“…The Great Degeneration is a powerful indictment of an era of negligence and complacency. While the Arab world struggles to adopt democracy, and while China struggles to move from economic liberalization to the rule of law, the West is frittering away the institutional inheritance of centuries. …”

“…From the followers of Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the Arab leader who met with Adolph Hitler in November 1942, to Balkan Muslim volunteers for the Waffen SS during World War II, fascism's heady brew of extreme nationalism and racism has seduced peoples across all races, religions, and classes. …”

“…Dr. Amin Jaafari, an Arab-Israeli citizen, is a surgeon at a hospital in Tel Aviv. …”
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“…Kraidy provide a comprehensive how-to guide to the study of media, going far beyond the established English-language literature and drawing on the best methods and research from around the world. …”

“…Reilly solves such puzzles as why peace is so elusive in the Middle East; why the Arab world stands near the bottom of every measure of human development; why scientific inquiry is nearly moribund in the Islamic world; why Spain translates more books in a single year than the entire Arab world has in the past thousand years; why some people in Saudi Arabia still refuse to believe man has been to the moon; and why some Muslim media present natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina as God's direct retribution. …”
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“…Comprised of six parts, the first section examines theories of the digital divide, and then looks in turn at: Highly developed nations and regions (including the USA, the EU and Japan); Emerging large powers (Brazil, China, India, Russia); Eastern European countries (Estonia, Romania, Serbia); Arab and Middle Eastern nations (Egypt, Iran, Israel); Under-studied areas (East and Central Asia, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa). …”

“…Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring and the deep dysfunctions of contemporary American politics. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Seitenlicht -- Im Gegenlicht -- Silhouetten aufnehmen -- Morgenlicht -- Der Weißabgleich -- Zu wenig Licht -- Regenbilder -- Nebeltag -- Fotografieren im Schnee -- Blendensterne -- 4.4 Die Farben im Bild -- Umsetzung in Schwarzweiß -- Farbe ins Bild bringen -- Ton in Ton -- Farbe im Hintergrund -- 4.5 Gelungene Flugaufnahmen -- Perfekte Schärfe -- Der Himmel bei Flugaufnahmen -- Vögel im Anflug -- 4.6 Vögel in ihrem Lebensraum -- Annäherung an das Motiv -- Porträts -- Detailaufnahmen -- Vögel am Strand -- Badende Vögel -- Gefiederpflege -- Gut getarnt -- Der Vogel schläft -- Gesang aufnehmen…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…RomaniaRussian Federation; Saudi Arabia; Senegal; Serbia; Singapore; Slovak Republic; Slovenia; South Africa; Spain; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Sweden; Switzerland; Syrian Arab Republic; Tajikistan; United Republic of Tanzania; Thailand; Togo; Trinidad and Tobago; Tunisia; Turkey; Turkmenistan; Ukraine; United Arab Emirates; United Kingdom; United States; Uruguay; Uzbekistan; Venezuela; Vietnam; Yemen; Zambia; Zimbabwe; PART III: GREENHOUSE-GAS EMISSIONS; 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Bahey Eldin Hassan (Cairo Institute of Human Rights Studies): 'On Global Norms Sustaining Local Human Rights Movements in the Arab World' ; 7. Pablo Abitbol (Montes de Mará, Colombia, Historic Memory Project): 'Rural Colombia and Global Norms: Building Peace from the Ground Up.' -- Section 3: Human Rights and Sub-state Actors: Cities and Global Norms. 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Recent development and conservation interventions in Borneo / Fadzilah Majid Cooke -- Expanding state spaces using "idle" native customary land in Sarawak / Fadzilah Majid Cooke -- Native customary land : the trust as a device for land development in Sarawak / Ramy Bulan -- Decentralisation, forests and estate crops in Kutai Barat District, East Kalimantan / Anne Casson -- Community mapping, tenurial rights and conflict resolution in Kalimantan / Ketut Deddy -- Community cooperatives, "illegal" logging, and regional autonomy in the borderlands of West Kalimantan / Reed L. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cook and Chris Powell -- The new penology in a critical context / Michelle Brown -- A critical perspective on violence / Gregg Barak -- Missing pieces : the paucity of hate crime scholarship / Barbara Perry -- Women and drugs : a feminist perspective / Judith Grant -- Rural crime, poverty, and community / Joseph F. …”