“…Leaders and their propagandists used language to persuade followers, terrorize opponents, and annihilate enemies. Knowing how to adapt one's own use of language to changing political situations was of vital importance for everyone. …”

“…We all carry other people inside our heads - actors, leaders, writers, people from history or fiction, met or unmet, who sometimes seem closer to us than people we know. In The Man Within My Head, Pico Iyer sets out to unravel the mysterious closeness he has always felt with the writer Graham Greene: he examines Greene's obsessions, his life on the road, his penchant for mystery. …”

“…What is truth? How can we know God? How do faith and reason relate to one another? …”

“…Se trata de seres humanos angustiados y desbordados ante su imposibilidad psicológica de sostenerse como entes individuales que, detrás del pretexto ideológico de revoluciones nacionales, raciales o culturales, anhelan y necesitan evadirse sintiéndose capaces de provocar daño a los demás y a sí mismos, y de reprimir la libertad ajena y también la libertad propia. …”

“…And what is it about us that makes us want to ask these questions? As far as we know, we're the only species on earth that asks these questions, and dares to hope that we might find an answer. …”

“…This volume provides a critical roadmap through the major historical sources of legal semiotics as we know them today. The history of legal semiotics, now at least a century old, has never been written (a non-event itself pregnant with semiotic possibility). …”

“…This book was originally published as Getting to Know You - part of the 0-8 series…”

“…He cannot foresee the perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions that await him; nor can he know that those two weeks will expand into two life-altering months alongside a group of strangers who will come to encircle him like an unexpected family. …”

“…Crowdsourcing is now a part of our lives, whether we're aware of it or not. …”

“…Henry, start out as a farmer and end up a billionaire and owner of, first the Florida Marlins and now, the Boston Red Sox? How do traders like Bill Dunn, Ed Seykota and Keith Campbell continually pull profits in the hundreds of millions from both bull and bear markets? …”

“…Authoritative handbook from an experienced archives professional Divided into four main parts addressing the contextual, strategic, operational and practical issues associated with creating an archival institution, the text covers everything the archivist needs to know: establishing principles, policies and procedures; managing day-to-day operations; caring for different types of archival materials; enhancing outreach and public access; and ensuring the growth and sustainability of the institution and its services. …”

“…A city of lush green parks and gray lake waters, of steel towers and high rise canyons, of sun and snow and, all too often, wind, Chicago is at once urban and bucolic, decidedly modern and almost pre-World War II quaint. …”

“…To this end, SOONISH investigates ten different emerging fields, from programmable matter to augmented reality, from space elevators to robotic construction, to show us the amazing world we will have, you know, soonish…”

“…It offers journalists a guide on what they need to know and a call to action for what kind of research journalism scholars can do to best help the news industry reckon with disruption"--Contracubierta…”

“…They argue that animals know when they make appropriate use of the cognitive processes available to animals of that kind, in environments within which those processes are veridically well-adapted."…”

“…According to its acolytes, the Market is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent. It knows the value of everything, and determines the outcome of every transaction; it can raise nations and ruin households, and nothing escapes its reductionist commodification. …”

“…Il presente saggio, inserito nella collana La filosofia cristiana nell età moderna e contemporanea diretta da Antonio Livi, non è tanto uno studio sul pensiero di Jacques Maritain, per altro esposto con ampiezza d equilibrio teoretico e storiografico, quanto piuttosto la verifica dell incidenza e dell energia di posizione in esso giocata dalla nozione di senso comune: filosofia implicita, dono di natura e sintesi dello spirito di ogni uomo. …”

“…In Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution, Anne O’Donnell reimagines the Bolsheviks’ unprecedented effort to eradicate private property and to create a new political economy—socialism—to replace it.O’Donnell’s account captures the story of property in reverse, showing how the bonds connecting people to their things were broken and how new ways of knowing things, valuing them, and possessing them coalesced amid the political ferment and economic disarray of the Revolution. …”

“…Il gesto sessuale non è mai una realtà scontata o ovvia, ma sempre un dono colmo di bellezza, e la tenerezza come sentimento profondo, incanto e gioia di amare e di essere amati dà significato al desiderio sessuale e lo trasforma in forza di vita. …”

“…"From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them We think we know what an autocratic state looks like: There is an all-powerful leader at the top. …”