“…"Reading sprawling sentences can feel overwhelming, confusing, or boring." says Mira Khanna, Strategic Product Marketer at Grammarly, "It can confuse readers by making it harder for them to quickly identify the main point of what you're trying to communicate. After all, they have to sift through the extra verbiage and hunt for the key points of your message. …”

“…At our worst, we react to events without reasoning, not even realizing that we're making a decision at all. At our best, we recognize these deciding moments for what they are, and apply the full capacity of our reasoning and rationality to them. …”

“…Our services will never be perfect, and they'll all break eventually. What makes us SREs is how we prepare for those days when things break, how we respond, and what we learn…”

“…Had I conscientiously attempted not only to find my way through all the relevant published writing in the philosophy of mind and in ethics, but then also explained how I had come to terms with the claims advanced by its authors, I would have had to write at impossible length and in a format that would have made this essay inaccessible to the lay reader for whom it is written"…”

“…He explores the mix of altruism, self-doubt, self-congratulation, and simple disorientation that accompany efforts to bring humanitarian commitments to foreign settings. Writing for all those who wish that "globalization" could be more humane, Kennedy urges us to think and work more pragmatically. …”

“…Such a discourse could enrich all our lives by helping us to articulate both a national and international agenda for human rights in health…”

“…Trypanis (1954, 1958), presents all that currently survives of and about Callimachus and his works, including the ancient commentaries (Diegeseis) and scholia. …”

“…Thus, considering a twelfth-century model, with all of its necessary distortions, in thirteenth-century interpretations, may give us a better understanding of the limitations and potentials of the Victorian theology -- Contracubierta…”

“…Key Features: Provides a core text (broad and theoretically coherent coverage) that covers all of the basic areas of environmental communication Draws on the authors experiences as president of the largest U.S. environmental group Summarizes current scholarship in the area and makes accessible many of the practices of media, corporations, and advocacy groups that are not readily available in public sources Gives students insight into the practical ways to participate publicly in influencing the decisions of governmental agencies that affect the environment Offers a comprehensible treatment of the complexity and range of issues, sites, and practices in environmental communication Act Locally exercises provide opportunities for students to apply their knowledge of the principles of environmental communication on their campus or community…”
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“…Rather than seeing the struggles of Latin America's left as the result of poor choices of strategy, the history of intellectuals' engagement with power shows that all available paths toward a more democratic and egalitarian Latin America required debilitating compromise, including with foreign empires. …”

“…Nothing, of course, was allowed to stand in the way of this effort to radically and totally transform the human conditionleast of all human beings. But, as Anne Applebaum notes in her foreword, human nature persisted: "Every person who entered the camps discovered qualities in themselves, both good and evil, that they hadn t previously known they had. …”

“…Mathematics and Art demonstrates how mathematical ideas are embodied in the visual arts and will enlighten all who are interested in the complex intellectual pursuits, personalities, and cultural settings that connect these vast disciplines…”

“…The argument's implications for longstanding interpretational issues will be of interest to specialists. All Greek is translated…”

“…Different equally valid assumptions have been made about what there is to be investigated, reflecting what is here called the multidimensionality of the phenomena, and different ancient investigators entertained different aims for their work, mirroring but sometimes going beyond the current values of their society. Taking stock of all this diversity, the final chapter spells out the implications for our understanding of the history of human reasoning in general, exploring its commonalities and where and why it has manifested and continues to manifest specificities across different populations…”

“…"With its transnational scope and exhaustive research into such archives as Planned Parenthood and the newly opened Vatican Secret Archives, Connelly's withering critique uncovers the costs inflicted by a humanitarian movement gone terribly awry and urges renewed commitment to the reproductive rights of all people." -- Contracubierta…”

“…Washback in Language Testing: Research Contexts and Methods is a valuable resource for those who are interested in the application of findings to actual teaching and learning situations or conduct washback research in their own contexts, including educational and psychological testing experts, as well as alternative assessment people in all fields, and for policy- and decision-makers in educational and testing organizations…”

“…For over two decades, Elizabeth has been instrumental in creating change in communities all around the world; uplifting the lives of others, just as her life was once uplifted. …”

“…Conclude il testo un capitolo dedicato alla scrittura delle pubblicazioni scientifiche e divulgative e di progetti finanziabili, e alle informazioni indispensabili sulle attuali procedure di valutazione e misurazione della produzione scientifica."…”

“…Seuss, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Shel Silverstein, and many others, despite their divergent styles and subject matter, have all resonated with generations of readers. Children’s Literature is an exhilarating quest across centuries, continents, and genres to discover how, and why, we first fall in love with the written word…”
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“…The book works with the rich mixture of thinking, feeling, imagining, talking, listening, drawing, writing and reading that is typical of all our language activities. The author reasserts the importance of children's relationships and communications with people, who care about them, spend time with them and share in the excitement of their developing languages and their investigations of literacy. …”