“…Identity and Language Learning draws on a longitudinal case study of immigrant women in Canada to develop new ideas about identity, investment, and imagined communities in the field of language learning and teaching. …”

“…Key Features: An innovative six 'I' theoretical framework for strategy has been introduced A leader or an aspiring leader can get an insight into what is strategy through a quick reading of the material on the side columns The book focuses on imagination with intention as a conditional precedent for durability of success Strategy Live: Real examples of crafting and implementing strategy Strategy Stars: The academicians and practitioners who have illuminated strategy Strategy Show: Introducing ideas-at-work in very chapter, with featuring real business organizations Strategy Practice: A brief business case at the end of every chapter illustrating a concept Projects, exercises, questions, models, learning capsules and full-length cases to add to the learning experience. …”

“…Centred around the concept of entrepreneurship and the newly emerging concept of intrapreneurship - using entrepreneurial principles to enhance or further an existing concept, organization or product - the book showcases the ways in which cosplayers create new ideas, new ways of working, and new ways of doing things, exploiting their knowledge to create new opportunities. …”

“…Tras analizar los desafíos que plantean la apertura, la confidencialidad, la responsabilidad, la tolerancia cero y la presunción de inocencia, este libro propone la accountability y la traslucidez como el modelo global más adecuado para la naturaleza misma de la Iglesia y ofrece varias ideas para alcanzarlo…”

“…La herencia de Darwin familiariza al lector con las principales ideas p rocedentes de la biología evolutiva moderna y ofrece un amplio repaso de sus consecuencias para la lingüística, las ciencias culturales, las ciencias del hombre y las ciencias sociales.En 2007, esta obra ganó el premio Sócrates al libro de filosofía más estimulante escrito en neerlandés."…”

“…Pues lo que algunos pastores nómadas de cabras pensaron hace dos mil quinientos años, sigue determinando los códigos oficiales desde Europa hasta América; subsiste una conexión tangible entre las ideas sobre la sexualidad de los profetas veterotestamentarios o de Pablo y los procesos penales por conducta deshonesta en Roma, París o Nueva York."…”

“…Fritz Ringer locates Weber in his historical context, relating his ideas to the controversies and politics of his day. …”

“…El autor ha seleccionado premeditadamente una serie de cuestiones básicas para una rigurosa lectura de iniciación - el silogismo y la proposición, el universal, la teoría de las ideas, las categorías, la esencia de las verdades matemáticas, la lógica simbólica, etc.- y las pone al alcance del lector que, deseando algo más que la familiarización con fórmulas definitorias, aspira a dar los primeros pasos en un terreno que no podrá recorrer nunca sin esfuerzo personal…”

“…Versions of what we call the "creationist" option were widely favored by the major thinkers of classical antiquity, including Plato, whose ideas on the subject prepared the ground for Aristotle's celebrated teleology. …”
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“…Three leading philosopher-logicians now present a concise overview of the main issues and ideas in formal theories of truth. Beall, Glanzberg, and Ripley explain key logical techniques on which such formal theories rely, providing the formal and logical background needed to develop formal theories of truth. …”

“…This book sheds light on the so-far neglected circulation of ideas and practices between these four areas, and highlights the constitutive nature of a wide spectrum of forms of censorship from repression to criticism in shaping the interests, principles, methods and problems of Early Modern Hispanic historiography. …”

“…This volume - the first collection of essays in English to focus on Hume's legal ideas - celebrates the diversity of Hume's contributions to jurisprudence. …”

“…Overall, he reveals a vibrant period of the development of the Jesus tradition, wherein the material status of the tradition frequently played as important a role as the ideas about Jesus that it contained -- Editor…”

“…It considers the reciprocal relationship between political legitimacy and developments in science and culture, and explores the nationalization efforts in Spain in the 1940s and 1950s, via the complex process of transmitting narratives of national identity, through ideas, representations and homogenizing practices. …”

“…Sus fotografías reflejan la rápida transformación de las costumbres, el estallido de novedades, la vibración de las cosas y, al mismo tiempo, la búsqueda de los pequeños detalles, del instante perdurable y atemporal, con unas ideas estéticas que proponían la renovación del lenguaje fotográfico. …”

“…Focusing on the ways new health technologies intervene into our lives and affect our ideas about normalcy, the body and identity, New Health Technologies explores: how new health technologies are understood by lay people and patients how the outcomes of these technologies are communicated in various clinical settings how these technologies can alter our notions of health and illness and create "new illness." …”
Sumario

“…Against a backdrop of social fragmentation, violence, high unemployment and socio-economic change, punk rejuvenated and re-energised British youth culture, inserting marginal voices and political ideas into pop. Fanzines and independent labels flourished; an emphasis on doing it yourself enabled provincial scenes to form beyond London's media glare. …”

“…Contributors put forward their views before commenting on the ideas of other contributors and defending against objections. …”

“…Beck offers a new elaboration of his basic ideas, connecting reflexive modernization with new issues to do with the state and political organization. …”

“…Cuestionando ideas que han dominado la investigación del Nuevo Testamento durante más de cien años, Israel Knohl, reconocido especialista en estudios bíblicos, presenta en este libro a un precursos mesiánico de Jesús, descrito como el "Siervo sufriente" en algunos fragmentos, recientemente publicados, de los manuscritos del Mar Muerto. …”