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Cover -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I: CONCEPTIONS AND PERCEPTIONS OF AGEING -- Introduction -- 1. How Old Is Old? -- The Ages of Man -- The Onset of Ageing -- Early-Onset Ageing -- Ageing and Gender -- 2. Longevity and Its Limits -- The Question of Longevity in Judaism and Islam -- Divine Providence or Human Agency? -- Length of Years from the Primordial Past to the Messianic Future -- 3. Ageing Body, Ageing Mind -- Coming to Terms with Old Age -- Indignities of Old Age -- Medieval Gerontology: From Elder Care to Preventative Care -- An Enduring Optimism -- Conclusion -- PART II: AGEING IN FAMILY AND COMMUNITY -- Introduction -- 4. Grandparents and the Multigenerational Home -- Elders and the Extended Family -- The Multigenerational Household -- Grandparents In Loco Parentis -- 5. Family Networks of Care -- Retirement and Financial Dependence -- Filial Duty and Familial Care -- Alternative Family Units: Remarriage in Old Age -- Dependence Revisited: Models of Care in Old Age -- 6. Community Support -- Between Family and Community: Filial Piety in the Breach -- Appeals for Aid -- Communal Welfare -- Help at Home -- Personal Care and the Communal Safety Net -- Conclusion -- PART III: IDEAS AND IDEALS OF OLD AGE -- Introduction -- 7. The Dignity of Age -- Learning to Act One's Age -- Ethics of Ageing -- The Undignified Elder: The Old Fool and Licentious Old Man -- Honouring Elders -- Between Dignity and Indignity -- 8. Facing Mortality: Towards a Hebrew Poetics of Ageing -- A Call to Consciousness -- If Not Now, When? -- Youthful Bodies, Old Souls -- The Reinvention of a Paradigm -- 9. The Sabbath of Life: Age and Wisdom in Medieval Jewish Thought -- Ageing and Wisdom: A New Paradigm -- Old Age and the Philosophical Ideal: Tracing the Tradition -- Applications of the New Paradigm.

"This book highlights Turkey's transformation from Atatürk to Erdoğan by providing a comprehensive insight on the indoctrination process of the dominant political ideologies through the history, religion, civics, and national security studies textbooks"--

This investigation of Polish, Jewish, and German sources demonstrates the roles of music in occupied Poland. Its former citizens had their access to music controlled by the Nazi Ministry of Propaganda. It was rationed as other goods, depending on racial (i.e. also legal) status. Official music performances served as a propagandistic tool to further divide the Nazi-segregated population. Music played clandestinely embodied resistance. It restored the sense of community and helped save musicians persecuted as Jews, like Władysław Szpilman. The documents analyzed in the monograph confirm the dehumanization of prospective victims, mixed with a narcissistic self-righteous view of Nazi songs and propaganda ultimately led to the organized presence of music in the Holocaust sites.

"'Figures That Speak' builds a critical analysis of a vocabulary of 'figures' in Turkish public discourse that structure public thought and define the possibilities of political action: religion, the minority, the founding father (Atatürk), the military, and Europe. This unique focus on processes of representation and their circulation in public culture gives readers a new perspective on the effects of the way that contemporary politicians, journalists, academics, and the public all speak about international politics"--

"A History of European Economic Thought grafts the history of economic thought onto Global History by showing how significant economic ideas have influenced the process of Europe's formation from the very beginning to the present day. This work joins together two classical stories that until today have followed parallel paths. On the one hand, the political history of Europe, which is often limited to a few fleeting references to the ideas of the great economists of the past, and, on the other hand, the history of economic thought, which looks at Europe as a whole, as a distinct supranational community, only with reference to the institutions created after World War II. The volume contributes to shedding light on the constitutive values of Europe, which also stem from a particular economic culture. It provides essential reading for students and scholars of the history of economic thought. Antonio Magliulo is Full Professor of History of Economic Thought at the University of International Studies of Rome, Italy"--