“…Whatever the world is like at the atomic scale, it is almost certainly not the swarm of particles pushed around by forces that is often presupposed. This book guides readers through the theory of quantum mechanics and its implications for metaphysics in a clear and accessible way. …”

“…How were a bunch of part-time dabblers in finance able to help an investment company consistently beat the market? …”

“…However, he opposed Presidential use of military force and protested the coup of December 2, 1851. …”

“…It is imperative that archivists engage with these challenges if archives are to emerge as a renewed force in the 21st century. This much-needed book is designed not as a practical guide to professional practice, but rather as a reader addressing these challenges. …”

“…And if so, how has it reconciled its imperialism - and in some cases, its crimes - with the idea of liberty so forcefully expressed in the Declaration of Independence? …”

“…Enracinée dans un champ de force sociopolitiques et économiques, elle sert souvent de véhicule clandestin pour des projets redoutables. …”

“…By isolating one factor among the many forces that converge in war-the essential tenets of Christian theology-Philippe Buc locates continuities in major episodes of violence perpetrated over the course of two millennia. …”

“…This new mobile consumer has not just forced businesses, institutions, governments, and organizations to innovate with mobile solutions; this new mobile consumer has upended the news media landscape, challenging news organizations and journalists to produce news for consumers who have little resemblance to yesterday's newspaper readers, TV news viewers, and online news consumers. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…PART ONE: DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY AND POLITICAL IDENTITY; PART TWO: DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY AND POLITICAL IDENTITY IN THE EU; PART THREE: TESTING THE LINGUA FRANCA THESIS - BELGIUM AND SWITZERLAND COMPARED; PART FOUR: IMPLICATIONS FOR DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY AND POLITICAL IDENTITY IN THE EU…”

“…How can we explain the nature and origin of selves and aims without resorting to supernatural forces or explaining them away as nothing but cause-and-effect mechanisms?…”

“…Le résultat est une compréhension fine de ces formes matérielles, élaborées dans des univers traversés de multiples alliances et de rapports de forces inédits. Cet ouvrage fait le point sur ces recherches qui, dans de multiples régions, permettent de penser un monde technique pluriel, irréductible à toute téléologie et dont l’histoire est à poursuivre…”

“…A nascent civic concept of Spanish identity clashed with a racialist understanding that Spaniards were necessarily of pure blood and "white," unlike converted Jews and Muslims, Amerindians, and Africans.Gradually Spaniards settled the most intractable of these disputes. …”

“…Quelle énergie vitale donne la force morale d'accorder son pardon, et même, de demander pardon ? …”

“…Issu d'un travail pluridisciplinaire sur la longue durée, du XIe au XXIe siècle, ce livre évoque naturellement l'équipée de Jeanne d'Arc, événement fondateur d'une identité tant nationale que régionale, mais il s'interroge aussi sur l'opposition de la riche Beauce et de la pauvre Sologne, sur l'histoire de la Maison de la Culture de Bourges, sur la place de ces trois provinces chez Balzac, Ronsard ou Voltaire, sur l'effacement des traces de la communauté protestante, ou encore sur la place et l'instrumentalisation de faits divers et de fausses nouvelles, de l'assassinat du ministre-maire Pierre Chevallier à la propagation de la "rumeur d'Orléans"--Contracubierta…”

“…Lui aussi s’est trouvé pris dans la contradiction entre mobiliser toutes ses forces sur le front et préserver la main-d’œuvre pour assurer l’approvisionnement par l’arrière. …”

“…With algorithms at their fingertips, they may work differently and tell different stories than they otherwise would, but their values remain the driving force behind the news. The human-algorithm hybrid thus emerges as the latest embodiment of an age-old tension between commercial imperatives and journalistic principles -- Editor…”

“…What can Homer teach us about force? What does Frederick Douglass have to say about our difficulties with the Founding Fathers? …”

“…Seen as irrelevant for modern careers and hopelessly devoid of funding, humanistic disciplines seem at the mercy of modernizing forces driving the university towards academic pursuits that pull in grant money and direct students to lucrative careers. …”

“…Prak and van Zanden argue that, in the Netherlands itself, capitalism emerged within a robust civil society that constrained and counterbalanced its centrifugal forces, but that an unrestrained capitalism ruled in the overseas territories. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…PART I Mullahs and Heretics -- 1 An atheist childhood -- 2 The origins of Islam -- 3 The empire of the world -- 4 Jerusalem, Jerusalem -- 5 Ottomanism -- 6 The joys of heresy -- 7 Women versus the eternal masculine --PART II One Hundred Years of Servitude -- 8 A spring memory -- 9 The roots of Wahhabism -- 10 The kingdom of corruption -- 11 Zionism, the First Oil War, resistance -- 12 Marginal notes on the chapter of defeats -- 13 The anti-imperialism of fools -- 14 An ocean of terror --PART III The Nuclear Wastelands of South Asia -- 15 The case ofAnwar Shaikh -- 16 Plain tales from Pakistan -- 17 Afghanistan: between hammer and anvil -- 18 The story of Kashmir --PART IV A Clash of Fundamentalisms -- 19 A short-course history of US imperialism -- 20 September surprise -- 21 Letter to a young Muslim --Appendix On the Israeli-Arab war -- Isaac Deutscher…”