“…This is an insiders' account of how this complex mega-project came to fruition from authors with intimate knowledge of its past and present. The separate roots of ALMA in the United States, Europe, and Japan are traced to their merger into an international partnership involving more than 20 countries. …”

“…While Democracy and Social Ethics, a foundational text of classical American pragmatism, is praised for advancing a sensitive and sophisticated method of ethical deliberation, Fischer is the first to explore its intellectual roots. Examining essays Addams wrote in the 1890s and showing how they were revised for Democracy and Social Ethics, Fischer draws from philosophy, history, literature, rhetoric, and more to uncover the array of social evolutionary thought Addams engaged with in her texts-from British socialist writings on the evolution of democracy to British and German anthropological accounts of the evolution of morality. …”

“…Brague has explored many spheres: anthropology, metaphysics, religion, history of religions, aesthetics, ethics, politics, and cosmology – where he recalled those anchors in the sky where mankind throws its roots. We have decided to entitle this collection Europa cura te ipsam! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Ethics of the Medical Model in Addressing the Root Causes of Health Disparities in Local Health Practice Anthony Iton Chapter 29. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Korostelina -- From textbook comparison to common textbooks: changing patterns in international textbook revision / Georg Stöber -- Symbol or reality: the background, implementation and development of the Franco-German history textbook / Corine Defrance and Ulrich Pfeil -- Overcoming the national framework of teaching media: binational teacher's books and multinational teaching materials / Robert Maier -- Towards a joint German-Polish history textbook: historical roots, structures and challenges / Simone Lässig and Thomas Strobel -- Forging a common narrative in former Yugoslavia: the design, implementation and impact of the scholars' initiative / Charles Ingrao -- Reconnecting history: the joint history project in the Balkans / Lubov Fajfer -- History as a project of the future: the European history textbook debate / Falk Pingel -- Learning each other's historical narrative: a road map to peace in Israel/Palestine / Achim Rohde -- The Tbilisi initiative: the story of an unpublished textbook / Karina Korostelina -- Striving for common history textbooks in northeast Asia (China, South Korea and Japan): between ideal and reality / Daqing Yang and Ju-Back Sin -- Best practice models and scholarly concepts: theoretical and methodological framework for joint history projects / Karina Korostelina…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover13; -- Contents -- Introduction: Kabbalah and Modernity -- PART I KABBALA SCHOLARSHIP: A REAPPRAISAL -- Philology as Kabbalah -- Beyond the Burden of Idealism: For a New Appreciation of the Visual Lore in the Kabbalah -- The Future of the Kabbalah: On the Dislocation of Past Primacy, the Problem of Evil, and the Future of Illusions -- PART II ROMANTIC AND ESOTERIC READINGS OF KABBALAH -- Kabbalah and Secret Societies in Russia (Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries) -- The Beginnings of Occultist Kabbalah: Adolphe Franck and Eliphas L233;vi -- Paul Vulliaud (18758211;1950) and Jewish Kabbalah -- Oriental Kabbalah and the Parting of East and West in the Early Theosophical Society -- 8220;The Sufi Society from America8221;: Theosophy and Kabbalah in Poona in the Late Nineteenth Century -- PART III MODERN KABBALISTIC SCHOOLS -- The Imagined Decline of Kabbalah: The Kabbalistic Yeshiva Sha8216;ar ha-Shamayim and Kabbalah in Jerusalem in the Beginning of the Twentieth Century -- The Status of the (Non)Jewish Other in the Apocalyptic Messianism of Menahem Mendel Schneerson -- Marriage and Sexual Behavior in the Teachings of the Kabbalah Centre -- Madonna and the Shekhinah: The Playful Transgression of Gender Roles in Popular Culture -- Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff and the Neurological Landscape of the Sefirot -- PART IV KABBALAH AND POLITICS -- 8216;The Great Goal of the Political Will Is Leviathan8217;: Ernst J252;nger and the Cabala of Enmity -- Pragmatism and Piety: The American Spiritual and Philosophical Roots of Jewish Renewal -- Contemporary Jewish Mysticism and Palestinian Suicide Bombing -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Persons -- Index of Subjects…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Immateriality of the Human Soul- An argument of Ayatullah Misbah, its roots in Mulla Sadra, and its correspondence in Western Philosophy Christian KanzianBecoming Transcendent: Remarks on the Human