“…He holds a Doctor of Education degree from West Virginia University and a Master of Science from Utah State University…”

“…According to Mishkin, the international community must provide incentives for developing countries to establish effective property rights, banking regulations, accounting practices, and corporate governance--the institutions necessary to attract and manage global investment. And the West must be a partner in integrating the financial systems of rich and poor countries--to the benefit of both. …”

“…Covering the entire duration of Clinton's presidential odyssey, from his 1991 Announcement Speech to his final day in office, the book draws extensively on newly declassified primary materials and interviews by the author with key members of the Clinton administration to reveal for the first time the development and implementation of US Grand Strategy from deep within the West Wing of the Clinton White House."--Bloomsbury Publishing…”

“…According to Mishkin, the international community must provide incentives for developing countries to establish effective property rights, banking regulations, accounting practices, and corporate governance--the institutions necessary to attract and manage global investment. And the West must be a partner in integrating the financial systems of rich and poor countries--to the benefit of both. …”

“…Told through intimate portraits of each of Ziauddin’s closest relationships – as a son to a traditional father; as a father to Malala and her brothers, educated and growing up in the West; as a husband to a wife finally learning to read and write; as a brother to five sisters still living in the patriarchy – Let Her Fly looks at what it means to love, to have courage and fight for what is inherently right. …”

“…Stranger than fiction, the story reaches an exciting climax in the final showdown in the unlikeliest of places: America's Wild West. Like gunslingers at high noon, determined astronomers of the opposing camps brave Indians and the elements in their attempt to prove once and for all whether the planet exists. …”

“…Delving deeper than previous polemics and simplistic analyses, "The Closing of the Muslim Mind" provides the answers the West has so desperately needed in confronting the Islamist crisis…”
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“…In 1945, near the end of World War II, his family fled Silesia (in present-day Poland) for what would soon be Soviet-occupied East Germany, and then escaped again, this time to West Germany, in 1953. Polke grew up at a time when many Germans deflected blame for the atrocities of the Nazi period with the alibi, 'I didn?…”

“…In this uncertain and perilous time, Elsa--like so many of her neighbors--must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or leave it behind and go west, to California, in search of a better life for her family. …”

“…Alike in Russia and in the West, we are witnessing a veritable "Bulgakov renaissance" . . . this is the first comprehensive and systematic survey of his theology in English.' …”

“…In short, Peter Kingsley shows us not only who Carl Jung was but who we in the West are as well. Much more than a brilliant spiritual biography, Catafalque holds the key to understanding why our western culture is dying. …”

“…Aus dem Inhalt: Wie wir sehen: Blickwinkel, Fokus und Schärfe, Dynamikumfang, Bewegung und Zeit Wie wir wahrnehmen: Position im Rahmen, Skala, reale und implizite Linien, Ausdruck und Gestik, Helligkeit und Kontrast, Farbe Wie wir denken: Spiegelung, Konstruktion einer 3D-Welt, gedachte Beziehungen, innere Qualitäten, Umriss Mit den Werken von über 50 angesehenen Fotografen, den Meistern aus dem zwanzigsten Jahrhundert bis zu zeitgenössischen Wegbereitern: Paul Caponigro Martin Parr Pier Paolo Cito Hilla & Bernd Becher Jim Brandenburg Edward Weston James Casebere Kevin Lamarque Elliott Erwitt Matt Stuart George DeWolfe Pentti Sammallahti Garry Winogrand Steve McCurry Michael Crouser Bjarte Bjørkum David Burnett Dorothea Lange Raymond Meeks Ragnhild Kjetland Josef Koudelka Bruce Gilden Pixy Yijun Liao Elinor Carucci Chris Bucklow André Kertész J A Mortram Isadora Kosofsky Todd Heisler Alfred Eisenstaedt Tim Hetherington Damon Winter Martin Schoeller Stuart Franklin Über den Autor: Brian Dilg arbeitet seit Jahrzehnten als Fotograf, Kameramann, Autor und Dozent. …”

“…A més, subratlla l'herència del grotesc en l'obra juvenil de Dalí, i destaca la seua vitalitat i vigència transgressores a la dècada dels noranta, amb artistes contemporanis com ara Franz West, Paul Mc Carthy i Louise Bourgeois."…”
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“…During the 1950's and 60's, the institute supported diverse researches into the structure of matter and electron microscopy in a territorially insular and politically precarious West-Berlin. In subsequent decades, as both Berlin and the Max Planck Society underwent significant changes, the institute reorganized around a board of coequal scientific directors and a renewed focus on the investigation of elementary processes on surfaces and interfaces, topics of research that had been central to the work of Fritz Haber and the first "Golden Era" of the institute…”

“…Jahrhunderts; sie berücksichtigen neben West- und Mitteleuropa auch den östlichen Teil des Kontinents und verdeutlichen damit die räumlich-zeitlich-kulturelle Kontextabhängigkeit von Vergangenheitsdiskursen. …”

“…This book places contemporary pop-culture media - such as blockbuster movie The Dark Knight, Kim Kardashian West's social media feeds, and the outputs of online role-players in Second Life - in dialogue with a corpus of thirteenth-century Latin biographies, 'Holy Women of Liege'. …”

“…The work identifies the global conditions of sexual exploitation, from sex industrialization in developing countries to te normalization of prostitution in the West. The Prostitution of Sexuality considers sexual exploitation a political condition and thus the foundation of women's subordination and the base from which discrimination against women is constructed and enacted. …”

“…His themes are familiar—Thailand and the West, Thai nationalism, the Thai-Chinese, and women under patriarchy—but the angles of vision are original. …”

“…Billington, as they vied for control of Turner’s legacy; and analyzes the efforts of new western historians who seek to erase Turner and Billington from the landscape of what is now called the history of the “West.”Balanced in his assessments, Jacobs treats Turner and his disciples with a sympathetic yet critical eye. …”

“…They have included three case studies: the Nebraska Sand Hills, Northwestern Kansas, and West Texas. Kromm and White provide an introduction and conclusion to the volume…”