“…New content on emergent risk, onsite decision making, terrorism, public health including the covid-19 pandemic, and corruption within events. …”

“…The twenty-first century is witnessing a growing threat on human beings imposed by many sources, namely natural disasters, terrorism and other conflicts, warfare, and transportation accidents; all of which ignite the rise of major trauma incidents worldwide. …”

“…Both water and food scarcity are made worse by civil wars, terrorism, and political and social unrest. It is unclear how climate change will affect the MENA water-food-energy nexus. …”

“…Gendzier argues that the fundamental ideas on which theories of modernisation and development rest have been resurrected in contemporary policy and its theories, representing the continuity of postwar US foreign policy in a world permanently altered by globalisation and its multiple discontents, the proliferation of 'failed states,' the unprecedented exodus of refugees, and Washington's declaration of a permanent war against terrorism…”

“…During an age when the words grace , love , and g ospel , sound more hackneyed than genuine, Wood argues for a recovery of Chesterton's primary contentions: First, that the incarnation of Jesus was necessary reveals a world full not of a righteous creation but of tragedy, terror, and nightmare, and second, that the problem of evil is only compounded by a Christianity that seeks progress, political control, and cultural triumph. …”

“…In addition, the handbook includes international case studies addressing topics such as reporting, censorship, responsibility, terrorism, disenfranchisement, and guilt. The work includes contributions by several Islamic scholars discussing various facets of that religion's engagement with the public sphere, as well as essays dealing with the religious and cultural factors that complicate efforts to understand our world. …”

“…Pakistan and Afghanistan represent the epicenter in regional and global Islamist terrorism as conditions and machinations in these two countries led to the emergence of the first Taliban emirate with Pakistan's support. …”

“…Rubenstein throws fresh light on: the devious plotting of Beria, Malenkov, Khrushchev, and other 'comrades in arms' who well understood the significance of the dictator's impending death; the witness-documented events of his death as compared to official published versions; Stalin's rumored plans to forcibly exile Soviet Jews; the responses of Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles to the Kremlin's conciliatory gestures after Stalin's death; and the momentous repercussions when Stalin's regime of terror was cut short…”

“…Sorabji traces a history of conscience over this long period and examines an impressive breadth of recurrent topics: the longing for different kinds of freedom of conscience, the proper limits of freedom itself, protests at consciences being terrorized, dilemmas of conscience, the value of conscience to human beings, its secularization, its reliability, and ways to improve it. …”

“…Su pensamiento y su vida tiene el interés sobresaliente de proyectarse sobre algunos de los hechos fundamentales del nacimiento del mundo contemporáneo: la Revolución francesa y la caída de la monarquía absoluta; la proclamación de la primera República y la llegada del Terror; el intento de moderación de la República y el triunfo de la autocracia en el nombre del pueblo de Napoleón; la Restauración, el tiempo político que vivió con más intensidad, donde dedicó todas sus fuerzas a que triunfase el experimento inédito en Francia de una monarquía constitucional, en la que los partidos galos fueran reconciliados salvaguardando la libertad individual, mediante el gobierno representativo; y, finalmente, la Revolución de 1830 y el triunfo del parlamentarismo -- Contracubierta…”

“…De pequeño, Burton vivió aislado, encerrado en su habitación, donde veía películas de terror y dibujaba seres monstruosos. De mayor, él siempre se ha considerado un director ajeno a la industria de Hollywood: forma parte de ese entramado cinematográfico pero se siente extraño en él. …”

“…Para entender las motivaciones de Stalin, el autor analiza su infancia de niño maltratado, su paso por el seminario, su carácter de víctima resentida del poder imperial, su experiencia como bandido y su condición de psicópata, también aplicable a sus verdugos.La miseria y el terror que provocó el estalinismo sólo son comparables en Europa con los efectos del nazismo. …”

“…Merecedora de un éxito formidable de crítica y ventas, esta palpitante novela de Johannes Anyuru envuelve al lector en una historia sobre esperanza y desesperanza en la Europa de hoy, sobre amistad y traición, y sobre el teatro del terror y el fascismo -- Contracubierta…”

“…In a world of live-streamed terror, polarised political debates and fake news, emotion has become central to our understanding of contemporary journalism. …”

“…He discusses the trials of the age in the form of the papal schism between 1378-1417, the heresies of Cathars, Lollards and Hussites, the Hundred Years' War, and the terror of the Black Death. Yet he focuses, too, on the great ecumenical councils, the flowering of intellectual life in the Renaissance and the extraordinarily rich spirituality of mystics like Julian of Norwich, Catherine of Siena and Meister Eckhart. …”
Sumario

“…In recent years, the justices of the Supreme Court have ruled definitively on such issues as abortion, school prayer, and military tribunals in the war on terror. They decided one of American history’s most contested presidential elections. …”

“…Desillusioniert durch den Terror von Paris erblickte man nun in allem Aufklärerischen eine Gefahr – eine Haltung, die sich bis zum 2. …”
Sumario

“…El libro estudia con detalle aspectos como la sublevación militar, la contribución militar de la retaguardia manchega, la política institucional y sindical, la incipiente y compleja revolución socio-económica, la violencia y el terror entre paisanos, la destrucción y defensa del patrimonio, la vida cotidiana, las vicisitudes del quintacolumnismo, los últimos meses hasta la entrada de los nacionales y la dureza de la posguerra hasta mediados de los cuarenta. …”

“…Saikal shows how this failure was underlined by protracted attempts to capture Osama bin Laden, an inability to secure a viable government via “democracy promotion” efforts, and lack of wider strategy in the “war on terror.” How to Lose a War offers an insightful account of one of the US’s most significant foreign policy failures—and considers its dire consequences for the people of Afghanistan" -- Editor…”

“…"Esta aclamada novela posapocalíptica de esperanza y terror, de la galardonada escritora Octavia E. Butler, armoniza con otras grandes obras distópicas, como 1984 o El cuento de la criada. …”