“…They recommend several solutions, including a novel contract called "anti-insurance." In restitution law, people who convey unrequested benefits to others are seldom entitled to compensation. …”

“…Corporations make up more than two-thirds of the world’s top economies today, and so rightly they are being called to account for their impacts on society and the communities in which they operate. …”

“…Llueve intensamente en Nápoles y a las pocas horas los estragos del agua se dejan sentir en la ciudad, algunos edificios se derrumban, grandes simas se abren en las calles. Por si fuera poco, empiezan a producirse extraños fenómenos: de la fortaleza almenada de la ciudad salen voces fantasmagóricas, las monedas de cinco liras emiten una dulce melodía, el mar se desborda y sus aguas siguen el rastro de los niños que callejean, tres muñecas raídas aparecen abandonadas en lugares misteriosos... …”

“…In this shows how historiography, fiction, and photography have shaped how our views of the civil war (1936-39) and its long, painful aftermath book, Faber argues that recent political developments in Spain--from the grassroots call for the recovery of historical memory to the indignados movement and the foundation of Podemos--provide an opportunity for scholars in the humanities to rethink their practice and priorities and to engage more often, and more intentionally, with a broader audience."-- Información editorial…”

“…Drawing on his expertise on evolutionary theory, Ruse advances a view he calls "Darwinian existentialism." Darwinism is traditionally seen to place human life within a soulless, mechanistic universe. …”

“…The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home, an engaging backdrop to her days, acts as a confidant: the sidewalks around her house, parks, bridges, piazzas, streets, stores, coffee bars. …”

“…Es la biografía de una infancia en la que se hallan otras infancias —como la del escritor Georges Perec, cuya distancia con Marie era de unas calles— que, ignorantes de su destino, ­compartieron un territorio y un futuro secuestrado, como los de Hélène Berr o Dora Bruder -- Contracubierta…”

“…To Cast the First Stone calls attention to significant shifts in Christian book cultures and the enduring impact of oral tradition on the preservation--and destabilization--of scripture."…”

“…The stories that we convey on screens, or what author Carl Plantinga calls 'screen stories,' are one powerful and pervasive means by which we communicate with each other. …”

“…Todos ellos, que a su vez arrostraban sus particulares calamidades, tuvieron en común el odio hacia dos gravámenes que al resto de la sociedad únicamente parecían inquietarles cuando las masas tomaban las calles y exponían en público el vigor de su protesta desesperada. …”

“…Focusing on how short-lived emperors often ruled a strong state while long-lasting emperors governed a weak one, Yuhua Wang shows why lessons from China’s history can help us better understand state building.Wang argues that Chinese rulers faced a fundamental trade-off that he calls the sovereign’s dilemma: a coherent elite that could collectively strengthen the state could also overthrow the ruler. …”

“…The result is a forthright and compelling call to reconsider the place of Byzantium in Western history and imagination"--…”

“…Lundbom’s Jeremiah 1-20. From his boyhood call to prophecy in 627 b.c.e., which Jeremiah tried to refuse, to his scathing judgments against the sins and hypocrisy of the people of Israel, Jeremiah charged through life with passion and emotion. …”

“…The authors draw on the research of the Jubilee Centre at the University of Birmingham in order to investigate the concern that the conventional wisdom, sound judgement and professional discretion of teachers is being diminished and control mistakenly given over to administrators, policymakers and inspectors which in turn is negatively effecting pupils' character development. The books calls for subject competence to be complemented by practical wisdom and good character in teaching staff. …”

“…In this era of Twitter and text-messaging, which calls into question previously accepted notions of literacy, today's students need a new and more pragmatic approach to developing writing and research skills. …”

“…Using the GED as a case study, the authors explore what achievement tests miss and call for a return to an emphasis on character in our schools, our systems of accountability, and our national dialogue…”

“…Sociocultural Theory and the Pedagogical Imperative in L2 Education, Elaborates a new approach to dealing with the relationship between theory and practice -- an approach grounded in praxis -- the dialectical unity of theory and practice, Presents an analysis of empirical research illustrating praxis-based principles in real language classrooms, Brings together cognitive linguistics and sociocultural theory the former provides the theoretical knowledge of language required of praxis and the latter furnishes the theoretical principles of learning and development also called for in a praxis approach, Offers recommendations for redesigning teacher education programs Its timely focus on the theory-practice gap in language education and its original approach to bridging it put this book at the cutting edge of thinking about Vygotskian sociocultural theory in applied linguistics and SLA…”

“…El 29 de mayo de 1985, la emoción reina en las calles de Bruselas: va a tener lugar «la gran fiesta del fútbol» en el Estadio de Heysel entre la Juventus y el Liverpool. …”

“…Determined to make "conceptual contact" with the immediacy of actual experience, Pred carries forward the radical empiricism pioneered by William James (who coined the term "stream of consciousness") and draws on the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead.To help readers apprehend the formation of conscious thoughts, the intertwining of perception and action, and the working of consciousness in onflowing experience, Pred applies methods of analysis developed in John Searle's theory of intentionality to James's views, thereby showing how intentional states are embedded in the stream of consciousness. Then, calling on Whitehead's treatment of lived moments as acts of experience, Pred provides an account of consciousness that at once deals with conscious thoughts as they emerge from and function in embodied, socialized experience and illustrates how language distorts our understanding of experience and subjectivity. …”

“…In Cognition and Perception, Athanassios Raftopoulos discusses the cognitive penetrability of perception and claims that there is a part of visual processes (which he calls "perception") that results in representational states with nonconceptual content; that is, a part that retrieves information from visual scenes in conceptually unmediated, "bottom-up," theory-neutral ways. …”