“…Rather than looking at Islam through a prism of Western (and by default, Christian) perspective, it examines the Islamic perspective itself. …”

“…The Semantics of Development in Asia critically examines the diverse (Western and non-Western) roots of Japanese development ideas and lexemes and their shifting semantics, shaped by the ever-changing national/international political economies and dominant development thinking of different eras. …”

“…They have emerged as formidable competitors for western incumbents. These firms have instigated profound changes, such as displaced trade and investment flows, new business models, and the emergence of a new geography of global innovation. …”

“…This Open-Access-book questions the relationship between institutionalized images and understandings of policing – the monolithic ideas common to most, if not all, Western law enforcement agencies – and contextual, situative, and local interactions where the human representatives of policing – street-level officers – come into contact with residents. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Bush administration and US news media /Scott Bonn -- Global cities and global fears: the Camden Islamic school campaign / Ryan Al Natour and George Morgan -- Perverse Muslim masculinities in contemporary orientalist discourse: the vagaries of Muslim immigration in the West / Selda Dagistanli and Kiran Grewal -- Generating a local moral panic in western Sydney: pitfalls, limits and lessons from a "failed political attempt" to use global Islamophobia / Kevin M. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…1 "Living with Honour": Modern Western Paganism -- 2 "Where Do They Get This From?"…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Bobby Roberts: Intermediary and outlaw of Western Australia's south coast -- 7. Mediating the imaginary and the space of encounter in the Papuan Gulf -- 8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Toward a critique of theology -- A possible internal and external differentiation of Habermas's theory of rationality -- Paradox and aporia in Adorno's philosophy of nonidentity -- The construction of occidental subjectivism: reductio ad hominem versus remembrance of nature in the subject -- The breaking apart of western objectivism and the resurrection of the particular and the ephemeral in the philosophy of history -- Metaphysical experience -- Paradox and aporia in Levinas's philosophy of the ethical-religious other -- Levinas on art and truth -- The dialectics of subjectivity and the critique of objectivism -- Loosening logocentrism: language and skepticism -- From unhappy consciousness to bad conscience -- "The other theology": conceptual, historical, and political idolatry -- Appendix: The theology of the sign and the sign of theology: the apophatics of deconstruction…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Of culture, politics, law. and LGBT rights in Nigeria -- Humanness and ableism: Construction and deconstruction of disability -- Doing the old human -- Being a mineworker in post-apartheid South Africa, a decolonial perspective -- Meditations on the dehumanisation of the slave -- 'Language as being" in the politics of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o -- The underside of modern knowledge: an epistemic break from Western science -- The fiction of the juristic person: reassessing personhood in relation to people -- The cultural village and the idea of the 'human' -- A fragmented humanity and monologues: towards a diversal humanism…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Petersen, Germany -- Road Congestion in Western Europe by C. Gerondeau, France -- A Prospective Assessment of Traffic Congestion in Europe by P. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction-Threats and the Challenges of Uncertainty -- Chapter 1-Balancing as a Commitment Problem -- Chapter 2-Balancing and Buck-Passing: A Dynamic Model with Uncertainty -- Chapter 3-Balancing and Buck-Passing: Western Europe in the 1930s -- Chapter 4-To Bandwagon or Hide: A Theoretical Examination of the Alternatives to Balancing -- Chapter 5-To Bandwagon or Hide: East Central Europe before World War Two -- Chapter 6-Balancing and Bandwagoning by Other Means: How the Outbreak of War Affects States' Responses to Threats -- Chapter 7-The Rise of China: Will States Balance, Bandwagon, or Hedge in the South China Sea Today? