“…"When in 1821 the Greeks rose in violent revolution against the rule of the Ottoman Turks, waves of sympathy spread across Western Europe and the United States. More than a thousand volunteers set out to fight for the cause. …”

“…As evidenced by his pioneering study of compositional methods that melded Eastern traditional music with Western musical theory, he had a profound understanding of the complex and often divisive history of twentieth-century music. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Taçon, Muhammad Ramli, Budianto Hakim, Adam Brumm and Maxime Aubert -- Cave art, art and geometric morphometrics: Shape changes and the babirusa of Sulawesi / Susan Hayes and Gert van den Bergh -- Hand stencils and boats in the painted rock art of the karst region of Muna Island, Southeast Sulawesi / Adhi Agus Oktaviana -- Black drawings at the cave site of Gua Pondoa, Southeast Sulawesi: The motifs and a comparison with pigment art elsewhere in Sulawesi and the broader Western Pacific region / Budianto Hakim, Sue O'Connor and David Bulbeck -- Holocene site occupancy in Sulawesi / David Bulbeck -- The human occupation record of Gua Mo'o hono shelter, Towuti-Routa region of Southeastern Sulawesi / Sue O'Connor, David Bulbeck, Philip J. …”

“…It provides a contemporary history of disability in city planning from a non-Western perspective and explores the cultural context for its positioning. …”

“…They particularly focus on the relation between the less-developed Eastern part of the EU and its more developed Western counterpart, and discuss the consequences of this development gap in detail. …”

“…This study also investigates the possible ramifications of technological development for the public sector and the Western welfare society at large. This book takes its point of departure from the 2016 OECD report that targets specific public service areas in which government needs to adopt new strategies not to fall behind. …”

“…Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia redirects the largely western-oriented study of citizenship to postcolonial states. …”

“…Subjects include the Indian government’s favoritism for Hinduism over rival religions; the way the Sikhs of India avoid the religion–politics divide; the way the Western media fails to fully understand the Chinese government’s policies on religious minorities; the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo demonstrations in France; religious attitudes toward tax politics in South Korea as well as among Christians compared to Muslims; how to lessen the radicalization of Muslims in Southeast Asia; whether Nigeria should encourage its Muslims to be active in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation; the spiritual role played by the permaculture movement in Cuba; and how the former tendency of scholars to polarize religion and politics is no longer viable, especially in Latin America…”

“…The versatility of Ovid's poetry, the transversality of its readings and of its possible reuse throughout the history of western culture are confirmed by the coexistence, within the volume, of contributions ranging from classical to modern and contemporary literatures, from archeology to Art history, from philosophy to music Nella sterminata bibliografia ovidiana, cogliendo l’occasione fornita dalle celebrazioni del bimillenario della morte del poeta (17-2017) il volume intende offire uno strumento utile ad approfondire, in chiave diacronica e sincronica, non solo le molteplici virtù della poesia di Ovidio, la sua straordinaria ars di matrice alessandrina, le tappe della sua fortuna a partire dall’antichità, ma anche – se non soprattutto – una qualità indiscussa e per certi aspetti inarrivabile della lingua e dello stile ovidiani: la dirompente forza icastica, la capacità di servirsi, come pochi altri, delle immagini nella costruzione del testo poetico, delle sue trame narrative, della sua elegante ricercatezza, della sua efficacia nella ricezione da parte del lettore. …”

“…Regional climate change effects over the Indian subcontinent, especially relating to the Indian monsoon, are unique to the region, and in particular, the climate in this region is shaped by the Himalayas, Western Ghats, the Tibetan Plateau, the Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, and Bay of Bengal. …”

“…Editor Todd Henry asserts that Western forms of queerness, and the reading practices used to identify queerness in the American academy, are insufficient to describe the range of queer life on the Korean peninsula. …”

“…Both puritan Islamists and Western alarmists tend to oversimplify and misrepresent the role and position of sharia. …”

“…The vulgate version for Western christendom was St Jerome's Latin translation, but a stimulus and demand gradually grew for vernacular translations. …”

