“…The authors of this volume assess how participatory governance is being transformed and explore the impact of such changes, providing timely critical reflections on: the constraints imposed by cultural, economic and political power relations on these new empowered participatory spaces; the potential of this new "wave" of participatory democracy to reimagine the relationship between citizens and traditional institutions towards more radical democratic renewal; where and how these new democratisation efforts sit within the representative state; and how tensions between the different demands of lay citizens, organised civil society and public officials are being managed. …”

“…Esta obra ofrece un análisis exhaustivo y original del terrorismo, que se desvía de las teorías enfocadas en el asesinato de civiles o en la distinción entre objetivos directos e indirectos. …”

“…The former is based on a small number of players, a highly hierarchical structure, based largely on written communication and on low transparency; the latter is based on a much larger number of players (particularly of civil society), a flatter structure, a more significant oral component, and greater transparency. …”

“…Axtell links the legacies of European universities and Tudor-Stuart Oxbridge to nine colonial and hundreds of pre-Civil War colleges, and delves into how U.S. universities were shaped by Americans who studied in German universities and adapted their discoveries to domestic conditions and goals. …”

“…Queste pagine contribuiscono così a bilanciare la tendenza storiografica che, nel corso degli ultimi decenni, ha posto in primo piano la Resistenza civile, senza armi, a scapito di quella – che pure ci fu – combattente -- Contracubierta…”

“…"Du siège de Rome par l'armée française en 1849 à la guerre civile que connaît la Syrie depuis 2011, la photographie est au coeur des conflits armés. …”

“…She examines literary engagements with photography from the 1930s to the 1970s and beyond, among them the collaboration of Langston Hughes and Roy DeCarava, Richard Wright's uses of Farm Security Administration archives, James Baldwin's work with Richard Avedon, and Lorraine Hansberry's responses to civil rights images. Drawing on extensive archival work and featuring images never before published, Blair opens strikingly new views of the work of major literary figures, including Ralph Ellison's photography and its role in shaping his landmark novel Invisible Man, and Wright's uses of camera work to position himself as a modernist and postwar writer. …”
Sumario

“…Here the existence of libraries can be traced back another two millennia, from the twenty-seventh century BCE to the third century CE, and so the creation of the Library in Alexandria was not so much the beginning of an intellectual adventure as the impressive culmination of a very long tradition.0This volume presents the first comprehensive study of these ancient libraries across the 'Cradle of Civilization' and traces their institutional and scholarly roots back to the early cities and states and the advent of writing itself. …”

“…Designed in the 1540s as a radical Protestant answer to Catholic "superstition," within a century (during the English Civil Wars) radical Christians regarded the Book of Common Prayer as itself "superstitious" and even (paradoxically) "Papist." …”

“…Currently, the West appears less as a modernizing or civilizing entity leading the way and more as being engulfed in a deep crisis. …”

“…Gracias al testimonio de militares, agentes secretos, políticos, investigadores, astronautas y personal de la NASA y de la aviación civil que han superado las estrictas leyes de censura, por fin se descubre el secreto mejor guardado." …”

“…This volume provides a compelling narrative of the main events that shaped ancient civilization during five crucial centuries. Many of these developments - globalization, the rise of megacities, technological progress, religious diversity, and rational governance - have parallels in our world today…”

“…Une fois entraînés sur le territoire français, ces combattants sont déployés dans les campagnes de Bosnie et contribuent aux plus grandes violences et exactions perpétrées contres les populations civiles durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Pour la première fois, un ouvrage va au-delà des clichés qui président à l'histoire de cette division. …”

“…The latter is embedded within the cultural imperatives of the civilization that gave these terms meaning and made them an effective tool for the dissection of law, its reconstitution as an instrument to be used by the lawyer to advance the interests of her clients, and for judges as a means to restructure language as a narrative of law whose power could bend behavior to its strictures. …”

“…Qu'ont perçu les combattants et les civils du monde entier des fronts militaires et des fronts domestiques ? …”

“…Emerging out of the era of the robber barons and Theodore Roosevelt’s desire to “civilize capitalism,” the Food and Drug Administration was created to stop the trade in adulterated meats and quack drugs. …”
Acceso a las primeras páginas

“…Ceramics are the very stuff of how civilized life was, and is, led. This then is the story of human society's most surprising core causes and effects -- Editor…”

“…Parce qu’il rejetait toute séparation entre théorie et pratique, ce dernier a proposé une théorie de l’État radicalement nouvelle, envisageant la société civile comme l’espace de la lutte pour l’hégémonie. …”

“…White maintains that once the philosopher abandons the dogma that the logical analysis of mathematics and physics is the essence of his subject, he frees himself to resume his traditional role as a student of the central institutions of civilization. Philosophers should function not merely as spectators of all time and existence, he argues, but as empirically-minded students of culture who try to use some of their ideas for the benefit of society…”
Sumario

“…Chicago, America's "Second City," the sprawling, burly king of the Heartland, home of the world's tallest building and civilization's largest free library, one-time capital of American anarchism and Al Capone, is a city of oddly impressive firsts. …”