“…While the Obama Administration's pledge to remove all American troops from Iraq by the end of 2011 is encouraging - and in no small way likely ..…”

“…The book includes information about the genetics of various types of muscular dystrophies as well as explores new and current therapeutic strategies that aim to ameliorate symptoms and improve patients' quality of life and life expectancy. …”

“…Cases of parasitic plants approached from the cultural relationship with humans are presented for an area of Africa, as well as a review of the biology of the American genus Lophophytum, a holoparasite that is not harmful to agriculture and is even in danger of conservation…”

“…The essays - written by authors from the area of German studies and Germanic philology, Lusitanistics, Hispano-American studies, Sinology and Comparative studies - analyse various aspects of the theme of "migration" in the variety of its expressions: alongside strictly linguistic observations, they investigate the phenomenon of intercultural contact on a social, historical, literary and anthropological level…”

“…"This ninth edition of Writing Papers in Psychology provides frameworks, tips, guidelines, and sample illustrations for college students who are writing research reports or literature reviews that are expected to conform to style recommendations of the American Psychological Association. It also is designed to cultivate organizing, literature retrieval, critical reasoning, and communication skills under deadlines. …”

“…Calling for a thorough overhaul of a self-indulgent system, the authors make an incisive case that the American way of higher education, now a $420 billion-per-year business, has lost sight of its primary mission: the education of young adults. …”

“…--"Reference that rocks," American Libraries, May 2005…”

“…He is a former president of the American Educational Research Association as well as past president of the National Academy of Education. …”

“…Adaptations gathers together 35 pieces that have been the basis for films, many from giants of American literature (Hemingway, Fitzgerald) and many that have not been in print for decades (the stories that inspired Bringing Up Baby, Meet John Doe, and All About Eve)…”
Acceso a las primeras páginas

“…Breves y directos, enfocan una estrategia simple que demuestra la identidad de los problemas humanos, no importa donde ocurran"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.…”

“…Ranging widely through the history of Western literature, Paulson focuses particularly on American and English works of the eighteenth through twentieth centuries to discover how questions of evil and sin—and evil and sinful behavior—have been discussed and represented…”

“…Isaac Levi, currently John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, has explored the principles of American pragmatism in greater depth and more consistency than others before him. …”
Sumario

“…Remembering Minette Swift, the talented, assertive, 19-year-old African-American girl enrolled as a scholarship student in an exclusive, mostly white liberal arts college near Philadelphia who died under mysterious circumstances fifteen years earlier, Genna, her former roommate, begins an unofficial inquiry into her death. …”

“…As a collection of diverse perspectives covering speechwriting and political communication, advocacy, political campaigns, online politics, and American civil religion, this book serves as an essential resource for students and scholars across many disciplines."-- Contracubierta…”

“…Designed for use on courses in film history, The New Film History offers readers an overview of key areas of research, including reception studies, genre, authorship and the historical film, together with detailed case studies centred on well-known American, Australian, British and European films. With contributions from fifteen leading film historians, this is the first major overview of the field of film history to be published in twenty years…”
Sumario

“…In this work, American journalist Michael Weiss and Syrian analyst Hassan Hassan explain how these violent extremists evolved from a nearly defeated Iraqi insurgent group into a jihadi army of international volunteers who behead Western hostages in slickly produced videos and have conquered territory equal to the size of Great Britain. …”

“…Stephen Kotkin was the first American in 45 years to be allowed into Magnitogorsk, a city built in response to Stalin's decision to transform the predominantly agricultural nation into a "country of metal." …”

“…Gamedays on the Obama Campaign Dylan Richard (formerly Obama for America) Delve into the series of game day exercises that enabled Obama for America’s technical team to find points of failure in the months prior to Election Day. …”

“…She is a member of the UNDRR R-STAG of the Americas and an Editor of the ICL book series P-LRT. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…EL QUIJOTE VISTO POR AMÉRICO CASTRO -- 9. LA LITERATURA GRECOLATINA EN EL «QUIJOTE» -- 10. …”