“…At an historical moment when the relative stability of the Western media sport order is under challenge, it analyses a range of key structures, practices and issues whose ramifications extend far beyond the fields of play and national contexts in which sport events take place.The book will critically appraise the state of sports television; rise of new sports media; emergence of hybrid sport cultural forms; eruption of sport-related political controversies and power struggles; mutations of forms of global sport fandom, and projections of the future of global media sport. …”

“…The interaction of literary practice with linguistic, cognitive theories, with the latest Western theory of lyricism, as well as with philosophical concepts makes possible a multilateral approach to the complex phenomena of contemporary Russian-language poetry…”

“…The co-editors of the volume are Jerzy Fiećko, one of the eminent experts in the field of Mickiewicz studies, and Mateusz Stróżyński, an internationally recognized scholar of the Platonic tradition and Western mysticism…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Preface -- Committees -- Keynote Speech I Decentralized SIEPON-Based ONU-Initiated Tx/TRx Energy-Efficiency Mechanism in EPON / Keynote Speech II A Glass Half Full or Half Empty: Water Resources in Western China - an Earth Observation and Data Analytics Perspective / Keynote Speech III Heterogeneous Catalysis and Environmental Nanomaterials for Water Decontamination: Promises, Challenges and Research Needs / Keynote Speech IV Computational Studies of Molecules and Materials Pertaining to Environmental Science and Sustainable Energy / Table of Content -- Session l. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Peer And Teacher Norms -- METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 School And Children: The Middle Childhood Years -- THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT -- Input-Output Analysis -- Social-System Variables -- Milieu Variables -- The Ecological Perspective -- Teacher Behaviors And Expectations -- EFFECTS OF SCHOOLING -- Achievement -- School-Related Affect -- Social Roles -- SOCIAL BACKGROUND AND SCHOOLING -- Family Influence And Educational Outcomes -- Socioeconomic Status And Achievement -- Home Environment -- Maternal Influence -- Parental Involvement -- Family And School Authority Patterns -- Family Variables And Student Personality Dimensions -- Race And Ethnicity -- SCHOOL DESEGREGATION -- Racial Attitudes And Peer Relationships -- Self-Esteem, Academic Self-Concept, And Racial Self-Identity -- Academic Achievement -- SECOND-LANGUAGE LEARNING AND BILINGUALISM -- Bilingual Instruction And Intellectual Development -- Bilingualism And Achievement -- INSTRUCTIONAL APPROACHES TO REDUCING EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITY -- Open Education -- Cooperative Small-Group Instruction -- Mastery Learning -- Research Needs -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 Ecocultural Niches Of Middle Childhood: A Cross-Cultural Perspective -- WESTERN AND NON-WESTERN CULTURES -- PATTERNS OF CARETAKING OF CHILDREN -- Sibling Caretaking -- Father Roles -- Conclusion -- SELF-CONCEPTIONS AND ECOCULTURAL VARIATIONS -- Individuation And Individualism -- Private And Public Selves -- Ecocultural Origins Of Differences In Self-Regulation -- Conclusion -- TROUBLESOMENESS IN CHILDREN -- SCHOOLING AND LITERACY -- SOME COMMENTS ON METHODS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 The Status Of Research Related To Psychopathology -- IMPLICATIONS OF RECENT RESEARCH: DISPELLING MYTHS -- Mbd/Hyperactivity/Attention Deficit Disorder -- Historical Context -- Problems Of Diagnostic Criteria…”

