“…What is said is often not what is meant, yet most of us don’t know how to ‘read between the lines’. Something like an astounding 70% of communication is non-verbal! …”

“…The world is undergoing major transitions due to three driving forces-population changes, climate changes, and energy resource constraints-making it essential for us to move toward sustainability in the implementation of projects and programs as well as our everyday life. …”

“…Several technical breakthroughs made over the last couple of decades now allow us to radiate and detect terahertz waves more easily, which has triggered the search for new uses of terahertz waves in many fields, such as bioscience, security, and information and communications technology. …”

“…Although it will obviously never be ignored that viruses are responsible for devastating diseases, it is clear that the more they are studied, the more possibilities they offer to us. They are now on the front line of the most revolutionizing techniques in several fields, providing advances that would not be possible without their existence. …”

“…Chapters draw on case studies from colleges throughout the US and consider theoretical and practical concerns relating to models of sustainability-based teaching and learning. …”

“…Food analysis, therefore, allows us not only to determine the quality of a product or its nutritional value, but also to reveal adulterations and identify the presence of xenobiotic substances potentially harmful to human health. …”

“…As a game with more than 40 million individual players, an annual international World Cup, and a franchised professional league with teams from Canada, China, Europe, South Korea, and the US, Overwatch provides a multifaceted perspective to the cultural, social, and economic topics associated with the development of esports, which has begun to attract attention from both commercial and academic audiences. …”

“…Despite often stereotyped picture of the Others, the research demonstrates an immense complexity of these narratives and the fact that they tell more about Us than about Them. The book ('The Mysteriou Stranger and the Demonic Enemy. …”

“…On various karren their record is especially rich, revealing to us the many factors that in diverse conditions formed the karst surface on various carbonate and other rock.We have tried to present the most characteristic rock features and through them the most important factors and processes in the formation of the karst surface, the methods of studying them, and the most outstanding examples.Forty-nine contributing authors offer a wide spectrum of content and examples of rock forms from many karst regions around the world.The first part of the book offers an orderly-organized survey and description of the most characteristic rock forms and presents the physical and chemical corrosion of rock, biocorrosion, the modeling of rock forms, their detailed morphometrics, and numerous descriptions of individual rock forms. …”

“…The volume has been set up in a friendly manner, and tries to propose Meteorology through images, focusing its attention on the description of the clouds, ethereal presences that almost always provide us precise information about the incoming weather. …”

“…If it can be said that theology is the philosophical examination of a religion by an insider, then the present collection of essays by Shubert Spero offers us the proper formula for a truly authentic work. …”

“…This volume seeks to think through, and beyond, the logic of the palimpsest, asking whether this fashionable trope slyly forces us to see contradiction where local inhabitants saw (and see) none, to impose distinctions that satisfy our own assumptions about historical periodization and cultural practice, but which bear little relation to the experience of ancient, medieval or early modern persons. …”

“…Les arrels d'aquesta hibridació ideològica es troben en el segle XIX tot i que caldrà esperar a la dècada dels anys 1970 perquè a partir de l'impuls del nou ecologisme polític emergeixi un cos doctrinari i la mateixa expressió, ecosocialisme, que començarà a ser d'ús habitual en la dècada següent especialment a partir de la transformació de partits comunistes -en alguns casos, pocs anys abans de la caiguda del Mur de Berlín- en esquerra verda o ecosocialista. …”
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“…"<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Author Jon Petz, a former corporate executive and current corporate entertainer who has keynoted meetings for groups ranging from Wal-Mart to IBM, dares to address the boring elephant in the room: where most of the millions of meetings held in the U.S. every day are an unforgiveable waste of time and talent. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Diversification Among REITs.Toward A Well-Balanced Portfolio.How to Get Started.Summary.Chapter 11 Investing in Global REITs and Property Companies.How the U.S. REIT Revolution Spread around the Globe.Mapping the Size of Global Property Stock Markets.The Long-Term Evidence Supporting Investments in Global Real Estate Securities.Managing a Gobal Real Estate Securities Portfolio.The Practicalities of Investing Overseas for the Individual Investor.Part IV: Risks and Future Prospects.Chapter 12: What Can Go Wrong?…”

“…The book offers you some of the information that true money masters know, understand, and use to their advantage-but that hasn't necessarily been passed along to the rest of us. Engaging and informative, the book:Shines a light on the much…”

“…There is a vanishing boundary between manufacturing and service, which has huge, unsettling implications, to giant multinational companies and tiny startups. Those of us in manufacturing feel the uncertainty of these times. …”