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Chapter 6 of the book "Everyday Corruption and the State: Citizens & Public Officials in Africa" is presented. It describes the corrupt practices in transport, customs, and the civil forces in West African countries. It examines the issue concerning bribery, which is common on the roads in Benin, Niger, and Senegal. It is argued that the customs and police forces in the region exercise highly visible institutionalized corruption manifested by the widespread practice of extortion on the roads.

The article discusses neo-liberalism and the development in Indonesia. Many Asian countries have risen to the challenge of economic development including the Philippines, Thailand, and Malaysia. However, these mainstream developments have been changed and slowed during the financial meltdown in the late 1990s. Indonesian socio-political background is reviewed.

Chapter 2 of the book "Alice's Adventure: Lewis Carroll in Popular Culture" is presented. It talks about the literary criticism written for the works of English author Lewis Carroll on the adventures of the fictitious character of Alice. It refers to the use of Internet searching for the life of Carroll, as well as his works and books about Alice.

An encyclopedia entry for Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) is presented. It refers to documents intended to describe a country's macroeconomic, structural and social policies and programmes aimed at promoting growth, reducing poverty, introducing health and education reforms, and associated with external financing needs. The PRSP approach is expected to boost aid effectiveness, according to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Particular focus is given to studies based on the experience of PRSP in some countries.

A definition of the term "foul papers" is presented. It refers to an Elizabethan playwright's personal draft of a script. This script was the copied by a professional scribe or scrivener who produced the fair copy used as the source for the individual actors' parts for the production, and to secure official approval by the Master of the Revels.

The article offers information on the references which have been taken in this work related to British novelist, Jane Austen. It discusses books "Jane Austen's Family and Tonbridge" by Margaret Wilson; "A History of Jane Austen's Family" by George Tucker, and "A Memoir of Jane Austen" by James Edward Austen-Leigh.

Information on the novel "The White Paper," by Jean Cocteau is presented. The novel describes an adolescent from the French city of Toulon and his attractions to members of the stronger sex.

The article offers information on Henry Austen, brother of the novelist Jane Austen. It discusses about his education at St John's College, Oxford in Oxford, England; his contributions to the weekly paper Loiterer such as differences between the French and the English women; and a book "Volume the Second" by Jane Austen.

The article offers information related work of Josephine Butler, who was an English feminist and social reformer in the Victorian era, in her last years. It examines her work in different countries from Ireland and to India for women. It discusses how Butler's feminism and radical politics animated her support for the abolition of slavery and her anti-imperialist attitudes.

A chapter from the book "Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Virginia Woolf & the Bloomsbury Group" is presented. It mentions the formation of the Memoir Club in 1920 by Bloomsbury Group member and English author Molly MacCarthy, the members of the Club such as authors Virginia and Leonard Woolf and literary critic Desmond MacCarthy, and its effort to initiate a number of autobiographical papers that otherwise may not have existed.

Chapter 10 of the book "Money Changers: A Guided Tour Through Global Currency Markets" is presented. It focuses on the author's visit to the CHIPS office, which is considered as the world's largest currency delivery system in the 1990s. It notes how CHIPS is doing business, according to George Thomas, the senior vice-president and director of Information Systems. The author was also given papers containing studies of payment system risk.

Chapter 6 of the book "Poverty and Social Deprivation in the Mediterranean: Trends, Policies and Welfare Prospects in the New Millennium" is presented. It examines the development of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers, which are national plans for poverty reduction and economic growth, in Albania and Former Yugoslavia. It notes that the concept of the strategy was approved by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in 1999.

The article discusses the review of the Israeli media with censorship apparently limited to security issues. It is suggested that there is an overplus of publications, including three major daily newspapers that is presented in Hebrew-language, two English newspapers and a bustle of wide read local papers as well as a significant press written either in Arabic or Russian.

A list of papers and books about Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff and his works is presented including "Cursed Days: A Diary of a Revolution," by I. Bunin, and "Letters to His Wife," by F. Busoni.

The article sets out in detail the evidence for the use of dedication and recapitulatory prefaces in Greek histories and apologetic texts, and confirms a conclusion that neither practice fits the normal generic expectations of historiography for Greek readers. It examines the case for regarding Acts as a historical monograph. It informs that the pattern of "succession literature" is widespread in the Hellenistic school tradition.

The author reflects on her work as a biographer and describes her feelings when reading someone else's handwritten manuscript. She discusses, among others, manuscripts by Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth and Erasmus Darwin. She also mentions the incredible luck which led to the rescue of letters by Josiah Wedgwood to his partner Thomas Bentley after they had been sold as waste paper.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on topics including writings of Hélène Cixous, records of events.

The article presents two websites and discussion and paper ideas on author Don DeLillo.

