“…This very topical work is, thus, indispensable for practitioners, academics, lobbyists and institutional agents…”

“…The ideal of state sovereignty is a product of the actions of powerful agents and the resistances to those actions by those located at the margins of power. …”

“…"In many histories of modern ethics, Kant is supposed to have ushered in an anti-realist or constructivist turn by holding that unless we ourselves 'author' or lay down moral norms and values for ourselves, our autonomy as agents will be threatened. In this book, Robert Stern challenges the cogency of this 'argument from autonomy', and claims that Kant never subscribed to it. …”

“…Finally, the experience of freedom of the will is traced to the experiences of forming intentions, and of maintaining resolutions, both of which require effortful activity from the agent…”

“…At the same time, he defends a position based on the notion that self- and other-respecting agents would, under the right circumstances, accept the principle of self-improvement and would leave it up to each to be the person to whom this duty is owed"…”

“…Moreover, we shall look at a comparison and contrast of modern science with the simple deference of the human mind to the actions of culturally postulated superhuman agents. This book pays critical attention to the contributions of scholars in the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of science, and the scientific study of religion. …”

“…El autor rastrea la historia de la identidad individual: los "papeles" han modificado esencialmente la historia del individuo al imponerse en la vida de todos los franceses bajo la influencia del Estado, debido al trabajo y al conocimiento de los agentes de la maquinaria administrativa del Antiguo Régimen, de la Revolución y del Imperio, así como a los interrogatorios policiales. …”

“…Occasionalism is the doctrine, held by a number of early modern Cartesian thinkers, that created substances are devoid of any true causal powers, and that God is the only real causal agent in the universe. All natural phenomena have God as their direct and immediate cause, with natural things and their states serving only as "occasions" for God to act. …”

“…This book presents a comprehensive examination of Gottfried Leibniz's views on the nature of agents and their actions. Julia Jorati offers a fresh look at controversial topics including Leibniz's doctrines of teleology, the causation of spontaneous changes within substances, divine concurrence, freedom, and contingency, and also discusses widely neglected issues such as his theories of moral responsibility, control, attributability, and compulsion. …”

“…The data are analysed within the framework of a structural model of mortality change comprising the proximate determinants of exposure to, and resistance against, infectious agents on the the part of populations. Within this framework a model is established describing the specific demographic and epidemiological characteristics of early modern metropolitan centres. …”

“…-socialism debates of the mid-20th century have given way to pluralistic ecologies of economic provisioning in which complex agents cooperate via heterogeneous forms of production and exchange. …”

“…A lo largo de tiempos y espacios, vamos siendo testigos y compañeros de modelos de misión agentes protagonistas y personalidades cautivadoras que han encarnado la misión y conformado la Iglesia en los dos mil años de cristianismo…”

“…Sustainable poverty reduction needs poor people to be both the agents and beneficiaries of economic growth - to directly participate in, contribute to and benefit from growth processes. …”

“…Está dirigido a todos los agentes y profesionales interesados en los procesos de mejora y transformación digital de la Educación Superior y de las instituciones de educación formal alrededor del mundo. …”

“…Constructivism states that moral truths are neither invented nor discovered, but rather are constructed by rational agents in order to solve practical problems. While constructivism has become the focus of many philosophical debates in normative ethics, meta-ethics and action theory, its importance is still to be fully appreciated. …”

“…Este libro realiza un recorrido por la historia del cine español desde la primera proyección realizada en Madrid por los agentes de los hermanos Lumière hasta el presente. …”

“…A bomb goes off in the middle of a flash mob performance in a busy shopping center and kills forty innocent civilians. The agents of Slough House have to figure out who is behind this act of terror before the situation escalates"--…”

“…Este territorio es un espacio atravesado por lógicas económicas permeadas por una serie de prácticas y relaciones sociales particulares que han ido estableciendo los agentes sociales con el paso del tiempo. Tomando en cuenta las formas de producción y las actividades que se derivan de ellas en el periurbano, los capítulos transitan por la producción de flores de corte, producción hortícola mayoritariamente de invernaderos; la vida de las comunidades de migrantes italianos, portugueses, japoneses y bolivianos que han territorializado la zona, creando mediaciones espaciales para arraigarse en el lugar, y a su vez toda la problemática derivada de ciertas dinámicas vinculadas con las actividades generadas por una población mayoritariamente migrante que se estableció desde hace años en las periferias adyacentes a la ciudad…”

“…Inhibition of the CAs has pharmacological applications in many fields, such as antiglaucoma, anticonvulsant, antiobesity, and anticancer agents/diagnostic tools, but is also emerging for designing anti-infectives, i.e., antifungal, antibacterial, and antiprotozoan agents with a novel mechanism of action. …”

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