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| | The Culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | This is not to say that the Culture's motives are entirely altruistic; a peaceful, enlightened universe is in the Culture's enlightened interest. | | | "Notes on Marain, the language of The Culture" | | | Further, the religious motivation behind the Covenant's war with humanity mirrors a similar motivation behind Idiran conflict with the Culture. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture
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| | Iain M. Banks: A Few Notes on the Culture |
| | The Culture is a group-civilisation formed from seven or eight humanoid species, space-living elements of which established a loose federation approximately nine thousand years ago. | | | The convention - tradition, even - in the Culture during the time of the stories written so far is that each person should give birth to one child in their lives. | | | Names; Culture names act as an address if the person concerned stays where they were brought up. |
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http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~stefan/culture.html
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| | Culture definition |
| | Information about the nature of cultural differences between societies, their roots, and their consequences should precede judgment and action. | | | They are therefore carried out most of the times for their own sake (ways of greetings, paying respect to others, religious and social ceremonies, etc.). | | | Symbols are words, gestures, pictures, or objects that carry a particular meaning which is only recognized by those who share a particular culture. |
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http://www.tamu.edu/classes/cosc/choudhury/culture.html
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| | Raymond Williams, Keywords |
| | Plumb, England in the Eighteenth Century)which has this clear sense: 'it has not been customary for persons of either birth or culture to breed up their children to the Church. | | | But there is a letter of 1730 (Bishop of Killala, to Mrs Clayton; cit. | | | Cultura took on the main meaning of cultivation or tending, including, as in Cicero, cultura animi, though with subsidiary medieval meanings of honor and worship (cf. |
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http://pubpages.unh.edu/~dml3/880williams.htm
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| | Culture - Simple English Wikipedia |
| | Not everyone agrees on the meaning or definition of culture. | | | To some, it means the outlook or opinion of an entire society, that can be reflected in their language, literature, religion, music, dress, cooking, etc. Some societies are culturally very rich. | | | Culture is also the beliefs and values of the people in that culture. |
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http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture
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| | Though the name changed to Culture, they have always been "African Disciples" in their mission. | | | In 1976, he joined with (original members) Albert Walker and Kenneth "Paley" Dayes to form the African Disciples. | | | Their relationship saw full fruition with their 1996 release One Stone (RAS 3188) and the dub accompaniment Stoned (RAS 3177). |
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http://www.rasrecords.com/culture
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| | Culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | UNESCO, "UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity", issued on International Mother Language Day, February 21, 2002. | | | (Note that some classifications relegate both high and low cultures to the status of subcultures.) | | | Cultural invention has come to mean any innovation that is new and found to be useful to a group of people and expressed in their behaviour but which does not exist as a physical object. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture
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| | ESL Conversation Questions - Culture (I-TESL-J) |
| | What is the best/most important thing your culture has given to the world? | | | What does it mean to be polite in your culture? | | | Who in your culture do you admire most? |
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http://iteslj.org/questions/culture.html
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| | Irish Culture @ Irelandseye.com |
| | The Children of Lir - A long time ago, thousands of years ago, the Gaels invaded Ireland, and defeated the people who were there before them. | | | In this section of Irelandseye.com we give you a series of articles on many aspects of this culture. | | | Irish culture also extends to the Irish language and amazing stories of Irish myth and legend. |
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http://www.irelandseye.com/aarticles/culture/index.shtm
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| | Culture Directory at Sellassie Cyber University |
| | CULTURE Pages: Church Addis Ababa Islam Food Links | | | Food, language, religions -- if you have your own pages, which should be a part of this listing, contact us and we will include you -- webmaster! | | | Ethiopian Culture is the world treasure and must be known no less than its younger European sisters. |
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http://sellassie.ourfamily.com/culture/cultdir.html
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| | Culture - MSN Encarta |
| | A people’s culture includes their beliefs, rules of behavior, language, rituals, art, technology, styles of dress, ways of producing and cooking food, religion, and political and economic systems. | | | Culture is the most important concept in anthropology (the study of all aspects of human life, past and present). | | | Anthropologists commonly use the term culture to refer to a society or group in which many or all people live and think in the same ways. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761561730/Culture.html
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| | Blogcritics.org: Category Archive |
| | For all the conservative whining about "persecution" of Christianity, religion remains largely exempt from criticism in the public sphere. | | | We of European descent have no reason to blame anyone but ourselves for cultural and spiritual woes. | | | Lots of talk about stuff that has to do with losing weight and stuff. |
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http://blogcritics.org/category.php?category=32
