Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Translation of Thought to Written Text While Composing: Advancing Theory, Knowledge, Research Methods, Tools, and Applications; Copyright; Contents; Editors; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Part I: Reexamining What Translation Is and Its Role in Writing; 1 Introduction to the Book: From Cave Writers to Elite Scribes to Professional Writers to Universal Writers, Translation Is Fundamental to Writing; 2 Evidence From Language Bursts, Revision, and Transcription for Translation and Its Relation to Other Writing Processes…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…7 Denmark: The Nordic model as an effort to bridge elite Euro-optimism and popular Euro-skepticism8 Estonia: A single voice in Europe's intergovernmental bargaining; 9 Finland: Centralized consensus on EU constitution building; 10 France: The President takes all; 11 Germany: The promoter of European integration?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of figures -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Aspects of Romanness in the early Middle Ages -- Introduction: Early medieval Romanness - a multiple identity / Transformations of Romanness: The northern Gallic case / Compelling and intense: The Christian transformation of Romanness / The Late Antique and Byzantine Empire -- Romans, barbarians and provincials in the Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus / A stone in the Capitol: Some aspects of res publica and romanitas in Augustine / Remarks on linguistic Romanness in Byzantium / Byzantine Romanness: From geopolitical to ethnic conceptions / The City of Rome -- 'Romanness' and Rome in the early Middle Ages / The post-imperial Romanness of the Romans / The Roman past in the consciousness of the Roman elites in the ninth and tenth centuries / Italy and the Adriatic -- Looking up to Rome: Romanness through the hagiography from the duchy of Spoleto / Rome and Romanness in Latin southern Italian sources, 8th-10th centuries / Between Rome and Constantinople: The Romanness of Byzantine southern Italy (9th-11th centuries) / Dalmatian Romans and their Adriatic friends: Some further remarks / Gaul -- 'Roman' identity in Late Antiquity, with special attention to Gaul / Roman barbarians in the Burgundian province / Histories of Romanness in the Merovingian kingdoms / Romanness in Merovingian hagiography: A case study in class and political culture / Roman law as an identity marker in post-Roman Gaul (5th‒9th centuries) / From subordination to integration: Romans in Frankish law / The Iberian Peninsula -- Goths and Romans in Visigothic Hispania / 'Made by the ancients': Romanness in al-Andalus / Northern peripheries: Britain and Noricum -- Walchen, Vlachs and Welsh: A Germanic ethnonym and its many uses / Four communities of pot and glass recyclers in early post-Roman Britain / Romanness at the fringes of the Frankish Empire: The strange case of Bavaria / From Roman provinces to Islamic lands -- When not in Rome, still do as the Romans do? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Did interest groups manufacture public antipathy to the estate tax? -- Elite ideology and the politics of estate tax repeal -- The eroding minimum wage -- The economic effects of the minimum wage -- Public support for the minimum wage -- The politics of inaction -- Democrats, unions, and the eroding minimum wage -- The earned income tax credit -- Reversing the tide -- Economic inequality and political representation -- Ideological representation -- Unequal responsiveness -- Unequal responsiveness on social issues: the case of abortion -- Partisan differences in representation -- Why are the poor unrepresented? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Henderson -- 13. Writing and elite status in the Bronze Age Aegean Sarah Finlayson -- 14. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Right Screen in Hong Kong : Chang Kuo-sin's Asia Pictures and The Heroine -- 8. Cold War Myth from Elite Democracy to Martial Law in the Genre Cinema of Fernando Poe Jr. in the 1960s and 1970s -- 9. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Discordia en el paraíso : enfrentamientos en torno a la posesión de la tierra en las comunidades indígenas de Cholula durante el siglo XVIII / Wiebke von Deylen -- Ni indio ni español : la identidad ambigua de la elite colonial paraguaya / Barbara Potthast -- Un neosincretismo político : representación política y sociedad indígena durante el primer liberalismo hispanoamericano : el caso de la Audencia de Quito, 1813-1830 / Federica Morelli -- Culturas de coca? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Tovar -- El problema de los transportes en Colombia en el siglo XIX / Frank Safford -- Constituciones y crecimiento económico en la Colombia del siglo XIX / Salomón Kalmanovitz -- Élites, prosperidad y desigualdad : los determinantes de la detentación de cargos públicos en Antioquia durante el siglo XIX / Camilo García Jimeno, James A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…EX-LIBRIS DEL MARQUÉS DE GUADALUPE -- PRÓLOGO -- PRIMERA PARTE ORIGEN Y FORMACIÓN, 1593-1654 -- CAPÍTULO 1 FAMILIAS DE ÉLITE -- LA HERENCIA Y LOS MAYORAZGOS -- LA ÉLITE, LA IGLESIA Y LOS CARGOS PÚBLICOS -- CAPÍTULO 2 PEDRO MATEOS DE ORTEGA: EL ORIGEN (...) -- EL CONTROL DEL AGUA -- UN HOMBRE RICO Y PODEROSO -- EL PESO DE LAS RELACIONES FAMILIARES -- CAPÍTULO 3 LA ADMINISTRACIÓN DE AGUSTÍN (...) -- NUEVAS ADQUISICIONES -- LA COMPOSICIÓN GENERAL DE 1645 -- PROTOTIPO DEL GRAN HACENDADO MEXICANO -- SEGUNDA PARTE UN MAYORAZGO SIN FUNDACIÓN, (...) -- CAPÍTULO 4 PEDRO RINCÓN DE ORTEGA, 1654-1666 -- LA CAPITAL DE UN NACIENTE PRINCIPADO -- UN HOMBRE DE SU TIEMPO -- EL TESTAMENTO DE 1657, LAS DEUDAS Y LA (...) -- MAYORAZGOS -- MAYORAZGOS SIN FUNDACIÓN -- CAPÍTULO 5¿NEGLIGENCIA O MALICIA? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: From There to Here: Theoretical Background -- 1 From Viciousness to Viciousness: Theories of Intergroup Relations -- Psychological Theories -- The Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis -- Authoritarian Personality Theory (APT) -- Psychological Uncertainty and Anxiety Models -- Value and Value Conflict Theories -- Social-Cognitive Approach to Stereotyping -- The Facile Activation of Social Stereotypes -- Stereotypes as Causal Explanations -- The Contextual Sensitivity of Stereotypes -- The Tenacity and Self-Fulfilling Character of Social Stereotypes -- Social-Psychological Theories -- Socialization and Social Learning Theories -- Modern Racism Theories -- Realistic Group Conflict Theory -- Social Identity Theory (SIT) -- Social-Structural and Elite Theories -- Group Position Theory -- Marxism -- The Neoclassical Elite Approach -- Evolutionary Theory -- Summary and Conclusions -- 2 Social Dominance Theory: A New Synthesis -- Some Basic Observations -- Group-Based Versus Individual-Based Social Hierarchies -- The Trimorphic Structure of Group-Based Social Hierarchy -- Basic Assumptions of Social Dominance Theory -- Schematic Overview of Social Dominance Theory -- Aggregated Individual Discrimination -- Aggregated Institutional Discrimination -- Behavioral Asymmetry -- Legitimizing Myths -- The Nature of Social Dominance Orientation -- The Intersecting Psychologies of Gender and Arbitrary-Set Conflict -- Hierarchical Equilibrium and Hierarchy Constraints -- Other Structural Implications of Social Dominance Theory -- Increasing Disproportionality -- Hierarchical Consensuality -- Resiliency -- Consistencies in Social Organization Across Primate Species -- Summary -- Part II: Oppression and Its Psycho-Ideological Elements…”

