“…They focus on democratisation and its failure in Russia, transformations of identity in Eastern and Western Europe, Africa, North and South America, and South-East Asia, the rise of militant and political Islam, and the eruption of China onto the world stage. …”

“…Since the eighteenth century, few schools of historical thought have exerted a more lasting impact than Marxism, and this impact extends far beyond the Western world within which it is most commonly analysed. …”

“…In the ancient conversation between Western philosophy and Christian theology, powerful contemporary voices are arguing for monologue rather than dialogue. …”

“…A History of the Modern Middle East examines the profound and often dramatic transformations of the region in the past two centuries, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of Western imperialism, to the impact of US foreign policies. …”

“…Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the great icons of Western music. An amazing prodigy --he toured the capitals of Europe while still a child, astonishing royalty and professional musicians with his precocious skills-- he wrote as an adult some of the finest music in the entire European tradition. …”
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“…The Emotions closes the traditional Western gap where emotions are separated from rationality and thought: the heart versus mind debate. …”
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“…"A vivid history of how Cold War politics helped solve one of the twentieth century's biggest refugee crisesWhen World War II ended, about one million people whom the Soviet Union claimed as their citizens were outside the borders of the USSR, mostly in the Western-occupied zones of Germany and Austria. These "displaced persons," or DPs-Russians, prewar Soviet citizens, and people from West Ukraine and the Baltic states forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1939-refused to repatriate to the Soviet Union despite its demands. …”

“…Entre sus trabajos: la cinta de gánsteres más influyente, la seminal Scarface; las comedias locas La fiera de mi niña y Luna nueva; los clásicos del cine negro El sueño eterno y Tener o no tener; el musical Los caballeros las prefieren rubias; se adentró en la ciencia-ficción con una de las películas de más influencia en el género, La cosa; dominó el western con Río Bravo; y perfeccionó el cine de aventuras con Sólo los ángeles tienen alas y Hatari! …”

“…While this devotion, now so popular in the Catholic Church and many Protestant denominations, first emerged in Jerusalem and began spreading through Western Europe in the fourteenth century, it did not assume its current form, and earn the Church's formal recognition, until almost three centuries later. …”

“…Presentación del editor: "The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…'Creative China' and Its Potential to Problematise Western- Modern-Romantic Ideologies of Creativity / Section 1: Boredom -- Essays -- 1.1 Create No More! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 14: Confronting the Past, Engaging the Other in the Present: The Intergenerational Healing Journey of a Holocaust Survivor and his ChildrenChapter 15: Breaking Cycles of Trauma and Violence: Psychosocial Approaches to Healing and Reconciliation in Burundi; Chapter 16: Breaking Cycles of Trauma through Diversified Pathways to Healing: Western and Indigenous Approaches with Survivors of Torture and War; Chapter 17: Acting Together to Disrupt Cycles of Violence: Performance and Social Healing…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Table of Contents -- On Integrating Jewish Literature(s) into the Teaching of Early Modern Spanish Literature: Preliminary Thoughts -- The Jewish Auto-Sacramental Plays as Jewish Baroque Drama -- Integrating the Writings of the Western Sephardic Diaspora into the Literature of the Spanish Golden Age -- Post-Essentialist Belonging in Portuguese: Herberto Helder (1930–2015) -- A Few Remarks about Teaching Jewish Turkish Literature -- Teaching Literatures by Arabized Jews: Medieval and Modern -- Dissenting Narratives – The Figure of the ‘Arab Jew’ in Contemporary Arabic Literature and Film -- German-Jewish Literature: An Interruption -- Reading Kafka in Turkey -- Unraveling Heimat – Recontextualizing Gertrud Kolmar’s Das preußische Wappenbuch -- Configurations of Jewishness in Modernism: Woolf and Joyce -- Planetarity in the Global? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Wildfeuer, Christina Wirth -- Education and participation : general considerations and exemplary consequences for political youth education and teaching at universities / Josef Freise -- Participation in education / Huda Musleh -- Participation in times of globalization / Heinz Theisen -- The arab intellectual : polemics of participation in the knowledge society / Elise Aghazarian -- Participation : as a central right of service users in Germany / Ria Puhl -- Participation between the rhetoric of Western donor NGOs and the reality of social work and social development practice in Palestine / Eman Abusada -- Participation from the point of view of nursing pedagogy / Gertrud Hundenborn -- Innovative participation : teaching-training ten students from Gaza to be occupational therapists / Nelly Husari -- Justice and reconciliation / Armin G. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Step 5: Power-Sharing OffersStep 6: Moderation of Insurgent Leadership; Step 7: Third-Party Guarantor; Twelve Additional Cases of Historical Insurgency Settled Through Negotiation; Yemen, 1962-1970; Philippines (MNLF), 1971-1996; Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990; Western Sahara, 1975-1991; Mozambique (RENAMO), 1976-1995; Indonesia (Aceh), 1976-2005; Kampuchea, 1978-1992; Bosnia, 1992-1995; Tajikistan, 1992-1997; Burundi, 1993-2003; Chechnya I, 1994-1996; Democratic Republic of the Congo (Anti-Kabila), 1998-2003; Following the Master Narrative Toward an End Game in Afghanistan…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Customer satisfaction in selected Western restaurants in Malaysia: A case studyThe influence of knowledge sharing on innovation: A study of Jordanian four and five stars hotels; Contributing factors of Halal warehouse adoption; Motivation and working behaviour in frontier tourism business of Thailand-Laos; A comparative study of customers' satisfaction between dental and medical services in University Putra Malaysia Health Centre; Ascertaining white teachers' understanding of issues relating to multicultural education in school settings of the Northern Cape…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…North to South-Central Europe: Sweden/Norway/Finland/Denmark through Germany/Austria/Switzerland to Italy -- 5.5. Western Europe to Eastern Europe -- 5.6. Inland waterway transport: North Sea to Black Sea. …”