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Global Legitimacy Crises

Decline and Revival in Multilateral Governance

By: Thomas Sommerer,Hans Agné,Fariborz Zelli,Bart Bes

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Global Legitimacy Crises

Decline and Revival in Multilateral Governance

By: Thomas Sommerer,Hans Agné,Fariborz Zelli,Bart Bes

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Global Legitimacy Crises addresses the consequences of legitimacy in global governance, in particular asking: when and how do legitimacy crises affect international organizations and their capacity to rule. The book starts with a new conceptualization of legitimacy crisis that looks at public challenges from a variety of actors. Based on this conceptualization, it applies a mixed-methods approach to identify and examine legitimacy crises, starting with a quantitative analysis of mass media data on challenges of a sample of 32 IOs. It shows that some, but not all organizations have experienced legitimacy crises, spread over several decades from 1985 to 2020. Following this, the book presents a qualitative study to further examine legitimacy crises of two selected case studies: the WTO and the UNFCCC. Whereas earlier research assumed that legitimacy crises have negative consequences, the book introduces a theoretical framework that privileges the activation inherent in a legitimacy crisis. It holds that this activation may not only harm an IO, but could also strengthen it, in terms of its material, institutional, and decision-making capacity. The following statistical analysis shows that whether a crisis has predominantly negative or positive effects depends on a variety of factors. These include the specific audience whose challenges define a certain crisis, and several institutional properties of the targeted organization. The ensuing in-depth analysis of the WTO and the UNFCCC further reveals how legitimacy crises and both positive and negative consequences are interlinked, and that effects of crises are sometimes even visible beyond the organizational borders.

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Oxford University Press

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0192669834

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The BlackBerry Pearl Pocket Guide

By: Bart G. Farkas

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The BlackBerry Pearl Pocket Guide

By: Bart G. Farkas

Everyone knows how addictive a BlackBerry can be--they don't call them "crackberries" for nothing! Well, you haven't seen anything until you try the brand new BlackBerry Pearl. This brand new phone has it all, and it's small, smart, and stylish too. Not only does it have all the features you expect from a BlackBerry (Phone, Email and Text Messaging, Instant Messaging, Organizer, Browser) but it has some great new "Wow" features including a camera, media player, and BlackBerry Maps. In The BlackBerry Pearl Pocket Guide, trusted gadget teacher and best-selling author Bart G. Farkas reveals the secrets to using this amazing new phone: learn how to take cool pictures and share them with your colleagues, view Web pages, import songs, manage your appointments, communicate with email, text and instant messaging, retrieve maps and detailed driving directions, and even import video. This handy pocket-sized guide also walks readers through the fun lifestyle functions, from playing a new Sudoku game every day to charting your diet and exercise patterns. In this low-priced guide, you'll find compact-yet-detailed coverage of everything the BlackBerry Pearl can do, as well as all the necessary information on "why" you should use it to be more productive.

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194

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Pearson Education

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0321605985

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9780321605986

Wadmalaw

By: Bart Bare

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Wadmalaw

By: Bart Bare

Wadmalaw: A Ghost Story is peopled with characters of distinct and compelling southern flavor, and is set among the lovely live oaks, towering pines, and fecund swamp and salt marshes common to coastal southeastern United States. Liv and Autis Oakley, a professional couple, have purchased their dream home on several wooded acres of Wadmalaw Island--one of the sea islands bordering Charleston, SC. In short order they find slave graves from the Civil War era on their land. Soon after they realize there are ghostly spirits in their furnished basement, and then there appears a demon in the form of a large black panther, who rages and ravages. It turns out that all of these sinister elements are inter-twined in Liv's family history: A history of which she was totally unaware until she and her husband moved to South Carolina from the north. She discovers that her role in this family history is the catalyst activating the spirit elements on the property, and discovers that finding their dream home was no accident. Liv and Autis, with the assistance of their large pointer, Bob, new-found friends, "Bambi," a vivacious blonde southerner, and Sweetgrass Weaver, a ninety- year-old descendent of slaves, struggle to defeat the forces that has made their lovely home a living prison.

