“…Globalizing the Soybean asks how the soybean conquered the West and analyzes why and how the crop gained entry into agriculture and industry in regions beyond Asia in the first half of the twentieth century. Historian Ines Prodöhl describes the soybean's journey centered on three hubs: Northeast China, as the crop's main growing area up to the Second World War; Germany, to where most of the beans in the interwar period were shipped; and the United States, which became the leading cultivator of soy worldwide during the 1940s. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- 1 Tensions in Religious Environmentalism -- Part I Intradenominational Tensions -- 2 From Global Goal to Local Practice: Potential Lines of Tension in Religious Environmentalism in Catholic Religious Orders -- 3 Cosmological Tensions: Biodynamic Agriculture's Anthropocentrism and Its Contestation -- 4 The Slow Greening of Established Churches in Switzerland: Tensions Between Local Parishes and Church Head Organizations -- Part II Interdenominational Tensions -- 5 Halal Wastewater Recycling: Environmental Solution or Religious Complication? …”

“…The regime of indeterminate sentences in isolation caused severe mental and physical deterioration among the prisoners, over half of whom died. But the survivors fought back to reform the prison and improve the inmates' living conditions. …”

“…Rather than the usual focus on the court room, it scrutinises environmental NGO advocacy during the extraordinarily dramatic Brexit process, from the referendum on leaving the EU in June 2016 to the debate around the new Environment Bill in the first half of 2020. There is generally a weak understanding of both the complexity and the potential of legal expertise in the environmental NGO community. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Reader's Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue | In Which Love Has Many a Tale -- A Heterogeneous Text -- Re-cognizing Romance -- The Medieval Globe -- On Mythos and Ethos -- Love at a Crux -- 1 Phantasy | The Rise of Romance -- An Act of Creation -- Legends and Legerdemain -- Heroic Lives and Amorous Tales -- By Way of Symbol -- Why Read Romance? …”

“…Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tells the story of postwar Europe's triumphs and tragedies…”

“…However, after extensive investigations, the regional prosecutor thought otherwise and prosecuted half a dozen local men for rebellion against the state in January 1954. …”

“…In this major new study, Claire Brock examines the cultural, social and self-representation of the woman surgeon from the second half of the nineteenth century until the end of the Great War. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- 1 The Great Interruption -- Wells of Value: Sovereign Debts, Care Debts -- Sovereignty -- Care -- Entering a New Crisis - Or Exiting an Old One? …”

“…Making Endless War is built on the premise that any attempt to understand how the content and function of the laws of war changed in the second half of the twentieth century should consider two major armed conflicts, fought on opposite edges of Asia, and the legal pathways that link them together across time and space. …”

“…Benjamin (1811-1884); a prominent figure in the common law world in the second half of the 19th century. Drawing on a range of primary source materials including newspaper articles, case law and extensive archival research in the UK and USA, it charts his rise as a lawyer first in the mixed legal system of Louisiana and then nationally…”

“…The American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) was a Peruvian political party that played an important role in the development of the Latin American left during the first half of the 1900s. In Journey to Indo-América, GenevieÌve Dorais examines how and why the anti-imperialist project of APRA took root outside of Peru as well as how APRA's struggle for political survival in Peru shaped its transnational consciousness. …”

“…The pottery from the site indicates a period of operation extending from the first half of the 1st century AD to the later 2nd century. …”

“…Intellectual Disability and Ireland, 1947-1996 explores the varied experiences of the intellectually disabled during the latter half of the mid-twentieth century in Ireland. Addressing the evolution of disability policies and provision, it shows how a range of different actors became engaged in shaping the disability services landscape during this period. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Committees -- Knowledge & passion to expand underground for sustainability and resilience -- A look at embodied carbon in segmental tunnel lining -- Urban underground space use in a climate neutral city -- ATG Ceneri Base Tunnel: Driving method and production of concrete aggregates -- BIM-enabled carbon accounting and integrated design of underground infrastructures -- What might be our vision of the ecological transition in tunnels and underground spaces for the years to come? …”

“…Who, what, and how we fear reflects who we are. In less than half a century, people in Vietnam have gone from fearing bombing raids, political persecution, and starvation to worrying about decisions over the best career path or cell phone plan. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Queer Time Unbound -- Section I (Un)Formalizing Queer Times -- 2 In Perfect (a)Synchrony: Queer Style in The Line of Beauty -- 3 "I Am Where I Need to Be": Queer Homemaking in Fulbright's Gone Home -- 4 Identity in the In-Between: Narrative Temporality and the Queer Experience in Tangerine and Moonlight -- 5 Disruptions to the Linear and Individual Narrative of Psychic Distress in Mike Barnes's The Lily Pond: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, Myth, and Metamorphosis -- 6 Re-Temporalizing Trauma Through Gameplay in Gibson and Swanwick's "Dogfight -- 7 Disrupting Binaries and Linearities: Queer and Trans Temporalities in Imogen Binnie's Nevada -- Section II Unearthing Queer Times -- 8 Queer Memory and the Brown Commons -- 9 Time, Memory, and Queer Sensibility in Milan Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting -- 10 A Faded Photograph: Ghosts, Specters, and Other Phantoms in Rebecca Makkai's The Great Believers -- 11 "Be Three Now": Queering the Postwar Heterosexual Marriage in Ann Quin's Three -- 12 The Rogue as a Queer Agent in Video Games: The Picaresque Novel Legacy -- Section III Unbinding Queer Time -- 13 Genesis Noir and Cosmological Time: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Big Bang -- 14 Posthuman Temporalities and Shared Timings: Kinship in the Work of Jim Jarmusch -- 15 "All the Ages We've Shaped Together": Examining Queer Genealogies, Science Fiction and Non-Linear Storytelling Through El-Mohtar and Gladstone's This Is How You Lose the Time War (2019) -- 16 Unbound and Loving It!…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Part 1 Introduction and theoretical perspectives -- 1 Rooted cosmopolitanism, heritage and the question of belonging -- 2 From the root of cosmopolitanism to rootless parasites: the politics and normative complexities of rooted cosmopolitanism -- 3 Collaborative archaeology as rooted cosmopolitanism? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1 Contemporary Issues Regarding Freedom of Religion and Accommodation of Religious Diversity -- 1 Governance of Religious Diversity across the World: An Introduction -- 2 Freedom from Religion: Multiculturalism and the Rights of Women and Children -- 3 Religious Freedom, Freedom of Expression and Religious Hate Speech -- 4 Religious Freedom and International Protection of Places of Worship -- 5 Religious Freedom or Multiculturalism? …”