“…He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the 'post-industrial' society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of 'the Third Age' and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. …”

“…According to the National Research Council, the use of embedded systems throughout society could well overtake previous milestones in the information revolution. …”

“…The concept of menopause was invented by Frenchmen medical students in the aftermath of the French Revolution, becoming an important pedagogic topic and a common theme of doctors' professional identities in postrevolutionary biomedicine. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 9.6 Canada’s Supreme Court Is Off-Balance as ‘Large and Liberal’ Consensus on the Charter Falls Apart -- 9.7 Why ‘Liberal’ and ‘Conservative’ Are Unhelpful Terms in Canadian Courts -- 9.8 Key Terms -- 10 Reconciling Judicial Review and Constitutional Democracy -- Introduction -- 10.1 Courts, Legislatures, and the Protection of Human Rights -- 10.2 What’s Wrong with the Charter Revolution and the Court Party? -- 10.3 The Charter Revolution and the Clash of Constitutionalisms -- 10.4 Robust Public Debate Needed on Use of Notwithstanding Clause -- 10.5 Notwithstanding Judicial Benediction: Why We Need to Dispel the Myths around Section 33 of the Charter -- 10.6 Dialogue or Monologue? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Preface / Acknowledgments -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Markers of Converso Identities -- A Crisis of Judeoconverso Identity and Its Echoes, 1391 to the Present / A Family of the Nação from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean and Beyond (1497-1640) / Conversos versus Recusants: Shaping the Markers of Difference (1570-1680) / Richelieu in Marrano Garb: Conversos as Agents of the French Confessional Model, c. 1640 / Semi-Clandestine Judaism in Early Modern France: European Horizons and Local Varieties of a Domestic Devotion / Prison Revelations and Jailhouse Encounters: Inquisitorial Prisons as Places of Judaizing Activism and Cross-Cultural Exchange / Mechanisms of Social Discipline in the Sephardic Communities -- Defining Deviance, Negotiating Norms: Raphael Meldola in Livorno, Pisa, and Bayonne / A Sephardic Saga in the Dutch Republic: The Cohen Pallache Women on Love, Religion, and Social Standing / Dispute Resolution and Kahal Kadosh Talmud Torah: Community Forum and Legal Acculturation in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam / The "Livro de Pleitos": The Leadership of the Spanish and Portuguese Community of London in the Eighteenth Century as a Court of Requests / Economy and Community among Italian Sephardim -- Jews in the Papal States between Western Sephardic Diasporas and Ghettoization: A Trial in Ancona as a Case Study (1555-1563) / The Sephardic Community and Social Practices in the Circuit of Money: Social Implications of Payment Networks in the Context of the Livorninas / Charity Begins at Home: Reflections on the Dowry Society of Livorno / The Boundaries of Rabbinical Authority -- Jacob Sasportas and Problems of Discipline in the Ets Haim Yeshiva / A Letter's Importance: The Spelling of Daka(h) (Deut. 23:2) and the Broadening of Western Sephardic Rabbinic Culture / Hakham Yaakov Athias-A Portuguese Rabbi Facing the Winds of Enlightenment and Secularization / Varieties of Cultural Creativity -- On the Role of Hebrew Grammars in the Western European Diaspora and the New World / New Jews in Amsterdam: Some Social Aspects Reflected in the Thesouro dos Dinim by Menasseh ben Israel / Penso de la Vega and the Question of Jewish Baroque / Crossing the Atlantic-Sephardic Communities in the New World -- Sea Is History, Sea Is Witness: The Creation of a Prosopographical Database for the Sephardic Atlantic / Revisiting Blackness, Slavery, and Jewishness in the Early Modern Sephardic Atlantic / Feckless Fathers, Fraught Families: Abandonment and Cultural Change in the Early Modern Jewish World / The Gabay Dynasty: Plantation Jews of the Colonial Atlantic World / Patriots at the Periphery: David Nassy, the French Revolution, and the Emancipation of the Dutch Jews / Back Matter -- Index of Names and Places…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Looking for the Right Zoom Angle; Flocks, Herds, Schools, and Swarms: Social Behavior as Optimization; Accomplishments of the Social Insects; Optimizing with Simulated Ants: Computational; Swarm Intelligence; Staying Together but Not Colliding: Flocks, Herds,; and Schools; Robot Societies; Shallow Understanding; Agency; Summary; 4 Evolutionary Computation Theory and Paradigms; Introduction; Evolutionary Computation History…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 32: Doug Casey on Cashless SocietiesPart Five: Wrestling for Countries; Chapter 33: Doug Casey on the U.S. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Quality Thought Revolution -- Knowing True Quality -- Expressing the Quality -- The Quality Circle -- Why Did Zero Defects Fail? …”

“…It requires a revolution in thinking and behavior to meet the challenges that now face us and avoid disaster we need to totally rethink the model. …”

“…Claude Lefort's work examines the enduring significance of communism in contemporary society, despite its historical failures. Through a critical analysis of the Soviet system and its ideological underpinnings, Lefort seeks to illuminate the complexities of political societies. …”

“…The scale of its later prehistoric monuments, notably the hillforts, proclaims the centralisation of some functions, whether for security, exchange or emulation, while society supported the production and widespread distribution of specialised craft goods. …”

“…This robust and modern approach takes students through the genomics revolution and "omics" maze that has transformed microbiology and shares powerful tools that microbiologists use to probe deeper and farther into the microbial world than ever before. …”

“…This book talks about the solution of at least some of the problems and invisible threats that challenge our societies and security…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Vorstellungen einer vernetzten Welt in den 1970er Jahren -- 2.a Der »Guru des Informationszeitalters« - James Martin und die »wired society« -- 2.b The Network Nation. Human Communication via Computer -- 2.c Community Memory - Computer als Medium von Subkulturen -- 2.d The Viewdata Revolution -- 2.e Zwischenfazit: Medienrevolution in Wartestellung -- 3. …”

“…Furthermore, they consider if and how global finance and international commerce including the migration of people, together play a role in helping the disruptive invention satisfy a need in society, whether from a production or consumption perspective. …”

“…Looking at the history of the Western world itself and the fraught questions over how societies should be ordered, Confronting Political Islam upends some of the conventional wisdom about the current upheavals in the Muslim world…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Native language learning drives the development of native-like speech perception -- Phonetic perception in infants exposed to a second language at 9-10 months -- The social and cultural relevance of shared speech perception -- Social-cognitive factors in the development of speech perception -- Current research and future directions -- A final note about cultural diversity in language learning -- References -- On theories of dialogue, self and society -- Socialization: Subject and structure -- Action and structure. …”