“…Luchð con una fe y un tesðn extraordinarios para vencer los obstÆculos e insidias que, tanto las autoridades civiles como las eclesiÆsticas, pusieron en su camino para impedirle culminar su objetivo: la fundaciðn de la Congregaciðn de los salesianos, que garantizara el futuro de sus chicos…”
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“…For well over half a century, since the first credible warnings of petroleum depletion were raised in the 1950s, contemporary industrial civilization has been caught in a remarkable paradox: a culture more focused on problem solving than any other has repeatedly failed to deal with, or even consider, the problem most likely to bring its own history to a full stop. …”

“…International lecturers and academics address issues centred on the fundamental role played by the urban centres and port poles of Adriatic Puglia and the Tyrrhenian Sea in ancient and modern history for the development of Mediterranean civilization. The common denominator of the themes tackled is therefore the urban historical landscape, outlined through the gaze of the most varied disciplines - from the history of art, architecture and the city to urban historical iconography and cartography, from archaeology to economic history, to that of building materials and their technological and chromatic use - drawing on many, and in more than one case unpublished, documentary and iconographic sources. …”

“…Since scholars of Near Eastern civilizations and ancient and general historians of medicine will need to be familiar with this material, the volume makes this aspect of Babylonian medicine fully accessible to both specialists and non-specialists, with all texts being fully translated into English…”

“…We encounter physics in all areas of life; Starting with devices in the engineered civilization, over the description of phenomena in nature up to the fundamental understanding of the world, which has become different through quantum and relativity theory. …”

“…This volume brings together a multiplicity of voices and approaches from social scientific research to produce an engaging volume for a variety of stakeholders including academics, researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and those in the business and civil sectors of society…”

“…Ce livre a une ambition: rompre avec la “culture” du diagnostic qu'on oppose en vain à “la” crise ; réinscrire la crise, celle du pays minier de Montceau, et au-delà, celle dont tout le monde parle, dans les échanges quotidiens, la conversation civile, les rapports ordinaires des citoyens ; et suggérer ce que nous pourrions gagner à cette “reculturation”. …”

“…In these essays he investigates some of the numerous puzzles and paradoxes in the Tolstoyan heritage, engaging both with Tolstoy the artist, author of those incomparable novels, and Tolstoy the thinker, who, from his impregnable outpost at Yasnaya Polyana, questioned the received ideas and beliefs of the whole civilized world. In two concluding essays, "Tolstoy beyond Tolstoy," McLean deals with the impact of Tolstoy on such diverse figures as Ernest Hemingway and Isaiah Berlin…”

“…Despite - or, indeed, because of - the many uncertainties, we find ourselves at the beginning of a new design phase, not only in terms of technology development, but also regarding politics, urban planning, administration and civil society."-- Provided by publisher…”

“…Il sera utile aux spécialistes de l’action publique, aux organisations de la société civile et à tous ceux qui s’intéressent à la pêche et à la santé de nos océans…”

“…Cette publication fait suite à une manifestation exceptionnelle qui a réuni des représentants de la société civile venant de pays pauvres et des experts de l'OCDE en Décembre 2000. …”

“…"Orígens de les Assemblees Intercomarcals d’Estudiosos (1950-1966) sintetitza l’evolució de les reunions de treball historiogràfic endegades per cercles civils d’acció cultural. Es tracta d’una recerca que aprofundeix en les primeres Assemblees que, des de fora de l’acadèmia, tractaren matèries d’història i de geografia comarcal i local que posteriorment han estat objecte d’estudi en centres universitaris. …”

“…L ́integrazione dei migranti nella sua accezione bidirezionale di chi accoglie e di chi viene accolto è la sfida dei promissi anni per un ́Europa che vuole essere una società plurale. La società civile sta mettendo in campo in diversi Paesi - Italia, Belgio, Germania, Francia, Spagna, Malta, Polonia, Portogallo, Romania quelli considerati - fantasia e immaginazione per costruire comunità coese e solidali, creando sinergie tra cittadini e migranti che si trovano a vivere nei nuovi contesti nazionali. …”

“…It’s fun to see your finished structures dotting the landscape, hinting at a previous civilization. If you choose to build a city, you’ll be working on multiple structures, and you’ll need a lot of materials and easy, efficient methods of gathering. …”

“…It’s fun to see your finished structures dotting the landscape, hinting at a previous civilization. If you choose to build a city, you’ll be working on multiple structures, and you’ll need a lot of materials and easy, efficient methods of gathering. …”

“…Bridging the gap between research, theory and practice, this book will benefit academics and researchers in the field of project management and corporate governance as well as those in the practice of public project governance, civil servants and industry practitioners"-- Provided by publisher…”

“…These designs may hold the key to the deep transformation our civilization needs. To understand these emerging alternatives, Kelly reports from all over the world, visiting a community-owned wind facility in Massachusetts, a lobster cooperative in Maine, a multibillion-dollar employee-owned department-store chain in London, a foundation-owned pharmaceutical company in Denmark, a farmer-owned dairy in Wisconsin, and other places where a hopeful new economy is being built. …”

“…Herman Westerink follows this trace and analyzes Freud's thought on the sense of guilt as a central issue in his work, from the earliest studies on the moral and "guilty" characters of the hysterics, via later complex differentiations within the concept of the sense of guilt, and finally to Freud's conception of civilization's discontents and Jewish sense of guilt. …”

“…But James Despain and his colleagues rebuilt the division based on values of respect, empowerment, civility, and openness." "This is the story of how one street-smart boy without a college education became a seasoned leader. …”

“…Here, in the twelfth century, the popularity of Islamic songs of the neighboring Hispano-Mauresque civilization contributed to the development of a poetry which "answered the mood of a feudal society newly awakened to its native uncouthness by contact with the luxury of the Orient." …”