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"Everything in Young-hee's life is wrong. Her dad is gone, her mom is overworked, and she's forced to move back to Seoul. The girls at her school are nasty, and her little brother Bum is a pain in the butt. Then Young-hee stumbles into a magical world where the fairy tales of her childhood become real and all the frustrations of her everyday life quickly fade away. But when Bum is kidnapped in that magical realm, the only way Young-hee can save him is to go on a perilous quest in search of the magical Pullocho plant. And she soon finds herself facing decisions that affect not just her little brother, but fate of an entire world."--Page [4] cover

The state of K-pop -- The land of K-pop -- What is K-pop? Interview with Eat Your Kimchi ; Interview with Kevin Kim from Ze:A ; Interview with Brian Joo from Floy to the Sky -- Boy groups. Big Bang ; Super Junior ; TVXQ! ; 2AM ; 2PM ; B.A.P. ; Beast ; Busker Busker ; CN Blue ; EXO ; FT Island ; Infinite ; MBLAQ ; Shinee ; Ze:A -- Girl groups. Girls' Generation ; 2NE1 ; Wonder Girls ; 4Minute ; After School ; Brown Eyed Girls ; Davichi ; F(X) ; Kara ; Miss A ; Secret ; Sistar ; T-ara -- Solo artists. Psy ; BoA ; Jay Park ; Rain ; Yoon Mi-rae ; IU -- K-pop's future

The concept of sentience, how it is characterised and which non-human animals possess it have long been of contention in academic and intellectual debates. Many have argued that there is no way to empirically know that animals have conscious experiences. Yet others argue that consciousness, awareness and sentience in non-human animals can be quite obvious, and can indeed be measured empirically. Most modern declarations of animal sentience from official organisations and governments now include all vertebrate animals as sentient beings, including reptiles and fish. Some declarations also include some invertebrate species. This conceptual, ethical and scientific review first focuses on conceptual components and definitions of consciousness, awareness and sentience. It then specifically discusses how cognitive, neurobiological, ethological and comparative psychological research in non-avian reptiles over the last century has evidenced many capacities that historically were denied to this class of animals. Non-avian reptiles do indeed possess all of the necessary capacities to be declared as sentient beings, at least in the small proportion of reptile species that have actually been empirically investigated so far. It is suggested that much innovative future research will continue to uncover evidence of capabilities linked to sentience within a wide range of species, including non-avian reptiles, fish and invertebrates.

This dissertation examines the form and use of space within Byzantine villages in the Mani peninsula, the southernmost point of the Greek Peloponnese. Because of the use of stone in the construction of houses, churches, threshing floors, cisterns and other agricultural features, the preservation of settlements is excellent despite centuries of abandonment. Focusing on the domestic and secular features of settlements, I document and map the built features of villages to preserve their history, even as the buildings deteriorate. I interpret the built elements through spatial analysis, social history and information provided by local residents about the histories of each settlement. I selected the two primary villages in this dissertation, Marathos and Sarania, to provide examples of settlements from the same region located in different physical settings. Central to my study is the examination of how topography affects village development. I also study the fortified settlement at Tigani, the center of government control in the region. I examined the domestic architecture from this site in order to see how it relates and differentiates itself from that of the surrounding countryside. I aggregated and examined data on house design and size as well as settlement layout in order to provide conclusions about the form of domestic architecture and the use of space within the village. I identify the importance of topography and regional characteristics as critical factors in the form and appearance of buildings. Using two well-preserved, abandoned villages in the Mani as a foundation, and including the study of the administrative center at Tigani, my dissertation examines the relationship of villages to the landscape, to each other, and to proximate urban centers, placing a micro study within a much broader context. I use the data obtained from mapping to test multiple hypotheses about use, access, and function. My project aims not only to gain an understanding of the villages of the medieval Mani, but also to construct a model for future studies on the built environment of rural settlements.

ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to reframe the policy of drug prohibition, not as a policy deriving solely from a paternal state, but influenced, and perpetuated as part of the overall impact of neoliberal policy and social control. It will do this by identifying certain similarities and trends of Irish society and their similarities with those in other more entrenched neoliberal jurisdictions. Aiding in the structure and content of this paper will be various theoretical models that inevitably overlap, namely Merton's strain theory and its contemporaries, (Messner and Rosenfield) Cohens sub-culture theory, Garland's culture of control and Louis Wacquant's account of punitive neoliberalism. Within these modes of thought, the aspiration is to express the policy of drug prohibition, in light of its protracted failure, as not some unified conspiracy, but a natural evolution of an Irish state, preserving control of a population rendered superfluous by and within an increasingly neoliberal and globalized system. These arenas increase the obstacles of the drug afflicted by perpetuating stigma and exclusion from the economic engines of society e.g. employment, education, healthcare. Chapter one illuminates how prohibition can no longer be justified, nor effective, due to the numerous ways in which it aggravates and perpetuates drug crime throughout the world. Chapter two will present the methodology, limitations and findings of research conducted by the author and the implications of the results with regard to this thesis. Chapter three will then attempt to explain these results by placing prohibition within the wider context of the impact of free market neoliberalism. This chapter aims to highlight the direct and indirect relationships between free market neoliberalism, state institutions, social insecurity and drug policy. In doing so the crucial landscape of Irish institutions will be examined with other jurisdictions to identify neoliberal progress and inclinations.

A growing consensus among many observers of Western European politics has developed in recent years that, in certain countries, national level, consensus‐based political bargaining arrangements involving representatives of organized capital, trade unions, and the state are giving way to more sectorally‐based, conflictual forms of relations. These developments suggest an overall decline in the efficacy of national‐level corporatist institutional structures in the liberal democracies of Western Europe. This article contends that neither of the two general theoretical approaches to the study of corporatism ‐ the liberal model of the "neocorporatist state" (which fails to acknowledge the potential for serious system‐threatening instability within corporatism) nor the Marxist model of corporatist "political structures" (which incorrectly predicts labor‐generated corporatist instability due to inevitable rank‐and‐file discontent with the policy outputs of corporatist forms) ‐ can account for this current wave of macro‐corporatist instability and decline. In response to this theoretical impasse, this article develops a capitalist‐centered explanation for the declining significance of corporatist forms. Business interests, it is maintained, may no longer be viewing corporatist arrangements as beneficial due to certain domestic structural economic changes and to transformations in the global capitalist system.

In this prize-winning book, a renowned political scientist debunks the commonly held myth that the American national government functions effectively only when one political party controls the presidency and Congress. For this new edition, David R. Mayhew has provided a new Preface, a new appendix, and a new concluding chapter that brings the historical narrative up to date."Important, accessible, and compelling, David Mayhew's second edition of Divided We Govern takes the best book on the history of US lawmaking and-against all odds-makes it better."-Keith Krehbiel, Stanford University"In this welcome updating of his agenda-setting classic, David Mayhew cogently defends his original methodology and finds that divided government remains no less productive of important legislation than unified government, although it is now (thanks mainly to Clinton's impeachment) strongly associated with prominent investigations of the executive branch. Written with Mayhew's usual clarity and grace, this is a book to be enjoyed by beginning and veteran students of Congress alike."-Gary JacobsonFrom reviews of the first edition:"First-rate. . . . Mayhew's tabulations and analysis are, quite simply, unimpeachable."-Morris Fiorina, Washington Monthly"Will stand for years as a classic."-L. Sandy Maisel, Political Science Quarterly"Should be read by every student of American politics."-Gillian Peele, Times Higher Education Supplement

For four decades Spain played an important role in debates over the future of politics, culture and economy in state socialist Hungary, particularly for the left: first as the fascist and underdeveloped 'other' against which the state socialist regime legitimised itself, then as a similarly peripheral country that had managed to integrate into global economy, return culturally to Europe and peacefully establish democracy. Close relationships developed between the Spanish socialists and Hungarian communists in the 1980s and offered the latter the hope they would survive any political transition. This article demonstrates the importance of Eastern–Southern European connections – both concrete and imagined – in sustaining, and then overcoming, Europe's post-war divides.