A Critical Look at the Book Not by Genes Alone by Ali Motevalizadeh Ardekani

“…The role of biological factors and Genetics in shaping human behavior and culture is critiqued. Although this book is not a new book on this matter, it refers to the importance of culture and biological evolution. …”
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Audience Approval: The Role of Opera in the Creation of the Shakespearean Myth during the English Restoration by Andrea Trocha Van Nort

“…S’il est vrai que les premières adaptations des pièces de Shakespeare se retrouvent fustigées par nos critiques modernes, il n’en demeure pas moins que ces pièces ont été appréciées par le public pour lequel elles ont été écrites. …”
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Écrire À partir de la parole ou l’appréhension des souvenirs : une réélaboration au présent du passé récent en Argentine by Paula Sombra

“…This article, with the objective of sociologically reconstructing part of Argentina’s recent history, provides a theoretical and methodological reflection on the revolutionary militancy of the 1960s and 1970s. It critiques certain contemporary analytical and interpretative perspectives on the subject. …”
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The Ranking Argument - Challenging Favourable Comparative Rhetoric about Swiss Animal Welfare Law by Christian Rodriguez Perez, Nico Dario Müller, Kirsten Persson, David Martin Shaw

“… This article captures and critiques a recurring and prominent political argument against animal welfare improvements in Switzerland which we term the “ranking argument”. …”
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Jesus Christ, a compassionate companion: Christological reflections in the time of the HIV/AIDS pandemic by E. S. Mligo

“…In this instance, the article critiques the “cult of normalcy” ever embraced by the church that excludes those it considers to be abnormal and includes those it considers to be normal. …”
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The Managerial Implications of Positive and Normative Accounting Theories by Ömer Kavrar

“…The hypotheses discussed include those to which Watts and Zimmerman responded and as well as several other critiques based on managerial implications. This paper also comprises multifarious discussions that are related to the manager implications, made by the well-known accounting theory researchers.…”
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BEAUTIFUL JUSTICE AND JUST BEAUTY? EXPLORING JUSTICE AND BEAUTY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE WRONGED by M. Louw

“…Regarding both themes, I follow a basic structure: outlining the problem; offering critiquing, and exploring possible alternatives. It is hoped that this article will finally, and by way of conclusion, resolve some of this tension between justice and beauty, by examining three specific ways in which Wolterstorff has attempted to link these two themes. …”
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A Critical Review of The Sociology of Knowledge of Karl Mannheim by Farhang Ershad

“…In the third chapter, the sphere of sociology of knowledge in view of Mannheim is described; and the two last chapters are about the main concepts and categories of Mannheim’s sociology of knowledge, and finally, the critiques of Ashtiani to the main element of sociology of knowledge of Karl Mannheim.…”
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Job Guarantee: a Structuralist Perspective by Antoine Godin

“…This paper aims at formalising and assessing the validity of the critiques of the Job Guarantee (JG) policy proposed by Minsky (1965). …”
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Une lecture junguienne de la littérature médiévale by Leonardo Hincapié

“…La psychologie analytique, créée par Carl Gustav Jung, a une relation de base indispensable avec les notions de cette nouvelle science humaine, mais ses approches critiques de la littérature (et de l’art en général) ont été peu nombreuses. …”
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A Critical Review of the End of Development, Post-Developmentalism and Development Paradigm Impasse by Ghodrat Ahmadian

“…Despite its validity and importance‚ the development paradigm envisages with many critiques and challenges‚ so the buzzword is impasse in this paradigm. …”
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Tedium and Terror: Dreading Narration in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One by Mark Pedretti

“…Critics of Colson Whitehead’s novel Zone One (2011) have treated its post-zombie-apocalypse setting as a futural standpoint for critiquing the present. This article argues that Whitehead equally deploys this setting as an allegory for the lived experience of historical and personal temporality in late capitalism. …”
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Radical orthodoxy: its ecumenical vision by G. Ward

“…RO, it is argued, can be a resource for the South African de-colonization of Christian theology. In its critiques of modernity and secular reasoning, RO points the way towards doing theology in, through and beyond traditional and disciplinary boundaries – but South Africa has to make it its own. …”
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A Criticism and Review of the Book “Public Policy” by Morteza Noormohammadi, Amir Lotfi, Zahra Lotfi

“…After providing an initial introduction to the concept of public policy, as a new discipline in Iran, the book chapters are introduced and discussed respectively. The review and critiques of the book translation are included in this article.…”
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Racial Stereotypes and the Art of Kara Walker by Monika Seidl

“…Offrir une perspective ludique est une stratégie clé dans un contexte de recherche d’un espace à partir duquel il est possible de critiquer et d’analyser des imaginaires sociaux irréconciliables. …”
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The TEI Assignment in the Literature Classroom: Making a Lord Mayor’s Show in University and College Classrooms by Mark Kaethler

“…The article concludes by reflecting on how TEI in the classroom complicates critiques of the digital humanities’ proclivity to endorse neoliberal education models. …”
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A Critical Review of the Book Conjugation 2 with a Descriptive Analysis Approach by Zohreh Ghorbani Madavani

“…The present article critiques the two levels of form and content of this book by descriptive-analytical method and relying on the descriptive analysis approach. …”
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The role of emotion in moral judgment: the rebirth of traditional Chinese ethical thought in modern psychology by Xiaobo Yu

“… In traditional Chinese philosophy, emotions were often critiqued as disruptive forces that could undermine moral clarity and social harmony. …”
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An Evaluation of Theorizing in Islamic Economy in Critical Realism Perspective with an Emphasis on the Ideas of Roy Bhaskar by Seyed Mohammad Taghi Movahed Abtahi

“…This article describes and evaluates the main idea of the book, namely the method of scientific theorization of Islamic Economy. In spite of the critiques of form and content, it is advisable that major modifications be required in the form and content of the book in the subsequent editions. …”
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Cognitive Rehabilitation for Executive Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease: Application and Current Directions by Jessica Calleo, Cristina Burrows, Harvey Levin, Laura Marsh, Eugene Lai, Michele K. York

“…Characteristics of the programs and outcomes are reviewed and critiqued. Current studies on cognitive rehabilitation in PD demonstrate feasibility and acceptability of a cognitive rehabilitation program for patients with PD, but are limited by their small sample size and data regarding generalization of effects over the long term. …”
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