“…Working with a vibrant new band and dancers, the former Talking Heads frontman turned his music into an antidote to America's current divisions. Spike Lee's latest joint brings all this joyous stagecraft to the screen in a vital call to connect with one another, to protest injustice, and, above all, to celebrate life…”
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“…They trace the ways in which historical and cultural changes in the second half of the twentieth century have shaped not only Updike's reassessment of America's heritage, but his reassessment of the literary devices by which that legacy is best portrayed. …”

“…La combinación entre protección de Derechos Humanos y elaboración de un Estado de Derecho en modelos regionales y el "ius punendi" de órganos supranacionales en un modelo de integración regional europea son sin duda alguna fuente de inspiración para el desarrollo de la integración regional en América Latina, incluyendo sus sistemas penales." …”

“…Hot to Save of Fish from Drowning: A film about the death of white rural America told through the voices of threed old men fishing on a frozen lake. …”

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“…A orixinalidade do caso galego está en que monumentos, festas patrióticas e lugares de memoria foron promovidos por grupos minoritarios que tiveron un apoio esencial das colectivdades de emigrantes en América. Heroes como Pardo de Cela, mártires como os de Carral, líderes ou“traidores”como Xelmírez, bardos como Pondal, referentes próximos e distantes como Portugal ou himno e bandeira son fitos que van marcando o territorio desa identidade construída sobre herdanzas do pasado, como unha“comunidade imaxinaria”proxectada cara ao futuro…”

“…Lawrence Lessig, the reigning authority on intellectual property in the Internet age, spotlights the newest and possibly the most harmful culture war-a war waged against our kids and others who create and consume art. America's copyright laws have ceased to perform their original, beneficial role: protecting artists' creations while allowing them to build on previous creative works. …”
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“…This book reinterprets the rise of the natural and social sciences as sources of political authority in modern America. Andrew Jewett demonstrates the remarkable persistence of a belief that the scientific enterprise carried with it a set of ethical values capable of grounding a democratic culture - a political function widely assigned to religion. …”

“…At the same time, however, it has served to unite Irish emigrants worldwide, whether they be in America, Australia or Canada…”
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“…Placing legislative privilege in historical context, Josh Chafetz explores how and why legislators in Britain and America have been granted special privileges in five areas: jurisdictional conflicts between the courts and the legislative houses, freedom of speech, freedom from civil arrest, contested elections, and the disciplinary powers of the houses. …”
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“… "Richard Rorty’s Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism is a last statement by one of America’s foremost philosophers. Here Rorty offers his culminating thoughts on the influential version of pragmatism he began to articulate decades ago in his groundbreaking Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. …”

“…Historians have often employed the concept of civil society, an intermediary realm between the family and the state, to analyse nineteenth-century Europe and North America. They have concentrated on voluntary associations, the press and public meetings, the constituent elements of J…”

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