“…., Absolventin der Pädagogischen Hochschule Heidelberg, ist Geschäftsführerin einer Kinderakademie für hochbegabte Grundschulkinder in Mannheim, für deren Aufbau und Konzeption sie selbst verantwortlich war. Schwerpunkt ihrer Arbeit ist die Entwicklung von Förderkonzepten für hochbegabte Kinder mit dem Fokus auf die Handlungskompetenz der Begabungsfördernden…”

“…Stettner illustrates how Croly's political theory influenced the editorial position of one of the leading liberal journals and how his thought in turn was modified in reaction to national and world events, such as presidential elections and World War I. Stettner portrays Croly as a modest and conscientious intellectual who wholeheartedly came to embrace the progressive movement and consequently helped establish the framework for modern liberalism. …”

“…This same figure of the posthuman played a crucial role in the functional adaptation of Cold War behavioural cybernetics, and thereafter, in the fetishization of technology within the era of global financialization. …”

“…His is a story of survival: in war, in business, in life. Tom faced death twice: in a foxhole and in a cancer ward. …”

“…PTSD develops as a consequence of one or more physical or psychological traumatic events, such as exposure to natural disasters such as earthquakes, fires, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis; wars, torture, death threats; road accidents, robbery, air accidents; diseases with unfavorable prognoses; complicated or traumatic mourning; physical and sexual abuse and abuse during childhood; or victimization and discrimination based on gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity. …”

“…Chapters offer a longue durée view from the fourteenth-century heretics, via experiences of miracle, madness, sickness, suffering, prayer, conversion and death, to the religious artisanship of soldiers in the Second World War frontlines. It concentrates on Northern Europe, but includes materials from Italy, France and United Kingdom…”

“…These were the same challenges that the USSR faced in the post-war decades (1945-1991), and the contributions included in this volume help to flesh out and contextualize the example of Soviet gerontology and geriatrics as one possible model of response. …”

“…Kant gibt darauf die einzig realistische und zugleich die aktuell visionärste Antwort; denn er war sich bereits 1795 über die weltweite Abhängigkeit aller Menschen im Klaren und entwickelte deshalb das Weltbürgerrecht, welches ein dynamisches Instrument zur politischen Steuerung der Globalisierung hin zu einer friedlicheren Weltordnung demokratischer Staaten ist…”

“…All their lives, they warred against the ‘sufferings and horrors’ of enslavement as a centuries-old ‘cursed institution.’ …”

“…Written in an elegant and arresting style, it is a thrilling novel by a promising new writer, who has brought the reality of a war-torn past very much to the present…”

“…Designed in the 1540s as a radical Protestant answer to Catholic "superstition," within a century (during the English Civil Wars) radical Christians regarded the Book of Common Prayer as itself "superstitious" and even (paradoxically) "Papist." …”

“…And he looks at mathematics after World War I, including the foundational crisis and mathematical Platonism. …”

“…Among other examples, the book includes the massacre of Europeans during the Thirty Years' War, the relatively unknown genocide of the French Revolution, and the slaughtering of American Indians by colonists in the New World. …”

“…By explicating the Constitution of Knowledge and probing the war on reality, Rauch arms defenders of truth with a clearer understanding of what they must protect, why they must do--and how they can do it. …”

“…Yet while no one can deny that science undergirds the American Dream, it has long been fertile terrain for the "culture wars." Along with arguing the pros and cons of abortion and healthcare, policymakers must now grapple with advancements that raise questions about what it means to be human: we've decoded the genome, but should we modify it to enhance certain "desirable" traits? …”

“…In the 1950s and 1960s, both technocrats and leftist educators turned to screens to prepare young Americans for Cold War citizenship, and from the 1970s through the 1990s, as commercial television and personal computers arrived in classrooms, screens in schools represented an increasingly privatized vision of schooling and civic engagement. …”

“…Meanwhile, their country seemed to be crumbling into warring factions. That was when Maggie made a life-changing decision. …”

“…Discover the keys to analyzing your shots from Stu Maschwitz, Visual Effects Supervisor for Star Wars, Episode One and Sin City . Unlock the mysteries of linear color space with Brendan Bolles, co-creator of the eLin plug-ins. …”

“…In this context, the idea of compensatory loss remains present in current wars and migratory conflicts, in the economic life of unregulated capitalism, in the new imperative of corporal beauty, in global sports competitions, and so on. …”