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Through Sunlight and Shadows is an autobiographical novel about a young boy set in the small New Brunswick town of Bannonbridge in the 1940s and 1950s. The story is told from the perspective of an older man, Walt Macbride, a character well known to readers of other Raymond Fraser novels

Índice/Index Editorial Economía/Economy Ambiente, equidad y desarrollo. ¿Utopia o realidad?. Environment, equity and development. ¿Utopia or reality?. Pérez Nácar, Efrén >Educación/Education Niveles estratégicos de marketing político en campañas electorales de gremios universitarios. Strategic levels of political marketing in electoral campaigns of university unions. Ferrer, Juliana; Clemenza, Caterina; Romero, Douglas y Araujo, Rubén Proceso de construcción de la lengua escrita en niños preescolares trujillanos. Process of construction of the written language in trujillanos pre-k children. González, Lesvia Marina A pleno sol. Sunlight. Portillo Parody, Jairo Filosofía/Philosophy Acerca de las limitaciones epistemológicas del modelo sujeto-objeto en la teoría del conocimiento. Epistemological limitations of the subjet-object model in the theory of knowledge. Negrete, Plinio Sociohistoria/Sociohistory Historia de vida de una desplazada. History of a displaced life. Bravo Ramírez, Ernesto Los homicidios en la élite merideña del siglo XVI. The homicides in the merideña elite in the XVII century. Ramírez Méndez, Luis Alberto Ensayos/Essays Modernidad y postmodernidad entre el humanismo histórico y la razón esceptica. Modernity and postmodernity between the historical humanism and the skeptical reason. Márquez, Alvaro Reseña de libros/Books review Arboleda, María y Junco, Armando: Hacia una educación ambiental (2001). Reseñado por: Núñez, Ana Luisa Prachet, Terry: Dioses menores (2002). Reseñado por: Rengifo, Diana Naval Durán, Concepción y Altarejos Masota, Francisco: Filosofía de la educación (2000). Reseñado por: Delgado de Colmenares, Flor Delgado de Colmenares, Flor: Paradigmas y retos de la investigación educativa, una aproximación crítica (2001). Reseñado por: Santana Cova, Nancy Índice Acumulado. Acumulated Index. ; 67-76 ; portillo@ula.ve ; semestral ; Nivel analítico

Libraries face many kinds of emergency, but planning for every contingency is a huge challenge. Overwhelmed with books and articles that focus mainly on the catastrophic events, librarians tend to place more emphasis on managing the risk of hurricanes and floods leaving them underprepared for the more mundane and common emergencies, like burst pipes and leaky roofs. This article uses two case studies of small water emergencies to examine how each library managed those emergencies and what lessons were learned. They show that while both incidents were water-related, they were very different in terms of source, size, impact, recovery time, and frequency. Libraries should be planning for small disasters first, and then scaling up preparation to account for the larger events, rather than the reverse, since the smaller events are much more common and often as challenging to the maintenance of services.

SUMMARYHigher exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UV‐R) is associated with greater prevalence of eye disease such as cataracts. We hypothesize that the variation in the intensity of UV‐R can help explain the differences in institutional quality observed across countries. The long‐term incentive and ability to improve the quality of institutions decline when the probability of blindness increases. Our reduced‐form cross‐country results support this hypothesis. We then propose that the mechanism works from the impact of UV‐R on the prevalence of eye disease, which in turn shapes institutions. Our empirical evidence lends considerable support to this hypothesis.

AbstractThis paper examines the impact of ultraviolet radiation (UV‐R) on state capacity. The results indicate that the intensity of UV‐R is a strong predictor of cross‐country differences in state capacity. Countries with a higher degree of UV‐R exposure tend on average to have weaker states. This finding remains unaffected after controlling for different variables that may be correlated with both UV‐R and state capacity, including an extensive set of geographical, historical and contemporary factors. The observed link between sunlight and state capacity is not driven by potential outliers and is robust to the employment of alternative measures of state capacity, estimation methods and other sensitivity checks. Furthermore, the analysis also reveals that the individualistic–collectivist dimension of culture acts as a transmission channel connecting UV‐R and state capacity. The estimates show that a lower degree of UV‐R exposure leads to the adoption of individualistic values, which in turn contribute to the development of state capacity.