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Citizens participation at the local level in Europe and Neighbouring Countries
Contribution of the Association of Local Democracy Agencies
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
ALDA – The Association of Local Democracy Agencies – is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of good governance and citizen participation at the local level. It is made up of over 160 members comprising local authorities and civil society organisations in the enlarged Europe.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The essays in this book are focused on the production and the use of textbooks in different countries and different periods of European history. By indicating some particularly important moments in the evolution of textbooks, they allow a better understanding of the educational history and of some...
Forme(s) et modes dêtre / Form(s) and Modes of Being
Lontologie de Roman Ingarden / The Ontology of Roman Ingarden
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Le présent ouvrage est un recueil d’articles de chercheurs internationaux sur l’apport à l’ontologie du phénoménologue polonais Roman Ingarden. Il contient des contributions sur des thèmes aussi divers que la dépendance existentielle, les catégories ontologiques, les modes d’être,...
«Succeed Here and in Eternity»
The Prosperity Gospel in Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This book presents a qualitative study of the «Gospel of Prosperity» preached by the Charismatic and Neo-Pentecostal churches in Ghana, with a particular focus on its soteriological significance. The author explores the concept of the Gospel of Prosperity from a number of different angles, surveying...
The Leaving of Ireland
Migration and Belonging in Irish Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The Leaving of Ireland brings together an international group of scholars to reflect critically on the unfolding nature of the experience of Irish cultural identity at a time when Ireland is struggling to adjust to the shattering impacts of globalization and religious scandals of recent decades. Looking...
A Global History of Historical Demography
Half a Century of Interdisciplinarity
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
At the XXIst World Congress of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS/CISH) in 2010 in Amsterdam, the International Commission for Historical Demography (ICHD) decided to write an overview of its own history. Fifty years had gone by since the CISH XIst World Congress in Stockholm...
by Mary McCaughey
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
This book adds new impetus to ecumenical theology by focusing on embodied faith or the contextual interpretation of Revelation. It does so through an exploration of the insights of Lewis S. Mudge and Joseph Ratzinger. Mudge advocates catholicity as a hermeneutic which embraces the contextuality of...
Experts and Expertise in Science and Technology in Europe since the 1960s
Organized civil Society, Democracy and Political Decision-making
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Do the politicians actually take decisions, or rather the experts do it in their place? In other words, it is a matter of understanding whether the political stakeholders/representatives simply approve the final stage of a decision procedure led by the experts they have delegated, since they lack...
Sometimes Speaking with a Single Voice
The European Community as an International Actor, 19691979
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
In the late 1960s, the European Community was a loose association of countries focusing on economic matters. By the late 1970s, it had become a real international actor: member states had started to coordinate their foreign policies, the EC had joined the United Nations and the G7, and it had established...
Basque Nationhood
Towards a Democratic Scenario
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Debates about Basque self-determination were curtailed for decades by political violence, involving both the actions of ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna) and the counter-terrorism activities of Spain and France. In 2011, ETA announced a permanent cessation of operations. Since then, stakeholders have become...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
In the framework of the so-called Barcelona process, the European Union concluded several bilateral agreements with Morocco aimed to deepen their economic integration. The 2000 Association agreement European Union–Morocco is the general legal framework for the development of relationships among...
Relational Ministry
Integrating Ministry and Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Historically, the relationship between religion and psychotherapy has been more negative than positive. Are there inherent contradictions between the two, or can advances in the area of mental health care offer insights that are useful for the work of those in ordained ministry? This book presents...
Cinema at the Shore
The Beach in French Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
From Brigitte Bardot in her bikini at the Cannes Film Festival, to François Ozon’s intimate portrayals of grief and loss, some of the most iconic and challenging moments in French cinema are associated with the beach. Cinema at the Shore argues that the Parisian cityscape is not the only significant...
René Marans «Batouala»
Jazz-Text
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
The polemic excited by Batouala’s controversial Preface has conditioned an enduring, near-universal acceptance of a disjunction of Preface and novel. This is the first book to challenge that premise. The fallacious underpinnings of the origin persistence of this view are shown to lie in Western,...