“…After comparing modern Western navigation with the method practiced in Micronesia, Hutchins explores the computational and cognitive properties of systems that involve multiple individuals. …”

“…While they once took pictures of burnt cities or bullet-wounds in the eastern combat zones, these artists now captured images of landscapes and geological formations to map, measure, and picture the unfamiliar western terrain. Scholars have not yet examined how the work the photographers produced during the Civil War influenced their new assignments, or post-war photography. …”

“…Plato's account of dialectic is arguably the first systematic account of philosophical method in the Western philosophical tradition. The book's chapters share two basic assumptions: dialectic is pivotal to understanding Platonic philosophy-including his ethics, epistemology, and ontology-and the current developmental approach to Platonic dialectic dominating contemporary scholarship hinders our understanding of Plato. …”

“…Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historiographical tradition. It provides an unfinished account of the war between Athens and her allies and Sparta and her allies which lasted from 431 to 404 BC, and is a masterpiece of narrative art and of political analysis. …”

“…His activities, writings, and legacy have had a huge effect on the western world. This Cambridge Companion provides an accessible introduction to Martin Luther for students of theology and history and for others interested in the life, work and thought of the first great Protestant reformer. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Taiwan's Tzu Chi as Engaged Buddhism: Origins, Organization, Appeal and Social Impact; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF TABLES AND CHART PAGE; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTES ON STYLE; CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION: THE SECOND GOLDEN AGE OF CHINESE BUDDHISM IN TAIWAN; The Aim of the Study; The Society, History and Ethnology of Taiwan; The Contemporary Taiwanese Religious Context: Limited Pluralism; A History of Chinese Buddhism in Taiwan; Traditional Religion in Taiwan; Daoism; Western Missions and Missionaries; Syncretism and Other New Religions in Taiwan…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- National Cinema: Re-Definitions and New Directions -- European Culture, National Cinema, the Auteur and Hollywood -- ImpersoNations: National Cinema, Historical Imaginaries -- Film Festival Networks: The New Topographies of Cinema in Europe -- Double Occupancy and Small Adjustments: Space, Place and Policy in the New European Cinema since the 1990's -- Auteurs and Art Cinemas: Modernism and Self-Reference, Installation Art and Autobiography -- Ingmar Bergman - Person and Persona: The Mountain of Modern Cinema on the Road to Morocco -- Late Losey: Time Lost and Time Found -- Around Painting and the "End of Cinema": A Propos Jacques Rivette's La Belle Noiseuse -- Spellbound by Peter Greenaway: In the Dark ... and Into the Light -- The Body as Perceptual Surface: The Films of Johan van der Keuken -- Television and the Author's Cinema: ZDF's Das Kleine Fernsehspiel -- Touching Base: Some German Women Directors in the 1980's -- Europe-Hollywood-Europe -- Two Decades in Another Country: Hollywood and the Cinephiles -- Raoul Ruiz's L'Hypothèse du Tableau Volé -- Images for Sale: The "New" British Cinema -- "If You Want a Life": The Marathon Man -- British Television in the 1980's Through The Looking Glass -- German Cinema Face to Face with Hollywood: Looking into a Two-Way Mirror -- Central Europe Looking West -- Of Rats and Revolution: Dusan Makavejev's The Switchboard Operator -- Defining DEFA's Historical Imaginary: The Films of Konrad Wolf / Under Western Eyes: What Does Žižek Want? -- Our Balkanist Gaze: About Memory's No Man's Land -- Europe Haunted by History and Empire -- Is History an Old Movie? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…From Kunnanj, Fish Creek, to Mumeka, Mann River: Hunter-gatherer tradition and transformation in Western Arnhem Land,1948-2009. Jon Altman; 7. Making a Sea Change: Rock art, archaeology and the enduring legacy of Frederick McCarthy's research on Groote Eylandt. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Rural and Remote Area Health Services in Western Australia; How could the process have been better managed?