“…America has long compared its students to top-performing kids of other nations. But how do the world's education superpowers look through the eyes of an American high school student? …”
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“…In 1838 Charles Darwin jotted in a notebook, 'He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.' "Baboon Metaphysics" is Dorothy L. …”
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“…Different labels have been attached to the same phenomenon: judges drawing inspiration from outside of their national legal systems for solving purely domestic disputes. By doing so, the judges are said to engage in cross-border judicial dialogues. …”

“…Now its grip on Western consciousness is giving way to virtual technologies and networked media, which are reconfiguring human subjectivity just as the alphabet did centuries ago. Alphabetic texts do not convey the bodily gestures of human speech: the hesitations, silences, and changes of pitch that infuse spoken language with affect. …”

“…How can you determine whether an artwork is copyrighted? How do you procure a high-quality reproduction of an image? …”
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“…We typically have little control over our perceptions, particularly when we are sick. But what could we do if we did? In VRx Brennan Spiegel introduces readers to a new kind of medicine, called virtual therapeutics, answering exactly this question, using technology that is already available.It works through two basic but powerful psychological concepts: embodied cognition, the idea that thought processes involve the whole body, not just the brain; and presence, the ability of virtual reality to trick your body into thinking it's somewhere that it isn't, or can do something that it can't usually do. …”

“…Leila Rezvani, a well-to-do surgeon’s daughter in Tehran, her mother concerned only with appearances, her father an often foolishly vocal opponent of the Shah. …”
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“…The analysis is self-reflexive and multidisciplinary, incorporating research on journalistic practices, readership patterns and attitude surveys to answer questions which include: what do journalists mean when they use phrases like 'devout Muslim' and how did the 9/11 and 7/7 attacks affect press reporting? …”
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“…Where do our ideas about economics and economic policy come from? …”

“…In that big circus that politics is, photography and censorship are allied to each other in order to manipulate people through the false use ofimage as a document, using large mass media to subtly but constantly mask those aspects that do not respond to the claims of the parties, blurring and distorting reality. …”

“…What does it mean to live in a material world, and how do materials of the past and present hold the keys to our future? …”

“…However, these references do not suffice in understanding the issue, which is related to a divergent perception of the essence of humanity and thus the subject matter of anthropology. …”

“…In Multiculturalism without Culture, Anne Phillips contends that critics misrepresent culture as the explanation of everything individuals from minority and non-Western groups do. She puts forward a defense of multiculturalism that dispenses with notions of culture, instead placing individuals themselves at its core. …”

“…How can we know God? How do faith and reason relate to one another? How does Aquinas envisage the relations between theology and philosophy? …”

“…When systems we attempt to teach will not, in the end, do what we want or what we expect, ethical and potentially existential risks emerge. …”

“…The Story of Myth, however, argues that it was precisely their nature as stories--as gripping tales, starring vivid characters--that enabled myths to do their most important work: to create and sustain belief in the gods and heroes that populated them, thus forming the basis of Greek religion. …”

“…Presentación del editor: "How do the films of Kubrick communicate mental events of characters in a purely visual manner? …”

“…, Brian Leiter argues that the reasons have nothing to do with religion, and that Western democracies are wrong to single out religious liberty for special legal protections. …”

“…How did those changes affect what they sought to do as professionals? This is a story which takes curriculum as the main engine of a school's development and so takes the quality of education…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Tull -- Against science in the academic study of religion : on the emergence and development of the American Academy of Religion / Donald Wiebe -- Religious studies and Newman's idea of theology : do they have a future in the twenty-first century? …”