The article provides an account of the treatment of World War I by writers and artists from the outbreak of the war to the end of the 20th century, offering a discussion of selected literature for young people produced in different periods, especially in Great Britain, from 1914-2000. Topics covered include the popularity of stories of invasion and espionage, the popularity of the book "The Hill" among 15-year-olds in New South Wales in the 1920s, and the popular novelists during the time.

Chapter 10 of the book "The Myth of the Modern Homosexual" is presented. It analyzes the differences between homosexual identity and cultural identity. The paper also tackles on the assertion that shame is the key factor in homosexual identity, while the difference is the crucial element of ethnic identity. It is stated that ethnic and homosexual identity come at an age when racial discrimination is encountered in early adolescence.

Chapter 8 of the book "The Myth of the Modern Homosexual" is presented. It features various prominent gays and lesbians in the history of the homosexual culture. Luiz Mott has made a historical research which involved a woman who was convicted and tortured in 1591 for having sex with other women. The paper also tackles on the homosexual love letters written in 1664 by Francisco Correa Netto.

Chapter 5 of the book "The Myth of the Modern Homosexual" is presented. It discusses the historical concept of homosexuality. The paper discourses the emergence of the idea of gay history is in 1980, focusing on homophobia and the contemporary history of the gay liberation movement. A pioneering gay historical research was conducted by Heinrich Hoessli.

Chapter 3 of the book "The Myth of the Modern Homosexual" is presented. It offers insights regarding the distinctive homosexual way of living which is promoted before the development of the commercial gay subculture. A writer asserted that a strict heterosexual/homosexual dichotomy was established in the nineteenth century by scientists in the medical and paramedical professions. The paper also reflects on the creation of the label used in the discourse on homosexuality.

Chapter 2 of the book "The Myth of the Modern Homosexual" is presented. It focuses on the historical concept of homosexuality before the emergence of the social constructionism. It also focuses on the struggle of the GLBT people to socialize within a certain community. The paper reflects the social image of gays in the 15th century.

Chapter 1 of the book "The Myth of the Modern Homosexual" is presented. It discusses the historical overview of homosexuals' search for cultural diversity and the importance of the earlier gay movement. It also discourses the political role of social constructionism towards the weakening mechanisms of social control and oppression. The paper focuses on gay culture.

Chapter 2 of the book "The Bisexual Imaginary" is presented. It is developed on the study of the academic papers of Claudia Card and Marilyn Frye, which discuss the pertinence of the book "The Second Sex," by Simone de Beauvoir in contemporary western feminism. According to Card, one should take responsibility of one's own sexual orientation, which she refers to as an "attitude."

Jacques Derrida took up with vigour the Socratic vocation of philosophy as a kind of dying. Notoriously linked to discourses on 'the death of the author (and almost universally misunderstood on this score), Derrida's work was regularly haunted by ghosts. In the closing months of my work on this book, Jacques Derrida died of pancreatic cancer (in the early hours of 9 October 2004). Death, which inscribed itself in his corpus, has now left its mark on his body, and we are left to mourn.

The article discusses significance of the rejoinder "Elementary, my dear Watson!" in Sherlock Holmes stories created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It states that the statement appears nowhere in the Canon, and mentions that "elementary, my dear Watson" is repeated throughout the Canon. It notes pertinence of the statement to the opening scene of "A Scandal in Bohemia," and cites its role interaction between Holmes and John Watson.

A foreword to the book of "Acts" by Luke is presented.

The article offers brief information on the plot line and characters of the short story "The Adventure of the Red Circle" by Arthur Conan Doyle. The author discusses notable features and a quote from the story. It notes that the story was published by "The Strand Magazine" in its March and April 1911 issue.

The article offers information on the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Reigate Squires" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which was first published in "The Strand Magazine" in June 1893. Topics include principal predicament of the story, which describes killing of Cunningham's coachman, William; significant feature of the story, like Holmes's behavior in this adventure; and quotation from Holmes.

A section introduction is presented which discusess topics within the issue incluidng semogenic power of the grammar; language architecture; and language used in talking.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses about the articles in the issue including applicable linguistics theory of English linguist M. A. K. Halliday, linguistics and the human sciences, and linguistic analysis of language.

A definition of the term "Bray, John Francis" is presented. It refers to an author born in the U.S. in 1809 who studied in England and wrote two books including "Labour's Wrongs and Labour's Remedy," as well as "A Voyage around Utopia," a satire never published during his lifetime. Bray's output was transferred into labour movement papers such as the "Labour Leaf." He died in 1897.

The article discusses several papers about the life of several women travel writers that were published within the issue including Alexandra David-Neel, Isabelle Eberhardt, and Karen Blixen.

The lists several abbreviations which includes Harvard Theological Review (HTR); Journal of Roman Studies (JRS); and Journal of Jewish Studies (JJS).

The article discusses girls' stories that belonged to the mid-twentieth century in which girls followed their elders. Topics discussed include how children chose friends over family and became a part of non-family group, kind of superego that fosters girls' qualities such as coopertaion, and fictional girls presented in groups.