“…Private-sector business opportunities between the west and east coasts and the northern and southern rims of the Pacific region are stimulating ever-larger flows of goods, services, capital, technology, and people among these economies. …”

“…Includes updated chapters keeping the material freshand accessible while incorporating recent changes in policy and newresearch Highlights lessons learned from such incidents andcatastrophes as: Hurricane Katrina, Earthquake in Haiti, Parkinglot collapse in Miami, West Texas industrial explosion, Train wreckin Spain, Aurora movie shooting, Times Square bombing, etc. …”

“…This volume explores and elucidates critical ancient world studies (CAWS), a new model for the study of the ancient world operating critically, setting itself against a long history of a discipline formulated to naturalise a hierarchical, white supremacist origin story for an imagined modern West. CAWS is a methodology for the study of antiquity that shifts away from the assumptions and approaches of the discipline known as classical studies and/or classics. …”

“…Jewish esotericism is the oldest and most influential continuous occult tradition in the West. This comprehensive treasury of Jewish teachings and lore drawn from sources spanning Jewish scripture, Talmud, the Midrash, the Kabbalah, and other esoteric branches of Judaism, is exhaustively researched yet easy to use. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…/ Grigorious Larentzakis -- Images in Art of Women Deacons in East and West / Ally Kateusz -- Historical factors of the estrangement between the Catholic and the Orthodox Church / Dimitrios Keramidas -- The Church of Rome in search of rediscovering conciliarity / Archbishop Ioannis Spiteris -- A new Christian anthropology: the "Horizontal" and "Vertical dimensions of the Human Person / Georgy Kochetkov -- Ecumenical metaphysics and Church Union / Antoine Arjakovsky -- The prospects of reunion of the Orthodox Church with the Catholic and Oriental Churches / Georgios Martzelos -- Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue in Ukraine: challenges, prospects, and approaches / Andrii Krawchuck -- Ecumenical relations of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church / Ihor Shaban -- Yves Congar's contribution to the Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue / Stavros Yangazoglou -- Under the same Cross throught Jesus Forsaken / Augustinos Bairactaris -- Identity and alterity. …”

“…In response, Zachary convened a Council in Širakawan, in which representatives of the Armenian, the Byzantine and the West-Syrian Churches took part. The embassy to Armenia was a part of the vast ecclesiastical activity that the Byzantines conducted in the Black Sea basin during those years, primarily at Photios’s own initiative. …”

“…It is commonly believed that of the two West Syriac chronicles that have preserved large parts of the now lost Chronicle of Dionysius of Tell-Maḥrē (d. 845), the account of the rise of Islam is better preserved in the anonymous Chronicle up to the Year 1234 than it is in the Chronicle of Michael Rabō (d. 1199). …”