“…In this highly mountainous, sparsely populated area live the Lisu, Nu, and Dulong (Drung) people, who until recently lived as subsistence farmers, relying on shifting cultivation, hunting, the collection of medicinal plants from surrounding forests, and small-scale logging to sustain their household economies. …”

“…His international network of artistic relations turned him into a central figure in the Flemish literary world, a position he held until his untimely death at the age of forty-five. …”

“…"Turning toward Edification discusses foreigners in Korea from before the founding of Chosŏn in 1392 until the mid-nineteenth century. Although it has been common to describe Chosŏn Korea as a monocultural and homogeneous state, Adam Bohnet reveals the considerable presence of foreigners and people of foreign ancestry in Chosŏn Korea as well as the importance to the Chosŏn monarchy of engagement with the outside world. …”

“…The dead were no longer buried in inhumation graves - as was customary until then - but were burned and laid to rest in urns. …”

“…Though presented at first as a United Nations' success story, especially when the territory was under UN management from October 1999 (withdrawal of the Indonesian army) until 20 May 2002 (independence of the country), the unity of Timor-Leste was then in peril, deceiving the expectations that had prevailed during the resistance years. …”

“…The Miracle of Saint Mina is one of the core texts in the small corpus of texts written in Old Nubian, a Nilo-Saharan language spoken between the third and fourth cataract of the Nile river until about the fifteenth century, and written in an adaptation of the Coptic script. …”

“…The book brings together chapters that address questions about the new economic and social configuration in which the economic importance of knowledge stands out as the main source for the creation of wealth, replacing physical capital and / or natural resources, which are decisive for the organization of production until the 20th century.In addition to conceptual considerations, the chapters that make up the work discuss results of research carried out by teams of researchers in Grenoble (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble 1 and Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble 2), France, and in Rio Grande do Sul (Federal University Rio Grande do Sul), Brazil, addressing topics that, in more general terms, refer to the debate on interaction between science, technology, innovation and local and regional development. …”

“…While Thom portrays Johns Hopkins as an early abolitionist whose father had freed the family's enslaved people in the early 1800s, recently discovered records offer strong evidence that Johns Hopkins held enslaved people in his home until at least the mid-1800s. More information about the university's investigation of this history is available at the Hopkins Retrospective Website. …”

“…"The epic of King Gesar of Ling is the national oral epic of Tibet, sung by itinerant bards in their land for many centuries but not recorded in print until recent times. Spreading widely beyond Tibet, there are extant versions in other languages of Central Asia. …”

“…While friendship is of contemporary interest, until recently there has been little research into the understanding of friendship in Second Temple Judaism. …”

“…The concepts build slowly and naturally one after another, until the reader soon has a view of the whole. Each concept is illustrated by detailed examples and graphics. …”

“…From 1929 until 1953, Iosif Stalin’s image became a central symbol in Soviet propaganda. …”

“…"Until the late 20th century, ‘an archive’ generally meant a repository for documents, as well as the generic name for the wide range of documents the repository might hold. …”

“…Although numerous approximate approaches have been developed for small molecular systems since the late 1920s, it was not until the advent of the density functional theory (DFT) in the 1960s that accurate “first-principles” calculations could be conducted for crystalline materials. …”

“…Rivers are an excellent witness of the dynamics affecting Earth’s surface due to their sedimentary products and morphological expression, which may be considered as fluvial archives. Until now, the focus has been on evaluating the general impact of individual external factors. …”

“…Until the mid-fifties of the twentieth century, the city of Homs celebrated every year a great mawsem , the most spectacular ceremony of which was an impressive procession of Sufi brotherhoods. …”

“…That recognition and attendant services were not restored until 1980, in an act that revived the Paiutes' identity, self-government, land ownership, and sense of…”

“…Organized in a cycle of "cold civil war", they marked the temporary epilogue of violent tensions which, since 2004, had divided the country, until the climax reached in May 2008. They constitute in this respect an analyser of the reconfigurations of the political scene. …”

“…Taking a perspective from moral and political philosophy, the book focuses on two challenges to human rights that have until now received little attention, but that need to be addressed if human rights are to remain plausible as a global ideal. …”

“…Renewed and growing interest in the topic of civil society has generated a wealth of new information and knowledge on the subject, but until now, there was no comprehensive reference work to organize and consolidate this knowledge. …”