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Figures and Maps -- Notes on Contributors -- Prologue / Defining the Boundaries of Tolerance and Intolerance -- Ideology, Pragmatism, and Coexistence / Resisting Biconfessionalism and Coexistence in the Common Territories of the Western Swiss Confederation* / The Persecution of Witches and the Discourse on Toleration in Early Modern Germany / Coexistence and Confessionalization / Concubinaries as Citizens / Mapping Memory and Arbitrating Good Neighbors -- Imagined Conversations / Anabaptists and Seventeenth-Century Arguments for Religious Toleration in Switzerland and the Netherlands* / Celebrating Peace in Biconfessional Augsburg / Discord via Toleration / Parish Clergy, Patronage Rights, and Regional Politics in the Convent Churches of Welver, 1532–1697* / Epilogue / Back Matter -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Islamic world in the era of Western domination, 1800 to the present / Sarah Ansari Part II: 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Going out into the world -- Defending and defining -- Living in a hostile world -- Embracing the world -- The Constantinian revolution -- Defining and dividing -- Out of one many -- The shifting center -- The emergence of Christian Europe -- Endings and beginnings -- The dividing of western Christendom -- Contesting boundaries -- The battle for the soul of Europe -- The reinternationalization of Christianity -- Reason and faith -- Placing Christianity in a new world -- Challenging Christendom -- Creating a new world (nineteenth century style) -- The great divide -- The "great century" -- Wrestling with modernity -- The end of innocence -- The modern quest for unity -- Facing post-modernity -- A new Christian world…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…The spiritual challenge of evil -- Modern western evasions of evil -- Unwitting evasion: suffering and indignant rejection of God -- Salvation after the death of God: Nietzsche -- Biocentrism and faces: deep ecology and the land ethic -- A telling confession: Aldo Leopold and the wolf -- Agape and the paradise of yes -- Concerning reality: primordially and ultimately, yes -- Concerning others and ourselves: primordially and ultimately, yes -- Fyodor Dostoevsky and joy eyes wide open to evil -- A cautionary tale: Iris Murdoch and the death of the atomistic I -- Awakening in Dostoevsky: Markel and the Brothers Karamazov -- Grace and the paradise of yes -- Death's gift to life: living now eternally…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chinese contributions to Japanese civilization, 600 AD-838 AD -- Trade without transformative learning, 838-1862 -- Responding to Western challenges and reopening relations, 1839-1882 -- Rivalry in Korea and the Sino-Japanese War, 1882-1895 -- Chinese learn from Japan, 1895-1937 (with Paula Harrell) -- The colonization of Taiwan and Manchuria, 1895-1945 -- Political disorder and the road to war, 1911-1937 (with Richard Dyck) -- The Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- The collapse of the Japanese empire and the Cold War, 1945-1972 -- Working together, 1972-1992 -- The deterioration of Sino-Japanese relations, 1992-2018 -- Facing the new era …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The analytical background : approaches to the study of British foreign policy / Steve Smith and Michael Smith -- The historical background : past and present in British foreign policy / Christopher Hill -- State, society, culture and British foreign policy / Christopher Farrands -- The policy-making process / Michael Clarke -- Security and order : the military dimension / Tony McGrew -- Security and order : the economic dimension / Roger Tooze -- Britain and East-West relations / Brian White -- Britain and Western Europe / David Allen -- Britain and North-South relations / John Vogler -- Britain and the advanced industrial countries / Michael Smith -- The study of British foreign policy / Richard Little…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Past and present -- The Western Traditions of Ancient History -- Enlightenment Greece: Sparta versus Athens -- Ireland Invents Greek History: The Lost Historian John Gast -- The Philhellenes and Marathon -- The Contested Reign of Mitford -- Romantic History in Britain and Europe -- Utilitarian History: Mill and Grote -- Hegel, Niebuhr, and Critical History -- Burckhardt and Cultural History -- The Archaic Age -- The Problem of Socrates -- In Search of the Key to all Mythologies -- The Repentance of Gilbert Murray -- Saving Civilization: The Warburg Institute and the SPSL -- Momigliano on Peace and Liberty -- Momigliano in England -- Fernand Braudel and the Mediterranean -- The 'École de Paris' -- Dark Times: The Cold War and the Triumph of Capitalism -- The Crisis of Theory in History…”