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Landscapes change. Virgin forests are cut down and turned into wheat fields and pasturelands; contaminated swamps are drained to become fertile lands; impressive dams in...

The dominant position in feminist studies exemplified by scholars such as Susan Bordo (1997) claims that consumer culture oppresses women by holding them to impossible...

In order to better understand the process involved in producing electrical power by nuclear fission plants, we should review some fundamentals. An atom is the...

Perhaps the most influential approach towards the study of fashion within the social sciences has been that associated with writers such as Veblen, Simmel and,...

This is the greeting given to telephone callers to Diesel Industries HQ in Molvena, Italy. Diesel makes no secret of its globalising philosophy: its founder,...

A popular comic feature of Hindi movies is to have a hero appearing dressed as a woman. This is usually at some point in the...

Christine Shewry is Global Head of People and Culture at Insurance Australia Group Limited (IAG). IAG is an international general insurance group with operations in...

The modern world/kosmos we live in today is quite different from the classical Greek, politically, socially, economically, and culturally. Unlike the ancient Greek world of...

To many people, sports nutrition is about carbo-loading for a competition หมาล่า, or having the latest sports food or supplement. However, the ‘big-ticket item’ with...

Peering into other people’s food trolleys is a voyeuristic game we can all play when queuing at the checkout (as French gastronome Brillat-Savarin put it,...