“…The art scene remained the main audience until the end of the MoUJ in 1975: There were concerts at the Viennese “Museum of 20th century”, there was a second record with a provocative cover by Franz Ringel. …”

“…Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE until the beginning of the Hellenistic period. The book systematically presents the lives of women emerging from the available cuneiform material and discusses modern scholarly opinion. …”

“…A discourse on women’s leadership within science education has, until now, been largely invisible in book form. This, therefore, is the first book to address women’s leadership within science education. …”

“…Until recently, boys and men provided the template by which problem behaviors in girls and women were measured. …”

“…A professor of poetry uses a deck of playing cards to measure the time until her lover returns from Afghanistan. Congolese soldiers find their loneliness reflected in the lyrics of rumba songs. …”

“…This book is concerned with the history of tourism at the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station at Healesville, northeast of Melbourne, which functioned as a government reserve from 1863 until its closure in 1924. At Coranderrk, Aboriginal mission interests and tourism intersected and the station became a 'showplace' of Aboriginal culture and the government policy of assimilation. …”

“…Taken together, the Russian census of 1897 and the Soviet censuses of 1926, 1959, 1970, and 1979 constitute the largest collection of empirical data available on that country, but until the publication of this book in 1986, the daunting complexity of that material prevented Western scholars from exploiting the censuses fully. …”

“…Although ALL was considered an incurable disease until the early 1960s, with the availability of cytotoxic drugs and the start of clinical multicenter studies, ALL has become an almost curable disease with a survival rate exceeding 90 % in high-income countries. …”

“…In fact, the distinction between a system and a tool was not clearly defined until recently with the introduction of the Shingo SYSTEMS DESIGN workshop and the information discussed in this book.With the development of the workshop, the Shingo Institute is now teaching the three essential systems--work, improvement, and management--as well as the five required communication tools that are necessary to improve an organization. …”

“…Drawing from a variety of disciplines such as archaeology, bioarchaeology, literary studies, ancient Egyptian philology, and sociocultural anthropology, this volume provides an interdisciplinary account of the ways in which the dead are able to transcend temporal distances and engender social relationships. Until quite recently, literary sciences and archaeology were generally regarded as incommensurable in their aims, methodologies, and source material. …”

“…While big dreams and confidence might get you started, audacity is what keeps you going until you finally accomplish the personal and professional achievements you know you're capable of. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Specious Barrier #4: I Am Waiting Until I Feel Like It (a.k.a. I Write Best When I'm Feeling Inspired) -- Moving Beyond Specious Barriers -- What to Do When You Write -- Playing and Practicing are Two Different Things -- Don't Worry about the Hard Part -- Be Honest -- Be Optimistic -- Be Persistent and Be Consistent -- Chapter Summary -- Additional Resources for Chapter 5 -- 6 The Secrets of Memorably Bad Presentations -- A Sample Presentation -- Chapter Summary -- Further Resources for Chapter 6 -- 7 How to Win the Nobel Prize and Change the World -- Try to Solve Major Problems and Make Big Discoveries -- Acquire the Basic Skills and Work with the Right People -- Talk about the Problem -- Learn to Write Clearly and Concisely -- Focus, Don't Be a Dilettante -- Be Generous and Culturally Aware -- Tell the Truth -- Be Persistent, But Be Prepared To Fail -- Take Care of Yourself and Live a Long Life -- Your Time Is Precious -- Chapter Summary -- Further Resources for Chapter 7 -- Index…”

“…Despite his deepest ambitions, he remained an outsider. Until now there has been no full biography of Clarence Hatry, which may be attributable to the lack of records, as his business papers are believed all to have been destroyed. …”

“…For this reason, this book does not deal with the agreement itself, but with its relevance as a milestone in a decisive change in Chile's trajectory as the winner of the War of the Pacific, until 1929.…”

“…The deepening arises from the need to study multiple actions and themes: to examine the background project of the Mostra d'Oltremare identified in the new studies, not only in the city debate on a suitable space for exhibitions to be preferably located to the west, but also in authorial preliminary solutions, until now unknown, which have conditioned the final conformation; to highlight the specificity of the single elements of the complex, the survived and the disappeared ones, without limiting the study to the best known and most celebrated cases, but also to the less investigated and difficult to interpret ones, without neglecting the open spaces and the green areas; to deepen also those architectures that cannot be interpreted in the line of modernity but equally emblematic of that phase, therefore worthy of preservation; not limiting attention to the heroic, albeit debatable, phase of the first foundation, but analyzing with the same acumen the subsequent ones, starting with the problematic reconstruction and redefinition of the post-war period; not stopping at the systematic reconnaissance of indirect sources that have not been investigated until now - from the many archives, not only on a city but also on a national scale, to the newspapers and the press of the time - but questioning the same material consistency of the buildings with a scientific method; finally, not focusing only on the past and on the history of the Exhibition and of the single architectures, but projecting it into the future by identifying the best strategies of recovery, restoration and preservation Il presente lavoro nasce con un duplice obiettivo: andare più a fondo nella conoscenza di un caposaldo urbano e al tempo stesso contribuire a delineare per esso uno scenario futuro adeguato al suo valore, a partire da un corretto recupero delle multiformi e pregiate architetture che lo compongono. …”

“…"AI and the Technological Singularity: A Fallacy or a Great Opportunity" is a collection of essays that addresses the question of whether the technological singularity—the notion that AI-based computers can program the next generation of AI-based computers until a singularity is achieved, where an AI-based computer can exceed human intelligence—is a fallacy or a great opportunity. …”

“…The period that started in the second half of the 19th century and continued up until the foundation of the Republic was a time of remarkable contributions to economic literature. …”

“…Viet Nam, a net exporter until 2014, is building coal power plants at a fast pace. …”

“…It was the heart of a political body of the Carolingian galaxy, the Marca di Tuscia, which enjoyed exceptional fortune, remaining vital until almost the entire 11th century. On the other hand, it constitutes one of the contexts best illuminated by the sources: the documentation on the territory of Lucca from the beginning of the eighth century is extraordinarily conspicuous and continuous. …”

“…This is the first book whose subject is the music, sounds and silences of Antarctica. From 2011 until 2014, Australia marked its long-standing connection with Antarctica by celebrating the centenary of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. …”