“…The contributors look at such configurations in geographical areas and time periods that lie outside of the modern Western world with its particular development of society and statehood: in Antiquity and in the Global South of the present. …”

“…"Javanese literature is one of the world's richest and most unusual literary traditions yet it is little known today outside of Java, Indonesia, and a handful of western universities. With its more than a millennium of documented history, its complex interactions over the centuries with literature written in Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, Malay and Dutch, its often symbiotic relationship with the performing arts of puppetry and dance, and its own immense creativity and insight, this vastly understudied literature offers a lens to understanding Java's fascinating world as well as human ingenuity more broadly. …”

“…This work focuses the social context of writing in ancient Western Arabia in the oasis of ancient Dadan, modern-day al-ʿUlā in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula between the sixth to first centuries BC. …”

“…Finally, she argues for a situated investigation of new places and actors beyond the United States and Western Europe-such as post-socialist regions-in order to explore the diversity of media infrastructures…”

“…More widely, the author seeks to map conditions for, and the challenges of, radical political projects that aim to counteract neoliberal globalization and Western hegemony in defining development. This book will appeal to critical academic scholars, development practitioners and social activists aiming to come to grips with the complexity of processes of progressive social change in our contemporary global world…”

“…In the thirty years following the Second World War, Western democracies created welfare states that, for the first time in history, significantly reduced the gap between the wealthy and everyone else. …”

“…In spite of their primacy, Western cultures have traditionally regarded plants as the lowest life forms, lacking mobility, sensation, and communication. …”

“…This account demonstrates how the functional and experiential difference between compact western and tropical dispersed cities can be explored. …”

“…Recent research has demonstrated that, in the Roman, Late Antique, Early Islamic and Medieval worlds, glass was traded over long distances, from the Eastern Mediterranean, mainly Egypt and Israel, to Northern Africa, the Western Mediterranean and Northern Europe. 'Things that travelled', a collaboration between the UCL Early Glass Technology Research Network, the Association for the History of Glass and the British Museum, aims to build on this knowledge. …”

“…Based on eighteenmonths of participant-observer ethnographic fieldwork and ten years offollow-up research, the book argues that there is a fundamental disconnectbetween the Western idea of the child soldier and the individual livedexperiences of the child soldiers of Sierra Leone. …”

“…There is growing evidence that rising levels of prosperity in Western economies since 1945 have not been matched by greater incidences of reported well-being and happiness. …”

“…During this time, Muslim Turks and Christian western Europeans conquered and traded at the expense of the shrinking Byzantine Empire. …”

“…Exploring anti-mimesis and image destruction in Western European films, Iconoclasm in European Cinema offers a comprehensive study of philosophical iconoclasm in cinema. …”

“…The authors also highlight the important ways in which Buddhist actors have (re)conceived Western liberal ideals such as constitutionalism, rule of law, and secularism. …”

“…Her colourful public persona oscillates among auteur, celebrity director, and political activist in an extraordinary professional trajectory, which started in the Eastern Bloc, continued in Western Europe and North America, then backtracked to a unified Europe. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Katia Iacono, Barbara Heinisch &amp -- Sonja Pöllabauer -- Introduction: Negotiating Understanding in Situations of Arrival and Reception -- Communication with Refugees in Spaces of Stasis and Uncertainty -- Über die Zufälle des Lebens - eine persönliche Perspektive -- On the Happenstances of Life - A Personal Perspective -- Abbas Salamat -- Die Katze, die Katzenfutter hasste -- Unterwegs -- On the Move -- Anastasios Ioannidis &amp -- Stefanos Vlachopoulos -- Remote Interpreting in Public Service Settings -- The Case of Public Employment Service of Greece -- Jérôme Devaux, Sarah Cox &amp -- Ahmed Halil -- Interpreting for Syrian Refugees in Turkey -- An Overview of the Interpreter's Background and Training -- Silvana Simoska, Tatjana Panova-Ignjatovikj &amp -- Mirjana Aleksoska-Chkatroska -- Between Empathy and Professionalism -- Cultural Mediators Along the Western Balkans Route - The Macedonian Experience -- Aleksandra Nuč Blažič &amp -- Sara Orthaber -- Auf dem Weg zur Professionalisierung -- Rahmenbedingungen und Praxis auf dem slowenischen Kommunaldolmetschmarkt -- Soňa Hodáková -- Specifics of Communication With Migrants in the Context of the War in Ukraine -- The Case of Slovakia -- Ankommen -- Arriving -- Yannick Wagner -- „Wenn's brennt" -- Erfahrungen, Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze einer erfolgreichen Krisen-Kommunikation und -Koordination in der akuten Flüchtlingshilfe am Beispiel von Train of Hope-Flüchtlingshilfe -- Anna Sourdille -- „They are like me." -- Chancen und Grenzen des Peer-Dolmetschens für queere Geflüchtete -- Im Gespräch -- Talking -- Annika Bergunde, Lilian Hagenlocher, Sarah Mackenzie &amp -- Verena Plutzar -- „Es darf ein bisschen mehr sein." -- Zur Kommunikation relevanter Informationen im Asylverfahren -- Virginie Bobin -- Refusing to Disappear…”

“…At a time when men and women were prepared to kill - and be killed - for their faith, the Reformation tore the western world apart. Acclaimed as the definitive account of these epochal events, Diarmaid MacCulloch's history brilliantly re-creates the religious battles of priests, monarchs, scholars and politicians, from the zealous Martin Luther nailing his Theses to the door of a Wittenburg church to the radical Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order; from Thomas Cranmer, martyred for his reforms, to the ambitious Philip II, unwavering in his campaign against Europe's 'heretics'.Weaving together the many strands of Reformation and Counter-Reformation, ranging widely across Europe and even to the new world, MacCulloch also reveals as never before how these upheavals affected everyday lives - overturning ideas of love, sex, death and the supernatural, and shaping the modern age -- Contracubierta…”

“…Yet Jews were not alone in supplying coin and credit to needy borrowers. Across much of Western Europe, foreign Christians likewise engaged in professional moneylending, and they too faced repeated threats of expulsion from the communities in which they settled. …”

“…Neither a medial center nor a nursing home, Het Dorp is a village in the western-most part of the Netherlands. What began as a sociological attempt to describe this unusual setting became, through the author's growing awareness, what can only be called a socio-autobiography. …”