“…Investigating thirty countries in Western and Central-Eastern Europe over 150 years of electoral history, the author shows the existence of common alignments and parallel waves of electoral change across the continent. …”

“…"In many ways, we seem to be living in wintry times at present in the Western world. In this new book, Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury and a noted scholar of Eastern Christianity, introduces us to some aspects and personalities of the Orthodox Christian world, from the desert contemplatives of the fourth century to philosophers, novelists and activists of the modern era, that suggest where we might look for fresh light and warmth. …”

“…Asia's complexity has led to common misdiagnoses: Western thinking on Asia conflates the entire region with China, predicts imminent World War III around every corner, and regularly forecasts debt-driven collapse for the region's major economies. …”

“…Participants explored the relationships between modernization and identity, secularism and religion, traditional and Western ideas, and reform and external assistance. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Global Forces in Asia (1870s-1910s); Western Imperialist Commercial Interests in Tibet…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…s return of Marduk to Babylon""; ""Religious projection: A Hellenistic instance""; ""Mani versus Mazdak: The prophet and his king in pre-Islamic Iran""; ""Religious transformations and socio-political change: A western eurocentric paradigm?""; ""Eastern Europe""; ""The intelligentsia between secular and religious culture""; ""Personal spiritual orientations and religiousness in (former) Soviet society""…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Legitimacies in Peril: Towards a Comparative History of Elites and State in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century France and Western Europe -- Section II: Economic Power -- Chapter 7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Facts and Figures on Colonial Domestics -- Manuals and Advice Literature -- Children's Literature -- Servants in Youth Literature -- Concluding Remarks -- IV Summer Dresses and Canned Food: European Women and Western Lifestyles -- Introduction -- European Women in the Colonial Community -- What to Wear? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Petersburg IT Professionals Business ideas and partners; Clients; Starting capital; Office space; Jobs; Advice and information; Services; 7 Social Mechanisms Governing the Informal Transactions between Russian IT Managers; Reciprocal expectations in Russian managers' transactions; Brokerage; The mixing of personal and professional spheres of life; 8 The Spirit of Russian IT Capitalism; The connexionist spirit of Western capitalism; The domestic spirit of Russian IT capitalism; 9 Conclusions; Appendix: List of Respondents -- Notes -- References -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Orientalism: The Subverting of Western Stereotypes of the East; V. The Location of Culture; VI. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Essence of Cross-domain Deterrence -- Part II. Non-Western Concepts of Deterrence -- Chapter 9. Deterrence à la Ruse: Its Uniqueness, Sources and Implications -- Chapter 10. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Interdependence and Ideological ControlThe Political Control of speca; 5 Discipline and Publish; According to a "Western Diplomat."; Brenda; "Editors Suck."; The Ray Bonner Effect; 6 The Source War; Her, Rigoberta Menchu; "The Blood Has to be Purged…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Non-Citizenship at Work: Labour Flexibility Behind the Counter in Western Canada -- 7. What We Talk About When We Talk About Austerity: Social Policy, Public Management and Politics of Eldercare Funding in Canada and China -- 8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHINESE REVERSE GLASS PAINTING AND ITS MATERIALITY -- 1 FROM VIRTUOSITY TO VERNACULARISM REVERSALS OF GLASS PAINTING -- 2 PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES THE POLITE AND POLISHED IN GEORGIAN BRITAIN -- 3 ILLUSIONISTIC PRACTICES AMONG LES ARTS DU FEU IN MID-EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CANTON -- 4 LIGHT, REFLECTION, AND REVERSE GLASS PAINTING AT THE NGUYÊN COURT -- TRANSFER AND TRANSMEDIALITY -- 5 GLASS PAINTING IN THE COLLECTION OF ANDREAS EVERARDUS VAN BRAAM HOUCKGEEST (1739–1801) -- 6 THE GOVERNOR OF SURAT AND THE APOTHEOSIS OF WASHINGTON CANTONESE REVERSE GLASS PAINTINGS FOR EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN MARKETS -- 7 REGARDING THE TRANSFER OF VERNACULAR MOTIFS AND OTHER COMMON FEATURES OF CHINESE NEW YEAR PRINTS AND CHINESE REVERSE GLASS PAINTING -- 8 THE NIGHTMARE CASE STUDY OF A DELIBERATELY INACCURATE TRANSMISSION TO GLASS -- CONTEXTUAL STUDIES OF REVERSE GLASS PAINTING -- 9 VARIETIES OF REPLICATION IN CHINESE REVERSE GLASS PAINTING -- 10 REFLECTING ASIA THE RECEPTION OF CHINESE REVERSE GLASS PAINTING IN BRITAIN, 1738–1770 -- 11 JAPANESE