Tabla de Contenidos: “…Emotional Intelligence for Dummies; About the Author; Author's Acknowledgments; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; About Emotional Intelligence For Dummies; Foolish Assumptions; Conventions Used in This Book; What You Don't Have to Read; How This Book Is Organized; Icons Used in This Book; Where to Go from Here; Part I: There's a New Kind of Intelligence in Town; Chapter 1: Feeling Smart; Chapter 2: Assessing Your Emotional Intelligence; Chapter 3: Finding Happiness; Part II: The Essentials of Emotional Intelligence…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Reception of Visiting Merchants in the Towns of the Baltic Rim, Sixteenth Century; Lovisa Olsson -- Part II: Early Modern Hospitalities -- 7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The case of a semi-rural community in Colombia / Andrés Marroquín Gramajo -- Compadrazgo networks and immigrant adaptation in a Nevada town / Tamar Diana Wilson -- The domestic economy and its implications for social complexity: Spondylus craft production in coastal Ecuador / Alexander J. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A model for university-town partnership in the arts: TestBeds -- 6. The Beam archive, Wakefield -- 7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Hindu Mobilities and Cremation: Minority, Migrant and Gendered Dialogues and Dialectics in English and Welsh Towns (Avril Maddrell, Brenda Mathijssen, Yasminah Beebeejaun, Katie McClymont & Danny McNally) -- 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The struggle against territorial disadvantage in a peripheral Finnish town: balancing effectiveness and accountability in local government. -- 14. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Flath -- "Under the same roof" : separate stories of Long Kesh/the Maze / Cahal McLaughlin -- Town : creating and curating the District Six Museum / Sandra Prosalendis, Jennifer Marot, Crain Soudien and Anwah Nagia -- Golconda : Our Voices, our Lives / Lawrence Scott -- Something Borrowed, Something New : History and the Waitangi tribunal / Michael Belgrave -- Creating Memories, Building Identities : The politics of memory in the Black Atlantic / Alan Rice…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Authority in Texts, Taxes, and Penury -- Transmitting Urgency in the Romance : An Example of Strategic Codeswitching in the Crown of Aragon's Thirteenth-Century Royal Chancery / Antonio Zaldivar -- The Issues of Fiscal Systems in Castilian Towns from 1369 to 1474 / Denis Menjot -- Authority and Poverty in Late-Medieval Spain / Francisco Garcia-Serrano -- Part III. …”

“…Bennis' life and career have traversed eight decades of first-hand experience with tumultuous episodes of recent history-from Jewish child in a gentile town in the 30's, a young army recruit in the Battle of the Bulge to a college student in the one of the first progressive precursors to the civil rights movement to a patient undergoing daily psychoanalysis for five years, and later a university provost during the Vietnam protests. …”
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“…A pesar de todo, hasta 1965, los trabajadores de Sagunto no consiguieron encabezar el movimiento obrero valenciano, debido a su tendencia al aislamiento como en una verdadera ?company town?. A principios de los años setenta, el activismo opositor se extendió progresivamente más allá los límites de Altos Hornos, conectando con sectores más amplios de la sociedad. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Johnston -- The valley of despair -- Prosaic grace : Doris Betts's Souls raised from the dead / Martha Greene Eads -- Narrative bones : Amy Tan's Bonesetter's daughter and Hugh Cook's Homecoming man / Elaine Lux -- Hope from a radio : Jurek Becker's Jakob the liar / Eric Sterling -- Friendship and hope : Elie Wiesel's The town beyond the wall / Carole J. Lambert -- Resisting the night -- A passion for the impossible : Richard Rorty, John Okada, and James Baldwin / Harold K. …”
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“…In Making Refuge Catherine Besteman follows the trajectory of Somali Bantus from their homes in Somalia before the onset in 1991 of Somalia’s civil war, to their displacement to Kenyan refugee camps, to their relocation in cities across the United States, to their settlement in the struggling former mill town of Lewiston, Maine. Tracking their experiences as "secondary migrants" who grapple with the struggles of xenophobia, neoliberalism, and grief, Besteman asks what humanitarianism feels like to those who are its objects and what happens when refugees move in next door. …”

“…Twenty-five years ago one could list by name the tiny number of multiple personalities recorded in the history of Western medicine, but today hundreds of people receive treatment for dissociative disorders in every sizable town in North America. Clinicians, backed by a grassroots movement of patients and therapists, find child sexual abuse to be the primary cause of the illness, while critics accuse the "MPD" community of fostering false memories of childhood trauma. …”

“…A long historical part followed by sections on demography, economy, social disparities, urban challenges and major town and country planning, sheds light on the formation of Jordanian territories over time.Jordan has always been looked on as an exception in the Middle East due to the political stability that has prevailed since the country’s Independence in 1946, despite the challenge of integrating several waves of Palestinian, Iraqi and - more recently - Syrian refugees. …”

“…"What might a sensible community choose to do if its economy has fallen apart and becoming a ghost town is not an acceptable option? Unfortunately, answers to this question have long been measured against an implicit standard: the postwar economy of the 1950s. …”