« LE PAYSAGE SONORE » DE MURRAY R. SCHAFER by Luana STAN

“…In a world where background music (muzak) invades all public places, Canadian musicologist and composer Murray Schafer does an analysis of all types of sounds (natural, artificial, from the old days until today) in his book The Tuning of the World and advances a proposal to create sound museums. …”
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Juozas Narūnavičius–Naronskis, a mathematician and cartographer (1610–1678) by Evaldas Gečiauskas

“…In 1665 he wrote his work Artileria, and in 1669 – Complement to his book Arithmetica. He wrote his works in the Polish language so that the neighbouring slavonic peoples could understand them. …”
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Developing Strong Teamwork to Support Excellence in Extension Programming by Hannah Carter, Amy Harder, Kevan Lamm

“…In Patrick Lencioni’s iconic book on teamwork, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, five elements are outlined as necessary for highly functioning teams. …”
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Qualques reflexions sul principi poetic e la temporalitat liura dins Sonets barròcs enta Iseut by Laurent Alibert

“…Rewriting the myth of Yseult in order to create a poetic work at the same time modern and freed from temporality is one of the main specific features of the Sonèts barròcs enta Iseut. If the book is freed from temporality, this is never with the aim of recreating an ersatz of Middle Ages. …”
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God as father: the representation of the tenth plague in children's Bibles by J. S. du Toit

“… The Book of Exodus’ account of the ten plagues as moment of Israelite liberation from Egyptian servitude is particularly poignant. …”
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دلالة حروف العطف في التفسير البديع للشيخ محمد شريف الله: سورة البقرة والنساء والأنعام أنموذجاً (دراسة تحليلية)... by SAMIA ABBASI

“…It also talks about the meaning of the conjunction linguistically and terminologically, their rules and meanings in context, and it also talks about the author’s life and the methodology in his book. It reaches out through the study that the writer has a solidarity and individuality in his field discussing linguistic issues with his style, and that the conjunctions have the multiplicity of meanings (primary and secondary). …”
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Cri(me)s et Hurlements dans Wuthering Heights by Claire Bazin

“…I will first analyse the various forms of violence in the novel, then its effects on and within the different characters, before concluding that such excess is self-destructive. The end of the book is placed under the aegis of peace and harmony, which might mean that Emily Brontë has opted for a more traditional Victorian ending. …”
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“On our way to dig up Dad’s empty coffin” by Caroline Magnin

“…This study intends to highlight the aesthetic strategies used by the novelist which result in the fact that absence is not simply a topic but informs the very structure of the book. The traumatic event resists any inscription into language as well as into the subject’s consciousness. …”
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Religious experience and sacred text by A. Holder

“…In some historical instances, experience was supposed to render the text unnecessary, or to sit in judgement over it. But the Book of Revelation implies that the sacred text will no longer be needed, only because its promises have been fulfilled by direct experience of the divine presence. …”
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Sociologia, cultura e arte: um debate entre espaços e tempos by Eliska Altmann

“…Based on the volumes of the Brazilian anthropologist Gilberto Velho - Sociologia da arte; Sociologia da arte II; and Arte e sociedade - ensaios de sociologia da arte (1966, 1967 and 1977) - in light of the book A sociologia da arte (2008), of the French sociologist Nathalie Heinich, the article highlights Brazilian publications comprising thinkers of sociology of art and culture through space-time dialogues. …”
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Au rendez-vous allemand (1) by Agnès Bouvier

“…Even the title of his book is an invitation to consider the Bible from the point of view of art, that is, for its effects.  …”
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Honest to God and the South African churches in 2016 by M. Prozesky

“…Robinson (1919-1983), who was Bishop of Woolwich at the time. The book became a bestseller. The research question that gave rise to the present article is how relevant and sound its main ideas are for South Africa, in particular, and for his own church in 2016. …”
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Lexicon and Humor: Considerations about the witty functioning of the meanings in the Dictionnaire des mots qui n’existent pas by Anderson Braga do CARMO

“…The aim of this study is to understand and analyze the processes involved in the production of humour and new lexical units and verify the constitution and the witty functioning of the senses in entries that make up the book Le dictionnaire des mots qui n’existent pas (1992). …”
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Le cru de l’écrit ou les archives de la sauvagerie by Alice Delmotte-Halter

“…The ethnocritic ethnographer here observes that the principles of taboo, prohibition and shame, are those that maybe reorganize the most strongly rewritings up to their final book form. Or how to make presentable life in its beauty and chaos.…”
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Représenter le crime : permanences et inflexions (France, xixe siècle) by Dominique Kalifa

“…This trend has been very clearly described by Louis Chevalier in his book about working classes and dangerous classes (Classes laborieuses, et classes dangeureuses à Paris...). …”
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La vérité du regard : l’idée de paysage chez Elisée Reclus by Federico Ferretti

“…For example, his first book is entitled Voyage à la Sierra Nevada de Sainte Marthe : paysages de la nature tropicale. …”
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A Day in the Life of the American Woman: Construction and Mediation of the “American Woman” in Photographic Essays by Jane Bayly

“…Through a close analysis of the photographs and accompanying texts this article questions to what extent the definition proposed by the book A Day in the Life of the American Woman remains faithful to a “traditional” vision of the American woman, or on the contrary to what extent this definition reflects an empowered and diversified vision of women since the 70s feminist movement. …”
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Smith on the practicality and objectivity of moral judgments by Strandberg Caj

“…The moral problem presented by Michael Smith in his seminal book with the same name consists of three claims that are intuitively plausible when considered separately, but seem incompatible when combined: moral judgments express beliefs about objective moral facts, moral judgments are practical in being motivational, and beliefs are unable to motivate by themselves. …”
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A universidade necessária em Darcy Ribeiro: notas sobre um pensamento utópico by Adelia Miglievich Ribeiro, Glauber Rabelo Matias

“…By means of an analysis of central concepts in the book, O processo civilizatório, by Darcy Ribeiro, such as the evolutionary acceleration as an antithesis of reflexive modernization thus the autonomous appropriation of the necessary means in the process of development of a nation the article examines the meaning of the necessary university postulated by Darcy Ribeiro. …”
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HOW TO DISPEL THE FOG OVER THE PAST? POST-WAR CHILDREN, THEIR FATHERS-SOLDIERS AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR by E. S. Lyubomirova

“…The article is devoted to the new aspects in the study of the history of post-war Germany, revealed in the book written by Sabine Bode «Post-war children - born in the 1950s, and their fathers-soldiers». …”
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