“…In God's Battalions, award-winning author Rodney Stark takes on the long-held view that the Crusades were the first round of European colonialism, conducted for land, loot, and converts by barbarian Christians who victimized the cultivated Muslims. Instead, Stark argues that the Crusades were the first military response to Muslim terrorist aggession…”

“…"Is there an 'ideal' primary school curriculum? Who should decide what the curriculum is? Should teachers have autonomy over how they teach? …”
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“…Each section outlines the types of individuals who are most likely to access lifelong learning within and across these strands including, for example, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, unemployed adults, carers and guardians, older age-groups and returning learners. …”
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“…Abstract This book is both for those who are trapped by the charm of literature or for those who wish to enter for the first time to the world of fiction through words. …”
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“…Reveals the historical Paul, not as the founder of a new Christian religion, but as a devout Jew who believed Jesus was the Christ who would unite Jews and Gentiles and fulfill God's universal plan for humanity…”
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“…Espatolino is a villain who acts in Naples and Rome. Agents and spies have kept abreast of government and police movements, as well as the routes of travelers. …”

“…Virtue ethics is perhaps the most important development within late twentieth-century moral philosophy. Rosalind Hursthouse, who has made notable contributions to this development, now presents a full exposition and defence of her neo-Aristotelian version of virtue ethics. …”

“…"This [book] is intended as a practical yet sophisticated overview of the subject for professionals who are not necessarily IHL experts, but who work in field where IHL may be relevant ... …”

“…This book focuses on employees who have been rewarded…”

“…This is especially the case for those who live and work in rural areas. This book, for the first time, brings together a wide range of invasive plant specialists from the Asia-Pacific region who shares their experience in addressing the problem and delivering solutions. …”

“…Throughout the narrative, the book contrasts the two approaches of those engaged in progressive politics, those who focused on the politics of reform and improved government and those who preferred the politics of revolt, protest and revolutionary rhetoric. …”

“…The Bilingual Muse analyzes the work of seven Russian poets who translated their own poems into English, French, German, or Italian. …”

“…Less known is the history of the Surinamese and Antilleans who came to the Netherlands before, "starting with slaves brought by Dutch families from" the West "and ending with students and intellectuals who came here for education and training, and some of which remained forever. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…BUT A SENSE OF THEORY" The Superaddressee and the Contexts of Eden; 2 AESOPIAN PREDICAMENTS , or BITING MY TONGUE A S I WRITE: A Defense of Rhetorical Ambiguity; 3 VOICE REPRISED Three Etudes for a Dialogic Understanding; 4 SOUNDING THE OTHER WHO SPEAKS IN ME Toward a Dialogic Understanding of Imitation; 5 PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION Bakhtin, Composition, and the Problem of the Outside; 6 DIALOGUE AND CRITIQUE Bakhtin and the Cultural Studies Writing Classroom; ENDNOTES; WORKS CITED; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR…”

“…Papua New Guinea is one of the many former British Commonwealth colonies which maintain the criminalisation of the sexual activities of two groups, despite the fact that the sex takes place between consenting adults in private: sellers of sex and males who have sex with males. The English common law system was imposed on the colonies with little regard for the social regulation and belief systems of the colonised, and in most instances, was retained and developed post-Independence, regardless of the infringements of human rights involved This book is an exceptional contribution to our knowledge of the nexus between the criminal law and negative attitudes of society, and what effects criminalization has on the social lives of prostitutes and males who have sex with males, and whether these effects might provide evidence to support the argument for law reform…”

“…It describes the main features of the court and discusses the political negotiations and the on-going clashes between those states who oppose the court, particularly the United States, and those who defend it. …”

“…Life After Guns explores how ex-combatants and other post-war youth negotiated a depleted and difficult social and cultural landscape in the years following Liberia's fourteen-year bloody civil war. Unlike others who study child soldiers, Abby Hardgrove's ethnography looks at both former combatants and also the youth who were not recruited to fight. …”

“…Not so well known is the fate of the first emigrants who the next year attempted to follow its tracks. …”

“…"Family Experiments explores the forms and undertakings of "family" that prevailed among British professionals who migrated to Australia and New Zealand in the late nineteenth century. …”

“…Doubts and questions plagued them: What does it mean to be a poet if your work is not your own? Who is best fit to lay claim to a parcel of poetic property that was collaboratively crafted and bequeathed to a fictitious Poet? …”