC & cross-border M&A developments. New York, NY: Practising Law Institute, 1999.
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Foster, Nigel. Concentrate Questions and Answers EU Law. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198745280.001.0001.
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The Concentrate Questions and Answers series offer the best preparation for tackling exam questions. Each book includes typical questions, bullet-pointed answer plans and suggested answers, author commentary and illustrative diagrams and flowcharts. Concentrate Q&A EU Law looks at a wide range of up-to-date issues relating to EU law, starting with the origins, institutions, and development of the EU communities, the legislative process, and budgets. Chapters then look at the sources and forms of Community law. The book examines the supremacy of Community law and the reception of the law in the EU member states. The Court of Justice has a chapter devoted to it. Next the book looks at the free movement of goods and persons. Finally the text turns to competition and merger law, and sex discrimination and equity law.
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Batson, C. Daniel. Self–Other Merging. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190651374.003.0010.
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The second new possibility was that when you feel empathic concern, you no longer see yourself and the person for whom you feel empathy as distinct individuals. Rather, a perceptual/conceptual change occurs in which the two of you merge together in your mind, and you see his or her needs as yours. So, empathy-induced helping is really helping yourself: egoism. In three experiments, Bob Cialdini and colleagues found that participants said they would provide more costly, intimate help to people to whom they felt more connected (a good friend or family member vs. an acquaintance or near stranger). Cialdini and his colleagues interpreted this as support for merging. But subsequent research, in which actual (rather than imagined) helping was assessed and relationship confounds were avoided, provided a range of evidence that merging cannot account for the empathy–helping relationship. It seemed necessary to dismiss this second possibility and move on to the third.
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Thomas, Moers Mayer, and Eggermann Daniel M. Part I United States, 4 Lessons from Lehman: Forcing A Settlement of Substantive Consolidation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198755371.003.0004.
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‘Substantive consolidation’ is the deemed merger of a bankrupt corporation with one or more other corporations, so that the assets of all the corporations are pooled and their value distributed to the creditors of all the entities. It penalizes creditors of more solvent debtors and rewards creditors of less solvent debtors. It is supposedly an ‘extraordinary remedy’ that is nevertheless frequently threatened in complex chapter 11 bankruptcy cases. This chapter describes the remedy of substantive consolidation, the facts in Lehman’s chapter 11 cases that made it the critical issue, and the threat of ‘involuntary settlement’ that avoided years of litigation and produced a fully consensual plan. The threat of an ‘involuntary settlement’ was a huge success in the Lehman case but the technique is very powerful and potentially very dangerous, as the chapter concludes.
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Foster, Nigel. Concentrate Questions and Answers EU Law. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198817857.001.0001.
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The Concentrate Questions and Answers series offer the best preparation for tackling exam questions. Each book includes typical questions, bullet-pointed answer plans and suggested answers, author commentary, and illustrative diagrams and flowcharts. Concentrate Q&A EU Law looks at a wide range of up-to-date issues relating to EU law, starting with the origins, institutions, and development of the EU communities and, the legislative processes. Chapters then look at the sources and forms of Community law, supremacy of EU law, and the reception of the law in the EU Member States. The chapter on Supremacy will also consider Brexit, but the extent to which that will be covered will be determined by just how far the exit negotiations have themselves progressed. The Court of Justice has a chapter devoted to it. Next the book looks at the free movement of goods and persons. Finally, the text turns to competition and merger law, and sex discrimination, and equality law.
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Foster, Nigel. Concentrate Questions and Answers EU Law. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198853190.001.0001.
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The Concentrate Questions and Answers series offer the best preparation for tackling exam questions. Each book includes typical questions, bullet-pointed answer plans and suggested answers, author commentary, and illustrative diagrams and flowcharts. Concentrate Q&A EU Law looks at a wide range of up-to-date issues relating to EU law, starting with the origins, institutions, and development of the EU communities and the legislative processes. Chapters then look at the sources and forms of EU law, supremacy of EU law, and the reception of the law in the EU Member States. The chapter on Supremacy will also consider Brexit, but the extent to which that will be covered will be determined by just how far the exit negotiations have themselves progressed. The Court of Justice has a chapter devoted to it. The book then considers the free movement of goods and persons. Finally, the text turns to competition and merger law and sex discrimination and equality law.
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Canevaro, Lilah Grace. Object-Oriented Odysseus. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826309.003.0004.
