“…Many of us assume that our creative process is beyond our ability to influence, and pay attention to it only when it isn't working properly. …”

“…But as something so cardinal, we sometimes forget how poignant colour palettes can be, and how much they can tell us. When Vermeer painted The Milkmaid, the amount of ultramarine he could use was written in the contract. …”

“…As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El Barrio to a lock-up in Sing Sing to the freedom that comes of self-acceptance, faith, and inner confidence, Piri Thomas gives us a book that is as exultant as it is harrowing and whose every page bears the irrepressible rhythm of its author's voice. …”

“…In examining how transparency and open government initiatives have affected the accountability role of the press in the US and the UK, it also explores how policies in these two countries could change in the future to help journalists hold governments more accountable. …”

“…Challenging our fiercely held notions about what motivates us politically, this book explores how self-interest divides the public on a host of hot-button issues, from abortion and the legalization of marijuana to same-sex marriage, immigration, affirmative action, and income redistribution.Expanding the notion of interests beyond simple economics, Jason Weeden and Robert Kurzban look at how people's interests clash when it comes to their sex lives, social status, family, and friends. …”

“…To today's wider public Rorty is best known as the philosopher who forewarned of the 2016 US presidential outcome almost two decades in advance when he presciently predicted that a portion of the electorate would "start looking for a strongman to vote for- someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots." …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Hill, and Elizabeth Dean -- Sentiment analysis : providing categorical insight into unstructured textual data / Carol Haney -- Can Tweets replace polls? : a U.S. health-care reform case study / Annice Kim, Joe Murphy, Ashley Richards, Heather Hansen, Rebecca Powell, and Carol Haney -- The Facebook platform and the future of social research / Adam Sage -- Virtual cognitive interviewing using Skype and Second Life / Elizabeth Dean, Brian Head, and Jodi Swicegood -- Second Life as a survey lab : exploring the randomized response technique in a virtual setting / Ashley Richards and Elizabeth Dean -- Decisions, observations, and considerations for developing a mobile survey app and panel / David Roe, Yuying Zhang, and Michael Keating -- Crowdsourcing : a flexible method for innovation, data collection, and analysis in social science research / Michael Keating, Bryan Rhodes, and Ashley Richards -- Collecting diary data on Twitter / Ashley Richards, Elizabeth Dean, and Sarah Cook -- Recruiting participants with chronic conditions in Second Life / Saira N. …”

“…It is a relational construct connecting concepts and ideas that are often viewed as oppositional, such as "us" and "them" or "similar" and "differen". OI is also nexus concept serving to gather multiple central constructs, also represented in this Handbook. …”

“…Against the backdrop of Nazism and the Holocaust, the sexual revolution, feminism, gay rights, and anticolonial and antiwar activism, she charts the heated battles which raged over Freud's legacy. From the postwar US to Europe and Latin America, she reveals how competing theories of desire, anxiety, aggression, guilt, trauma and pleasure emerged and were then transformed to serve both conservative and subversive ends in a fundamental rethinking of the very nature of the human self and its motivations. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…/ Chris Hansen -- Ultima IV : simulating the religious quest / Mark Hayse -- The play is the thing : interactivity from Bible fights to passions of the Christ / Rachel Wagner -- Islamogaming : digital dignity via alternative storytellers / Heidi Campbell -- Wii are inspirited : the transformation of home video consoles (and us) / Kutter Callaway -- Section II: Halos -- Myst and Halo : an interview with Rand Miller and Marty O'Donnell / Lisa Swain -- Madden rules : sports and the future of competitive video games / Matthew Kitchen -- Poets, posers, and guitar heroes : virtual art for a virtual age / Andrew McAlpine -- BioShock to the system : smart choices in video games / Kevin Newgren -- Section III: Avatars -- 'Til disconnection do we part : the initiation and wedding rite in Second Life / Jason Shim -- Role playing : toward a theology for gamers / Daniel White Hodge -- Cybersociality : connecting fun to the play of God / John W. …”

“…Modernity is just the very fact that we as human beings are continually remaking the world around us through our actions, and are doing so consciously. …”

“…Drawing on her recent experience, Aurora Griffin shares forty practical tips relating to academics, community, prayer, and service that helped her stay Catholic in college. She reminds us that keeping the faith is a conscious decision, reinforced by commitment to daily practices. …”

“…It is a meditation into the meaning of the stuff in our lives and what that stuff in turn says about us. Moltoch takes a sweeping look at the role of design in contemporary life, covering everything from toasters to cars and garlic presses. …”

“…The shortcomings include the misconstrued content neutrality and public forum doctrines in the US, blanket bans and other restrictions based on intangible and distant harm in the UK, preventative restrictions and viewpoint discrimination in Germany, and the uncertain status of freedom of assembly and opaque judicial reasoning in France. …”

“…Yet, when it comes to the sciences, life at the top U.S. research universities is hardly idyllic. Based on surveys of over 2,000 junior and senior scientists, both male and female, as well as in-depth interviews, Failing Families, Failing Science examines how the rigors of a career in academic science makes it especially difficult to balance family and work. …”

“…In a world of brand names, many of us judge ourselves and others by the products we own. …”

“…Their results will change the way you think about and take action on both small and large problems, and force us as a society to stop making assumptions and to rely instead upon the evidence of what really works…”

“…He simply was, as one contemporary put it, 'the greatest man since the Deluge'. Taking us on a fantastic voyage in his footsteps - racing across anthrax-infected Russia or mapping tropical rivers alive with crocodiles - Andrea Wulf shows why his life and ideas remain so important today. …”