Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: On arts and artists -- Strange beginnings : prehistoric and primitive peoples; Ancient America -- Art for eternity : Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete -- The great awakening : Greece, seventh to fifth century BC -- The realm of beauty : Greece and the Greek world, fourth century BC to first century AD -- World conquerors : Romans, Buddhists, Jews and Christians, first to fourth century AD -- A parting of ways : Rome and Byzantium, fifth to thirteenth century -- Looking eastwards : Islam, China, second to thirteenth century -- Western art in the melting pot : Europe, sixth to eleventh century -- The church militant : the twelfth century -- The church triumphant : the thirteenth century -- Courtiers and burghers : the fourteenth century -- The conquest of reality : the early fifteenth century -- Tradition and innovation I : the later fifteenth century in Italy -- Traditions and innovation II : the fifteenth century in the North -- Harmony attained : Tuscany and Rome, early sixteenth century -- Light and colour : Venice and northern Italy, early sixteenth century -- The new learning spreads : Germany and the Netherlands, early sixteenth century -- A crisis of art : Europe, later sixteenth century -- Vision and visions : Catholic Europe, first half of the seventeenth century -- The mirror of nature : Holland, seventeenth century -- Power and glory I : Italy, later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Power and glory II : France, Germany and Austria, late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- The age of reason : England and France, eighteenth century -- The break in tradition : England, America and France, late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Permanent revolution : The nineteenth century -- In search of new standards : the late nineteenth century -- Experimental art : the first half of the twentieth century -- A story without end: The triumph of modernism ; Another turning of the tide ; The changing past…”

“…The author addresses central issues such as how Egyptian history can be treated as a whole and how the west has shaped prevailing images of it, both through direct contact and through the lens of western scholarship. Drawing on current historical scholarship and his own research, Jason Thompson has written a remarkable work of synthesis and concision, offering students, travelers, and general readers alike an engaging one-volume narrative of the extraordinarily long course of human history by the Nile. …”

“…What is attempted here is the story of its Western-Christian reception.--Editor…”

“…Starting with an overview of Husserl's life and works, and his place in Twentieth century philosophy and in Western philosophy as a whole, David Woodruff Smith introduces Husserl's concept of phenomenology, explaining his influential theories of intentionality, objectivity and subjectivity. …”

“…"Constructivism dominates over other theories of knowledge in much of western academia, especially the humanities and social sciences. …”

“…First, Cervantes' relation to the Western literary canon is reconfigured, detaching him from the realist novel and associating him, instead, with magic realism. …”
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“…Notably, the author demonstrates that the sequel develops first and foremost in Early Modern Spain, an unacknowledged and unexamined contribution to Western letters. With its panoramic scope, this study serves as an introduction to the central novelistic genres and texts of Early Modern Spain. …”

“…Authoritative and wide-ranging, this book examines the history of western linguistics over a 2000-year timespan, from its origins in ancient Greece up to the crucial moment of change in the Renaissance that laid the foundations of modern linguistics. …”
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“….: "The First Crusade (1095-1101) was the stimulus for a substantial boom in Western historical writing in the first decades of the twelfth century, beginning with the so-called "eyewitness" accounts of the crusade and extending to numerous second-hand treatments in prose and verse. …”

