“…Susan Sperry Smith began her career by working in the projects on the West Side of Chicago and teaching first grade. Later, she received her master's degree in Learning Disabilities and eventually taught severely disabled children, ages 6-17, in a small town in Indiana. …”

“…Other countries, such as Sweden and West Germany, remained comparatively untouched by the economic crisis and even sought to reinforce their welfare state in response to it. …”

“…In other words, if the philosophy of human rights is to form the basis of Western culture, it must rest on a truer understanding of the human person than that which is taught—both explicitly and implicitly—in the contemporary West…”

“…France struggled for dominance not only on the plains of Europe but also in the Americas, West and South Africa, Ottoman Empire, Iran, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Mediterranean Sea, and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. …”

“…Their collision of worlds helped connect East and West, launching a tempestuous period of globalisation spanning from the Chinese opium trade to the slave trade in the Americas.Drawing on rich, original sources, Lubaaba Al-Azami traces the origins of a relationship between two nations - one outsider and one superpower - whose cultures remain inextricably linked to this day" -- Contracubierta…”

“…Following a survey of the biblical and classical background, it offers a detailed exploration of the theme of wisdom in patristic, byzantine, and medieval theology up to and including Gregory Palamas and Thomas Aquinas in Greek East and Latin West, respectively. Three principal levels of Christian wisdom discourse are distinguished: wisdom as human attainment, wisdom as divine gift, and wisdom as an attribute or quality of God. …”

“…Markides continues the exploration of a spiritual tradition and practice little known in the West he began in Riding with the Lion. His earlier book took readers to the isolated peninsula of Mount Athos in northern Greece and into the group of ancient monasteries. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: on installation and site specificity / Erika Suderburg -- The functional site; or The transformation of site specificity / James Meyer -- One place after another: notes on site specificity / Miwon Kwon -- “Illiterate monuments”: the ruin as dialect or broken classic / Barbara Maria Stafford -- Fountains and grottos: installation and the Neobaroque / Sean Cubitt -- Garden Agon / Susan Stewart -- Written on the west: how the land gained site / Erika Suderburg -- Hidden economies in Los Angeles: an emerging Latino metropolis / Alessandra Moctezuma and Leda Ramos -- Landscape(s) of the mind: psychic space and narrative specificity (notes from a work in progress) / John Coleman -- Ordinary gestures of resistance / Ernest Larsen -- Internal exiles: the interventionist public and performance art of Asco / C. …”

“…Meanwhile, Asia has been able to concentrate on building a better future and seizing the economic initiative from the American-dominated West, creating a new culture of hope. How will these varying emotions influence the political, social, and cultural conflicts that roil our world? …”

“…The 1930s witnessed the first serious attempt to create a genuinely Soviet commercial culture that would rival the West. Government ministers took exploratory trips to America to learn about everything from fast food hamburgers to men’s suits in Macy’s. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.2.9 Intergovernmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa…”