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Other Affective InfluencesQuality Perception; Value Perception Versus Quality Perception; Modifying Influences; The Involvement Factor; Summary; Three Critical Points for International Marketers; References; Chapter 7: Social Class Impact Modified with Hierarchy of Needs; Global Versus Parochial Products; Maslow ́s Hierarchy of Needs; Social Class and Hierarchy of Needs; Consumption Decision Influencer; Summary; Three Critical Points for International Marketers; References; Chapter 8: Social Contagion of Global Consumers; Wa, Inhwa, and Quanxi; Wa; Inhwa; Quanxi; Western Social Contagion…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…CHAPTER SIX: Fighting Electoral Fraud in the 2011 Russian Election with Internet and Social MediaCritical Information and Postelection Protests; RuNet: Russian Internet; Russian Authorities and Cyberactivists; Golos and Online Election Fraud Reporting; Golos and Citizens' Whistle-Blowing; Electoral Fraud, Social Media, and Post-Election Protests; Social Media and Voter Mobilization; Conclusion; CHAPTER SEVEN: Information Freedom During the Cold War: The Impact of Western Radio Broadcasts; Short-Term and Long-Term Objectives of RFE/RL…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Characteristics of general education in Taiwan's universities and the inspirations to the universities in the MainlandA new model of forecast enrollment using fuzzy time series; The application of 3D technology in vocational education; Reform practice of cooking in higher education-take Sichuan Tourism University as an example; Sports value outlook and physical training behavior of middle school students in China's western ethnic minority regions; The support environment mechanism of clusters ecosystem…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Part III The Four Practical Pathways to Mental Health and Wellbeing -- Chapter 5 Pathway 1: Move Your Mind -- Benefits of exercise -- Creating a habit -- My approach -- The joy of movement -- A final word -- Chapter 6 Pathway 2: Feed Your Mind -- Food and our mental health -- The impact of nutrition on our mental health -- Food habits in the Western world -- Popular diets -- My approach -- Eating disorders -- A final word -- Chapter 7 Pathway 3: Connect Your Mind -- Love and connection -- Connection comes from within -- My approach -- Relationships -- A final word -- Chapter 8 Pathway 4: Still Your Mind -- Scientific benefits of meditation and mindfulness -- Ways to meditate -- Make it work for you -- My five wellness tools -- Internal vs external -- A mindset of purpose -- Scientific benefits of sleep -- Sleep and mental health -- Getting enough sleep -- My approach: creating my own mantra -- A final word -- Part IV The Three Stages of Sustainable Change…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Characteristics of Modern Western Capitalism CHAPTER IV THE WORLD RELIGIONS IN CONTROL TESTS; 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Using documents from ancient China to teach mathematical proof: Karine Chemla -- 19. Proof in the Western and Eastern traditions: Implications for mathematics education: Man Keung Siu -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix 1: Discussion Document -- Appendix 2: Conference Proceedings: Table of contents -- Author Index -- Subject Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Chapter 1: Computing Probabilities: Right Ways and Wrong Ways; The Probabilist; The Probabilist'S Toys and Language; The Probabilist'S Rule Book; Independence, Airplanes, and Russian Peasants; Conditional Probability, Swedish TV, and British Courts; Liar, Liar; Car Dealers and Color Blindness; Shuttlecocks and Spaghetti Westerns; Combinatorics, Pastrami, and Poetry; The Von Trapps and The Binomial Distribution; Final Word; Chapter 2: Surprising Probabilities: When Intuition Struggles…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The image of the book in Xhosa oral poetry / Jeff Opland ; Written out, writing in: orature in the South African literary canon / Deborah Seddon ; Not Western: race, reading and the South African photocomic / Lily Saint -- Ideological exigencies and the fates of books. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Feldman -- 19 Schalit’s Modern Hebrew Translation of Josephus’ Antiquitates Judaicae: A Reassessment -- Michael Avioz -- 20 Zena Ayhud (The History of the Jews): The Text and Context of the Ethiopic Version of Sefer Yosippon -- Yonatan Binyam -- 21 The Christian Reception of Sefer Yosippon in Western Europe -- Nadia Zeldes -- 22 Un-writing the End: Histories and Counter-Histories in the Early Modern Yosippon -- Andrea Schatz -- Index of Sources -- Index of Subjects…”