“…In kritischer Auseinandersetzung u.a. mit Platon, Heidegger, Kant und Karl Barth betrachtet Marten die Ausnahmesituation, in der sich unsere Lebensformen, unser Naturverhältnis und menschliche Selbstbestimmung auf die Probe gestellt sehen. Er plädiert leidenschaftlich für den Menschen als anderen zugewandtes und für andere einstehendes Wesen - das sich seiner Einmaligkeit wie seiner Endlichkeit bewusst sein sollte -- Contracubierta…”

“…Rachel Lane is a young woman who chose to give her life to God, who walked away from the modern world with all its strivings and trappings and encumbrances, and went to live and work with a primitive tribe of Indians in the deepest jungles of Brazil…”

“…L'originalité de ce livre réside dans la publication, pour la première fois en France, de discours officiels des présidents du Conseil successifs, exposés de motifs des lois antijuives, prises de position des hauts dignitaires des Églises chrétiennes, illustrant la politique qui a préparé l'opinion à accepter la privation des droits et d'identité personnelle ainsi que le meurtre des juifs…”

“…It argues that more was being written during this time than past scholars have realized and takes as its prime example the understudied Christian writer Methodius of Olympus. …”

“…Even those who judge their way of life most harshly have much to learn from their probing moral and political reflections on their times - and ours - beginning with the virtues and failings of their own society and culture…”

“…The murder horrified quiet, complacent, prosperous Holland, a country that prides itself on being a bastion of tolerance, and sent shock waves across Europe and around the world. …”

“…Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank whose devastating consequences changed both their lives, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe, a castle steeped in blood lore and family pride. Built over a secret system of caves and tunnels, the castle and its violent history invoke and subvert all the elements of a gothic past: twins, a pool, an old baroness, a fearsome tower. …”
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“…This is the story of the game of battleships that won the Second World War. In 1941 Prime Minster Winston Churchill gathered a group of unlikely heroes - a retired naval captain and eight brilliant young women, the youngest only seventeen years-old - to form a secret strategy unit. …”

“…We can always be conscious of how happy, sad, annoyed, or anxious we feel, and also of the feelings we have relative to other persons: pride, envy, guilt, jealousy, trust, respect, or resentment. …”

“…An introductory chapter on definitions of emotion is followed by three main sections on the way emotions are expressed, subjectively experienced, and related to action and motivation. This accessible but probing approach integrates philosophical analysis with innovative research in psychology and cognitive science, contextualizing current debates in the history of ideas from Darwin to pragmatism. …”

“…This Handbook examines the variety of contexts and infrastructures in which content is produced and distributed and how these influence the types of media products and services available, their pricing, their consumption and the public policies related to them. …”

“…The previous edition of The New ICT Ecosystem won the 2008-09 Joseph Schumpeter Prize"…”

“…Elles explorent les possibilités offertes par la prise en considération de la longue durée des concepts et des doctrines dans les différents domaines abordés par son travail : histoire de la métaphysique, philosophie ancienne et médiévale, histoire de l’idéalisme allemand et du mouvement phénoménologique, mais aussi ontologie fondamentale, logique du jugement, théorie de l’objet et philosophie de l’histoire. …”

“…L'exposition dont le présent catalogue rend compte réunit quelque 80 pièces provenant des collections du musée Galliera ainsi que de prêts de collectionneurs privés et de créateurs contemporains."…”

“…What can others learn from them? And what is the price of this success?…”

“…Part IV discusses additive and multiplicative utilities, risk preferences, and 'option pricing' methods. Part V discusses risk analysis. …”
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“…Mais quels sont les enjeux scientifiques, géopolitiques et économiques qui sous-tendent ces prises de position ? Refusant de dissocier un savoir supposé neutre d'un monde où dominent la lutte des classes, les rivalités impérialistes et la concurrence entre différents secteurs du capitalisme, Philippe Pelletier analyse le discours collapsologue et démonte la machine idéologique qui sous nous soumet au catastrophisme ambiant…”

“… : John White, Zacarias Wagner, Duplessis, James Cook, Agustin David Osmond, John Washington Price, Meriwether Lewis y Willian Clark, Jules Luis Le Jeune, Jean Pierre Laurent Houel, Charles Alexandre Lesueur, Pascal Coste, William Turner, los hermanos Goncourt, Eugene Delacroix, Victor Hugo, Johan Barthold Jongkind, Paul Gaugin, Pablo Picasso, Edwar Hopper, Alexander von Humboldt, Hercule Florence, François-Hippolyte Lalaisse, Henry Walter Bates, Félix Régamey, capitán Rivière, Louis -Gabriel Viaux, Édouard Mérite, Louis Gain, Fernando Grébert, Théodore Monod, Jean Malaurie, Sam Scott, Yvon Le Corre, Titouan Lamazou, Max Pam, Peter Beard…”

“…In this dazzling new history, Simon Jenkins tells the story of its evolution from a battlefield of warring tribes to peace, wealth and freedom - a story that twists and turns from Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages, Reformation and French Revolution, to the two World Wars and the present day. …”

“…Dabei wird deutlich, wie der über viele Jahre gebotene Luxus,gepaart mit einer Prise Abenteuer der jeweils herrschenden politischen Gegebenheiten den Zug zur Legende werden ließen. …”
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