“…Branding that Means Business draws from the authors' experience and business literature as well as psychology, sociology, and even anthropology to show readers that while any brand serves the business, the mechanisms that enable it are all about connecting with people. Readers will learn how to create, maintain, and operationalize their brand, and think creatively about how to differentiate their product and most importantly, make consumers fall in love with it--…”

“…Europe and the developing world). This enables policy makers and regulators to understand why some parts of the ICT ecosystem are underperforming and what can be done to enhance their performance. …”

“…She also discovers that Cervantes' DON QUIXOTE' published in 1605 and the most translated book after the Bible - is a work of genius which still helps to explain the Spanish character: today's Spaniards still suffer from Don Quixote's delusions, and are as stubborn, inflexible and unrealistic as they have always been…”

“…This stimulating and often provocative book contends that understanding the evils in terrorism, torture and genocide enables us to recognise similar evils in everyday life: daily life under oppressive regimes and in racist environments; violence against women, including in the home; violence and executions in prisons; hate crimes; and violence against animals. …”

“…Pero por otro lado, aparece también como un Dios de paz, misericordioso, que rechaza el camino de la violencia como medio para implantar la justicia y la paz. Este doble rostro de Dios constituye la gran ambigüedad de la Escritura…”

“…Drawing connections between the Court's widely acclaimed early decisions and the more recent second-wave cases, Ray explains that the Court has responded to the democratic legitimacy and institutional competence concerns that consistently constrain it by developing doctrines and remedial techniques that enable activists, civil society and local communities to press directly for rights-protective policies through structured, court-managed engagement processes. …”

“…Not since the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran has the House of Saud felt itself in such peril, and the Saudis have not forgotten the inability, or unwillingness, of the United States to save the Shah. …”
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“…El presente libro, que toma prestado el título de la conocida novela del escritor Alejo Carpentier, recoge esta doble dimensión del viaje. Coordinado por dos jóvenes doctores en Filología Clásica, las diversas contribuciones que conforman el volumen abordan, desde una perspectiva filológica e histórica, temas como las colonizaciones, los destierros, las peripecias de los protagonistas de las novelas o de los intelectuales del Romanticismo; pero también se habla aquí de viajes interiores, a veces de una suerte de ritos de paso, como los viajes al Hades o los viajes mágicos de los herméticos, así como de los traslados que sufrieron algunos objetos considerados mágicos en la Antigüedad…”

“…Empirical experimentation on three types of mythological imagery--a Classical Greek pot, a frieze from Hellenistic Pergamon and a second-century CE Roman sarcophagus--enables Katharina Lorenz to demonstrate how theoretical approaches to images (specifically, iconology, semiotics, and image studies) impact the meanings we elicit from Greek and Roman art. …”

“…The most important objects in the Hebrew Bible are a wooden box, styled in English »the ark« or »the ark of the covenant«, and two statues of winged creatures, »the cherubim«, that surmount it. …”

“…Reading these stories enables one to understand these people's lives and the forms of social suffering which are part of them. …”

“…The joint use of multiple senses, he argues, enables novel forms of perception and experience, such as multisensory rhythms, motions, and flavors that enrich aesthetic experiences of music, dance, and gustatory pleasure -- Editor…”

“…La publicación de una nueva norma sobre ordenación de la actividad de comunicación audiovisual responde a un doble grupo de razones que van desde la adaptación al nuevo marco comunitario hasta la incorporación de una regulación que afecta a nuevas formas de comunicación audiovisual que se están introduciendo en nuestra sociedad y que no encontraban una regulación específica que sirviera para la regulación completa de las nuevas formas de comunicación audiovisual. …”

“…Una vida entremezclada con los avatares de su época, con la de otros científicos como Theodosius Dobzhansky, con el progreso del pensamiento propio y científico, con la doble hélice de ADN. Francisco J. Ayala fue consejero científico del presidente Clinton, intervino en el Proyecto Genoma Humano, luchó por los derechos humanos en Somalia, filosofó sobre ciencia e investigó la malaria y el chagas, evolucionado desde el idealismo religioso al científico, pues Dios y la ciencia se manifiestan a veces de forma distinta a la esperada…”

“…Timothy Jackson first considers key aspects of what the Bible says about love, then he further examines the meaning of love and sacrifice through a close reading of novels by Fitzgerald and Hemingway. …”

“…El jesuita y paleontólogo francés, que aunó junto a una reconocida carrera científica de investigador, vivida en su mayor parte en el exilio de China, una trayectoria personal en busca de la unificación de su doble dimensión como hijo del Cielo e hijo de la Tierra, es una de las personalidades más fascinantes y debatidas del pasado siglo. …”

“…His work explains how we can know easy things, like whether it was rain or a sprinkler that made a sidewalk wet; and how to answer hard questions, like whether a drug cured an illness. Pearl's work enables us to know not just whether one thing causes another: it lets us explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. …”

“…Este libro se adentra en los significados del poder desde una doble perspectiva. La primera, de naturaleza politológica, recorre en diferentes secuencias la reflexión que ha abordado el poder en el seno de las principales tradiciones teóricas. …”

“…These handbooks were developed to help the reader pronounce, interpret, and compare words from across a spectrum of different sources: including works of patristics, theology, liturgy, and the Bible. Because earlier studies of this genre have focused, almost exclusively, on the biblical portions of these manuscripts, little has been known about the collections of excerpts from 255 patristic-era writings included in many of these handbooks. …”

“…Compiled by authors with extensive experience in the teaching of Hebrew, the text is rendered both easily accessible and a fascinating examination of the language, building upon the initial publication by incorporating up-to-date developments in the study of the Hebrew Bible. This grammar will be of service both to students who have completed an introductory or intermediate course in Biblical Hebrew, and also to more advanced scholars seeking to take advantage of traditional and recent descriptions of the language that go beyond the basic morphology of Biblical Hebrew"--…”