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Odysseus is shown to be a liminal figure, far from home, yet unable to put down roots elsewhere, torn between women, their agent objects, and the potential lives they represent. As a unique male character in the Homeric poems, Odysseus expresses himself through objects in a unique way that is coloured by the female sphere and so points to the very cause of his liminality. This chapter focuses closely on one particular object, the chest given to Odysseus by Arete in Odyssey 8 that becomes a trigger of nostalgic reverie; and on one boundary point between person and thing, the hand. It examines how Odysseus uses, creates, and merges with objects—and how he repurposes them, changing their identity as much as his own. Odysseus’ propensity for repurposing is tracked also in simile, with the reconceptualizing function of simile mobilized especially in relation to the man of many turns.
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Watt, James. Arabian Nights and Oriental Spies. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199580033.003.0028.
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This chapter examines the enduringly formative impact of ‘Arabian Nights and Oriental Spies’ on the eighteenth-century novel. It studies Charles Gildon's The Golden Spy: or, A Political Journal of the British Nights Entertainments of War and Peace, and Love and Politics (1709). The novel merges a spy narrative and a sequence of embedded tales. While paying tribute to previous texts, Gildon in turn has helped to launch the so-called ‘it-narrative’, for the ‘spy’ in question is a coin (or rather a collection of coins) whose testimony exposes, in the words of the work's subtitle, ‘The Secret Miraculous Power and Progress of Gold, in the Courts of Europe’. The various coins in the narrator's possession often invoke concepts of metamorphosis or shape-shifting in order to illustrate the transformative agency of money, and The Golden Spy uses a serial structure akin to that of the Arabian Nights to reiterate this basic point.
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Ahdar, Rex. The Evolution of Competition Law in New Zealand. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198855606.001.0001.
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This monograph presents a detailed, lively, and original chronicle and analysis of New Zealand’s competition law. The modern era began with the Commerce Act 1986 and since then a steady corpus of case law has traversed all the major areas of antitrust law: cartels, resale price maintenance, exclusive dealing, tying, monopolization, predatory pricing, mergers, private and public enforcement, and so on. The volume explains the rationale for the major reforms of the Commerce Act and traces the development of key concepts such as effective competition, efficiency, market power, market definition, entry barriers, wealth transfers, and public benefit over the last 34 years. The book provides an extended critique of the landmark cases and legislative amendments. It assesses the desirable, and undesirable, aspects of competition law’s interpretation and doctrinal development by the courts and Commerce Commission. Systemic issues are explored such as: how well has New Zealand moulded its own competition law, whilst, nonetheless, selectively drawing upon the policy prescriptions, case law, and wisdom from foreign jurisdictions? How well has it adapted its competition law to the reality of it being a small, distant, isolated, deregulated, open economy? How has the transplanted Harvard School versus Chicago School debate played out in New Zealand? How have unique, if not rash, experiments such as its “light-handed” regulation for utilities worked? It concludes by drawing together the common threads that mark the modern era and offering some predictions about how the next decades of New Zealand competition law might unfold.
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Simner, Julia. Synaesthesia: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198749219.001.0001.
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Synaesthesia is often described as a rare neurological condition where one sense appears to merge or cross with another. It is a multi-variant condition that can present itself in many different ways: some synaesthetes taste words, while others see colours when they hear sounds. Synaesthesia: A Very Short Introduction describes this extraordinary condition, explaining what synaesthesia is, how it manifests itself, what causes it, how it feels, how it links to creativity and the arts, and what it can tell us about every human’s perceptions of reality. Delving into the neuroscience behind synaesthesia, it also relates contemporary attempts at understanding both the genetic causes of synaesthesia, and how synesthetic sensations occur in the brain.
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Schaupp, Walter, and Johann Platzer, eds. Der verbesserte Mensch. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748910565.
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The phenomenon of increasing optimisation and transformation of the human body using modern biotechnologies is encountered in various fields. In addition to interference with the human genome, attempts to merge man and machine are becoming increasingly important. Since the idea of an inviolable form of human ‘nature’ has been lost, new philosophical and ethical efforts are required in order to meet the challenges associated with it. In this book, the topics of transhumanism, humans and machines, genome editing, sex reassignment and the issue of enhancing happiness through biotechnological means are discussed and reflected on ethically. With contributions by Alois Birklbauer, Christian Egarter, Reinhold Esterbauer, Johann Platzer, Andreas Reinisch, Michael Rosenberger, Walter Schaupp, Peter Strasser, Gunda Werner.
