“…The book's overall aim is to supplant William Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity as an account of how we do and should read literature…”

“…What do actors accomplish when they play characters on stage? …”

“…What other equivalences follow in turn, and where do their surprising historical, cultural, and mechanical connections lead? …”

“…People – individuals, groups and societies – can and do have different goals and aspirations. Is it possible to imagine and implement a world in which a level of comfort and stability is available for even the poorest members of societies? …”

“…This book explains basic physiologic and pathophysiologic mechanisms of cardiovascular disease in a straightforward manner, gives guidelines as to when referral is appropriate, and, uniquely, explains what the specialist is likely to do. It is ideal for any hospital doctor, generalist, or even senior medical student who may need a cardiology opinion, or for that ma…”

“…Evidence suggests that women who have been subjected to violence seek health care more often than non-abused women, even if they do not disclose the associated violence. They also identify health-care providers as the professionals they would most trust with disclosure of abuse. …”

“…As the availability of genetic tests increases so do concerns about the achievement of meaningful improvements in clinical outcomes, costs of testing, and the potential for accentuating medical care inequality. …”

“…In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does—and how that affects every aspect of life. …”

“…It argues that some academic, bureaucratic, and corporate university governance practices are both unsustainable and undermining what some university students and faculty already do well: circulate interdisciplinary knowledge and its making globally across the diasporic domains of academia, society, industry, and government while addressing the world's immediate challenges: power, inequities, and sustainability. …”

“…Why are some people more successful in business? Why do some businesses flourish where others fail? In this text, the author draws on his experience to present set universal laws that lie behind the success of business people everywhere, in every kind of enterprise, large and small…”

“…Inside Network Perimeter Security, Second Edition is your guide to preventing network intrusions and defending against any intrusions that do manage to slip through your perimeter. This acclaimed resource has been updated to reflect changes in the security landscape, both in terms of vulnerabilities and defensive tools. …”

“…However, many practicing mathematicians and physicists will get their intuition geometrically first and do the algebra later. Make:Calculus imagines how Newton might have used 3D printed models, construction toys, programming, craft materials, and an Arduino or two to teach calculus concepts in an intuitive way. …”

“…Create your own custom projects with Raspberry Pi and Arduino About This Video Use Raspberry Pi as the "brain" and Arduino as the "muscles" of your application Practice with nine activities and one big final project Develop an engineering mindset when solving problems In Detail Working only with Raspberry Pi, or only with Arduino, is already nice: you can do a lot of projects. But sometimes, this is not enough. …”

“…"Simple tasks like running a program or storing and retrieving data become much more complicated when you do them on collections of computers, rather than single machines. …”

“…The book argues that these interpretative strategies, even when combined together, do not produce a plausible interpretation of the texts adduced…”

“…There are many fascinating results that do not appear in textbooks although they are accessible with a good knowledge of secondary-school mathematics. …”

“…Do Americans live in a liberal capitalist society, where evenhanded competition rules the day, or a society in which big money, private security, and personal relations determine key social outcomes? …”

“…""As policy makers around the world grapple with how to configure their intellectual property policies to promote innovation and economic growth, as well as public access to the fruits of intellectual labour, they would do themselves a huge favour by reading Lea Shaver's excellent book."" …”

“…But, to take the fullest advantage of the power, speed, and flexibility of the cloud, your organization needs to do more than simply drag and drop its legacy on-premises applications. …”