“…Over the past 500 years, the West achieved global dominance, but do Westerners necessarily have better ideas about how to raise children, care for the elderly, or simply live well? …”

“…Comprising thirty-nine chapters written by leading international contributors, the Handbook is organised into six clear parts: Skill in the History of Philosophy (East & West) Skill in Epistemology Skill, intelligence, and agency Skill in Perception, Imagination, and Emotion Skill, Language, and, Social Cognition Skill and Expertise in Normative Philosophy. …”

“…This collection provides in-depth analyses of the workings of the proprietorships themselves (rather than proprietary colonies) and in studies ranging from South Carolina to Nieuw Nederland to French West Africa to Brasil, broadens this discussion beyond British North America. …”

“…They reveal the evolution of Roman law at the end of antiquity and how imperial law was transmitted to both the Byzantine East and Latin West in the Early Middle Ages. Crucially, the texts cast fascinating light on how litigants of all social backgrounds sought to appropriate the law and turn it to their advantage, as well as on topics ranging from the changing status of women to the persecution of homosexuals, and from the spread of heresy to the economic impact of the first known outbreak of bubonic plague. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…PART TWO: WESTERN EUROPE 6. The West and Marxism The Second Vatican Council and the Cold War. …”

“…Although the idea that all human beings are descended from Adam is a long-standing conviction in the West, another version of this narrative exists: human beings inhabited the Earth before, or alongside, Adam, and their descendants still occupy the planet. …”

“…Am Vorabend dieser Katastrophe wird in Berlin die Ost-West-Achse eingeweiht, eilen Gratulanten aus aller Welt zu Hitler und findet eine der grössten Paraden der Militärgeschichte statt. …”

“…Contending that all media configure what they mediate, he maintains that alphabetic writing has long served as the West's dominant cognitive technology. Its logic and limitations have shaped thought and affect from its inception until the present. …”

“…"Heavenly Mathematics" traces the rich history of this forgotten art, revealing how the cultures of classical Greece, medieval Islam, and the modern West used spherical trigonometry to chart the heavens and the Earth. …”

“…There were alternative visions of world order and of modernity, other than those offered by the West, and the legacies of these visions have lived on beyond this transnational moment of political and discursive experimentation"--…”

“…Readers are introduced to the cultural history of the West German theatre in the late 1960s and early 1970s. …”

“…"This book uses a case study of education and educational reform in Los Angeles as a lens for viewing a wide range of political and cultural questions involved in urban development in the American West, notably the manner and motives of those who changed school policy. …”
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“…The style is straight forward without being mechanical. . . .it reduces to a manageable level the great complexity of European security today in a manner which strongly recommends the book to all." --West European Politics."…”

“…Die Beiträge des dritten Teils widmen sich hingegen dem Ost-West-Konflikt, dem Prozess der Westernisierung sowie den Strukturbrüchen "nach dem Boom". …”
Sumario

“…How precisely to understand and approach the human perfection to which the Christian is summoned is a question that has vexed the minds of many and diverse theologians.0Orthodox Christian theology is notable for its consistent interest in this question, and over the last century has offered to the West a wealth of theological insight on the matter, drawn both from the resources of its Byzantine theological heritage as well as its living interaction with Western theological and philosophical currents. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Kaestle -- The rise of a national book trade system in the United States / Michael Winship -- The expansion of the national book trade system / James L.W. West, III -- Copyright in transition / Peter Jaszi and Martha Woodmansee -- Diverging paths : books and magazines in the transition to corporate capitalism / Richard Ohmann -- From partisanship to professionalism : the transformation of the daily press / Richard L. …”