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375

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Dudley Court Press, LLC

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1945401176

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9781945401176

The Book of Lancelot

The Middle Dutch Lancelot Compilation and the Medieval Tradition of Narrative Cycles

By: Bart Besamusca

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The Book of Lancelot

The Middle Dutch Lancelot Compilation and the Medieval Tradition of Narrative Cycles

By: Bart Besamusca

The book consists of five chapters. The introductory chapter deals with the study of cyclicity, the literary context of the Lancelot Compilation, and the manuscript tradition. In the following three chapters the ten romances are studied one by one. Each analysis consists of two parts: a description of the compiler's source and a survey of his interventions. In the fifth and last chapter the Lancelot Compilation is characterized as a narrative cycle and compared with French, English and German cycles. The monograph concludes with an attempt to describe the essence of the compilation."--BOOK JACKET.

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230

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DS Brewer

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085991769X

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9780859917698

New Perspectives on Mathematical Practices

Essays in Philosophy and History of Mathematics

By: Bart Van Kerkhove

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New Perspectives on Mathematical Practices

Essays in Philosophy and History of Mathematics

By: Bart Van Kerkhove

This volume focuses on the importance of historical enquiry for the appreciation of philosophical problems concerning mathematics. It contains a well-balanced mixture of contributions by internationally established experts, such as Jeremy Gray and Jens Hoyrup; upcoming scholars, such as Erich Reck and Dirk Schlimm; and young, promising researchers at the beginning of their careers. The book is situated within a relatively new and broadly naturalistic tradition in the philosophy of mathematics. In this alternative philosophical current, which has been dramatically growing in importance in the last few decades, unlike in the traditional schools, proper attention is paid to scientific practices as informing for philosophical accounts.

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248

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World Scientific

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9812812237

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Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases

European Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, September 15-19, 2008, Proceedings

By: Walter Daelemans,Bart Goethals

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Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases

European Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, September 15-19, 2008, Proceedings

By: Walter Daelemans,Bart Goethals

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the joint conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: ECML PKDD 2008, held in Antwerp, Belgium, in September 2008. The 100 papers presented in two volumes, together with 5 invited talks, were carefully reviewed and selected from 521 submissions. In addition to the regular papers the volume contains 14 abstracts of papers appearing in full version in the Machine Learning Journal and the Knowledge Discovery and Databases Journal of Springer. The conference intends to provide an international forum for the discussion of the latest high quality research results in all areas related to machine learning and knowledge discovery in databases. The topics addressed are application of machine learning and data mining methods to real-world problems, particularly exploratory research that describes novel learning and mining tasks and applications requiring non-standard techniques.

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714

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Springer Science & Business Media

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354087478X

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I Can Only Imagine

A Memoir

By: Bart Millard

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I Can Only Imagine

A Memoir

By: Bart Millard

“The Story That Inspired the Major Motion Picture.” The captivating story behind the bestselling single in the history of Christian music—and the man who wrote it MercyMe’s crossover hit, “I Can Only Imagine,” has touched millions of people around the world. But few know about the pain, redemption, and healing that inspired it. Now Bart Millard, award-winning recording artist and lead singer of MercyMe, shares how his dad’s transformation from abusive father to man of God sparked a divine moment in music history. Go behind the scenes of Bart’s life—and the movie based on it—to discover how God repaired a broken family, prepared Bart for ministry through music, and wrote the words on his heart that would change his life forever. I Can Only Imagine is a front-row seat to witnessing God’s presence throughout Bart’s life. Whether falling in love with his childhood sweetheart or mourning his father’s death, founding MercyMe or flailing in the midst of its success, Bart continues to place his trust in God’s plans—plans that continue to surprise and surpass what Bart could have ever imagined.

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Thomas Nelson

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0785216758

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Global Legitimacy Crises

Global Legitimacy Crises

The BlackBerry Pearl Pocket Guide

The BlackBerry Pearl Pocket Guide

Wadmalaw

Wadmalaw

The Book of Lancelot

The Book of Lancelot

New Perspectives on Mathematical Practices

New Perspectives on Mathematical Practices

Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases

Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases

I Can Only Imagine

I Can Only Imagine

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