“…Since 2016 he has held a South Africa-UK Bilateral Research Chair in Social Protection for Food Security, affiliated to the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security and the University of the Western Cape in South Africa…”

“…He explains in vivid detail how China turns out the world's highest-achieving students in reading, math, and science--yet by all accounts Chinese educators, parents, and political leaders hate the system and long to send their kids to western schools. Filled with fascinating stories and compelling data, Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon? …”

“…Martín Feito pasa sus días entre contactos clandestinos con los huidos, tazas de café solo que le revuelven el estómago e intentos de cortejar a su anfitriona, al lumpenproletariat rural y a los parroquianos del bar del pueblo.La fuerza es una novela de vaqueiros protagonizada por un cruce entre el indeciso Frédéric Moreau de Flaubert y los héroes pulp del western. Una obra sorprendente e ingeniosa que muestra el territorio creativo de Xaime Martínez, que va desde la mitología grecolatina hasta las historietas de superhombres…”

“…Inaugurating a new chapter in the scholarship of representation and New Womanhood and spanning North America, Western and Eastern Europe, Asia, and the colonial contexts of Africa and the Pacific, this volume reveals the ways in which a feminine ideal circled the globe to be translated into numerous visual languages…”

“…This study explores a wide range of Spanish medical, regulatory and moral discourses, illustrating how such texts inherit, reproduce and propagate an amalgam of Western traditional concepts of female embodiment. …”

“…This collection also explores the works of some renowned Western writers and actors who, turning mutineers after their own fashion and in their own times, themselves crossed the beach and attempted to illuminate the ‘little people’ involved in the Bounty narratives. …”

“…Chronologically and geographically they cover Greece, the Aegean, and western Asia Minor from the Archaic period to the Roman Empire. …”

“…From the foreword by Jack Miles: ? "Western foreign ministers and secretaries of state may have to learn a little theology if the looming clash between embattled elements both in the West and in the Muslim umma is to yield to disengagement and peaceful coexistence, to say nothing of fruitful collaboration. . . . …”

“…Gender equality has made huge strides in the US and Western Europe, but this progress is only apparent in the junior levels of the workplace. …”

“…He argues that contemporary academic culture has overlooked Christianity's gifts to literature and civilization, and he shows humanism's influence on the shape of Western cultural history, as well as the consequences of humanism for philosophy and theology. …”

“…A major theologian of the Byzantine Church, Saint Maximus is venerated in both Eastern and Western Christian traditions as a theologian of Incarnation and Resurrection in his deepest intuitions. …”

“…If specialists can find in these important publications precisions such as the caracterisation of the Blicquy group, the non-specialist can discover the impact of man on the mediterranean forest and the environment of western Armonica; and amongst others, a panorama of the bone industry up to the Bronze age. …”

“…Chang (郑志达) is Associate Professor of Sociology at Western Illinois University, USA. …”

“…The book will be read with profit by all those interested in the rise of Western colonial rule in Indonesia, the fate of indigenous cultures in an age of imperialism and the role of Javanese Islam in modern Indonesian history. …”

“…Los autores que participan en el libro han colaborado antes en publicaciones, congresos y proyectos desde la Universidad de Salamanca, el Instituto de Filosofía del CSIC, la Case Western Reserve University, la Universidad del País Vasco, la Universidade de Evora, la UNAM de México y la Universidad de París…”

“…During the 1960s and early 1970s, however, internal rethinking began to overshadow outside intervention as the Germans themselves began westernizing their political culture and democratizing their outlook. …”

“…Chapter 2 contrasts Native American and western ways of identifying effective treatments for mental and physical disorders, concluding that "evidence-informed culture-based" interventions sometimes constitute best practices in Native communities. …”
Sumario

“…In doing so, politically loaded but widely used terms such as the "Middle East," the "Global South," the "West Indies," the "Orient," and even the "western world" take on new meanings. Who decided on these terms and what do they mean for geopolitics? …”

“…Apart from the emphasis on north-western Pannonia, which results from the basis of the finds of Carnuntum, a summary is given of the spectrum of the PGW, the potter's stamps, workshops and finds from dated locations in eastern and south-western Pannonia. …”

“…The selection of sites also allowed a comparison between the enumeration process in the Northern Territory, where a time-extended rolling count was explicitly planned for, and Western Australia, where a modified form of the standard count had been envisaged. …”