“…This account demonstrates how the functional and experiential difference between compact western and tropical dispersed cities can be explored. …”

“…Recent research has demonstrated that, in the Roman, Late Antique, Early Islamic and Medieval worlds, glass was traded over long distances, from the Eastern Mediterranean, mainly Egypt and Israel, to Northern Africa, the Western Mediterranean and Northern Europe. 'Things that travelled', a collaboration between the UCL Early Glass Technology Research Network, the Association for the History of Glass and the British Museum, aims to build on this knowledge. …”

“…Based on eighteenmonths of participant-observer ethnographic fieldwork and ten years offollow-up research, the book argues that there is a fundamental disconnectbetween the Western idea of the child soldier and the individual livedexperiences of the child soldiers of Sierra Leone. …”

“…There is growing evidence that rising levels of prosperity in Western economies since 1945 have not been matched by greater incidences of reported well-being and happiness. …”

“…During this time, Muslim Turks and Christian western Europeans conquered and traded at the expense of the shrinking Byzantine Empire. …”

“…Exploring anti-mimesis and image destruction in Western European films, Iconoclasm in European Cinema offers a comprehensive study of philosophical iconoclasm in cinema. …”

“…The authors also highlight the important ways in which Buddhist actors have (re)conceived Western liberal ideals such as constitutionalism, rule of law, and secularism. …”

“…Her colourful public persona oscillates among auteur, celebrity director, and political activist in an extraordinary professional trajectory, which started in the Eastern Bloc, continued in Western Europe and North America, then backtracked to a unified Europe. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Katia Iacono, Barbara Heinisch &amp -- Sonja Pöllabauer -- Introduction: Negotiating Understanding in Situations of Arrival and Reception -- Communication with Refugees in Spaces of Stasis and Uncertainty -- Über die Zufälle des Lebens - eine persönliche Perspektive -- On the Happenstances of Life - A Personal Perspective -- Abbas Salamat -- Die Katze, die Katzenfutter hasste -- Unterwegs -- On the Move -- Anastasios Ioannidis &amp -- Stefanos Vlachopoulos -- Remote Interpreting in Public Service Settings -- The Case of Public Employment Service of Greece -- Jérôme Devaux, Sarah Cox &amp -- Ahmed Halil -- Interpreting for Syrian Refugees in Turkey -- An Overview of the Interpreter's Background and Training -- Silvana Simoska, Tatjana Panova-Ignjatovikj &amp -- Mirjana Aleksoska-Chkatroska -- Between Empathy and Professionalism -- Cultural Mediators Along the Western Balkans Route - The Macedonian Experience -- Aleksandra Nuč Blažič &amp -- Sara Orthaber -- Auf dem Weg zur Professionalisierung -- Rahmenbedingungen und Praxis auf dem slowenischen Kommunaldolmetschmarkt -- Soňa Hodáková -- Specifics of Communication With Migrants in the Context of the War in Ukraine -- The Case of Slovakia -- Ankommen -- Arriving -- Yannick Wagner -- „Wenn's brennt" -- Erfahrungen, Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze einer erfolgreichen Krisen-Kommunikation und -Koordination in der akuten Flüchtlingshilfe am Beispiel von Train of Hope-Flüchtlingshilfe -- Anna Sourdille -- „They are like me." -- Chancen und Grenzen des Peer-Dolmetschens für queere Geflüchtete -- Im Gespräch -- Talking -- Annika Bergunde, Lilian Hagenlocher, Sarah Mackenzie &amp -- Verena Plutzar -- „Es darf ein bisschen mehr sein." -- Zur Kommunikation relevanter Informationen im Asylverfahren -- Virginie Bobin -- Refusing to Disappear…”

“…At a time when men and women were prepared to kill - and be killed - for their faith, the Reformation tore the western world apart. Acclaimed as the definitive account of these epochal events, Diarmaid MacCulloch's history brilliantly re-creates the religious battles of priests, monarchs, scholars and politicians, from the zealous Martin Luther nailing his Theses to the door of a Wittenburg church to the radical Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order; from Thomas Cranmer, martyred for his reforms, to the ambitious Philip II, unwavering in his campaign against Europe's 'heretics'.Weaving together the many strands of Reformation and Counter-Reformation, ranging widely across Europe and even to the new world, MacCulloch also reveals as never before how these upheavals affected everyday lives - overturning ideas of love, sex, death and the supernatural, and shaping the modern age -- Contracubierta…”

“…Yet Jews were not alone in supplying coin and credit to needy borrowers. Across much of Western Europe, foreign Christians likewise engaged in professional moneylending, and they too faced repeated threats of expulsion from the communities in which they settled. …”

“…Neither a medial center nor a nursing home, Het Dorp is a village in the western-most part of the Netherlands. What began as a sociological attempt to describe this unusual setting became, through the author's growing awareness, what can only be called a socio-autobiography. …”

“…The arrival of the Seljuk Turks in Anatolia forms an indispensable part of modern Turkish discourse on national identity but Western scholars, by contrast, have rarely included the Anatolian Turks in their discussions about the formation of European nations or the transformation of the Near East. …”

“…She argues that Byzantium's crucial role as the eastern defender of Christendom against Muslim expansion during the early Middle Ages made Europe--and the modern Western world--possible. Herrin captivates us with her discussions of all facets of Byzantine culture and society. …”
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“…"Since the turn of the twenty-first century, naturalism has become one of the most prominent philosophical orthodoxies in the Western academy. Yet naturalism is more often assumed than defended. …”

“…Of the various commentaries on the Rule of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel (the Carmelite Rule), that by John Soreth, Prior General of the Carmelites from 1451 to 1471, and commonly known as the Expositio paraenetica, has a special place in the history of Carmelite spirituality and, more broadly, is of particular interest as an expression of some of the trends in Western Christian spirituality in the last half of the fifteenth century. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Una lectura bourdieuana de El secreto de sus ojos de Juan José Campanella / Aspectos espaciales en los cuentos policiacos de autoras argentinas y chilenas / Del Far West a la Pampa: influencia del western en la novela negra argentina / La(s) fundacion(es) de la novela negra pasada y futura: una lectura de El síndrome de Rasputín de Ricardo Romero / En retirada: violencia política y paisaje urbano en la trilogía noir de Juan Carlos Desanzo (1983-1985) / Diseño de geografías urbanas en dos novelas policiales de Pablo de Santis: entre la nostalgia y la utopía / Hacia una estética de la marginalidad. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Géneros visuales y literarios en diálogo con el Quijote -- El Quijote y los precursores árabes de la picaresca española / La malaventura de Melisendra: la Segunda Parte del Quijote en las obras de García Lorca / La actuación de don Quijote en el retablo de maese Pedro: una expresión temprana de la libertad en sentido negativo / El Quijote y los wésterns / Sección IV. El Quijote y sus cuestiones humanísticas -- El tomismo del Quijote II: reflexiones sobre la virtud en tres personajes quijotescos / La medicina política en Cervantes: el gobierno del cuerpo en el Quijote de 1615 / Quijote II, 33-36, de la prudencia a la sanción moral: «no es oro todo lo que reluce» y «la codicia rompe el saco» / Sección V. …”