“…., data, intellectual property, privacy); formats and genres (books, databases, maps, newspapers, scrolls, social media); people (archivists, diplomats and spies, readers, secretaries, teachers); practices (censorship, forecasting, learning, surveilling, translating); processes (digitization, quantification, storage and search); systems (bureaucracy, platforms, telecommunications); technologies (algorithms, cameras, computers), and much more. The book concludes with an informative glossary, defining terms from "analog/digital" to "World Wide Web."…”

“…Desde la línea es un poema en prosa, un cuaderno de guerra, un libro de salmos, un desfile de carcasas de bueyes y toneladas de gambas, un cumplido inventario de los sueños y cadenas de la clase obrera del siglo XXI." (contracubierta)…”

“…Because there was little agreement about what constituted witchcraft and how society could best control the phenomenon, the images were viewed differently in various political, social, and religious contexts, but the aim of the artist was always calculated to further his career by the portrayal of witches…”

“…Drawing on archives in Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Ukraine, Surman analyzes the careers of several thousand scholars from the faculties of philosophy and medicine of a number of Habsburg universities, thus covering various moments in the history of the Empire for the widest view. …”

“…Based on exhaustive research among contemporary sources, it gives an account of Malthus's two careers, as an economist and as a professor at the East India College. …”

“…Learning That Lasts presents a new vision for classroom instruction that sharpens and deepens the quality of lessons in all subject areas. It is the opposite of a 'teacher-proof' solution. …”

“…Bird describes how Dostoevsky came into contact with the poor and oppressed who attended the Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor in Moscow, where his father practiced medicine, and how Dostoevsky was to champion the downtrodden throughout his career. He outlines the years Dostoevsky spent in prison after his arrest and near-execution in 1849, and how these experiences, in combination with his difficult childhood, epileptic seizures, religious and political views, contributed to the writing of acclaimed novels such as Crime and Punishment (1867). …”

“…Sigue visitando las villas miseria de Buenos Aires, los cerros de Caracas, las favelas de Río, las casas ampliables de Chile, las laderas de Medellín ahora salvadas por el Metrocable... y diversas iniciativas de vivienda social planteadas con espíritu práctico, creatividad y una mirada al futuro. …”

“…Hurtado's lifetime of study of the New Testament and the development of early Christianity. Hurtado's career of historical and literary research spans forty years and emphasizes both continuity and discontinuity in the origins of the Christian faith. …”

“…In Evidence-Based Policy, Nancy Cartwright, an eminent scholar, and Jeremy Hardie, who has had a long and successful career in both business and the economy, explain that the dominant methods which are in use now-broadly speaking, methods that imitate standard practices in medicine like randomized control trials-do not work. …”

“…La rebelión antropológica nos sitúa justo en ese punto desde el que podemos ver, hacia un lado, cómo arde el viejo mundo y su absolutismo teológico; y, hacia el otro, el nacimiento del nuevo que, con una «nueva humanidad», no vendrá carente de problemas.Desplazando su análisis de las herencias coloniales desde Latinoamérica hacia Europa, Santiago Castro-Gómez elabora una genealogía de la izquierda filosófica. …”

“…Prácticamente desde ese mismo día comenzaron las conspiraciones para restaurarla, que no fueron efectivas hasta principios de 1820 con el pronunciamiento de Rafael del Riego en Las Cabezas de San Juan. Por regla general, los levantamientos los encabezaron militares que habían participado en la guerra de la Independencia, identificados con la corriente de cambio político surgido durante la contienda. …”

“…Necesitamos evitar tentaciones como la dilución de los Estados nacionales en una superestructura carente de legitimidad o la creación de entidades con pretensiones estatales que sólo sirven para reavivar viejos conflictos. …”

“…Hence there is a decidedly personal dimension to the text as Schmitt expresses his thoughts on his own career trajectory with some pathos, at the same time he is at pains to emphasise that `this is not romantic or heroic prison literature'. …”

“…Steven French argues that London, in particular, approached the measurement process from the perspective of Husserlian phenomenology, which he had studied as a student and which he retained an interest in throughout his career. This casts his work with Bauer in an entirely novel light and suggests a radical alternative understanding of quantum mechanics in which consciousness still plays a role but one that is fundamentally different than previously conceived. …”

“…"The first book in CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning British espionage series starring a team of MI5 agents united by one common bond: They've screwed up royally and will do anything to redeem themselves.London, England: Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. The "slow horses," as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. …”

“…Il distacco fra rappresentanti e rappresentati, la sfiducia diffusa nei confronti del ceto politico, la crescente disaffezione al voto e, più in generale, una scarsa partecipazione alla vita pubblica da parte dei cittadini sono alcuni fra i sintomi più appariscenti della carenza di legittimazione che caratterizza la forma-Stato. …”
Sumario

“…The fragmentary speeches fall, like Cicero's career in general, into three periods: the preconsular, the consular, and the postconsular, and here are presented chronologically, numbered continuously, and their fragments arranged, insofar as possible, in the order in which they would have occurred, followed by unplaced quotations. …”
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