“…I suoi studi si sono concentrati anche sulle letterature francofone dell’Africa Nera e del Québec, che ha contribuito a introdurre in Italia e a diffondere su scala internazionale. …”

“…This book presents innovative contributions to transnationalisation research and world society theory based on empirical studies from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. Practicable methodologies complete theoretical inquiries and provide examples of applied research, which also might be used in teaching…”

“…Born into a distinguished aristocratic family of the old Habsburg Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen spent much of her childhood and early youth travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. Never comfortable with the traditional roles women were expected to play, she broke as a young adult both with her family and, after five years on his estate in the old Czarist Russia, with her German Junker husband, and set out as an independent, free-thinking individual, earning a precarious living as a writer. …”

“…Using a shared conceptual framework the contributors to this volume analyze the nature of regulation in different historical periods and geographical areas. From Africa and the Middle East to Asia and Europe, 'Colonial and Post-Colonial Governance of Islam' opens up new vistas for research in Islamic studies…”

“…It investigates inter-imperial zones and networks of exchange which were crucial for ancient Eurasian connections.Volume I provides a comparative history of the most important empires forming in Northern Africa, Europe and Asia between 300 BCE and 300 CE. …”

“…Written by leading experts from seven countries in Europe, America, Africa and Asia, it first discusses the theory of health promotion and vital concepts. …”

“…The material draws on the Nordic countries, Europe, the Atlantic world, Africa, and Australia and ranges from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. …”

“…Emprendemos un largo viaje por Europa, Asia, África, América y Oceanía para descubrir, con cierta sorpresa, que pese a ser cuentos recogidos en lugares tan lejanos, todos tienen un denominador común: la necesidad que tenemos las personas de contar lo que nos preocupa, lo que nos emociona, lo que añoramos. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part I: Reference Systems and Frames -- Towards an International Height Reference Frame Using Clock Networks -- Towards the realization of the International Height Reference Frame (IHRF) in Argentina -- Comparing Vienna CRF solutions to Gaia-CRF2 -- Co-Location of Space Geodetic Techniques: Studies on Intra-Technique Short Baselines -- Status of IGS Reprocessing Activities at GFZ -- A Wavelet-based Outlier Detection and Noise Component Analysis for GNSS Position Time Series -- Part II: Gravity field modelling -- International Combination Service for Time-variable Gravity Fields (COST-G) – Start of operational phase and future perspectives -- LUH-GRACE2018: a new time series of monthly gravity field solutions from GRACE -- A Precise Geoid Model for Africa: AFRgeo2019 -- Part III: Earth rotation and geodynamics -- A first assessment of the corrections for the consistency of the IAU2000 and IAU2006 precession-nutation models -- Report of the IAU/IAG Joint Working Group on Theory of Earth rotation and validation -- Achievements of the first 4 years of the International Geodynamics and Earth Tide Service (IGETS) 2015 – 2019 -- Inter-comparison of ground gravity and vertical height measurements at collocated IGETS stations -- Part IV: Multi-Signal Positioning, Remote Sensing and Applications -- A Benchmarking Measurement Campaign to Support Ubiquitous Localization in GNSS Denied and Indoor Environments -- A method to correct the raw Doppler observations for GNSS velocity determination -- Assessment of a GNSS/INS/Wi-Fi Tight-Integration Method Using Support Vector Machine and Extended Kalman Filter -- Enhancing navigation in difficult environments with low-cost, dual-frequency GNSS PPP and MEMS IMU -- Part V: Monitoring and Understanding the Dynamic Earth with Geodetic Observations -- Water Depletion and Land Subsidence in Iran using Gravity, GNSS, InSAR and Precise Levelling Data -- Past and future sea level changes and land uplift in the Baltic Sea seen by geodetic observations -- Estimation of Lesser Antilles vertical velocity fields using a GNSS-PPP software comparison -- Time variations of the vertical component in Japanese GEONET GNSS sites -- An approximate method to simulate post-seismic deformations in a realistic Earth model -- Geodetic monitoring of the variable surface 1 deformation in Latin America -- Progress in GTEWS ground displacement measurements and tsunami warning -- Part VI: Geodesy for Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Climate Research (IAG, IAMAS, IACS, IAPSO) -- Characterization of the Upper Atmosphere from Neutral and Electron Density Observations -- Tropospheric products from high-level GNSS processing in Latin America -- Can vertical GPS displacements serve as proxies for climate variability in North America? …”

“…Más allá del imaginario mítico asociado al Estrecho de Gibraltar, este libro propone un estudio diacrónico, desde la presencia romana hasta el final de la Reconquista, de la imagen que refleja este umbral esencial entre el Mediterráneo y el Atlántico, entre Europa y África, entre el mundo cristiano y el mundo musulmán…”

“…The Centre teaches academic programmes and engages in research, advocacy and training on human rights, with a specific focus on Africa. Its flagship programmes are the Master’s in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa and the African Human Rights Moot Court Competition. …”

“…This Chinese power project triggers a variety of countermovements from Asia to Africa, ranging from acquiescence and adaptation to appropriation and resistance. …”

“…Chef Kylie Kwong branches out from her Chinese culinary heritage to explore the cuisines of Europe, the Mediterranean and North Africa. With the emphasis on intensity of flavour and using the finest produce, she creates dishes with inspired combinations of Western ingredients and Eastern techniques…”

“…10 chapters from five continents (Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, Africa) provide a global perspective on current anti-feminism and anti-gender discoursesProvides an analytical understanding of anti-feminism as an intersectional ideology between continuity and change, with a conceptual framework of analysis and a comparative perspective on common global trends as well as regional/national specifitiesShows how discourses originally developed in the Global North/West are re-articulated in different national (including post-colonial) contexts, promoting an understanding of the entanglements between global and the localPresents new perspectives and information on different world regions, opening up new angles in research on transnational anti-feminist networks and the global spread of anti-gender discoursesProvides a solid basis for further research in local, national and regional contextsThis new book brings together research and analyses from five continents in order to promote a global perspective on the thoroughly global phenomenon of the current culture wars around sex and gender. …”

“…Mass-Elite Representation Gap in Old and New Democracies brings together a global array of scholars to examine the issue from new angles, drawing on evidence from North Africa, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South America, and Europe. …”

“…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…”

“…La primera parte del libro estudia el siglo XX desde perspectivas sectoriales (demografía, cultura, ciencia, economía); la segunda pone el énfasis en las grandes áreas regionales del mundo, desde 1945; Asia Oriental, China, África, Oriente Medio, los EE.UU., Europa, la URSS…”

“…Este libro afronta la de ambos países y sus imperios desde la perspectiva del papel crucial que desempeñaron en la globalización primitiva y del impacto que esta tuvo en sus sociedades y en Europa en general, así como en las áreas de dominio en África, Asia y América. Años de investigación y reflexión, y una comparación sistemática con los países de su entorno, han permitido a Bartolomé Yun seleccionar para el lector los hechos básicos y contestar cuestiones de calado. …”

“…Ese viaje de ida y vuelta entre la violencia y la vida cotidiana de un pequeño rincón del mundo como el País Vasco y de lugares tan distantes y distintos como Rusia, Oriente Medio, Ásia, África o América del Sur es lo que dan a este relato una perspectiva distinta. …”