Tabla de Contenidos: “…Metzig -- Gifts of time : watches and clocks in Ottoman-British diplomacy, 1693-1803 / Michael Talbot -- Peace medal diplomacy in Indian-white relations in nineteenth-century North America / Volker Depkat -- Society of the "economic miracle" and the non-European world : material culture of state visits during the presidency of Theodor Heuss / Frieder Günther -- Assembling things right : the material dimensions of West German diplomacy (1950s to 1970s) / Simone Derix -- Forum -- The colonial past is never dead, it's not even past : histories of empire, decolonization, and European cultures after 1945 / Matthew G. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Czech Republic: Prague-Central Bohemia -- Australia: Geelong Region Alliance (G21) – Geelong -- Finland: Jyväskylä and Saarijärvi-Viitasaari – Central Finland -- Germany: Nuremberg Metropolitan Region -- France: Rennes Métropole – Rennes -- Italy: Province of Forlì-Cesena – Emilia-Romagna -- Netherlands: The BrabantStad partnership – Brabant -- Portugal: Castelo Branco – Beira Interior Sul -- Poland: Central Zone – West Pomeranian Region -- Spain: Extremadura -- United States: Lexington metropolitan region – Lexington, Kentucky -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Foreword and Acknowledgements -- Executive summary -- Understanding rural-urban partnerships: Context and definition -- Taking a functional region approach to rural-urban partnerships -- Purposes and outcomes of rural-urban partnerships -- Understanding the dynamics of rural-urban partnerships -- A strategy to build effective rural-urban partnerships -- Creating a governance framework for rural-urban partnerships…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Before the collapse : programming cultures in the Soviet Union / Ksenia Tatarchenko -- From lurker to ninja : creating an IT community at Yandex / Marina Fedorova -- For code and country : civic hackers in contemporary Russia / Ksenia Ermoshina -- At the periphery of the empire : Vladivostok's IT industry / Alexandra Masalskaya and Zinaida Vasilyeva -- Kazan connected : "IT-ing" up a province / Alina Kontareva -- Hackerspaces and technoparks in Moscow / Aleksandra Simonova -- Siberian software developers / Andrey Indukaev -- E-Estonia reprogrammed : nation branding and children coding / Daria Savchenko -- Post-Soviet ecosystems of IT / Dmitry Zhikharevich -- Migrating step by step : Russian computer scientists in the UK / Irina Antoschyuk -- Brain drain and Boston's "upper-middle tech" / Diana Kurkovsky West -- Jews in Russia and Russians in Israel / Marina Fedorova -- Russian programmers in Finland : self-presentation in migration narratives / Lyubava Shatokhina…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…''Inanimate Hideosities'': The Burlesque of Racial Capitalism in Nathanael West's A Cool Million -- Part II: performing the folk -- Introduction -- 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Quadruple ethos of Capitalist Modernity -- Thesis 8. European West and Capitalist Modernity -- Thesis 9. The Political in Modernity: Sovereignty and Alienation -- Thesis 10. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword / Introduction: Exploring the Interface of Diaspora, Law and Literature / Diaspora, the West and the Law / Towards a Grammar of the Multiverse / Close Encounters of the 'Third' Kind / Fair Hearing and Fair Play in Multicultural Societies / Critical Subjects of Belonging / Theorizing Reflexivity in Literature, Law and Diaspora / Overlapping Sovereignties / The Old Armenian Lawcode of Lemberg / Fabian Wittreck / Cultural Mobility and Diaspora: The Case of Philip Roth's Operation Shylock / Cultural Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go / Diasporic Fragments Coalescing: Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost / The Indian Diaspora and Laws / Articulations Across Diaspora, Law and Literature / Queer Diasporas? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cross-Cultural Analysis of Parental Monitoring and Adolescent Problem Behavior: Theoretical Challenges of Model Replication When East Meets West / 5. When Is Parenting Over? Examining Parental Monitoring and High-risk Alcohol Consumption in Young Adult College Students / 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…NW ROIS: Recovery-Oriented Integrated Systems in North West England; 7. The Therapeutic Community as a Method of Intervention; 8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A Poison Runs Through It : The Elk River Chemical Spill in West Virginia / Gregory V. Button and Erin Eldridge -- Whethering the Storm : The Twin Natures of Typhoon Haiyan and Yolanda / Greg Bankoff and George Emmanual Borrinaga -- The Tremors Felt 'Round the World : Haiti's Earthquake as Global Imagined Community / Mark Schuller -- Contested Narratives : Challenging the State's Neoliberal Authority in the Aftermath of the Chilean Earthquake / Nia Parson -- Revelation and Deconstruction : Decentralizing Japan after 3/11 / Bridget Love -- Adapting Expert Knowledge To The Social and Environmental Particularties of Disaster Affected Localities / Roberto E. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Characterisation of Endo-Polygalacturonases Activities of Rice (Oryza sativa) Fungal Pathogens in Nigeria, West Africa -- 11. Impact of Inadequate Concentration of Boron in Seed Storage Proteins Content in Oilseed Crops…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- 2. From East to West: Modernization efforts in the northern and western regions of Poland (1944-1989) -- 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover Page -- Half Title page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface: We Shall Dance Better -- References -- At the Crossroads of Coloniality, Power, and Knowledge: It Is Time to Decolonise Political Concepts -- Decolonial Theory, Political Concepts, and the Ideological West -- Searching for a More Habitable Place: Decolonising Political Concepts -- Concepts beyond Borders -- Moving Sideways, Looking Forward -- Notes -- References -- Part I Decolonial Horizons: Revealing the Coloniality of Knowledge and Power -- 1 Historicising History: A Critique Enabling View of History -- Models of Historiography -- The Empirical Model -- The Constructivist Model -- The Postmodern Historiographic Model and the Charge of Relativism -- Social Conditions and Contingency -- Social Conditions as Conditions of Possibility of Historical Knowledge -- Objectivity in Historical Explanation and General Prescription -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2 The Recalcitrance of White Ignorance…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Converting the barbarian West / Yitzhak Hen -- 2. Death and burial / Bonnie Effros -- 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…I could write a book if they asked me -- The road to Berlin -- Irving Berlin : the little pianist who couldn't -- Of thee I sing, Gershwin -- Harold Arlen : the songwriter's songwriter -- Hoagy Carmichael : the jazz song goes west -- Duke Ellington : royalty -- Jerome Kern : jazz comes to Broadway ... slowly -- Cole Porter : from Peru to Paree to Broadway -- Richard Rodgers : Dr. …”
Resumen