“…Contrary to standard theories of modernisation, which tend to regard religious individualisation as a specifically modern or early modern as well as an essentially Western or Christian phenomenon, the chapters reveal processes of religious individualisation in a large variety of non-Western and pre-modern scenarios. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Schematic view of eastern (a) and drawing of western (b) profile in trench 4 (Drawing: Katarina Jerbić). -- Figure 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Transitioning Organization: The Post-Soviet Model 183 The post-Soviet model - Volkswagen-Skoda joint venture - German people management - Soviet management and organization - Soviet management in East Germany - Soviet personnel management - Post-Soviet people management - People management in the Czech Republic - Implications for managers: Western companies in Russia - An agenda for research. 10. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Transitioning Organization: The Post-Soviet Model 183 The post-Soviet model - Volkswagen-Skoda joint venture - German people management - Soviet management and organization - Soviet management in East Germany - Soviet personnel management - Post-Soviet people management - People management in the Czech Republic - Implications for managers: Western companies in Russia - An agenda for research. 10. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Chapter 6 - Sustainability of groundwater exploitation in the Mediterranean -- Chapter 7 - 'Municípios Verdes': from zero deforestation to the sustainable management of natural resources in the Brazilian Amazon -- Chapter 8 - The territory, at the heart of new fish-farming innovations -- Diversity of territorial functions and approaches - 2-2 - Organizing the territory for production -- Chapter 9 - Dissemination of improved crop varieties in Africa: how territorial partnerships ensure the success of innovations -- Chapter 10 - Creating innovative sectors in a territory for deriving value from biomass: Valosorgho in Occitania, an ongoing project -- Chapter 11 - Co-designing cropping systems and territorial planning -- Chapter 12 - Modelling the impact of modes of governance on territorial dynamics: the case of the oil palm in Indonesia -- Chapter 13 - Transforming the landscape of south-western Ghana: impacts and challenges of the rubber sector -- Diversity of territorial functions and approaches - 2-3 - Organizing the territory for services -- Chapter 14 - Geography of health: using territorial constructions to better manage human and animal health…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.2.3 Cousins: Transcending the Liminal Abyss3.2.4 Quilt: Palimpsest and Map; 3.3 Turning the Tide: Monroe Swimmer's "Survivance"; 3.3.1 Subversion: Monroe as Trickster; 3.3.2 Western Anthropology: Native Remains; 3.3.3 Colonial Legacy: Churches, Canvasses, and Carcasses ; 3.4 Summary ; 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Transnational aspects of the Burmese democracy movement -- Fault line 5: class, elites and grassroots -- The professionalization of civil society -- The rise of the 'Third Force' -- 4 Room to Manoeuvre under Authoritarian Rule -- Civil society under authoritarian rule -- Restrictions on public speech -- Dealing with surveillance -- 'Contingent symbiosis' between state and civil society -- The contested notion of 'space' for civil society in the run-up to the 2010 elections -- Civil society beyond the overtly political -- Testing the waters during the transition -- 5 Transnational Advocacy Strategies and Pathways to Change -- Framing and marketing in transnational advocacy campaigns -- Strategic framing efforts -- Encounters between civil society from exile and from inside the country -- Post- Nargis counter- voices to the democracy movement -- 6 Competing Frames around the 2010 Elections -- The elections-as-opportunity counterframe -- Lobbying abroad for the election boycott campaign -- Adversarial framing -- Evaluating campaign success -- A strategic shift to international justice campaigns -- 7 Foreign Aid and the (De)politicization of Civil Society Assistance -- Expansion and contraction of foreign aid duringmilitary rule -- Politicization of the aid debate -- Western democracy promotion -- Changing donor priorities during the political transition -- Foreign aid reinforcing societal divisions -- International justice initiatives -- Inequalities in donor relationships -- 8 Interrupted Transition and Post-coup Resistance -- Popular resistance and military repression since