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“…Bringing an innovative approach to the problem of Romanization, Revell breaks from traditional models and cuts across a number of entrenched debates such as arguments about the imposition of Roman culture or resistance to Roman rule…”
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“…Jan Gehl ha documentado cómo las ciudades modernas rechazan la interacción humana y argumenta que podemos construir urbes que tomen en cuenta las necesidades básicas Explores the idea of planning large cities across the planet based on the humanistic values of interaction, inclusion, and intimacy, a concept originating from the work of architect Jan Gehl, author of Cities for people…”

“…Clear discussion of education policy differences across the UK. Mike Carroll is the PGDE (Primary and Secondary) Programme Leader and Director of the MEd Professional Learning and Enquiry programme in the School of Education, University of Glasgow. …”

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“…Uniquely designed with the author’s engaging explanations in the margins, the book describes primary sources across various genres, including documents of practice, treatises, and literary works, as well as secondary sources such as textbooks, articles, and monographs. …”

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“…The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. …”

“…The last decade has witnessed the rise of the cell phone from a mode of communication to an indispensable multimedia device, and this phenomenon has led to the burgeoning of mobile communication studies in media, cultural studies, and communication departments across the academy. The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media seeks to be the definitive publication for scholars and students interested in comprehending all the various aspects of mobile media. …”

“…Recent archaeological work has shown that maritime trade across the Mediterranean intensified greatly at the same time as the Roman state was extending its power overseas. …”

“…Tracing this corporeal perception of time across literary, religious, and philosophical works, Weinrich concludes that time functions as a kind of sixth sense - the crucial sense that enables the other five.Written with Weinrich's customary narrative elegance, "On Borrowed Time" is an absorbing - and, fittingly, succinct - meditation on life's inexorable brevity…”

“…The Network brings together researchers from many and diverse countries across Europe – North, South, East and West – and the wider world, as evidenced in this present collection. …”

“…Effortless attention and action have been documented across a range of normal activities--ranging from rock climbing to chess playing--and yet fundamental questions about the cognitive science of effortlessness have gone largely unasked. …”

“…An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling and methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry and in connection with a variety of media, from film and television, to storytelling in the 'real-life' contexts of face-to-face interaction, to literary fiction. …”
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“…From the author of the international bestseller A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian comes a tender and hilarious novel about a crew of migrant workers from three continents who are forced to flee their English strawberry field for a journey across all of England in pursuit of their various dreams of a better future.Somewhere in the heart of the green and pleasant land called England is a valley filled with strawberries. …”
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“…Analytic Theology and the Academic Study of Religion articulates an attractive vision of analytic theology, fosters a more fruitful inter-disciplinary conversation, and enables scholars across the religious studies academy to understand one another better -- Editor…”

“…Museums, Society, Inequality brings together diverse perspectives from across the globe to explore the wide-ranging social roles and responsibilities of the museum…”

“…This stance, that what matters are the correct principles, not one’s own principles, has implications across ethics and epistemology. In ethics, it undermines the ideas that moral uncertainty should be treated just like factual uncertainty, that moral ignorance frequently excuses moral wrongdoing, and that hypocrisy is a vice. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The unfolding of Christian history : a sketch -- Christianity : a Jewish heresy spreads across the Eastern Empire -- Greek and Latin, east and west -- Persecution, legal establishment, empowerment and retreat -- The Eastern church, the spread of Islam, and expansion northwards -- The Western church of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages -- Disputes over control, and the rise of a continental church -- The high medieval synthesis -- Later Middle Ages : the era of fragmentation -- Challenges and ruptures : Renaissance and Reformation -- The age of competing orthodoxies -- Challenges to orthodoxy : reason, enlightenment and revolution -- The era of Romanticism and its implications -- The multiple crises of the twentieth century -- Reflecting on the process of historical development -- Constantly shifting emphases in Christian history -- Means to Holiness Become Ultimate Goals -- Asceticism : giving things up for God -- Expecting miracles -- Martyrdom -- Sacrament and sacrifice : the Eucharistic church -- The company of heaven : the communion of saints -- Purity of doctrine and instruction : the school of faith -- The Christian community and its membership -- Reflections on shifting priorities -- Church historians' responses to change and diversity -- The early church : Eusebius of Caesarea -- Early medieval church history : Bede -- The high middle ages : a monastic chronicle -- Renaissance historiography : rhetoric and scepticism -- The Reformation and the rise of a sense of history -- The rise of reformed schools of church history -- Confessional histories in the age of orthodoxy -- Writing Christian history in the shadow of the Enlightenment -- Toward "modern" histories of Christianity -- Postmodern and liberation-oriented approaches to Christian history -- Summary and conclusions -- Some theologians reflect on the historical problem -- The historical background to historical-critical theology -- The challenge of Ludwig Feuerbach to modernizing theology -- German liberal Protestant theology of the ineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Responses to liberalism in the 20th century -- Thomism, mysticism and neo-liberalism : some Roman Catholic responses -- Cultural diversity, liberation, postliberalism and postmodernity -- Drawing the threads together…”