“…The authors' conversational writing style invites readers to annotate pages with their own ideas, experiences, comparisons, and insights, bolstering students' confidence and ultimately preparing them for the ethical problems they will face in their own careers. …”

“…Perhaps more importantly this book needs to be read by everyone who thinks that existing responses will ultimately 'solve the environmental problem.' The editors present the collection as a slow manifesto capable of transforming the reductionism and realism they see dominating both natural and social scientific approaches to the environment. …”

“…And she shows why cyberspace is, in many ways, the ultimate cloak-and-dagger battleground, where nefarious actors employ deception, subterfuge, and advanced technology for theft, espionage, and information warfare.A fascinating and revealing account of espionage for the digital age, Spies, Lies, and Algorithms is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the reality of spying today -- Editor…”

“…Turning to the present, Diggins highlights what he argues is a misuse of Niebuhr's legacy on both the right and the left: while neoconservatives distort Niebuhr's arguments to support their call for an endless war on terror in the name of stopping evil, many liberal interventionists conveniently ignore Niebuhr's fundamental doubts about power. Ultimately, Niebuhr's greatest lesson is that, while it is our duty to struggle for good, we must at the same time be wary of hubris, remembering the limits of our understanding. …”

“…At the same time, the Utraquists pursued their orthodoxy by disputation rather than hurling anathemas and lived alongside Lutherans, the Unity of Brethren, and others. Ultimately the Utraquist church was reabsorbed into Roman Catholicism and its special features repressed in the Counter-Reformation…”
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“…Pippin offers a sophisticated exploration of Hegel's position and shows that, had Hegel known how the social institutions of his day would ultimately fail to achieve his own version of genuine equality-a mutuality of recognition - he would have had to explore a different role for art in modernity. …”

“…And he recounts Annan's effort to respond to criticism with sweeping reform - an effort which ultimately shattered under the resistance of U.S. Ambassador John Bolton. …”

“…Why did Saddam embark on this expensive, ultimately fruitless conflict? Why did the war last eight years when it could have ended in months? …”

“…He pays special attention to the underlying role of anxiety about strangers, the widespread desire for good schools, and the pervasive fear of crime. Ultimately, Frug calls for replacing the current legal definition of cities with an alternative based on what he calls "community building"--an alternative that gives cities within the same metropolitan region incentives to forge closer links with each other.An incisive study of the legal roots of today's urban problems, "City Making" is also an optimistic and compelling blueprint for enabling American cities once again to embrace their historic role of helping people reach an accommodation with those who live in the same geographic area, no matter how dissimilar they are…”

“…He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. …”

“…Enfin, la publication intégrale de sa dernière conférence, à quatre semaines de sa mort, nous plonge dans l'ultime message qu'elle transmet à des étudiants." …”

“…Au moment où l'individu doté de la volonté d'entreprendre et du goût du risque est tenu pour la valeur ultime des sociétés démocratiques, il est salubre de rappeler qu'il y a individu et individu ; et que l'on ne peut être un individu au sens positif du terme qu'à la condition de disposer de ressources permettant de ne pas être réduit à payer de sa seule personne. …”

“…"From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the “Terrible Year” by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved, and forced into surrender by Germans―then imperiled again as radical republicans established a breakaway Commune, ultimately crushed by the French Army after bloody street battles and the burning of central Paris. …”

“…Si tratta di un formidabile percorso spirituale, in cui il teologo e l’uomo di scienza si confrontano su innumerevoli temi: l’etica, l’antropologia, la spiritualità, le domande “ultime” su vita e morte, amore e dolore... Scorre, in queste pagine, una «sorprendente folla di autori», come la definisce il cardinale Ravasi, dallo Pseudo-Dionigi a Dostoevskij, da Ildegarda di Bingen a Küng, da Guardini a Sartre, da Thomas Mann ad Amartya Sen, da Jan Assmann a Coetzee, e così via, mentre nell’ambito della scienza spiccano John Nash e Kurt Gödel. …”

“…As chief executive, he presided over the calamitous barrage of accusations and counteraccusations of foreign collusion that culminated in the War of 1812. Madison left a mixed but indelible legacy: as a fierce adversary of foreign interference, a fiery champion of political debate, and a partisan operative who facilitated the former by inflaming the latter.Forged in partisan conflict, the United States remains vulnerable to forces that test whether the constitutional system Madison was so central in implementing can withstand outside meddling while accommodating partisan conflict. …”

“…Campbell's personal quest takes him down darker roads than he could have imagined, and all his worlds--the art scene and academia, fashion and the English aristocracy, journalism and the internet--collide in spectacular fashion, culminating in one shocking night on Caledonian Road…”

“…In today's intellectual environment, which treats the notion of truth as a cynical tool of politics, and deception as inherent in language, Hopkins's luminous vision of sacrificial love and community at the heart of poetry offers a refreshing antidote to the dry suspicions of a cademic literary theory…”

“…Forfatterne kommer fra ulike fagtradisjoner og henter perspektiver fra filosofi, religionspsykologi, teologi, diakoni og sykepleievitenskap. …”

“…Etorri eta ikusi proiektu ebanjelizatzailea da, metodologia eta baliabide apropos-aproposak darabiltzana fede iragarpena biziagoa eta adierazgarriagoa izan dadin, eta, Jainkoaren Hitza eta Eliz Tradizioa oinarri harturik, Jainkoak eskaini eta ageri izan digun itunaren eta adiskidetasunaren historian murgiltzea proposatzen duena. …”

“…Chamberlin: SQL Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan: AWK Charles Geschke and John Warnock: PostScript Bjarne Stroustrup: C++ Bertrand Meyer: Eiffel Brad Cox and Tom Love: Objective-C Larry Wall: Perl Simon Peyton Jones, Paul Hudak, Philip Wadler, and John Hughes: Haskell Guido van Rossum: Python Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo and Roberto Ierusalimschy: Lua James Gosling: Java Grady Booch, Ivar Jacobson, and James Rumbaugh: UML Anders Hejlsberg: Delphi inventor and lead developer of C# If you're interested in the people whose vision and hard work helped shape the computer industry, you'll find Masterminds of Programming fascinating…”