“…Neustadt Award for Best Book on the American Presidency…”
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“…That day, over 160,000 British, American and Canadian troops were dropped from the sky or came ashore, more than on D-Day just under a year later. …”

“…Belle's complexion isn't dark because of her alleged Portuguese heritage that lets her pass as white-her complexion is dark because she is African American. The Personal Librarian tells the story of an extraordinary woman, famous for her intellect, style, and wit, and shares the lengths she must go-for the protection of her family and her legacy-to preserve her carefully crafted white identity in the racist world in which she lives"…”

“…Iyer follows Greene's trail from his first novel, The Man Within, to such later classics as The Quiet American and begins to unpack all they have in common: a typical old-school education, a lifelong restlessness and refusal to make a home anywhere, a fascination with the complications of faith. …”

“…En el portal 26 de la Calle Martín Vargas de Madrid, Lena, Hugo, Ramiro, Camelia y Jara han logrado convertir el piso que comparten en un espacio de vida en común. …”

“…This volume, which contains the contributions of the 15th German-American Colloquium of July 2018, explores the problem in an interdisciplinary way with the participation of renowned experts from both countries."…”
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“…Aunque Descartes siempre rehuyó el enfrentamiento directo con la teología y la filosofía oficiales, como buen conocedor de su tiempo, debió percatarse de la importancia determinante de la "angélica doctrina" de Urbano VIII en el segundo juicio contra Galileo. …”

“…Marcus advances the provocative claim that the tradition in democratic theory of treating emotion and reason as hostile opposites is misguided and leads contemporary theorists to misdiagnose the current state of American democracy. Instead of viewing the presence of emotion in politics as a failure of rationality and therefore as a failure of citizenship, Marcus argues, democratic theorists need to understand that emotions are in fact a prerequisite for the exercise of reason and thus essential for rational democratic deliberation and political judgment. …”

“…Shorthouse, who are forgotten now but made a significant impression on Tolkien. He even read Americans like Longfellow and Sinclair Lewis, assimilating what he read in characteristically complex ways, both as positive example and as influence-by-opposition. …”

“…El análisis se apoya en una amplia base empírica de contextos auténticos. Además del interés teórico, las respuestas que aporta este libro redundarán en beneficio de los métodos de enseñanza. …”

“…Including subjects as diverse as the meaning of 'Europe' and European identity, southern Europe after dictatorship, the cultural meanings of the bomb, the 1968 student uprisings, immigration, Americanization, welfare, leisure, decolonization, the Wars of Yugoslav Succession, and coming to terms with the Nazi past, the thirty five essays in this Handbook offer an unparalleled coverage of postwar European history that offers far more than the standard Cold War framework. …”
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“…Aunque la mayoría de los adolescentes no cometen delitos y son casi siempre buenos hijos, buenos alumnos y buenos ciudadanos, una parte de ellos se implica en distintas conductas delictivas y necesitan ayuda rehabilitadora. …”
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“…Among other examples, the book includes the massacre of Europeans during the Thirty Years' War, the relatively unknown genocide of the French Revolution, and the slaughtering of American Indians by colonists in the New World. This riveting account is an essential tool for historians, political scientists, and scholars interested in the study of genocide…”

“…Although he had put himself in real danger in colonial wars in India and Sudan, and as a journalist covering the Spanish-American War in Cuba, glory and fame had eluded him. …”

“…Contributing to publications ranging from Jacobin and NPR to American Affairs and National Review, Lind has the ear of influential sources across party lines. …”

“…The current crisis in clinical research cannot be fully appreciated unless the underlying economic, sociological and motivational problems in American medicine are fully understood. Accordingly, this important book describes the evolution of biomedical research in relation to changes in institutional perceptions of the importance of each of the three roles that U.S. medical schools play--teaching, research and service to patients. …”

“…He credits the Pill with radically altering his academic career at Stanford University to become one of the few American chemists writing novels and plays." "This Man's Pill presents a revisionist account of the early history of the Pill, debunking many of the journalistic and romantic accounts of its scientific origin. …”

“…Saber cómo usar el color de forma creativa también implica entender las emociones que transmite y cómo estas emociones afectan a nuestras creaciones. …”

“…L'ipotesi di fondo è che si sia giunti alla formulazione di un'antropologia cristiana della gestualità coreutica che invitava gli uomini a diventare i perfetti imitatori di una choreia angelica come anticipazione della Città celeste: i corpi degli uomini erano strumenti musicali che, correttamente istruiti all'imitazione del moto degli angeli, avrebbero dovuto produrre all'unisono quella melodia armonica capace di arrivare direttamente a Dio. …”

“…La segunda parte está dedicada a discutir críticamente -a través de una serie de debates entre los propios autores- algunas ideas fundacionales de la reconstrucción teórica del derecho y del léxico de los juristas, como la explicación de las normas jurídicas como enunciados condicionales, el alcance del principio "obligatorio implica permitido", y las relaciones conceptuales entre las nociones de "norma jurídica" y "sistema jurídico". …”