Soul in the Philosophy of Illumination Mahmoud Khatami; The Soul, Disposition or Substance? …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…What is understood by the phrase ""short-term""; 5.1.2. Psychodynamic roots; 5.1.3. Flexibility; 5.1.4. Activity…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Contents -- 1 Illness and Evidence -- The Science of Schizophrenia -- Rules of Evidence -- Conclusion -- 2 The Nature of Symptoms -- Psychiatric Pioneers -- Symptoms and Diagnosis -- The Mind of Madness -- The Delusional World -- Counterfeit Experience -- Crazy Thoughts -- General Summary and Conclusions -- 3 The Mark of Madness -- Candidate Markers of Schizophrenia -- Traits and States -- Specificity -- Marking Genes -- Conclusions -- 4 Executive Incompetence -- The Search for the Schizophrenic Lesion -- The Frontal Brain and Its Mind -- Schizophrenia and the Frontal Mind -- Pictures of the Brain -- The Frontal-Executive Brain and Its Contribution to Schizophrenia -- 5 The Biology of Meaning -- The Temporal Lobe and Its Semantic Functions -- Schizophrenia and the Semantic Brain -- Neurobiology of the Temporal Lobe in Schizophrenia -- The Temporal-Semantic Brain and Its Contribution to Schizophrenia -- 6 Neurochemical Tempest -- Dopamine: Modulator of Mind and Movement -- Serotonin: Chemical of Sleep and Moods -- Glutamate:The Brain's Workhorse -- General Summary and Conclusions -- 7 The Strangeness of Children -- Essentials of Genetics and Early Neurodevelopment -- Neurodevelopmental Evidence and Schizophrenia -- Abnormalities of Children Vulnerable to Schizophrenia -- Summary and Conclusions -- 8 Flights of Theory -- Root Problems for Theories of Schizophrenia -- Schizotaxia, Schizotypy, and Schizophrenia -- Neurodevelopmental Diathesis-Stress Theories -- Summary and Synthesis -- 9 The End of the Beginning -- The Neuroscience Sweepstakes -- The Promissory Note -- Multiple Disease States -- The Anomaly at the Frontier of Mind and Brain -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Mediacity : on the discontinuous continuity of the urban public sphere / René Boomkens -- Orkontros : Brazilian migrants, social network sites and the European city / Martijn Oosterbaan -- Imagining the city : the difference that art makes / Judith Vega -- Body movies : the city as interface / Martijn de Waal -- Homo Ludens 2.0 : play, media and identity / Valerie Frissen, Jos de Mul and Joost Raessens -- Digital cartographies as playful practices / Sybille Lammes -- From Gengsi to Gaul : moblie media and playful identities in Jakarta / Michiel de Lange -- Transformations in perception and participation : digital games / Renée van de Vall -- Machinima : moving on the edge of rules and fiction / René Glas -- Sound technologies and cultural practices : how analogies make us listen to transformations in art and culture / Karin Bijsterveld [and others] -- The case of ccMixter : credit-giving within a communal online remixing practice / Bas Jansen -- On the need for cooperation between art and science / Robert Zwijnenberg -- Laboratory on the move in retrospect / Ni Haifeng and Kitty Zijlmans -- Embedded in the Dutch art world / Judith Thisssen -- Roots and the production of heritage / Alex van Stipriaan -- How to succeed in art and science : The observatory observed / Geert Somsen and Jeroen Werner -- Interview with José van Dijck and Robert Zwijnenberg / Marcel ten Hooven…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Gabriel -- 3. The indigenous roots of Swahili culture in Pangani Bay, Tanzania / Elinaza Mjema -- 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Book Cover; Halt-Title; Title; Copyright; Series-Title; Contents; International Advisory Board; Series Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: The past, present and future of economic geography; Section I Economic geography: Roots and legacy; 1 The economic geography project; 2 Thinking back, thinking ahead: Some questions for economic geographers; 3 Feminist economic geographies: Gendered identities, cultural economies and economic change; 4 The 'new' economic geography?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Transformations in Twentieth Century Korea; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Korea's twentieth century transformation; Part I The agrarian transformation; 1 Neither "sprouts" nor "offspring": The agrarian roots of Korean capitalism; 2 Agricultural cooperative development and change: A window on South Korea's agrarian transformations; Part II Business and industrial transformations; 3 Causes, consequences, relevance: Korea's industrialization; 4 Transformations in Korean capitalism: A case study of the Hyundai Business Group…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Iconism and characterism of Polybius Rhetor, Trypho and Publius Rutilius Lupus Rhetor -- 8. Physiognomic roots in the rhetoric of Cicero and Quintilian: The application and transformation of traditional physiognomics -- 9. