“…Many of the projects and sites investigated in this book are recent “firsts” in Laos: Laos’s first wildlife sanctuary for trafficked endangered species, its first botanical garden and its first planting plan for a community forest. …”

“…All of the houses retain their individual identities within the larger campus.Presenting the 32 projects selected and built, including research, drawings, and descriptions by the architects, and an essay by Canadian Centre for Architecture Director Giovanna Borasi titled “A Large Urban Garden Where You Can Learn About Architecture,” Laboratorio de Vivienda considers the problem of low-income housing by bringing thoughtful attention and expertise of architects, considering how these proposals, assembled into a collective, would work together toward creating not an estate but a community for Apan. …”

“…Writing from the perspective of the experienced COM/COM+ developer, Alan Gordon offers the most realistic, in-depth coverage of .NET/COM interoperability ever presented. …”

“…Well, in that case this ABC of Migrations is an unusual, strange, problematic primer, as it more than politely offers and sardonically appraises, more than informs and problematizes, more than explains and obfuscates. …”

“…"Les chrétiens chaldéens, martyrs de l'Irak, ont une Bonne Nouvelle pleine d'amour, de pardon et de joie à annoncer au monde d'aujourd'hui : en Jésus, Dieu s'est fait Miséricorde. …”

“…Para cambiar esa tendencia, Alberto Garzón Espinosa plantea en este libro un objetivo ambicioso para España, que va más allá de redactar una nueva Constitución: se trata de construir una base social suficientemente amplia que apoye y sostenga un cambio radical en las instituciones públicas, con el fin de consolidar una democracia plena, en la que los únicos reyes que quedarán serán los de la baraja…”

“…Images of flappers, garçonnes, Modern Girls, neue Frauen, and trampky - all embodiments of the dashing New Woman--symbolized an expanded public role for women from the suffragist era through the dawn of 1960s feminism. …”

“…Cadmo viatja cap als dominis de l'Imperi persa, on trava amistat amb Ciros Espitama, Xerxes i Mardoni, fins que un temps després retorna cap al seu poble natal. …”

“…Prince Eugene of Savoy, contemporary and companion in arms of the first Duke of Marlborough, was the architectural patron of two of the most important buildings of the Viennese baroque, viz. the Stadtpalais (city mansion) and the Belvedere, a suburban garden palace. In spite of the common patron, so far the two buildings were considered quite separately by the research on the Viennese baroque, presumably because of the emphasis on the two different, very prominent architects, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach and Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt. …”

“…Arturo Varchevker and Isky Gordon consider what factors may be intrinsically traumatic for the person reaching old age, illness or death. …”

“…From books and poems to works of art, twentieth and twenty-first century aesthetics revisit the monumental, from Finley's garden to Richard Serra's labyrinthine iron structures. …”

“…Face à l'inquiétude croissante des populations, il n'est guère étonnant que les gouvernements de Gordon Brown et de Nicolas Sarkozy aient manifesté leur volonté de considérer le logement comme l'une des toutes premières priorités de leur action politique. …”

“…She discusses writings on Caesarean birth from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, when Church Councils ordered midwives to perform the operation if a mother died during childbirth in order that the child might be baptized; to the fourteenth century, when the first medical text, Bernard of Gordon's Lilium medicinae, mentioned the operation; up to the gradual replacement of midwives by male surgeons in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. …”

“…Grataron d’Arêches, pogne de Romans, cardon, bouche rouge, tarte au quemeau, pormonier, boudin d’herbe, chapons et poulardes de Bresse... …”

“…This second edition of Life Science Ethics includes four essays not found in the first edition: · Richard Haynes on “Animals in Research” · Stephen M. Gardiner on “Climate Change” · Christopher Kelty on “Nanotechnology” · Gary Comstock on “Genetically Modified Foods” and a revised and expanded version of the chapter on “Farms” in which Stephen Carpenter joins Charles Taliaferro as author. …”

“…A former communist prison island in the Adriatic Sea, now abandoned and overgrown with wild plants; the stone garden of a deaf Iranian peasant who dances ecstatically among his geological formations; a Belgian sculptor who combines wax and flesh to depict human and animal forms in states of half-manifestation, incompletion (missing limbs), or branching (morphing into other organisms); a cultural movement in Brazil that takes the discarded debris of urban centers and transforms their splintered wood pieces into massive labyrinths and underground caverns; a blacksmith poet in Afghanistan who alternates between tasks of hammering metal and writing lyrical verses amidst the smoke-clouds of his forge; a Cuban writer whose delirious fixation with the sea compels him to invent a language of pure untimeliness. …”

“…Master the differences between MongoDB and relational databases Learn MongoDB 's document database structure and how it stores data without rigid schemas Understand how to write data to and access data from MongoDB Explore the MongoDB Atlas cloud service Learn how to deploy MongoDB Atlas to AWS, Azure, and Google Compute Gain hands-on experience building a free cluster with MongoDB Atlas Jay Gordon is a Developer Advocate at MongoDB, focused on providing users with a great experience with Cloud products. …”

“…Barlag uses dramatic and colorful incidents from Caesar's career—being held hostage by pirates, charging headlong alone into enemy lines, pardoning people he knew wanted him dead—to illustrate what Caesar can teach leaders today. …”