“…Avec l’émergence d’un État néo-libéral, l’action publique s’appuie de plus en plus sur des indicateurs chiffrés qui fournissent des évaluations de la performance des différentes actions politiques. Des « palmarès » variés connaissent une grande diffusion (souvent sous l’appellation anglo-américaine de benchmarking), en hiérarchisant les lycées, les Universités, et même les nations. …”

“…Specialized metabolites from these varied natural sources can be used directly as bioactive compounds or drug precursors. …”

“…Redéfinis, fondés théoriquement, étayés par une analyse de pratiques avec des publics variés, ils permet­tent à des auteurs de mémoires, de rapports d’étude, d’articles... d’écrire, plus facilement et avec plus de liberté, des textes mieux appropriés. …”

“…Des spécialistes internationaux de plusieurs domaines (santé publique, anthropologie, sociologie, histoire, économie) déconstruisent ici quelques idées reçues autour de thèmes très variés : sida, santé maternelle, reproductive et sexuelle, accès aux soins, offre de soins, environnement, nutrition... …”

“…I manoscritti dell’originale latino sono centinaia, e altrettanto eccezionale è il numero di versioni nelle varie lingue europee. In ambito italiano si contano una traduzione dal francese, conservata da una trentina di codici, e tre volgarizzamenti dal latino, uno milanese, uno bolognese e uno bergamasco. …”

“…Examples of zoonoses are many and varied, ranging from rabies to bovine tuberculosis, and from Japanese encephalitis to SARS. …”

“…The academic study of these processes is varied and interdisciplinary, but much of the literature has been organized according to discipline. …”

“…First, the book explores the unique nature of volcanic hazards, which makes them a particularly challenging threat to forecast and manage, due in part to their varying spatial and temporal characteristics. Second, it presents lessons learned on how to best manage volcanic events based on a number of crises that have shaped our understanding of volcanic hazards and crises management. …”

“…How did the content and effectiveness of these responses vary across different countries, and indeed within them? …”

“…Readers will learn how male and female students differ in their computer literacy (both general and specialized) and use of computer technology, and how the perceptions held about those technologies vary by gender…”

“…Based on a very wide range of primary and secondary sources, the volume aims to present in clear language an explanation of the varied significance of cycling in France over the last hundred years…”

“…In so doing, Machor takes us ever closer to understanding the particular and varying reading strategies of historical audiences and how they impacted authors' conceptions of their own readership.…”

“…Cancel threads his way between the complex demands of African fieldwork studies, folklore theory, narrative modes, reflexive description and simple documentation and succeeds in bringing to the reader a set of performers and their performances that are vivid, varied and instructive. He illustrates this living narrative tradition with a wide range of examples, and highlights the social status of narrators and the complex local identities that are at play. …”

“…It brings a rich and varied cross disciplinary social science perspective that engages with both the history and contemporary context of genomics and ‘post-genomics’, and considers the now global and transnational terrain in which these developments are unfolding…”

“…Prometeo, il Golem, Lilít e il centauro: sono queste le figure che ritornano in molti racconti e che per la loro origine mitica sono la porta daccesso ad un universo di significati antropologicamente pregnante, arricchitosi nel corso di varie elaborazioni storiche. Grazie alla densità semiotica di questi simboli Levi può presentare la propria etica in forma narrativa senza correre eccessivi rischi di semplificazione, esplorando ambiguità e dilemmi della condizione umana. …”

“…After these events, we looked back each time, with varying degrees of incomprehension, horror, anger and shame, asking ourselves how we could possibly have let it all happen again. …”

“…In dealing with sovereignty issues, East Asian countries have engaged in varied patterns of diplomatic and military behaviors. …”

“…and moving through intricate concepts of how students perceive math, how instructors teach—and how both can become better learners. Dispatches as varied as classroom case studies, analyses of math in engineering work, and an in-depth review of modeling-based curricula in the Netherlands illustrate modeling activities on the job, methods of overcoming math resistance, and the movement toward replicable models and lifelong engagement. …”

“…With examples ranging from the geometrists of the 17th century and ancient Chinese algorithms to cognitive psychology and current educational practice, contributors explore the role of refutation in generating proofs, the varied links between experiment and deduction, the use of diagrammatic thinking in addition to pure logic, and the uses of proof in mathematics education (including a critique of "authoritative" versus "authoritarian" teaching styles). …”

“…Professor Diane Larsen-Freeman, University of Michigan, USA “This edited collection provides us with a unique contribution as it demonstrates the applicability of a varied repertoire of innovative research methods to diverse language learning programs.” …”