“…In clear, brash prose, full of real-life examples, Wolf shows how tomorrow's successful business person will have to act like a mogul in a global economy defined by hits and blockbusters. …”

“…Most of all, Zegart describes how technology is empowering new enemies and opportunities, and creating powerful new players, such as private citizens who are successfully tracking nuclear threats using little more than Google Earth. …”

“…He vividly describes his father's devotion to race walking and to televised baseball games, a trip to England with his mother on the Queen Elizabeth, and his successful efforts to relocate his family to a better apartment. …”

“…It rejected core Protestant beliefs, such as salvation by faith alone, and practices, going so far in emphasizing apostolic succession as to have its new priests ordained by Latin-rite or, in a few cases, Eastern-rite Uniate bishops. …”
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“…This powerful guide includes: - Learning Intentions and Success Criteria for each module to track your own learning and model evidence-based teacher practices for meaningful learning - A diversity of instructional approaches, including direct instruction, peer learning, and independent work that foster student self-regulation and move learning to deep and transfer levels - Discussion of equity challenges associated with distance learning, along with examples of how teachers can work to ensure that equity gains that have been realized are not lost. - Special guidance for teachers of young children who are learning from a distance - Videos of the authors and teachers discussing a wide variety of distance learning topics - Space to write and reflect on current practices and plan future instruction The Distance Learning Playbook is the essential hands-on guide to preparing and delivering distance learning experiences that are truly effective and impactfull."…”

“…After a little-known false start in the mid-nineteenth century, it achieved remarkable early successes, yet in the 1950s it faced a collapse of undergraduate enrollment, which proved fiscally debilitating for decades. …”

“…The author argues that whenever such undisciplined power is centralized and unchecked, the possibility exists that it will be used at the whim of dictators to kill for their own ends, whether the aim is ethnic-racial purity, national unity, development, or utopia. The book presents successive periods in modern Chinese history, with each chapter divided into three parts. …”

“…The history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. …”

“…The process of empire-building on the fringes of the Persianate world and the prolonged interaction with the Mughal empire, Ahmadnagar, and Bijapur, Flores argues, led to the irregular, non-linear, and incomplete assimilation of the Portuguese empire into Persianate India.Overturning teleological narratives that portray the workings of (European) empire as the unilateral imposition of power dynamics by a dominant, omniscient actor, Flores reveals how Portuguese imperial administrators were vulnerable participants in a network of relations involving multiple political powers—relations that required enormous bureaucratic and diplomatic effort to understand and successfully navigate. Showing how a European empire was drawn into the political practices and rituals of the Indo-Persian world, Flores decenters the lenses conventionally used to observe the Portuguese empire in Asia and helps us rethink its nature while questioning the boundaries of the Indo-Persian world --…”

“…"Downtown, 1956-1965-the first volume of Sixties British Pop, Outside In-describes the rise of London's music and recording industries through the stories of those who gave Britain a significant voice in transatlantic pop culture. After the national success of artists such as Lonnie Donegan, Cliff Richard, and Helen Shapiro, the Beatles led an international wave that included groups such as the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, and the Animals and singers such as Petula Clark, Tom Jones, and Cilla Black. …”

“…Madison left a mixed but indelible legacy: as a fierce adversary of foreign interference, a fiery champion of political debate, and a partisan operative who facilitated the former by inflaming the latter.Forged in partisan conflict, the United States remains vulnerable to forces that test whether the constitutional system Madison was so central in implementing can withstand outside meddling while accommodating partisan conflict. Madison's successes and failures, along with his original vision of the Constitution and party politics, illuminate the ongoing struggle between domestic polarization and foreign interference -- Amazon…”

“…His unflappable agent, Atticus; his steadfast wife, Elizabeth; his sister, Moira, crusading parliamentarian for the poor; his well-adjusted, well-off adult children, Angus and Kenzie; and all the outward trappings of success can't conceal that something in his life is off. …”

“…Elle permet de bâtir l’édifice d’une culture qui ne tient que par les strates successives que la mémoire dépose au cours du temps. …”

“…Die AutorInnen nähern sich dem Thema der pädagogischen Schulraumgestaltung aus ihren jeweiligen Disziplinen und eröffnen Wege für eine optimalen Schul- und Klassenzimmergestaltung. In successful, good schools, teaching and learning are best supported by the structural environment - school and learning spaces should therefore become living spaces. …”

“…En partant d’informations sur la monnaie et les prix disponibles dans les registres de successions des tribunaux locaux et dans la correspondance consulaire, il reconstitue d’abord la chronologie des crises monétaires et des crises de subsistances qu’a connues Le Caire aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. …”

“…Rendons-le à ses combats, à sa souffrance mais aussi à ses émerveillements et à ses enfances successives. « On entend un enfant », et ce n’est pas le moindre charme, cher vieux Louis, de tes poèmes ou de tes grands romans. …”

“…As Asian countries vary in terms of their economic strength, country-specific scenario studies for the two giants China and India as well as for Japan and Vietnam are introduced to show the different approaches for each country. Part 2 shows successful examples of how modeling analysis are reflected in actual policy development, which provides practical guidelines to help policymakers develop their own roadmaps with stakeholder dialogue, not only in Asia but also in other regions of the world. …”

“…L'île de Maillezais a été battue durant sept siècles par les vagues successives de la grande Histoire. En marge du monde des hommes, couvert de forêts, peuplé d'oiseaux et d'animaux sauvages, ceint de marais, le site originel fut pour ses premiers occupants une sorte de « désert fertile », propre à satisfaire leurs ambitions et leurs besoins. …”

“…The comparability of measurements made in differing circumstances by different methods and investigators is a fundamental pre-condition for all of science. Successful applications of technology require comparable measurements. …”