REVERSE GLASS PAINTING THE OTHER EAST ASIAN TRADITION -- 12 “IN ALL OF BEIJING, THERE ARE NO MORE THAN FOUR PAINTINGS ON GLASS THAT WOULD FALL WITHIN OUR CONSIDERATION” CHINESE REVERSE GLASS PAINTINGS FROM CZECH COLLECTIONS AND THEIR CONTEXTS -- REGIONAL RECEPTIONS OF REVERSE GLASS PAINTING -- 13 REFLECTIONS IN A CHINESE MIRROR WESTERNERS REINTERPRETED IN EARLY CANTONESE GLASS PAINTING -- 14 EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CHINESE REVERSE GLASS PAINTINGS IN A DUTCH COLLECTION ART AND COMMODITY -- 15 CHINA AND ITS SOUTH CHINESE LADIES ON GLASS AND OTHER TOPICS IN NINETEENTH- AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY JAVA AND BALI -- PIONEERING RESEARCH IN CHINESE REVERSE GLASS PAINTING -- 16 A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHINESE REVERSE GLASS PAINTING -- 17 SOME STYLES IN NINETEENTHAND TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHINESE GLASS PAINTING A FIRST APPROACH -- APPENDIX -- LIST OF AUTHORS -- INDEX OF PLACES AND PEOPLE -- CREDITS…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Contents -- Collected Works of Jao Tsung-i: Xuantang Anthology—Series Introduction -- List of Tables and Figures -- Editor’s Introduction -- Original Titles and Sources for Text Translated in This Volume -- 1 Literature and Spirit: in Conversation with Shi Yidui -- 1 The Meaning of Shenming -- 2 The Function of Divination -- 3 The Verification of Spirits -- 2 Sudden Enlightenment and Gradual Enlightenment: in Conversation with Shi Yidui -- 1 The Sixth Patriarch of Chan and the Rise of Chan Poetry -- 2 Complete Penetration without Obstacle, Chan Mind Just So -- 3 A Purified World, Ice Colder Than Water -- 3 Chinese Characters and Poetics -- 1 Starting with Ezra Pound -- 2 The Earliest Signs and Chinese Characters -- 3 The Earliest Rhymed Narrative Poems -- 4 Monosyllabic and Polysyllabic Words -- 5 The Development of Xingsheng zi and Their Aesthetic Functions -- 6 The Principles of Character Formation and the Concept of Lei 類 (Category) -- 7 The Conventions of Ellipsis and Reduplication -- 8 Parallelism and Tonal Prosody -- 9 The Development of Chinese Characters from a Functional Medium to an Aesthetic One and the Simplification of Poetry -- 10 Conclusion -- 4 Confucian Learning and the Art of Rhetoric -- 1 Verbal Refinement and Establishing Sincerity Comprise the Union between the Interior and Exterior -- 2 Knowing People from Their Words -- 3 Rhetoric and Pragmatics -- 5 On the “Wen fu” and Music -- 1 2 3 4 5 6 6 Linked Pearls and Logic: a Case of Intercultural Misunderstanding -- 7 Suyab, the True Birthplace of Li Bai -- 1 Location of Suyab -- 2 Suyab Was Not Located in Qarasahr -- 3 New Materials about Suyab -- 4 Tibet and Suyab -- 5 Suyab and the Western Turks -- 6 Speculations about Why Li Bai’s Father Returned to Sichuan -- 7 Li Bai’s Own Account of His Background -- 8 Conclusion -- 8 On the Poetry of Gu Yanwu -- Bibliography -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Taking Seaflower to the Classroom: A Proposal to Bring Sustainability Education to High Schools in an Oceanic Archipelago (Western Caribbean, Colombia) -- Chapter 14. Advances and Needs in Marine Science Research in the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina: A Literature Analysis…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The age of Voltaire: a history of civilization in Western Europe from 1715 to 1756, with special emphasis on the conflict between religion and philosophy.- 1965 (XVIII, 898 p.) -- v.10. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Überlegungen zur Herkunft des Symbolum quicumque -- Western Theology and the Ecumenical Councils -- Gregor von Tours und die Stellung der Juden im Gallien des 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…introducing power-chronography / Sarah Sharma -- Zeroing in: overhead imagery, infrastructure ruins, and datalands in Afghanistan and Iraq / Lisa Parks -- Rhetoric, materiality, and U.S. western front commemoration / Carole Blair, V. William Balthrop, and Neil Michel -- Materiality and urban communication: the rhetoric of communicative spaces / Victoria Gallagher, Kenneth Zagacki, and Kelly Norris Martin -- The birth of the "neoliberal" city and its media / James Hay -- Communication assemblages/networks. beyond transmission, modes, and media / Jennifer Daryl Slack -- Attention and assemblage in the clickable World / J. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Silk -- On the Early History of the Brahmanical Yugas / Vincent Eltschinger -- Size Matters: The Length of Korea's History and the Size of Its Historical Territory / Remco Breuker -- Polyglot Translators: Chinese, Dutch, and Japanese in the Introduction of Western Learning in Tokugawa Japan / Martin J. Heijdra -- Overcoming Distance / Richard Bowring -- Beyond Nativism: Reflections on Methodology and Ethics in the Study of Early China / Martin Kern -- Taking Horace to the Yellow Springs: Notes on Death and Alcohol in Chinese Poetry and Philosophy / Jan De Meyer --On Some Verses of Li Bo / Paul W. …”