“…As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications such as The Atlantic and Harper's, Alan Jacobs has spent his adult life belonging to communities that often clash in America's culture wars. And in his years of confronting the big issues that divide us-- political, social, religious-- Jacobs has learned that many of our fiercest disputes occur not because we're doomed to be divided but because the people involved simply aren't thinking. …”

“…An introduction and guide to the dramatic changes that have occurred in the provision of public services over the last two decades, this book combines theoretical perspectives with a range of case studies from Europe, North America and further afield to explain why, how, and with what success liberal democracies have reformed the service role of the state. …”

“…Singing has been a characteristic behaviour of humanity across several millennia. Chorus America (2009) estimated that 42.6 million adults and children regularly sing in one of 270,000 choruses in the US, representing more than 1:5 households. …”

“…These all-women art initiatives are closely related to developments within the political and politicized women's movement in Europe and America but what emerges is the varied and plural manner of their engagements with feminism(s) alongside their creation of 'heterotopias' in relation to specific sites/ politics/ collaborative art practices. …”

“…More than two decades ago, the Committee of Concerned Journalists gathered some of America's most influential newspeople to ask the question "What is journalism for?" …”

“…In The Road to Freedom, Nobel prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz dissects America’s current economic system and the political ideology that created it, laying bare their twinned failure. …”

“…Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? …”

“…Yet just over a decade later, by the early 1990s, America's global primacy had been reasserted in dramatic fashion. …”

“…In examining the enduring appeal that the success myth exerts on our collective imagination, it highlights the central role that films have played in the ongoing cultural conversation about success and work in America. Analyses of a range of movies from the late 1920s to the present are grounded in the history of rags-to-riches tales and in a consideration of the social functions of myth. …”

“…An award-winning professor and an accomplished educator, Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine take us beyond the hype of reform and inside some of America's most innovative classrooms to show what is working--and what isn't. …”

“…Estos textos describen el Extremo Oriente de sus años juveniles, hablan de personajes y sucesos chilenos y de las más inesperadas latitudes, describen el paisaje marino de Isla Negra, narran misteriosas ceremonias celebradas por extravagantes amigos en alguna casona perdida en un barrio de Santiago de Chile o describen dos casos de chilenos ejemplares, los de Mariano Latorre y Pedro Prado, la eterna lucha entre América y Europa, entre naturaleza y cultura, realidad criolla e invención cosmopolita…”

“…In this innovative approach to Old Testament ethics--fully revised, updated and expanded since its first appearance in 1983 as Living as the People of God (An Eye for an Eye in North America) and including material from Walking in the Ways of the Lord--Wright examines a theological, social and economic framework for Old Testament ethics. …”

“…Chloe Wigston Smith follows the material and visual images of the Atlantic world that found their way into the hands of women and girls in Britain and early America--in the objects they made, the books they held, the stories they read--and in doing so adjusted and altered the form and content of print and material culture. …”

“…Contemporary Curating, Artistic Reference and Public Reception' undertakes a unique critical survey and analysis of prevailing group exhibition-making practices in Europe, the UK and North America.0Drawing on curatorial literature and two in-depth case studies of group exhibitions, Bertrand advocates for a mode of curatorial practice that secures the content of artworks, in contrast to prevailing open-ended, indeterminate approaches. …”

“…A diferencia de buena parte de Europa y América, la profesión les estaba vetada. Algunas lo habían intentado desde 1911, pero hasta 1936 ninguna lo conseguiría, y aún habrían de pasar casi otros treinta años para que se pudiera llegar a la modesta cifra de diez arquitectas. …”