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Indenture and Contemporary Fiji / Doug Munro -- From the Sidelines / Vilsoni Hereniko -- Curtain Call / Jack Corbett -- Indenture. Brij V. Lal: Rooting for History / Goolam Vahed -- Girmitiyas and my Discovery of India / Clem Seecharan -- Reflections on Brij Lals Girmityas: The Origins of the Fiji Indians / Ralph Shlomowitz and Lance Brennan -- Fiji Politics. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cecchinato -- Through a glass darkly : English common law seen through the lens of the Göttingische gelehrte anzeigen (Eighteenth Century) / Carsten Fischer -- Looking afresh at the French roots of continuous easements in English law / Ciara Kennefick -- Case law in Germany : the significance of Seuffert's Archiv / Clara Günzl -- Leone Levi (1821-1888) and the history of comparative commercial law / Annamaria Monti -- Radical title of the crown and aboriginal title : North America 1763, New South Wales 1788, and New Zealand 1840 / David V. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cellular Basis of Cognition in Evolution: From Protists and Fungi Up to Animals, Plants, and Root-Fungal Networks -- 4. Constructing "On Purpose": How Niche Construction Affects Natural Selection -- 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…National overviews of social enterprise -- Social- and solidarity-economy organisations in Argentina : diversity, models and perspectives / Gonzalo Vázquez -- Bolivian cooperative and community enterprises : economic and political dimensions / Fernanda Wanderley -- Brazilian social enterprises : historical roots and converging trends / Adriane Ferrarini, Luiz Inácio Gaiger, Marília Veríssimo Veronese and Paulo Cruz Filho -- Social- and solidarity-economy organisations in Chile : concepts, historical trajectories, trends and characteristics / Michela Giovannini and Pablo Nachar-Calderón, with the contribution of Sebastián Gatica -- Popular and solidarity economy in ecuador : historical overview, institutional trajectories and types of organisation / María-José Ruiz-Rivera and Andreia Lemaître -- Social enterprise in Mexico : origins, models and perspectives / Sergio Páramo-Ortiz -- A legal approach to the social and solidarity economy in Mexico / Carola Conde Bonfil and Leïla Oulhaj -- Definition and models of social enterprise in peru / María Angela Prialé and Susy Caballero -- Comparative analysis and perspectives across Latin America countries -- Social enterprise in Latin America : patterns and historical relevance / Luiz Inácio Gaiger and Fernanda Wanderley -- Social enterprise as a tension field : a historical and theoretical contribution based on the sociology of absences and emergences / Jean-Louis Laville, Genauto Carvalho de França Filho, Philippe Eynaud and Luciane Lucas Dos Santos -- Latin American se models in a worldwide perspective / Jacques Defourny, Marthe Nyssens and Olivier Brolis -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Varieties of Russian-Jewish history: liberals, Zionists, and Diaspora Nationalists -- The Russian Roots of Semyon Dubnov's life and works -- Maxim Vinaver and the first Russian state Duma -- What is "Russian" in Russian Zionism?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Transformations in Twentieth Century Korea; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Korea's twentieth century transformation; Part I The agrarian transformation; 1 Neither "sprouts" nor "offspring": The agrarian roots of Korean capitalism; 2 Agricultural cooperative development and change: A window on South Korea's agrarian transformations; Part II Business and industrial transformations; 3 Causes, consequences, relevance: Korea's industrialization; 4 Transformations in Korean capitalism: A case study of the Hyundai Business Group 5 What makes us great: Chaebŏl development, labor practices, and managerial ideologyPart III Transformations in the state; 6 Development without democracy: The political economy of US-SouthKorea relations, 1958-1961; 7 Cut from the same cloth: Bureaucracies and rulers in SouthKorea, 1948-1979; Part IV Transforming cultureand ideology; 8 Confucianism, democracy, and the individual in Korean modernization; 9 Monumental histories: Manliness, the military, and theWar Memorial; 10 Modernization theory, ideology, and economic success: Putting Korea's development incomparative perspective Part V Social transformations: Labor, women, and the family11 Modernization, gender roles, and marriage behavior in South Korea; 12 Women's incorporation into the urban economy of South Korea; Conclusion: South Korea: in pursuit of modernity; Index…”