“…Starting by looking at the inter-war years and the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, he examines how the war progressed by examining a number of key events, including the war in the West in 1940, Barbarossa, The German Invasion of the Soviet Union, the expansion of Japan's war with China, developments on the home front, and the Allied victory from 1944-45. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…: freelancing librarianship as job, hobby, and passion / Jessamyn West -- Countless opportunities : alternative career paths for librarians and information professionals / Selma Permenter -- Choosing a library program / Kevin O'Kelly -- The M.L.S. : what is it worth? …”

“…From the American Revolution to the Iraq war, pivotal decisions have hung on such shifts of perspective. The West's age of civil war may be over, but elsewhere it has exploded - from the Balkans to Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, Sri Lanka and, most recently, Syria. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Tabone -- Local awareness of scarcity and endangerment of medicinal plants in Roussenski Lom Natural Park in Northern Bulgaria / Hugo J. de Boer -- "My doctor doesn't understand why I use them" : herbal and food medicines amongst the Bangladeshi community in West Yorkshire, U.K. / Andrea Pieroni ... [et al.] -- Persistance of wild food and wild medicinal plant knowledge in a northeastern region of Portugal / Ana Maria Carvalho and Ramón Morales -- The use of wild edible plants in the Graecanic area in Calabria, Southern Italy / Sabine Nebel and Michael Heinrich -- The ecology and use of edible thistles in Évora, Alentejo, Southeastern Portugal / Maria José Barão and Alexandra Soveral Dias -- Spring is coming : the gathering and consumption of wild vegetables in Spain / Javier Tardío -- Plants as symbols in Scotland today / Veerle Van den Eynden -- The botanical identity and cultural significance of Lithuanian jovaras : an ethnobotanical riddle / Daiva Šeškauskaitė and Bernd Gliwa -- Norway's rosmarin (Rhododendron tomentosum) in past and present tradition / Torbjørn Alm and Marianne Iversen -- Chamomiles in Spain : the dynamics of plant nomenclature / Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana and Ramón Morales -- A preliminary study of the plant knowledge and grassland management practices of English livestock farmers, with implications for grassland conservation / Jenny L. …”

“…Yassin al-Haj Saleh, the intellectual voice of the Syrian revolution, describes with precision and fervour the events that led to the uprising of 2011, the metamorphosis of the popular revolution into a regional war, and the "three monsters" Saleh sees "treading on Syria's corpse": the Assad regime and its allies, ISIS and other jihadists, and the West. Where conventional wisdom has it that Assad's army is now battling religious fanatics for control of the country, Saleh argues that the emancipatory, democratic mass movement that ignited the revolution still exists, though it is beset on all sides. …”

“…"The journalist who broke the "Jihadi John" story draws on her personal experience to bridge the gap between the Muslim world and the West and explain the rise of Islamic radicalism. …”

“…The result is a fascinating story that carefully considers the wealth of recent scholarship on the West, but simultaneously offers a strikingly new interpretation of the American Revolution and its legacy in the relations between Indians and the new American nation…”

“…In addition to entries on broad topics like religion, law, and the West, the completed German definitive edition of Weber's work (Max Weber Gesamtausgabe) necessitated a wealth of new entries and added information on topics like pragmatism and race and racism. …”

“…It illustrates how post-Stalin Soviet leaders struggled to find ways to rule the country without using Stalin's methods - but also without openly repudiating the past - and to negotiate a peaceful but antipathetic coexistence with the capitalist West. This updated third edition includes substantial new material, discussing the challenges Russia currently faces in the era of Putin…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part I. 1859-1888 the tormented Prussian prince -- The "soul murder" of an heir to the throne -- Ambivalent motherhood -- A daring educational experiment -- The conflict between the prince of Prussia and his parents -- 1888: the year of the three kaisers -- Part II. 1888-1900 the anachronistisc autocrat -- Divine right without end -- Bismarck's fall from power, 1889-90 -- The establishment of the kaiser's personal monarchy, 1890-97 -- The chancellor as courtier: the corrupt Bulow system (1897-1909) -- Part III. 1896-1908 the egregious expansionist -- The challenge to Europe: weltmachtpolitik and the battlefleet -- The Russo-Japanese War and the meeting of the emperors on Bjorko (1904-1905) -- War in the west? The landing in Tangier and the fiasco of Algeciras (1905-1906) -- The intensification of the Anglo-German conflict -- Part IV. 1906-1909 the scandal-ridden sovereign -- The Eulenburg Affair (1906-1909) -- Bulow's betrayal of the kaiser: the Daily Telegraph crisis (1908-1909) -- From Bulow to Bethmann Hollweg: the chancellor merry-go-round of 1909 -- Part V. 1908-1914 the bellicose supreme war lord -- The Bosnian annexation crisis (1908-1909) -- The "leap of the panther" to Agadir -- The battlefleet and the growing risk of war with Britain (1911-1912) -- Doomed to failure: the Haldane mission of 1912 -- Turmoil in the Balkans and a first decision for war (november 1912) -- War postponed: the "war council" of 8 December 1912 -- The postponed war draws nearer (1913-1914) -- The kaiser in the Crisis of July 1914 -- Part VI. 1914-1918 the champion of God's germanic cause -- The kaiser's war aims -- The impotence of the supreme war lord at war -- Downfall: the collapse of the Hohenzollern Monarchy -- Part VII. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Education for rational thought Maggie M. Toplak, Richard F. West and Keith E. Stanovitch; 5. Individual differences that affect the quality of learning in doctoral candidates Robert H. …”

“…Hunsinger, a Protestant theologian in the Reformed tradition, brings Eastern Orthodox views more systematically into the discussion than has been common in the West. He also discusses the social significance of the Eucharist. …”
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“…The Oxford Handbook of Disability History is the first volume of its kind to represent this history and its global scale, from ancient Greece to British West Africa. The twenty-seven articles, written by thirty experts from across the field, capture the diversity and liveliness of this emerging scholarship. …”

“…Susan Sperry Smith began her career by working in the projects on the West Side of Chicago and teaching first grade. Later, she received her master's degree in Learning Disabilities and eventually taught severely disabled children, ages 6-17, in a small town in Indiana. …”

“…Other countries, such as Sweden and West Germany, remained comparatively untouched by the economic crisis and even sought to reinforce their welfare state in response to it. …”

“…In other words, if the philosophy of human rights is to form the basis of Western culture, it must rest on a truer understanding of the human person than that which is taught—both explicitly and implicitly—in the contemporary West…”

“…France struggled for dominance not only on the plains of Europe but also in the Americas, West and South Africa, Ottoman Empire, Iran, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Mediterranean Sea, and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. …”