“…DE: Direct taxation in western Asia Minor under the early Empire. II. CONQUEST AND ITS EFFECTS BIRLEY, A.: Britain 71-105: advance and retrenchment. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Role of pupil in Buddhist philosophy -- The Role of teacher in Buddhist philosophy -- Curriculum transaction in Buddhist philosophy -- Techniques of teaching -- Values in Buddhist philosophy -- Humanism in Education -- Historical humanism -- Meaning and implications of humanism -- Scientific humanism -- Humanist sociology -- Humanist psychology -- Aims and ideals of education -- Buddhist-Humanist Philosophy of Education -- Jain Philosophy of Education -- Concept of education -- Aims of education -- The pupil -- The teacher -- The curriculum -- The methods of teaching -- Islamic System of Education Philosophy -- Contemporary Indian Thought -- Vedanta philosophy -- First awakening -- Renaissance movement -- Arrival of great thinkers -- Neo-Vedanta world view -- Nationalism and Internationalism -- Concept of Svadharma -- Practical Vedanta -- Rise of Neo-Vedanta -- Summary -- Key Words -- Notes and References -- Additional Readings -- Chapter 4: Western School of Thought of Education -- Fundamental Basis of Idealism -- Meaning and Concept of Idealism -- The metaphysics of idealism -- Epistemology of idealism -- Axiology of idealism -- Idealism in Education -- Idealism and curriculum -- Education as a Social Institution -- The Pupil -- Aims of Education -- Social aims of education -- The teacher -- Methodology of teaching -- Teaching devices -- The curriculum -- Idealism and the school -- Idealism and discipline -- Socrates -- Greek Education -- Fundamental principles of Socratic education -- Virtue can be taught -- Virtue is one -- Virtue is bliss -- Plato -- Curriculum of education -- The role of education -- Education according to classes -- Evaluation -- Limitations of Plato's principles of education -- The contribution of Plato -- Advaita Philosophy -- Chief characteristics of Shankar's Advaita philosophy -- Advaita philosophy and education…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…11 Spiritual Root Metaphors and Modern Western Consciousness -- 1 Spiritual metaphors as hidden navigators -- 2 When the journey metaphor goes underground -- 3 When the trial metaphor goes underground -- 4 When the warfare metaphor goes underground -- 5 Psychotherapy and disconnected spiritual root metaphors -- Concluding Part 2 -- Part 3: Existential and Cognitive Aspects of Spirituality -- Introducing Part 3 -- 12 Spirituality as a Change Process -- 1 An ancient theory of spiritual development -- 2 Adapting the ancient systematisation to modern experience -- 3 Why 'aspects' rather than 'phases'? …”

“…"Examines two seemingly contradictory and yet parallel processes in the circulation of Asian popular culture: the interconnectedness between Asian popular culture and western culture in an era of cultural globalization, and the local derivatives and versions of global culture that are necessarily disconnected from their origins in order to cater for the local market"--Provided by publisher…”
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“…"Popularizing National Pasts is the first truly cross-national and comparative study of national histories, their representations, the meanings given to them and their uses, which expands outside the confines of Western Europe and the US. It draws a picture of popular histories which is European in the full sense of this term. …”
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“…Through proposals by authors such as El Lissitzky, Moyoly-Nagy, Kiesler or Duchamp, a tour of the architectural findings of their expository experiences, all of them contagious from the atmosphere of creative effervescence and full of confidence in the technique and progress that was experienced in the western world in the interwar period. Some of these concepts remain in contemporary creation, where they continue to preserve the experimental spirit and betting on a dialogue between distinct disciplines, a crucial issue in contemporary architecutre…”

“…It argues that the traditional focus on the period between August 1914 and November 1918 makes more sense for the victorious western front powers (notably Britain and France), than it does for much of central-eastern and south-eastern Europe or for those colonial troops whose demobilization did not begin in November 1918. …”

“…The implicit background of this book consists of an optimistic approach to creating mind forms that improve the condition of humanity, deriving from the legends of Christ and the Buddha and the experiences of mystics in both Eastern and Western cultures, as well as from psychoanalytic thought. …”

“…How should schools deal with religions in matters of curriculum, procedure and policy?As Western society becomes increasingly multicultural in character, schools must reassess the provision of religious education and look at how they might adapt in order to accommodate students' diverse experiences of plurality. …”

“…The conversation stretches from queer-feminist engagement with China's newest poetry to philosophical and philological reflections on its oldest, and from Tang- and Song-dynasty classical poetry in Western languages to Baudelaire and Celan in Chinese. …”

“…The book combines a theoretical discussion of how freedom and its opposites have been conceptualized in the republican tradition with a broader perspective on this tradition's impact on the representation of unfreedom in Western literature and cultural history. It thus complicates our understanding of what it means to be unfree and unveils a series of distinctions which also shape our modern notions of freedom Reviewed in: Portal für Politikwissenschaft, 22.01.2015, Matthias Lemke Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 129/4 (2016), Gerrit Voogt…”

“…In recent years, harassment and violent attacks against Jews and Muslims have become issues of concern in many Western countries. However, antisemitism and Islamophobia are often framed as essentially different phenomena, not least as a result of political polarization and deeply divided opinions on both immigration and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. …”

“…From a contemporary perspective and within a broad historical context, the book discusses in depth a series of Western artworks, artefacts, and buildings providing new insights into memory processes and mechanisms of representation of Jerusalem…”

“…The second book discusses the statisticalevidence for the participation of adults in different lifelong learning programmesand activities in a number of Western countries. Both are very valuablecontributions to the study of adult and lifelong education. …”

“…Lastly, based on these comprehensive assessments, it compares the effectiveness of measures to prevent climate change in Japan and Western countries. Providing valuable insights, this book will appeal to both academic researchers and policymakers seeking cost-effective measures against climate change. …”

“…By examining the insurrection of knowledge, it seeks to motivate actions against capitalist academia and Western dualistic ontology. The work is intended for scholars, activists, and those interested in indigenous knowledge systems and social justice…”

“…While migration has become an all-important topic of discussion around the globe, mainstream literature on migrants' legal adaptation and integration has focused on case studies of immigrant communities in Western-style democracies. We know relatively little about how migrants adapt to a new legal environment in the ever-growing hybrid political regimes that are neither clearly democratic nor conventionally authoritarian. …”

“…A plethora of new actors has in recent years entered China's environmental arena. In Western countries, the linkages and diffusion processes between such actors often drive environmental movements. …”

“…The author focuses on the question of how a Western bureaucracy faced up to the most complex foreign policy challenge of the 1990s. …”

“…It describes how Japan has been confronted with Western bioethics and the ethical issues new to this modern age, and how it has found its foothold as it decides where it stands on these issues. …”