“…Brest, en 1777, es una ciudad portuaria de gran actividad en cuya rada anclan navíos de guerra y de comercio y en cuyas calles el héroe del relato -todavía un niño, a punto de dar el gran salto a lo que llamamos vida- sueña con viajes improbables. …”

“…El estilo enfebrecido y compasivo de Dostoievski sigue con maestría única los recovecos de las contradictorias emociones del estudiante y refleja la lucha extrema que libra con su conciencia mientras deambula por las calles de San Petersburgo. Ya en prisión, Raskolnikov se da cuenta de que la felicidad no puede ser alcanzada siguiendo un plan establecido a priori por la razón: ha de ganarse con sufrimiento…”

“…The first part will analyse the current context, global trends and their implications for HEIs, and it will present a new vision for HEIs. The second part called Transitions will seek to analyse and describe how we could move towards this new vision by approaching core issues and themes in higher education. …”

“…It follows recent shifts in adaptation studies that call for a move beyond fidelity criticism, a paradigm that measures the success of an adaptation by the level of fidelity to the "original" text, toward a methodology that considers the adaptation to be always already in conversation with the adapted text. …”
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“…They critically map the normative ideas contained in these and present a forceful call for deepening democracy. The dominant narrative of our time is that democracy is in a state of emergency caused by social media, changes to journalism and misinformed masses. …”

“…Visiting the political dimensions of theatrical space in both theatre history and contemporary performance, the volume responds to the so-called spatial turn in cultural and historical studies, and questions a politics of aesthetics that is discussed in continental philosophy. …”
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“…Death penalty: A cruel and inhuman punishment is an academic contribution by Academics for abolition aimed at fostering the debate launched by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution 62/149 on 18 December 2007, calling for a worldwide moratorium on executions by 2015, and continued by the upcoming review process of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG). …”
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“…How (Not) to Be Secular is what Jamie Smith calls'your hitchhiker's guide to the present'-- it is both a reading guide to Charles Taylor's monumental work A Secular Age and philosophical guidance on how we might learn to live in our times.Taylor's landmark book A Secular Age (2007) provides a monumental, incisive analysis of what it means to live in the post-Christian present -- a pluralist world of competing beliefs and growing unbelief. …”
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“…En el lapso de una noche suceden tres muertes inesperadas que se descubren al amanecer mientras el asesino ronda las calles. El suicidio escabroso de una mujer joven genera circunstancias que favorecen el descubrimiento del verdadero asesino, quien logra escapar ante la mirada estupefacta de sus captores. …”
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“…A lo largo de los siglos XVIII y XIX, las plazas y calles más concurridas de las ciudades españolas se llenaban de pliegos sueltos vendidos por ciegos cantores, que llamaban la atención de los ciudadanos relatando extraordinarias historias sobre milagros, bandidos, piratas, amores prohibidos... …”

“…While Donald Trump hopes to 'make America great again', Xi Jinping calls for a 'great rejuvenation of the Chinese people', and a majority of Russians still mourn the Soviet Union. …”

“…Analytical Psychology calls special attention to the areas that have been most impacted: the core concepts and practices of the Jungian tradition, along with relevant intellectual and historical background. …”

“…This book presents the results of a study of the traditional education and training of Brahmins through the traditional system of education called gurukula as observed in 25 contemporary Vedic schools across the state of Maharasthra. …”

“…Author Carrie Arnold, a trained scientist, science writer, and past sufferer of anorexia, speaks with clinicians, researchers, parents, other family members, and sufferers about the factors that make one vulnerable to anorexia, the neurochemistry behind the call of starvation, and why it's so hard to leave anorexia behind. …”

“…In the light of this finding and her reading of Freud, she presents the work of Paul Verhaeghe (On Being Normal and Other Disorders), anew and calls on Marie Cardinal, (The Words to Say It), to provide telling evidence of what it means to be a freudian subject. …”