“…Some specific cases have shown us how to design residential environments and others show us precisely the opposite, how not to. …”
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“…The system chosen is the EU because it is more consistent and unified than the US system where a lot of the regulation still is created at the state-level. …”

“…Adult educators, adult development scholars, counselors, psychologists, and sociologists, along with education and training professionals in formal and informal learning settings, will revel in the rich array of qualitative research designs, methods and findings as well as the autobiographic and narrative essays that transform and expand our understanding of the lived experience of people both like us and unlike us, from the U.S. and beyond. Volume Two, Identity and Lifelong Learning: Becoming through Lived Experience, focuses on identity and learning within informal settings and life experiences. …”

“…Those categories point us toward a different kind of dynamics, which in fact obscure Latin American religious dynamics. …”

“…This conference has also stimulated many of us to test out other new ideas for conducting meetings on computers and information processing technology…”

“…It allows us to identify the projection, in the imaginary past, of the "origins" of nationalist, religious or racist fantasies, and to disarm exaggerated interpretations of the sacred texts. …”

“…The richness of its new information, and the depth of its perceptions, can help us deal more wisely and effectively with the continuing terrorist threat…”
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“…How can research into consciousness help us access and interpret the experiences of others? …”

“…Psychoanalysis not only emphasizes the primacy of the unconscious in social behaviour, it also allows us to relate all forms of social behavior, and its variations into the extremes of psychopathology, to the expression of a few behaviour mechanisms that are deeply rooted in the evolution of defensive and reward-seeking behaviours of vertebrates. …”

“…And while the result is a collection of impossible ideas, it also tells us much about what copyright could be - and what prescriptive treaty obligations currently force us to give up. …”

“…Mozilla's model could not only show us how to encourage the technical community to participate in civic life but also teach us something about how to create successful political democracy…”

“…ciency of the solutions he built, he led us to integrate the access to computers di?erently in the research and practice of data analysis…”

“…Through the development and empirical testing of several theoretical frameworks, Power and Principle helps us better understand the factors that resulted in the emergence of international criminal courts and helps us determine the broader implications of their presence in society…”

“…By rendering that mediation conspicuous and reminding us of the labor that necessarily precedes that mediation, the scribe reaches out to us across time with a simple but profound directive: Remember the hand.Remember the Hand is available from Knowledge Unlatched on an open-access basis…”

“…Next, they review policy initiatives in both developing and developed countries, and assess U.S. policy initiatives aimed at restricting offshoring. …”

“…The empowering message is that all of us have the potential to be more creative; we just need to learn the secrets of group genius…”

“…Drawing on Haskel and Westlake's experience at the forefront of finance and economic policymaking, Restarting the Future sets out a host of radical but practical solutions that can lead us into the future…”

“…Each chapter explores one of the ten attributes and habits of highly creative people: Imaginative Play * Passion * Daydreaming * Solitude * Intuition * Openness to Experience * Mindfulness * Sensitivity * Turning Adversity into Advantage * Thinking Differently With insights from the work and lives of Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Marcel Proust, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Edison, Josephine Baker, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, musician Thom Yorke, chess champion Josh Waitzkin, video-game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, and many other creative luminaries, Wired to Create helps us better understand creativity - and shows us how to enrich this essential aspect of our lives…”

“…Even in established democracies, enforcement officials use the power these laws give them to suppress vital expression and target minority viewpoints, as was the case in earlier periods of U.S. history. The solution instead, as Strossen shows, is to promote equality and societal harmony through the increasingly vibrant "counterspeech" activism that has been flourishing on U.S. college campuses and in some global human rights movements. …”

“…A story of personal transformation that reminds us that it isn't what happens to us that shapes our humanity, but how we react, Keeping Katherine shows the unconditional love that exists in families and the gifts the profoundly disabled can offer to those who try to understand them. …”