“…The cycle of resistance strengthened by the World Social Forum and transnational activism is now punctuated by the experience of the Arab Spring, the agency of anti-systemic movements, left think tanks, the Occupy Wall Street Movement, labour unions, left parties in Europe such as Syriza and Podemos and peoples' budgeting in Kerala, India. …”

“…En este volumen se recogen veintiocho artículos relacionados con la compilación y el análisis de corpus diacrónicos especializados, que sirven de complemento a los corpus de la RAE. En algunos casos, se trata de corpus digitales ya disponibles en red, como CHARTA, CODEA, CODCAR, CORHEN, Post Scriptum, ODE, Corpus Mallorca, CORDICan, etc. …”

“…For more than twenty years, until 2004, Timothy Howard was a senior executive at the best known of those companies, Fannie Mae, and he was in the middle of that fight.In The Franchise, Howard explains how seemingly unrelated developments in banking regulation, housing policy, Wall Street financial innovation, and political lobbying all combined to wreak havoc on the American housing market and the world economy.Timothy Howard was Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Fannie Mae until 2004. …”

“…Often quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the author is an authority on restructuring and downsizing. …”

“…"Kevin Allen, author of the Wall Street Journal best-selling The Hidden Agenda: A Proven Way to Win Business and Create a Following, is back, with a fabulously entertaining (and true) tale of a newly minted leader made buoyant during The Case of the Missing Cutlery: A Leadership Course for the Rising Star. …”

“…A practical guide to building fully operational financial cash flow models for structured finance transactions Structured finance and securitization deals are becoming more commonplace on Wall Street. Up until now, however, market participants have had to create their own models to analyze these deals, and new entrants have had to learn as they go. …”

“…Der Autor beschreibt die häufigsten, zum Teil subtilen Betrugsmaschen, die Ihnen beim Surfen, bei der Nutzung von Apps oder beim Abrufen von E-Mails begegnen können. …”

“…He has collaborated with leaders in data, technology, and policy in the U.S. and UK governments, including officials in the White House and 10 Downing Street and at more than 20 U.S. federal agencies…”

“…Malkiel, the bestselling author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street, and Charles D. Ellis, the bestselling author of Winning the Loser's Game…”

“…It's about people who are just as innovative, entrepreneurial, and visionary as the Jobses, Edisons, and Fords of the world, except they're not in Silicon Valley. They're in the street markets of Sao Paulo and Guangzhou, and the rubbish dumps of Lagos. …”

“…Drawing on years of fieldwork in a community psychiatry outreach team, Brodwin traces the ethical dilemmas and everyday struggles of front line providers. On the street, in staff room debates, or in private confessions, these psychiatrists and social workers confront ongoing challenges to their self-image as competent and compassionate advocates. …”

“…Mixed use zoning keeps a flow of people through parks, streets, neighborhoods, and districts, which is good for business, safety, and tourism. …”

“…As parents and neighborhood activists have worked to save and discipline young people, they have often inadvertently reinforced privatized models of childhood and urban space, clearing the streets of children, who are encouraged to stay at home or in supervised after-school programs. …”

“…En un momento en el que las principales actividades económicas y sociales de todo el planeta están estructurándose en red, cuando la sociedad es red, cuando una transformación cultural y una manera nueva de interactuar, de entender la acción organizativa, más allá de los propios muros, surgen con fuerza, hay que preguntarse si nuestro sistema educativo tiene la capacidad de adaptarse a la misma velocidad a la que está progresando la sociedad, o si contrasta con ella por todo lo contrario. …”
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“…Cuando el demonio de la nada se adueña del espíritu no sirven los fármacos, ni las sesiones clínicas, tampoco los productos químicos, ni los bufones de la televisión. …”

“…Las creencias de dos mil millones de cristianos, mil millones doscientos mil musulmanes, ochocientos millones de hindúes y setecientos millones de creyentes de otras religiones, sirven para entender aspectos como la paz y la guerra, la ética, la política, la reproducción, la familia y las estructuras sociales de las distintas civilizaciones y continentes. 50 ideas que hay que saber sobre religión pretende disipar la confusión que suele acompañar a las ideas sobre la religión y abordar sus principales aspectos…”
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“…Failure to recognize the problems and react quickly, he predicts, will lead to a virulent right-wing nationalism of a kind not seen since the 1930s…”

“…We can no longer assume that our mortgage application, or even our medical tests, will be seen by human eyes. And autonomous vehicles on our streets can injure or kill. …”

“…Merck's Roy Vagelos commits millions of dollars to develop a drug needed only by people who can't afford it · Eugene Kranz struggles to bring the Apollo 13 astronauts home after an explosion rips through their spacecraft · Arlene Blum organizes the first women's ascent of one of the world's most dangerous mountains · Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain leads his tattered troops into a pivotal Civil War battle at Little Round Top · John Gutfreund loses Salomon Brothers when his inattention to a trading scandal almost topples the Wall Street giant · Clifton Wharton restructures a $50 billion pension system direly out of touch with its customers · Alfredo Cristiani transforms El Salvador's decade-long civil war into a negotiated settlement · Nancy Barry leads Women's World Banking in the fight against Third World poverty · Wagner Dodge faces the decision of a lifetime as a fast-moving forest fire overtakes his firefighting crew…”
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“…Each chapter includes a case study which provides an in-depth analysis of the single film that best illustrates the ideology at hand, including: The Candidate (populism), Wall Street (elitism), The Godfather (fascism), All the President's Men (anti-fascism), Patton (interventionism), and M*A*S*H (isolationism). …”