“…"The faces of the other: Religious rivalry and ethnic encounters" in the Later Roman World traces the roots of the attitudes and argumentation about religious or ethnic otherness in modern western culture. It aims at deepening the historical understanding of attitudes towards otherness as well as cultural and religious conflicts in world history. …”

“…The title of the book, Bon Record, is the modern Grammar school motto; the book traces the fortunes of the School from its beginnings through the centuries to its recent transformation into a co-educational comprehensive school, serving much of the central and western districts of Aberdeen City. In doing so, the book also assesses the contribution of the School to the North-East of Scotland and pays tribute to over eight hundred former pupils, who rank amongst Aberdeen's past and current most notable citizens" -- Editor…”

“…This concise book tells the story of the most important theological work of the Middle Ages, the vast Summa theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, which holds a unique place in Western religion and philosophy. Written between 1266 and 1273, the Summa was conceived by Aquinas as an instructional guide for teachers and novices and a compendium of all the approved teachings of the Catholic Church. …”

“…Erika Goble first traces the concept’s origin and development in Western philosophy, revealing how efforts to theorize aesthetic quality in axiomatic or objective frameworks fail to account for the variety of experiential paradoxes that can be evoked by a single image. …”

“…"Long before the arrival of Western emissaries and powers, East Asian peoples and states were deeply involved in world affairs. …”

“…"The Aristotelian-Thomist Tradition has long had an enduring place in the history of Western philosophy, so much so, in fact, that it is referred to as the Perennial Tradition. …”

“…"Aristotle hylomorphic account of objects in terms of their matter and their form has exercised a major influence on western philosophy. This collection of essays considers aspects of the first two thousand years of the history of hylomorphism, starting with Aristotle's immediate successors and ending with Descartes. …”

“…Meanwhile, comparative exploration of the evolving regulatory landscapes in the United States and the EU demonstrates that China grapples with many similar regulatory issues as its Western counterparts, while also shedding light on the future trajectory of China's legal developments. …”

“…Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend (c. 1260), the most popular compendium, was translated into every language in Western Europe. In the medieval Iberian peninsula, the number of conserved hagiographic documents dwarfs those belonging to other narrative genres. …”

“…Today, it sometimes seems as if the former is all but forgotten, at least among Western elites, while our cultural memory of the latter is an inextinguishable fire. …”

“…The foundations of the modern Western understanding of Islamic civilization were laid in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. …”

“…Understanding the barbarian challenge, and strategies employed to confront it, offers new insights into the contemporary security threats facing the Western world…”

“…It shows that, contrary to the conventional wisdom positing a straightforward Western way of war and an "Oriental" approach characterized by evasion and trickery, the specifics of Byzantine military practice in the seventh century differed very little from what was known in Tang China. …”

“…He shows that our current crisis of attention is only superficially the result of digital technology and becomes more comprehensible when understood as the culmination of certain assumptions at the root of Western culture that are profoundly at odds with human nature. …”

“…He quit government service in 1991 and lived until 2005, becoming toward the end of his life a classical western liberal who shared none of the traditional Russian values. …”

“…Dallegret's own life and work denies anything so predictable as a neat synopsis, but in essence his work, beginning in Paris in the late 1950s and early 60s, and later taking in New York and Montreal, absorbs everything from intricate line drawings for a series of astrological vehicles and designs for a number of machines (from those that assist in cooking a meal to others that generate literature) to the 'A Home Is Not a House' collaboration with the critic Reyner Banham; a drugstore/gallery in Montreal; proposals for a new Montreal Palais Metro; designs for chairs, more cars and yet more machines; a film collaborative set up to shoot a western; contributions to the Montreal 67 Expo; engraved bars of soap; subversive credit cards; 'ironique' villas and light installations.0Exhibition: Architectural Association Gallery, London (05.11.2011-14.12.2011)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Emplacement and the creation of the social body in an Ethiopian returnee settlement / Laura Hammond -- Growing up between places of work and non-places of childhood : the uneasy relationship / Olga Nieuwenhuys -- Common neighbourhoods - diversified lives : growing up in urban Norway / Hilde Lidén -- Associationless children : inner-city sports and local society in Denmark / Sally Anderson -- Changing place, changing position : orphans' movements in a community with high HIV/AIDS prevalence in western Kenya / Erick Otieno Nyambedha and Jens Aagaard-Hansen -- Sweet and bitter places : the politics of schoolchildren's orientation in rural Uganda / Lotte Meinert -- 'Imagined communities' : the local community as a place for 'children's culture' and social participation in Norway / Anne Trine Kjørholt -- Children's places of belonging in immigrant families of Caribbean background / Karen Fog Olwig -- Epilogue : children's places / Vered Amit…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…'Canaries in the coalmine' : international students in western universities / Janette Ryan and Jude Carroll -- Maximising international students' 'cultural capital' / Janette Ryan and Susan Hellmundt -- Gathering cultural knowledge: useful or use with care? …”
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