“…Examining US, European and international approaches, Heinze offers a new vision of free speech within Western democracies."…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Archaeology in Oceania : themes and issues / Ian Lilley -- Revisiting the past : changing interpretations of Pleistocene settlement subsistence and demography in Northern Australia / Sue O'Connor and Peter Veth -- Archaeology and the dreaming : towards an archaeology of ontology / Bruno David -- Blunt and to the point : changing technological strategies in Holocene Australia / Peter Hiscock -- Rock art and social identity : a comparison of Holocene graphic systems in arid and fertile environments / Jo Mcdonald and Peter Veth -- Closing the distance : interpreting cross-cultural engagements through indigenous rock art / Anne Clarke and Ursula Frederick -- Archaeology in Melanesia : a case study from the Western Province of the Solomon Islands / Richard Walter and Peter Sheppard -- Envisaging early agriculture in the Highlands of New Guinea / Tim Denham -- Late Pleistocene complexities in the Bismarck Archipelago / Matthew Leavesley -- Life before Lapita : new developments in Melanesia's long-term history / Christina Pavlides -- The first millennium BC in remote Oceania : an alternative perspective on Lapita / Jean-Christophe Galipaud -- Ethnoarchaeology in Polynesia / Eric Conte -- The formation of Hawaiian territories / Thegn Ladefoged and Michael Graves -- Ritual and domestic architecture, sacred places, and images : archaeology in the Marquesas Archipelago, French Polynesia / Sidsel Millerstrom -- The archaeology of the conical clan in Micronesia / Paul Rainbird -- Politics -- What is archaeology for in the Pacific? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Rosenberg -- The Moscow correspondents, Soviet human rights activists, and the problem of the Western gift / Barbara Walker -- Americans in the Russian mirror. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Putting people into wetlands / Adrian Wood, Alan Dixon and Matthew McCartney -- The value of wetlands for livelihood support in Tanzania and Zambia / Matthew McCartney -- Catchments and wetlands: a functional landscape approach to sustainable use of seasonal wetlands in central Malawi / Adrian Wood and Patrick Thawe -- Local institutions, social capital and sustainable wetland management: experiences from western Ethiopia / Alan Dixon, Afework Hailu and Tilahun Semu -- The emergence of a systemic view for the sustainable governance and use of wetlands in complex and transforming environments: experiences from Craigieburn, South Africa / Sharon Pollard and Derek du Toit -- Assessing the ecological sustainability of wetland cultivation: experiences from Zambia and Malawi / Donovan Kotze -- Sustainable management of wetlands for livelihoods: Uganda's experiences and lessons / Barbara Nakangu and Robert Bagyenda -- Managing a Ramsar site to support agriculture and fisheries: Lake Chilwa, Malawi / Daniel Jamu and Lisa Rebelo -- Agriculture, livelihoods and fadama restoration in northern Nigeria / Adamu Tanko -- Wetlands and rice development in West Africa / Paul Kiepe and Jonne Rodenburg -- Conclusions: transforming wetland livelihoods / Adrian Wood, Alan Dixon and Matthew McCartney…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…MacWilliams -- Manga in Japanese History / Kinko Ito -- Contemporary Anime in Japanese Pop Culture / Gilles Poitras -- Characters, Themes, and Narrative Patterns in the Manga of Osamu Tezuka / Susanne Phillips -- From Metropolis to Metoroporisu : The Changing Role of the Robot in Japanese and Western Cinema / Lee Makela -- Opening the Closed World of Shojo Manga / Mizuki Takahashi -- Situating the Shojo in Shojo Manga : Teenage Girls, Romance Comics, and Contemporary Japanese Culture / Deborah Shamoon -- Intellectuals, Cartoons, and Nationalism During the Russo-Japanese War / Yulia Mikhailova -- Framing Manga: On Narratives of the Second World War in Japanese Manga, 1957-1977 / Eldad Nakar -- Aum Shinrikyo and a Panic about Manga and Anime / Rich Gardner -- Medieval Genealogies of Manga and Anime Horror / Raj Pandey -- The Utopian "Power to Live": The Significance of the Miyazaki Phenomenon / Hiroshi Yamanaka -- Heart of Japaneseness: History and Nostalgia in Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away / Shiro Yoshioka -- National History as Otaku Fantasy: Satoshi Kon's Millennium Actress / Melek Ortabasi -- Considering Manga Discourse: Location, Ambiguity, Historicity / Jaqueline Berndt -- Bibliography…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : heresy -- Heresy and the inquisition -- Czeslaw Milosz and the captive mind -- The archetypal inquisition -- Joseph de Maistre and the Inquisition -- Juan Donoso Cortés and the "sickness" of the liberal state -- Georges Sorel and Charles Maurras : the emergence of secular state corporatism -- Maurice Barrès and Charles Maurras : the nationalist substitute for Catholicism -- The secularization of heresiophobia -- Carl Schmitt, the Inquisition, and totalitarianism -- Carl Schmitt and early modern Western esotericism -- Carl Schmitt and gnosticism -- Communism and the heresy of religion -- Eric Voegelin, anti-gnosticism, and the totalitarian emphasis on order -- The rhetoric of anti-gnosticism -- Voegelinian inquisitors -- Norman Cohn and the pursuit of heretics -- The inner demons of Europe once again -- Theodor Adorno and the "occult" -- Another long, strange trip -- That old bugaboo, "gnosticism," yet again -- An epidemic of evil! …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Connolly -- Family law, state recognition and intersecting spheres/spaces : jewish and muslim women diorcing in the United Kingdom / Pascale Fournier -- Customary norms vs state law : French courts' responses to the traditional practice of excision -- Law, culture, and fact in indigenous claims : legal pluralism as a problem of recognition / Kirsten Anker -- On perpetuity : tradition, law and the pluralism of Hopi jurisprudence / Justin B Richland -- "Existing in he hyphen" : on relational legal culture / Jennifer Hendry -- The unexpected effects of the recognition of indigenous rights in New Caledonia : the story of an assimilation measure becoming the trigger for the acculturation of the French legal system / Thomas Burelli & Régis Lafargue -- Cultures of conflict : welcoming and resisting " Non-Western" influence in alternative dispute resolution / Eric H. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Your purpose and intention -- Keeping a journal -- Annotations -- Seventeen basic Teilhardian principles that give rise to the new spiritual exercises -- The first week -- The presence of God -- The way God loves -- The principle and foundation -- The thanksgiving examen -- The positive particular examen -- Introduction to the meditations on sin -- Introduction to social sin -- End of the first week -- The second week -- The call of the kingdom -- The call of Jesus -- The incarnation -- The two standards -- Three pairs of people -- Four levels of service -- Jesus' baptism in the Jordan -- The temptations of Jesus in desert -- Parables of the kingdom -- The woman who was a sinner -- A different kind of fire -- Discernment and decisions -- End of the second week -- The third week -- Perspective -- The passion and death of Jesus -- End of the third week -- The fourth week -- The risen Christ appears to Mary -- Looking for the new Christ- the new creation -- From the way of the cross to the way of the resurrection -- Being sent- individually and collectively -- Infused with the Divine Spirit -- The final contemplation: relating to the father from within the cosmic Christ -- End of the fourth week -- Appendices -- A. steps in a group contemplation -- B. how to choose music for prayer -- C. dialogue prayer -- D. meditation- Eastern and Western…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Table of contents; list of illustrations; notes on editors and contributors; preface; introduction; part i; root and branch; tomás pereira and the jesuits of the court of the kangxi emperor; father tomás pereira, sj, the kangxi emperor, and the court westerners; the image of tomás pereira in qing dynasty documents; from the earthly court to the heavenly court; the last imperial honours from tomás pereira to the eulogium europeorum doctorum in 1711; part ii; 'amicíssimos'; the fô and the xekiâ; ubi dux, ibi curia; 'riding a crane she ascended to the distant realms'; part iii…”
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