Tabla de Contenidos: “…Danilo Facca and Valentina Lepri / Introduction -- Robin Craren / Poland's Artistic Development through its Exchange with Western Europe in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries -- Maria Kozlowska / Popularizing Erasmus's Lingua'. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Italian perspectives from Hirpinia in the period of Gracchan land reforms and the Social War / Elena Isayev -- De-constructing ethnic identities : becoming Roman in western Cisalpine Gaul? / Ralph Häussler -- Language and identity in ancient Italy : responses to Roman conquest / Kathryn Lomas -- Trading identities? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Italian perspectives from Hirpinia in the period of Gracchan land reforms and the Social War / Elena Isayev -- De-constructing ethnic identities: becoming Roman in western Cisalpine Gaul? / Ralph Häussler -- Language and identity in ancient Italy: responses to Roman conquest / Kathryn Lomas -- Trading identities? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Libraries before Alexandria / Kim Ryholt, Gojko Barjamovic -- The rise of libraries in western Asia, c.2600-2300 BCE / Kamran Vincent Zand -- Libraries in ancient Egypt, c.2600-1600 BCE / R.B. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- The influence of Judaism on western law, by N. Isaacs. -- The influence of the Old Testament on Puritanism, by the Rev. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Development of "healthy cities" and needs of research / by Takehito Takano -- The third phase (1998-2002) of the Healthy Cities Project in Europe / by Agis Tsouros and Jill Farrington -- Healthy Cities Project in the western Pacific / by Hisashi Ogawa -- Health and sustainability gains from urban regeneration and development / by Colin Fudge -- Analysis of health determinants for healthy cities programmes in Europe / by June Crown -- Indicators for healthy cities: tools for evidence-based urban policy formation / by Keiko Nakamura -- The effectiveness of community-based health promotion in healthy cities programmes / by Frances E. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Nothing to hide, nothing to fear: myth and Western roots of privacy 3. Journalism: a complex relationship with privacy 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Baadj -- Part three: Marxism and the Beginnings of Western Capitalism. Reading Marx in the Divergence Debate / Nasser Mohajer and Kaveh Yazdani -- The Renewal of Marxist Historiography through the Study of Enslavement / Jorge Grespan -- Part four: Marxism and the Study of the Contemporary World. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…: the decline of science and theology as sources of wisdom in Europe / Chris Wiltsher -- Disjoining wisdom and knowledge : science, theology and the making of western modernity / Peter Harrison -- Wisdom through communion and personhood : from Patristic theology to contemporary science / Alexei V. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sayyid -- Muslims in the West and their attitudes to full participation in western societies : some reflections / Abdullah Saeed -- Liberal democracy, multicultural citizenship and the Danish cartoon affair / Geoffrey Brahm Levey and Tariq Modood…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Changing forms of cross-media news use in Western Europe and beyond / Sascha Holig, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, and Kim Christian SCHRØDER -- 7. …”

“…People seeking psychiatric healing choose from an almost dizzying array of therapies-from the medicated mud packs of Ayurveda, to the pharmacopeia of Western biomedicine, to the spiritual pathways of the world''s religions. …”

“…Holy Russia, Sacred Israel examines how Russian religious thinkers, both Jewish and Christian, conceived of Judaism, Jewry and the 'Old Testament' philosophically, theologically and personally at a time when the Messianic element in Russian consciousness was being stimulated by events ranging from the pogroms of the 1880's, through two Revolutions and World Wars, to exile in Western Europe. An attempt is made to locate the boundaries between the Jewish and Christian, Russian and Western, Gnostic-pagan and Orthodox elements in Russian thought in this period. …”

“…"Across Western Europe, the global financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath not only brought economic havoc but also, in turn, intense political upheaval. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Contents -- Abbreviations, Boxes, Figures and Tables Appearing in the Text -- List of Abbreviations xixList of Boxes -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Declaration -- Introduction -- Section 1: Presentation of critical research findings that emerged from the PhD study: The walk without limbs -- Chapter 1: Evolution of the book - Recognising the absence of limbs -- Chapter 2: An epistemology on health and illness according to biomedical and indigenous health knowledge perspectives -- Chapter 3: Women as healers and indigenous knowledge systems and its holders: An intertwined epistemological and ontological struggle for recognition -- Chapter 4: Research methodology that drove the study -- Chapter 5: Critical study outcomes and the proposed primary healthcare model -- Chapter 6: Opting for a veil of secrecy - The silencing of indigenous health service seekers by healthcare providers in Bomvanaland -- Chapter 7: The heavy price paid by the Bomvana in questioning the Western modernity script of civilisation -- Chapter 8: Presenting the elite older Xhosa women healers of Bomvanaland in the Eastern Cape province -- Section 2: Translation and application of PhD critical research findings on the research site: The backward and forward movement - Trying to find our limbs -- Chapter 9: Steps taken to translate critical research findings -- Chapter 10: Bringing in a conversation in health and education: A missing link? …”

“…Drawing inspiration from the work of Melanie Klein, the author demonstrates how the Western psyche is based upon denial of the power of the mother, and the elevation of the father into the repressive, authoritarian figure. …”

“…They explore how transnational and transcultural processes of translation and adaptation shape notions of the heroic in non-Western and Western cultures alike. The book provides fresh perspectives on heroism studies and offers a new angle for global and postcolonial studies…”

“…This book raises important and pressing questions about the nature and role of universities as formative educational institutions, drawing together contributors from both Western and non-Western perspectives. While the editors and contributors critique the current situation, the chapters evince a more humane and compassionate framing of the work of and in universities, based on positive and valued relationships and notions of the good. …”

“…Even as classical studies wane in Europe and America, the Chinese believe they are indispensable to an understanding of Western culture. First treated as relevant to China's problems of modernization, now more likely to be invoked in discussions of what the Chinese feel is the loss of a moral compass of contemporary Europe and the United States, the Western classics are treated as more relevant than the west has ever treated the Confucian tradition. …”