Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- L'amitié et l'altérité chez Augustin -- Christianity, Romanitas and the Politics of Otherness in the Late Ancient West -- Pt. 4. Penser l'altérité du moyen âge à la renaissance -- The Divine and the Human Other. …”

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“…Se presenta un análisis empírico de cinco series estadounidenses: Perdidos (Lost, ABC: 2004-), CSI: Las Vegas (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS: 2000-), El ala oeste de la Casa Blanca (The West Wing, NBC: 1999-2006), Mujeres desesperadas (Desperate Housewives, ABC: 2004-) y House (House, M.D., Fox: 2004-), cada una de ellas perteneciente a un género dramático (aventuras, policíaco-forense, político, soap-opera y médico). …”

“…The author delves into the ideological responses of the Christian West to the expansion of Islam and the Crusades, emphasizing the construction of cultural narratives and the medieval epic as tools for identity formation. …”

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“…The years following the Cultural Revolution saw the arrival of television as part of China’s effort to ‘modernize’ and open up to the West. Endorsed by the Deng Xiaoping regime as a ‘bridge’ between government and the people, television became at once the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party and the most popular form of entertainment for Chinese people living in the cities. …”

“…Discusses the impact of globalisation on security in the West and in particular the way it has changed the nature of NATO as well as its security agenda…”

“…Taking a global perspective, the volume examines the history of dissent both inside and outside the West, through events in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries both nearer to our own times as well as more distant, and through a range of styles reflecting how contested and pressing the problem of dissent in fact is. …”

“…During the VII-VIII centuries Byzantine historiography is supposed to have remained silent, since no source dating to that period has come down to us. West Syriac historiography is believed to have been quite scanty as well because, according to Lawrence Conrad's theory, the only source that later Syriac chroniclers had for this period was Theophilos of Edessa, whose chronicle is commonly thought to be Theophanes' "oriental source" as well. …”

“…She tells them about the war, her flight, her refugee status, her experiences in West Africa and Algeria. In turn, she discovers that they are still exposed to racism in their country - an outrage compounded by the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. …”

“…This compilation of Dale Morgan's historical work on Indians in the Intermountain West focuses primarily on the Shoshone who lived near the Oregon and California trails. …”

“…The texts studied all come from the American West but include a rich variety of material, since their tribal sources range from the Yupik in the Arctic to the Yaqui in the Sonoran Desert.This presentation of jointly authored work is timely: it addresses increasing interest in, calls for, and movement toward reflexivity in the relationships between scholars and the Native communities they study, and it responds to the renewed commitment in those communities to asserting more control over representations of their traditions. …”

“…From Kool cigarettes and the Peanuts cartoon's Joe Cool to West Side Story (Keep cool, boy.) and urban slang (Be cool. …”