Pater and Contemporary Visual Art by J.-B. Bullen

“…Several unpublished documents deal with his views on centrality of the visual arts in modern culture, his book reviews display a knowledge of the subject not seen elsewhere, and his ‘School of Giorgione’ was almost certainly a statement in support of the modern Aesthetic school of painting at the recently opened Grosvenor Gallery.…”
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Saliamonas Antanaitis (1894–1973) and his research into the old mathematics by Juozas Banionis

“…Another one was an original book about a scientist of Ancient Greece Archimedes (287 BC–212 BC). …”
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Nova cluniacensia : les feuillets de garde du manuscrit Paris BnF nal 1236 et la création de la liturgie clunisienne by Eduardo Henrik Aubert

“…They are thus the remains of the oldest known chant book whose writing can be ascribed to the famous Burgundian abbey. …”
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Sense and Sensibility à l’écran : l’adaptation entre explication et consolation by Laurent Mellet

“…Starting from the assumption that three of the main logics informing the plot and the narrative of the book (Empiricism, the obsession for explanation and the necessity of consolation) can be found at the heart of the aesthetics of these adaptations, we show that the series and the film may complete or contradict one another, but always with a view to setting up some dynamics that help us avoid the logic of comparison and the issue of fidelity. …”
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Writing Out of Place: Wordsworth and Woolf in London by Laurent Folliot, Juliana Lopoukhine

“…Although Wordsworth’s country rambles have often been associated with the kind of patriarchal culture epitomised by Woolf’s father Leslie Stephen (who even penned an essay entitled “In Praise of Walking”), the London perambulations recounted in Book VII of The Prelude present suggestive analogies, as well as contrasts, with Woolf’s Modernist city heuristics. …”
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THE SHARP EDGES OF CONTEMPORARY WORLD POLITICS by I. V. Bocharnikov

“…Book Review: Bulavin A.V., Karpovich O.G., Manoilo A.V., Mantusov V. …”
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Class and everyday media use by Hovden Jan Fredrik, Rosenlund Lennart

“…In this article, we consider how contemporary media use is structured by social class, following the theoretical and methodical framework derived from Bourdieu's book Distinction, published in 1984, with a detailed study of everyday use of media platforms, brands, and content among Norwegian citizens (N = 2,064). …”
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Medialne reprezentacje kultury literackiej, czyli wiedza o książce dla dzieci – (nie) tylko w Sieci by Marta Krasuska-Betiuk

“…To a lesser degree, open source licenses are digitally released as original scientific studies, such as books, journals and research reports. …”
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How far it is gone in the Soviet historiography from H. Lowmianski's study about the genesis of Lithuanian state by Edvardas Gudavičius

“…However, the situation led to the misunderstanding of this excellent book. The Second World War broke all scientific work, and the severe ideological regimentation of the Soviet occupant power did not let the research on the state's formation theme proceed. …”
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Performance, Hybridity and Convergence in the Poetry of Alice Oswald and Kae Tempest by Bastien Goursaud

“…It posits that all actualisations of the poem – whether in a poetry book, a recording, a video, or a live performance – are equally important and must be studied in contrast to one another as part of the poetry collection. …”
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Hofmusici a lokajové. K postavení hudebníka na šlechtickém dvoře v Čechách první poloviny 18. století by Václav Kapsa

“… The starting point of the study is the division of private Kapellen maintained by Bohemian aristocracy into those consisting of servants (‘servant orchestras’) as opposed to ensembles featuring professional musicians (‘independent orchestras’) introduced by Helfert in his book on music at the court of Count Questenberg in Jaroměřice. …”
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La représentation de la vie d’un maître estropié du passé au xixe siècle : L’Aleijadinho d’Henrique Bernardelli by Fábio D’Almeida

“…The analysis of the painting will highlight the way in which the canvas distances itself considerably from the formulas that are frequently present in the European book also figuring the lives of the Old Masters in the nineteenth century.Antonio Francisco Lisboa, Aleijadinho, peinture brésilienne, xixe siècle, maîtres anciens, art colonial, genre anecdotique, histoire des artistes…”
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Digitization of the Concise Sociopolitical and Mass-Media Dictionary (English — Amharic) by Hewan Semon Marye

“…By using a lightly modified TEI Publisher application within eXist-db, this project successfully produced a 1,600-page PDF that may also be published as a book. This project note highlights the key steps taken in the process of digitizing the dictionary. …”
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Le jardin : une clé de lecture du végétal en milieu urbain by Philippe Bodénan

“…In his book, L’Art du jardin et son histoire, seeking a theory on garden design, Hunt explains the vision of the garden in the XVIIth century. …”
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Marqueurs cadratifs temporels et argumentatifs dans les récits d’apprenants néerlandophones de français L2 by Aurélie Welcomme

“…Ten subjects from each group were asked to tell a wordless picture-book story (Frog Story, Mayer, 1969). The production of temporal framing and argumentative markers in these narratives has been compared to that of groups of native speakers of the same age and curricular level. …”
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Le faune et la sirène : la situation de Cuvier dans l’économie de The Marble Faun, de Nathaniel Hawthorne by Antoine Traisnel

“…When asked if Donatello’s ears are as pointy as those of the book’s titular figure, the Faun of Praxiteles, Kenyon smiles inscrutably and responds: “On that point, at all events, there shall be no word of explanation.” …”
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Getting into the weeds by Anna Marchessault

“…Drawing on decades of research conducted at her farm, Navdanya, and global examples from scholarly literature, she ar­gues that regenerative agriculture is both viable and essential for tackling the inter­connected crises of hunger, poverty, and climate change. In this book, Shiva takes the reader through six distinct agricul­tural issues with over­lapping themes: seeds of bio­diversity, soil and water, climate change solu­tions, biodiversity for pest control, food nutrition and health, and farmer livelihoods and rural economies. . . . …”
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We Are Already Ghosts: Reflections on Composition by Kit Dobson

“…Throughout, Dobson notes that the time in which the novel is set, between 1996 and 2011, marks a period of transition for the Briscoe-MacDougall family members who populate the book, and for the world and society that these characters represent.…”
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Contemplation of the Body by Ivan Platovnjak

“…He argues that the Triune God wants to reveal Himself to every man, not only through the book of nature and the Bible, but also through his body, and that contemplation of his body can be of great help to him in this. …”
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The last word by Anton Verwey, Jan Bredenkamp

“… A few weeks ago we were the fortunate recipients of Clicking by Faith Popcorn, proclaimed by Fortune Magazine to be “the Nostradamus of Marketing”. The subtitle of the book is “16 Trends to future fit your life, your work, and your business”. …”
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