“…In this time when the traditional role of reason in the Western thought is being undermined, Popper’s non-foundationist model of reason brings the Enlightenment message into a new perspective. …”

“…Western philosophy has long nurtured the hope to resolve moral controversies through reason; thereby to secure moral direction and human meaning without the need for a defining encounter with God or the transcendent. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Modernisation, Westernisation, and Globalisation: Legal Transplant in China -- Comments -- Comments -- Scotland: The Constitutional Protection of a Mixed Legal System -- The South-Tyrol Autonomy in Italy -- The Europeanization of Law -- The Notion of Reparations as a Restorative Justice Measure -- Comments -- Comments -- Evolution of the Judicial Systems — Role of Public Prosecution, Role of the Lawyers, Specialised Courts, Judicial Guarantees of Fundamental Rights -- Lawyers, the Protection of Human Rights and Harmonious Society -- The Judicial Guarantees of Fundamental Rights in the Macau Legal System: A Parcours Under the Focus of Continuity and of Autonomy -- Public Prosecution vis à vis the Protection of the Legal System and the Protection of Fundamental Human Rights -- International Criminal Procedure and the Protection of the Fundamental Rights of the Person -- Comments -- Trend of Evolution of Chinese Mainland Prosecutorial System in the Context of Judicial Reform -- The Role of the Ombudsman in Defending Human Rights -- Domestic and International Judicial Protection of Fundamental Rights: A Latin American Comparative Perspective -- Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Limits and Constraints to the Police Action in the Criminal Procedure: Several Aspects in Some Juslusophony Systems -- Comments -- Comments -- Autonomy — A Comparative Approach: Purpose, Origins, International Foundations, Structures, Financial Aspects, Evolution -- Evolution of Autonomy and Federalism -- Autonomy Experiences in Europe — A Comparative Approach: Portugal, Spain and Italy -- French Overseas: New Caledonia and French Polynesia in the Framework of Asymmetrical Federalism and Shared Sovereignty -- The Development of Asymmetric Regionalism and the Principle of Autonomy in the New Constitutional Systems: A Comparative Approach -- Comments -- Decentralization and Structural Policies: The European Experience -- Legal Foundations, Structures and Institutions of Autonomy in Comparative Law -- Comments -- Autonomy Within the P.R. of China — S.A.R.s et alii; Purpose, Origins, Structures and Evolution -- The Relationship Between Central and Local Governments Under the Unitary State System of China -- Autonomous Legislative Power in Regional Ethnic Autonomy of the People's Republic of China: The Law and the Reality -- Macao SAR Inter-Regional Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters1 -- Comments -- Fundamental Rights and Interaction of the Legal Systems -- The Ranking of the International Law in the Framework of “The Basic Law of the Macao SAR of the People's Republic of China” and the Introspection on the Perplexities of Fundamental Rights -- The Validity of the International Agreements of the Human Rights in the Juridical Order of the Special Administrative Region of Macau -- Interpretation of the Basic Law by the Courts of the Macao SAR -- The General Regime of Fundamental Rights in the Basic Law and in the International Instruments -- Comments -- Fundamental Rights and the Basic Laws of the Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions -- The Fundamental Rights in Macao -- Constitutionalism and Western Legal Traditions in Human Rights in Asian Legal Systems: With a Special Focus on Chinese Legal Systems -- Comments -- Comments -- The Autonomy of the Macau Special Administrative Region -- The Theory, Constitution and Practice of Autonomy: The Case of Hong Kong -- Interaction and Integration Between the Legal Systems of Hong Kong, Macao and Mainland China 50 Years After Their Return to China -- The Special Administrative Regions of the PRC in Comparison with Autonomous Regions Models -- Comments -- Comments -- Conference Final Comments…”

“…Innovation is nowadays a question of life and death for many of the economies of the western world. Yet, due to our generally reductionist scientific paradigm, invention and innovation are rarely studied scientifically. …”

“…In the era of globalization, multilevel and new modes of governance are changing the traditional governance models of nation states, accelerated by technological innovation, rising citizen expectation, policy intervention from international and multilateral donor communities, and the hegemony of western ideology imposed on many developing nations. …”