“…Rather than treating various practices of knowledge as rational or irrational in purely scientific terms, it explains the controversies surrounding COVID-19 by drawing on a theoretical framework that recognizes different types of rationality, and hence plural conceptualizations of evidence. …”

“…Money-pump arguments offer a way to show that such violations are irrational. Suppose that you start with A. Then you should be willing to trade A for C and then C for B. …”

“…Glen Arnold, PhD, runs his own equity portfolio from the heart of rural Leicestershire. He used to teach in the City and was a Professor of Investment but concluded that academic life was not nearly as much fun, nor as intellectually stimulating, as making money in the markets. …”

“…This book deals with the changing patterns of transmission of land and houses in a pre-industrial rural community of Southern Bohemia. By linking different sources, such as land registers and a family reconstitution, the study focuses on both the demographic and the economic factors that influenced peasant transmission strategies as well as on the consequences of changing transmission patterns for access to land-ownership Die vorliegende Fallstudie untersucht die Weitergabe von Haus und Grundbesitz zwischen den Generationen und die daraus resultierenden Folgen für die demographische, ökonomische und gesellschaftliche Entwicklung vormoderner Gesellschaften. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Ethnographic Tibet / Chapter Nine. Urban Processes And Political Change / Chapter Ten. …”

“…As emotion is often linked with irrationality, it's no surprise researchers tend to underreport the emotions they experience in the field. …”

“…It showcases case studies and responses to the impacts of globalisation as a bridge between urban/rural and institutional action and reveals avenues for local government leadership in communities, research, student engagement and wider interactions."-- Publisher's description…”

“…Ten case studies representing urban areas, rural areas (chiefly protected areas) and coastal areas from four countries in Europe and Asia by internationally renowned authors are shown…”

“…Different skills, aptitudes and passions have come together in the hope that the recent phase of planning can trigger mechanisms that stimulate the inhabitants of Tuscany to continue to produce the collective work of art that is their landscape, in the exquisitely normal manner and form that left scholars such Desplanques pleasantly perplexed when he wrote: «These people have constructed their rural landscapes as if they had no concern other than beauty…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…." -- Estudos feministas e terapia ocupacional: uma articulação teórica e política de enfrentamento ao sexismo ocupacional -- Imagens e invisibilidades da mulher egípcia: expressões do feminino no signo do Islã -- Somos mulheres, somos luta, somos resistência: semeando a participação das mulheres no movimento sindical rural de Sergipe -- Violência e gênero: a interseção das desigualdades sociais -- Entre o "Chá das Calouras" e o da "Vitória", o Código Civil: atuação da União Universitária Feminina (1929-1959) -- De la ley integral contra la violência de género al pacto de estado em España: algunas ideas para seguir trabajando -- Cuerpas, sonoridades e feminismos de Abya Yala: interlocuções entre Brasil e México -- Sobre as(os) autoras(es)…”

“…Drawing on case studies across rural and urban settings in Uganda and South Africa, the book offers a new way of seeing this issue through an exploration of the multiple ways in which people learn to have better livelihoods. …”

“…¿Cómo un movimiento carismático de renovación, contracultural y asentado fundamentalmente en los ambientes rurales y pobres de Palestina, se convirtió en una potente institución religiosa, predominantemente urbana, que acabaría proporcionando cohesión y legitimación ideológica al Imperio? …”

“…If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred and irrationality. Yet, as Steven Pinker shows, if you follow the trendlines, you discover that our lives have become longer, healthier, safer and more prosperous not just in the West, but worldwide. …”

“…Otro cielo despliega rotundos poemas de un poderoso imaginario espiritual y rural a través de la herencia que van dejando los antepasados, los desaparecidos, los olvidados, los insumisos, los huidos... …”

“…Se acercó, en particular, a un movimiento, el de los naródniki, que había hecho de la comuna rural, en Rusia, un elemento motor principal de una original concepción del socialismo. …”

“…It is based on an unprecedented field study of more than two hundred Frankish rural sites and on a close re-examination of the historical sources. …”
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“…Only if this fact is accepted can men rid themselves of irrational fears and achieve the state of ataraxia, freedom from mental disturbance, on which the Epicurean definition of pleasure was based. …”

“…An international team of scholars considers the extent of urban transformation, and with it, of cultural and civic identity, as practices and institutions associated with the city-state came to be replaced by those of the Christian community. …”

“…Explora la feminidad y la masculinidad contemporáneas en contextos tan sugerentes como la bohemia francesa, el cine, el fútbol, los discursos coloniales y nacionales, el feminismo, el mundo obrero y los medios rurales, culturales y políticos. Un gran equipo de especialistas ha abordado un mosaico de iconos femeninos y masculinos que cuestiona muchos mitos y proporciona un retrato sugerente y complejo de los arquetipos de género que emergen desde la conformidad o la transgresión…”

“…In addition to analyzing the national aspects of their initiatives it follows their grass-roots activities in two local contexts, the fast growing metropolitan city of Madrid and the backward rural province of Salamanca. It thus combines a general evaluation of the phenomenon with intimate glances at the people who drove it forward. …”