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Our research fit into social representations’ framework (Moscovici, 1961), defined by
Jodelet (1997) as “modalities of practical thought orientated towards the
communication, comprehension and control of the social, material and…

Writing this book has been both exciting and challenging. I plunged into
this research with immense zeal, yet I faced many challenges, from writing
in a second language to tackling the diffi culties in translating each piece
of historical and…

The aim of this study is to determine the effects of consumer-to-consumer online
reviews on the drivers of customer equity (CE) and the role of brand trust. An
experimental online forum was purpose-built and a restricted probability sample of
269…

Conflicting Responses to Human Rights
Violations in Darfur

Southeast Asia is home to various cultural communities beset with war and conflict.
Peace building efforts in the islands have been raised to a certain level of intensity.
With the hopes to avoid war and conflict, initiatives toward achieving peace…

In an ef fort to make stu dents aware of the world in which they live, an em pha sis has re cently been placed on global ed u ca tion. Ed u ca tors have seen the need for a deeper un der stand ing of the in ter de pen dence of peo ples and na tions…

France is a country so rich in architecture that it is not surprising that some of her fine buildings remain
unstudied and even, for the purposes of the history of art, unseen.

Defenders of economic orthodoxy often argue that asset inflation results from emotional intrusions into a rational world. But emotions are unavoidable. Rational calculations can be based only on the past. Instability continually arises, especially…

The great Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky writing in the 1930s maintained that scholars in the discipline of psychology were drifting into the polar camps of behaviorism and phenomenology. There was no doubt that Vygotsky clearly saw into the…

As early as over 400 years ago, the first helical compression
springs (coil springs) were already used for wheel
suspensions of a wagon body, and at the very latest since
the invention of the wheel suspension strut (McPherson),
they have…