“…And the foreword and a guest chapter are written by Alan Mulally, the legendary leader who brought Ford back from the brink of bankruptcy after the 2008 financial collapse and whose work is an exemplar of leader humility…”

“…Debra Benton and Kylie Wright-Ford have helped some of today’s most top executives successfully position themselves and their companies for the future. …”

“…Beat the odds as you learn from the best - including Henry Ford, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates - and turn your idea into an amazing and profitable enterprise. …”

“…Three chapters bring the digital experimentally to the fore, presenting pioneering ethnographies of an extra-legal peer-to-peer site and the streaming platform Spotify, a series of prominent internet-mediated music genres, and the first ethnography of a global software package, the interactive music platform Max.The book is unique in bringing ethnographic research on popular, folk, art and crossover musics from the global North and South into a comparative framework on a large scale, and creates an innovative new paradigm for comparative anthropology. …”

“…The "culture of surveillance", to borrow David Lyon's term, is a culture where questions about privacy and publicness, and rights and benefits, are once again brought to the fore. This anthology takes up this challenge, with contributions from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical frameworks that discuss and shed light on the complexity of contemporary surveillance and thus problematise power relations between the many actors involved in the development and performance of surveillance culture. …”

“…The drastic effects of climate change on polar environments bring to the fore the often subtle links between climate change and processes in the hydrosphere, biosphere, and lithosphere, while unanswered questions of the polar regions will help plan and formulate future research projects. …”

“…Shapiro deploys several modes of literary criticism to establish the distinctiveness of each of Shakespeare's five disguised heroine plays and to trace the subtle and ingenious variations on the motif by such writers as Greene, Fletcher, Chapman, Middleton, Jonson, and Ford. The popularity of the "female page" is examined as a playful literary and theatrical way of confronting, avoiding, or merely exploiting issues such as the place of women in a patriarchal culture and the representation of women on stage. …”

“…Silke Meyer is the Leneen Forde Chair in Child & Family Research at Griffith University and an Adjunct Professor at the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Center at Monash University, Australia. …”

“…Three chapters bring the digital experimentally to the fore, presenting pioneering ethnographies of an extra-legal peer-to-peer site and the streaming platform Spotify, a series of prominent internet-mediated music genres, and the first ethnography of a global software package, the interactive music platform Max.The book is unique in bringing ethnographic research on popular, folk, art and crossover musics from the global North and South into a comparative framework on a large scale, and creates an innovative new paradigm for comparative anthropology. …”

“…Throughout, the authors provide illuminating case studies, including Boston's "Big Dig," the Golden Gate Bridge, the Ford Edsel, Olympic Games, Indian Tata Nano Car, Microsoft Campus Renovation Project, the U.S. moon mission, and Apple iPhone. …”

“…Join us for a special conversation with Neal Ford and longtime enterprise IT veteran Matt Stine to explore the highest-leverage work you can do to improve your enterprise software architecture. …”

“…Join us for a special conversation on microservices with Neal Ford and Sam Newman. They'll discuss what changed between the first and second editions of Building Microservices, what next-generation microservices will look like, and the right way to build distributed systems. …”

“…But in the 1980s a new kind of economist, who viewed the advancement of markets as left parties' main task, came to the fore. Meanwhile, as voters' loyalties to left parties waned, professional strategists were called upon to "spin" party messages. …”

“…Finally, the book focuses on the decline of the partnership under Nixon's successor, Gerald Ford, through a history of the failed negotiations from 1974 to 1976 for an agreement on U.S. nuclear exports to Iran. …”

“…Ben presto il libello fa il giro di mezza Europa: l'immagine parodistica del Pontefice - irascibile, arrogante, cinico e privo di vera fede - mentre dialoga con un San Pietro che lo respinge dal Paradiso, è divertentissima, pungente, e con le debolezze del personaggio coglie anche quelle di una Chiesa da tempo asservita al potere. …”

“…«La lettera uccide, lo spirito dà vita» disse Paolo di Tarso, contrapponendo alla legge giudaica in cui era nato la nuova fede – il cristianesimo – di cui fu il fondatore. …”

“…L’analisi segue il filo del rapporto tra cattolici, fede religiosa e ricorso alla violenza. In questa prospettiva intende contrastare la tentazione ricorrente di applicare ai cattolici di allora le categorie dell’oggi, come il pacifismo o l’obiezione di coscienza, insieme all’accusa di essere stati imbelli e “attendisti”. …”

“…Yalof draws on the papers of seven modern presidents, from Truman to Reagan, and firsthand interviews with key figures, such as Ramsey Clark, Edwin Meese, and President Gerald Ford. He documents and analyzes the selection criteria these presidents used, the pool of candidates from which they chose, their strategies, and the political pressures affecting their decisions, both successes and failures. …”
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“…Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) è stato uno dei pensatori contemporanei più fedeli a questa inaugurale vocazione della filosofia, e il libro di Rocco Ronchi ci consente di gettare uno sguardo estremamente originale sul suo laboratorio teorico. …”

“…Con una narrazione documentata che comprende anche i lineamenti dell’anarchismo e del suo sviluppo storico in contrasto con qualsiasi altra fede politica, Pino Casamassima ci racconta le vicende, figlie del proprio secolo, di chi votò l’esistenza al fuoco inestinguibile della ribellione e a un’idea sconfinata di libertà -- Editor…”