“…Author Jamie Kurtz will take you from zero to full-blown REST service hero in no time at all. And you'll even learn how to incorporate some popular open source tools along the way: little or no experience with ASP.NET or the MVC Framework is required…”

“…Neidorf's analysis reveals that the scribes earnestly attempted to standardize and modernize the text's orthography, but their unfamiliarity with obsolete words and ancient heroes resulted in frequent errors. The Beowulf manuscript thus emerges from his study as an indispensible witness to processes of linguistic and cultural change that took place in England between the eighth and eleventh centuries. …”

“…Par la richesse des analyses visuelles et cinématographiques, par la conjugaison de l'approche historiographique et filmique, ce livre propose aussi un dépassement d'une histoire du cinéma en direction d'une histoire plus complexe des représentations liées à l'imaginaire de la révolte (le héros, le discours aux insurgés, les motivations politiques, le rôle des femmes, de la foule, la représentation de la violence, la sexualité, etc.)…”

“…She’ll help you get started, meet the characters, learn great strategies, and lots more! • Master every hero’s attacks, upgrades, strengths, and vehicles • Dive, fly, float, barrel-roll, sail, and rev across Skylands • Defeat Count Moneybone, CockadoodleDoom, Stratosfear, and all the villains • Shrink giant chickens, pop colossal corn kernels, and harpoon Hydras • Surf tidal waves in the clouds, erupt volcanoes, and go totally berserk! …”

“…Specifically, this study authoritatively reveals the identity of unnamed victims of Swift's satire as the deist John Toland and his republican hero, John Milton, for their advocacy of the Puritan Revolution and regicide; Toland's mentor John Locke and another Lockean disciple, Lord Shaftesbury, who confused happiness and self-interest with delusion and the public weal; and his tormentors in the Church of Ireland, Narcissus Marsh and Peter Browne…”

“…Whether it’s studying the Disney parking system or enrolling students at college; going behind the scenes in the world’s top hotels or becoming the office hero, Five Star Service on a One Star Budget will show you how to wow your customers, colleagues and cohorts and it won’t break the budget! …”

“…Alfredo Varona reivindica la figura del periodista deportivo y se adentra en la trastienda de la prensa para contarnos desde las redacciones de los principales periódicos y programas cómo se fabrican los sueños, los héroes y los éxitos.Conoce la cara y la cruz de la profesión. …”

“…Le lion qui accompagne le héros devient alors son emblème: quelle meilleure incarnation de la noblesse que le roi des animaux ? …”

“…Il peut lui arriver de sourire ou de verser des larmes, mais le héros hugolien ne rit pas, sauf si on l'y oblige. …”

“…The title is a clever and bitter play on words, conflating the "swinging" of 1960s-era London with the "swingeing" (to swinge is to beat or scourge) punishment meted out to new cultural heroes by the law. Hamilton's painting is far from reportage; it portrays the historical clash of cultures between Pop (and Pop art) and the establishment. …”

“…Appartenant à cette internationale "blanche" d'essence contre-révolutionnaire, les anciens volontaires élaborent le mythe du croisé moderne, du martyre et du héros catholique. C'est ici l'imaginaire construit autour des zouaves pontificaux que ce livre se propose d'explorer. …”

“…Par la richesse des analyses visuelles et cinématographiques, par la conjugaison de l'approche historiographique et filmique, ce livre propose aussi un dépassement d'une histoire du cinéma en direction d'une histoire plus complexe des représentations liées à l'imaginaire de la révolte (le héros, le discours aux insurgés, les motivations politiques, le rôle des femmes, de la foule, la représentation de la violence, la sexualité, etc.)…”

“…Pavel concludes his compelling account by showing how the old tensions persist even within today's pluralism, as popular novels about heroes coexist with a wealth of other kinds of works, from satire to social and psychological realism…”

“…At a time when losing a limb made a soldier a hero but losing a face made him a monster to society largely intolerant of disfigurement, Gillies restored not just the faces of the wounded but also their spirits. …”

“…Ce travail de fond sur un engagement largement méconnu dévoile des portraits de héros ou héroïnes ordinaires et oubliés." -- Quatrième de couverture…”

“…Chapter three: Political Rebel and Cultural Hero: Prometheus in Athenian literature. Aeschylus? …”

“…Instead of asking whether recognition was rightly or wrongly given, and who were the heroes or villains, the book considers attitudes toward intellectual credit and strategies to gain it vis-à-vis the communities that grant it.Telling the story behind the proof of the central theorem in economics, Finding Equilibrium sheds light on the changing nature of the scientific community and the critical connections between the personal and public rewards of scientific work…”

“…Y la cultura evangélica está repleta de héroes musculosos, guerreros míticos y soldados rudos; hombres como Oliver North, Ronald Reagan, Mel Gibson o John Wayne, que afirman el poder masculino blanco en defensa de la «América cristiana». …”

“…Con un pudor extremo, pero con una gélida precisión, Semprún desgrana por primera vez en estas páginas el catálogo de horrores a los que él, como tantos otros héroes anónimos, fue sometido antes de acabar deportado en el campo de concentración de Buchenwald. …”

“…He aquí, sin duda, uno de los conceptos claves, también uno de los más apasionantes, de la historia, la Propaganda: el vehículo más fecundo para la fabricación de héroes y villanos; un instrumento capaz de provocar una absoluta sintonía entre gobernantes y gobernados. …”