“…This book won't help you push your deadline back, but it will help you get the job done in less time. Above all, Ruby in Practice is a practical book for developers who want an in depth understanding of the Ruby language and its toolset. …”

“…When it comes to refined service and exquisite hospitality, one name stands high above the rest: The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. With ceaseless attention to every luxurious detail, the company has set the bar for creating memorable customer experiences in world-class settings. …”

“…Elevate your brand, rise above the crowd, and build tribe In Follow the Feeling , strategy advisor Kai D. …”

“…This book studies the issue of the dialogue set up with the young readers which evolved through a series of innovative initiatives, but was nourished above all by the post column run by the editor Dina Rinaldi. …”

“…In the political and public as well as media debates of the European Union, the recourse to (above all "European" and also "Christian") values has played a central and controversial role in the field of politics and religion for several decades. …”

“…Arguable too are the origins of altruism: biology, psychology, culture, all of the above? Researchers have been exploring all three in intriguing lines of inquiry. …”

“…The themes are philosophical, but above all, they touch on questions that are essential for how we understand ourselves as thinking and playing bodies, indeed as parts of nature. …”

“…All have maintained poverty, inequality and created scepticism amongst both lay persons and academics. Above all else a renewed yearning for moral and ethical direction in political and economic conduct has been created. …”

“…The rhetorical criticism Phelan advocates and employs seeks, above all, to attend carefully to the multiple demands of reading sophisticated narrative; for that reason, his rhetorical theory moves less toward predictions about the relationships between techniques, ethics, and ideologies and more toward developing some principles and concepts that allow us to recognize the complex diversity of narrative art. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…English as a "Celtic" language: Atlantic influences from above and from below -- 3. Amsel und Merula -- 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Pedagogy of 'Normalization' and Cultural Elites -- 2 'Standardizing' from Above: Experts, Intellectuals, and Culture Bubble -- 2.1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Embracing Client-Centric Innovation -- Redefining the Buying Experience -- Breaking Norms and Slaying Sacred Cows -- Part 4: Understand Humanity -- 11 A Theoretical Grounding -- The Need for a Theoretical Framework -- Unpacking the Frameworks -- A Bridge to the Practical -- 12 The Real World -- Reconnecting and Sensing -- Zooming Out to the Stark Plight of Humanity -- Seeking to Understand -- 13 Rise with AI -- IkigAI -- Rising above the Noise -- A Call to Action -- 14 Conclusion -- Part 1: Master Your Own Agency -- Part 2: Master AI -- Part 3: Develop Care -- Part 4: Understand Humanity -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Evagrius -- The character of Evagrius' writings -- Gregory -- Origins of basilian monasticism -- Messalianism : Gregory and pseudo-macarius -- Christian upheavals -- Background to the upheavals of the 3rd and 4th centuries : arianism, origenism, hellenism, and platonism -- Mind, soul, body : an overview of Evagrius' and Gregory's thought -- Opening up the question : ancient terms, contemporary problems -- Critical context : Evagrius and Gregory -- The meaning and scope of impassibility or purity of heart in Evagrius and Gregory -- Apatheia : the broader background -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Evagrius and Gregory : from stillness to purity of heart -- Gregory and Plotinus -- Degrees of impassibility and purity of heart -- The expansion of the tripartite soul -- Uncovering the origins and structure of the 7 deadly sins tradition : Evagrius and the 8 reasonings -- The 8 reasonings -- Noêmata (representations or concepts) -- Thought not based on intellect -- Noêmata and demons -- At the origins of the deadly sins tradition : the strange structure of matter and thought -- Evagrius and republic 8-9 -- A new reading of the Logismoi -- Platonic tripartition-aristotelian bipartition : the republic in Evagrius and Gregory -- Demonic suggestion -- Evagrius' demonology : classification, demonic action, and cognitive psychology -- Classification of demons and the spiritual life -- Gregory and the fall of intellect -- Plotinus and the fall of intellect in matter -- Evil : Gregory and Plotinus/Iamblichus -- Body into mind : the scientific eye in Evagrius -- Reading the body : the problem of the intelligible body -- Body-conception and self-knowledge -- Body, soul, and scientific cognition -- Mind/soul-body : the classic desert formulation -- Transmigration and Evagrius' extended world -- The spiritual senses : transformation from above -- Is Evagrius' metaphysics monistic? -- Gregory's anthropology : Trinity, humanity, and body-soul formation -- Introduction : the problems -- Trinitarian thought -- Humanity -- Gender and the unity of humanity -- Substance and passion -- Whole-formation -- Intelligible body-soul -- Medicine and bodily structure -- The resurrection-body : continuity, identity and transformation -- The human in the divine : the dialogical expansion of mind and heart in Evagrius -- Reintegration -- Gnostikos : the gnostic life -- Theology and prayer -- Experience of prayer -- Pathways into infinity : Gregory of Nyssa and the mystical life -- Individuals -- Individual and substance : human beings and the Trinity -- Substance : persons and community -- Pathways : divine/human being-with -- Mystical theology : kataphatic and apophatic on the pathway into being -- Identity and continuity : heart, thought, and mind -- The role of faith -- Unity, aloneness, self-identity, and form -- Testing the boundaries of language -- Conclusion: Neither boundary nor distance…”

“…Contested Governance in Japan extends the analysis of governance in contemporary Japan by exploring both the sites and issues of governance above and below the state as well as within it. This volume discusses the contested nature of governance in Japan and the ways in which a range of actors are involved in different sites and issues of governance at home, in the region and the globe. …”

“…These children are characterized by great difficulty in controlling their activity level, inhibit their impulses and, above all, sustain attention. These difficulties affect areas of life, such as school and family. …”

“…Applications of artificial neural network for the above purposes are discussed with experimental results in this book so that practitioners can easily use ANN models for predicting software reliability indicators…”

“…The interest in the topic of triangulation - taking on different perspectives - relates above all to questions about the possibilities and limits offered by the documentary method for triangulation in terms of basic theory, methodology, and method. …”

“…These forecasts further underline the need to intervene above all in cities, in order to reduce the effects of the potential threats that can occur as a result of unexpected critical events, both anthropogenic and natural. …”

“…The essays, which cover England, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Germany, Scotland, Finland and Sweden, examine the experience of and attitudes towards witchcraft from both above and below. While they demonstrate the continued widespread fear of witches amongst the masses, they also provide a corrective to the notion that intellectual society lost interest in the question of witchcraft. …”