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Empson, Laura. Leading Professionals. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198744788.001.0001.
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This book analyses the complex power dynamics and interpersonal politics that lie at the heart of leadership in professional organizations, such as accounting, law, and consulting firms, investment banks, hospitals, and universities. It is based on scholarly research into many of the world’s leading professional organizations across a range of sectors, including interviews with over 500 senior professionals in sixteen countries. Drawing on the latest academic theory to analyse exactly how professionals in organizations come together to create ‘leadership’, it provides new insights into how leaders lead when there is no traditional hierarchy to support them, their own authority is contingent, and they must constantly renegotiate relationships with relatively autonomous professional peers. It explores how leaders persuade highly intelligent, educated, and opinionated professionals to work together; how change happens within professional organizations; and why leaders so often fail. Part I introduces the concept of plural leadership, analysing how leaders establish and maintain their positions within leadership constellations, and the implications for governance in the context of collective or distributed leadership. Part II examines the complex, challenging relationships between professionals as they seek to influence their organizations, including the phenomena of leadership dyads, insecure overachievers, social control, and the rise of the management professional. Part III examines the shifts in the locus of power as professional organizations grow, adapt, and react to external stimuli such as mergers and acquisitions and economic crises. The conclusion identifies the paradoxes inherent in professional organizations and examines the role of leaders in attempting to reconcile them.
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Hansen, Kai Arne. Pop Masculinities. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190938796.001.0001.
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Pop Masculinities investigates the performance and policing of masculinity in pop music as a starting point for grasping the broad complexity of gender and its politics in the early twenty-first century. Drawing together perspectives from critical musicology, gender studies, and adjacent scholarly fields, the book presents extended case studies of five well-known artists: Zayn, Lil Nas X, Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, and Take That. By directing particular attention to the ambiguities and contradictions that arise from these artists’ representations of masculinity, author Kai Arne Hansen argues that pop performances tend to operate in ways that simultaneously reinforce and challenge gender norms and social inequalities. Providing a rich exploration of these murky waters, the author merges the interpretation of recorded song and music video with discourse analysis and media ethnography in order to engage with the full range of pop artists’ public identities as they emerge at the intersections between processes of performance, promotion, and reception. In so doing, he advances our understanding of the aesthetic and discursive underpinnings of gender politics in twenty-first century pop culture and encourages readers to contemplate the sociopolitical implications of their own musical engagements as audiences, critics, musicians, and scholars.
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Gaskell, Elizabeth, and Sally Shuttleworth. North and South. Edited by Angus Easson. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199537006.001.0001.
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`She tried to settle that most difficult problem for women, how much was to be utterly merged in obedience to authority, and how much might be set apart for freedom in working.’ North and South is a novel about rebellion. Moving from the industrial riots of discontented millworkers through to the unsought passions of a middle-class woman, and from religious crises of conscience to the ethics of naval mutiny, it poses fundamental questions about the nature of social authority and obedience. Through the story of Margaret Hale, the middle-class southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton, Gaskell skilfully explores issues of class and gender in the conflict between Margaret’s ready sympathy with the workers and her growing attraction to the charismatic mill ownder, John Thornton. This new revised and expanded edition sets the novel in the context of Victorian social and medical debate.
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Wood, Jim, and Alec Marantz. The interpretation of external arguments. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198767886.003.0011.
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This chapter examines the syntactic and semantic properties of heads, e.g. Voice, Appl, and little p, that add participants to events. Instead of assuming that such heads exist as distinct primitives in the functional lexicon, it is proposed that there is one such head, which can get different interpretations depending on how it is merged into the structure. The chapter’s approach attributes the relative uniformity of the expression of argument structure to the principles that interpret syntactic structure semantically; thus, syntax is truly autonomous, with the atoms of syntactic representations carrying no inherent semantic values. Once syntactic heads are absolved from the necessity of explicitly carrying certain features relevant to their interpretation, a sparse inventory of functional heads can be developed. The system is applied to a set of constructions that present distinct challenges to theories that demand a kind of transparent reflection of argument structure in underlying syntactic representations.
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Starke, Michal. Complex Left Branches, Spellout, and Prefixes. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190876746.003.0009.
