“…American statesmen described Bosnia as "a problem from hell," and for three and a half years refused to invest the diplomatic and military capital needed to stop the murder of innocents. …”

“…Saul Kripke has been a major influence on analytic philosophy and allied fields for a half-century and more. His early masterpiece, Naming and Necessity , reversed the pattern of two centuries of philosophizing about the necessary and the contingent. …”

“…Through the first half of the twentieth century, emotions were a legitimate object of scientific study across a variety of disciplines. …”

“…The kingdom created by the Norman Roger of Hautville in the first half of the twelfth century was a monarchy with highly developed absolutist ideas, an elaborate bureaucracy, a reasonably well-filled treasury, and a mixed cultural heritage reflected by the presence of Arabs and Greeks at court. …”

“…Suny takes seriously the first half of Stalin's life: his intellectual development, his views on issue of nationalities and nationalism, and his role in the Social Democratic debates of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. …”

“…In the spring of 1945, as the German army fell in defeat and the world first learned of the unspeakable crimes of the Holocaust, few would have expected that, only half a century later, the Germans would emerge as a prosperous people at the forefront of peaceful European integration. …”

“…The West once ruled more than half the world. The religion it exported, Christianity, is still followed by a third of mankind. …”

“…If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it's a good bet that at least half of those words relate to the picture's copyright status. …”
Sumario

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Tracey -- Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas -- In war and peace : the virtue of courage in the writings of Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas / Jörn Müller -- Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas on magnanimity / Tobias Hoffmann -- Aquinas's interpretation of the Aristotelian virtue of justice and his doctrine of natural law / Matthias Perkams -- The late thirteenth century -- Heroic virtue in the commentary tradition on the Nicomachean ethics in the second half of the thirteenth century / Iacopo Costa -- Utrumfelix indigeat amicis : the reception of the Aristotelian theory of friendship at the Arts Faculty in Paris / Marco Toste -- The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries -- The cardinal virtues in medieval commentaries on the Nicomachean ethics, 1250-1350 / István P. …”

“…Of these, 62 -- or 18 per cent -- reported some ongoing experience after the medical monitors had pronounced them to be dead. Half were aware they were 'dead,' and 15 had out-of-body experiences where they were aware of the actions of the hospital staff around their body. …”

“…Few thinkers of the latter half of the twentieth century have so profoundly and radically transformed our understanding of writing and literature as Jacques Derrida (1930-2004). …”

“…Faber traces the curious trajectories of iconic Spanish Civil War photographs by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour; critically reads a dozen recent Spanish novels and essays; interrogates basic scholarly assumptions about history, memory, and literature; and interviews nine scholars, activists, and documentarians who in the past decade and a half have helped redefine Spain's relationship to its past. …”

“…When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors. Twenty years later Toyota passed GM as the world’s largest auto maker. …”

“…The publication of Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia in 1974 revived serious interest in natural rights liberalism, which, beginning in the latter half of the eighteenth century, had been eclipsed by a succession of antithetical political theories including utilitarianism, progressivism, and various egalitarian and collectivist ideologies. …”
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“…This is the first commentary in English on the Agricola for almost half a century: in keeping with the aims of the series, particular attention is paid to the understanding of Tacitus' Latin, but a whole range of generic, historical, textual and narrative topics is covered, and it will be suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students as well as scholars. …”

“…Half a century ago, before the discovery of DNA, the Austrian physicist and philosopher Erwin Schrodinger inspired a generation of scientists by rephrasing the fascinating philosophical question: What is life? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Di Leo) -- What writers can learn from Breaking bad: the risks and rewards of deliberate disorientation (Neil Connelly) -- Our "word ... is half someone else's": Walt and the literary echoes of Whitman (Miguel E.H. …”