“…The Editorial team at Pearson has worked closely with educatorsaround the world to include content, which is especially relevant to studentsoutside the United States. For undergraduate courses in risk managementand insurance. …”

“…"Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a genetic condition that affects approximately 100,000 people in the United States and millions more globally. Individuals with SCD endure the psychological and physiological toll of repetitive pain as well as side effects from the pain treatments they undergo. …”

“…Drawing on research from high-level industry meetings, petrochemical plant tours, and polluted communities, Mah juxtaposes the petrochemical industry's destructive corporate worldviews with environmental justice struggles in the United States, China, and Europe. She argues that amid intensifying public pressures, a profound planetary industrial transformation is under way that is challenging the reigning age of plastics and fossil fuels. …”

“…These games served as a good starting point, but Danny Lange (Unity Technologies) reveals an opportunity to push the state of the art in AI research to the next level. United introduced the Obstacle Tower, a high-visual-fidelity, 3-D, third-person, procedurally generated game environment purpose built to test a deep reinforcement learning-trained agent's vision, control, planning, and generalization abilities. …”

“…Whilst Article 98 of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea provides the basis for the regime regulating the duty, the study addresses other relevant rules adopted by the International Maritime Organization and the International Labour Organization. …”

“…This is the story of how state, law and democracy developed after these cataclysmic events, how the modern landscape - with its uneasy tension between dictatorships and liberal democracies - evolved and how in the United States and in other developed democracies, unmistakable signs of decay have emerged. …”

“…Moïsi contends that the United States and Europe have been dominated by fears of the "other" and of their loss of a national identity and purpose. …”

“…What people wanted were jobs, not handouts, and in 1935, after a variety of temporary relief measures, a permanent nationwide jobs program was created--the Works Progress Administration, which would forever change the physical landscape and the social policies of the United States. The WPA lasted for eight years, spent $11 billion, and employed 8 and a half million men and women. …”
Sumario

“…La relance de La NNRF, codirigée avec Marcel Arland à partir de 1953, est conçue comme un moyen pour reconstituer l'unité du champ littéraire, en accueillant toutes ses voix, y compris les plus compromises. …”

“…"Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity examines the various ways in which Christian intellectuals engaged with Platonism both as a pagan competitor and as a source of philosophical material useful to the Christian faith. The chapters are united in their goal to explore transformations that took place in the reception and interaction process between Platonism and Christianity in this period. …”

“…He discusses the effects of the American and French Revolutions on ecclesiastical establishments as well as nineteenth- and twentieth-century communions, particularly in Scotland, the Netherlands, the United States, and Germany, that directly challenged church dependence on the state. …”

“…Part intellectual biography, part cultural history, and part history of the human sciences, Peter Mandler's book is a reminder that the Second World War and the Cold War were a clash of cultures, not just ideologies; examines how far intellectuals should involve themselves in politics; and speaks to modern-day concerns, such as the United States' relationship with Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran…”

“…The book focuses first on the state of the art of history in France, Germany, Britain, and the United States on the eve of World War I. Kelley then traces every important historiographical issue and development historians have encountered in the twentieth century. …”

“…The book thus establishes the role of the conversational turn-rather than the sentence-as the basic unit of language, and the role of conversation as a frame that structures cognition, discourse, and grammar…”

“…In this bold and timely work, law professor Jeffrey Shulman argues that the United States Constitution does not protect a fundamental right to parent. …”

“…La confrontation à l'altérité juridique a conduit à souligner la fragilité du droit occidental (sa variété contradictoire, son obsession de l'unité) et à susciter des questions essentielles : existe-t-il des systèmes juridiques alternatifs ? …”

“…To many in the United Kingdom, the British public school remains the disliked and mistrusted embodiment of privilege and elitism. …”

“…The sixth edition has been revised to provide a thorough account of the major developments since 2012, including the tumultuous aftermath of the Arab uprisings, the sectarian conflict in Iraq and civil war in Syria that led to the rise of ISIS, the crises in Libya and Yemen, and the United States' nuclear talks with Iran. With brand-new timelines in each part, updated select bibliographies, and expanded online instructor resources, A History of the Modern Middle East remains the quintessential text for courses on Middle East history…”

“…She also explores specifically how a Catholic generation of young seekers is experiencing, and changing, the Catholic Church in the United States. "The future of faith," she concludes, "remains a mystery. …”

“…The book includes astutely observed chapters on the United States, Japan, Russia, Britain, and the other European powers, and Winkler's distinctly European perspective offers insights beyond the accounts written by his British and American counterparts. …”