“…This book also addresses legal and ethical issues, how to become a professional scriptwriter and a section on production language that provides helpful explanations of how camera, locations, visual and audio effects combine on screen to engage and sustain viewer attention and, consequently, how to improve scriptwriting technique. …”

“…La categoria può assumere, infatti, almeno due significati molto diversi: un ricorso a Cristo in senso miracolistico, presentando la guarigione come un evento automatico, oppure una più attenta percezione della figura evangelica del Salvatore, riscoprendo la forza della sua grazia sanante, come intende l'autore del volume. …”

“…Su aparición supondrá el salto a la palestra del grupo literario Shanghai, a cuyos componentes, hartos de los efectos residuales del boom, se tildaría maliciosamente de dandies y posmodernos europeizantes y cuya propuesta estetica e ideológica sostenía la autonomía de la literatura tanto ante la política como ante el mercado. …”

“…They didn't invent it, and they're not always the ones from which we can best learn. As Matt Kingdon argues in The Science of Serendipity , it's corporate innovators battling within large, established organisations who are the field's real heroes. …”

“…They have brought together a group of leading European civic and citizenship educators from different academic fields to explore the key issue and to identify the competences for young people to become active and engaged European citizens…”

“…And Abel reveals how mad--really mad--Ira Glass becomes when he receives edits from his colleagues. …”

“…He contrasts it with the almost unknown progress of Francis Newman from the life of an evangelical and missionary to become an apostle of all those liberal, rationalist ideas which his brother had rejected with such vehemence and to doubt the very bases of the christian faith. …”

“…No survey can capture the breadth and depth of the anti-Americanism that has swept Europe in recent years. From ultraconservative Bavarian grandmothers to thirty-year-old socialist activists in Greece, from globalization opponents to corporate executives--Europeans are joining in an ever louder chorus of disdain for America. …”

“…Yet in doing so, the devious origins of its disappearance come to the light. And what has become of the mystery of Pesha and her former husband? …”

“…Why have some Asian countries become more democratic as they have grown richer, while others--most notably China--haven't? …”

“…Every category is up for grabs, and traditional brands are seeing their businesses erode as hundreds of small companies encroach on their territory, each hoping to become the next runaway success. But it's not enough to have a great idea, or a cool logo. …”

“…The ideal of an independent and sovereign Catalonia has become: the formal objective of Catalonia's parliament and government; the raison d'être of a strongly mobilized social movement; and the preferred arrangement of close to half of Catalonia's residents. …”

“…Political incivility is not merely a problem for political elites; political conversations between American citizens have also become more difficult and tense. The 2016 presidential elections featured campaign rhetoric designed to inflame the general public. …”

“…She vividly illustrates how rules can change—how supple rules stiffen, or vice versa, and how once bothersome regulations become everyday norms. Rules have been devised for almost every imaginable activity and range from meticulous regulations to the laws of nature. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…: what happens when facts don't matter -- Truth and the lost cause -- The "assault on reality": trans people and subjectivity -- The view from somewhere -- The end of journalism…”

“…Porphyry's concept of salvation is important for an understanding of those cataclysmic forces, not always theological, that helped convert the Roman Empire from paganism to Christianity. Porphyry, a disciple of Plotinus, was the last and greatest anti-Christian writer to vehemently attack the Church before the Constantinian revolution. …”

“…Evaluating beliefs epistemically becomes then a task with essentially the same structure that evaluating athletic, culinary or any other sort of performance; in all cases the performance in question is evaluated in terms of how it relates to certain relevant competences and abilities of the subject that carries it out. …”

“…Regional states must account for a more powerful potential adversary in China, and China has become more ambitious in its efforts to control its surroundings. …”

“…That question, once thought to address a fairly remote contingency, has become ever more urgent, as a spate of books has drawn increased public attention to the imminent exhaustion of the economically vital world oil reserves. …”
Acceso a las primeras páginas

“…"At the end of World War Two, Americans clamored for their troops to come home. Politics intruded upon military policy while a new and untested president struggled to strategize among a military command that was often mired in rivalry. …”