Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.3 Geographical and sector distribution of SWF strategic investments: the 2007-2008 surge of investments in Western financials 3.4 Investment performance of SWFs and the impact of the financial crisis; 3.5 Explicit and implicit liabilities of SWFs; 3.6 Long-term investments: SWFs as the ultimate risk bearers; 4: Risk Management for SWFs; 4.1 The crisis in retrospect; 4.2 The complex qualitative nature of risk: uncertainty, chaos, black swans and fat tails; 4.3 Banking regulation, herd behaviour and contagion; 4.4 The evolution of the regulatory framework…”

“…Un hombre llamado caballo vuelve al galope en un western excepcional que relata las penurias de una tribu de sioux que ha sido horriblemente traicionada y su búsqueda de un hombre capaz de conducirles a la victoria. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Stevens and Mary Anne Murray -- Primate archaeobotany: the potential for revealing nonhuman primate plant-use in the African archaeological record / Michael Haslam -- Dietary diversity: our species-specific dietary adaptation / Gordon Hillman and Michèle Wollstonecroft -- Seeds at Sibudu: a glimpse of Middle Stone Age vegetation at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Christine Sievers -- Understanding late and terminal Pleistocene vegetation change in the Western Cape, South Africa: the wood charcoal evidence from Elands Bay Cave / Caroline Cartwright, John Parkington and Richard Cowling -- Early millet farmers in the Lower Tilemsi Valley, Northeastern Mali / Katie Manning and Dorian Q. …”
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“…Monjardet draws on empirical research and historical context to provide insights into the complexities of policing in Western countries, particularly France. The book is intended for readers interested in sociology, criminology, and public policy…”

“…Conclusiones: El método Pilates muestra más efectividad frente al dolor y la funcionalidad que las corrientes interferenciales Abstract: Background: Low back pain is one of the causes for people to take time off work in the Western world. Physical exercise is an effective treatment option. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Prologue: first encounter -- The colonial days -- An archeologist's view of witchcraft -- Ancient spirit paintings -- Lion-men and colonial witch trials -- Angry man with a cross-bow -- Witchcraft and the Congo pygmies -- Crocodile bile and the poison principle -- Living with witches -- The witchcraft trial of Mohammadi -- The woman who poisoned a chief -- The issue of death by suggestion -- Witchcraft symbols in western Tanzania -- Reflections on Mohammadi -- Through African eyes: the arts -- The gift of an execution mask -- Seeing witchcraft images in nature -- The witch's toolkit: implements and artifacts -- Guns, throwing knives and power symbols -- Spirit art and the ideas of an African chief -- Witch-hunters and witch-cleansers -- Secrets of a professional witch hunter -- Using witch hunters for political coercion -- A famous witch-cleanser in Malawi -- Faith healers, snake handlers, herbalists -- Kajiwe (little stone), Kenyan witch-hunter -- Witchcraft and violence -- Meeting Idi Amin in Uganda -- State-sponsored terror with witchcraft skin gangs and secret societies on trial: witchcraft court cases -- A rough map of witchcraft in eastern Africa -- The spirit wars -- How prophet movements use witchcraft healing -- The sick by the sea -- "Evil eye" among desert people -- Witchcraft violence in an African Christian church -- Missionary zeal: African spirits versus Christian spirits -- Witchcraft and juju economics -- Smuggling of witchcraft poisons and products -- Long distance trade in protective medicines -- The healer's trade: witchcraft as a diagnosis -- Commercialization and urbanization of witchcraft -- Spirit art, devil art and modern art for profit -- Witch beliefs as barriers to economic development -- Political witchcraft -- Witchcraft threats and mafia-like politics -- The Tanzanian holocaust: the Sungusungu killings -- Meeting Kenya's President Moi -- Devil cults in Nairobi: alleged satanic practices -- The use of witchcraft in Uganda's…”
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“…The final section analyzes contemporary cultural challenges, including political correctness and the portrayal of families in media, concluding with the adverse effects of family decline on Western civilization. The book is intended for scholars and anyone interested in sociology, culture, and family studies…”
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“…With this smart, new study, Afonso powerfully enters the debate on the need for a shared social agenda in post-crisis Western Europe…”

“…Differently from the “Look East” policy promoted during the presidency of Ahmadinejad (2005-2013), the current Iranian strategy is not only functional to escape the US-led isolation, but it rather seems devoted to the consolidation of a block of power which can commit to security and economic schemes in alternative to the Western-dominated ones. This ISPI report aims to answer few crucial questions: Which are the major initiatives promoted within Iran’s “Look East 2.0” strategy? …”

“…It illustrates this argument through case studies of modern Japan, the Pacific and post-Conquest Latin America (including the revival of indigenous civilisations), exploring discourses of civilisation outside the West within the context of growing Western imperial power…”

“…Thus the poor and particular sections of the Indian population were inscribed within discourses of western civilization as regressive and inferior peoples. …”

“…By the end of the 19th century, British imperial medical officers and Christian medical missionaries had introduced Western medicine to Tibet, Sikkim, and Bhutan. <i>Their Footprints Remain</i> uses archival sources, personal letters, diaries, and oral sources in order to tell the fascinating story of how this once-new medical system became imbedded in the Himalayas. …”

“…In all advanced Western nations, policy-makers have implemented encompassing welfare state reforms in recent decades breaking with past welfare arrangements. …”

“…Bright red terra sigillata pots dating to the first three centuries CE can be found throughout the Western Roman provinces. The pots' widespread distribution and recognisability make them key evidence in the effort to reconstruct the Roman Empire's economy and society. …”

“…It is also a widely known phenomenon in Turkey, where an average of six such killings is reported per month, and with Turkish migration to Western Europe since the 1960's, these murders have been reported in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Sweden, and Denmark. …”

“…The Snowden files and recent deliberations on the use of Chinese equipment in the critical infrastructures of western countries have changed this. The discourse in both cases revolves around what malevolent manufacturers can do to harm their own customers, and the importance of the matter is on par with questions of national security. …”

“…The Bildungsroman, or "novel of formation," has long led a paradoxical life within literary studies, having been construed both as a peculiarly German genre, a marker of that country's cultural difference from Western Europe, and as a universal expression of modernity. …”

“…Governments and international organizations should not regard institutional expansion and geopolitical restructuring merely as "western plus." From the other end of the telescope the view is very different."…”

“…Adopting a comparative perspective, it considers the impact of early globalization on Iberian and Western European institutions, social development and political economies. …”