“…They also examine the driving force behind campaign finance reform--corruption--through historical, transactional, and institutional perspectives. …”

“…It champions an unyielding global and transnational outlook, recognizing that the contemporary predicaments confronting children are not solely products of local or national influences but are profoundly shaped by the forces and interactions of a global scale. This book uniquely contributes to children's rights scholarship by exploring children's rights and dignity through a broader lens, emphasizing the impact of politics, culture, social conflicts, and geographic variations. …”

“…Nowadays, little known even among Italian readers and not often mentioned in literature textbooks, ignored by literary critics during his life, forced to publish further texts for his own financial resources and in a few reviews described as an obscene artist and scribbler, in the interwar period he was surrounded by the cult of a fascist ideology’s precursor and, thanks to the personal commitment of Benito Mussolini, raised to the rank of one of the greatest writers in the history of Italy.In the thesis were discussed two motifs. …”

“…Can we resist the temptation to construct huge hierarchical stairs, forcing individuals to place themselves on one of its steps, and thus lining up different and diverse entities in a long sequence, and eventually bringing about totalitarianism? …”

“…The final occupation was by Portuguese Madeiran labourers, who were introduced to fill a labour force shortage in the 1840s. Detailed reports on the finds assemblage include discussions of the handmade, bonfired Afro-Caribbean pottery made by enslaved African women, imported European ceramics and glass, clay tobacco pipes, metalwork and building materials. …”

“…The conflicts within the forest of Quintana Roo represent the outcome of nature in this global era, where the forces of land grabbing, conservation promotion and organizations, and capitalism vie for control of forests and land. …”

“…The riveting third edition of this New York Times bestseller blows the whistle on China's economic hit man (EHM) strategy, exposes corruption on an international scale, and offers much-needed solutions for curing the degenerative Death Economy.In this shocking expos, former EHM John Perkins gives an insider view into the corrupt system that cheats and strong-arms countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars and ultimately causes staggering income inequality and ecological devastation.EHMs are highly paid professionals who use development loans to saddle countries with huge debts and force them to serve US interests. Now, a new EHM wave is infecting the world, and at the peak of the devastation sits China, a newly dominant economic power, with its own insidious version of the US EHM blueprint. …”

“…In this way, perspectives are broadened to groups of people, institutions and forces, which constitute a network of mathematics education practice. …”

“…This Leadership book is part of the Human Centered Book Trilogy, the 2021 volumes of the Routledge Human Centered Management HCM Series. …”

“…Partiendo de un enfoque poscolonial y de género, el trabajo plantea un modelo de cuatro fases analíticas con el fin de examinar y sistematizar la conformación narrativa de la identidad y de la subjetividad a lo largo del proceso migratorio: la partida del hogar/patria, el curce de fronteras en sentido literal y metafórico, el contacto intercultural y el contraste entre las experiencias en el nuevo país y los procesos nmemónicos vinculados con el lugar de origen. el estudio analiza y problematiza las posiciones que ocupan los sujetos representados en estos textos entre el mito de la tierra prometida y el proceso de desexilio. …”

“…American law, not philosophy or medicine, is the major force shaping American bioethics. This is both because law at its best fosters individual rights, equality, and justice, and because violation of the legal duty or "standard of care" a physician owes a patient can lead to a malpractice suit. …”

“…He examines the powerful and complex forces that drove global change during the "long nineteenth century," taking readers from New York to New Delhi, from the Latin American revolutions to the Taiping Rebellion, from the perils and promise of Europe's transatlantic labor markets to the hardships endured by nomadic, tribal peoples across the planet. …”

“…At a time when diplomatic practices and the demands imposed on diplomats are changing quite radically, and many foreign ministries feel they are being left behind, there is a need to understand the various forces that are affecting the profession. Diplomacy remains a salient activity in today's world in which the basic authoritative actor is still the state. …”

“…Le concept d'expérience revient aujourd'hui en force. Il plonge pourtant ses racines dans notre passé. …”

“…Alors le surcroît de « tendresse » (1 Tm 3, 16) mis en œuvre à la Croix du Fils unique est reçu, au-delà de tout concept procurant saisie, comme la parfaite révélation de ce que Dieu le Père a, depuis toujours, de plus divin et de plus humain…”

“…Une pensée qui fut recouverte par les religions et qui, paradoxalement, inclut pour une large part celle de Heidegger, sans le repli narcissique et autoréférentiel qui la caractérise. …”

“…En seize leçons, nous vous proposons de parcourir à grandes enjambées l'histoire du XIXe siècle, en commençant par la Révolution française, en poussant jusqu'à la Grande Guerre et en n'écartant aucune région du globe. …”

“…In this wide-ranging survey, Thomas Pavel argues that the driving force behind the novel's evolution has been a rivalry between stories that idealize human behavior and those that ridicule and condemn it. …”

“…From the Nixon administration's efforts to stabilize a faltering Pax Americana; to Henry Kissinger's attempts to devise new strategies to manage or mitigate the consequences of economic globalization after the oil crisis of 1973-74; to the Carter administration's embrace of human rights promotion as a central task for foreign policy, Sargent explores the challenges that afflicted US policymakers in the 1970s, offering new insights into the complexities that emerged as the new forces of globalization and human rights transformed the United States as a superpower. …”

“…Sadly, this Desert Island Model of territorial politics forces us to choose. If we want territories, then we can either have democratic legitimacy, or inclusion of different civic identities-but not both. …”