“…À l'issue d'une série d'articles, écrits au fil des vingt dernières années, sur les figures multiples de la spatialisation et de son histoire (architecture, urbanisme, aménagement, protection du patrimoine), Françoise Choay découvre progressivement un propre de l'homme, « la compétence d'édifier », et les enjeux majeurs dont cette compétence est dépositaire à l'heure de la mondialisation -- Contracubierta…”

“…This distinctive volume: *outlines the central debates and research findings in the area of children, fantasy worlds, and the media; *provides a descriptive account of children's make-believe worlds and their wishes for actions they would like to take in these worlds; *highlights the centrality of media in children's make believe worlds; *emphasizes the multiple creative ways in which children use media as resources in their environment to express their own inner worlds; and *suggests the various ways in which the tension between traditional gender portrayals that continue to dominate media texts and children's wishes to act are presented in their fantasies. The work also demonstrates the value of research in unveiling the complicated ways in which media are woven into the fabric of children's everyday lives, examining the creative and sophisticated uses they make of their contents, and highlighting the responsibility that producers of media texts for children have in offering young viewers a wide array of role models and narratives to use in their fantasies. …”

“…Clásico indiscutible y obra canónica y fundamental del pensamiento crítico, para la presente edición en lengua castellana de los Grundrisse der Kritik der politischen Ökonomie se han tenido en cuenta, además de la edición original alemana, el ingente trabajo de depuración crítica realizado por el Instituto Marx-Engels-Lenin de Moscú, que muestra la gran cantidad de errores, imprecisiones, criterios contradictorios y confusiones que contenía dicha edición. …”

“…Oltre i confini della legittimità accademica, si apre una sfida di antropologia pubblica che è anche un’opportunità di autentica partecipazione democratica: un modo per scoprire, insieme, un sentiero nuovo, che ci porti fuori dal cono d’ombra di un cattivo presente…”

“…She also outlines how domestic courts have been able to draw upon the decisions of Strasbourg in the key battlefields of media freedom, data protection, and national security…”

“…The success - or failure - of Kant's critical projects must be evaluated in this light. Boehm here examines The Antinomies alongside Spinoza's Substance Monism and his theory of freedom. …”

“…Desde esa perspectiva se ha considerado necesario analizar los orígenes y desarrollo de esa cultura política cuyos elementos fundamentales ya estaban presentes mucho antes de 1933, y que el nazismo no solo incorporará en su ideología y proyecto sino que la asumirá como un elemento nuclear de las mismas…”

“…Pipes describes the attitudes toward property of twentieth-century totalitarian states and points out that in the United States the protection of private property, rooted in the principles of the Founding Fathers, has been a major contributor to the commonweal. …”
Acceso a las primeras páginas

“…The rising star and face of the new field "science of the individual" draws from the latest psychological and sociological research to show that success is found in individual strengths and weaknesses that don't fit along any average curve--a powerful manifesto for change in the ranks of Emotional Intelligence and The Power of Habit.Modern science has proven that people behave and learn in distinctive ways. …”

“…He is the author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire, Colossus, The War of the World, The Ascent of Money, High Financier and Civilization. He has written and presented six highly successful television series for Channel Four: Empire, American Colossus, The War of the World, The Ascent of Money, Civilization and China: Triumph and Turmoil…”

“…It is thus a major contribution to Latour's social theory since it is now possible to compare the ways legal ties build up associations with the other types of connections that he has studied in other fields of acticity. His project of an alternative interpretation of the very notion of society has never been made clearer than in this work. …”
Sumario

“…Si cette dernière a pu trouver un réel écho dans les champs du culturel et de l'économique, elle peut également présenter une valeur heuristique dans celui du politique…”

“…Rien ne peut faire qu’elle ne soit aussi présente dans la séance, de manière plus ou moins bruyante. …”

“…It was the most ambitious social engineering project of the twentieth century, one that continues to alarm the global community. …”

“…Tracing the fetish for "medieval times" behind toxic ideologies like nationalism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, misogyny, and white supremacy from European imperialists right up to the present-day "alt-right," Kaufman and Sturtevant show us that the Middle Ages have been twisted for political purposes ever since they came to a close. …”

“…L'Union européenne engendre-t-elle un déni de démocratie ? En prônant le retour à l'Europe des nations, les adversaires de la technocratie bruxelloise dénoncent la confiscation du pouvoir populaire. …”

“…As OIRA Administrator, Sunstein helped oversee regulation in a broad variety of areas, including highway safety, health care, homeland security, immigration, energy, environmental protection, and education. This background allows him to describe OIRA and how it works--and how it can work better--from an on-the-ground perspective. …”

“…The book concludes with two exciting chapters describing brain-scan research on what happens in the brain during creativity and presenting a close examination of the relationship between genetically transmitted mental disorder and creativity…”

“…He also critiques more expansively modernity's moral predicament, which renders impossible any project resting solely on ethical foundations. The modern state not only suffers from serious legal, political, and constitutional issues, Hallaq argues, but also, by its very nature, fashions a subject inconsistent with what it means to be, or to live as, a Muslim. …”

“…This dual-language publication from The Historic New Orleans Collection explores the ideas, peoples, and material cultures that shaped one of the most complex and challenging colonization projects in the Americas. Louisiana in the early eighteenth century experienced an intense period of immigration, as nearly six thousand French- and Germanspeaking Europeans and a roughly equal number of enslaved captives taken from Africa arrived in the French territory. …”