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org/show.aspx?ArticleId=3117 (12.5.2007) : « On the whole, and paraphrasing Malraux, I would say that 21st century will or will not be feminine. Honestly, and without flattering women. We have paid a high price for a establishing a strictly male civilization ». 3 LeBoost: site officiel des Nantaisnoctambules, http://www.leboost.com/forum.php?id_sujet=7172&page=2 (16.3.07) 4 « the 21st century will be green, or will not be at all! » http://www.changementsclimatiques.qc.ca/secretariat/index.html?page=salledepresse&spage=communique

have to trade; you simply pay for your goods with money. The seller can then take the money and buy from someone else. Money is transferable and deferrable - the seller can hold on to it and buy when the time is right. Many argue that complex civilizations could never have arisen without the flexibility of exchange that money allows. Money also gives a yardstick for deciding the value of things. If all goods have money value, we can know and compare every cost.10 Different Kinds of Money There are

sur la relation entre la productivité et la satisfaction psychologique des ouvriers dans leur travail. Dans l'un de ses ouvrages majeurs, The Human Problem of an Industrial Civilization (« Problèmes humains dans une civilisation industrialisée », 1933), et dans des écrits, comme The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilization (« Les problèmes sociaux d'une civilisation industrialisée », 1945), il soutint que la satisfaction des ouvriers diminuait lorsque l'entreprise qui les employait s'agrandissait

established an academy in Baghdad, the Bayt al-Hikmah ("House of Wisdom"), with a large library and an observatory and research center, and private patrons encouraged science and the arts as well. The contrast of the brilliance of Arab Islamic civilization with the benighted Frankish empire in Europe, ruled by illiterate monarchs such as Charlemagne, is striking. Muslim activity had a profound effect, not only on Muslim intellectual life, but also on the intellectual life of western Europe.  Much

les textes 1. On peut en trouver des exemples utiles de mise en application dans des études empiriques comme celle, classique, d’Edward Said L’Orientalisme (1978), mais aussi dans l’ouvrage de Larry Wolff, Inventing Eastern Europe : The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment (1994) (Inventer l’Europe de l’Est : la carte de (1) Le concept de cartographie mentale (mental mapping) est également utilisé par les psychologues cognitivistes pour décrire la manière dont les êtres humains perçoivent

One hole produces a strong jet. However, many small holes produce calm streams of water. Strong emotion, inspired by family relationships, sexual repression, and delayed satisfaction of desire, goes directly against stability. Without stability, civilization cannot exist. Before the existence of the World State, the instability caused by strong emotions led to disease, war, and social unrest that resulted in millions of deaths and untold suffering and misery. Mond describes the initial resistance

accomplishments and inventions would take an entire library. it goes far beyond "we invented peanut butter"... We are builders and creators, dreamers and achievers...we are architects, authors of the Western world's classic literature and civilizations. Your white ancestors invented the telescope and the microscope, they created vaccines and antibiotics that saved millions of lives around the world, your ancestors discovered electricity and invented light bulbs, we invented planes, rockets and

défi stimulant plutôt que comme une source d’inquiétudes irrationnelles et paralysantes. Vaclav Smil est professeur à l’université de Manitoba à Winnipeg et l’auteur de Energy at the Crossroad ; General energetics : Energy in the Biosphere and Civilization ; China’s Past, China’s Future : Energy, Food, Environment ; et de nombreux autres ouvrages. 10/10 

recognizes that the modern states have made significant improvements in promoting cosmopolitan anti-harm conventions. The point is that with the aftermath of September 11, these developments are threatened. Indeed, the new dominant discourse about a “civilization war against evil” is viewed as a regress with accents of Cold War rhetoric. Besides, the US-led war against terrorism is suspending the rule of international law and entailing a great deal of human suffering. It thus decreases the hopes for a peaceful