the 2021 coup -- Escalation of armed conflict and resistance -- New forms of protest and solidarity -- Political opposition to military rule -- Armed opposition after the 2021 coup -- Contested representation within the opposition -- Contested international legitimacy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…n (Vietnam) -- 5.17 Loteria/Lloteria (Albania) -- 5.18 Esusu (Nigeria) -- 5.19 Mahalla (Uzbekistan) -- 5.20 Tandas and cundinas (Mexico and south-western USA) -- 5.21 Salam credit (Afghanistan) -- 5.22 Obshchak (Russia)Informal entrepreneurship -- 5.23 Zarobitchanstvo (Ukraine) -- 5.24 Rad na crno (Serbia) -- 5.25 Small-scale smuggling (general) -- 5.26 Chelnoki (Russia and FSU) -- 5.27 Spaza shops (South Africa) -- 5.28 Shebeens (South Africa) -- 5.29 Samogonovarenie (Russia) -- 5.30 Buôn có ba· n, bán có phu'ò'ng (Vietnam) -- 5.31 Cho. ' cóc (Socialist Republic of Vietnam) -- 5.32 Rod-re (Thailand) -- 5.33 Boda-boda taxis (Uganda) -- 5.34 Stoyanshiki (Georgia) -- 5.35 Baraholka (Kazakhstan) -- 5.36 Budženje (Serbia) -- 5.37 Jugaad (India) -- 5.38 Jangmadang (North Korea) -- 5.39 Informal mining (general) -- 5.40 Hawala (Middle East, India and Pakistan) -- 5.41 Bitcoin (general) -- Conclusion: how do tools of evasion become instruments of exploitation? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Heitzeg -- Seeking justice in (and beyond) colonial carceral archives / Ethan Blue -- Decolonizing first peoples child welfare / Cindy Blackstock, Terri Libesman, Jennifer King, Brittany Mathews, and Wendy Hermeston -- Anti-violence efforts and Native American communities / Cheryl Redhorse Bennett -- Decolonizing family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand / Michael Roguski -- Access to justice in South Africa-not yet Uhuru but not quite Sisulu : an examination of the decolonizing journey from colonial-apartheid rule / Jackie Dugard and Nompumelelo Seme -- Indigenous sentencing courts and Gladue reports / Elena Marchetti, Valmaine Toki, and Johnathan Rudin -- Decolonizing restorative justice / Alana Abramson and Muhammad Asadullah -- Colonialism and penality / Mark Brown -- Decolonizing criminal law in India / Rishika Sahgal -- Transitional justice and decolonization / Augustine Park -- First, they took the land : decolonizing nature to decolonize society / David Rodriguez Goyes -- Decolonizing genocide / Andrew Woolford -- The decolonization paradigm in criminology / Biko Agozino -- Black criminology / Coretta Phillips -- Decolonial criminology : oxymoron for necro-capitalism, racial capitalism, and the westernization of the professoriate / Wesley Crichlow -- Mis-education of the critical criminologist : theory, meta-curriculum of ontoepistemology, and the myth decolonization / Tamari Kitossa -- Neocolonial practices and narratives in criminological research / Antje Deckert -- Decolonizing criminological research methodologies : cognition, commitment, and conduct / Michael A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Eljack--Strengthening the Beekeeping Value Chain in Western Kordofan State, Sudan -- Ahmed Idris, Ali Mohamed, Asma Hamad, Ruhama Abdallh, Osman Khmis, Hana Mohammed--Improvement of Indigenous Coping Strategies in Famine-Stricken Darfur, Sudan -- Elkhalil, Elhadi. …”

“…Das so entstehende umfassende Bild geht weit über eine reine "Institutshistorie" hinaus und lässt die deutsche Wirtschaft und Wirtschaftspolitik im Untersuchungszeitraum lebendig werden This title documents the history of the Rhenish-Westphalian Institute for Economic Research (RWI), re-founded in 1943 as the "Western Division" of the German Institute for Economic Research. …”

“…Chinese paper making, calligraphy and woodblock printing date from very early ages, but have for a very long time remained almost unknown to the Western world. At the IFLA satellite meeting "Chinese Written and Printed Cultural Heritage and Library Work" in Hangzhou in 2006 the richness of present day book historical research and library activities in China has been presented by more than sixty papers. …”

“…The changing spatial organization of the city of Amsterdam reflects a larger-scale process: the familiar shape of Western cities is changing across the globe. For centuries, the urban core was taken for granted as the focal point for international contacts and day-to-day activities. …”

“…Tourism, we see here, actively involves many different populations, societies, and economies, a range of local/global/regional engagements that can be both destructive and creative. Western outsiders aren’t the only ones on the move. …”