“…La inclusión de esta tecnología ha generado tanto entusiasmo como controversia, particularmente en competiciones de atletas de élite, debido a las significativas mejoras en los tiempos de carrera que facilita, lo que ha dado como resultado grandes mejoras en los récords del mundo previamente existentes a la aparición de dicho tipo de calzado. …”
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“…Este estudio contribuye a un conocimiento más completo de la doctrina católica, tal y como se presenta en los sermones sevillanos del siglo XVII, así como la cultura y mentalidad de la Sevilla de este siglo, a través de un grupo de elite vinculado al estamento religioso…”
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“…La información sobre estas empresas permite postular que la élite nativa mantuvo una de sus principales funciones, que era la de dirigir y organizar el esfuerzo colectivo, al mismo tiempo que evidencia su capacidad de adaptación a las condiciones impuestas. …”
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“…The book examines the role of political figures as representatives of the public interest and highlights the disconnection between the ruling elite and the general populace, a gap defining representative democracy. …”

“…La ciencia social ha derivado hacia un colectivismo intelectual que va contra la corriente de la vida; desconociendo la distancia que separa las creencias individuales de la "élite" y las prácticas colectivas de la masa, ha llegado a explicarse la Moral mediante las costumbres, y la justicia mediante las regias de derecho; y ha comenzado por reducir a ruinas la doctrina del poder, la de la libertad polí-tica y la del orden individualista. …”
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“…The book describes parallel situations such as the rites of passage in pre-industrial societies and cults, elite Corps military training and college hazing, eventually concluding that the torturer is not born, but made.Of essential interest to academics and students interested in social psychology and related disciplines, this book will also be extremely valuable…”

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“…It draws on a rich mix of evidence to offer an important reconceptualisation of women's role in aristocratic society, and in doing so suggests new ways of looking at lordship and the ruling elite in the high middle ages. The book considers a wide range of literary sources such as chronicles, charters, seals and governmental records to draw out a detailed picture of noblewomen in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm. …”

“…By means of a new kind of anthropological fieldwork, John Forrest seeks to document the entire aesthetic experience of a group of people, showing the aesthetic to be an "everyday experience and not some rarefied and pure behavior reserved for an artistic elite. "The opening chapter of the book is a vivid fictional narrative of a typical day in "Tidewater," presented from the perspective of one fisherman. …”