“…Une fois entraînés sur le territoire français, ces combattants sont déployés dans les campagnes de Bosnie et contribuent aux plus grandes violences et exactions perpétrées contres les populations civiles durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Pour la première fois, un ouvrage va au-delà des clichés qui président à l'histoire de cette division. …”

“…The latter is embedded within the cultural imperatives of the civilization that gave these terms meaning and made them an effective tool for the dissection of law, its reconstitution as an instrument to be used by the lawyer to advance the interests of her clients, and for judges as a means to restructure language as a narrative of law whose power could bend behavior to its strictures. …”

“…Qu'ont perçu les combattants et les civils du monde entier des fronts militaires et des fronts domestiques ? …”

“…Emerging out of the era of the robber barons and Theodore Roosevelt’s desire to “civilize capitalism,” the Food and Drug Administration was created to stop the trade in adulterated meats and quack drugs. …”
Acceso a las primeras páginas

“…Ceramics are the very stuff of how civilized life was, and is, led. This then is the story of human society's most surprising core causes and effects -- Editor…”

“…Parce qu’il rejetait toute séparation entre théorie et pratique, ce dernier a proposé une théorie de l’État radicalement nouvelle, envisageant la société civile comme l’espace de la lutte pour l’hégémonie. …”

“…White maintains that once the philosopher abandons the dogma that the logical analysis of mathematics and physics is the essence of his subject, he frees himself to resume his traditional role as a student of the central institutions of civilization. Philosophers should function not merely as spectators of all time and existence, he argues, but as empirically-minded students of culture who try to use some of their ideas for the benefit of society…”
Sumario

“…Chicago, America's "Second City," the sprawling, burly king of the Heartland, home of the world's tallest building and civilization's largest free library, one-time capital of American anarchism and Al Capone, is a city of oddly impressive firsts. …”

“…The journey to progress is full of strange detours and blind alleys that tell us so much about the human mind and the march of civilization. To this end, SOONISH investigates ten different emerging fields, from programmable matter to augmented reality, from space elevators to robotic construction, to show us the amazing world we will have, you know, soonish…”

“…The Triumph of Empire is a fresh, authoritative narrative of Rome at its height and of its evolution--from being the central power of the Mediterranean world to becoming one of several great Eurasian civilizations.--…”

“…Et si ce qui a été longtemps présenté comme le soulèvement de tout un peuple n'avait été qu'une folie meurtrière et inutile, une guerre civile dont l'enjeu mémoriel divise toujours les Français ? …”

“…Outre les millions de victimes des combats, plus de 18 millions de civils polonais et soviétiques, dont plus de 4 millions de Juifs, ont péri. …”

“…The story of these Indigenous Americans abroad is a story of abduction, loss, cultural appropriation, and, as they saw it, of apocalypse—a story that has largely been absent from our collective imagination of the times.From the Brazilian king who met Henry VIII to the Aztecs who mocked up human sacrifice at the court of Charles V; from the Inuk baby who was put on show in a London pub to the mestizo children of Spaniards who returned “home” with their fathers; from the Inuit who harpooned ducks on the Avon river to the many servants employed by Europeans of every rank: here are a people who were rendered exotic, demeaned, and marginalized, but whose worldviews and cultures had a profound impact on European civilization.Drawing on their surviving literature and poetry and subtly layering European eyewitness accounts against the grain, Pennock gives us a sweeping account of the Indigenous American presence in, and impact on, early modern Europe --…”

“…Although the deportation and killing of Armenians was internationally condemned in 1915 as a "crime against humanity and civilization," the Ottoman government initiated a policy of denial that is still maintained by the Turkish Republic. …”

“…Since its first publication more than twenty-five years ago, "How to Build a Habitable Planet" has established a legendary reputation as an accessible yet scientifically impeccable introduction to the origin and evolution of Earth, from the Big Bang through the rise of human civilization. This classic account of how our habitable planet was assembled from the stuff of stars introduced readers to planetary, Earth, and climate science by way of a fascinating narrative. …”

“…Un dominio de actuación en auge que se une a los clásicos de tierra, mar, aire y espacio, de tecnologías y redes en imparable progresión que sirven de soporte a la información para facilitar las misiones de inteligencia, el mando y control, y muchas otras actividades militares y civiles relacionadas con la seguridad y la defensa. …”

“…Partendo dalle fonti classiche del diritto penale civile, particolarmente quelle di diritto romano e quelle di epoca medievale, fino ad arrivare alle codificazioni dei secoli XIX-XX per identificare gli elementi tipici del delitto di favoreggiamento, lo studio pone il confronto con la disciplina penitenziale e penale canonica dei secoli scorsi, fino ad arrivare alla legislazione attuale, allo scopo di osservare quanto sia sopravvissuto e possa sopravvivere ancora della fattispecie. …”

“…A travers elles, l'auteur laisse aussi entrevoir une situation politique complexe, que ce soit dans les relations entre communautés chrétiennes, entre chrétiens et juifs, ou encore entre christianisme et administration civile. La présence d'un extrait de l'ouvrage dans les carnets de saint Augustin illustre quant à elle son rôle dans l'histoire des textes et l'importance de la question pascale en termes non seulement de calendrier liturgique, mais aussi d'identité religieuse et d'exégèse…”

“…De este modo, se han reunido numerosas y variadas inteligencias y capacidades civiles y militares; planteamientos más teóricos y más prácticos, más informativos y más valorativos. …”

“…Y finalmente una amplia selección de sus mejores artículos, piezas de variada índole donde tan pronto nos habla de Auden, Eliot, Joyce o Pound como de la novela policíaca, el oficio de crítico, Barcelona durante la guerra civil, la bibliofilia, Grecia, Londres o James Bond…”