Tabla de Contenidos: “…Fortier, Zhu Ming, and Cynthia K. Rigsby -- Great vessels / Monica Epelman, Pilar Garcia-Pena, Eric Chong, Magdalena Gormsen, and Edward Y. …”

“…This book maps the encounters between Indigenous Peoples and local communities with mining companies in various post-colonial contexts. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of mining and the extractive industries, sustainable development, natural resource management, and Indigenous Peoples…”

“…While there are several books on the market that start with the question, "How do I create great Salesforce architecture?" and proceed to a solution from there, this book instead starts by asking, "What tends to go wrong with Salesforce architectures?" …”

“…Arie Van Deursen Go beyond basic testing! Great software testing makes the entire development process more efficient. …”

“…The increasing reliance of US unions on community alliances, as seen in the 'Fight for $15' and similar campaigns, is scrutinised along with new union prototypes like Hospo Voice in Australia, the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain and SI Cobas in Italy. The book includes an in-depth analysis of union responses to the gig economy in the four countries, and the emergence of self-organised worker collectives to combat this exploitative business model. …”

“…While such champions of modernism as Edmund Wilson mocked Tolkien's archaic structure and language, W. H. Auden -- a great modernist poet in his own right -- rose to his defense with a spirited essay on the true nature of the Hero Quest. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Einleitung : Regionale Philosophie, Mikrologie, Intertextualität : Loris Sturlese und die Geschichte der mittelalterlichen Philosophie / Pasquale Porro -- Il IV libro dei Meteorologica di Aristotele fra filosofia e filologia / Elisa Rubino -- Probabilismo cristiano e fondazione del sapere pratico nell'Alto Medioevo tedesco : il caso dell'anonimo di Ratisbona / Giulio d'Onofrio -- The scientific significance of fate and celestial influences in some mature works by Albert the Great : De fato, De somno et vigilia, De intellectu et intellegibili, Mineralia / Alessandro Palazzo -- Tommaso di York, Eustrazio e la dottrina delle idee di Platone / Fiorella Retucci -- I principi costitutivi delle virtù nel De summo bono di Ulrico di Strasburgo / Irene Zavattero -- Dietrich von Freiberg und Siger von Brabant : eine Studie zur "Schule" Alberts des Grossen / Kurt Flasch -- Die Theorie des Bewusstseins (ens conceptionale) bei Dietrich von Freiberg : Aristoteles-Rezeption und Aristoteles-Transformation in 13. …”

“…A necessary precondition for intelligible discourse is the speaker's ability to signal the temporal relations between the events that are being discussed and to refer to the participants in those events in such a way that it is clear who is being talked about. A great deal of the grammatical machinery in a language is devoted to this task, and Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar explores how different grammatical systems accomplish it. …”

“…Stalin's conflicts with these clans, and his eventual destruction of them, were key elements in the Great Purges of the 1930s. But although Stalin could destroy the competing clans he could not destroy the historically embedded patron-client relation, as a final chapter on political practice under Putin shows…”

“…With a foreword by Kelvin Knight, this book will be of great interest to scholars and students of Alasdair MacIntyre, virtue ethics, business ethics and social responsibility -- Contracubierta…”

“…By returning to Simmel and his legacy, this text gives voice to a corpus of vast significance and great potential that has lived too much in the shadows. …”

“…But victory over Nazi Germany provided the dictator with his great opportunity: to expand Soviet power way beyond the borders of the Soviet state. …”

“…In this volume, the authors examine this issue from a multitude of perspectives, presenting a broad and comprehensive picture of schooling on international, national and local levels. Three issues of great significance, both in the history of schooling, and for educational policy - School Finance, School Reform and School Media - are discussed in relation to five European countries by addressing topics such as textbook supply in the eighteenth century, the spread of monitorial education, the rise of educational expenditure during the nineteenth century, and the internationalization of educational policy during the twentieth century…”

“…"A generational work that, using television, reframes America's identity through the rattled mind of a septuagenarian, insomniac, cable-news-junkie president. In the tradition of great cultural figures like Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman, New York Times chief television critic James Poniewozik traces the history of television and mass media from the early 1980s to today, and demonstrates how a "volcanic, camera- hogging antihero" merged with America's most powerful medium to become our forty-fifth president. …”