“…Mais après cette vitrification du monde, le voici comme mis à nu, comme si chaque État avait vu ses forces et ses faiblesses exacerbées par la pandémie, comme si les tendances en germe - déclin de l'Occident, révolution numérique, tensions entre États démocratiques et États autoritaires - se montraient soudain à découvert. » - Émilie Aubry. …”

“…In so doing, they offer a foundation for better understanding the connective and aggregative forces of city-making and the entanglements and relations that constitute cities and their everyday politics. …”

“…State legislatures are moving to limit voting rights and seize control of election administration, candidates are refusing to accept election results, and antidemocracy forces are sowing lies and encouraging political violence.The States United Democracy Center is fighting back by equipping state and local officials, law enforcement leaders, and prodemocracy partners with the tools and resources they need to protect free, fair, and secure elections. …”

“…Actionable steps guide you through the process of evolving leadership culture to see increased productivity, growth opportunities, and ensured profitability borne on a culture of trust, collaboration, fairness, and a commitment to innovation and real prosperity.Leaders, coaches, trainers, OD practitioners, change agents, and students will find insightful guidance, thought-provoking discussion, and illustrative case studies that will help them: rethink leadership to make a stronger impact, take bold action to change the status quo, marry strategic and innovation leadership into a force for real change, and stop making the same mistakes and start forging a new path forward…”

“…They innovate. They are the force behind the advancement of industries. Effective employee recognition programs are self-sustaining motivational tools that keep the fire lit. …”

“…Cybernetics triggered cults, the Whole Earth Catalog, and feminist manifestos, just as it fueled martial gizmos and the air force's foray into virtual space. As Rid shows, cybernetics proved a powerful tool for two competing factions-those who sought to make a better world and those who sought to control the one at hand. …”

“…The founders and driving force behind the Foundry Group-a venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage information technology companies-Brad and Jason have been involved in hundreds of venture capital financings. …”

“…The failure to make Mission is an existential threat to the strength and readiness of America's fighting forces and our democracy.Fanatical Military Recruiting begins where the Recruiting and Retention colleges of the various branches of the military leave off. …”

“…Through real-world case studies and exclusive interviews, Generating Buy-In imparts a revolutionary yet practical approach to: * Crafting a strategic story that projects a positive future to your audience * Speaking the language of buy-in with images that mold powerful thoughts and emotions in your listeners * Putting the language to work in service of your goal -- whether the goal is to raise sales, inspire a work force, or win a Presidential election. Complete with examples, practical exercises, sample business scenarios, and a foreword by William Ury, coauthor of the best-selling Getting to Yes, Generating Buy-In is an indispensable resource for leading and succeeding in today's fiercely competitive world!"…”

“…By owning disaster and accepting our small place within the inhuman forces of the biosphere, we may discover how to live with responsibility and serenity whatever may come."…”

“…Mais si bien des civilisations ont fait l'objet d'études fouillées sur la manière dont elles articulaient l'art et la religion, force est de constater que très peu de chercheurs se sont attelés à une vue transversale de ces notions. …”

“…Although French sociologist Émile Durkheim wrote extensively about the role of religion in public life in the early 1900s, it was not until the 1960s that researchers from social science backgrounds, predominately sociology, began the formal, empirical study of religion as a social force that may impact a wide range of individual and societal outcomes. …”

“…Focusing on the recent frigate and jet-fighter programmes, it demonstrates how delays suffered in delivering weapons systems and platforms in these countries have been caused by misalignments between the strategic requirements set out by the armed forces and government defence policies. By bringing the insights of public management and administration to those of defence studies, the book presents policy options that will help improve the nature of future large-project military procurement. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…PART I: Quarrelling with Indian Perceptions -- Chapter 1: Quarrelling with Indian Perceptions -- Chapter 2: Dear, departed ones -- Chapter 3: ‘Dreaming Bengal’ -- Chapter 4: Reforming Babu’s Worldview -- Chapter 5: The National Library, Calcutta: A Reader’s Rendition -- Chapter 6: An Anatomy of Work Culture -- Chapter 7: Sketching Tagore as a Social Activist -- Chapter 8: India’s family planning programme: a muddle extraordinary -- Chapter 9: In Resurrection of Gunnar Myrdal’s Asian Drama -- PART II: Market, Media, and Development -- Chapter 10: On the Invasion of Neo-liberalism into Development Thinking -- Chapter 11: What education? …”

“…However, the legacy of early Franciscan thought, as it developed in the first generation of Franciscan thinkers who worked at the recently-founded University of Paris in the first half of the 13th century, is a virtually foreign concept in the relevant scholarship. …”

“…This turning point has received a strong impulse from the study of systems that are far from the thermodynamic equilibrium, due to very long relaxation times, as in disordered systems, or due to the presence of external forcing and dissipation, as in granular or active matter. …”

“…The Asia-Pacific has become the Indo-Pacific region as the US, Japan, Australia and India have decided to join forces and scale-up their political, economic and security cooperation. …”

“…They collectively emphasize the different scales at which the region holds significance, and particularly note how the region is often granted significance by local political forces as well as national interests. Borderlands and sub-regions are especially important in this perspective, and the contributors show both how regionalism influences the people living in these areas, and how they in turn shape the political priorities of states. …”

“…Active patch antennas, object of the publication and introduced as the enabling technology for high performance multifunctional front-ends for radar and communication systems, are currently also being used for Personal Area Networks (PAN) and for Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC), at a low cost and power. In the arrays for space applications, where reliability is a key aspect, the approach to distributed active elements allows the improvement of the entire system's defect tolerance. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Dealing with crisis: the Japanese experience and beyond -- PART I How people think about crisis -- 2. How can we prepare for something we don't want to think about? …”