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Higher-function words such as complementizers, negation, functional prepositions, definiteness particles, comparative markers, and so forth, occurring to the left of their lexical category, are argued to be base-generated as complex left branches, rather than spelling out the main functional sequence. This is generalized to all (base-generated) pre-asymmetries and post-asymmetries and derived from the structure of the lexical entries of the function words, dispensing with idiosyncratic notational devices equivalent to [+ suffix] or [+ needs-to-move]. These complex left branches require a merge-XP operation, and the place of this operation in the algorithm of spellout-driven movement is discussed.
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Talbot, Christine. “The Utter Destruction of the Home Circle”. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038082.003.0005.
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This chapter discusses anti-Mormon literature from its beginnings in domestic fiction. Anti-Mormons objected to polygamy not only because they believed it promoted licentiousness and degraded its participants but, perhaps of deeper social consequence, because it also undercut the distinctions between public and private that middle-class white Americans so highly prized. Plural marriage upset the private intimacy of romantic love and introduced outside influence into the home circle. Indeed, Anti-Mormons claimed that under polygamy, public and private merged together, such that neither the home nor the polity could exist in a viable form. Moreover, if monogamous private life created and maintained the good citizen, then the perversions of Mormon polygamy did the opposite; it turned privacy into religious despotism, private property into socialism, and citizens into blind followers incapable of independent thought.
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Donald P, Kommers. 4 Germany: Balancing Rights and Duties. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199226474.003.0005.
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Germany's constitutional charter, adopted in 1949, is entitled the Basic Law. The Basic Law had evolved into one of the world's most admired constitutions, even rivalling that of the United States in influence and prestige around the world. So when the day of unity finally arrived in 1990, East and West Germany merged under the imprint of the Basic Law itself. Today, in both structure and substance, although frequently amended, it remains the constitutional text of reunited Germany. This chapter discusses the constitutive assembly of Germany, constituent power and reunification, general features of the Basic Law, supremacy of the constitution, constitutional structure, amending process, the Federal Constitutional Court, problems of constitutional interpretation, conception of the constitution, negative and positive rights, horizontality of rights, sources of interpretation, approaches to interpretation, the civil law tradition, and style of judicial decision-making.
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Lobina, David J. Recursive generation in language. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198785156.003.0003.
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The introduction of recursion into linguistics was the result of applying some of the results of mathematical logic to the study of language. In particular, recursion was introduced in the 1950s as a general property of the mechanical procedure underlying the grammar, in order to account for language’s discrete infinity and expressive power—in the 1950s, this mechanical procedure was a production system, whereas more recently, of course, it is the set-operator merge. Unfortunately, the recent literature has confused the general recursive property of a grammar with specific instances of (recursive) rules/operations within a grammar; more worryingly still, there has been a general conflation of these recursive rules with some of the self-embedded structures these rules can generate, adding to the confusion. The conflation is manifold but always fallacious. Moreover, language manifests a much more generally recursive structure than is usually recognized: bundles of the universal (Specifier)-Head-Complement(s) geometry.
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Schlapbach, Karin. (Perceived) Authenticity and the Physical Presence of the Performer. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807728.003.0005.
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In this chapter, ‘authenticity’ refers to situations where the actions and emotions represented by a pantomime seemingly or truly merge with reality. The chapter examines the dance scene that concludes Xenophon’s Symposium, which is widely recognized as a proto-pantomime. In this dance the myth that is represented is progressively eclipsed from the horizon of the spectators, who end up focusing on the dancers themselves. The episode is situated in the context of the so-called New Music, which emerged around the dramatic date of the Symposium. A fragment from Aristoxenus transmitted by Athenaeus suggests that Xenophon’s dance scene became emblematic of a certain type of mousikē. The rest of the chapter is dedicated to the characteristic lifelikeness of pantomimes in a number of Greek and Latin epigrams.
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Dahlgren, Anna. Travelling Images. Manchester University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526126641.001.0001.
