“…Google--a multibillion-dollar global corporation--holds the balance of power among search providers, and the biases and individuating tendencies of its search algorithm undeniably shape our collective experience of the internet and our assumptions about the location and value of information. …”

“…Through a study of his career in local, regional, imperial, and global contexts, this book sheds new light on the complex relationship between the Enlightenment, Catholicism, administrative and academic reform in the Habsburg monarchy, and the practices and ends of cultivating science in the Republic of Letters around the end of the first era of the Society of Jesus…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conflict Transformation and History Teaching: Social Psychological Theory and Its Contributions; Charis Psaltis, Mario Carretero & Sabina Čehajić-Clancy -- PART I: Global and Regional Perspectives on Textbook Writing, Civil Society Organizations and Social Representations -- Chapter 2. …”

“…While introducing the group's founder, Ahmad al-Tijani (1735-1815), Wright's focus is on the wider network in which the order developed-a veritable global Islamic revival whose scholars commanded large followings, shared key ideas, and produced literature read widely throughout the Muslim world. …”

“…In the post-colonial era chiefship has been put into the service of the independent nation state - both as an instrument of administration and a nationalistic symbol, while, most recently, chiefs have been depicted as leaders in civil society, even receiving support from global developmental organizations. Yet traditional chieftaincy is strongly criticized by certain Christian groups belonging to the Pentecostal-Charismatic movement, which still see it as integrally linked to traditional cosmologies. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…FILOSOFÍA DE LA EDUCACIÓN Y PEDAGOGIA; Página legal ; Tabla de contenido ; Prólogo ; El pedagogo y los desafíos de la modernidad; La modernidad histórica: un conjunto de eventos dificilmente identificables ; La modernidad educativa: un conjunto de fenómenos particularmente preocupantes; La modernidad pedagógica: la tentación de reducir las dificultades a través del ejercicio del ""control"" ; Pestalozzi, nuestro contemporáneo; El lugar irreductible del sujeto en el acto educativo; La encrucijada de la modernidad educadora en lo global; ¿Una barbarie dulce?; Paradoja: lejano-cercano…”

“…Of note, many human disorders are characterized by misregulation of global transcription since most of the signaling pathways ultimately target components of transcription machinery. …”

“…The power of the Disney brand has heightened the need for academics to question whether Disney’s films and music function as a tool of the Western elite that shapes the views of those less empowered. Given its global reach, how the Walt Disney Company handles the role of race, gender, and sexuality in social structural inequality merits serious reflection according to a number of the articles in the volume. …”

“…The contributors show how these innovative critical approaches enrich current debates in political science on Islamic religion, incarceration, the ethics of biomedical research, the welfare state, and ecological and student movements in the global South, among others…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…El reto de la implantación de titulaciones conjuntas de dimensión internacionalEl Máster Europeo en Derecho y Economía: Un programa focalizado en los aspectos económicos de la Europeización e Internacionalización del Derecho; La globalización de las Facultades de Derecho: el Global Law Program de la Universidad de Navarra; Investigaciones, estudios e informes relevantes…”

“…The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema illustrates how global horror film depictions of children re-conceptualised childhood at the turn of the twenty-first century. …”

“…This edited volume unites the fields of energy justice and comparative philosophy to provide an overarching global perspective and approach to applying energy ethics. …”

“…Cirad and AFD set out their thoughts on agro-ecology as a means for Southern agricultural systems to adapt to global change and on conditions for a successful agro-ecological transition…”

“…Chapters examine the linkages between poverty, urban food systems and local governance with a focus on case studies from three smaller or secondary cities in Africa: Kisumu (Kenya), Kitwe (Zambia) and Epworth (Zimbabwe).The book makes a wider contribution to debates on urban studies and urban governance in Africa through analysis of the causes and consequences of the paucity of urban-scale data for decision makers, and by presenting potential methodological innovations to address this paucity. As the global development agenda is increasingly focusing on urban issues, most notably the urban goal of the new Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda, the work is timely…”

“…Si el derecho es una “ciencia”, si nuestro mundo recurre aún a él para regular las relaciones sociales, económicas y políticas, es porque la autoridad normativa de los textos legislativos se aplica a la realidad a través de una serie de mecanismos lógicos extremadamente refinados que han sido usados durante siglos, primero en Europa, luego en Occidente y finalmente en el mundo global. Como todo expediente lógico, se trata de creaciones artificiales que responden a necesidades sociales particulares y que han sido continuamente reutilizadas y reinterpretadas. …”

“…Rowling's Harry Potter series (1997-2007) has turned into a global phenomenon and her "Potterverse" is still expanding. …”

“…Policies relevant to the Anthropocene, as well as the use of experiments to anticipate future responses of tropical forests to global warming, are reexamined in these pages. Urban topics include how cities can co-produce new knowledge to spark sustainable and resilient transformations. …”

“…In light of recurrent acts of violence leveled against images and symbols in the contemporary, globally entangled world, addressing instances of "icono-clash" (Bruno Latour) from a new post-secular, global perspective has become a matter of urgency…”

“…Por ello los autores, con un enfoque bioético y desde diferentes perspectivas, apuestan por una reorientación de las acciones que, cada vez en mayor medida, atentan contra los principios de justicia global y respeto a los derechos…”