“…The Life of Lorenzo de' Medici called the Magnificent proved to be so popular as to prompt the claim that Roscoe effectively invented the Italian Renaissance as it has become understood by subsequent generations of readers in the English-speaking world. …”

“…In such cases, he goes on to contend, the language and ideals of the Constitution require judges to decide in good faith, exercising what Powell calls the constitutional virtues: candor, intellectual honesty, humility about the limits of constitutional adjudication, and willingness to admit that they do not have all the answers. …”
Sumario

“…Ultimately, Radio's Digital Dilemma is a cautionary tale about the overarching influence of economics on contemporary media policymaking, to the detriment of notions such as public ownership and access to the airwaves-and a call for media scholars and reformers to engage in the continuing struggle of radio's digital transition in hopes of reclaiming these important principles…”

“…Esta dramática escena de introducción representa el espíritu vital de un lugar que ha resistido décadas de presión externa. En las calles de La Habana, residentes de todas las edades comparten su opinión sobre lo que representa vivir bajo tal imposición por parte de extranjeros, como también lo que representa para ello la libertad dentro de un país pese a las repercusiones de las duras sanciones a las que se han de enfrentar. …”

“…This study analyses the characterization of the protagonists in the five extant, so-called 'ideal' Greek novels (those of Chariton, Xenophon of Ephesus, Achilles Tatius, Longus, and Heliodorus). …”

“…These changed attitudes produced what she calls communicative objectivity: new forms of observation, rationality, and economy based on the management and analysis of data. …”

“…The longest chapter reviews the celebrated story of the so-called closing of the Academy of Athens and the trip of its seven remaining philosophers to the court of the Persian king Chosroes, rejecting the fashionable current idea that they set up a new school at Harran on the Persian border. …”

“…The front edge of this new time is what we call "now," and this moment is truly unique--it is the only moment in which we can exercise our free will. …”

“…Capsule descriptions in the margins list essential information about the subject under discussion, and details of the artworks employed as examples are called out. The book concludes with a brief overview of contemporary techniques. …”
Sumario

“…This broadly gauged, synthetic study examines how the Spanish invasion of the Inca Empire (called Tawintinsuyu) in 1532 brought dramatic and irreversible transformations in traditional Andean modes of production, technology, politics, religion, culture, and social hierarchies. …”

“…This collection of essays by leading academics, lawyers, parliamentarians and parliamentary officials provides a critical assessment of the UK Parliament's two main constitutional roles-as a legislature and as the preeminent institution for calling government to account. Both functions are undergoing change and facing new challenges. …”

“…From the work of Frederick Douglass and Walt Whitman to that of Joan Didion and Dorothy Parker, literary journalism is a genre that both reveals and shapes American history and identity. This volume not only calls attention to literary journalism as a distinctive genre but also provides a critical foundation for future scholarship. …”

“…He ends with an impassioned call for free speech, shared common values and sanity in an age of mass hysteria." …”

“…The NeoRealismo style became a call for economic justice as well as an artistic movement that influenced the modern world. …”

“…Simon Sebag Montefiore ha logrado el prodigio de evocar en estas páginas sus tres mil años de historia, contados a través de las vidas de quienes los protagonizaron, en una nómina que incluye reyes, políticos, conquistadores o profetas, de Salomón a Lawrence de Arabia, pasando por Abraham, Jesús o Mahoma, por Saladino, los cruzados, Suleimán el Magnífico o Winston Churchill, sin olvidar a la infinidad de hombres y mujeres comunes que han vivido, amado, sufrido o luchado en sus calles…”

“…In all languages, humans frequently use linguistic combinations called phraseological units (PUs) in communicative acts. …”

“…Rather they offer an original solution to the longstanding puzzle of how small random genetic change can be converted into complex, useful innovations. In a new theory they call “facilitated variation,” Kirschner and Gerhart elevate the individual organism from a passive target of natural selection to a central player in the 3-billion-year history of evolution. …”

“…"China's emergence as a twenty-first-century global economic, cultural, and political power is often presented as a story of what Chinese leader Xi Jinping calls the nation's "great rejuvenation," a story narrated as the return of China to its "rightful" place at the center of the world. …”

“…It is often regarded as a launching pad for the First Crusade, though the matter is obscure and serves only to hide the assembly's true significance as a turning point in the papal schism between Popes Gregory VII/Urban II and the so-called anti-pope Clement III. The canons promulgated at Piacenza became landmarks not only for the eleventh- and twelfth-century Reform, but more broadly for the Church of the High Middle Ages and even beyond. …”

“…"The Tang dynasty is often called China's "golden age," a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. …”