“…Focusing on some of the most important names in wine history—particularly Pietro Carlo Rossi, Secondo Guasti, and the Gallos—he chronicles a story driven by ambition and creativity but realized in a complicated tangle of immigrant entrepreneurship, class struggle, racial inequality, and a new world of consumer culture.Skillfully blending regional, social, and immigration history, Soft Soil, Black Grapes takes us on an original journey into the cultural construction of ethnic economies and markets, the social dynamics of American race, and the fully transnational history of American wine…”

“…If we expect legislators to respect values of legitimacy when they create the legal rules that govern our lives, shouldn’t we expect the same from the designers whose code has a much more direct rule over us?…”

“…Business Dashboards, Organizational About Us pages, Sales presentations – virtually whatever the organization’s creatives can think up you’ll learn to develop in Mental Canvas! …”

“…Ken Tovo, former commander of U.S. Army special forces, characterized the book as “the Ranger Handbook for AI implementation!” …”

“…TurboTax's Tax Knowledge Engine uses advanced AI to translate more than 80,000 pages of US tax requirements and instructions into a software oracle that can explain computations to DIY tax filers so they have greater confidence in the calculations in their returns, and can maybe save some of the 7 billion hours Americans spend collectively filing taxes every year. …”

“…Drumbl and Fournet have done us all a great service in knitting together - in a single, powerfully imagined, volume - these essays about how we might experience the institutionalisation of judgment in atrocity trials. - Gerry Simpson, Professor of Public International Law, LSE Law School (London). …”

“…Until now, Kracauer has been known primarily for his writings on the cinema. This volume brings us the full scope of his gifts as one of the most wide-ranging and penetrating interpreters of modern life -- Contracub…”

“…Sweeping in its scope, Rethinking World Politics is a landmark work of international relations theory that upends much of our received wisdom about how world politics works and offers us new ways to think about the forces shaping the contemporary world…”

“…John Joseph intersperses all these discussions with accounts of Saussure's research and the courses he taught highlighting the ways in which knowing about his friendships and family history can help us understand not only his thoughts and ideas but also his utter failure to publish any major work after the age of twenty-one…”

“…And he recounts Annan's effort to respond to criticism with sweeping reform - an effort which ultimately shattered under the resistance of U.S. Ambassador John Bolton. In The Best Intentions, Traub recounts the dramatically entwined history of Kofi Annan, the United Nations, and American foreign policy from 1992 to the present. …”

“…Grand Hotel Abyss shows how much these ideas still tell us about our age of social media and runaway consumption…”

“…The rise and spread of Islam had a lasting impact on the future of Christianity, and several chapters are devoted to the early experiences of Christians under Muslim rule. Wilken reminds us that the career of Christianity is characterized by decline and attrition as well as by growth and expansion. …”

“…Showing how a European empire was drawn into the political practices and rituals of the Indo-Persian world, Flores decenters the lenses conventionally used to observe the Portuguese empire in Asia and helps us rethink its nature while questioning the boundaries of the Indo-Persian world --…”

“…It is an essential read for legal professionals, educators, students, and anyone interested in the future of legal education and practice. This volume invites us to envision a legal system that is not only intellectually rigorous but also profoundly human-centered, accessible, and engaging…”

“…Elkington introduces the emerging disciplines of zero-impact design, engineering and management-through the personal experiences and reflections of the leading practitioners putting us on a path to a zero impact economy: zero risk zero emissionszero pollution and wastezero biodiversity losszero population growth.Leading Zeronauts explain how they came to wake up to the challenges they speak about the mistakes they have made along the way and the lessons they have learned in the process offering their advice on how we can get others to the same point in terms of thinking and action. …”
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“…En definitiva, l'activitat econòmica de les organitzacions se sustenta per la seva competitivitat basada en el desenvolupament de productes que cobreixen les necessitats del mercat, amb un preu competitiu i amb l'ús de les últimes tecnologies. Per això cal aliar-se amb proveïdors més implicats que siguin capaços d'aportar valor al producte final de l'organització que els compra. …”
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“…Chesbrough provides more than anecdotal material on how we must view industries, he leads us to examine how we do business. It is one thing to think of the automobile as a means for transportation, it's another to thing to provide transportation services over a life time"--…”

“…She concludes with linked readings of four "labyrinths of words": Virgil's Aeneid, Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, Dante's Divine Comedy, and Chaucer's House of Fame, each of which plays with and transforms received ideas of the labyrinth as well as reflecting and responding to aspects of the texts that influenced it.Doob not only provides fresh theoretical and historical perspectives on the labyrinth tradition, but also portrays a complex medieval aesthetic that helps us to approach structurally elaborate early works. …”

“…The French Ministry of Culture and Communication and the US National Endowment of the Arts regularly conduct national surveys (Pratiques culturelles des Français and Public Participation for the Arts) to track changing behaviour in the general population in the fields of culture and media. …”

“…The book that you now hold will consolidates these new neuroscience based approaches and in doing so highlight the importance of this approach in helping us to understand human social behavior in general. …”