“…At the Pivot of East and West draws widely from global arts with a focus on art from Singapore and Southeast Asia"--…”

“…Analyzing case studies ranging from the early global market for phonographic laughing songs to the McCarthy-era rise of prerecorded laugh tracks, Casadei convincingly demonstrates how laughter was central to the twentieth century's development of the very category of sound as not-quite-human, unintelligible, reproductive, reproducible, and contagious…”

“…It presents various methods for incorporating creativity into education, from local history studies to coding education, emphasizing the development of creative thinking and global participation. Case studies in Citizen Science and maker spaces are used to demonstrate innovative learning frameworks that engage students, especially in minority populations. …”

“…Pakistan and Afghanistan represent the epicenter in regional and global Islamist terrorism as conditions and machinations in these two countries led to the emergence of the first Taliban emirate with Pakistan's support. …”

“…"Online advertising will soon form the largest share of global advertisement revenues. Google and Facebook netted profits of US $29 billion in 2016. …”

“…Jusqu'en 1999, la municipalisation dans les Gaules et les Germanies, c'est-à-dire la constitution des cités, leurs statuts et les modalités de leur administration, n'avait jamais encore été abordée sous un angle global. Les études envisageaient la question soit dans l'optique de l'urbanisation, soit dans un cadre géographique limité. …”

“…This book draws lessons from history, provides a new cognitive map of the world, and discusses multiple challenges global citizens will face in the age of Afrasia, an emerging macro-region. …”

“…The use of the term is a strategy of avoiding concepts like "Developing" or "Third World" or even "Global South" which are pejorative in a real sense. …”

“…This can mainly be ascribed to a lack of policy, little awareness and limited capacity at a national and regional level. The UN Environment-Global Environment Facility project, 'Removing Barriers to Invasive Species Management in Production and Protection Forests in SE Asia', which was active in Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam, identified these barriers and produced this Guide which will go a long way to creating awareness about invasive plants, their impacts and how best to manage them. …”

“…"This book provides empirically grounded insights into the causes, trajectories, and effects of a severe decline in university autonomy and the relationship to other dimensions of academic freedom by comparing in-depth country studies and evidence from a new global timeseries dataset. Drawing attention to ongoing discussions on standards for monitoring and assessment of academic freedom at regional and international organizations, this book identifies a need for clearer standards on academic freedom and a human rights-based definition of university autonomy. …”

“…These platforms have also furthered increasingly insecure conditions of work and life for racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities, women, indigenous people, migrants, and peoples in the global south. At the same time, precarity has become increasingly generalized, expanding to include even the creative class and digital producers themselves…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Riesgo, ciudadanía y cultura del buen gobierno / Gemma Calvet Barot -- DESDE ITALIA -- Pandemia y democracia: por un Constitucionalismo global / Entrevista a Luigi Ferrajoli -- El "Garante Nazionale" y los días de la actual emergencia / Mauro Palma -- Cárcel y Derechos en tiempos de coronavirus. …”

“…The newly-created United Nations needed a meeting place, a central place for global diplomacy—a Capital of the World. But what would it look like, and where would it be? …”

“…Business owners and educators need a logical method for considering global expansion based on data, facts, trends, and valuations. …”

“…Using translation theory and new approaches in travel studies and global modernisms, Wittman links and complicates the symbolic and rhetorical strategies of writers including André Gide, Ernest Hemingway, Michel Leiris, Isak Dinesen, Beryl Markham, among others, that offer insight into the high ethical stakes of travel and allow us to see in new ways how models of the authentic self are built and maintained through asymmetries of encounter…”

“…La segunda parte desarrolla un marco global para abordar estos retos, presentando una amplia gama de opciones para reducir la carga de trabajo no remunerado que recae sobre las mujeres y aumentar los ingresos laborales de las mujeres. …”