“…Scowcroft helped manage the American departure from Vietnam, helped plan the historic breakthrough to China, urged the first President Bush to repel the invasion of Kuwait, and worked to shape the West's skillful response to the collapse of the Soviet empire. …”

“…In this ground-breaking book, acclaimed author Kati Marton brings to life an unknown chapter of World War II: the tale of nine men who grew up in Budapest's brief Golden Age, then, driven from Hungary by anti-Semitism, fled to the West, especially to the United States, and changed the world. …”
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“…"Die Architekten", ein erschreckend aktueller Roman über die Amoralität der Macht, sind gültig in Ost wie West -- Editor…”

“…From Russia in the east, to England and France in the west, the cities of the Hanseatic League created a vast northern maritime trade network. …”

“…Dabei entfaltet sich ein ebenso breites wie kritisches Panorama, das vom zeitgenössischen Antisemitismus und Volksgemeinschaftsdenken über den »Weimar-Komplex« der frühen Bundesrepublik und die fortdauernde Spaltung der Arbeiterbewegung in Ost und West bis hin zum Mythos »Babylon Berlin« reicht." …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Double indemnity (1944, 1954 [TV], 1960 [TV], 1973 [TV]), and Body heat (1981) -- Murder, my sweet (1944) and Farewell, my lovely (1975) -- Detour (1945, 1992) -- The big sleep (1945/1946, 1978) -- Notorious (1945, 1992 [TV]) -- The postman always rings twice (1945, 1981) -- The killers (1946, 1964) -- Somewhere in the night (1946) and The crooked way (1949) -- Body and soul (1947, 1981, 1998 [TV]) -- Dark passage (1947) and Johnny Handsome (1989) -- Kiss of death (1947, 1995) and The fiend who walked the west (1958) -- Out of the past (1947) and Against all odds (1984) -- Ride the pink horse (1947) and The hanged man (1964 [TV]) -- The big clock (1948) and No way out (1987) -- They live by night (1948) and Thieves like us (1974) -- Criss cross (1949) and The underneath (1995) -- Gun crazy (1949) and Guncrazy (1992) -- House of strangers (1949) and Broken lance (1954) -- The asphalt jungle (1950), The badlanders (1958), Cairo (1963), and Cool breeze (1972) -- D.O.A. (1949, 1988) and Color me dead (1969) -- Night and the city (1950, 1992) -- No man of her own (1950), I married a shadow (1982), While you were sleeping (1995), and Mrs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Lewis between Classical and Contemporary Pragmatism -- 9 Quine and American Pragmatism -- 10 Wilfrid Sellars and Pragmatism -- 11 Richard Rorty: Narrative as Anti-Authoritarian Therapy and as Cultural Politics -- 12 Hilary Putnam -- 13 Cornel West and Prophetic Pragmatism -- 14 Susan Haack and Worldly, Realist Pragmatism -- 15 Nicholas Rescher's Methodological Pragmatism -- 16 Robert Brandom -- PART II: Pragmatism and Plural Traditions -- 17 Pragmatism's Family Feud -- 18 One Hundred Years of Pragmatism at Harvard -- 19 Pragmatism in Britain and Italy in the Early 20th Century -- 20 Pragmatism and Analytic Philosophy -- 21 Pragmatism and Continental Philosophy -- 22 Prospects for "Big-Tent" Pragmatic Phenomenology -- 23 Pragmatism and Its Prospects -- PART III: Pragmatism's Reach -- 24 Pragmatism and Logic -- 25 Pragmatism and Metaphysics -- 26 Peirce, James, and Dewey as Philosophers of Science -- 27 Pragmatism and Language -- 28 Pragmatism in the Philosophy of Mind -- 29 Pragmatism and Cognitive Science -- 30 Knowledge-Practicalism -- 31 Pragmatism and Religion -- 32 Pragmatism and the Moral Life -- 33 Artworld Practice, Aesthetic Properties, Pragmatist Strategies -- 34 Pragmatism and Political Philosophy -- 35 Pragmatism and Metaphilosophy -- PART IV: Pragmatism's Relevance -- 36 Pragmatism and Philosophical Methods -- 37 Pragmatism and Expressivism -- 38 Pragmatism and Naturalism -- 39 Pragmatist Theories of Truth -- 40 Pragmatism and Insurrectionist Philosophy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Media theory after the fall of European communism: Why the old models from East and West won't do any more / Colin Sparks ; 4. Media in South America: Between the rock of state and the hard place of the market / Silvio Waisbord ; 5. …”

“…This book presents examples from Italy, Spain, UK, Portugal, Austria, Poland, Denmark, Germany (East and West), The Netherlands and France. While each chapter is largely devoted to one country, the authors point to how the local and specific political situation in which these initiatives emerged is linked to global tendencies as well as inter-European exchanges. …”

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“…By the 16th century, the shared concept of the ius gentium disintegrated as individual European nations developed distinct bodies of law, the authority of the Pope declined, and colonialism created subject nations outside the West…”

“…Boris analyzes three ways in which the ILO has classified the division of labor: between women and men from 1919 to 1958; between women in the global south and the west from 1955 to 1996; and between the earning and care needs of all workers from 1990s to today. …”