Krieg, Robert A., Treasure in the Field: Salvation in the Bible and in Our Lives by Jakub Urbaniak

“… In this concise book, Robert Krieg recasts the soteriological insights of the Bible in psychological-existential terms, i.e., by reflecting on salvation as God’s gift of one’s personal wholeness. …”
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La subsistance de l’homme : l’économie selon Karl Polanyi by Pierre Alary

“…In a historical perspective this book, primarily theoretical, leans on the role of the economy in society. …”
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Séries literárias juvenis: autoria e circulação da cultura by Andréa Borges Leão

“…Observing the phenomenon of cultural movement since the onset of Brazilian publishing industry, the essay offers some ideas on the status of authorship in contemporary series books for young adults. It studies the case of the writer Paula Pimenta. …”
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Unsuspicious reception of Biblical discourse in Africa and its implications for polygamy by B.B. Senokoane

“… The Bible has been conceived and received as a neutral book, as the Word of God, or as containing the Word of God. …”
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L’horreur acoustique musiques « anempathiques » dans le théâtre de Martin Crimp by Aloysia Rousseau

“…Music is not illustrative but arouses on the contrary an “anempathetic” effect, an expression coined by Michel Chion in his book La Musique au cinéma. Martin Crimp exploits this anempathetic strategy in plays such as Play with Repeats (1990), The Treatment (1993) or more recently the triptych Fewer Emergencies (2005) in which violent events are narrated with a boogie-woogie playing in the background. …”
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Introduction by Léa Linconstant, Fleur Beauvieux, Efigies Aix-Marseille

“…The issue also includes a varia section as well as chronicles, news in the gender and language field and book reviews.…”
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Vliv Dostojevského na pojetí krásy Pavla Evdokimova by Lenka Fílová

“…The ideas reflected by Evdokimov are then compared with his theology of beauty, as presented in his seminal book, which, in addition to the theology of beauty, deals with the art of the icon. …”
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Tatyana Yakovlevna Serebryakova: a forgotten hemp expert by J. M. McPartland

“…She published important papers and a book on the subject. Next to every great man stands a great woman, and Serebryakova was Vavilov’s hemp expert. …”
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Le renouveau de l’approche documentaire, exemple d’une archive collaborative : Susan Meiselas, Kurdistan (1991-2009) by Clara Bouveresse

“…Between 1991 and 2009, American photographer Susan Meiselas (born 1948), a member of Magnum Photos, collected a photographic archive of the Kurdish people, presenting images, evidence and stories in a book, a travelling exhibition and a participatory website. …”
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A ironia como projeto: movimentos da narrativa de Cora Coralina no campo literário brasileiro by Clovis Carvalho Britto, Maria Eugênia Curado

“…Woman, old and living in a small Brazilian city called Goiás, she published her first book at age76and brought reflections and questions that marked the Brazilian literary scene. …”
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Escrevendo-se na cidade: ExueoGuia afetivoda periferia, de Marcus Vinicius Faustini by Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho

“…n the preface to the inaugural book of Marcos Vinicius Faustini, Luiz EduardoSoares says: ―The movement of Faustini’stext is sinuous as his urbantrajectories, and devious as his existential journey‖. …”
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W.E.B Du Bois and the Place of African American Youth in Histories of Environmental Thought. by Katie Taylor

“…I finish by offering a case study of my research on the children’s magazine of W.E.B Du Bois, The Brownies’ Book and its representations of Black children’s relationships to the outdoors and nature.…”
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« A thrust at truth and a lie » : The Crying of Lot 49 ou le langage en quête de vérité by Jean-Yves Pellegrin

“…A thrust at truth, the language in Pynchon’s book is indeed pregnant with meaning and always on the verge to blaze out into an epiphanic flash.…”
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How and Where Did Students Learn Music in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance? by Grantley McDonald

“…Such places often render valuable information about musical education. The chapters in the book reviewed here present case-studies in musical education from the late Middle Ages until the early modern period. …”
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The commons and anticommons in the reform of property law: An illustration through the new Belgian Civil Code by Sagaert Vincent

“…Apart from other comparative observations, this article takes the new Belgian Civil Code, and especially the property law book, as an example in order to illustrate these developments.…”
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Patrick Giromini, Transformations silencieuses, étude architecturale du bâti alpin by Frédéric Firreri

“…This book examines the habitat in the Alpine environment, using the canton of Valais as a basis. …”
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The Election and Invitation in al-Hâdavî Zaydism ABSTRAcT by Zeyd B. Ali El-vezir

“…It is stressed in the article that al-Hadi ilâ al-Haqq, the caliph between 284298/897-911, comes to power by election and he is appointed as Imam in order to accomplish the duty of ordering the right and refraining people from the wrong as well as ruling with ‘ the Book.’ In this respect, it is questioned the validity of either to call for allegiance to him as well as election, or the Imamet of the despot. …”
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Advances in the Statistical Characterization of Fading: From 2005 to Present by José F. Paris

“…The period from 2005 to present will be considered in order to complement the information which can be found in the specialized literature like Simon and Alouini’s book on digital communications over fading channels. …”
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American Masculinity under the Pressure of Changes by Ondřej Frunc

“…They outline a basic overview of strategies that can be significantly expanded in further research and further deepen knowledge about the direction different men take if they feel their own masculinity is threatened. Their book Gender Threat: American Masculinity in the Face of Change (2022) is still a relevant text for the study of masculinity in the US. …”
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Le sainct esprit a yci pourtrait au vif ... Calvin's understanding of the Holy Spirit's modus operandi in the life of believers in the light of the preface to his Commentary on the... by E. Kayayan

“…In the Preface, the Psalms are divinely inspired, life-giving words that enhance the experience of the readers similar to the experience lived and expressed by the authors.The testimonium internum Spiritu Sancti is the core of the Preface inasmuch as expressed by means of a necessary process of anatomy and dissection of all the affections of the soul. Since the book of Psalms adequately deals with all that concerns the knowledge of eternal salvation, the modus operandi of the Holy Spirit through the Psalms is the gospel itself. …”
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