“…David Webb reveals the extent to which Foucault's approach to language in The Archaeology of Knowledge was influenced by the mathematical sciences, adopting a mode of thought indebted to thinkers in the scientific and epistemological traditions such as Cavailles and Serres. …”

“…Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and for the future. …”

“…In contrast to previous work on race and adoption markets that focus on the experiences of adoptive parents, Raleigh's project focuses on adoption workers--social workers, attorneys, and counselors. Taking a market approach that treats adoptive parents as consumers and children as commodities, Raleigh brings together interviews with adoption practitioners, participant observation at adoption information sessions, and adoption statistics in order to demonstrate how the downturn in supply of "adoptable honorary white children" (which she defines as Asian and hispanic children) led to the increased popularity of the transracial adoption of foreign-born and biracial black children…”

“…Vague assumptions about the state of the food sector, paired with a strong political will to apply initiatives, is reason enough to look closer at the situation. …”

“…Inspirada en la leyenda faústica de un monje portugués, frey Gil de Santarem (llamado también Egidio), relata que éste, harto de la vida ascética, se entregó a una frenética existencia licenciosa y, para dominar los secretos de la nigromancia, hizo un pacto con el Diablo, vendiéndole su alma…”

“…In the critical literature on Georg Büchner this monograph represents the first organic work devoted to the subject of the body - a pivotal issue for an understanding of his writings. …”

“…A forum for research in neurosciences, psychology, robotics, control science and computer science by integrating cognitive theoretical models and physical systems across different disciplines. …”

“…New research is an important element of these recent debates: a historical approach that contextualizes inequality with reference to social relations, institutions, access to power and its cultural legitimacy can facilitate the understanding of the mechanisms that lead to inequality and its effects…”

“…The first part of the volume shows a detailed and fascinating descriptions of the history of this museum section's collections, the contribution of scholars who from the 17th century endeavoured to expand and study the Florentine geological-paleontological collections, and the importance of the collections to the development of modern geological-paleontological thinking. …”

“…The book provides an answer to this question through an investigation of the decisional processes of around a hundred "local collective assets" in six large metropolitan cities. …”

“…The apparent heterogeneity of the many articles, speeches and interviews, which cover approximately thirty years, reveals a number of lasting threads and some milestones which remained to be discovered. …”

“…The work constitutes chapters derived from different perspectives on the topic of digital terrestrial television, composing a prismatic overview of several aspects that are part of innovation from the already existing platforms and the implementation problem, covering topics that are different components of the implementation and maintenance of the new system - authors in technological society, cultural diversity and information policy, education and participation through interactivity, production of audio-visual content, regulation and education policies, mobility and democracy, business models, the viability of interactivity, scenarios and challenges for broadcasters public institutions, implantation in Brazil and Spain, convergence with educational institutions, management of narrative content, digital democracy, the implantation in Pará and the performance of broadcasters in each state, the transition from analogue to digital signal, the media repercussion on the implantation and the controversies and misinformation about the "digital blackout"…”

“…The book demonstrates that both works portray the complexity of Latin American societies, symbolized in an emblematic rural space that expresses, in a poetic perspective and without documentary character, several facets of reality…”

“…Por sua vez, as contribuições neoclássicas, embora levando em conta a questão crucial da inovação, reduziram-na ao problema genérico da substituição de fatores. …”

“…Fatos novos e relevantes tiveram lugar na conjuntura ecopolítica internacional no último ano, e seria impossível manter esta obra sempre atualizada. Ao mesmo tempo a discussão apresentada aqui tem um certo caráter atemporal, pois trata da ordem internacional das mudanças climáticas de uma forma ampla e estrutural."…”