“…The volume concludes with a call for reconsidering America's demand for more innovators. …”

“…When technology may lead to social disconnection and narcissism, religion calls for love of self and neighbour. Where greed-inspired advancements threaten the future of our planet, religion teaches us to be in relationship with our environment and to be custodians of it…”

“…A distinctive feature of this translation is that it, in several instances, interprets the Hebrew perfect (qatal) as a so-called precative perfect ("perfect of prayer"). The ABCs of Complaint is relevant for students of theology and religion, researchers, church employees, lay people, and all who are interested in Biblical lament literature and images of God from a historical perspective on theology and religion…”

“…Small Business For Dummies is great for those just toying with the idea of opening a business, and for those who already call themselves "boss" but need a few extra pointers on making things run smoothly…”

“…In this context, Cole's study indicates, so-called "vermin" occupied liminal spaces between subject and object, nature and animal, animal and the devil, the devil and disease--even reason and madness. …”

“…The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are 17 Goals pledged by 193 nations in 2015 which would help engender an improved, fairer, and more sustainable world - one in which 'no one is left behind'. The SDGs are a call to action, to develop innovative solutions to the most complex, societal, and environmental global challenges. …”

“…Based on the ambiguity of photographs, the monograph challenges the alleged dichotomy between so-called pro- and anti-apartheid photographies, highlighting how the regime was able to position photographs in the grey area of inconspicuousness.By blending photo theory and art historical analysis with historical studies, <em>Building a White Nation</em> will appeal to scholars and postgraduate students in cultural studies interested in photo history and theory, visual culture and art history, African studies, South African photography, Afrikaner nationalism, propaganda studies, postcolonial studies, and archive theory.Ebook available in Open Access. …”

“…While diving into the insufficiency of the disclosure and enforcement of campaign finance laws and calling attention to multiple federal agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, the Internal Revenue Service, and (principally) the Federal Election Commission, the authors show how a narrow view on campaign finance makes change difficult and why reforms often have limited success. …”

“…The study elaborates that asceticism is not only a central concept in his studies on religion but also relates to key topics in his whole work as for example conduct and ethics, rationalism, his theory of interpretive sociology, the ideal type, and the so-called disenchantment of the world…”

“…The authors show the value in deeply loving a team but also how a condition of this value is recognizing that the love of a fan comes with real limits and responsibilities.Key FeaturesProvides an accessible introduction to a key area of the philosophy of sportClosely looks at some of the salient ethical concerns around sports fandomProposes that the value of community in partisan fandom should not be underestimated as a key feature of the good lifeExamines how the same emotions and environments that can lead to violence are identical to those that lead to virtuous loyaltyArgues for a fan's responsibility in calling out violence or racist behavior from their fellow fans…”

“…In this work, the call for a broader perspective in data protection law is deduced in three parts: the first, historical part shows that personal data processing has always been linked to information flows and society institutions, and not just to individual subjects. …”

“…You want to effectively develop your frontend architecture into a system where user data is "at the beck and call of the users themselves" for a more user-centric experience. …”

“…By way of empirical demonstration, the book makes an urgent call for scholars to incorporate clandestine action into explanations of the state. …”

“…Meanwhile, as voters' loyalties to left parties waned, professional strategists were called upon to "spin" party messages. Ultimately, left parties undermined themselves, leaving a representative vacuum in their wake. …”

“…Jeremiah preached that Israel’s God, Yahweh, was calling to account every nation on the Earth, even the nation chosen as his own. …”

“…The study shows that the conceptual parallels in John with Hellenistic mysticism and Hellenistic-Jewish mysticism are very slender, but indicates John's polemical motive against the Merkabah mystics of his time. He calls them to believe in Jesus as the Christ, the Son of God, by proclaiming that the divine glory, claimed by them to be revealed in human-like form on the throne, is now visible in the historical person, Jesus, particularly in his death on the Cross. …”

“…Although important examples of some genres of occasional prose were composed in the 5th and 4th centuries BC by Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, and especially Isocrates, it was with the flowering of rhetorical prose during the so-called Second Sophistic in the second half of the 2nd century AD that more forms were developed as standard repertoire and became exemplary. …”

“…The decision by the people of the United Kingdom to vote in a referendum in June 2016 to leave the European Union has produced shock waves across Europe and the world. Brexit calls into question consolidated assumptions on the finality of the EU, and simultaneously sparks new challenges. …”

“…Jurgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of breathtaking scope and towering erudition. …”

“…Individuality emphasizes each citizen's personal complicity in the injustices committed by democratic officials, and calls on each of us to resist such complicity by speaking and acting against injustice. …”