“…In a lucid and elegant style, the book places her life and work in the historical context of the Civil War, the suffrage movement, and the rapid industrialisation of the United States. …”

“…Throughout Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI's pontificate he spoke to a range of political, civil, academic, and other cultural authorities. …”

“…From Jacobs' first trip to Spain, to the complex politics of Golden Age Madrid, to his meeting with the man who saved Las Meninas during the Spanish Civil war, via Jacobs' experiences of the sunless world of the art history academy, Jacobs' dissolves the barriers between the past and the present, the real and the illusory. …”

“…She discusses the intersections between the role of the school principal with larger movements for civil rights, parental and community activism, and education reform. …”

“…En esta obra, Llull intentó transformar, hasta cierto punto, su Arte en una teoría de la argumentación, adoptando tanto terminología aristotélica como casos de derecho civil y canónico…”

“…Museums and Social Activism is the first study to bring together historical accounts of the African American and later American Indian civil rights-related social and reform movements that took place on the Smithsonian Mall through the 1960s and 1970s in Washington DC with the significant but unknown story about museological transformation and curatorial activism that occurred in the Division of Political and Reform History at the National Museum of American History at this time. …”

“…His seminal 1967 essay "Civil Religion in America" created a huge debate across disciplines which continues to this day; his co-authored book Habits of the Heart (1985) was a bestseller (it sold close to 500,000 copies) and became the object of sustained public discussion about the temptations and dangers of radical individualism. …”

“…Nos hable—entre otras cosas—del Cristo de Grünewald, de un gerifalte maoísta ante la Maja desnuda de Goya, de Chagall, de los corrimientos de tierras de la Valtelina o del valor de la oración; ataque a Pedro Abelardo por su dureza y sequedad hacia Eloísa, rememore a Teresa de Jesús o recuerde la inhumanidad de la guerra civil española; observe a una mujer y a su hijo hambrientos en Biafra o la plenitud de un Rembrandt; se escandalice por la bomba atómica o por la dictadura de la Razón; su voz es siempre profética, resonante y esencial…”

“…Authors from both sides of the civil wars, including Milton, Hobbes, Margaret Cavendish, and the Quakers, adapted the analogy between family and state to support radically different visions of political community. …”
Sumario

“…Drawing on both sociology and social psychology, and on his experience as a senior British Civil Servant dealing with violent political conflicts in Northern Ireland and elsewhere, Bell shows that such conflicts were a basic feature of the overwhelmingly agricultural political economy of the empire. …”

“…El documental narra la vida del fotógrafo Francisco Boix. Tras la Guerra Civil Española, el exilio le llevó al campo de concentración de Mauthausen. …”

“…In Brexit and the Future of Private International Law in English Courts, Mukarrum Ahmed discusses the impact of Brexit upon jurisdiction, foreign judgments, and the applicable law in civil and commercial matters. By providing a commentary on the principal post-Brexit changes in England, this book faces towards the future of private international law in English courts. …”