“…But alarm bells are ringing. Systems cull résumés until, years later, we discover that they have inherent gender biases. …”

“…"The history of National Socialism in Austria has not been widely examined. It was not until 1981 that an English language history was available on the "forgotten Nazis" in Austria, yet the country was well known to have been a breeding ground of Nazism. …”

“…Finally, he considers how resilient the Portuguese overseas communities were surviving wars and natural disasters and fending off attacks by the more heavily armed English and Dutch invaders until well into the 1600s.Including a detailed Bibliography and Glossary, A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400-1668 is an invaluable textbook for all those studying this fascinating period of expansion by all the European powers…”

“…The Greek Historians follows the development of history from Herodotus, via Thucydides, Xenophon and Polybius, until the Hellenistic age. It introduces the individual writers and their topics, yet it also outlines their attitudes to historiography and their criticisms of each other. …”

“…Offering a fast-paced discussion of philosophical concepts, sociological theories, communication strategies, and original interpretations of historical events from the birth of mass media until today, this book is a guide for those who want to understand what is going on in Western society and culture". …”

“…Based on the history and the level of involvement seen today, the influence of think tanks is unlikely to diminish in the coming years"…”

“…Unlike most architecture encyclopedias, which tend to concentrate more on buildings and floor plans than their designers, this tome puts the architects in the spotlight, profiling individuals so that readers can get a clear overview of their bodies of work. …”

“…Tolkien's progress from his birth in South Africa in 1892, to the battlefields of France and the lecture-halls of Leeds and Oxford, to his success as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, until his death in 1973. It is the most extensive biographical resource about Tolkien ever published. …”

“…In addition, contemporary discussions contain more than a few hints of suspicion that theistic belief is adversely affecting the purity of inquiry into contours of human free will. Nevertheless, until now there has been no volume systematically exploring the relationship between religious beliefs and various accounts of free will in the contemporary domain. …”

“…It isn't intuitively obvious that traits of honesty and humility go hand in hand, and until very recently the H factor hadn't been recognized as a basic dimension of personality. …”

“…“Mind reading” is the very heart of what it means to be human, creating a bridge between self and others that is fundamental to the development of culture and society. But until recently, scientists didn’t understand what in the brain makes it possible. …”
Sumario

“…Many people understand that their votes are unlikely to change the outcome of an election and don't see the point in learning much about politics. …”

“…Terrible Beauty presents a unique narrative of the twentieth century. Unlike more conventional histories, where the focus is on political events and personalities, on wars, treaties and elections, this book concentrates on the ideas that made the century so rich, rewarding and provocative. …”

“…Presentación del editor: "Until recently, Spinoza's standing in Anglophone studies of philosophy has been relatively low and has only seemed to confirm Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi's assessment of him as <"a dead dog.>" However, an exuberant outburst of excellent scholarship on Spinoza has of late come to dominate work on early modern philosophy. …”

“…After representing the fascination for dictatorships during the interwar years, totalitarianism became a key concept of the ‘war of words’ waged between democracy and communism until the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was ‘a hot word for a Cold War’, as termed by the author of this book to convey the importance of this contest of crossed languages, which also included images, symbols and other forms of ‘senso-propaganda’. …”

“…Instead, it is most powerful when politicians send clear signals and when an issue is unlikely to bring direct personal consequences. In the absence of these conditions, other factors often dominate decision-making.The authors argue that while partisan hostility has degraded US politics—for example, politicizing previously non-political issues and undermining compromise—it is not in itself an existential threat. …”

“…And for that reason, the large Cremades family – my parents and all of us ten siblings – enjoyed a very close, direct friendship with him until he went to Heaven. In this book I have collected some of the adventures – really big adventures! …”

“…Confutata l'applicabilità della nozione civilistica di "ministro di culto" a tutte le realtà religiose, il lavoro si concentra diffusamente sulle funti di derivazione bilaterale. Dopo la trattazione delle figure che più si distaccano dal paradigma consolidato (presenti, ad esempio, nella religione ebraica o nelle tendenze buddhiste e induiste), si osserverà come la mancanza di intese più articolate, oltre che l'assenza di una rinnovata legislazione generale in materia di libertà religiose, finiscano per rendere problematica l'analisi di fenomeni di più recente evidenziazione sociale (dalle organizzazioni islamiche ai cd. …”

“…She owes her adult spiritual formation to the Poor Clare Order where she lived until the closure of the Poor Clare Convent at Woodchester in 2011. …”

“…From the 1960s until his death in 2013, Robert N. Bellah was the preeminent figure in the study of religion and society. …”