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| | American Pop Culture Encyclopedia |
| | American Pop Culture Encyclopedia P.O. Bx 425 Mountainair, NM 87036 | | | To dazzle the crowds, Bobby Farrelly has taught his... |
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http://www.americanpopcultureencyclopedia.com
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| | Maize Article - Encyclopedia of Culture and Society of Mexico |
| | This reverence, embodied in the cult of maize deities in the prehispanic past, and of agricultural patron saints in the present, reflects the central role of maize in Mesoamerican material subsistence and culture. | | | While such systems were highly variable, they were unequivocally centered on the culture of maize. | | | Due to its adaptability and productivity the culture of maize spread rapidly around the globe after Spaniards and other Europeans exported the plant from the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries. |
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http://maize.agron.iastate.edu/maizearticle.html
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| | Learning commons - What is Culture? - Baseline Definition |
| | Several important principles follow from this definition of culture: | | | Because the relationship between what is taught and what is learned is not absolute (some of what is taught is lost, while new discoveries are constantly being made), culture exists in a constant state of change. | | | An adult's specific desire for milk and cereal in the morning, on the other hand, cannot be explained genetically; rather, it is a learned (cultural) response to morning hunger. |
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http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vcwsu/commons/topics/culture/culture-definition.html
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| | Culture - Republic of macedonia |
| | The manifestation, including a scientific symposium, musical and theatre program, observes the anniversary from the birth of Justinian I (May 11, 483), who came from small place Taorisium, village Taor at present in Skopje’s surrounding, and founded the secret archbishopric Justiniana Prima. | | | Academic Vlada Urosevic will present the book, while author Lidgren will be present at the promotion. | | | (Vecer, 09.05.2006) - Music is part of the cultural heritage. |
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http://www.culture.in.mk
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| | Culture: Arabic Search Engine: Directory of arabic and islamic sites |
| | Culture: Arabic Search Engine: Directory of arabic and islamic sites | | | The mission of this website is to bring together people who are interested in the historical cross fertilization of the various cultures that crossed path with each other during the early part of this millenium in "Al-Andalus" - and the Maghreb. | | | the defining publication in the English language for those interested in and curious about cultural discourse and artistic currents in the Arab world. |
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http://www.4arabs.com/links/Culture
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| | Culture at Poland.com - Literature, Poetry, Music, Film, Thatre, Polish Nobel laureates, Cuisine, Lifestyle, Polish ... |
| | During the period of partition, Poles succeeded in preserving their identity only thanks to religion and culture. | | | One particular feature of Polish culture, highlighting it in the eyes of the world, is the unusual melange of metaphysical searching and historical experience. | | | In a country deprived of its own state and torn into three partitions, art and poetry had specific tasks: maintaining the national memory, organizing the Polish imagination and preserving the national identity? |
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http://culture.poland.com
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| | spiked-culture Home |
| | Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, doesn't so much demystify religion as dehumanise it. | | | Frank Furedi explains why his latest book calls for a new Culture War. | | | A historian points out the problems behind today’s claims of cultural ownership over historical artefacts. |
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http://www.spiked-online.com/Sections/culture
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| | Culture |
| | Control over material forces equates with control over intellectual forces: Law, religion, Education, advertising. | | | Society/SOCIAL STRUCTURE is the interaction; Culture is the product of the interaction, both material and non-material (meanings, beliefs, values, ideas, norms, etc). | | | Within a culture: The Amish (The Amish and Change) |
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http://www.umsl.edu/~rkeel/010/culture.html
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| | Brooklyn College Core 9: Chinese Culture Page |
| | The course is based on seven thematic sections through which we shall try to come to grips with Chinese culture. | | | This is a useful link for you to follow. | | | The approach will be one which sees culture as the system of shared ideas and meanings, explicit and implicit, which a people use to interpret the world and which serve to pattern their behavior [Patricia Ebrey]. |
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http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall
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| | Amigos - Culture Shock |
| | Don't forget the good things you already have! | | | We can describe culture shock as the physical and emotional discomfort one suffers when coming to live in another country or a place different from the place of origin. | | | This happens when a person is trying to adapt to a new culture that is very different from the culture of origin. |
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http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/CGuanipa/cultshok.htm
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| | FreeCulture.org: an international student movement |
| | Rebekah Baglini from Bryn Mawr and myself attended Penn Free Culture’s first meeting yesterday, to… [Read More] | | | The founder of Free Culture Carleton has just published an open letter to creators inviting them to get involved with the Free Culture movement. | | | FreeCulture.org: an international student movement for free culture |
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http://freeculture.org
