“…Compact and immensely readable ...a tour de force. Prepare to be amazed' - John C. Bogle, Founder and Former CEO, The Vanguard Group. …”

“…Baboons live in groups of up to 150, including a handful of males and eight or nine matrilineal families of females. Such numbers force baboons to form a complicated mix of short-term bonds for mating and longer-term friendships based on careful calculations of status and individual need.But "Baboon Metaphysics" is concerned with much more than just baboons' social organization - Cheney and Seyfarth aim to fully comprehend the intelligence that underlies it. …”
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“…Now Dieter Rams, the guiding force behind the Braun look, breaks down his design principles and processes in this elegant book. …”

“…Using textual sources, material culture, and place studies, this project is among the first to contextualize the geographic and temporal movement of early medieval people to reveal the diversity of religious travel, from the voluntary journeys of pilgrims to the forced travel of Christian slaves. Luckhardt offers new ways of understanding ideas about power, holiness, identity, and mobility during the transformation of the Roman world in the global Middle Ages. …”

“…Comment donner toute sa force au mot " merci " ? En le soumettant à une asymétrie qui n'est ni celle de la puissance ni celle de la préférence. …”

“…Sollicitant ceux qui ont participé à cette aventure, cette publication témoigne de l'ancrage territorial dont procèdent la singularité, la force critique et l'inventivité du Cairn."--Contracubierta…”

“…When television captured the largest share of the mass audience by the late 1950s, rival media were forced to target smaller, subgroup markets with novel content: rock 'n' roll for teenage radio listeners in the 1950s, sexually explicit films that began to appear in the 1960s, and analytical newspaper reporting in the 1970s and 1980s. …”
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“…Presenting a new account of Roman rhetorical education and its surprising practical consequences, That Tyrant, Persuasion shows how rhetoric created a grandiose imaginary world for the Roman ruling elite--and how they struggled to force the real world to conform to it. Without rhetorical education, the Roman world would have been unimaginably different -- Editor…”

“…This collection proposes that the impact of the historic or contemporary movement of peoples to, in, and from the Americas-whether chosen or forced-motivates the ways in which identities are constructed in this contested space. …”

“…This book's unique perspective on the roots, dynamics and shaping force of civil war will be essential to our ongoing struggles with this seemingly interminable problem…”

“…Hong focuses on how the state, in conjunction with market forces and class interests, is constructing and realigning its digitalized sector. …”

“…This richly visual volume features: * An easily understood development of the fundamentals of statics * Step-by-step demonstrations, using both numerical and graphical techniques, of simple yet powerful methods for finding form and forces for arched structures, suspended structures, cable-stayed structures, and highly efficient trusses * 120 photographs and more than 300 crisp drawings that illustrate and explain the magnificent structural triumphs of master architects and engineers -including Gustave Eiffel's famous tower, Robert Maillart's soaring bridges, Pier Luigi Nervi's landmark Turin Exhibition Hall, and many others * Calculations in both SI metric and conventional units throughout the book Requiring only the most rudimentary mathematical background yet accurate and fully functional, Shaping Structures provides an inviting point of entry to the study of structural design for engineering and architecture students -proving that the science of statics doesn't have to be lifeless, simplistic, or dull…”
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“…We see imitating firms as ?me too? players, forced to copy because they have nothing original to offer. …”

“…Resistance is presented as the means to force Western behaviour to change and to expose the essential differences between the two modes of thinking. …”
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“…The economic system under which we live not only forces the great majority of humankind to live their lives in indignity and poverty but also threatens all forms of life on Earth. …”

“…During the past two decades, commercial forces have quietly transformed virtually every aspect of academic life. …”

“…Depuis l'indépendance, au Cachemire, au Pendjab et dans les États du Nord-Est, les populations se sont violemment révoltées contre la politique du gouvernement central. C'est également par la force armée que les maoïstes veulent imposer une république marxiste à Delhi. …”

“…From its inception, philosophy has communicated forcefully. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle talk a lot, and talk ardently. …”

“…Grosz draws from Spinoza's material and ideal concept of substance, Nietzsche's amor fati, Deleuze and Guattari's plane of immanence, Simondon's preindividual, and Raymond Ruyer's self-survey or autoaffection to show that the world preexists the evolution of the human and that its material and incorporeal forces are the conditions for all forms of life, human and nonhuman alike…”