“…In het jaar 381 ging een aanzienlijke Romeinse vrouw, Egeria, vanuit West-Europa op reis naar Palestina, Egypte en Syrië. …”

“…There is hardly any other medieval Christian chronicler in the West or East who reflected on his method to such an extent. …”

“…In the two parts of this study, is made an attempt to show, however, why Spengler cannot be evoked (or dismissed) as the anti-West. Rather, it is a matter of pointing out how the mimetic blurring with the positions of the alleged prophet of doom, in the name of the West's self-love and its exceptionalism, risks confirming the prognosis of the decline, testifying to the misery, or impotence, of the critique aimed at opposing its fulfilment…”

“…But, as Tony Wood argues, this focus on Russia’s president gets in the way of any real understanding of the country. The West needs to shake off its obsession with Putin and look beyond the Kremlin walls.In this timely and provocative analysis, Wood explores the profound changes Russia has undergone since 1991. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- On Rhetorical Ethos and Personal Deeds: A 2011 Spanish Public Controversy -- The Hunt for Promises in Danish Political Debate -- "Keep[ing] Profits at a Reasonably Low Rate": Invoking American Civil Religion in FDR's Rhetoric of Tax Equity and Citizenship -- Yarn Bombing: Claiming Rhetorical Citizenship in Public Spaces -- On Trees: Protest between the Symbolic and the Material -- "Cicero Would Love This Show": The Celebration of Rhetoric and Citizenship in The West Wing -- Part II Studies in the Practice and Cultivation of Rhetorical Citizenship -- Rhetorical Citizenship in Public Meetings: The Character of Religious Expression in American Discourse -- Voice, Listening, and Telling Stories: The Communicative Construction of Rhetorical Citizenship in Small Groups -- Argumentative Literacy and Rhetorical Citizenship: The Case of Genetically Modified Food in the Institutional Setting of a Greek Primary School -- "People Power" in Philippine Presidential Rhetoric: (Re)Framing Democratic Participation in Post-authoritarian Regimes -- On Being a Simple Judge: Exploring Rhetorical Citizenship in Aristotelian and Homeric Rhetorics -- The Rhetorical Citizen: Enacting Agency -- Part III Crossing Borders: Disciplinary, Political and Otherwise -- Online Civic Participation, Discourse Analysis and Rhetorical Citizenship -- "A Stowaway of Emigration": Polarizationin Hafid Bouazza's Work -- Extending Civic Rhetoric: Valuing Rhetorical Dimensions of Global Citizenship in Civic Education -- Rhetorical Citizenship beyond the Frontiers of Capitalism: Marx Reloaded and the Dueling Myths of the Commodity and the Common. …”

“…This is a political biography of the French industrialist and political activist Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil (1894-1955), president of the Taxpayers' Federation in the 1930s, entrepreneur in wartime France and Africa, organizer of the 'Group of Five' in Algiers which prepared for the Allied landings in North Africa (November 1942), 'inventor' of General Henri Giraud as a candidate for the leadership of liberated North and West Africa, negotiator of the Murphy-Giraud Agreements and the Anfa Memorandum with President Roosevelt (1942 and 1943), political writer on the postwar future of France in Morocco and the owner of the liberal newspaper Maroc-Presse. …”

“…This is must-read book!” —Tom West, Retired Chairman and CEO, American General Retirement Services “This book offers a comprehensive approach to retirement planning delivered in an enjoyable and easy-to-read format. …”