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Overture: de "West side story" / L. Bernstein. I could have danced all night: de "My Fair Lady" / F. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Identity : desire, name, and difference / Heidrun Friese -- Identity and selfhood as a problâematique / Peter Wagner -- Personal and collective identity / Jurègen Straub -- Identities of the West : reason, myths, limits of tolerance / Barbara Henry -- Remembering the other : knowledge and recognition in the exploration of Central Africa / Johannes Fabian -- The praxis of cognition and the representation of difference / Martin Fuchs -- Constructions of cultural identity and problems of translation / Shingo Shimada -- The performance of hysteria / Elisabeth Bronfen -- The "Jewess Pallas Athena" : horizons of selfconception in the 19th and 20th centuries / Barbara Hahn -- Collective identity as a dual discursive construction / Gerd Baumann -- Historical culture in (post-)colonial context : the genesis of national identification figures in francophone Western Africa / Hans-Jèurgen Lèusebrink -- Identity as progress : the longevity of nationalism / Christian Geulen -- Culture and history in comparative fundamentalism / Emanuel Sivan…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Conquering Texas -- A new kind of governor -- Glimmers of the White House -- The grand plan -- Stung by New Hampshire, rescued by South Carolina -- The big Mo -- The Cheney choice -- Derailed by a Dui -- Thirty-six days in hell -- The real West wing -- Thinking big -- 9/11 -- Ground zero -- Striking back -- What bipartisanship? …”
Acceso a las primeras páginas

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: Toward a new American history -- American genesis : Indians and the Spanish borderlands -- The native Northeast and the rise of British North America -- The unpredictability of violence : Iroquoia and New France to 1701 -- The native inland sea : the struggle for the heart of the continent, 1701-55 -- Settler uprising : the indigenous origins of the American Revolution -- Colonialism's constitution : the origins of federal Indian policy -- The deluge of settler colonialism : democracy and dispossession in the early republic -- Foreign policy formations : California, the Pacific, and the borderlands origins of the Monroe Doctrine -- Collapse and total war : the indigenous West and the U.S. Civil War -- Taking children and treaty lands : laws and federal power during the reservation era -- Indigenous twilight at the dawn of the century : native activists and the myth of Indian disappearance -- From termination to self-determination : Native American sovereignty in the Cold War era…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Jerry and Molly and Sam / Blow-up / Your Arkansas traveler / Rear window / The sentinel / Supertoys last all summer long / The minority report / Spurs / The fly / Herbert West--Reanimator: six shots by moonlight / Stage to Lordsburg / A man called Horse / This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona / The Harvey Pekar name story / Ghost world-- Chapter 5: "Hubba Hubba" / The wisdom of Eve / A reputation / Mr. …”
Acceso a las primeras páginas

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : a return to nationalism -- Two visions of world order -- The roman church and its vision of empire -- The protestant construction of the west -- John Locke and the liberal construction -- Nationalism discredited -- Liberalism as imperialism -- Nationalist alternatives to liberalism -- Two types of political philosophy -- The foundations of political order -- How are states really born? …”