Overall, neo-Marxist accounts of the information society have in common that they stress that knowledge, information technologies, and computer networks have played a role in the restructuration and globalization of capitalism and the emergence of a flexible regime of accumulation ( David Harvey 1989 ).

The first millennium BC saw the emergence in the region of " Phrygians " and " Maeonians ", the accounts concerning which are still blended with myths, and finally of Lydians.

Cathy N. Davidson argues that The Coquette is not merely a novel about the evils of sin and seduction, but rather “ a remarkably detailed assessment of the marital possibilities facing late-eighteenth-century women of the middle or upper-middle classes .” Davidson notes the centrality of Foster ’ s novel in “ countering received ideas on women ’ s circumscribed power and authority ,” positioning The Coquette as “ an important voice in the debate on women ’ s role in the Republic .” In her exploration of the early American novel, Davidson uses the contradictions between Foster ’ s novel and the moral accounts of Elizabeth Whitman ’ s death to explore the emergence of the early American sentimental novel:

Often now referred to as the " Cobbing controversy ", historians are still very much divided on the issue of the emergence of the Zulu nation and the accuracy of conventional accounts of the Mfecane.

Even Poirot acknowledges that Rossakoff has told several wildly varying accounts of her early life.

Weil was mistakenly arrested in Finland at the outbreak of the Winter War suspected of spying ; however, accounts of his life having been at danger have been shown to be exaggerated.

Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.

In September 2004, The Cayman Islands were hit by Hurricane Ivan, causing mass devastation, loss of human and animal life ( both wild and domestic / livestock ) and flooding, with some accounts reporting that 25 % or more of Grand Cayman had been underwater and with the lower floors of buildings being completely flooded.

Traditional accounts of the author's life are found in many commentaries and include details such as these: He was born on Salamis Island around 484 BC, the son of Mnesarchus, a retailer who lived in a village near Athens.

Soon after Ephrem's death, legendary accounts of his life began to circulate.

There has been much uncertainty over Rasputin's life and influence as accounts of his life have often been based on dubious memoirs, hearsay and legend.

Typically modern accounts of his life go something like this:

The traditional accounts of his biography describe the beginnings of his life as a public teacher and leader of the Jewish people from his 36th birthday.

Given that the Qur ' an is vague regarding the punishment of homosexual sodomy, Islamic jurists turned to the collections of the hadith and seerah ( accounts of Muhammad's life ) to support their argument for Hudud punishment ; these are perfectly clear but particularly harsh.

Much of Caesar's life is known from his own accounts of his military campaigns, and from other contemporary sources, mainly the letters and speeches of Cicero and the historical writings of Sallust.

In his later life, John Calvin wrote two different accounts of his conversion that differ in significant ways.

All species were drawn life size which accounts for the contorted poses of the larger birds as Audubon strove to fit them within the page size.

According to some accounts, Midas had a son, Lityerses, the demonic reaper of men, but in some variations of the myth he instead had a daughter, Zoë or " life ".

The Orthodox Church has its own traditions regarding Mary of Bethany's life beyond the gospel accounts.

They state that this story may originate with an over-excited Victorian letter writer sharing somewhat exaggerated accounts of his exotic life in the tropical colony with a British audience back home.

Some accounts of Nostradamus's life state that he was afraid of being persecuted for heresy by the Inquisition, but neither prophecy nor astrology fell in this bracket, and he would have been in danger only if he had practiced magic to support them.

Very little is reliably known of the life of Nāgārjuna, since the surviving accounts were written in Chinese and Tibetan, centuries after his death.

According to European accounts, during a great famine in 14th or 15th century girls were killed after coming to life in order to equilibrate demography.

In Philosophical Explanations ( 1981 ), which received the Phi Beta Kappa Society's Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Nozick provided novel accounts of knowledge, free will, personal identity, the nature of value, and the meaning of life.

After Muhammad's death, the revelations were collected and organized into the Quran, and accounts of his life eventually formed the basis for the Sunnah.

The recommended, neutral and discouraged categories are drawn largely from accounts of the life of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad.

Early Sunni scholars often considered sunnah equivalent to the biography of Mohammed ( sira ) as the hadith was then poorly validated while contemporary accounts of Muhammad's life were better known.

From all accounts his personal and social life exhibited the highest moral and spiritual standards.

Many of the earlier accounts of prophets found in the Tanakh are found within the context of other accounts of Israel's history.

Robinson wrote that, where the Gospel narrative accounts can be checked for consistency with surviving material evidence, the account in the Gospel of John is commonly the more plausible ; that it is generally easier to reconcile the various synoptic accounts within John's narrative framework, than it is to explain John's narrative within the framework of any of the synoptics ; and that, where in the Gospel Jesus and his disciples are described as travelling around identifiable locations, the trips in question can always be plausibly followed on the ground, which he says is not the case for any synoptic Gospel.

The town was within the Persian empire at that time and maybe the young Herodotus heard local eye-witness accounts of events within the empire and of Persian preparations for the invasion of Greece, including the movements of the local fleet under the command of Artemisia.

The very earliest accounts of belief are contained in these texts, such as early Christian creeds and hymns, as well as accounts of the Passion, the empty tomb, and Resurrection appearances ; some of these are dated to the 30s or 40s CE, originating within the Jerusalem Church.

The concordance of the language used in the Testimonium, its flow within the text and its length have formed components of the internal arguments against its authenticity, e. g. that the brief and compact character of the Testimonium stands in marked contrast to Josephus ' more extensive accounts presented elsewhere in his works.

The fever accounts for up to one third of deaths in hospitals within the affected regions and 10 to 16 % of total cases.

Thus different sources give sometimes wildly different accounts of the number of languages within a family.

" Musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez summarizes the relativist, post-modern viewpoint: " The border between music and noise is always culturally defined — which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place ; in short, there is rarely a consensus ... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be.

Many current and recent philosophers — e. g., Daniel Dennett, Willard Van Orman Quine, Donald Davidson, John Rogers Searle, and Jerry Fodor — operate within a broadly physicalist or materialist framework, producing rival accounts of how best to accommodate mind — functionalism, anomalous monism, identity theory, and so on.

Subsequent historians examining the Early Modern witch trials, particularly Carlo Ginzburg, Eva Pocs and Emma Wilby have also emphasised that the accounts in many of the witch trials represent visionary experiences, containing within them imaginary and surreal elements, which goes against Murray's rationalization of the trial accounts.

In the 1970s, the focus of debate within American human geography lay on political economic processes ( though there also was a considerable number of accounts for a phenomenological perspective on social geography ), while in the 1990s, geographical thought was heavily influenced by the " cultural turn ".

Perhaps related to Yggdrasil, accounts have survived of Germanic Tribes ' honouring sacred trees within their societies.

The role of software error in the launch failure remains somewhat mysterious in nature, shrouded in the ambiguities and conflicts among ( and in some accounts, even within ) the various accounts, official and otherwise.

Johnson presented this line to the Maharaja of Kashmir, who then claimed the 18, 000 square kilometres contained within, and by some accounts territory further north as far as the Sanju Pass in the Kun Lun Mountains.