“…Ils présentent également les arguments économiques pour améliorer l’accès aux traitements pour les populations du Sud ainsi que les positions contrastées des associations du Nord face à la complexité des situations au Sud. …”

“…Devant ce constat et face à la nécessité d’optimiser concrètement la gestion de l’eau et de restaurer la fertilité des terres, l’amélioration des techniques traditionnelles est la voie recommandée dans cet ouvrage pour mettre en œuvre des projets intégrés de développement en milieu rural. …”

“…São as categorias da mimese I, II e III de Ricoeur que Martinho soares aplica a Tucídides, no sentido de com elas apreender, testar e compreender a dimensão da prefiguração – valorizando a história e a memória, o semeion e o tekmerion –; a da configuração narrativa, que implica uma reflexão sobre ação e tempo humano, condensado na narrativa – o que torna pertinente a aproximação Tucídides/Aristóteles –; e, finalmente, a da refiguração, pela qual ao leitor é feito ver o passado como um “tua res agitur”, quiçá, de dimensões trágicas…”

“…To answer this question, this work sets in dialogue thirteen contributions written by American and Canadian studies specialists, in an interdisciplinary perspective. …”

“…These include receiving British explorer James Cook; a 19th century voyage to London; troubled relations with early Christian missionaries; overseas emigration for plantation labor; the innovation of the John Frum Movement, a so-called Melanesian "cargo cult"; service in American military labor corps during the Pacific War; agitation in the 1970s for an independent Vanuatu; urban migration to seek work in Port Vila (Vanuatu's capital); the international kava business; juggling arranged versus love marriages; and modern dealings with social media and swelling numbers of tourists. …”

“…The book raises awareness of, and calls for, the digital humanities to address the challenges posed by the linguistic and cultural divides in computing, the clash between communication and control, and the biases inherent in networked technologies.A common problem with publications in the Digital Humanities is the dominance of the Anglo-American perspective. While seeking to take a broader view, the book attempts to show how cultural bias can become an obstacle to innovation both in the methodology and practice of the Digital Humanities. …”

“…Elle examine les solutions ou améliorations envisagées dans les enceintes onusiennes, et en propose d’autres, qui pourraient l’être. …”

“…Combien faut-il investir pour améliorer la qualité de l'air, la propreté d'une ville ou assurer la survie d'une espèce ? …”

“…Der württembergische Gesandte Moser von Filseck, von 1906-1933 ununterbrochen auf seinem Münchener Posten, verzeichnete täglich alles Wissenswerte und berichtete darüber präzise und leidenschaftslos. Sein amtlicher und gesellschaftlicher Status erschloss ihm wichtige Informationsquellen. …”

“…In fact, while the shift to constitutions as a hierarchically ‘higher’ form of positive law was a revolutionary change, it also drew upon old liberties. The American constitutional discourse, which was itself heavily influenced by British common law, in turn served as an inspiration for a variety of constitutional experiments – from the French Revolution to Napoleon’s downfall, in the halls of the Frankfurt Assembly, on the road to a unified Italy, and in the later theoretical discourse of twentieth-century Austria. …”

“…Although, initially, American influences played a major role in their construction, the new French and Chinese economic sociologies have progressively attained autonomy and elaborated situated knowledge. …”

“…Fred Smith, Chairman, President & CEO, FedEx Features interviews with -Josef Ackermann, CEO & Chairman, Deutsche Bank -Bertrand Collomb, Honorary Chairman, Lafarge -Gabriele Galateri di Genola, Chairman, Telecom Italia -Jürgen Hambrecht, Chairman, BASF -Maurice Lévy, Chairman & CEO, Publicis -John Monks, General Secretary, European Trade Union Confederation -Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Former Chairman, Anglo American; Former Chairman, Shell -Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, President, Party of European Socialists; Former Prime Minister, Denmark -Fred Smith, Chairman, President, & CEO, FedEx -John Sweeney, President Emeritus, AFL-CIO -William Weld, Partner, McDermott Will & Emery LLP; Former Governor, Massachusetts -James Wolfensohn, Chairman & CEO, Wolfensohn & Co.; Former President, World Bank -Jerry Yang, Co-Founder & Chief Yahoo, Yahoo! …”

“…He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a former editor of Technometrics…”

“…(Chairman, Patton Boggs LLP) Received wisdom has it that lobbyists run the American government on behalf of moneyed interests. …”

“…He has served or is serving as associate editor for the Annals of Statistics, Bayesian Analysis, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Statistical Science, and Sankhya. and is editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series B) from 2006–2009. …”

“…If you're one of the millions of Americans who is buried in credit card debt, or maybe you're having trouble deciphering the fine print on your 401(K)—that is, if you even have a 401(K)!…”

“…Other pieces intertwine the digital humanities with other fields — area studies, Asian American Studies, cultural studies, literary studies, and environmental studies — in order to reexamine how the intersections and juxtapositions reveal silences in these histories. …”

“…Par la suite, les agents de la fiscalité locale et les intendants s’efforcèrent plus qu’on ne le soupçonne d’en améliorer le fonctionnement sans l’uniformiser. Cet ouvrage parcourt, pour l’ensemble de la période moderne, toute la France, du Languedoc à la Bretagne, à la Lorraine, en passant également par l’Armagnac, le Comtat Venaissin, le Dauphiné, l’Auvergne, le Beaujolais, la Touraine, le Soissonnais, les Pays-Bas. …”

“…Au cours de cette étude, travailleurs sociaux et enseignants ont trouvé l'occasion d'exprimer leurs inquiétudes, d'appréhender la complexité des situations et de formuler des pistes d'intervention améliorant le « vivre ensemble ». Gérer ces incidents exige des compétences de la part des professionnels, mais requiert également un engagement au niveau institutionnel…”

“…Eduard Steuermann (1892–1964), Austrian-Polish-Jewish pianist from Galicia, student of Busoni, teacher and friend of Adorno, exiled American, sought-after soloist and pedagogue between Vienna, New York and Darmstadt, sought throughout his life the "almost impossible": to reconcile truth and beauty in uncompromising "devotion to music". …”