“…As austerity, anti-immigration politics and urban regeneration projects encroached upon the possibilities of street vending, talk across linguistic, cultural, national and religious boundaries underpinned the collective action of street vendors struggling to keep their markets open. …”

“…Du « patois de Canaan » des protestants méridionaux au Feiz ha Breiz des Bretons, le temps est venu d’une relecture dépassionnée d’un processus complexe de transformation culturelle, où s’observent à la fois des continuités et des variations, selon les régions, mais aussi selon les confessions religieuses…”

“…Actualmente el tejido socioeconómico andino está empobrecido, con escasa cohesión y falta de políticas coherentes que promuevan un desarrollo sustentable. El presente libro describe el origen de los sistemas de andenería en el contexto de cambio climático, geográfico, agroecológico y de ingeniería, así como su papel en la cultura y el patrimonio vivo. …”

“…By detailing the effects of the ICC's all African-indictments, she outlines how affective responses to this call into question the 'objectivity' of ICC's mission to protect those victimized by violence and prosecute perpetrators of those crimes. …”

“…"Many international conflicts in the world today revolve around the control of oil - despite the protestations of politicians to the contrary. The unfettered availability of oil at an affordable price is basic to the stability, security and prosperity of all states - not just those in the West. …”

“…El presente escrito pretende efectuar una revisión sobre la violencia que se ejerce en contra de las mujeres, por razón de género y de sexo y como consecuencia de las anteriores: el feminicidio, como la última y más despreciable de estas formas de violencia. …”

“…Les textes figurant dans cet ouvrage constituent les actes d’une réunion internationale qui s’est déroulée à la fin du mois de septembre 2010, en Provence, à la fondation des Treilles. Ces journées regroupaient plusieurs spécialistes renommés et visaient à dresser un bilan des travaux associant histoire et archéologie depuis une trentaine d’années, tout en proposant de nouveaux thèmes de recherche. …”

“…This includes: existence of optimal shapes, their regularity, the case of special domains like triangles, isospectrality, quantitative form of the isoperimetric inequalities, optimal partitions, universal inequalities and numerical results.Much progress has been made in these extremum problems during the last ten years and this edited volume presents a valuable update to a wide community interested in these topics. …”

“…The authors respond to these and other questions from philosophical and engineering view points and so illustrate how together they can meet the challenges and realize the opportunities present in the necessary encounters between philosophy and engineering - encounters that are ever more important in an increasingly engineered world and its problematic futures…”

“…In this anniversary volume, an overview of citation classics from the Journal is presented, the 33 most frequently cited articles are reproduced and brief reflections on the impact of the Journal on the field are given from over 100 scholars who authored citation classics and/or distinguished papers, as well as those who served on the Editorial Board and/or are recognized as leaders in the field. …”

“…This discourse addresses issues such as the conflicting paradigms of oral traditions and archaeological veracity, differing ideas about landscapes in which rock art occurs, the intrusion of “desired knowledge”, and how the past may be robbed by changing interpretations and values on both sides. Case studies are presented in regard to shamanism and war-related imagery. …”

“…Part 2 details ethnographic, epigraphic and isotopic evidence of these practices. Finally, Part 3 presents the metaphoric value of food in Mesoamerican symbolism, ritual, and mythology. …”

“…This book provides a comprehensive analysis of today’s global challenges in the print news media’s struggle for survival. It presents current practices concerning government subsidies to newspapers for political, economic, and socio-cultural purposes against the background of declining readership and revenues, increased inter-media competition, austerity budgets imposed on national economies and shifting audience tastes. …”

“…This edited volume contains sixteen research articles and presents recent and pressing issues in stochastic processes, control theory, differential games, optimization, and their applications in finance, manufacturing, queueing networks, and climate control. …”

“…Among the many benefits of approval voting are its propensity to elect the majority candidate (rather than the strongest minority candidate, as often occurs under plurality voting), its relative invulnerability to insincere or strategic voting, and—by offering voters the opportunity to influence election outcomes more equitably—a probable increase in voter turnout. …”

“…This fully updated and expanded edition showcases the most current research and insights, featuring a new chapter that provides a theoretical framework for analyzing organizational learning and presents evidence about how the organizational context affects learning processes and outcomes. …”

“…Furthermore, a particular feature of this book is that it not only presents different perspectives on climate change governance, but it also introduces theoretical approaches and brings these together with practical examples which show how main principles may be implemented in practice…”

“…In addressing the contribution that service science can make to business value creation, this book covers relevant issues such as product servitisation, business modelling, value cocreation with customers, performance measures and the role of ICT. It also presents some innovative experiences of management models in service organisations operating in the environmental, energy and health-care sectors. …”

“…Determining the value of an information system for an organization is challenging, especially before the execution of the project in which the system is put into operation. …”

“…As many cases in the US, and other parts of the world highlight, such implementation projects have run into resistance from the consumers. …”