“…Starting from the examination of the organizational and functional models characterizing the main European and Italian experiences, in the plurality of regulatory contexts, forms of landscape planning and regulation and practices of cultural and association mobilization of the reference populations, some working hypotheses are formulated and calibrated on the Tuscan situation…”

“…Special attention is paid to the cases of the Electorate of Saxony and of the monarchy of France in the 16th century, the Consigli (recommendations) by Scipione Ammirato, the theme of democracy in the Encyclopédie and that of national plurality for the protection of minorities in the Habsburg Empire…”

“…Sandra Meireis stellt für das architektonische Feld die zentrale Hypothese auf, dass sich eine Wiederkehr der Utopie in Form pluraler Mikro-Utopien beobachten lässt. Darüber hinaus zeigt sie auf, dass die Utopie als geschichtsphilosophisches Modell gesellschaftlichen Wandlungen unterliegt und mithin die spätmoderne Tendenz der kulturellen Partikularität reflektiert…”

“…The interviews, with commentary from leading scholars of Palestine and the Middle East, offer a vivid journey into the history, politics and culture of Palestine, defining Palestinian popular memory on its own terms in all its plurality and complexity"-- Contracubierta…”

“…He sets out to explore the consequences of the seemingly inexorable move away from the notion of a single universal rationality towards a plurality of cultural and domain-specific methodologies and rationalities. …”

“…El autor profundiza en los elementos de transformación de la Educación Física y de la enseñanza deportiva, desde los avances neurocientíficos, en aspectos plurales como el aprendizaje motor, los procesos de toma de decisiones en el juego y en el deporte, los elementos emocionales, sociales y éticos vinculados a la práctica motriz, o las alternativas metodológicas que propician procesos coherentes con cómo aprende el cerebro. …”

“…Amossy argues that despite its negative perception, polemics serve crucial social functions in fostering public debate and maintaining democratic pluralism. The author delves into the interplay between reason, passion, and violence in polemic exchanges, challenging the simplistic view of polemics as purely destructive. …”

“…While the characteristic cultural practices of such families have long been scrutinized by the media and policy makers, these groups themselves are beginning to reflect on how to manage their family relationships in a world where migration is a transnational piece of the pluralized global puzzle. Exploring case studies from Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Australia, The Family in Question explores how those in public policy often dangerously reflect the popular imagination, xenophobically stereotyping immigrants and their families, rather than recognizing the complex changes taking place within the global immigrant community…”

“…Today, the avalanche of empirical evidence of research findings has established multilingualism and pluralism as an ideal for national development. The nine chapters of this book provide further elucidations of the issue of benefits of bilingualism and multilingualism and also provide original research findings on developments in the areas of psychological dimensions of bilingualism and bilingualism in information retrieval systems. …”

“…How the relationship between teachers and students has changed? How the issues of plurality and respect for difference are placed in contexts of greater mobility and internationalization? …”

“…The 24 authors of the volume (Italian and Scandinavian scholars who are active in Italy or abroad, Scandinavian researchers and writers interested in Italy) illustrate the plurality and uses of autobiographical texts from the 16th century to current days, illuminate areas of a vast territory, investigate little studied texts or go back to questioning the classics…”

“…This volume adds to the plurality of global histories by locating the global through its articulation and manifestation within particular localities. …”

“…It delves into the concepts of deliberative democracy and agonistic pluralism, examining the balance between consensus and conflict in democratic societies. …”

“…Examining countries where religious pluralism is in decline, including Iraq, India, Pakistan and Nigeria, this book brings together reflections, knowledge and learning about the daily experiences of religious minorities. …”

“…Using critical historical analysis, qualitative case studies and large-N empirics, these topics are debated and addressed in a unique trialogue format. Accommodating the pluralism of the field, the trialogical setting highlights the divergences and commonalities of each of the three approaches. …”

“…The English Languages looks at the 'pluralism' of English, the 'Englishes', that have arisen in the last twenty years or so, and addresses the question of whether or not English can be considered a family of languages in its own right, like the Romance languages…”

“…In the wake of these debates, most cantons have introduced a new course under the responsibility of the State in which a plurality of religions is presented. The attribution of this new competence to the State has prompted the reaction of various religious communities and has stimulated, within these communities, a reflection on their social role. …”

“…Especially in the course of pluralization processes in adult education science and practice, understandings, objects, sources and types of results change. …”

“…In a closing chapter the editors Frederiks and Nagy converge the findings and sketch the outlines of what they coin as a 'World Christianity approach', a multidisciplinary and multiple perspective approach to study Christianity/ies' plurality and diversity in past and present"--…”