“…Il s’agit d’un « structuralisme tensif », qui donne toute sa place à l’« événement ». Le présent ouvrage vise à construire, de manière systématique, un véritable édifice théorique actualisé, des fondements jusqu’au dialogue avec des auteurs classiques de la poétique et de la réflexion sur les formes symboliques, tels que Cassirer ou Wölfflin, Hjelmslev ou Mauss, Baudelaire ou Valéry. …”

“…He claims he needs Percocet or Oxycontin (opioids), which he had stopped taking shortly before his symptoms presented. When pressed, he admits to combining several different types of medications, both prescribed to him and to his wife, including his wife's anxiolytic medication. …”

“…During the interview, Shannon details her trajectory from the time she was a high school cheerleader 10 years to her present condition. After a cheerleading injury, Shannon was prescribed Lortabs for her hip and elbow. …”

“…Ao assumir esse princípio, a Universidade pública, através de suas ações extensionistas, torna-se mais sensível e porosa para as discussões dos problemas, das carências e dos desafios presentes e permanentes na sociedade brasileira. Nesse sentido, é relevante notar que o conjunto dos capítulos rechaça o entendimento da extensão universitária como uma ação assistencialista ou como prestadora de serviços. …”

“…As a tomb for thought, this privileging of the shadowy recesses of the book preserves, through the very apparatuses of long- and slow-form scholarship, the premises presented here as indicative of an anti-capitalist project embedded in works that might otherwise shun such a characterization…”

“…The essays in this volume were first presented at the 2014 New Chaucer Society Congress in Reykjavik, Iceland where a meeting of minds in a shared intermediate space initiated dialogue from diverse perspectives and wended its way through the invisible spaces between concrete categories, objects, and entities. …”

“…This volume collects the papers presented at a seminar held in Potenza in November 2016 and constitutes the first outcome of a research project promoted by the Istituto per la storia del pensiero filosofico e scientifico moderno of the National Research Council, the Centro nazionale di studi leopardiani in Recanati, together with the National Library Vittorio Emanuele III in Naples and a network of Italian and foreign universities. …”

“…With focus on Denmark, Sweden, Hamburg and Barcelona, the book presents general analyses of co-housing in these contexts and provides specific discussions of co-housing in relation to local government, urban activism, family life, spatial logics and socio-ecology. …”

“…This book presents an unprecedentedly thorough collection of information on the diseases of cultivated annual oilseed crops, including peanut, rapeseed-mustard, sesame, soybean, sunflower, and safflower. …”

“…Inflation indices and discount rates are necessary tools in the Department of Defense's acquisition process, as the final selection of a system is partially based on potential increases in sustainment costs (inflation) and the present value of future costs (discounting). Inflation indices built for DoD use very broad categories that include operations and maintenance (O & M) as well as manpower, procurement, and research and development. …”

“…Transported by "ghosts" of the nuclear past, present and future, a pro-Trident British policy maker, the Right Honourable Roger C. …”

“…Scholars and activists increasingly regard these practices as essential technologies of capital accumulation, evidence that capitalist societies past and present enshrine racial inequality as a matter of course. …”

“…Philippa Strum argues that Brandeis—long recognized as a brilliant legal thinker and defender of traditional civil liberties—was also an important political theorist whose thought has become particularly relevant to the present moment in American politics.Brandeis, Strum shows, was appalled by the suffering and waste of human potential brought on by industrialization, poverty, and a government increasingly out of touch with its citizens. …”

“…Seven prominent specialists in the field, including agricultural and regional economists, demographers, and administrators, discuss the development of the open country, small towns, and smaller cities (up to fifty thousand population). They present an integrated approach to rural development problems, not a mere collection of readings. …”

“…This volume presents the history of the American jet aircraft manufacturing industry from World War II to 1972, documenting the evolution of its technology and covering the intricacies of its management, economics, and relations with the government. …”

“…This essay in cultural anthropology provides a comprehensive view of the way primitive people in all parts of the world once utilized knots; mnemonic knots—to record dates, numbers, and cultural traditions; magic knots—to cure diseases, bewitch enemies, and control the forces of nature; and practical knots—to tie things and hold things together.In his discussion of mnemonic knots, the author analyzes the Peruvian quipus (or knotcalendars and knotrecords) and suggests that the Inca astronomerpriests, known to have been accurate observers of the movements of the planets, may also have been able to predict the dates of lunar eclipses; and he shows how it is possible to manipulate the Ina abacus in accordance with the decimal system.His treatment of magic knots includes instances from Babylonian times to the present, with curious examples of the supernatural power attributed to the Hercules knot (i.e., the square knot) in Egypt, Greece, and Rome. …”

“…“My goal,” he writes, “is to present contemporary political thought about community for what it is—a conversation interactive, spirited, and sometimes tough.”There have been many interpretations of the muchdiscussed decline in community spirit. …”

“…Human and Machine Consciousness presents a new foundation for the scientific study of consciousness. …”