“…Franco's Friends discloses a list of British secret agents who helped engineer Franco's coup, that reads like a who's who of British intelligence (including James Bond creator, Ian Fleming). The book shows that MI6 continued working in Spain through to the Second World War, putting together behind-the-scenes deals and ensuring that the UK's interests were maintained. …”

“…Ranging through French, English, Italian, Russian and Japanese writing-particularly the stories of Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Giovanni Verga, Anton Chekhov and Akutagàwa Ryünosuke-Goyet shows that these authors were able tocreate brilliant and successful short stories using the very simple 'tools of brevity' of that period. ln this challenging and far-reaching study, Goyet looks at classic short stories in the context in which they were read at the time: cheap newspapers and higher end periodicills. …”

“…Smits-Veldt, Marijke Spies, Judith Pollmann, Bettina Noak, Louis Peter Grijp, Guillaume van Gemert, Jürgen Pieters, Nina Geerdink, Madeleine Kasten, Marco Prandoni, Peter Eversmann, Mieke Bal, Maaike Bleeker, Bennett Carpenter, James A. Parente, Jr., Stefan van der Lecq, Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen, Helmer Helmers, Kristine Steenbergh, Yasco Horsman, Jeanne Gaakeer, and Wiep van Bunge…”

“…While the views of other major pragmatists (William James, John Dewey, and Hilary Putnam) are also carefully analyzed and contrasted, Peirce's conception is shown to present at least three advantages: "to provide the rational framework for inquiry to proceed" (it is genuinely "logical"), to "make sense of the practice of inquiry as the search for truth", as something which is not transcendent, beyond inquiry, but accessible (it is genuinely "human"), and finally "to justify a methodology" by encouraging the inquirer to put his beliefs to the test of experience…”

“…Contributors: Ruth Abbott, John Attridge, Kasia Boddy, Mark Byron, Beci Carver, Steven Connor, Esther Leslie, Robbie Moore, Julian Murphet, James Purdon, Sean Pryor, Paul Sheehan, Kristen Treen…”

“…These cosmopolitan remainders are responsible for the curiously hesitant endings of so many novels of formation.In Formative Fictions, Boes presents readings of a number of novels-Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Karl Leberecht Immermann's The Epigones, Gustav Freytag's Debit and Credit, Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz, and Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus among them-that have always been felt to be particularly "German" and compares them with novels by such authors as George Eliot and James Joyce to show that what seem to be markers of national particularity can productively be read as topics of world literature…”

“…They range from contacts between the two countries as far back as the early 19th century, Japanese pearl divers in northern Australia, Japanese prostitutes in Australia, the wool trade, the notorious ‘trade diversion episode’ of 1936, and a study of the Japan historian James Murdoch. Sissons was an extraordinarily meticulous researcher, leaving no stone unturned in his search for accuracy and completeness of understanding, and should be considered one of Australia’s major historians. …”

“…The counterfactual approach to estimate effects of causes from quasi-experimental data or from observational studies was first proposed by Rubin in 1974 and further developed by James Heckman and others. This book presents both theoretical contributions and empirical applications of the counterfactual approach to causal inference…”

“…Raccomando calorosamente la lettura di questo libro che, partendo da basi molto semplici, ci da una visione completa e attuale degli elementi costitutivi dell’Universo." James Lequeux, Astronomo dell’Osservatorio di Parigi…”

“…Sotirios Barber challenges conventional scholarship by arguing that the government has a constitutional duty to pursue the well-being of all the people. He shows that James Madison was right in saying that the "real welfare" of the people must be the "supreme object" of constitutional government. …”

“…Koontz, David Little, Richard B. Miller, James W. Skillen, and Max L. Stackhouse…”

“…But that's because it's not being done right, say veteran diversity consultants James O. Rodgers and Laura Kangas. Too many organizations are treating diversity training as a quick-hit, low-cost, check-the-box activity.Effective diversity training involves behavioral change based on adult learning theory. …”

“…Ficto-critical thinking is threaded throughout to activate concepts from process philosophy and use the work of other thinkers (William James, Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze, Baruch Spinoza, and Virginia Woolf, to name a few) to forge imaginative connections. …”

“…James L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public and private spheres in the United States before the Civil War. …”

“…No one knows this better than risk management expert James Lam, and now, with Enterprise Risk Management: From Methods to Applications , he distills more than thirty years' worth of experience in the field to give risk professionals a clear understanding of how to implement an enterprise risk management program for every business. …”

“…In this detailed report, Google Cloud Reliability Advocate Steve McGhee and Google Cloud Solutions Architect James Brookbank dive deeper into the specific challenges engineers face when adopting SRE in their organization. …”

“…In Business Analysis Agility , leading experts James Robertson and Suzanne Robertson show how to perform business analysis in an agile way: trying new things, adapting to changes and discoveries, staying flexible, and being quick. …”

“…With a real-world, practical approach, you will learn how you can integrate Backbone.js into the center of your JavaScript stack, and create scalable applications. James Sugrue shows you how to implement all aspects of templating, work efficiently with RequireJS, and fully understand Grunt and all its plug-ins. …”

“…Neil Dunne, Trinity College Dublin 'A practical book which takes a very technical subject and breaks it down into concise sections which are easy to follow.' Emma James, Swansea University Pearson, the world's learning company…”

“…Learn how to reengineer your business to compete and win in the age of social media marketing and go from social megligence to social friendly to forge meaningful, one-to-one relationships with customers. James H. Amos is Chairman and CEO of Tasti D-Lite and and Planet Smoothie. …”