“…On the Ethical Case against Agricultural Biotechnology (Kluwer, 2000), and Editor-in-chief of On the Human at the National Humanities Center…”

“…È l’epoca in cui la visione del cosmo cambia radicalmente: la cultura europea non appare più al centro della storia umana, la creazione dell’uomo si sposta all’indietro di una inimmaginabile quantità di anni e, infine, i cieli immutabili della cosmologia aristotelica, i cieli di cristallo, vengono definitivamente superati. …”

“…The multimodal, child-centered understandings of art as a means of "coming to know" presented in this text offer significant implications for young children’s language, literacy and learning and underscore the early childhood education professional’s responsibility to advance the arts in the various settings in which they work. …”

“…Otmar Issing, President, Center for Financial Studies (CFS), House of Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt; Former board member and chief economist of the ECB and the Deutsche Bundesbank …”

“…"What can we learn about the development of public interaction in e-democracy from a drama delivered by mobile headphones to an audience standing around a shopping center in a Stockholm suburb? In democratic societies there is widespread acknowledgment of the need to incorporate citizens’ input in decision-making processes in more or less structured ways. …”

“…Queer publishing often involved a range of creative tactics to beat the censor, from self-publishing to anonymous authorship. …”

“…The interdisciplinary volume, which resulted from the 2nd Göttinger Symposium of the Center for Medical Law, deals with the wide field of "correct" intercourse with a corpse from the perspective of theology and medicine philosophy, medical law, anatomy and law medicine Während früheren Generationen der Umgang mit den sterblichen Überresten als essentieller Bestandteil ihrer jeweiligen Kultur weithin vorgegeben war, ist der Bedeutungsgehalt des Gebots zur Achtung von „Würde“ und „Pietät“ heute mehr denn je unklar geworden. …”

“…We are addressed in poems written in the Guantánamo Prison camp, however much American authorities try to censor them, in our name. We are addressed by the victims of the US drone wars, however little American citizens may have heard the names of the places obliterated by the bombs for which their taxes pay. …”

“…A former communist prison island in the Adriatic Sea, now abandoned and overgrown with wild plants; the stone garden of a deaf Iranian peasant who dances ecstatically among his geological formations; a Belgian sculptor who combines wax and flesh to depict human and animal forms in states of half-manifestation, incompletion (missing limbs), or branching (morphing into other organisms); a cultural movement in Brazil that takes the discarded debris of urban centers and transforms their splintered wood pieces into massive labyrinths and underground caverns; a blacksmith poet in Afghanistan who alternates between tasks of hammering metal and writing lyrical verses amidst the smoke-clouds of his forge; a Cuban writer whose delirious fixation with the sea compels him to invent a language of pure untimeliness. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Army Veterinary Corps -- ASCENDANCE -- Agricultural Depression Amidst a National Boom: The 1910s -- 1929: Prelude to Bad Times -- Public Health and Distrust of Government: The Tuberculin War -- A Depression Paradox: Culture and Science -- New Deal: Discoveries in Infectious Disease -- DUTY REQUIRED -- War: The Home Front -- Veterinary Corps and Bioterror -- Postwar Investigations of Enemy Biological Warfare -- Prelude to the Science Revolution -- The Atomic Age -- TRANSFORMATION -- New Programs, New Laboratories: Malaria, Polio, and New Viruses -- Comparative Medicine: Models for Leukemia -- Grassroots Mandates: The National Research Centers for Livestock Diseases -- Old Plagues in the Wild: The National Wildlife Centers -- New Plagues: Scrapie, Mad Cow Disease, and the Prion -- EPILOGUE -- The Farm Crises of 1980-1995: Distrust of Science -- The Gender Shift -- Biopolitics -- Bioterror, Anthrax, and the National Animal Health Networks -- Anti-Science Scams and Keys to Progress…”

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“…It has been created with the end goal of providing you with a straightforward approach to understand, implement, administer, and maintain VXLAN BGP EVPN-based data center networks. Using this book, you will understand Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) as a technology that combines network virtualization and service provider class network attributes to solve the performance and scalability limitations in a three-tier design. …”

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“…Questo libro si interroga su alcuni dei tanti esempi possibili, lungo un arco diacronico che va alla letteratura alle arti figurative, al teatro, al cinema: da Leonardo a Blake, da Ariosto a Stendhal, da Dossi a Gadda, da Kafka a Borges, dalla Sarraute alla Morante. Al centro del volume una sezione con le pagine del dattiloscritto ed i quaderni di appunti inediti di/per La scelta di Giuseppe Dessí conduce ai limiti dello spazio bianco, là dove la chambre claire fissa con pochi, rarefatti segni, quanto si cela oltre la scrittura…”

“…We often think of negotiation as taking place in a boardroom, a car dealership, or any other contract-centered situation; in reality, we are negotiating every time we ask for something we need or want. …”

“…He’s also a geek-at-large for AS220, a non-profit arts center in Providence, Rhode Island. AS220 gives Rhode Island artists uncensored and unjuried forums for their work and provides galleries, performance space, fabrication facilities, and live/work space…”

“…While most change management books present case studies about what happened at other companies, this book is based on the author's own experiences managing over 10 transformational and turnaround initiatives, 15 acquisition integrations, and 5 operations/quality shared services centers of excellence. By relating personal lessons learned, how they were subsequently applied, and how you can benefit from them, this book provides a unique first-hand perspective on successful agents of change. …”

“…In addition, SmartCloud Control Desk supports both a profit center business model for internal IT organizations, and an external Service Provider model. …”

“…It is also intended as a technical how-to guide for use with the online IBM Knowledge Center for configuring and performing content analytics and enterprise search with Content Analytics…”

“…The VersaStack solution by Cisco and IBM® can help you accelerate the deployment of your data centers. It reduces costs by more efficiently managing information and resources while maintaining your ability to adapt to business change. …”