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"This work puts a particular emphasis on the mixing and osmosis of the first Mediterranean civilizations, with particular reference to the Minoan, Cycladic, Mycenaean, and Trojan, and on the causes of their decline, which are to be identified in a jumble of natural and human causes, and in a long-lasting, slow, but irreversible crisis. It takes into account that the Mediterranean Dimension of the Bronze Age is a garden in which many legends flourished, clearly distinguishing between myth and history, and always bearing in mind that legends are not to be taken literally (nonetheless, they often have a grain of truth). It does not aim to provide an exhaustive report but to compose a broad and evolutionary picture, in which the facts and their connections, which are deducible from archaeological evidence or from the accounts of ancient historians, find their place, in their consequentiality. Its originality lies not in the choice of the subject, but in the way of treating it. The author introduces and explains, in order to be read, and perhaps to get excited. Another characterizing element of Knossos, Mycenae, Troy is the wide use of the 'historical present' that is made there to represent events and construct the text, to reduce the reader's distance from the narrated events, and facilitates their approach to them. This book aims to provide the reader with an overall picture of the cultures that laid the foundations of Western civilization, which is not generic, but rather detailed and updated, and which has scientific solidity"--

Chapter 1. Widening Gyre in the "New Near East": Alliances in the Western Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean -- Chapter 2. EU Enlargement and Regional Geopolitics of the Western Balkans -- Chapter 3. Autocratic Powers, the Balkans and Democratic Decline -- Chapter 4. "Italy, the Balkans and the East Mediterranean: Regional NATO-E.U. Integration" -- Chapter 5. Turkey and the Western Balkans -- Chapter 6. Active or reactive? Greek foreign policy in East Mediterranean and Southeast Europe -- Chapter 7. An Analysis of Albanian Foreign Relations and Foreign Policy Interests -- Chapter 8. The Eastern Mediterranean, Africa and Libya After Qaddafi: Conflict, Terrorism, & Migration -- Chapter 9. Energy and Regional Geopolitics in the Western Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean -- Chapter 10. The Western Balkans and the Geopolitics of Populations -- Chapter 11. Western Balkans and environmental issues -- Conclusion.

"Widely known as the "poor man's lawyer" in antebellum Boston, John Albion Andrew (1818-1867) was involved in nearly every cause and case that advanced social and racial justice in Boston in the years preceding the Civil War. Inspired by the legacies of John Quincy Adams and Ralph Waldo Emerson, and mentored by Charles Sumner, Andrew devoted himself to the battle for equality. By day, he fought to protect those condemned to the death penalty, women seeking divorce, and fugitives ensnared by the Fugitive Slave Law. By night, he coordinated logistics and funding for the Underground Railroad as it ferried enslaved African Americans northward. In this revealing and accessible biography, Stephen D. Engle traces Andrew's life and legacy, giving this important, but largely forgotten, figure his due. Rising to national prominence during the Civil War years as the governor of Massachusetts, Andrew raised the African American regiment known as the Glorious 54th and rallied thousands of soldiers to the Union cause. Upon his sudden death in 1867, a correspondent for Harper's Weekly wrote, "Not since the news came of Abraham Lincoln's death were so many hearts truly smitten.""--

Chapter 1: Introduction: China's National Self, President Xi Jinping, and the Realization of the Chinese Dream -- Chapter 2: Anti-corruption Forever: Discipline and Loyalty -- Chapter 3: Loyalty Toward State and Nation: Top-level design and "Moral Careers" -- Chapter 4: Loyalty to the Nation: Lunar and Martian exploration for Lasting Greatness -- Chapter 5: Post-Zero-Covid Policy: Limits to Loyalty on the Horizon?

1 Introducing a Layered Global Player -- Part I: Legal Dynamics in the Outer Layer: 2 The Common Foreign and Security Policy -- 3 The Common Security and Defence Policy -- Part II: Legal Dynamics of the Middle Layers: 4 The Common Commercial Policy -- 5 The External Environmental Policy -- 6 The External Human Rights Policy -- 7 The Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid Policy -- Part III: Legal Dynamics in the Inner Layer: 8 Special Relationships in the European Neighbourhood and Beyond -- 9 The EU, the Member States and International Law -- 10 Conclusion: An Effective Global Player?. .

Russia has been unscrupulously adorning its own history with other nations' victories and achievements, robbing Ukrainians of their past. This stance was always supported by Ukrainian men and women of letters who undermined imperial pretenses and affirmed their own cultural identity.Vira Ageyeva analyses the Ukrainian resistance and struggle for preservation of their collective memory through the prism of cultural process. The book reveals betrayals and collaborations, peculiarities of the development of colonized peoples under the pressure of empires, the tragedy of authors who must either renounce their talent, or keep creating in the lack of freedom. Ageyeva covers the period from the 19th century up to now (Mykola Gogol, Hryhoriy Kvitka-Osnovyanenko, Lesya Ukrainka, Viktor Domontovych, Yuri and Sophia Andrukhovych, and others) and traces how authors either resisted the suppression of Ukrainian history, or why they took a different position, why they chose the empire, and what price they had to pay for that

Part I. Footsteps of Time Pursuit: Survey Methods and General Situation -- Chapter 1. Survey Methods -- Chapter 2. Overview of Time Use -- Part II. Busy Chinese People: Balance Between Work and Family -- Chapter 1. Office workers in a hurry -- Chapter 2. Gender Differences in Unpaid Labour -- Chapter 3. The "Backing home" Women -- Chapter 4. Time Use of Disadvantaged Group -- Part III. Winning at the Starting Line: Education and Development in China -- Chapter 1. Equity in Education from the Perspective of Time Utilization of School-age Children -- Chapter 2. Equity in Education from the Perspective of Family Child Care Time Input -- Chapter 3. Are children lack of sleeping? -- Chapter 4. "Happy" College Students Part IV. After Work: The Pursuit of Quality of Life -- Chapter 1. Social Differences in Leisure Societies -- Chapter 2. Are Chinese Elders Happy -- Chapter 3. Chinese-style Couples -- Chapter 4. The Impact of Mobile Phone Use on Residents Time Utilization.