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This book includes studies of main conflict areas in modern Western societies where religion has been a central element, ranging from popular movements and narratives of opposition to challenges of religious satire and anti-clerical critique. Special attention is given to matters of politics and gender.

En esta obra se expone un programa básico sobre la observación, la enseñanza y la representación del conocimiento geográfico. Un curso de Geografía promovido por Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, principal representante de la Ilustración española, para quien la Geografía era una ciencia útil (para la economía y la política) y una ciencia necesaria (para la vida).

State intervention in economic activities to drive development requires specificinstitutional prerequisites that maintain strategic collaboration between thestate and businesses.

The book examines the early modern debates on just war, transatlantic conquest and slavery, the 18th- and 19th-century shift towards natural science, and contemporary philosophy on decolonization. Political circumstance and exploiting available terminology produced new meanings or "translations" which increasingly developed a momentum of their own.

Based on the empirical analysis of a wide range of communicative situations, the book shows how phonetic, pragmatic, textual, and interactional perspectives can help to better understand how prosodic features and communicative settings are interrelated.

The object of the present study is the analysis of how the media presented the information when the Securitate files were exposed. To illustrate the extent to which the reports were made objectively, or manipulated public opinion, the author chose to analyze one of the most controversial cases, that of Mona Musca.

The book deals with the concept of the person present in the personalism of Karol Wojtyla. It advances some main topics necessary to understand the theory of the person developed within European continental philosophy, especially in a specific connection of Thomism and phenomenology.

The book discusses the political dramas of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard regarding their employment of the two critical terms used in its title. It provides a new look at the output of the artists in reference to the employment of the grotesque, justifying their classification together with the East European absurdist playwrights.

The monograph demonstrates that the books of Samuel-Kings are a result of highly creative reworking of Deuteronomy. This reworking consists of almost 2000 strictly sequentially organized, conceptual, and at times, also linguistic correspondences between Samuel-Kings and Deuteronomy. They explain numerous surprising features of Samuel-Kings.

Reformulation studies offer a recent debate on reformulation and its semasiological-onomasiological treatment.

The book will contribute to the development of health sciences and the quality of patient care, with a total of 14 scientific original research articles of which eight are on physiotherapy and rehabilitation, five on nursing, and one on health management.

The prospective release addresses the relation between faith and reason. Whereas faith goes with organised religion (the church with ist dogmas), reason goes with philosohy in the first place. In my undestanding, history is inventively illustrated in so far it is treated as a field where faith and reason contest one another.