“…Big business working in the interests of humanity would be a powerful tool.” —Gordon Roddick, cofounder of The Body Shop “The IKEA Edge is a fascinating case study of an entrepreneurial company’s growth to maturity. …”

“…Les designacions de la gavarrera i el gavarró, el jonc, l'ortiga i la ginesta a l'alta conca de la Garona Rémy Viredaz Catalan eixorc 'stérile' Santiago Vicente Llavata Notas en torno al grado de castellanización de la Crónica troyana promovida por Juan Fernández de Heredia en el estudio contrastivo de su fraseologia Maria José Martinez Alcalde <> de la Spanish Grammar (1599) de John Minsheu frente a la Gramática de la lengua vulgar de Espana (1559): algo más que un plagio Livia C. …”

“…A unique feature of this monograph is that it represents the collective efforts of students from the LSE Government Department (including undergraduate, MSc and PhD), who worked under the leadership of Professor Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey (Head of Government Department) and Dr Gordon Bannerman (British Historian). This collaboration has enabled a rich array of perspectives on the history of the Department but has also brought the monograph to life with personal ties to the Department itself…”

“…Partiendo de la base de que las modas culturales suelen llevar el sello de la sensibilidad de la época; supuesto, además que la postmodernidad, más que un "tiempo", es un "talante", y un talante que supone la pérdida de confianza en la razón con la que andaba la modernidad; y teniendo en cuenta, por fin, que el cristianismo es fundamentalmente la oferta y la tarea del Reino de Dios (un movimiento de transformación radical de la realidad social e individual que exige la liberación interior y exterior), Jose Ma Mardones pretende en este libro dialogar con la postmodernidad, con el objeto de conocer y diagnosticar mejor a nuestro tiempo y con el deseo de atisbar, tras la moda teórica, una mejor comprensión de nuestro momento histórico, escuchar las preguntas fundamentales de nuestro tiempo y confrontarlas con la fe cristiana. …”

“…Por estas páginas desfilan el rey Juan Carlos en la España de los bandazos, Augusto Pinochet antes de saber lo que le preparaba el juez Baltasar Garzón, un solitario y espectacular Hugo Chávez en una Venezuela plagada de contrastes y miseria, el decrépito Fidel Castro en una Cuba que no parece tener salida satisfactoria para nadie, García Márquez de genial conspirador en el polvorín colombiano, los restos de Federico García Lorca en un tira y afloja entre lo político y lo sentimental, y el asombroso paisaje de las favelas brasileñas, donde florece la extraña mística del delito entre la corrupción administrativa y la miseria. …”

“…Comandante atrevido y a veces rayano en la imprudencia, su avance hacia Kiev en 1941, la resistencia en el saliente de Rzhev, el contraataque en Varsovia en agosto de 1944 o la rápida reacción a la Operación Market-Garden se cuentan entre las mejores batallas alemanas de la guerra. …”

“…Le projet à peine voté et lancé, les cohortes de ses amis accouraient pour souscrire, au point qu’on vient à se demander si notre offrande lyrique ne deviendra pas le "best-seller" – que Pierre Reboul me pardonne une fois de plus un de ces anglicismes qu’il exècre ! …”

“…Nous disions souvent de lui qu'il serait le meilleur garçon du monde sans son penchant à dire toujours la vérité, mais je crois que réellement nous ne l'en admirions que davantage pour sa franchise. …”
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“…Carl Sagan may have said “We are made of starstuff,” but he would never insist, as Joni Mitchell did in 1969, that “we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.” Instead, they insist on a third way that does not rely on the idea of an ecological Eden — a vigorously vital materialism in which the affective trumps the sentimental. …”

“…Assimilé au pécheur, au rebelle contre Dieu, le criminel ne doit pas seulement payer une dette, il doit demander son pardon, se purger d'une faute majeure contre la souveraineté du prince et contre son Créateur. …”

“…In detailed letters to his wife, published here for the first time, he describes the pleasures he took in breakfasting with the literary patron Samuel Rogers and the American minister Edward Everett, boating on the Thames with artists and with diarist Henry Crabb Robinson, spending an evening in the home of Leigh Hunt, and calling on the Wordsworths at Rydal Mount as well as in the distinctions paid him at a rally of the Anti-Corn-Law League in Covent Garden Theatre, and at the annual meeting in Cambridge of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.Equally fresh are most of the letters to prominent Americans, many of them his close friends, such as the two Danas, Bancroft, Cole, Cooper, Dewey, Dix, Downing, Durand, Forrest, Greenough, Irving, Longfellow, Simms, Tilden, Van Buren, and Weir. …”

“…But it is hard to see how they can be ignored by contemporary theologians." - Martin Gardener "[Brams's] work can be highly recommended as collateral reading for introductory courses on mathematical modeling in the social, managerial and decision science-now perhaps even in theology." - William F. …”

“…Le livre propose ainsi une écriture originale articulant l’histoire du SFJA à une biographie collective des ex-monitrices sous la forme d’un récit choral, permettant de connaître au plus près les formes prises par cette politique de la jeunesse, pour les filles et les garçons, dans le contexte de la fin de la guerre d’Algérie…”

“…Des notaires bordelais aux paysans de Cornouaille, des magistrats du parlement de Rennes aux bateliers de la Garonne, des obscurs comploteurs aux ministres Louvois et Colbert, sans oublier espions, soldats et autres serviteurs du roi, cet essai d'histoire événementielle cherche à arracher cette crise à sa mémoire flamboyante, et, loin des images trop simples, entend essayer de la replacer dans le contexte français et européen…”

“…Sue Gardner (former executive director of Wikimedia Foundation, cochair of the campaign to pardon Edward Snowden) closes CHI by discussing her desire to ensure that everybody in the world has access to the information they want and need. …”

“…Imagine a place where you can enjoy sunsets, ride a jet ski, buy land, plant a garden, get a tattoo, go sky diving, spend an evening dancing the night away, or relax at home by the fire. …”

“…His expertise and influence among makers and consumers of software and hardware are legendary, as is the dry sardonic humor he brings to everything he writes about. …”

“…In detailed letters to his wife, published here for the first time, he describes the pleasures he took in breakfasting with the literary patron Samuel Rogers and the American minister Edward Everett, boating on the Thames with artists and with diarist Henry Crabb Robinson, spending an evening in the home of Leigh Hunt, and calling on the Wordsworths at Rydal Mount as well as in the distinctions paid him at a rally of the Anti-Corn-Law League in Covent Garden Theatre, and at the annual meeting in Cambridge of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. …”