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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to introduce a special issue on supply chains and the enterprise.Design/methodology/approachIntroductory review and brief description of research papers in this issue.FindingsTo demonstrate the growing complexity and the multiple factors involved in structuring the enterprise effectively, references a paper by Iyer and Gottlieb that suggests an approach to enterprise architecture design. This integrates the internal and external environment, thus being highly relevant to supply chain issues.Research limitations/implicationsImplies that the broad research framework for enterprise architecture is relevant to the study of supply chain issues, but leaves the reader to discover whether this is the case by perusing the research papers in this issue.Practical implicationsLinks enterprise architecture to supply chain issues of importance to industry.Originality/valueProvides a descriptive framework for linking papers in the issue to general supply chain issues.

We live on a small planet with limited air, water, and mineral resources and learn how to get by with what we have. Process engineers and operators do not need to look to exotic technology to make a contribution to combating the environmental issues. This easy-to-follow handbook shows how to operate and retrofit process facilities to re-use existing process equipment to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as well as invoking other sound environmental measures. Process Engineering for a Small Plant offers viable global solutions to green technology.

Gaudium et spes : the document -- Major points -- Implementation -- The state of the question -- Inter mirifica : the document -- Major points -- Implementation -- The state of the questions.

This first systematic analysis of the full range of classical liberal thinking covers the utilitarianism of Hume, Smith and their successors, the Austrian and Chicago schools of political economy, 'contractarian' liberalism and the ethical individualism of Ayn Rand and Robert Nozick. Norman Barry also discusses the hitherto barely understood theory of anarcho-capitalism and throughout his analysis draws attention to the differences in fundamental philosophical outlook that underline superficially similar policy positions

This article explores and analyzes the fourth century Chinese legal official and legal scholar Liu Song's (d. 300) theory of adjudication through a full translation into English (the first translation of its kind) of his famous "Memorial on Adjudication," which urged judicial and legal reforms during the reign of Emperor Hui (r. 290–306) of the Western Jin dynasty (265–316). This article argues that Liu believed that written law should reign supreme over other factors (e.g., societal needs, public opinion) in adjudicating cases. He was also one of the first major Chinese legal thinkers to explicitly set forth what we would today call the "legality principle." But while Liu's theory of adjudication was centered on written law, it was also motivated by a desire to control the power and discretion of judicial officials and preserve the authority of the emperor. Liu's theory of adjudication is significant in the history of Chinese legal thought as it runs counter to the so-called "qing-li-fa" (QLF) theory of adjudication, which has strongly influenced contemporary theoretical accounts and descriptions of traditional Chinese law as a whole. This article also briefly considers Liu's theory in a comparative legal theory perspective, arguing that Liu's theory is different from key Western theories on adjudication—namely, Hart's and Dworkin's theories of adjudication with respect to hard cases. Finally, this article also briefly discusses the relevance of Liu Song's legal thought to 21st century Chinese law, given the current Chinese leadership's penchant for using traditional Chinese political and legal philosophy as sources and justifications for government and administration. This article suggests that Liu Song is a figure whose legal thought could be equally palatable to rule of law reformers and more conservative party officials in China today.

Abstract
A former professor of English, Peter Dane spent the last years of his life as a poet and environmentalist in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. In his poetry, unlike that of many (post) modern writers, this revolutionary traditionalist celebrated form and beauty as a means of realizing and contemplating the limited and contingent, yet potentially transcendent and universal liberty of the arts. In his portrait poetry, the transcendental 'beyond' is 'firmly rooted in the everyday'. I argue that according to Dane's portrait poems, a poet is not a genius by dint of their superior skill or of their calculating or knowing mind, but on the strength of living the tension between the human experience of transience and the intended but never fully obtainable telos of art, which is not perfection but 'its own indicative stillness [...] and a stillness beyond it'. Assisted by Walter Benjamin's and Lawrence Venuti's theories, this article also looks at Dane's renderings of German poetry into English. For Dane, translation of poetry does not consist primarily in the accurate rendering of propositions or poetic devices but in invoking those 'transcendent moments' that touch and alter our being. Based on readings of Dane's poetry about Michelangelo and August Kekulé and Dane's translation of Novalis' poem 'Wenn nicht mehr Zahlen und Figuren', this article analyses, contextualizes and celebrates Dane's transcendental poetry.