“…The book has three main sections, focusing on the evolution of India's foreign policy after Independence, its transformation after the Cold War and as India's economic and political power grew, and India's engagement with major powers (like the US, China and Russia), neighbouring countries, and international institutions. …”

“…These papers are contributed by researchers in many different countries, including UK, Russia, China, Indonesia, Philippines, Portugal, Oman, Korea, Peru, and Armenia, etc. …”

“…In this truly global journey Andrew Marr revisits some of the traditional epic stories, from classical Greece and Rome to the rise of Napoleon, but surrounds them with less familiar material, from Peru to the Ukraine, China to the Caribbean. He looks at cultures that have failed and vanished, as well as the origins of today's superpowers, and finds surprising echoes and parallels across vast distances and epochs. …”

“…There is a parade of builders: Herman Haupt, who during the Civil War earned a reputation as Lincoln's railroad man, engineers Thomas Doane and John Brooks, who pushed China merchant turned railroad man John M. Forbes' railroads into Iowa before the Civil War, and finally the Shanly brothers from Canada who achieved daylight through the Mountain…”

“…Son clásicos los llamados Arbitration Yearbook del International Council of Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), o el AAA Yearbook on Arbitration and the Law, así como en muchos otros países (Austria, República Checa, Perú o China, por citar algunos de los más conocidos) . …”
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“…Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool: through the stories of these five fabrics, Sofi Thanhauser illuminates the world we inhabit in a startling new way, travelling from China to Cumbria to reveal the craft, labour and industry that create the clothes we wear. …”

“…The new edition of this important book brings the picture completely up to date and now includes discussion on: the controversy over fox hunting, the Gambling Act and 24-hour drinking laws; 11th September 2001, the Iraq war and after; the election of Ian Duncan Smith and Michael Howard as leaders of the Conservative party; immigration, asylum and identity; the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles; the 2005 election and Blair's standing as prime minister; and the importance of China on the British stage. "Britain since 1945" is essential reading for any student of contemporary British history and politics…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: On arts and artists -- Strange beginnings : prehistoric and primitive peoples; Ancient America -- Art for eternity : Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete -- The great awakening : Greece, seventh to fifth century BC -- The realm of beauty : Greece and the Greek world, fourth century BC to first century AD -- World conquerors : Romans, Buddhists, Jews and Christians, first to fourth century AD -- A parting of ways : Rome and Byzantium, fifth to thirteenth century -- Looking eastwards : Islam, China, second to thirteenth century -- Western art in the melting pot : Europe, sixth to eleventh century -- The church militant : the twelfth century -- The church triumphant : the thirteenth century -- Courtiers and burghers : the fourteenth century -- The conquest of reality : the early fifteenth century -- Tradition and innovation I : the later fifteenth century in Italy -- Traditions and innovation II : the fifteenth century in the North -- Harmony attained : Tuscany and Rome, early sixteenth century -- Light and colour : Venice and northern Italy, early sixteenth century -- The new learning spreads : Germany and the Netherlands, early sixteenth century -- A crisis of art : Europe, later sixteenth century -- Vision and visions : Catholic Europe, first half of the seventeenth century -- The mirror of nature : Holland, seventeenth century -- Power and glory I : Italy, later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Power and glory II : France, Germany and Austria, late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- The age of reason : England and France, eighteenth century -- The break in tradition : England, America and France, late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Permanent revolution : The nineteenth century -- In search of new standards : the late nineteenth century -- Experimental art : the first half of the twentieth century -- A story without end: The triumph of modernism ; Another turning of the tide ; The changing past…”

“…"Introduction to Islamic Arts – Calligraphy: The collection of the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia presents in four sections some of the most important historical developments, artistic trends as well as selected masterpieces produced within the Islamic world, that took place within a span of 1000 years, covering a vast geographical area from the Iberian Peninsula to Southeast Asia and China. A special attention is given to calligraphy, highlighting the role it played in the design of both religious and everyday arts and crafts, as well as in developing a distinctive visual culture inspired by Islam"…”

“…Beaver pelts, in turn, financed the voyages of sailors seeking new routes to China. There - with silver mined in Peru - Europeans would purchase, by the thousands, the porcelain so often shown in Dutch paintings of this time. …”

“…The EU and China are often characterised as parties whose bilateral political differences remain too large to bridge, so that they have failed to convert rhetorical promises into tangible results of cooperation, particularly with regards to the international security. …”

“…With an additional focus on China, India and the Muslim world, the result is a volume impressive in its scope and detail.-- Bloomsbury Academic…”

“…Gunpowder studies are still in their infancy despite the long-standing civil and military importance of this explosive since its discovery in China in the mid-ninth century AD. In this second volume by contributors who meet regularly at symposia of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC), the research is again rooted in the investigation of the technology of explosives manufacture, but the fact that the chapters range in scope from the Old World to the New, from sources of raw materials in south-east Asia to the complications of manufacture in the West, shows that the story is more than the simple one of how an intriguing product was made. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Procesos de des-reterritorialización en la frontera argentino chilena -- El ascenso de China en el sistema mundial -- Landnahme capitalista, precarización laboral -- ¿Talento, esfuerzo o correlación de fuerzas?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Apogeo de un género, por Tomás Eloy Martínez -- LARGA DISTANCIA -- Hong Kong: el espíritu del capital -- Don Miguel o el honor de la deshonra -- Bolivia: los ejercitos de la coca -- Saderman: memorias del ojo -- Moscú: la ruleta rusa -- Fouché o el arte de la permanencia -- Haití: la isla de la fantasía -- De Madrid al cielo -- Malcolm Lowry: ni el volcán -- Da Costa o la fuga de los dioses -- Lima: perfume del final -- La patria 1: cadáveres exquisitos -- La patria 2: dos, tres, muchos Guevara -- La patria 3: San Ernesto de La Higuera -- Alcibíades o el orgullo de la patria -- La China rosa -- Caparrós o la derrota esperanzada -- Mato Grosso: el mismo río -- Créditos…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Constitution of the Republic of India / Anashri Pillay -- 7. The Constitution of China / Qianfan Zhang -- 8. Democracy / Paul Craig -- 9. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…EL ÚLTIMO PARAÍSO -- DERSU UZALA -- LOS ESPIGADORES Y LA ESPIGADORA -- REFUGIADOS DEL PLANETA AZUL -- EL SIGLO DE LA BARBARIE -- BALZAC Y LA JOVEN COSTURERA CHINA -- UNO, DOS, TRES -- GOOD BYE, LENIN! -- LAS TROYANAS -- GLOBALIZACIÓN, IMPERIALISMO, NEOCOLONIALISMO Y DIVERSIDAD SOCIAL Y CULTURAL -- QUEIMADA -- EL ÚLTIMO VIAJE DEL JUEZ FENG -- ORO NEGRO -- GENERACIÓN ROBADA -- MIGRACIÓN, INTEGRACIÓN SOCIAL Y DERECHOS HUMANOS -- LAS UVAS LA IRA -- LAMERICA -- AMÉRICA AMÉRICA -- BUDA EXPLOTÓ POR VERGÜENZA -- LA REALIDAD ESPAÑOLA -- RAZA -- CAMPOS DE NÍJAR -- VENTE A ALEMANIA, PEPE -- LA MUERTE DE MIKEL…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Contents; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Introduction Disability and poverty:a global challenge; 1 Social inclusion of people with disabilities in poverty reduction policies and instruments: initial impressions from Malawi and Uganda; 2 Disability, poverty and healthcare: changes in the canji ('disability')policies in the history of the People's Republic of China; 3 Living conditions among people with disabilities in developing countries; 4 "No disabled can go here..."…”