“…Sin olvidar el arte, la arquitectura o el mundo del libro, el autor hace un esfuerzo por describir la renovación católica como parte de una gran evolución histórica de la civilización europea, explorando así mismo su expansión y sus encuentros con las culturas no cristianas de América, África y Asia…”

“…Pero, debido a pandemias como el SIDA, la tuberculosis, malaria, y otras enfermedades infecciosas, este logro se puede revertir en pocos años en muchos países, y retroceder a niveles inferiores. En el África sub-Sahariana se estima que la esperanza de vida caerá de 62 para 43 años (Geffen, 2001). …”
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“…Este libro recorre su historia de España a China, de Estados Unidos a África y de Rusia a India. Y sigue el camino que va de las orejas de un faraón a las de los raperos del Bronx y de Coco Chanel a las bailarinas de striptease. …”

“…Desde los núcleos orientales del Imperio, inmerso en el gigantesco proceso de la romanización, el mensaje cristiano se extendió por el Mediterráneo occidental, alcanzando África latina, Italia, las Galias y España. Hacia el año 200, Tertuliano aseguraba que el Cristianismo estaba presente «en todos los ámbitos de las Hispanias». …”

“…As part of a Joint Project of Bilateral Scientific Cooperation between the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and University of Stellenbosch (South Africa), the Centre for Septuagint Studies and Textual Criticism (Faculty of Theology, K.U.Leuven) organised a Specialists' Symposium on the Septuagint Translation. …”

“…This change has been accompanied by the rise of new fields, studying, for example, Islam in Europe and Africa, and new topics, such as the role of gender. …”

“…Ela percorre narrativas de viagens de europeus ao Império Otomano, Pérsia e Norte da África, publicadas em língua inglesa e francesa, remontando ao final do século XVI e prosseguindo até o final do século XVIII. …”

“…Particular attention is paid to oft forgotten virus research in the former Dutch colonies in the East and West Indies and Africa…”

“…Co-authored by three anthropologists with long-term expertise studying Pentecostalism in Vanuatu, Angola, and Papua New Guinea/the Trobriand Islands respectively, Going to Pentecost offers a comparative study of Pentecostalism in Africa and Melanesia, focusing on key issues as economy, urban sociality, and healing. …”

“…Benefit-sharing in Environmental Governance draws on original case studies from South Africa, Namibia, Greece, Argentina and Malaysia to shed light on what benefit-sharing looks like from the local viewpoint. …”

“…In case studies focusing on contemporary crises spanning Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, the scholars in this volume examine the dominant prescriptive practices of late neoliberal post-conflict interventionsâ€"such as statebuilding, peacebuilding, transitional justice, refugee management, reconstruction, and redevelopmentâ€"and contend that the post-conflict environment is in fact created and sustained by this international technocratic paradigm of peacebuilding. …”

“…In The Mazzel Ritual: Culture, Customs and Crime in the Diamond Trade, Russian-Israeli cultural anthropologist and criminologist Dina Siegel follows the route of a diamond from the mines of Africa to the shops of Europe and the United States, as it passes through countless hands and places and is smuggled, stolen, cut, polished, sold, exchanged and, finally, worn as jewelry. …”

“…Edited by two leading experts on the languages of West Africa, this volume is the very first book to handle a range of topics in the syntax of Kwa, a branch of the Niger-Congo language family spoken by approximately 20 million people in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, and Benin and in the extreme southwestern corner of Nigeria. …”

“…They started with ‘Means of transport’, in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. They then moved to ‘Forced transport’, which dealt with West African slaves, Tasmanian Aborigines, Indo-Caribbean women and Japanese-Canadians. …”