“…Against the traditional view of the living world as fundamentally composed of enduring things, this work argues for the radical alternative that it essentially consists of processes. …”

“…While the economic growth renaissance in sub-Saharan Africa is widely recognised, much less is known about progress in living conditions. This book evaluates trends in living conditions in 16 major sub-Saharan African countries, corresponding to nearly 75% of the total population…”

“…It attempts a reappropriation of the category of lived experience in dialogue with poststructuralist thinking. …”
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“…From this analysis and the study of the political significance of the body and the erotic aspect, it emerges that the body, understood as Leib - human body, lived and living, the hub of subjective perception and experience - not only has a crucial function in the figurative layout of the literary works, but is also the focal point of Büchner's view of man, thus assuming a central importance both in the three areas examined and in the more strictly aesthetic sphere. …”

“…Based on two ethnographic fieldworks among the Parsis in Mumbai, the research focuses on the role of temple fires in the lives of present-day Parsi Zoroastrians in India as an empirical case. …”

“…The field of women's history was flourishing in the 1980s, encouraging the study of more and more aspects of women's lives, including their paid labor. In 1985 Dolores Janiewski's Sisterhood Denied: Race, Gender, and Class in a New South Community joined the ranks of books devoted to the study of women's work and its contribution to the wealth of their communities. …”

“…Chris Yardley lived the changes as a computer salesman and tells his story of a career living and working in five countries. …”

“…By a succession of living pictures, as it were, this book shows the eminent naturalist in the very act of teaching. …”

“…In this book their actual voices speak to us about their nontraditional work and their nontraditional lives…”

“…Through 'thick description' of families' everyday lives, it explores the ways in which low income impacts upon practices of household food provisioning, the types of formal and informal support on which families draw to get by, the provision and role of school meals in children's lives, and the constraints upon families' social participation involving food. …”

“…Genetic Diversity in Microorganisms presents chapters revealing the magnitude of genetic diversity of microorganisms living in different environmental conditions. The complexity and diversity of microbial populations is by far the highest among all living organisms. …”

“…Your greatest creation can be an intentional life lived on your own terms. What is our life but a chance to make the greatest art of all? …”

“…Since joining the OECD in 1996, Korea has made impressive progress in raising living standards. Over 1996-2016, the country closed the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita gap with the OECD average by 26 percentage points. …”

“…The assets include machinery, buildings, inventories, investments in short-lived R&D (that is, investments whose returns last only a few years) and in long-lived R&D (whose returns last many years). …”

“…Does this levelling-off of traffic suggest that the saturation point is near (with a decoupling of traffic and income trends in the most densely populated areas or above a certain standard of living) or, rather, a cancelling out of opposite trends (continued growth in rural and suburban areas and decline amongst residents of the most densely populated areas)? …”

“…The test duration is 21 days. The total number of living offspring produced per parent animal which does not die accidentally or inadvertently during the test and the number of living offspring produced per surviving parent animal at the end of the test are reported. …”

“…Although large disparities still persist in standards of living, low and middle income countries averaged economic growth of 6.2% between 2000 and 2008, pulling 325 million people out of poverty (World Bank, 2010). …”