“…Cette étude monographique des quartiers périphériques de Saïgon (aujourd’hui Hô Chi Minh-Ville) est le résultat d’une longue enquête menée à l’aube du XXIe siècle sur les banlieues de la métropole du sud du Vietnam. La simplicité de la prose et la modération des termes employés tentent d’humaniser, de nuancer une réalité complexe, confuse et effervescente d’une banlieue en pleine crise de transition au sens étymologique du terme, c’est-à-dire tiraillée entre centralité et marges, tradition et modernité, excès dans l’ordre et le désordre sociaux et individuels. …”

“…To a degree remarkable in a prose work of any length, what it means is inseparable from how it means. …”

“…The book, composed of seven studies, analyzes texts and national and international authors, in prose and poetry. Susanna Busato studies the subject that adheres to the urban space, based on the poetry of Frederico Barbosa, Heitor Ferraz and Fábio Weintraub. …”

“…Each reading translates a focused area of climate change research into short, accessible, and lively prose. Chapter authors open debates where relevant, consider policy implications, critique existing areas of research, and otherwise situate their reading within a larger body of research relevant to climate change courses. …”

“…The author of the collection or its Vorlage would appear to have been especially interested in the geographical notices that, in the works of classical Arabic geographers such as Ibn Rustah, Ibn Ḫurdādbah, Ibn al-Faqīh, or their later epigones, described wondrous buildings and intermittent rivers, as mentioned in the epic narratives about Alexander the Great. As for other prose texts preserved in the Berlin and London Sachau collections of Neo-Aramaic manuscripts, Sachau probably asked his informant to translate into his own Aramaic dialect Arabic texts that may reflect the literary and scientific interests of the German scholar…”

“…In this updated edition author Bruce Hyslop uses crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today's HTML and CSS essentials. …”

“…Deep learning has unlocked superhuman perception to power our push toward creating self-driving vehicles, defeating human experts at a variety of difficult games including Go, and even generating essays with shockingly coherent prose. But deciphering these breakthroughs often takes a PhD in machine learning and mathematics. …”

“…In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to Pro Tools, acclaimed songwriter, musician, and producer Steven Roback uses crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you everything that’s new in Pro Tools 7. …”

“…In this popular guide, leading technology experts Judith Stern and Robert Lettieri use crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you everything you need to know about getting the most from the latest iPods and iTunes 6. …”

“…<p class=MsoNormal>Told through the timeless medium of letters&mdash;in prose that is raw and intimate, humorous and poetic&mdash;Love & Salt is at its core the emotional struggle of how one spiritual friendship is formed and tested in tragedy, tempered and proven in hope…”

“…The whole saga, which includes Zeus' plan to reduce the world's population, the Judgment of Paris and seduction of Helen, the start of the campaign, the Wooden Horse, the fall of Achilles, the homecoming of Agamemnon, and the eventual death of Odysseus, was related in six other epics, dating from 630-560 BCE, that were influential for lyric poets, tragedians, and artists of the classical age but are known to us only through fragments and brief prose summaries. In this book Martin West presents all the source material and provides the first comprehensive commentary on it, making full use of iconographic as well as literary evidence. …”

“…<p>As ever, Peter Burke presents a breath-taking range of scholarship in prose of exemplary clarity and accessibility. This highly anticipated second volume will be essential reading across the humanities and social sciences…”

“…And she knows she has to act to save not just the child but Mary and herself. With exquisite prose, dark humor, and a historian’s eye for detail, Clare Clark has created another transporting novel…”

“…Highlighting this collection is the notorious 1850 article "Judaism in Music", which caused such a firestorm that nearly twenty years later Wagner published an unapologetic appendix.Other prose pieces include "On the Performing of Tannhauser", written while he was in political exile; "On Musical Criticism", an appeal for a more vital approach to art undivorced from life; and, "Music of the Future". …”

“…Cutting through dense philosophical prose, 100 famous and influential arguments are presented in their essence, with premises, conclusions and logical form plainly identified. …”

“…In essays that show how her groundbreaking work in queer theory has developed into a deep interest in affect, Sedgwick offers what she calls "tools and techniques for nondualistic thought", in the process touching and transforming such theoretical discourses as psychoanalysis, speech-act theory, Western Buddhism, and the Foucauldian "hermeneutics of suspicion." In prose sometimes somber, often high-spirited, and always accessible and moving, Touching Feeling interrogates - through virtuoso readings of works by Henry James, J.L. …”

“…Newman has made disciples as leader of the Catholic revival in the Church of England, an inspiration to fellow converts to Roman Catholicism, a nationally admired preacher and prose-writer, and an internationally recognized saint of the Catholic Church. …”

“…Déjà s'y lisent en effet les convictions socialistes voire libertaires de Péguy, le vers régulier et même le vers libre entremêlés à la prose, un soin extrême porté à la typographie, déjà la figure tutélaire de la Pucelle d'Orléans. …”

“…With his extraordinary skill for evoking time and place, he tells the familiar story of king succeeding king in rich prose, with profound insight and some surprising details. …”

“…The result is groundbreaking photojournalism punctuated with authoratative prose. Culled from both published and previously unpublished material, A Nation Challenged highlights the best work of the paper's award-winning staffers-the work that has made the Times the paper of record for these events. …”