2907, 2014

Trial: The Sustainable Organisation Library

By Victoria Bird|July 29, 2014|Development Studies, Economics, Financial and Management Studies, Unknown|0 comments

The Sustainable Organisation Library is an online library of around 8000 book chapters, case studies and research papers drawn from nearly 600 books and journal issues, focused on sustainability and social responsibility, featuring leading thinkers in sustainability and social responsibility. The SOL collection covers sustainability in its broadest sense, addressing the social, environmental and economic aspects. Topics include: CSR Environment Social Enterprise Management Education Investment Accountability Poverty Reporting Strategy Stakeholders Diversity

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2907, 2014

Mesopotamian mathematics & cuneiform tablets

By Mary Fisk|July 29, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology|0 comments

Cuneiform writing was devised initially for the purpose of keeping accounts, and for the first few centuries, it was used almost entirely for book-keeping. ORACC (Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus) at the University of Pennsylvania has added transcriptions and translations of around 1000 cuneiform mathematical tablets to its database. The text and editions on this site have been made available by Eleanor Robson (University of Cambridge), one of the founders

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2807, 2014

China, Russia and US: whose corporations are most transparent?

By Victoria Bird|July 28, 2014|Economics, Financial and Management Studies|0 comments

In an interesting report, Arachnys claim that China and Russia both have greater transparency and accountability than the United States. In a potential upset, Greenland (an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark- usually seen as a very democratic, open and fair society), also scores poorly. In a news article examining the Arachnys data on the website of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Margot Williams highlights the complexities of tracking

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2507, 2014

Free journal articles on management (for a limited time)

By Victoria Bird|July 25, 2014|Financial and Management Studies, Unknown|0 comments

The below articles, some featuring well known global brands as case studies, are free to access from Emerald for one month: Motivation and job satisfaction Management Decision Mark A. Tietjen, Robert M. Myers Google Scholar: the pros and cons Online Information Review Péter Jacsó Customer loyalty and customer loyalty programs Journal of Consumer Marketing Mark D. Uncles, Grahame R. Dowling, Kathy Hammond The naked truth of celebrity endorsement British Food

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2407, 2014

Commodity Prices in Ancient Babylon 385 – 61 BC

By Victoria Bird|July 24, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Economics, Financial and Management Studies, History, Unknown|0 comments

Yesterday morning I was shown an interesting piece on the International Institute of Social History website about commodity pricing in late Achaemenid and Hellenistic Babylon, by R.J. van der Spek from Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. The prices were recorded alongside other data by astronomers in the employ of the king. There are six key commodities in the listing: these are barley, dates, mustard, cress, sesame and wool. The earliest commodity price in

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2307, 2014

Find out about Chinese firms

By Victoria Bird|July 23, 2014|Economics, Financial and Management Studies|0 comments

SOAS Library now provides access to GTA China’s CSMAR China Stock Market Series and the China Listed Firms Research Series. This database is available in English, and both traditional or simplified Chinese. GTA is a leading global provider of China financial market data, China industries and economic data. The Stock Market Data includes end-of-day prices, volume and computed comparable prices of all A shares and B shares companies listed on

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1507, 2014

Trial access to Asian Films Online from Alexander Street Press

By Jiyeon Wood|July 15, 2014|Anthropology and Sociology, China and Inner Asia, Films and Sound Recordings, Japan, Korea, Linguistics, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Music, Media and Film Studies, Politics and International Relations, South Asia, South East Asia, Unknown|0 comments

We have trial access to Asian Film Online Volumes I and II from Alexander Street Press until 15th August 2014. Asian Film Online is an online streaming video collection of narrative feature films, documentaries, and shorts.This will be useful for scholarship in Asian studies, Middle Eastern studies, political science, postcolonial theory and criticism, anthropology, and linguistics. Asian Film Online: Volume I features more than 600 hours of film across the region with

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1507, 2014

An anthropologist writes: Love Bite: Why Uruguayans Revere Luis Suárez

By David Pearson|July 15, 2014|Unknown|0 comments

West Virginia University Professor Daniel Renfrew writes a timely piece in the Huffington Post – Love Bite: Why Uruguayans Revere Luis Suárez He has written previous about Suárez – Translating Race and Culture: Critical Perspectives on the Suarez-Evra English Football Race Row Image credit: “U09 Luis Suárez 7540” by Ailura – Own work. Licensed under CC-BY-SA-3.0-at via Wikimedia Commons.

1007, 2014

Religions – June 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 10, 2014|Religions|0 comments

General & comparative Religion, language and community in the Roman Near East: Constantine to Muhammad / Fergus Millar. Scriptural polemics: the Qur’an and other religions / Mun’im Sirry. Feeding the dead: ancestor worship in ancient India / Matthew R. Sayers. Street shrines of Kirtipur, Nepal: as long as the sun and moon endure / Mehrdad Shokoohy, Natalie H. Shokoohy, Sukra Sagar Shreshta. Buddhism Women in early Indian Buddhism: comparative textual

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0907, 2014

History – June 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 9, 2014|History|0 comments

General & comparative Connecting histories of education: transnational and cross-cultural exchanges in (post-) colonial education / edited by Barnita Bagchi, Eckhardt Fuchs, and Kate Rousmaniere. Religion, language and community in the Roman Near East: Constantine to Muhammad / Fergus Millar. China & Tibet The capital of the Yuan Dynasty / by Gaohua Chen. Lost colony: the untold story of China’s first great victory over the West / Tonio Andrade. Japan

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