“…Post-War Laos is a set to be a landmark study, and an original contribution which refines established theories of nationalism, such as Anderson's 'imagined community', by addressing a common weakness: namely, their tendency to deny agency to individuals, who in fact interpret their relationship to, and place within, the nation in a variety of ways that may change according to time and circumstance…”

“…Para além da importante informação que reuniu sobre a Casa da Livraria, o que mais impressiona no belo texto que assina é justamente esse vínculo de intenso afeto a que poucos têm resistido."…”

“…Para além da importante informação que reuniu sobre a Casa da Livraria, o que mais impressiona no belo texto que assina é justamente esse vínculo de intenso afeto a que poucos têm resistido." …”

“…The content of this book reflects only the authors' view and the European Union Agency is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains. …”

“…Recently, these poems have also entered modern mass media and they are widely being exchanged as text messages by Cretans. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Are talents wisely spent? The case of student subsidies in Romanian Higher Education: Viorel Proteasa, Adrian Miroiu -- 9. …”

“…Firstly, from a study of analysts, auditors, legal experts and managers at the Swedish Tax Agency and how they, quite successfully, strive for legitimacy in their tax collecting activities in society. …”

“…L'intermédiation signifie tout à la fois transmission, passage, agence ou représentation. Ainsi, les élus ou les conseillers financiers, au sens large, peuvent être considérés comme des intermédiaires. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas / Colonial Encounters in Lucayan Contexts / Treating ‘Trifles’: the Indigenous Adoption of European Material Goods in Early Colonial Hispaniola (1492–1550) / Contact and Colonial Impact in Jamaica: Comparative Material Culture and Diet at Sevilla la Nueva and the Taíno Village of Maima / European Material Culture in Indigenous Sites in Northeastern Cuba / Breaking and Making Identities: Transformations of Ceramic Repertoires in Early Colonial Hispaniola / Rancherías: Historical Archaeology of Early Colonial Campsites on Margarita and Coche Islands, Venezuela / Santa María de la Antigua del Darién: the Aftermath of Colonial Settlement / Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in Early Colonial El Salvador / Hybrid Cultures: the Visibility of the European Invasion of Caribbean Honduras in the Sixteenth Century / Exotics for the Lords and Gods: Lowland Maya Consumption of European Goods along a Spanish Colonial Frontier / Resignification as Fourth Narrative: Power and the Colonial Religious Experience in Tula, Hidalgo / Indigenous Pottery Technology of Central Mexico during Early Colonial Times / War and Peace in the Sixteenth-Century Southwest: Objected-Oriented Approaches to Native-European Encounters and Trajectories / ‘Beyond the Falls’: Amerindian Stance towards New Encounters along the Wild Coast (ad 1595–1627) / Colonial Encounters in the Southern Lesser Antilles: Indigenous Resistance, Material Transformations, and Diversity in an Ever-Globalizing World / Situating Colonial Interaction and Materials: Scale, Context, Theory / Back Matter -- Index…”

“…La chanson contemporaine, l'agencement des jardins ou bien les jeux de rôles, ces univers actuels nous proposent un jeu de miroir avec l'époque médiévale. …”

“…The parallel development of the monoclonal antibody trastuzumab (Herceptin®, Roche/Genentech) and the immunohistochemistry assay for HER2 protein overexpression (HercepTestTM, Dako) seems to have served as an inspiration to a number of stakeholders such as pharma and diagnostic companies, regulatory agencies, and academia. In recent years we have seen an increasing number of oncology drug development projects that have taken advantage of the drug-diagnostic co-development model, as outline below. …”

“…Ingrid Chorus headed the department for Drinking-Water and Swimming-Pool Hygiene at the German Environment Agency. Martin Welker is a limnologist and microbiologist, currently with bioMérieux in Lyon, France…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Petersburg, Russia / The Paradoxes and Contradictions of Prostitution in Paris / Prostitution in Stockholm: Continuity and Change / Africa and the Middle East -- Prostitution in Cairo / Colonial and Post-Colonial Casablanca / Selling Sex in Istanbul / Sexualizing the City: Female Prostitution in Nigeria’s Urban Centres in a Historical Perspective / Sex Work and Migration: The Case of Tel Aviv and Jaffa, 1918–2010 / The Americas -- A Social History of Prostitution in Buenos Aires / Prostitution in the us: Chicago / Prostitution in Havana / Facing a Double Standard: Prostitution in Mexico City, 1521–2006 / The Future of an Institution from the Past: Accommodating Regulationism in Potosí (Bolivia) from the Nineteenth to Twenty-first Centuries / Sex Work in Rio de Janeiro: Police Management without Regulation / Section 4Asia-Pacific -- Commercial Sex Work in Calcutta: Past and Present / Prostitution in Colonial Hanoi (1885–1954) / Prostitution in Shanghai / Selling Sex in Singapore: The Development, Expansion, and Policing of Prostitution in an International Entrepôt / Prostitution in Sydney and Perth since 1788 / Thematic Overviews -- “We Use our Bodies to Work Hard, So We Need to Get Legitimate Workers’ Rights”*: Labour Relations in Prostitution, 1600–2010 / Working and Living Conditions / Migration and Prostitution1 / Prostitution and Colonial Relations / Seeing Beyond Prostitution: Agency and the Organization of Sex Work / Coercion and Voluntarism in Sex Work / A Gender Analysis of Global Sex Work / The Social Profiles of Prostitutes / Conclusion -- Sex Sold in World Cities, 1600s–2000s: Some Conclusions to the Project…”

“…Presenting a fresh perspective on the agency and power of the thing and cognate types of local and regional assembly, this interdisciplinary volume provides an invaluable, in-depth insight into the people, places, laws, and consensual structures that shaped the early medieval and medieval kingdoms of northern Europe…”

“…The sources for these statistics originate primarily, but not exclusively, from federal and State of Texas agencies, boards, bureaus, commissions, and departments. …”

“…What is the role for international organisations like NATO or for substate actors like intelligence agencies? How do they adapt to the realities of cyberspace and digital conflict? …”

“…She was in many ways a Realist, but one for whom agency, in terms of ideas (the beliefs and perceptions of policy-makers) and institutions (including conventions and norms of behaviour), essentially determined events. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Access to Social Protection by Immigrants, Emigrants and Resident Nationals in China: Alex Jingwei He -- 5. Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection for Chinese Citizens Abroad: Elena Barabantseva, Tao Wang -- 6. …”

“…En réception, la pertinence de l'ordre des mots tient moins au critère traditionnel de l'écart à la norme, qu'au caractère signifiant en contexte d'agencements verbaux manifestant une visée esthétique, voire idéologique…”

“…This open access book is an outcome of the collaboration between the Soil and Water Management & Crop Nutrition Section, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria, and the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), Dubai, UAE. …”