“…Cet ouvrage entend se dégager de telles idées reçues en présentant les sources des normes bouddhiques, celles qui régissent la communauté monacale bien sûr, mais aussi celles qui s'adressent aux laïcs, relatives à la famille, à la sexualité, au comportement personnel, au travail, à la propriété, au commerce, aux relations entre religion et politique. …”

“…Première monographie collective en langue française consacrée à celle que l'on surnommait « la diablesse blanche », « la madone décadente » ou encore la « Sappho pétersbourgeoise », le présent volume interroge en profondeur la pensée et la vie de Zinaïda Guippius. …”

“…Cette introduction s'efforce d'offrir au lecteur une présentation exhaustive et détaillée des Pensées qui, au fil d'une analyse serrée du texte (presque un véritable commentaire suivi) explicite les enjeux théologiques et philosophiques de l'argumentation orchestrée par Pascal et définit les éléments marquants du style de son écriture…”

“…C’est un défaut de lecture que ce présent ouvrage s’attache à corriger en adoptant un regard neuf sur un objet terni, jauni par les images successives laissées par les commentaires critiques au fil du temps. …”

“…Le résultat fut le développement dans l’Europe méditerranéenne, dans le Royaume de France puis dans la péninsule italienne, d’une sensibilité spirituelle à mi-chemin entre Rome et Wittenberg, et d’un langage religieux raffiné ayant pour ambition de renouveler profondément les pratiques et les croyances, tout en sauvegardant l’unité de la Chrétienté occidentale. Le présent ouvrage a pour ambition de faire résonner la voix des différents catholicismes alors en présence et de mieux cerner les réponses réformatrices formulées par chacun d’entre eux face à la crise de l’institution ecclésiastique. …”

“…---Jody Enders, University of California, Santa Barbara Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind presents the first comprehensive exploration of a disability in the Middle Ages, drawing on the literature, history, art history, and religious discourse of England and France. …”

“…The present book contributes to the public administration literature by providing new insights into corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability initiatives, and stakeholder engagement in the higher education context. …”

“…Build and deploy your own data pipelines on GCP, make key architectural decisions, and gain the confidence to boost your career as a data engineer Key Features Understand data engineering concepts, the role of a data engineer, and the benefits of using GCP for building your solution Learn how to use the various GCP products to ingest, consume, and transform data and orchestrate pipelines Discover tips to prepare for and pass the Professional Data Engineer exam Book Description With this book, you'll understand how the highly scalable Google Cloud Platform (GCP) enables data engineers to create end-to-end data pipelines right from storing and processing data and workflow orchestration to presenting data through visualization dashboards. Starting with a quick overview of the fundamental concepts of data engineering, you'll learn the various responsibilities of a data engineer and how GCP plays a vital role in fulfilling those responsibilities. …”

“…Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. …”

“…This anthology presents seventy translated and annotated short essays, or hsiao-p’in, by fourteen well-known sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Chinese writers. …”

“…These case studies together illustrate the variety of innovative strategies research institutions have developed to engage with their researchers about managing research data. Each study is presented concisely and clearly, highlighting the essential ingredients that led to its success and challenges encountered along the way. …”

“…We were very grateful to see that all the papers presented findings characterized as unconventional, innovative, and methodologically new. …”

“…However, their complexity makes diagnoses difficult even with the advent of NGS.In this Special Issue, we present several examples of the complexity of genetic diagnosis for most of these diseases and the consequences that genetic testing implies for genetic counseling. …”

“…The themes of this contribution reflect on the Italian landscape of pilgrimage, on the Oberammergau passion play, on the pilgrim aspect of the 1989 revolution in Romania, and two types of pilgrimage in the Catholic tradition and how they present themselves on the internet. Three social science chapters provide new data and analysis to the most popular pilgrim destination in Europe: The Ways of St. …”

“…Advances in East Asian Agricultural Origins Studies: The Pleistocene to Holocene Transition aims to present the most advanced research from varied regions of East Asia, with the purpose of evaluating the significance of Paleolithic cultural influences on the transition to Neolithic adaptations by comparing cultural evolutionary scenarios through time and across space. …”

“…In particular, this is the first book to present volunteer work in detail as a psychosocial resource and a source of well-being that should not be overused or abused. …”

“…"Autism is the first book on the condition that seeks to combine medical, historical and cultural approaches to an understanding of the condition. Its purpose is to present a rounded portrayal of the ways in which autism is currently represented in the world, It focuses on three broad areas: the facts of scientific research, including new ideas surrounding research into genetics and neuroscience, as well as the details of diagnosis and therapy; the history of the condition as it developed through psychiatric approaches to the rise of parent associations, neurodiversity and autism advocacy; and the fictional and media narratives through which it is increasingly expressed in the contemporary moment. …”

“…A psychosomatic disturbance is in this book conceived as an impaired sense of bodyself, or in other words, a lack of psycho-soma integration. Antonella Sansone presents a new approach to health and the healing relationship emerging from a meeting between Eastern meditative disciplines and Western psychological practise."…”

“…Motivation: A Biobehavioural Approach provides the reader with an understanding of why an individual exhibits certain behaviours, and what the causes of these actions are. Roderick Wong presents an analysis of motivated behaviour such as sexual activity, parental behaviour, food selection, fear or aggression, from a biological perspective, each chapter focussing on individual systems underlying specific motivational states that result in motivated acts. …”

“…Detailed clinical examples are presented throughout the text to illustrate how theory is translated into techniques of unparalleled power and effectiveness."…”