“…One of the thousands of men erecting the building high above the city is Michael Briody, an Irish immigrant torn between his desire to make a new life in America and his pledge to gather money and arms for the Irish republican cause. …”

“…A devout believer who ensured the survival of Christianity in the West, he considered himself above the Church, sired numerous bastard children, and generated accusations of incest. …”
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“…This book is unique in providing a global overview of alpine (high mountain) habitats that occur above the natural (cold-limited) tree line, describing the factors that have shaped them over both ecological and evolutionary timescales. …”

“…Professor Enfield argues that in order to understand this process, we first need to understand the ways in which linguistic meaning is layered, multiple, anthropocentric, cultural, distributed, and above all, useful. This wide-ranging account brings together several key strands of research across disciplines including semantics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, and sociology of language, and provides a rich account of what linguistic meaning is like and why…”
Sumario

“…It proved to be particularly useful and appropriate to the early modern militaristic states; for, on the basis of the still generally accepted humanistic values of classical antiquity, it promoted a strong central power in the state, raised above the conflicting doctrines of the theologians. …”

“…Written in an easily accessible style, the book uses a question and answer format to examine the history of atheism, arguments for and against atheism, the relationship between religion and science, and the issue of the meaning of life-and whether or not one can be a happy and satisfied atheist. Above all, the author stresses that the atheism controversy is not just a matter of the facts, but a matter of burning moral concern, both about the stand one should take on the issues and the consequences of one's commitment…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- Dejan Djokic and James Ker-Lindsay -- Yugoslavism in the early twentieth century : the politics of the Yugoslav committee / Connie Robinson -- The Great War and the Yugoslav grassroots : popular mobilisation in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914-18 / Mark Cornwall -- Forging a United Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes : the legacy of the First World War and the "invalid question" / John Paul Newman -- National mobilisation in the 1930s : the emergence of the "Serb question" in the kingdom of Yugoslavia / Dejan Djokic -- Ethnic violence in occupied Yugoslavia : mass killing from above and below / Tomislav Dulic -- Yugoslavia in exile : the London-based wartime government, 1941-45 / Stevan K. …”

“…Commemoration of the dead was also a fundamental Christian activity. Above all, the past - and the memory of it - occupied a central position in medieval thinking, from ideas concerning the family unit to those shaping political institutions. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The rationale for post-conflict reconstruction processesContextualising symbiotic coordination and post-conflict reconstruction initiatives; The AU PCRD policy framework: an appeal to coordination; The AU's attempt at post-conflict peacebuilding in Burundi; The case for symbiotic coordination in AU PCRD policy implementation; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Building Capacity from Above and Below: Why Gender Matters in the Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Contexts; Introduction; Fuelling gender inequality from above; Mitigating the effects of gender inequality…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Mary's University, London -- Christianity and Bankruptcy / David Skeel, University of Pennsylvania -- Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health "patents, access to health technologies, and Christianity" / Margo A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The history of whom? History from above: "Great men" and a few women ; Social history and quantification ; E. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Smith -- The Future of Meaningfulness in Work, Organizations, and Systems / Ruth Yeoman -- Work and Human Nature in Hegel and Marx / Sean Sayers -- Leisure and Respect for Working People / Andrea Veltman -- Contesting the Work-Spend Cycle; The Liberal Egalitarian Case against Consumerism / Samuel Arnold -- No Masters Above: Testing Five Arguments for Self-Employment / Iñigo González-Ricoy and Jahel Queralt -- Automation, Basic Income, and Merit / Katharina Nieswandt -- Marginal Liberalism / Lucas Stanczyk -- Workplace Democracy and Republican Freedom / Keith Breen and Onni Hirvonen -- Democratizing Workplaces from Below: Beyond Workplace Republicanism / Jean-Philippe Deranty and Emmanuel Renault -- A Just Transition to a Sustainable Economy: Green Political Economy, Labour Republicanism, and the Liberation from Economic Growth / John Barry -- Democratic Work: Grounds, Models, and Implications / Alexis Cukier -- Proletarian Democracy: What Can We Learn from the Soviet Experience? …”

Acceso restringido usuarios UPSA

“…From the Ivy League to community colleges, she introduces us to innovators who are remaking college for our own time, by emphasizing student-centered learning that values creativity in the face of change above all. The New Education ultimately shows how we can teach students not only to survive but to thrive amid the challenges to come…”

“…A development in which, that is, it is not only the economic results that have bearing, but above all the way in which they are obtained and exploited. …”

“…It is, therefore, to understand not only how the resistance to the dictatorship is represented, but, above all, how this past is reconstructed in the various ways in which it can be materialized by the feminist perspective, considering that it works with fundamental elements in the struggle around memory and the recognition of forgotten stories. …”

“…In doing so, she also studies Assyriological and historical method, both now and over the past two centuries, asking how the field has shaped and been shaped by the academic concerns and fashions of the day. Above all, Ancient Knowledge Networks is an experiment in writing about ‘Mesopotamian science’, as it has often been known, using geographical and social approaches to bring new insights into the intellectual history of the world’s first empires…”

“…"The proposed project on machine translation will be based on the above pedagogy, through the study of phenomena, formalization, and then elucidation of the techniques. …”

“…The share of disability pensions granted due to mental disorders is high and while the rates of suicide have decreased in recent years, they are still above the OECD average. Consequently, tackling mental ill health is a government priority for Finland. …”

“…Access to CET is associated with workers’ characteristics and literacy level Over and above international differences in training participation – with the Nordic countries showing the highest participation rates – access to CET appears to be consistently unequal across socioeconomic groups. …”