“…It also features numerous documents from other countries, illustrating how foreigners viewed America's role in the world.Ideal for classroom use, America in the World sheds light on the complex interplay of political, economic, ideological, and cultural factors underlying the exercise of American power on the global stage…”

“…He analyzes how the state managed-or mismanaged-the lockdown and explores how Wuhan's residents responded by taking on increasingly active roles. Yang demonstrates that citizen engagement-whether public action or the civic inaction of staying at home-was essential in the effort to fight the pandemic. …”

“…His descriptions of how the five types of fear differ according to their bodily, temporal and social experience inside the auditorium entail a forceful plea for relying more strongly on phenomenology in the study of cinematic emotions. …”

“…Outre l'outil précieux qu'elle représente pour tout lecteur curieux, la chronologie que propose Manuel do Nascimento, met en lumière le rôle crucial que le Portugal a joué dans l'histoire et le développement de l'Europe, ainsi que celui du monde moderne…”

“…"We are simply changing our minds about the role of men in family life", the authors of this book write. …”

“…It takes a broad perspective, with relevance to systems with single or multi-payer health insurance arrangements, and to those relying predominantly on user charges; contributions are also included that focus both on medical care and on non-medical factors that affect health. …”
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“…What role do human rights play in the development of regional organizations? …”

“…Et condamner à jamais ses fidèles au rôle de victimes, exonérées de toute responsabilité dans les violences commises en son nom. …”

“…Considering the diverse ways in which human rights are enacted and mobilised, The Socio-Political Practice of Human Rights engages with major sites of tension and debate, examining the question of whether human rights are universal or culturally relative; their relationship to forms of economic and political domination; the role of law as a mechanism for social change and the ways in which the language of human rights facilitates or closes sites of radical resistance. …”

“…The discussions about the role of false beliefs in the production of knowledge are directly traceable to Gettier's paper, as are the debates between fallibilists and infallibilists. …”

“…While the reasons vary, it is an irony that Christianity, often regarded as responsible for the proliferation and spread of books and book culture, was likewise active in suppressing and destroying books in Late Antiquity.Author Dirk Rohmann assembles the evidence for the role playedin book-burningby Christian institutions, writers,and saints duringtheRoman Empire.Rohmannanalyzes a broad range of literary and legal sources, paying special attention towhich genres and book types were likely to be targeted. …”

“…Causality plays a central role in the way people structure the world; we constantly seek causal explanations for our observations. …”

“…, quelles sont les représentations et les rôles du témoignage à travers l'histoire ?, comment s'organise la mémoire des témoignages ?…”

“…Achievement tests play an important role in modern societies. They are used to evaluate schools, to assign students to tracks within schools, and to identify weaknesses in student knowledge. …”

“…Steven Dworkin (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Rolf Eberenz (Université de Lausanne) María Teresa Fuentes Morán (Universidad de Salamanca) Daniel Jacob (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg im Breisgau) Johannes Kabatek (Universität Zürich) Eugenio R. …”

“…Optimization, competitiveness, and innovation have become the watchwords of Western societies, yet their role in human lives―as in the rest of nature―is dangerously overrated. …”

“…Among the numerous issues and topics that arise are the following: incorporation of standard terms; difficulties of multiple language contracts; lex mercatoria; liability based upon preliminary agreements; issues of termination; regulation of Internet sales; role of model or uniform laws; sale of services; national law restrictions on the cross-border sale of services; intellectual property transfer and licensing agreements; franchising and joint ventures; electronic contracting; and confidentiality, nondisclosure agreements, and covenants not to compete. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Site, space, and identity in Jesuit musical life / Eric Bianchi -- Theatricality in the Sistine Chapel / Peter Gillgren -- Blinding light and gloomy darkness : illumination, spectatorship, and the oratorio in baroque Rome / Huub van der Linden -- Sound and sensorial landscape : early modern Rome as a full urban experience / Brice Gruet -- "Comprando la maraviglia con l'impossibilità" : the role of music in the space of a torneo. An unknown score of I furori di Venere (Bologna 1639) / Dinko Fabris -- Cultural life at Villa Lante di Bagnaia (1683-1685) : family, gardens, and sociability / Anne-Madeleine Goulet -- The "teatro delle acque" : music and spectacle at Villa Aldobrandini during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Giulia Anna Romana Veneziano -- Inside and outside a national church : music, ceremonies, and nationality in early modern Rome / Michela Berti -- From the villa to the public theater : the Chigi and "Roman" opera in Siena / Colleen Reardon…”

“…Konrad Jarausch and Michael Geyer explore the staggering gap between the country's role in the terrors of war and its subsequent success as a democracy. …”
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“…This book seeks to argue that religious actors play a crucial role in the complex processes of entering or re-entering the public spheres of state, political, and civil society. …”