“…This book considers the approaches followed by a number of international and regional organisations, including the EU, the USA, Australia and New Zealand and Latin American States, with a view to identifying the most suitable approach to be adopted for the SACU. …”

“…Les cuisiniers qui exercent une activité non conforme à leur ambition première parviennent-ils à réaliser leur idéal professionnel sur la base de compétences nouvelles ? …”

“…Cette dynamique permet aux acteurs du milieu photographique d’ériger une nouvelle figure, l’auteur, qui symbolise à terme l’accession à l’identité de créateur et de producteur culturel et justifie la circulation des photographies, des pages de la presse aux cimaises des galeries. …”

“…Al-Andalus, telle est l'expression qui désigna très tôt, sous la plume des auteurs arabes, les territoires de l'Espagne soumis à la domination musulmane. Depuis la fin du xxe siècle, qui a vu la publication de synthèses d'historiens éminents, les travaux sur le royaume d'al-Andalus ont pris un nouvel essor. …”

“…Tale esito viene dalla critica della metafisica di Cartesio: «Assicurarmi da solo della mia certezza non mi rassicura affatto, ma mi espone allucinato davanti alla vanità in persona. A che pro io, se sono solo grazie a me?». L'assicurazione chiede molto di più di un'esistenza certa, essa richiede che in questa esistenza io mi consideri affrancato dal dubbio di inutilità: «... non si tratta più di ottenere la certezza dell'essere, ma la risposta a un'altra questione – ‘qualcuno mi ama?’». …”

“…Nella dialettica tra differenza e ripetizione egli vede il motore dello sviluppo umano a tutti i livelli, in un moto dinamico tra la variazione e la duplicazione, tra l’invenzione e l’imitazione. …”

“…Au tournant du xiiie siècle et du xive siècle, la diplomatie du roi d'Aragon Jacques II semble marquée du sceau de l'excès. Il « écrit plus à la curie que tous les autres princes du monde réunis », il retrouve fréquemment ses pairs lors de rencontres au sommet, et des centaines d'ambassades partent à l'étranger défendre son droit, « son honneur et son profit ». …”

“…The current world-wide movement toward standards-based science education is based on a belief that every student, no matter how different he/she is, can and should reach a prescribed level of competence. …”

“…Il legame è in copertina: una grande "E" (congiunzione) a rappresentare il rapporto forte tra design e fotografia, immagini e grafica, ma allo stesso tempo anche il profondo piacere dello stare insieme a parlare, fare e disfare, rifare e riparlare, dei due principali attori di quest'opera, il designer e il fotografo. …”

“…This volume summarizes a significant body of research systematically analyzing innovative external quality assurance policies in higher education around the world. …”

“…He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a former editor of Technometrics…”

“…However, it is clear that a single book cannnot cover the full breadth of such a vast subject, and indeed, this original volume admittently concentrated on only some aspects of the moiré theory, while other interesting topics had to be left out. …”

“…This revised and greatly expanded second edition of the Russian text Tales of Physicists and Mathematicians contains a wealth of new information about the lives and accomplishments of more than a dozen scientists throughout five centuries of history: from the first steps in algebra up to new achievements in geometry in connection with physics. …”

“…They also turn out to be essential tools to develop a non-asymptotic theory in statistics, exactly as the central limit theorem and large deviations are known to play a central part in the asymptotic theory. …”

“…The second method is a combinatorial auction able to deal with resource complementarities. …”

“…A combination of the concepts subjective – or Bayesian – statistics and scientific computing, the book provides an integrated view across numerical linear algebra and computational statistics. …”

“…Aftermath: Readings in Contemporary Conflict Archaeology John Schofield, English Heritage, Swindon, UK Conflict and Battlefield Archaeology is a growing and important field in archaeology, with implications on the state of the world today: how humanity has prepared for, reacted to, and dealt with the consequences of conflict at a national and international level. …”

“…Practical strategies are suggested and a model for pre-service teacher training programs is developed. …”

“…Discussions on the central theme of the Seoul Conference - lifelong learning and training for all, a bridge to the future – led to the conclusion that a new paradigm of both development and Technical and Vocational Education (TVET) was needed. …”

“…The first part of the book provides a detailed introduction to mathematical statistics and the Bayesian approach to statistics, as well as a thorough explanation of the rationale for using simulation methods to construct summaries of posterior distributions. …”