“…Drawing on a set of fascinating examples, he analyses whether claims about intelligent design are untestable; whether they are discredited by the fact that many adaptations are imperfect; whether it is possible to know that present species trace back to common ancestors; how it is possible to test hypotheses about natural selection and many other issues. …”
Sumario

“…There are many countries that use and apply the common law, which collectively may be called the common law world. …”

“…Some of the conclusions drawn in Bad Education are likely to be real eye-openers for many teachers and parents, who will find some of their basic assumptions about education called into question. …”

“…Partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) is becoming a popular statistical framework in many fields and disciplines of the social sciences. …”

“…Clearly, economic inequalities have become increasingly prominent issues in recent public debates, not least in the context of the latest Great Recession that followed from the financial crash in 2007, and attendant austerity regimes in many countries. This holds true for the debate in the wider public sphere as well as in many fields of academic study, not least in the two specific disciplinary areas most related to this book: political economy and media and journalism studies. …”

“…Sonenscher shows that many of our received ideas fail to pick up the work that the idea of capitalism is doing for us, without us even realizing it. …”

“…Never before in American history have so many men abandoned their families or failed to form them. …”

“…Students and the public routinely consult various published college rankings to assess the quality of colleges and universities and easily compare different schools. However, many institutions have responded to the rankings in ways that benefit neither the schools nor their students. …”

“…In recent years, however, it has increasingly been argued that narrative flows in many directions and through every form of legal theory and practice. …”

“…Robert Rotberg defines corruption theoretically and practically in its many forms, describes the available legal remedies, and examines how we know and measure corruption's presence. …”

“…She argues that the grading system most commonly in use now is unwieldy, imprecise and unnecessarily complex, involving too many rating levels for too many individual assignments and tests, and based on a hairsplitting point structure that obscures the underlying criteria and encourages students to challenge their grades. …”

“…Assailed on all sides by among many other tendencies - flexible working, short-termism, portfolio careers, quick-fix training and the cult of celebrity, it has recently re-entered public debate with a new sense of urgency. …”

“…In addition, in the case of languages like Spanish, English, French, spoken in many countries, new creations or diatopic variants arise. …”

“…Many people deploy photo media tools to document everyday events and rituals. …”
Sumario
Reseña

“…Distinguished philosopher John Cooper traces how, for many ancient thinkers, philosophy was not just to be studied or even used to solve particular practical problems. …”

“…Presentación del editor: "Photographs have had an integral and complex role in many anthropological contexts, from fieldwork to museum exhibitions. …”

“…Inverse problems are usually nonlinear and are separated into one-dimensional and multidimensional problems, depending on whether the sought function (or functions) is a function of one variable or of many. Multidimensionality of inverse problems has particular value at present, because practice shows that many investigating processes are described by an equation, of which the co-efficient essentially depends on many variables. …”

“…Taken as a whole, this work relates the many facets of effective IGM, from the catchment to global perspective…”

“…Coalmining was a notoriously dangerous industry and many of its workers experienced injury and disease. …”

“…However—despite some progress—many individuals and communities continue to face discrimination, remaining on the margins of society. …”