“…Les restes que conservem són sobretot textos administratius, però també ens han arribat epopeies i mites sumeris o el cicle sobre Gilgameix. Aquest llibre recull els trets bàsics d'aquest sistema i repassa el fascinant camí que els investigadors de l'últim segle i mig han fet per aconseguir entendre les inscripcions cuneïformes…”

“…@L'estudi de la dona és fonamental per a entendre els mites i les realitats de la cultura del Sud dels Estats Units. …”
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“…BREAKING BREAD WITH THE DEAD is a close reading with a gifted scholar of texts from across the ages, including the work of Amitav Ghosh, Anita Desai, Henrik Ibsen, Jean Rhys, Simone Weil, Edith Wharton, Claude Levi-Strauss, Italo Calvino, and many more. …”

“…Al llarg de la història, al voltant de la llengua xinesa i la seva escriptura han sorgit mites i estereotips de tot tipus. En aquestes pàgines conflueixen aproximacions lingüístiques i sociolingüístiques, geogràfiques, històriques, sociològiques i fins i tot pròpies de la història de l'art o del pensament. …”

“…Four chapters in this book are dedicated to evaluating the morphological and ecological importance and distribution of water beetles, dung beetles, weevils, and tabanids, while two others investigate the symbiotic relationships between various insects and their associations with bacteria, fungi, or mites. Two other chapters consider insecticide detoxification, as well as insect defense mechanisms against infections. …”

“…The Oresteia is permeated with depictions of the afterlife, which have never been examined together. In this book, Amit Shilo analyzes their intertwined and conflicting implications. …”

“…Se me antoja que un diálogo de esos autores con el catolicismo, similar al que ha hecho Smith en el marco reformado sería aún más interesante si cabe. …”

“…Concluding in the present day, the authors highlight the college's ongoing commitment to Mabel Smith Douglass' founding vision, "to bring about an intellectual quickening, a cultural broadening in connection with specific training so that women may go out into the world fitted…”

“…In this book, he shares everything he’s learned working with legendary athletes such as Emmitt Smith, championship coache..…”

“…Close readings of works by Salman Rushdie, Seamus Heaney, Caryl Phillips, Bridget O?Connor and Zadie Smith demonstrate allusion?s capacity to broker acceptance and generate empathy, to define models of identity and, in some cases, to backfire. …”
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“…La experta en marketing social, Mari Smith, detalla en nueve pasos cómo construir una red social fiel y significativa, formada por relaciones de calidad con la que obtener ventaja, publicidad, ventas y mucho más. …”

“…Ella tiene que ganarse la aceptaciðn de cada habitante de la ciudad para que le permitan quedarse, cualquier intento de hacer las cosas a su manera o de poner lmites a su servicio es un riesgo que la puede conducir de vuelta a las manos de los criminales que la persiguen. …”
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“…Contributors include: Barbara Arciszewska, Bianca De Divitiis, Karl Enenkel, Hubertus Günther, Thomas Haye, Harald Hendrix, Stephan Hoppe, Marc Laureys, Frédérique Lemerle, Coen Maas, Anne-Françoise Morel, Kristoffer Neville, Konrad Ottenheym, Yves Pauwels, Christian Peters, Christoph Pieper, David Rijser, Bernd Roling, Nuno Senos, Paul Smith, Pieter Vlaardingerbroek, and Matthew Walker…”

“…In the wake of Glasgow's transformation in the nineteenth-century into an industrial powerhouse–the “Second City of the Empire”–a substantial part of the old town of Adam Smith degenerated into an overcrowded and disease-ridden slum. …”

“…Grobman, Carrie Hertz, Edward Hirsch, Laurel Horton, Rosan Augusta Jordan, Paul Jordan-Smith, Elaine J. Lawless, Cynthia Levee, Jens Lund, Mary Magoulick, Bernard McCarthy, Joanne B. …”

“…Included in the book are the following: an official welcome from the Prime Minister of Jamaica; an essay by the collector, exhibition donor and philanthropist, Theresa Roberts; an introduction by eminent British-Jamaican art historian, Edward Lucie-Smith; essays by Emma Roberts, the exhibition curator (Liverpool John Moores University), Davinia Gregory-Kameka, writer, educator and researcher (Columbia University, USA) and Sireita Mullings, arts practitioner and visual sociologist (University of Bedfordshire). …”

“…In this revised and expanded edition, author Stephen Nelson-Smith brings you up to date on this rapidly evolving discipline, including the philosophy driving it and a growing array of tools. …”

“…The contributors to this volume examine the creative methods and strategies that were developed to record color-related information about insects through studies on Hoefnagel’s glazed metal and hand-coloring practices; the lepidochromy technique used in paintings by Marseus van Schriek and later naturalists; the representation of sexual dimorphism of color and variable color of caterpillars in the images of Goedaert, Merian, Albin, and Rösel von Rosenhof; the painting-by-numbers technique applied to Schäffer’s bookplates on Regensburg insects; Schiffermüller’s watercolor originals of caterpillars; and finally, the color fading of exotic cabinet specimens and how this issue was tackled by Abbot and Smith. The volume is lavishly illustrated with rare and unpublished images and offers new insights into the interrelation between natural history and visual practices concerning the color of insects, with a special focus on butterflies and moths. …”

“…Para disfrutar de esta navideña, exhaustiva y sorprendente recopilación, mucho más amplia que la editada en 1984 por Marie Smith y ahora por vez primera editada en España, no hace falta, en puridad, ser cristiano o especialmente religioso sino tan solo saber leer y formar parte de «la raza humana», esa misma a la que según el universalista y muy universal Chesterton pertenecía (y seguramente aún pertenece) la mayor parte de sus lectores…”

“…Leading technology authors Tom Negrino and Dori Smith take readers step-by-step through the new features in Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, with all new chapters on building dynamic pages with Ajax and Spry, and designing for mobile devices. …”