“…As they fought against resistance to fascism, they helped lay the foundation for the nationalist, racist, and anti-Semitic Right that we live with today."--Editor…”

“…Bell maintains that despite its sometimes doomsday rhetorical style and widespread use by special interests, futures studies offers hope for the future of humanity and concrete ways of realizing that hope in the real world of our everyday lives. It will appeal to all interested in futures studies, as well as sociologists, economists, political scientists, and historians…”

“…Proust's hero assiduously explores the vague, uncertain, relational aspects of experience, the trials and comforts of habit, the salvational potential of memory, the "moral" aspects of personal history teeming with impression and desire-these are the truths of human psychology and behavior theorized by William James and made fictional flesh in Proust's rendition of lived experience…”

“…Worldwide, human lives are rapidly improving. Education, health-care, technology, and political participation are becoming ever more universal, empowering human beings everywhere to enjoy security, economic sufficiency, equal citizenship, and a life in dignity. …”
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“…"In many ways, we seem to be living in wintry times at present in the Western world. …”

“…Finally, this book discusses whether the international emergence of individual personal insolvency law represents a progressive step or a band-aid for the costs of neo-liberal policies, where a significant number of people live close to the precipice of over-indebtedness…”

“…Then, calling on Whitehead's treatment of lived moments as acts of experience, Pred provides an account of consciousness that at once deals with conscious thoughts as they emerge from and function in embodied, socialized experience and illustrates how language distorts our understanding of experience and subjectivity. …”

“…Only in a world of open borders, he contends, will we live up to our most basic principles. Many will not agree with some of Carens' claims, especially his controversial conclusion, but none will be able to dismiss his views lightly. …”

“…This warm and generous book is for anyone who wants to know how to use ethical thinking as way to live, work, and be with others…”

“…Ultimately, prisoners played a tangible role in Soviet victory, but the cost was incredibly high, both in terms of the health and lives of the prisoners themselves, and in terms of Stalin's commitment to total, often violent, mobilization to achieve the goals of the Soviet state."…”

“…Laura’s teaching was not just about learning the academic curriculum or even about creating a supportive and friendly classroom, it was also about helping her students realize that their school learning was part of the process of composing their future lives. Such teaching is not easy and is counter to more controlling management approaches common in many schools. …”

“…Edwards shows how this entailed the rejection of images in Jewish and Christian thought, and how the manifestation in flesh of Christ as the living word of God compelled the church to reconsider both the relation of word to image and the interplay between the logos within and the written logos in the formulation of Christian doctrine…”

“…Researchers and practitioners concerned with teachers' professional lives and careers, and with the school as a workplace, should welcome this book as an important addition to their libraries. …”

“…The book's core is an accessible and lively narrative of events, free of jargon, which incorporates new findings, explains recent models, and presents well-known historical characters and events in new light. …”

“…The Protection of the Security of Legal Interests as a Guiding Idea of Necessity in Life-Threatening Situations": The refusal to justify the saving of human lives at the cost of human life is self-contradictory, whenever it is accompanied by the endorsement of such acts. …”
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“…Hailed by his colleagues as “one of the our greatest living geoscientists,” Wallace S. Broecker, a longtime researcher at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, warned about the possible consequences of global warming decades before it became a compelling public issue. …”
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“…This specific correlation is taken to be the best candidate to develop a realist position, as it is adequate to come to terms with the complex, networked and dynamic reality we are living in. On this basis a 'dynamic realism' is developed. -- Proporcionado por el editor…”

“…And just beneath the surface of her new neighborhood, the music, stories and dazzling drama of the Harlem Renaissance still simmers.One evening in February as the heady, curiously off-season scent of night-blooming jasmine fills the air, Ricki encounters a handsome, deeply mysterious stranger who knocks her world off balance in the most unexpected way.Set against the backdrop of modern Harlem and Renaissance glamour, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde is a swoon-worthy love story of two passionate artists drawn to the magic, romance, and opportunity of New York, and whose lives are uniquely and irreversibly linked --…”

“…Chapters investigate the ways in which women's writing was an integral part of the intellectual culture of the period, engaging with male writers and traditions, while also revealing the ways in which women's lives and writings were often distinctly different, from women prophetesses to queens, widows, and servants. …”

“…Situating these seven theologians' lives and labors within the broader historical context of nineteenth-century Catholicism, Carola introduces readers to a rich theological world rarely explored, providing both biographical depth and attentive distillation of their writings, methodologies, and impacts. …”