“…What It Takes is the distillation of lessons learned during nearly half a century of working backstage with the leaders of major professional firms as a trusted adviser on strategy and management, observing a few firms rise deliberately to leadership while many others with comparable hopes could not. Over and over again, in dozens of private meetings with firm leaders, the core questions were: Why do some firms rise to leadershipand why do most not make it? …”

“…You may find yourself struggling to adapt your skill set to unfamiliar and anxiety-inducing conditions, conscious that your performance will affect your future career paths.Change with Confidence addresses the 50 biggest questions that change leaders ask time and again, and provides the context, examples, and advice to answer them well, and to enable successful, sustainable change. …”

“…This occurred in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, which laid the foundations of the Soviet state, and again in 1991, when that state collapsed. Tear Off the Masks! …”

“…The "culture of surveillance", to borrow David Lyon's term, is a culture where questions about privacy and publicness, and rights and benefits, are once again brought to the fore. This anthology takes up this challenge, with contributions from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical frameworks that discuss and shed light on the complexity of contemporary surveillance and thus problematise power relations between the many actors involved in the development and performance of surveillance culture. …”

“…This last version was again published in 1840.The book sparked a well-known controversy over coding that inspired Savigny's controversial essay entitled Vom Beruf unserer Zeit für Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft (From the vocation of our age to legislation and the science of law).In 1914, the centenary year, Jacques Stern gave the printing press a new edition of these titles together with other texts: additions by the authors and judgments of his contemporaries. …”

“…Finally, the classical notion of competition and monopoly deserve to be scrutinized carefully again and frequent misinterpretations in the literature refuted.This volume is vital reading for scholars of classical economics, Marx and Sraffa, and the history of economic thought more broadly. …”

“…Yet, in a reading against the grain, different sources can offer us hints of how conversations took place in private. …”

“…More colloquially referred to as the Very-Large-Scale-Integration (VLSI) chip or an integrated circuit (IC) chip or simply a microchip, this semiconductor cube block, approximately the size of a grain of rice, is composed of millions to billions of transistors. …”

“…Die deshalb erforderliche Wissenszurechnung gewinnt er aus unionsrechtlichen Grundsätzen und beschränkt sie grundsätzlich auf die Führungsebene.»Knowledge and Ad-Hoc Disclosure«: The attribution of knowledge is back again. In the context of the ad-hoc disclosure requirement, it remains one of the most controversial issues in European capital markets law. …”

“…When people contact health services after self-harm or suicide attempts, it is important to have effective interventions for preventing it from happening again. We have found research on many interventions and studied whether people harm themselves less frequently and have fewer suicide attempts when they have received one of these interventions compared to people in a control group who have not received the intervention. …”

“…We are extremely fortunate to once again have outstanding keynote speakers: Raj Reddy, ACM Turing Award Laureate, Carnegie Mellon University; Vinton Cerf, ACM Turing Award Laureate, Google; Leslie Valiant, ACM Turing Award Laureate, Harvard University; Michael I. …”

“…Closely associated with this is the use of the adjectival categories like “(proto)-orthodox”, “majority church” versus those like “heretical” (again polemically pejorative).In their chapters, the contributors demonstrate not only how the set limits – as referred to the categories above – do indeed play a role, but more importantly, where these limits have been exceeded and where we must therefore work with new and different categories to understand the meaning of “apocryphal” writings and/or writings that have “become apocryphal” in terms of the history of an ancient Christianity perceived as multi-dimensional and dynamic. …”

“…By revealing the fascinating human sides of the remarkable pioneers of utilitarianism, The Happiness Philosophers provides a richer understanding and appreciation of their philosophical and political perspectives--one that also helps explain why utilitarianism is experiencing a renaissance today and is again being used to tackle some of the world's most serious problems…”

“…Illuminating unreason at a moment when the world appears to have gone mad again, Irrationality is fascinating, provocative, and timely."…”

“…Through the life-stories of these adventurous individuals over three generations, Noel Malcolm casts the world between Venice, Rome and the Ottoman Empire in a fresh light, illuminating subjects as diverse as espionage, diplomacy, the grain trade, slave-ransoming and anti-Ottoman rebellion. …”

“…Our possession of moral rights is precarious, being dependent on the evidence possessed by others. Once again, several objections are entertained and rebutted. …”

“…As the population of the world doubled once, and then again, well-meaning people concluded that only population control could preserve the "quality of life." …”

“…It was a place where 42,000 people could be shot in two days, where thousands of children could be abducted from their families, never to see their homeland again, and where guidebooks could invite German tourists to enjoy the culture and nightlife of cities that were 'now free of Jews'. …”

“…At nine years old, all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parents' arms, snuggling in bed between them, and living under the same roof again. He cannot foresee the perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions that await him; nor can he know that those two weeks will expand into two life-altering months alongside a group of strangers who will come to encircle him like an unexpected family. …”

“…Even in the twenty-first century, as we continue to reckon with the magnitude and horror of the Holocaust, history tells us we have broken our own solemn promise of "never again." In this harrowing work based on archival records and interviews during travel to four continents, Andrea Pitzer reveals for the first time the chronological and geopolitical history of concentration camps. …”