“…From Norman Conquest to Magna Carta is a wide-ranging history of England from 1066 to 1215. …”

“…Dominique Moïsi, an authority on international affairs, argues that our post-9/11 world has become divided by more than cultural fault lines. …”

“…They call for our water supply to be saved from subordination to the whims of the multinationals and placed under direct democratic public control. …”

“…"Representing Enslavement and Abolition on Museums"- which uniquely draws together contributions from academic commentators, museum professionals, community activists and artists who had an involvement with the bicentenary - reflects on the complexity and difficulty of museums' experiences in presenting and interpreting the histories of slavery and abolition, and places these experiences in the broader context of debates over the bicentenary's significance and the lessons to be learnt from it. …”

“…Writ large, Curriculum Studies pertains to what human beings should know, need, experience, do, be, become, overcome, contribute, share, wonder, imagine, invent, and improve. …”

“…Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has now become a feature of education in Europe from primary school to university level. …”

“…He brings us inside cramped communal apartments, where minor squabbles could lead to fatal denunciations; he examines the Communist faithful, who often rationalized even their own arrests; and he casts a humanizing light on informers, demonstrating how, in a repressive system, anyone could easily become a collaborator…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…From order to disorder -- An anthropologist visits the laboratory -- Photograph file -- The construction of a fact: the case of TRF(H) -- The microprocessing of facts -- Cycles of credit -- The creation of order out of disorder -- Postscript to the second edition (1986)…”

“…At the same time, questions of identity have in many ways become more challenging than before. Narrative, Identity, and the Map of Cultural Policy: Once Upon a Time in a Globalized World explores how and why stories and identities sometimes merge and often clash in an arena in which culture and policy may not be able to resolve every difficulty. …”

“… Digitization and Web 2.0 have brought about continuous change from traditional media management to new strategic, operative and normative management options. …”

“…Carnap's ideal of explication has become a key concept in analytic philosophy and the basis of a method of analysis which may be considered as an alternative to various forms of naturalism, including Quine's conception of a naturalized epistemology. …”

“…In particular, the author identifies that motifs of homo peccati, mysterium facinoris, and discessio drawn from 2 Thess. 2:3 and 2:7 become Tyconius' »world-constructing verses« in his understanding of Scripture, and of the bipartition in the church's reality, in human nature, and in eschatological temporality. …”

“…But can constitutionalism become truly global? Relying on historical examples of successfully implanted constitutional regimes, ranging from the older experiences in the United States and France to the relatively recent ones in Germany, Spain and South Africa, Michel Rosenfeld sheds light on the range of conditions necessary for the emergence, continuity and adaptability of a viable constitutional identity - citizenship, nationalism, multiculturalism, and human rights being important elements. …”

“…Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. …”

“…Usually related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines. …”
Sumario

“…The winsome combination is sure to keep readers from taking themselves too seriousl--which is already a first step on the path to humility."…”

“…From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. …”

“…So when the experiments of Cliff Bannaker, a young postdoc in a rut, begin to work, the entire lab becomes giddy with newfound expectations. But Cliff’s rigorous colleagueand girlfriendRobin Decker suspects the unthinkable: that his findings are fraudulent. …”
Acceso a las primeras páginas

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Household economies and economic development in early modern England -- Probate inventories -- Household production -- By-employment, women's work and 'unproductive' households -- The material culture of consumption -- Rooms and room-use -- Wealth, occupation, status and location…”
Sumario

“…In 1949, Germany incorporated the concept of human dignity in its Basic law, placing it at the core of the constitutional document and this reference has probably become the most influential national constitutional reference to human dignity. …”