“…This project aims to assist every serious reader of Josephus by providing a new literal translation, along with a commentary suggesting literary and historical connections…”

“…In Pursuit of Justices, David Yalof takes the reader behind the scenes of what happens before the Senate hearings to show how presidents go about deciding who will sit on the highest court in the land. …”
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“…It outlines very clearly and honestly the skills needed to be a successful independent learner. ...the authors "voice" is one of a critical friend that the reader can trust.... It contains lots of good advice in relation to student support and guidance for any future subject review and on how to meet the "skills based" elements of the QAA benchmarks' Shaun Best, University of Manchester How can you succeed in media, communication and cultural studies? …”
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“…Appendixes address common myths about fair use and provide a template for creating the reader's own best practices"…”

“…In The Art of Statistics, David Spiegelhalter guides the reader through the essential principles we need in order to derive knowledge from data. …”

“…Analysing literary representations of children as readers in a range of genres (including ABCs, prayer books, religious narratives, romance, anthologies, school books, drama, translations and autobiography) alongside evidence of the reading experiences of those defined as children in the period, it explores the production of different categories of child readers. …”

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“…Hence this book also draws on material from history, anthropology, development economics, ICT, sociology and political science to help the reader gain insight into the processes that are occurring. …”
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“…Treatment of the subject is integrated in such a way that the reader can gain an understanding of the fundamental methods, a feeling for the comparative usefulness of different approaches and an appreciation of the difficulties inherent in nonlinear analysis. …”
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“…Bilingual Europe presents to the reader a Europe that for a long time was 'multilingual': besides the vernacular languages Latin played an important role. …”

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“…Colours of Art takes the reader on a journey through history via 80 carefully curated artworks and their palettes. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A personal note to the reader -- Book One: An ancient heritage -- Part 1: The way of prophets: a higher authority -- From seer to prophet: Moses' test of obedience -- A covenanting God: Isaiah's test of faith -- Struggles of the believer: Job -- A world self-explained: evil in the East -- Part II: The way of philosophers: a wondrous instrument within -- Socrates' discovery of ignorance -- The life in the spoken word -- Plato's other-world of ideas -- Paths to utopia: virtues writ large -- Aristotle: an outsider in Athens -- On paths of common sense -- Aristotle's God for a changeful world -- Part III: The Christian way: experiments in community -- Fellowship of the faithful: the Church -- Islands of faith: monasteries -- The way of disputation: universities -- Varieties of the Protestant way: Erasmus, Luther, Calvin -- Book Two: Communal search -- Part IV: Ways of discovery: in search of experience -- The legacy of Homer: myth and the heroic past -- Herodotus and the birth of history -- Thucydides creates a political science -- From myth to literature: Virgil -- Thomas More's new paths to utopia -- Francis Bacon's vision of old idols and new dominions -- From the soul to the self: Descartes' island within -- Part V: The liberal way -- Machiavelli's reach for a nation -- John Locke defines the limits of knowledge and of government -- Voltaire's summons to civilization -- Rousseau seeks escape -- Jefferson's American quest -- Hegel's turn to "the divine idea on earth" -- Book Three: Paths to the future -- Part VI: The momentum of history: ways of social science -- A gospel and a science of progress: Condorcet to Comte -- Karl Marx's pursuit of destiny -- From nations to cultures: Spengler and Toynbee -- A world in revolution? …”
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“…Despite the excellent English translations of this enigmatic book and numerous studies in English of Vico, many sections of the work remain challenging to the modern reader. Vico's New Science of the Intersubjective World offers both an in-depth analysis of all the important ideas of the book as well as an evaluation of their contribution to our present understanding of the social world. …”

“…The book does not assume the reader is familiar with more advanced concepts such as modules. …”

“…Using clear and concise language, unencumbered by footnotes and illustrated by flow diagrams, the authors guide the reader through the various stages of ICC arbitration proceedings, from initiation to the final award…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…French receptions -- Cicero reads Derrida reading Cicero : a politics and a friendship to come / Paul Allen Miller -- Ancient texts, contemporary stakes : J. Carcopino as reader of Cicero's letters / Carlos Levy -- Part 4. …”