“…The travellers moved—as do the chapter authors—between two regions that are off-centre, in-between, shiftingly “Eastern,” and disorientingly heterogeneous, thus complicating colonial and postcolonial notions of “Europe,” “East,” and East-West distinctions. …”

“…Luigi Ceccarini enriches and updates the common notion of citizenship, answering the question of how it is possible to fully live as a citizen in a post-modern political community. …”

“…This book provides an analysis of the concept of causation useful in the empirical sciences, where causal notions and idioms often are used without sufficient reflection. …”

“…There are discussions on the role—or nonrole—of language in determining which theory is true; McTaggart's paradox and the logical difficulties that defenders of the tenseless theory say are inherent in tensed theory; and the nature of our experience of time, which proponents of both theories claim can now be explained. …”

“…Son audace théologique est de lier l'approche apophatique et l'approche transdisciplinaire, en démontrant la pertinence, sur le plan théologique, de la logique du tiers inclus et de la notion de niveaux de Réalité. La clé de voûte de son anthropologie est la présence permanente du Tiers Caché, qui permet d'établir la relation entre la raison et le mystère. …”

“…In each of the three cultural traditions, the literary debates surrounding the adoption and adaption of the modern novel focus on problematic formulations of the "modern" versus the "traditional," the "Western" and "foreign" versus the "indigenous," and notions of the modern bourgeois subject versus the precapitalist or precolonial subject. …”

“…The author draws attention to the problems caused by the misleading notion of a single unified scientific method, and proposes a framework that clarifies the variety of ways that IR scholars establish the authority and validity of their empirical claims. …”

“…Thus, the debate revolved around attaining happiness, the good life, and fulfilment, and so orienting education toward the development of the notion of humanity within the person. By exploring the discourse on education, this book recovers the changing horizons of Graeco-Roman thought on learning and formation.-- Oxford University Press…”

“…But legal institutions also played an essential role in the emergence of the notion of the fact, and contributed in a vital way to commonplace understandings of what is knowable and what is not. …”

“…If we select the facts to fit preconceived notions, we can make the story come out the way we want, but if the peoples of the colonial Southwest are seen as they really were--more alike than diverse, sharing similar inconstant natures--then we need have no favorites -- Contracubierta…”

“…Allemands, Belges, Espagnols, Italiens, Français, Hollandais, Portugais et Anglais ont des notions différentes de l'aménagement du temps de travail. …”

“…She also shows the extent to which different media shaped the modern image of the ancient repertory, an image that gave rise to conflicting notions not only of musical performance but of the very idea of music history. …”

“…L'Autore studia l’azione dell’essere a partire dal basso: dal nostro modo di operare di enti su enti. Svolge dunque una “ontologia differenziale”, mediante l’individuazione dei diversi livelli di “impossibilità trascendentale”, attraverso cui è necessario passare per pensare. …”

“…An international team of leading philosophers explore the crucial notions that articulate Heidegger's concept of authenticity, including death, anxiety, conscience, guilt, resolution and temporality. …”

“…À la fin de chaque partie, un exercice de mise en pratique des notions abordées, présenté sous la forme d’un jeu, permettra de réaliser une carte finalisée.Avec plus de 120 figures inédites, de nombreux encadrés, définitions et compléments pédagogiques, cet ouvrage constitue une véritable initiation à la cartographie, perçue à la fois comme art de représenter le monde et arme de combat pour le décrypter -- Contracubierta…”

“…Presentación del editor: "The latter half of the twentieth century witnessed an ‘intensional revolution’, a great collective effort to analyse notions which are absolutely fundamental to our understanding of the world and of ourselves—from meaning and information to knowledge, belief, causation, essence, supervenience, conditionality, as well as nomological, metaphysical, and logical necessity—in terms of a single concept. …”

“…Moreover, the book is largely self-contained: model-theoretic notions are defined as and when they are needed for the philosophical discussion, and many of the most philosophically significant results are given accessible proofs."…”

“…L’analisi della normativa e degli strumenti teorici e pratici messi a disposizione dei maestri consente di documentare come le attività motorie siano state dapprima ignorate, poi timidamente accolte e infine integrate tra le finalità ed i metodi del primo ciclo di istruzione del nostro Paese. Attraverso una ben centrata focalizzazione tematica ed euristica, che si concentra soprattutto sul contesto scolastico, la ricerca asseconda le recenti istanze della storiografia educativa poiché fa emergere non solo i significati politico-pedagogici della ginnastica come disciplina della scuola elementare, ma anche le modalità didattiche con cui si realizzava il suo insegnamento…”

“…La délimitation des notions de nature et de naturel fait l’objet de multiples interrogations au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance. …”

“…This volume contains ten new essays focused on the exploration and articulation of a narrative that considers the notion of order within medieval and modern philosophy-its various kinds (natural, moral, divine, and human), the different ways in which each is conceived, and the diverse dependency relations that are thought to obtain among them. …”