“…Revealing a deeply problematic institu- tion entrenched in the landscape of Western society, McCoy redraws the boundaries within which we understand the penitentiary’s influence…”

“…Pero la idea que tienen de aparecer en pantalla no tiene nada en común con el género documental; ellos quieren ser estrellas del celuloide de su género cinematográfico favorito: el cine de gansgsters, los westerns, los musicales. Ellos escriben los guiones. …”
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“…Pero la idea que tienen de aparecer en pantalla no tiene nada en común con el género documental; ellos quieren ser estrellas del celuloide de su género cinematográfico favorito: el cine de gansgsters, los westerns, los musicales. Ellos escriben los guiones. …”
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“…PHASES OF HISTORY Christianity terminates Zeus? Jupiter in Western Europe 500-1200; 1200s, 1300s: renaissance before the Renaissance; Zeus and the Renaissance; Twilight of the Gods Abbreviations Reference Bibliography Further Reading Index…”

“…The internationalization of policing, they demonstrate, primarily reflects ambitious efforts by generations of western powers to export their own definitions of "crime," not just for political and economic gain but also in an attempt to impose their own morals on other parts of the world. …”
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“…The distinctive model of international order and urban life emerging with the rise of Chinese power and influence offers a potential rival to the one that has accompanied the rise and zenith of Western power, marking a new age of infrastructural geopolitics and Great Power competition."…”

“…Full of drama and colourful characters, her memoir highlights the dangers and drudgery faced by Westerners living under communism. Moscow in the 1960s was the other side of the Iron Curtain: mysterious, exotic, even dangerous. …”
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“…It also takes great care to avoid the common historioraphical error of projecting onto the Incas, arguably the last great civilization to have existed without contac with the "Old World" western ways of seeing and imagining the universe. …”
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“…Rather than offering a single argument, this volume offers a platform for scholars, especially Chinese scholars vs. Western scholars, to exchange and debate their different views and perspectives on China and the potential transition of international order"--…”

“…Poverty and authoritarianism, conditions not unique to the Islamic world, and produced out of global interconnections that implicate the West, are often more decisive. The standard Western vocabulary of oppression, choice, and freedom is too blunt to describe these women's lives. …”
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“…The challenge to the French discipline of whether and how to position itself in relation to the evolving American discipline is in many ways exemplary for other non-American national IR disciplines, and the choices as well as the structural conditions underlying the French case are relevant to all non-Western disciplines. The comparative analysis moreover reveals that the modern American discipline -- what is considered as recognisable social science -- takes shape only during the 1970s. …”

“…The reasons for presenting this work as a heritage dictionary—that is, as an exact transcription of the original form of the handwritten manuscript—are to follow the Western Aranda people’s wishes and to maintain its historical authenticity, which will prove to be of great use to both Indigenous people and scholars interested in language…”

“…The authors situate the process of coming to terms with the past (communism, fascism, authoritarianism, failed democracies) in Eastern Europe (including the Western Balkans) and the former Soviet space within the larger context of discussing the memory and history of the post-war period. …”

“…Taiwan is a region relatively unknown to the Western sinological public. From the Church historian's point of view however it is a highly interesting place because it was the first place in the Chines world where Protestantism and Catholicism coexisted. …”

“…It will be of interest not only to folklorists and historians of agriculture and Western America, but also to many Plainsarea farmers, ranchers, and oilmen…”

“…He makes a convincing case that these stories expose powerful Western scenarios of desire itself—giving cargo cult its combined titillation of the fascinating exotic and the comfortably familiar…”

“…This work renews the precious ties between Islamic and Western thinkers that were formed in the Middle Ages and then disrupted…”

“…Alongside sustained critiques of architectural theory and Western philosophy, and close engagements with Black Studies and Indigenous thinking, Mason offer a critique of the writing subject as a collaborator in the racialization of urban cartography. …”

“…Within the hermeneutic approach, the author relates the unconventional use of film language in cinematic works of the 1960s and 1970s not only to the recent novels of Beckett and Queneau and to the French nouveau roman but also to one of the founding texts of Western literature, the Oedipus Rex of Sophocles. …”

“…Trained in ethnoarchaeology in New Guinea, the authors offer an original reading of the historical trajectory of the first farming communities between 5300 and 2400 BC, where the micro-regions - here the Jura and the Saône plains - were deeply integrated into complex networks for the circulation of sign objects and ideas. On the scale of Western Europe, these long-distance transfers were supported by social competition, the display of inequalities, and religious imagination. 100 keywords from the archaeological vocabulary allow us to explore different social interpretations hidden behind the objects and behaviours of Neolithic populations…”