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| | culture. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Investigations have arisen from belief in many different theories of culture and have often given voice to new theoretical bases for approaching the elusive term. | | | Cultural evolution theory holds that traits have a certain meaning in the context of evolutionary stages, and they look for relationships between material culture and social institutions and beliefs. | | | Ecological approaches explain the different ways that people live around the world not in terms of their degree of evolution but rather as distinct adaptations to the variety of environments in which they live. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/cu/culture.html
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| | ArtLex on Culture |
| | Cultural universals include social organization, religion, structure, economic organization, and material culture (sometimes called visual culture). | | | If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. | | | terms, culture is a group of learned and shared |
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http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/c/culture.html
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| | GenEd - Learning Commons - Fundamental Topic - What is Culture? |
| | Consequently, the definitions and discussions of culture which we've collected here are all from Western sources. | | | Furthermore, we hope to offer some insight into what the culture debate means in our own lives and to provide some examples of how cultural meanings are formed, maintained, and changed. | | | The "important definitions/discussions of culture" which follow explore the culture debate in more detail, developing some of the debate's historically significant perspectives. |
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http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vcwsu/commons/topics/culture/culture-index.html
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| | In the 9th centurie the brothers Cyril and Methodius, recognised as the patrons of Europe, upset the trilingual dogma and created the alphabet of the Slav peoples. | | | Bulgarian culture has given the world men of great achievements, unparalleled in history. | | | Born from the power of tradition, modern Bulgarian culture, too, triumphs in the world. |
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http://www.travel-bulgaria.com/content/culture.shtml
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| | Home: UNESCO Culture Sector |
| | Despite great cultural and natural diversity, only 65 of the 812 World Heritage sites are to be found in this region. | | | A fund to help the States of sub-Saharan Africa improve the preservation of their cultural and natural heritage was launched in South Africa on 5 May. The African World Heritage Fund will also be used to help boost the number of African sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. | | | Celebration of World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development |
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http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=2309&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
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| | Manas: Culture of India |
| | And what of modest roadside shrines, the step-wells of Gujarat, or the havelis of Jaisalmer with their impeccable lattice work? | | | But culture is not only a matter of | | | dance, art, and cinema, for marriage customs, death rites, patterns of pilgrimage to holy cities, modes of raising children, treatment of elders, and innumerable other aspects of everyday life are stitched into the meaning of culture. |
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http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/Culture/culture.html
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| | Organizational Culture |
| | Culture is one of those terms that's difficult to express distinctly, but everyone knows it when they sense it. | | | Basically, organizational culture is the personality of the organization. | | | For example, the culture of a large, for-profit corporation is quite different than that of a hospital which is quite different that that of a university. |
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http://www.managementhelp.org/org_thry/culture/culture.htm
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| | CSU Guide to Australia - Culture |
| | New Acropolis Cultural Association is a non-profit organization whose mission is to revive Philosophy in the Classical Tradition. | | | Logos - engaging with campus culture for Christ | | | Aboriginal Catholic Ministry Archdiocese of Adelaide South Australia Serving Indigenous People The Aboriginal Catholic Ministry recognises with respect the Kaurna people – traditional owners of the land upon which our Centre is located. |
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http://www.csu.edu.au/australia/culture.html
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| | Palestine:Culture |
| | Like other aspects of our life, the Palestinian culture and heritage has been and is still under attack. | | | Embroidery as means of survival and cultural preservation (Palestinian camps in Lebanon - you can even buy their products as a way of support) | | | There isn't enough action on any level to face this but there are some scattered efforts here and there. |
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http://www.palestine-net.com/culture
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| | Encyclopedia opens window on Appalachia |
| | The book, which is being published by The Center for Appalachian Studies and Services at East Tennessee State University and the University of Tennessee Pressk, drew funding from many sources, including the National Endowment for the Humanities. | | | "One of the things this book does is show what an incredibly diverse place the region is, not just in terms of culture, but also in ecology and business," said Mr. | | | The 2,000 entries and 300 photographs and illustrations are divided into 30 sections in five major divisions: The Landscape, The People, Work and the Economy, Cultural Traditions, and Institutions. |
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06073/669920.stm
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| | City of Toronto, Arts Heritage & Culture |
| | The City of Toronto’s Culture Division seeks individuals with a desire to be active in the community and whose expertise and commitment could help to shape the future of Toronto’s rich cultural heritage through participation on a museum board. | | | Toronto Culture is now accepting applications for the 2006 Culture Build Grants Program. | | | providing direct cultural services through its museums and historic sites, and supporting the entire cultural sector of the community. |
