“…Challenging the self-congratulatory genealogy of civic Western nationalism, Marx shows how state-builders attempted to create a sense of national solidarity to support their burgeoning authority. …”
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“…Weathers conclude that non-Western cultures and societies do not reject war but look at violence and conflict as a normal and legitimate aspect of sociopolitical behavior."…”
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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…”

“…Divergences between U.S. and Turkish interests have grown, in part because of Turkey's relationships with its neighbors and the tension between its Western identity and its Middle Eastern orientation. …”

“…And in doing so, it questions the privileging of presence and sight in Western thought. Thus, this book, through the essays – “Emerging Sight, Emerging Blindness” (Brian Willems); “Augen, Blicke, Stätten” (Julia Hölzl); “At the Risk of Love” (Jeremy Fernando); and “Suspended in a Moving Night: Photography, or the Shiny Relation Self-World” (Jessica Aliaga Lavrijsen) – attempts to address the question what is seeing…”

“…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…”

“…Chinese paper making, calligraphy and woodblock printing date from very early ages, but have for a very long time remained almost unknown to the Western world. At the IFLA satellite meeting "Chinese Written and Printed Cultural Heritage and Library Work" in Hangzhou in 2006 the richness of present day book historical research and library activities in China has been presented by more than sixty papers. …”

“…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. …”

“…Offering interrogations of theories and practices within different sociocultural environments and traditions (Eastern and Western), Discourse in Translation considers a plethora of domains, including historiography, ethics, technical and legal discourse, subtitling, and the politics of media translation as representation. …”

“…However, lately, there is a growing concern that the dominance of ‘Western’ perspectives in this field do not allow for new understandings. …”

“…Al Qaeda, the jihadist network personified by Osama bin laden, seeks a restored caliphate free of Western influence. It uses terror as its means. But how does terrorism serve the ends of al Qaeda? …”

“…The volume covers a temporal spectrum broad ranging from Augustus to the end of the Western Roman Empire, an organized chronologically following dynasties, statesmen, crises and times of transition, culminating in the deposition of the last emperor and in attempts to recapture vain by Justiniano.Estão present cultural values ​​and identity elements that have shaped Europe, as far as the historical legacy, institutions, values, and also a gallery of "famous men" .In the call political history, stand out other aspects that inform companies and the city spread across headings, as manifestations of culture that fits the literature, playful elements, armies and economia…”

“…Lahti discusses both established subfields of Western scholarship, such as borderlands studies and transnational histories of empire, as well as relatively unexplored connections between the West and geographically nonadjacent spaces. …”

“…As a Muslim-majority country that is also a secular democratic state, a member of NATO, a candidate for membership in the European Union, a long-standing U.S. ally, and the host of Incirlik Air Base (a key hub for logistical support missions in Afghanistan and Iraq), Turkey is pivotal to U.S. and Western security interests in a critical area of the world. …”

“…Terrorism is imprinted on Western society's consciousness. Nearly every week a terrorist attack occurs in the world. …”

“…What developed, however, over the four-year period 1987–1990 was not private enterprise in the full Western sense of the term; not all of the cooperatives were free-standing, independent organizations. …”

“…This book delves into the linguistic and cultural aspects of 'Kaaps,' a variety of Afrikaans primarily spoken in the Western Cape of South Africa. It is a collection of essays originally presented at a symposium focused on this dialect, exploring its historical roots, contemporary usage, and future potential. …”

“…Experience in North America, Australia, Japan, the European Union and countries from eastern and western Europe is reviewed. The need for regulation differs by market and, together with political constraints, this means that regulatory models can not be transferred wholesale from one continent to another. …”

“…The purchasing power parities and real expenditures contained in this joint Eurostat - OECD publication cover 55 countries including the 30 OECD Member countries, the 27 EU countries, ten CIS countries, six Western Balkan countries and Israel. They are based on price and expenditure data for 2005 and have been calculated using the EKS aggregation method. …”

“…South Asia has been the setting for some of the century's most violent invasions, the Western world's bloodiest defeats, and a volatile geopolitical brew of religions, ethnicities, and nationalism that sends unsettling ripples through the global balance of power even today. …”