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Travelling images critically examines the migrations and transformations of images as they travel between different image communities. It consists of four case studies covering the period 1870–2010 and includes photocollages, window displays, fashion imagery and contemporary art projects. Through these four close-ups it seeks to reveal the mechanisms, nature and character of these migration processes, and the agents behind them, as well as the sites where they have taken place. The overall aim of this book is thus to understand the mechanisms of interfacing events in the borderlands of the art world. Two key arguments are developed in the book, reflected by its title Travelling images. First, the notion of travel and focus on movements and transformations signal an emphasis on the similarities between cultural artefacts and living beings. The book considers ‘the social biography’ and ‘ecology’ of images, but also, on a more profound level, the biography and ecology of the notion of art. In doing so, it merges perspectives from art history and image studies with media studies. Consequently, it combines a focus on the individual case, typical for art history and material culture studies with a focus on processes and systems, on continuities and ruptures, and alternate histories inspired by media archaeology and cultural historical media studies. Second, the central concept of image is in this book used to designate both visual conventions, patterns or contents and tangible visual images. Thus it simultaneously consider of content and materiality.
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Tamura, Eileen H. Japan. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037788.003.0010.
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This chapter examines Kurihara's journey to Japan. Despite having renounced his U.S. citizenship and declaring himself Japanese, he was never fully comfortable in his adopted land. One of the differences was the “strong pressure on homogenization” in Japan. In order to feel comfortable socially, the Nisei had to assimilate fully into Japanese culture. Those who succeeded in doing so were able to “merge into the Japanese mainstream community and keep their invisibility.” This requirement went against the grain of Kurihara's nature, his self-identity as an individual with freedom to express himself and to live according to his beliefs. Ultimately, Kurihara's two decades in Japan was a mirror image of his much longer life in the United States. In both countries, bounded by circumstances he never successfully transcended, his life was centered primarily on his cultural subgroup.
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Prescott, Tony J., Nathan Lepora, and Paul F. M. J. Verschure, eds. Living machines. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199674923.001.0001.
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Biomimetics is the development of novel technologies through the distillation of ideas from the study of biological systems. Biohybrids are formed through the combination of at least one biological component—an existing living system—and at least one artificial, newly engineered component. These two fields are united under the theme of Living Machines—the idea that we can construct artifacts that not only mimic life but also build on the same fundamental principles. The research described in this volume seeks to understand and emulate life’s ability to self-organize, metabolize, grow, and reproduce; to match the functions of living tissues and organs such as muscles, skin, eyes, ears, and neural circuits; to replicate cognitive and physical capacities such as perception, attention, locomotion, grasp, emotion, and consciousness; and to assemble all of these elements into integrated systems that can hold a technological mirror to life or that have the capacity to merge with it. We conclude with contributions from philosophers, ethicists, and futurists on the potential impacts of this remarkable research on society and on how we see ourselves.
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Aquino, Frederick D., and Benjamin J. King. Introduction. Edited by Frederick D. Aquino and Benjamin J. King. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198718284.013.30.
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This Handbook seeks to explore John Henry Newman with critical appreciation and to assess the large amount of secondary literature. In so doing, it does not intend to protect his legacy but to examine his life, writings, thought, and significance from the different perspectives and disciplines of philosophy, theology, history, education, and literature. Newman himself thought that the attempt to acquire a deeper understanding of things called for more than a single disciplinary perspective. Although a scholar in any particular field works within her boundaries, it is engagement across those boundaries that the present volume seeks to promote while at the same time providing a critical engagement with current scholarship in specific fields. The Handbook does not seek to merge incommensurable readings of Newman into a governing viewpoint and no particular school of thought is privileged. Instead, the volume reflects a broad range of perspectives and methodological assumptions to move all towards deeper understanding.
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Moore, Sean D. Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198836377.001.0001.
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Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade. Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries bridges the study of these trades by demonstrating how Americans’ profits from slavery were reinvested in imported British books and providing evidence that the colonial book market was shaped, in part, by the demand of slave owners for metropolitan cultural capital. It makes these claims on the basis of recent scholarship on how participation in London cultural life was very expensive in the eighteenth century, and evidence that enslavers were therefore some of the few early Americans who could afford importing British cultural products. In doing so, this work merges the fields of the history of the book, Atlantic studies, and the study of race, arguing that the empire-wide circulation of British books was underwritten by the labor of the African diaspora. This book, accordingly, is the first in early American and eighteenth-century British studies to fuse our growing understanding of the material culture of the transatlantic text with our awareness of slavery as an economic and philanthropic basis for the production and consumption of knowledge. In studying the American dissemination of works of British literature and political thought, this book claims that Americans were seeking out the forms of citizenship, constitutional traditions, and rights that were the signature of that British identity. Even though they were purchasing the sovereignty of Anglo-Americans at the expense of African-Americans through these books, however, some colonials were also making the case for the abolition of slavery.