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http://www.toronto.ca/culture
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| | GeoLeadership Group: WELCOME |
| | A GeoLeader is a global leader who leads through cultures and contexts, and in doing so, achieves performance, inspires innovative thinking, and uplifts people. | | | Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind provides a “culture centered” leadership perspective allowing organizational leaders the opportunity to attend to the influence of culture. | | | The Seven Cs drive the seven dimensions of any organization: core values and goals, work processes, systems, people potential, structures, strategies, and culture. |
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http://www.geoleadership.com
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| | EUROPA - Culture - European Commission - Culture - homepage |
| | CALL FOR PROPOSALS — DG EAC No 11/06 | | | Council's work plan for culture - 2005/2006 (page 30) | | | The Culture site is aimed mainly at European cultural operators who want to set up cooperation projects with other European partners. |
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http://europa.eu.int/comm/culture/eac/index_en.html
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| | Turkish Cultural Foundation |
| | Dedicated to the Turkish Culture, Art, Lifestyle, Philosophy and Humanism with thousands of pictures from Turkey and Turkic lands | | | The material presented in this web site relates to the following subjects: Turkish culture and arts and the contribution of the Turkish people to human thought and culture are explored in this site with close to-turkish.gif000 pictures and1-turkish.gif00 links. | | | Turkish Cultural Foundation web site: Turkish culture and arts and the contribution of the Turkish people to human thought and culture are explored in this site with.jpg and.gif pictures and links. |
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http://www.turkishculture.org
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| | EUROPA - Culture - European Commission - Culture - Portal - homepage |
| | The Commission adopts a proposal for the EC ratification of the UNESCO Convention on cultural diversity | | | The Portal can also direct you to the sites of the national authorities responsible for culture in Europe. | | | The European Culture Portal provides information on these policies and directs you to specialised sites where you can find more detailed information, such as the Culture site, which specialises in aid for cultural cooperation in Europe. |
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http://europa.eu.int/comm/culture/portal/index_en.htm
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| | The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Culture |
| | Dramnuie Edinburgh Film Festival, the longest continually running film festival in the world. | | | Deutsche Datenquellen has set up a server at University of Karlsruhe that contains info about culture related studies in Germany (Only available in German language). | | | DER's Web catalog contains over 250 films & videos about people & cultures on six continents. |
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http://hirsch.cosy.sbg.ac.at/www-virtual-library_culture.html
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| | It is within these changes that arts are being organized for several decades. | | | Each region possesses its own specificities, contributing, thus, to the making of national culture and to the civilization legacy. | | | t was also decided to allocate 1% of the local councils budget to the building in each prefecture or province of a culture compound, that comprises a theater, and to the sponsorship of artists. |
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http://www.mincom.gov.ma/english/generalities/culture/culture.html
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| | Culture |
| | The influence of Maori, Pacific Island, European and Asian cultures makes New Zealand a colourful and vibrant place with many different customs and food to enjoy. | | | New Zealand's culture is rich and diverse due to the blending of Polynesian and European cultures. | | | Learn about New Zealand's facinating and diverse culture. |
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http://www.virtualoceania.net/newzealand/culture
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| | - at the political level, to identify democratic, participatory and empowering policies to ensure access to culture for the public at large and through a better knowledge of other cultures, to encourage intercultural dialogue; | | | Delegates' site (authorised persons may obtain a password from the webmaster) | | | - at the field level, to see to it that our past is "harnessed" to our future, to ensure access and creativity and sustain Europe& cultural richness in its identities and diversities. |
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http://www.coe.int/T/E/Cultural_Co-operation/culture
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| | == Free Culture == |
| | This site collects content related to FREE CULTURE, the book. | | | If you're looking for information about FreeCulture.org, the student movement, click here. | | | How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity |
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http://www.free-culture.cc
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| | Online Culture Channel Australia Web Media Arts Technology and Science Network |
| | The Channel will shortly be changing its format and restructuring is underway. | | | The Brain Project - exposition on the history and philosophy of brain sciences, the mind and human consciousness. | | | Gleebooks Bookshop Online - Sydney bookstore with a focus on Australian and cultural studies, art history and theory, and related literature. |
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http://www.culture.com.au
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| | Hacker culture(s): New hacker ethics |
| | Jonas Löwgren home page -- teaching material -- hacker culture(s) | | | By engaging hands-on with technical and social systems, your discoveries can contribute to improving the systems. |
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http://webzone.k3.mah.se/k3jolo/HackerCultures/newethics.htm
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