“…Globalization is not an inexorable force that everyone should embrace and adapt to. …”

“…"With its transnational scope and exhaustive research into such archives as Planned Parenthood and the newly opened Vatican Secret Archives, Connelly's withering critique uncovers the costs inflicted by a humanitarian movement gone terribly awry and urges renewed commitment to the reproductive rights of all people." -- Contracubierta…”

“…It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her. …”

“…The rebels were a group of reactionary and anti-liberal forces with little ideological or political coherence, but they emerged from the conflict not only victorious but ideologically united under the dictator's power. …”

“…Très tôt aussi, des formes spécifiques de domination économique - le grand domaine, puis la seigneurie - encadrent la population rurale. Ces forces poussent la population à des adaptations permanentes. …”

“…Does globalization erode the nation state's capacity to act? Are nation states forced to change their policies even if this goes against the democratic will of their electorates? …”

“…Although the Senate confirmation of Supreme Court nominees is the most public part of the nomination process, the most critical phase--the initial selection of nominees--is usually hidden from view. …”
Sumario

“…The subsequent thirty-eight-day Battle for Sicily was one of the most dramatic of the entire Second World War, involving daring raids by special forces, deals with the Mafia, attacks across mosquito-infested plains and perilous assaults up almost sheer faces of rock and scree. …”

“…When a bomb placed in a popular nightclub by the Resistance kills several high-ranking German officers, Roth finds himself not in his role as translator but as the suspect of the SS’s interrogation. April in Paris is one of those rare books in which the emotional force of the love story is matched by page-turning suspense. …”

“…The first, political axis examines the monarchy's confrontation with, and adaptation to, liberalism as a political force that aimed to nationalize the Spanish people. …”

“…Historien, anthropologue et linguiste, il a été façonné par son intense fréquentation du terrain congolais et rwando-burundais, ayant eu la force de travail nécessaire pour arriver à se situer aux avant-postes du combat pour l'accréditation de la tradition orale et des savoirs populaires comme sources pertinentes d'histoire. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…PART ONE: 1870-1918 -- Germany around 1900: Progress and Its Costs -- The New Reich -- The Power of War -- PART TWO: 1919-33 -- Revolution and Republic - Germany around 1926: Between War and Crisis -- The Destruction of the Republic -- PART THREE: 1933-45 -- The Dynamics of Violence -- The Destruction of Europe -- Germany in 1942: Genocide and Volksgemeinschaft -- PART FOUR: 1945-73 -- Post-War -- Rebuilding West Germany -- The Socialist Experiment -- Harbingers of Change -- Germany around 1965: Between Two Eras -- Reform and Revolt -- PART FIVE: 1973-2000 -- Crisis and Structural Change -- The World Economy and National Politics -- Recovery, Crisis and Collapse in the GDR -- Germany in 1990: A Twofold Unification -- A New Unity -- Millennium…”

“…Réfutant la thèse de l’immunité française au fascisme défendue par d’éminents historiens français, ils prouvent que les ligues d’extrême droite étaient des organisations comparables aux partis fascistes d’Italie et d’Allemagne. …”

“…Car la confiance est non seulement la force de liaison élémentaire qui nous lie les uns aux autres, mais le cœur de notre rapport au monde en général : au début est la confiance."…”

“…Comme si nous vivions déjà à l'heure de la chute de l'empire, submergés par de nouveaux "barbares"--Contracubierta…”

“…The book takes on a three part structure. Part I traces the definition of identity, and follows the evolution of a right to personal identity and personality within human rights law. …”

“…Camprub describes a series of projects across Spain undertaken by the civil engineers and agricultural scientists who placed themselves at the center of their country's forced modernization. These include a coal silo, built in 1953, viewed as an embodiment of Spain's industrialized landscape; links between laboratories, architects, and the national Catholic church (and between technology and authoritarian control); vertically organized rice production and research on genetics; river management and the contested meanings of self-sufficiency; and the circulation of construction standards by mobile laboratories as an engine for European integration. …”

“…With the coming of the FDA, our government, for the first time, was able to force the removal of toxic elixirs from the shelves and to insist on accurate labeling. …”
Acceso a las primeras páginas

“…This book therefore illuminates how every now and then we chase ourselves away from what we were and force ourselves to become what we are. Proposing a simple yet radical change in perspective, Runia profoundly reorients how we think and theorize about history…”

“…In identifying shopping and cooking as an expression of love, ads helped to both establish and reinforce the belief that kitchen work was women's work, even as women's participation in the labor force dramatically increased. Alternately flattering her skills as a homemaker and preying on her insecurities, advertisers suggested that using their products would give a woman irresistible sexual allure, a happy marriage, and healthy children. …”
Sumario