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Determinants of business angels investments: an empirical analysis of the italian informal venture capital market product=determinants-of-business-angels-investments-an-empirical-analysis-of-the-italian-informal-venture-capital-market
No full textThe aim of this study is to analyze the returns of business angels’ investments and their determinants. In this research the author wants to investigate the relationship existing between the performance of business angels investments and a series of explanatory variables widely used in the literature dealing with formal venture capital investments. Thanks to the data provided by surveyed business angels about their exits, it has been possible to build a dataset containing the details of about 90 disinvestments made in Italy during the 2007-2010 time period. This study shows that the most important features business angels look for when financing new firms is the management team, followed by the potential growth of the market. - See more at: http://dl4.globalstf.org/?wpsc-product=determinants-of-business-angels-investments-an-empirical-analysis-of-the-italian-informal-venture-capital-market#sthash.8tNaCe5V.dpu
Book of the month: Luis Alberto Urrea's The House of Broken Angels
No full textAuthor: Nisâ Sevsay Hacettepe University Our book recommendation of the month is Urrea’s new book The House of Broken Angels, a perfect example on how to weave personal stories into fiction. It is full of warm and intimate stories about one’s home. It does not only reflect Mexican-American culture through an insider’s perspective, but it also illustrates the numerous motives that explain many Latino/Latina’s current struggles. Almost all members of the family had tragic backgrounds and memor..
A treatise of angels : of the nature, essence, place, power, science, will, apparitions, grace, sinne, and all other proprieties of angels : collected out of the Holy Scriptures, ancient fathers, and schoole-divines /
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Angels Have no Nationality
No full text(Color) This postcard contains a poem text about "A True Sory of the Great European War" printed on peach background, surrounded by white angels with red crosses at the corners. Also in the corners of the postcard are globes depicting Europe, America, Africa, and Asia. This card is uninscribed and unposted.This collection previously belonged to Dominic Hibberd, an English biographer most noted for the biographies of Wilfred Owen and Harold Monro, World War I poets. He collected these postcards for research purposes
Furious Angels
No full textReunited by tragedy, Andrew and Will are unlikely pawns in a high-stakes game of A.I. and religious fanaticism. Answering a call from beyond the grave they are unwittingly thrown into a vast technological world both deadly and fascinating. This is the breathtaking first book in the series by Irish author Dr Damien Mac Namara
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
About religious sources of V. Khlebnikov’s poem “Angels”
No full textThe article presents new arguments supporting the value of the “Cherubic Hymn” and the early Christian book “Pistis Sophia” as possible sources of V. Khlebnikov’s poem “Angels”. Thus, grammatical rhymes in the poem are associated with the Christian prayer, and the sound texture is correlated with the Gnostic spells. The author first draws a parallel between the images of the angels in the apocryphal Book of Enoch and Khlebnikov’s poem
Notes on Francesc Eiximenis’ "Book of Angels"
No full textFrancesc Eiximenis, a Catalan Franciscan and writer who lived in the 14th century, is not very well known today outside the narrow circle of Catalan researchers of the Middle Ages, even though he was a very popular author at the time and was eagerly translated into other languages. He was most enthusiastic about using his native language, i.e. Catalan, in which he wrote treatises on the truths of faith, theological questions, and social and political issues. The purpose of this study is to introduce Eiximenis and to present a Polish translation of an excerpt from the first book of his angelological treatise entitled Llibre dels angels (Book of Angels). Rozalia Sasor’s translation, together with an initial critical commentary on the text, is the first contemporary edition of this part of the treatise. The paper, which is at the same time an introduction to the translation, is divided into four sections. In the first one, Sasor briefly discusses the state of knowledge about Francesc Eiximenis in Poland; in the second one, she presents his biography with a special emphasis on the time of his studies and his theological and philosophical interests, and in the third she characterises the Llibre del angels and the circumstances surrounding the creation of the work. It is worth noting at this point that the aforementioned characteristics focus on the properties of the language of the original, which contributed to the success of Llibre dels angels among readers; it also takes up the previously undiscussed problem of the sources of the treatise. The paper ends with a comment on the Polish translation, in which Sasor explains how she prepared the source text for translation as there is no contemporary critical edition of the first three books of Llibre dels angels; she also discusses the translation strategy she adopted. The whole publication is completed by a translation of selected excerpts from the first part of Llibre dels angels, i.e. chapters 1–7, 9, 14, and 16–17, with critical commentary
Rebel angels: political theology and the fall of the angels tradition in old English literature
No full text“Rebel Angels: Political Theology and the Fall of the Angels Tradition in Old English Literature” argues that the story of the fall of the rebel angels provided Anglo-Saxon authors with a rich discursive field in which to ground earthly business – political power, legal order, communal identity, and the cultural logic of rebellion and reform – in unearthly authority. This extra-biblical narrative shaped prevailing attitudes towards lordship and dissent and underwrote protocols for counteracting crises such as ecclesiastical corruption, external invasion, and social disobedience. This study traces the fall of the angels narrative through diverse Latin and vernacular genres including royal charters of the Benedictine Reform era (c. 964-984), vernacular homilies written during the Viking raids (c. 1002-1023), verse saints’ lives by Cynewulf, the anonymous poems Andreas and Guthlac A, and the Old English biblical poetry of the Junius Manuscript (Genesis A, Genesis B, and Christ and Satan). This project demonstrates how Anglo-Saxon authors appropriated the fall of the rebel angels narrative in moments of historical crisis and upheaval. Frequently casting their adversaries in the role of the fallen angels, Anglo-Saxon authors correlated this narrative with the exegetical “doctrine of replacement” – according to which faithful Christians would inherit the heavenly territories forfeited by the rebellious angels – as a way to articulate their national identity as a converted people.Item withdrawn by Laura Spradlin ([email protected]) on 2014-07-03T18:31:24Z
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White Angels Zagreb: Combating Homophobia as “Rural Primitivism”
No full textThis chapter looks at how urban and rural distinctions are caught up with discussions of non-heterosexuality and how this dynamic is played out in the context of football and both Croatian and regional football fan scenes. The author zooms in on the football fan group White Angels Zagreb and examines fans’ self-positioning with respect to the urban-rural oppositions and a discussion of “being cultured” (biti kulturan), “primitive” (primitivci), and “peasant” (seljaci/seljačine) in the post-Yugoslav context. The author argues that White Angels Zagreb’s openness to non-straightness is, according to the group’s self-positionality strategy, a key axis of distinction differentiating them from other fan groups in the regional fan scene. Acceptance of non-heterosexual sexualities thus becomes part of an “urban habitus” that contests dominant notions of masculinity within the fan scene. The use of urban-rural discourses also encourages processes of hierarchy formation within the group itself
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