“…An introduction and guide to the dramatic changes that have occurred in the provision of public services over the last two decades, this book combines theoretical perspectives with a range of case studies from Europe, North America and further afield to explain why, how, and with what success liberal democracies have reformed the service role of the state. …”

“…Singing has been a characteristic behaviour of humanity across several millennia. Chorus America (2009) estimated that 42.6 million adults and children regularly sing in one of 270,000 choruses in the US, representing more than 1:5 households. …”

“…These all-women art initiatives are closely related to developments within the political and politicized women's movement in Europe and America but what emerges is the varied and plural manner of their engagements with feminism(s) alongside their creation of 'heterotopias' in relation to specific sites/ politics/ collaborative art practices. …”

“…More than two decades ago, the Committee of Concerned Journalists gathered some of America's most influential newspeople to ask the question "What is journalism for?" …”

“…In The Road to Freedom, Nobel prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz dissects America’s current economic system and the political ideology that created it, laying bare their twinned failure. …”

“…Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? …”

“…Yet just over a decade later, by the early 1990s, America's global primacy had been reasserted in dramatic fashion. …”

“…Estos textos describen el Extremo Oriente de sus años juveniles, hablan de personajes y sucesos chilenos y de las más inesperadas latitudes, describen el paisaje marino de Isla Negra, narran misteriosas ceremonias celebradas por extravagantes amigos en alguna casona perdida en un barrio de Santiago de Chile o describen dos casos de chilenos ejemplares, los de Mariano Latorre y Pedro Prado, la eterna lucha entre América y Europa, entre naturaleza y cultura, realidad criolla e invención cosmopolita…”

“…In this innovative approach to Old Testament ethics--fully revised, updated and expanded since its first appearance in 1983 as Living as the People of God (An Eye for an Eye in North America) and including material from Walking in the Ways of the Lord--Wright examines a theological, social and economic framework for Old Testament ethics. …”

“…Chloe Wigston Smith follows the material and visual images of the Atlantic world that found their way into the hands of women and girls in Britain and early America--in the objects they made, the books they held, the stories they read--and in doing so adjusted and altered the form and content of print and material culture. …”

“…Contemporary Curating, Artistic Reference and Public Reception' undertakes a unique critical survey and analysis of prevailing group exhibition-making practices in Europe, the UK and North America.0Drawing on curatorial literature and two in-depth case studies of group exhibitions, Bertrand advocates for a mode of curatorial practice that secures the content of artworks, in contrast to prevailing open-ended, indeterminate approaches. …”

“…Para entonces ya había en España mujeres médicas, abogadas, profesoras, veterinarias e incluso diputadas, pero ninguna arquitecta. …”

“…As televisions beamed these images into American homes, it became undeniably clear that Catholic matters really matter, and not only to Catholics. …”

“…In this ground-breaking and revelatory book, based on more than three decades of research, leading expert Professor Hein de Haas explodes myths espoused by both left and right that politicians, interest groups and media regularly spread about migration.Comparing trends and perspectives from Western 'destination countries' (UK, US and Europe) as well as 'origin countries' in Asia, Africa and Latin America, de Haas equips readers with essential knowledge on migration based on the best evidence and data, showing migration not as a problem to be solved, nor as a solution to a problem, but as it really is.Above all, How Migration Really Works offers a new vision of migration based on facts rather than fears, and a paradigm-altering understanding of this perennially important subject…”