“…This volume explores the roots of Europe's struggle with multilingualism. …”

“…Can we know that humanitarian organizations are, in fact, using our donations to alleviate human suffering rather than pursuing other goals? This book explores the problems of establishing the credibility of NGO activities as they monitor working conditions, human rights and elections and provide finance through microcredit institutions, development aid and emergency assistance…”

“… This interdisciplinary collection explores the relationships between women and built space in England between the 1870s and the 1940s. …”

“…It questions why war features as a foundational problem in ​contemporary world affairs and explores how international law is used to manage this and other types of political violence. …”

“…Jerrold Seigel's panoramic new history offers a magisterial and highly original account of the ties between modernity and bourgeois life, arguing that they can be best understood not in terms of the rise and fall of social classes, but as features of a common participation in expanding and thickening 'networks of means' that linked together distant energies and resources across economic, political and cultural life. Exploring the different configurations of these networks in England, France and Germany, he shows how their patterns gave rise to distinctive forms of modernity in each country and shaped the rhythm and nature of change across spheres as diverse as politics, money and finance, gender relations, morality, and literary, artistic and musical life"…”

“…Features a diverse cast of contributors that include established world historians and emerging scholars Explores a wide range of topics and themes, including and the practice of world history, key ideas of world historians, the teaching of world history and how it has drawn upon and challenged "traditional" teaching approaches, and global approaches to writing world history Places an emphasis on non-Anglophone approaches to the topic Considers issues of both scholarship and pedagogy on a transnational, interregional, and world/global scale "-- "A Companion to World History offers a comprehensive overview of the variety of approaches and practices utilized in the field of world and global history"--…”

“…Presentación del editor: "Atheism Revisited is a collection of essays that explore the multifaceted nature of atheism. Starting from the notion that todays atheism is shaped by the defining processes of Modernity--such as secularization and the breakup of science, philosophy, and theology--the first part of the book undertakes a thorough scrutiny of Modern atheisms, from Spinoza and Hobbes to Marx and Nietzsche. …”

“…The piece concludes with an exploration into how teachers might not only root their craft, but the habit of love in general, in a sense of freedom."…”

“…The extended mind hypothesis, the power of parallel distributed processing, the role of language in opening up novel paths for thinking, the flexible interface between biological minds and artificial technologies, the significance of representation in explanations of intelligent behaviour, the promise of the predictive processing framework to unify the cognitive sciences: these are just some of the ideas explored in Clark’s work that have been picked up by many researchers and that have been contributing to intense debate across the sciences of mind and brain. …”

“…The first part further explores and evaluates the concept of law as an artifact and analyses the background and theoretical basis of the theory. …”

“…Focusing on the former province of Galicia, this book tells the story of Europe's eastern borderlands, stretching from the Baltic to the Balkans, through the eyes of the diverse communities of migrants who settled there for centuries and were murdered or forcibly removed from the borderlands in the course of World War II and its aftermath. Omer Bartov explores the fates and hopes, dreams and disillusionment of the people who lived there, and, through the stories they told about themselves, reconstructs who they were, where they came from, and where they were heading. …”

“…Focusing on various aspects of Catholic theology and spirituality, the essays in this volume explore the essential relationship between truth and grace. …”

“…The contributors use the same pedagogical language in a global debate about history teaching and learning to break down barriers to search for shared histories and mutual understanding. They explore contemporary topics, including The Gallipoli Campaign in the WWI, transformative approaches to a school history curriculum and the nature of federation"--…”

“…A History of Colombian Literature explores the genealogy of Colombian poetry and prose from the colonial period to the present day. …”

“…The complexities and effects of emotions are explored in a variety of forms--political rhetoric, literature, personal letters, medical writing, cinema, graphic art, soap opera, journalism, popular music, digital media--with attention paid to broader European and transatlantic implications"…”

“…This volume brings together scholars to explore the challenges of translating Christianity. …”

“…By drawing on a wide range of sources, surveys explore their backgrounds as well as the strategies and constraints that have marked them. …”

“…De nouveaux principes d'invention et d'organisation du monde se découvrent, croisant le matériel et l'immatériel, le visible et l'invisible. C'est ce qu'explorent les études réunies dans cet ouvrage, selon une perspective comparatiste."…”

“…Using methods of description and analysis they explore the structures and effects of concrete interdependencies between individual subjectivities engaged in economic activity, and develop conceptual and analytical tools for this task. …”
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“…Bringing together insights from esteemed philosophers and educationalists, it looks to the arts for insight into human character and explores the arts' relationship to human flourishing and the development of the virtues. …”