The UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies can trace its history back to a state legislative act in 1881 that established a " southern branch " of the California State Normal School in Los Angeles.

Studies in early and medieval Irish archaeology, history and literature in honour of Francis J. Byrne, ed.

Classics ( sometimes encompassing Classical Studies or Classical Civilization ) is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world ( Bronze Age ca.

* China Rediscovers its Own History 100 minute lecture on Chinese history given by renowned scholar / author Yu Ying-shih, Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University.

Neusner has aimed to make Rabbinic literature useful to specialists in a variety of fields within the academic study of religion, as well as in ancient history, culture and Near and Middle Eastern Studies.

* Benjamin Z. Kedar, Hans Eberhard Mayer & R. C. Smail, ed., Outremer: Studies in the history of the Crusading Kingdom of Jerusalem presented to Joshua Prawer.

Since the early 1970s, oral history in Britain has grown from being a method in folklore studies ( see for example the work of the School of Scottish Studies in the 1950s ) to becoming a key component in community histories.

The city is also home of the University of Pisa, which has a history going back to the 12th century and also has the mythic Napoleonic Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and Sant ' Anna School of Advanced Studies as the best Superior Graduate Schools in Italy.

Science fiction studies has a long history dating back to the turn of the 20th century, but it was not until later that science fiction studies solidified as a discipline with the publication of the academic journals Extrapolation ( 1959 ), Foundation-The International Review of Science Fiction ( 1972 ), and Science Fiction Studies ( 1973 ), and the establishment of the oldest organizations devoted to the study of science fiction, the Science Fiction Research Association and the Science Fiction Foundation, in 1970.

He does a brief stint at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, then accepts a position at the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland as a civilian professor of history.

There is a history of pensions in Ireland that can be traced back to Brehon Law imposing a legal responsibility on the kin group to take care of its members who were aged, blind, deaf, sick or insane .< REF > THE IRISH CORPORATE GOVERNANCE SYSTEM AND THE ROLE OF IRISH OCCUPATIONAL PENSION FUNDS AS INSTITUTIONAL MONITORS-Lynn ( UCD PhD Thesis, 2005 )</ REF > For a discussion on pension funds and early Irish law, see F Kelly, A Guide to Early Irish Law ( Dublin, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1988 ).

Studies in chronology and history.

* Macdonald, Barrie, Cinderellas of the Empire: towards a history of Kiribati and Tuvalu, Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, 2001.

Series: Studies in the history of the language sciences ; 107.

Among the institutions affiliated with the university are The KITLV or Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies ( founded in 1851 ), the observatory 1633 ; the natural history museum, with a very complete anatomical cabinet ; the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden ( National Museum of Antiquities ), with specially valuable Egyptian and Indian departments ; a museum of Dutch antiquities from the earliest times ; and three ethnographical museums, of which the nucleus was Philipp Franz von Siebold's Japanese collections.

Doctoral thesis, also published in the series Studies in history, economics and public law.

* Bexley Local Studies Note 11-Erith-gives a good outline history of the area

* A. Kaldellis, ' Agathias on history and poetry ', in Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, 38 ( 1997 ), pp 295 – 306

Studies of lava flows on Steens Mountain, Oregon, indicate that the magnetic field could have shifted at a rate of up to 6 degrees per day at some time in Earth's history, which significantly challenges the popular understanding of how the Earth's magnetic field works.

The museum also has a Local Studies Library to support family tree and house detectives, school projects & local history queries.

Studies of nature could in turn be divided, with natural history being the descriptive counterpart to natural philosophy which was the analytical study of nature.

Studies have found that about half of those who complete suicide have a history of parasuicide.

Post-colonial studies comprehend Subaltern Studies of “ history from below ”; post-colonial manifestations of people outside the hegemony ; the psychopathology of colonization ( by Frantz Fanon ); and the cinema of film makers such as the Cuban Third Cinema, e. g. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, and the Filipino Kidlat Tahimik.

His Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding ( 1957 ) is an important work in the history of the genre.

Studies in local history: tall tales, folklore and legend of upstate New York.

In 1990 the university absorbed the Institute of Early Childhood Studies of the Sydney College of Advanced Education, under the terms of the Higher Education ( Amalgamation ) Act 1989.

Jonathan Swift was a strong advocate for licensing, and Daniel Defoe wrote on 8 November 1705 that with the absence of licensing, " One Man Studies Seven Year, to bring a finish'd Peice into the World, and a Pyrate Printer, Reprints his Copy immediately, and Sells it for a quarter of the Price ... these things call for an Act of Parliament ".

Wagner described two of the songs-" Im Treibhaus " and " Träume "-as " Studies for Tristan und Isolde ": " Träume " uses a motif that forms the love duet in Act 2 of " Tristan ", while " Im Treibhaus " introduces a theme that later became the Prelude to Act 3.

* Potency and Act, Studies Toward a Philosophy of Being Translated by Walter Redmond, from The Collected Works of Edith Stein, Volume Eleven, 1998, 2005, 2009, ICS Publications

This article by Fritz Messere ( Associate Professor of Communication Studies at SUNY Oswego ) describes the impact of the Act on radio and television broadcasting, Internet and on-line computer services, and provides sources and suggested further reading.

* John Newton and Jo Bath ( eds ), Witchcraft and the Act of 1604 ( Leiden, Brill, 2008 ) ( Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 131 ).

In his research, the late Philip H. Melanson, former Chancellor Professor of Policy Studies, and chair of the Political Science Department at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth made over 95 Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA ) requests.

Other large and important programs followed Ford's — most notably, the National Defense Education Act of 1957, renamed the Higher Education Act in 1965, which allocated funding for some 125 university-based area studies units known as National Resource Center programs at U. S. universities, as well as for Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships for graduate students.

The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Act of 2005 gave the institute academic autonomy from the university.

" The Employment Act of 1946: A half century of presidential policymaking ," Presidential Studies Quarterly, Summer 1996, Vol.

The Act was called the Alquist-Priolo State Special Studies Zone Act prior to 1994.

" Lord Butler and the Education Act of 1944 ," British Journal of Educational Studies ( 1972 ) 20 # 2 pp 178-191

The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies ( DIAS ) () Dublin, Ireland was established in 1940 by the Taoiseach ( Prime Minister ) of the time, Éamon de Valera under the Institute For Advanced Studies Act, 1940.

* Enacting the Alquist Priolo Special Studies Zone Act, mandating the delineation of zones along traces of hazardous faults.

Six frames from the 1949 footage were released under the Freedom of Information Act to Porcher Taylor, a professor at the University of Richmond in Virginia, and a scholar at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies specializing in satellite intelligence and diplomacy, in 1995.

The Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies was established under an Act of Parliament in 1964.

The AIAS Act was replaced by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Act in 1989.

The Institute for Southern Studies has stated that the Act needs to give greater latitude to FEMA on how it responds to disasters that are extraordinarily devastating such as Hurricane Katrina.

The Institute for Southern Studies has also noted the red tape that has been associated with the Stafford Act in the Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts.