“…Expanded discussions on advances in information technology, gender discourse, and sexuality are also included, as are discussions of core areas of interest such as the discourse of corporations and professional organizations and intergenerational discourse. In the revision, the authors have also made changes designed to integrate the book fully within the classroom, including end-of-chapter discussion questions, further references, and a "Researching Interdiscourse Communication" section for student projects. …”

“…Ampie fasce della popolazione del mondo occidentale hanno opinioni sulla moralità coniugale e sull’etica sessuale ormai assai diverse rispetto ai valori e alle norme prescritti dalla Chiesa. …”

“…Por momentos pareciera que el auge de los radicalismos y el cuestionamiento del capitalismo y la democracia no tuviesen su origen en causas económicas, sino en cómo las decisiones actuales afectan a nuestro estilo de vida personal. …”

“…Nuestra vida está tradicionalmente organizada en cuatro etapas: juego, estudio, trabajo y jubilación, según un modelo heredado de la segunda mitad del siglo xix. …”

“…Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more than we do of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. …”
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“…Y la vida es ligera, fugaz, esquiva, grácil, vulnerable y resistente de un modo inexplicable.En su afán por desentrañar este concepto, el autor nos lleva de la mano por una serie de cuestiones esenciales para reflexionar sobre lo que hoy consideramos digno de admiración, ya sean las modas, lo militante, las inercias del mercado, la posibilidad de la utopía o el lado oscuro de uno de los mantras de la sensibilidad contemporánea: la búsqueda de la autenticidad. Un recorrido original que acaba por ser, además, una manera de esclarecer los mecanismos de su propia escritura --…”

“…Justin, working at some time in the late second to the late fourth century AD, did not produce a strict epitome, or summary, but what he calls "a brief anthology": not unlike Florus (LCL 231), who used Livy's history as the primary source for a brief but original military history of Rome, Justin freely selected what suited his own purposes, favoring "what makes pleasurable reading or serves to provide a moral," with an eye to the kind of emotive anecdotes that might be useful to orators. …”
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“…Im diachronen Längsschnitt werden die Liturgie des Evangelienbuchs, die Kirchenreform und die Ortswahl von Konzilien untersucht -- Editor…”
Sumario

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Guide to this reader -- APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS -- HISTORICAL CONTEXT -- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORIES -- LEVELS OF ANALYSIS -- THE STATE AND THE TOOLS OF STATECRAFT -- WAR AND SECURITY -- INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND INTERNATIONAL LAW -- INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY -- INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS AND NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS -- HUMAN RIGHTS -- THE ENVIRONMENT -- HUMAN SECURITY: MIGRATION, POPULATION, AND GLOBAL HEALTH…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Domestic politics and war -- International institutions and war -- Violence by nonstate actors : civil war and terrorism -- International trade -- International financial relations -- International monetary relations -- Development : causes of the wealth and poverty of nations -- International law and norms -- Human rights -- The global environment -- Challenges to the global order…”

“…Among the topics he discusses are rebuilding the world atom by atom with devices like nanobots; radical life extension beyond the current age limit of 120; reinventing intelligence by expanding biological capacity with nonbiological intelligence in the cloud; how life is improving with declines in poverty and violence; and the growth of technologies that can be applied to everything from clothes to building materials to growing human organs. He also considers the potential perils of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence, including such topics as how AI will impact unemployment and the safety of autonomous cars, and "After Life" technology, which will reanimate people who have passed away through a combination of data and DNA --…”