“…In a wide-ranging career Paul has been one of the leading excavators and pottery specialists of his generation, admired for his ground-breaking work both in the south-west and the military north of Roman Britain.<br><br>Contributions reflect the wide range of Paul Bidwell's interests. …”

“…Of particular concern are the likely collapse of the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets and the abrupt melting of permafrost grounds in the Arctic, which would result in additional sea-level rise and greenhouse gas releases, leading to more warming. …”

“…Child Migration in Africa explores the mobility of children without their parents within West Africa. Drawing on the experiences of children from rural Burkina Faso and Ghana, the book provides rich material on the circumstances of children's voluntary migration and their experiences of it. …”

“…Marco Palladino (Kong) explores the service mesh pattern and discusses the problems the pattern is designed to solve, including security (proxies can encrypt all network traffic without services being aware of it), observability (proxies collect metrics, logs, and tracing data from network traffic), reliability (proxies can enforce rate limiting, retries, and handle network drops), composability (swap or reuse services with nothing but a proxy configuration change), standardization (east-west traffic can all be secured in the same way), and efficient development (service developers can focus on business logic instead of interservice communication). …”

“…In six days, the Israelis defeated the Arab armies of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan and seized large portions of territory including the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Golan Heights. …”

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“…But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline of global history has emerged as the most dynamic and innovative field in history--one that takes the connectedness of the world as its point of departure, and that poses a fundamental challenge to the premises and methods of history as we know it. …”

“…Scowcroft helped manage the American departure from Vietnam, helped plan the historic breakthrough to China, urged the first President Bush to repel the invasion of Kuwait, and worked to shape the West's skillful response to the collapse of the Soviet empire. …”

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“…In this ground-breaking book, acclaimed author Kati Marton brings to life an unknown chapter of World War II: the tale of nine men who grew up in Budapest's brief Golden Age, then, driven from Hungary by anti-Semitism, fled to the West, especially to the United States, and changed the world. …”
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“…"Die Architekten", ein erschreckend aktueller Roman über die Amoralität der Macht, sind gültig in Ost wie West -- Editor…”

“…From Russia in the east, to England and France in the west, the cities of the Hanseatic League created a vast northern maritime trade network. …”

“…Dabei entfaltet sich ein ebenso breites wie kritisches Panorama, das vom zeitgenössischen Antisemitismus und Volksgemeinschaftsdenken über den »Weimar-Komplex« der frühen Bundesrepublik und die fortdauernde Spaltung der Arbeiterbewegung in Ost und West bis hin zum Mythos »Babylon Berlin« reicht." …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Double indemnity (1944, 1954 [TV], 1960 [TV], 1973 [TV]), and Body heat (1981) -- Murder, my sweet (1944) and Farewell, my lovely (1975) -- Detour (1945, 1992) -- The big sleep (1945/1946, 1978) -- Notorious (1945, 1992 [TV]) -- The postman always rings twice (1945, 1981) -- The killers (1946, 1964) -- Somewhere in the night (1946) and The crooked way (1949) -- Body and soul (1947, 1981, 1998 [TV]) -- Dark passage (1947) and Johnny Handsome (1989) -- Kiss of death (1947, 1995) and The fiend who walked the west (1958) -- Out of the past (1947) and Against all odds (1984) -- Ride the pink horse (1947) and The hanged man (1964 [TV]) -- The big clock (1948) and No way out (1987) -- They live by night (1948) and Thieves like us (1974) -- Criss cross (1949) and The underneath (1995) -- Gun crazy (1949) and Guncrazy (1992) -- House of strangers (1949) and Broken lance (1954) -- The asphalt jungle (1950), The badlanders (1958), Cairo (1963), and Cool breeze (1972) -- D.O.A. (1949, 1988) and Color me dead (1969) -- Night and the city (1950, 1992) -- No man of her own (1950), I married a shadow (1982), While you were sleeping (1995), and Mrs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Lewis between Classical and Contemporary Pragmatism -- 9 Quine and American Pragmatism -- 10 Wilfrid Sellars and Pragmatism -- 11 Richard Rorty: Narrative as Anti-Authoritarian Therapy and as Cultural Politics -- 12 Hilary Putnam -- 13 Cornel West and Prophetic Pragmatism -- 14 Susan Haack and Worldly, Realist Pragmatism -- 15 Nicholas Rescher's Methodological Pragmatism -- 16 Robert Brandom -- PART II: Pragmatism and Plural Traditions -- 17 Pragmatism's Family Feud -- 18 One Hundred Years of Pragmatism at Harvard -- 19 Pragmatism in Britain and Italy in the Early 20th Century -- 20 Pragmatism and Analytic Philosophy -- 21 Pragmatism and Continental Philosophy -- 22 Prospects for "Big-Tent" Pragmatic Phenomenology -- 23 Pragmatism and Its Prospects -- PART III: Pragmatism's Reach -- 24 Pragmatism and Logic -- 25 Pragmatism and Metaphysics -- 26 Peirce, James, and Dewey as Philosophers of Science -- 27 Pragmatism and Language -- 28 Pragmatism in the Philosophy of Mind -- 29 Pragmatism and Cognitive Science -- 30 Knowledge-Practicalism -- 31 Pragmatism and Religion -- 32 Pragmatism and the Moral Life -- 33 Artworld Practice, Aesthetic Properties, Pragmatist Strategies -- 34 Pragmatism and Political Philosophy -- 35 Pragmatism and Metaphilosophy -- PART IV: Pragmatism's Relevance -- 36 Pragmatism and Philosophical Methods -- 37 Pragmatism and Expressivism -- 38 Pragmatism and Naturalism -- 39 Pragmatist Theories of Truth -- 40 Pragmatism and Insurrectionist Philosophy…”