“…Samuel Price, for example, married his own niece. Between the world wars, Nicholas Waterhouse collected postage stamps while also hosting decadent parties in his fashionable London home. …”

“…This negativity effect explains things great and small: why countries blunder into disastrous wars, why couples divorce, why people flub job interviews, how schools fail students, why football coaches stupidly punt on fourth down. …”

“…As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications such as The Atlantic and Harper's, Alan Jacobs has spent his adult life belonging to communities that often clash in America's culture wars. And in his years of confronting the big issues that divide us-- political, social, religious-- Jacobs has learned that many of our fiercest disputes occur not because we're doomed to be divided but because the people involved simply aren't thinking. …”

“…A stimulating influence for the freemasonry came only from the garnisons (lodges of the captured officers). After the war, during a long peaceful period, the freemasonry took a steep upsurge, despite the internal struggles, called the "Lodge Wars", and the splittings. …”

“…Die Situation, in die die Lamm-Metapher hineinwirkt, ist bestimmt durch die Romanisierung der damaligen Welt, die in Kleinasien im ganzen Leben (nicht nur im Kaiserkult) spürbar war. Die Apk plädiert in dieser Situation nicht für einen Widerstand durch eine ganz unrealistische „Machtrevolution“, sondern durch eine „Wertrevolution“ und setzt sich damit in Widerspruch zu Rückzugs- und Aggressionstendenzen im damaligen Imperium Romanum unter hellenistisch-römischen, jüdischen und urchristlichen Gruppen…”

“…Se trata del modelo «americano», fundado en la unión entre las batallas éticas contra la secularización (cultural wars) y la identificación del catolicismo con el espíritu americano y el capitalismo.El mundo católico, que previamente había quedado fascinado por el marxismo, se encuentra, a partir de los años ochenta, con un modelo político y eclesial liberal-conservador elaborado por algunos destacados intelectuales norteamericanos a partir de una relectura, fuertemente deformada, de la Centesimus annus de Juan Pablo II.Una tendencia que, tras el 11 de septiembre de 2001, acaba transformándose finalmente en un teopopulismo contemporáneo. …”

“…John's Apocalypse is certainly considered the grand New Testament theology of history, but here its ethical dualism is mainly taken as a challenge for the interior life, to enter into the worship before the throne of Christ the Lamb, and to realize that where evil makes war against the principles of good, God will remain in control at all times. …”

“…The Rossi, whose political and social eminence dates back to the communal age, built in the Parmense a powerful lordship, based both on their estates and fortresses and on a vast patronage network spread over the territory and in the town: and the power of the family, though diminished after the crisis in the relations with the Sforza in 1482, was restored on partially different foundations during the Italian Wars. The essays collected in this book explore the complexity of the Rossi "little seignorial state", focusing on its internal constitution, on its exterior relations and on its artistic and cultural features between the mid-fourteenth and the early sixteenth century Il volume è dedicato ad uno dei maggiori lignaggi aristocratici dell'Italia settentrionale bassomedievale. …”

“…Woodstock was also where numerous facets of America during the turbulent Sixties coalesced, such as the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights and hippie movements. Thus Woodstock scholarship does not stand alone as field of study, but it is at the cross-road of a number of disciplines-music history, cultural studies, sociology, arts and literature, media studies, politics and economics. …”

“…Die Unfähigkeit Deutschlands, sich in die Rolle des Besiegten zu finden, war auch darin begründet…”

“…The book covers a wide range of visible and invisible geographies -- From Hong Kong's streets to Rio's favelas, from Sydney's suburbs to London's street markets, and from Damascus' war-torn streets to Istanbul's sidewalks -- and engages with multiple ways in which visualizations of the street function to document street protests and urban change, to build imaginaries of urban communities and alternate worlds, and to help navigate streetscapes…”

“…Whether in the form of the ongoing automotive wars, books and films such as Michael Crichton's Rising Sun, or George Bush's ill-fated trip to Japan in 1991, frictions between the United States and Japan have been steadily on the rise. …”

“…Properly understood, they collide with the ambitions of religious conservatives, contemporary American tax and social policy, and much of the War on Terror. But his more basic aim is to convince Americans of all political stripes--as well as citizens of other nations with similar cultures--that they can and must defend their own convictions through their own interpretations of these shared values…”

“…Synthesis of military and diplomatic history was reserved for another confrontation, the war of the succession of Spain, with which opened the 18th century peninsular. …”

“…Create or destroy, make war or peace, attack or defend - the game is whatever you want it to be. …”

“…In this video course, you’ll explore: Java project builds: specify repositories and dependencies, execute the build, and view the test output Groovy project builds: learn additional tasks and dependencies for Groovy Custom tasks: list available build tasks, define custom tasks, and insert them into the directed acyclic graph Conditional task execution: understand how to control if and when to execute tasks with incremental builds Multi-project builds: learn how Gradle defines subdirectories as separate projects Miscellaneous features: generate a Gradle wrapper for clients who do not have it, and run the Gradle daemon to improve performance Plugins: get a survey of Gradle plugin architecture and learn how to use the application, war, Gretty, and IDE plugins Ken Kousen, president of Kousen IT, Inc., is a technical trainer, mentor, and consultant in all areas related to Java, specializing in Android, Spring, Hibernate/JPA, Groovy, and Grails. …”

“…Amongst the Clerks are Frank Green, who, at the height of the Cold War, indiscreetly befriended members of the Communist Party, and the popular Jack Pettifer--a true child of parliament--who grew up in an apartment in the building. …”

“…Turner traces the impact of Newman's influence during the vast expansion of higher education since World War II; George Marsden investigates how the decreasing emphasis on religion has affected higher education; Sara Castro Klaren examines the implications of Newman's views on education and literature for current debates between proponents of a curriculum based on western civilization and one based on multiculturalism; and George Landow considers what the advent of electronic communication will mean to university teaching, research, and community. …”

“…We’ll also cover how to use Jenkins as an artifact repository which is used to store the build artifacts, like jars and wars, after successful builds. This is particularly useful when integrating Jenkins with other tools in a more comprehensive software delivery strategy. …”