The Victorian Thumb Bible as Material Object: Charles Tilt’s The Little Picture Testament (1839) by Alyssa J. Currie

“…In the nineteenth century, miniature books and curiosities proliferated; in particular, thumb Bibles, miniature synopses of the Bible, experienced widespread popularity. …”
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Osmanlılarda Muzaaf Usul’e Erken Geçilmemesinin by Ahmet Vecdi CAN, Hakan ALİUSTA, Aydın BAĞDAT

“…However, this method is described in a chapter of the book titled “Summa Arithmetica” written by the Italian Luca Pacioli at the end of the 15th century. …”
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Über die Beziehungskonstellationen der Liebe by Rafał Szubert

“…The authors employ interdisciplinary approaches to illuminate the phenomenon of love from both linguistic and cultural-social science perspectives. The book serves as an inspiration and challenge for the reader, occasionally provoking contradiction and critical voices. …”
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Performative Translation: Latvia’s Orbita Group as a Post-Monolingual Heterotopia by Kevin M. F. Platt

“…The article explains this achievement as resulting from the Orbita collective’s practices of “performative translation,” which make translation a highly visible and central element of various forms of artistic activity, including multimedia installations, book publishing, video poetry, public performance, proper, and more. …”
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Health Information Provided by Retail Health Food Outlets by Jaclyn Calder, Robert Issenman, Ruth Cawdron

“…Fourteen of the 15 stores using information sources used the same reference book. This had a significant impact on the recommendations; the use of nutritional supplements was favoured. …”
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African American Street Lit’: old, new, or better (?) tricks? by Cécile Cottenet

“…Assessment of this trend allows for observation of the intersection of book history and “African American” studies. This paper endeavors to show how the concept of agency can aptly be used to describe self-publishing, which many authors of street lit’ resort to. …”
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Le Théâtre de la mort de Tadeusz Kantor : un « gué secret » entre les vivants et les morts by Virginie Lachaise

“…On the set of threshold, Kantor book that fascinated her scopic drive and plunged fantastically ”the other side“ of the illusion, in the past, which he alone is real.But death has no other means to show that borrowing the life ways, this artistic conviction, a belief in Kantor literally borrowed from the Yiddish culture, leads to a conception of the condition of the unprecedented player. …”
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Poručík proti maršálovi. Dvojí výzva post-vaubanovské tradici v textech skotského vojenského inženýra Charlese Bisseta z let 1751–17781 by Petr Wohlmuth

“…One of the very few critics of this new concept, which favoured field operations and decisive battles over established methods of siege warfare, was Scottish military engineer Charles Bisset, an author of highly advanced book on theory of fortification, published in 1751, which offered a way out of the perceived crisis. …”
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Critica scientifica, popolarizzazione dell’etnografia ed etica dell’antropologo: sulla “controversia yanomami”, per esempio by Alessandro Mancuso

“…In the last part, I summarize the effects of the “media storm” on American anthropology, which were caused by the accusations of ethically inappropriate, if not completely execrable, behavior addressed to Chagnon and Lizot in Darkness in El Dorado, the book-report by journalist Patrick Tierney.…”
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Metaphor and Metonymy in Ancient Dream Interpretation: The Case of Islamic-Iranian Culture by Rahman Veisi Hasar

“…To this end, a most-referenced book of dream interpretation is analysed according to the conceptual metaphor theory. …”
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Sultan II. Abdülhamid’e Ermeni Komiteleri ve Faaliyetleriyle İlgili Sunulan Bir Fezleke (1895) by Bülent CIRIK

“…In this study, the report about the Armenian committees, which was presented to Sultan Abdulhamid on February 4, 1895, by the special commission established, and which was thought to be converted into a book as a response to the Armenian propaganda, and its content will be discussed.…”
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Sérgio Ferro au prisme d’une histoire brésilienne,(re-)lire Dessin-chantier by Sandra Fiori

“…He is the author of Dessin-chantier (2005, éd. de la Villette), a troubling book based both on a radical criticism of architectural production conditions and orignal proposals for a professional emancipatory practice. …”
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