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“…Revealing a deeply problematic institu- tion entrenched in the landscape of Western society, McCoy redraws the boundaries within which we understand the penitentiary’s influence…”

“…It also takes great care to avoid the common historioraphical error of projecting onto the Incas, arguably the last great civilization to have existed without contac with the "Old World" western ways of seeing and imagining the universe. …”
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“…Rather than offering a single argument, this volume offers a platform for scholars, especially Chinese scholars vs. Western scholars, to exchange and debate their different views and perspectives on China and the potential transition of international order"--…”

“…Poverty and authoritarianism, conditions not unique to the Islamic world, and produced out of global interconnections that implicate the West, are often more decisive. The standard Western vocabulary of oppression, choice, and freedom is too blunt to describe these women's lives. …”
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“…The challenge to the French discipline of whether and how to position itself in relation to the evolving American discipline is in many ways exemplary for other non-American national IR disciplines, and the choices as well as the structural conditions underlying the French case are relevant to all non-Western disciplines. The comparative analysis moreover reveals that the modern American discipline -- what is considered as recognisable social science -- takes shape only during the 1970s. …”

“…The reasons for presenting this work as a heritage dictionary—that is, as an exact transcription of the original form of the handwritten manuscript—are to follow the Western Aranda people’s wishes and to maintain its historical authenticity, which will prove to be of great use to both Indigenous people and scholars interested in language…”

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“…Taiwan is a region relatively unknown to the Western sinological public. From the Church historian's point of view however it is a highly interesting place because it was the first place in the Chines world where Protestantism and Catholicism coexisted. …”

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“…This work renews the precious ties between Islamic and Western thinkers that were formed in the Middle Ages and then disrupted…”

“…Alongside sustained critiques of architectural theory and Western philosophy, and close engagements with Black Studies and Indigenous thinking, Mason offer a critique of the writing subject as a collaborator in the racialization of urban cartography. …”

“…Within the hermeneutic approach, the author relates the unconventional use of film language in cinematic works of the 1960s and 1970s not only to the recent novels of Beckett and Queneau and to the French nouveau roman but also to one of the founding texts of Western literature, the Oedipus Rex of Sophocles. …”

“…Trained in ethnoarchaeology in New Guinea, the authors offer an original reading of the historical trajectory of the first farming communities between 5300 and 2400 BC, where the micro-regions - here the Jura and the Saône plains - were deeply integrated into complex networks for the circulation of sign objects and ideas. On the scale of Western Europe, these long-distance transfers were supported by social competition, the display of inequalities, and religious imagination. 100 keywords from the archaeological vocabulary allow us to explore different social interpretations hidden behind the objects and behaviours of Neolithic populations…”

“…Organized both alphabetically and by style, the newly revised and updated Adobe Type Library Reference Book, Third Edition provides: Specimen pages displaying every font in Adobe’s enormous collection, including 60 new typefaces Typefaces from internationally renowned foundries and award-winning type designers Design inspiration and expert advice on type selection An expanded section on the OpenType format to help you make the most of its expanded character set and layout capabilities Explanations and illustrations of the distinguishing characteristics of different type styles—from a graceful Garalde Oldstyle to Adobe’s new Opticals—as well as ornaments and symbols A chart showing the Adobe Western 2 character set, including the right keyboard combinations to access different characters Listings for 31 Japanese fonts from Adobe…”

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“…This book is an interdisciplinary publication that brings together an international host of scholars from around the world, including University of Amsterdam, University of St Gallen, University of Haifa, Western Sydney University, Monash University, and Australian National University…”

“…Presented for the third area are a water balance model for the comparison of water resources with the needs of water users, the idea of adaptive water management, impacts of climate change, and anthropogenic activities on the runoff in catchment located in the western Himalayas of Pakistan. The last area includes spatiotemporal analysis of rainfall variability with regard to drought hazard and use of the copula function to meteorologically analyze drought…”