Hume's Second Thoughts About Belief by Michael Jacovides

“…In material in the appendix that he tells his reader to insert in Book 1, he explains his reasons: the vivacity connected to belief is different in kind from that from the vivacity connected to poetry. …”
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Antiféminisme sur papier glacé by Auréline Cardoso

“…With his book The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy published in 1991, economist Albert O. …”
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Gestes et images du voyage en Orient by Monique Sicard

“…These large negatives, that result in a symbolic and effective link with the book, are not to be confused with the use of photo-cards that later led Flaubert to reject photographic objects. …”
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“Vó, a senhora é lésbica?” Pergunta à queima-roupa e respostas para a constituição de uma utopia by João Barreto da Fonseca, Renata Barreto da Fonseca

“…What is it like to be a lesbian? The book Amora, by Natalia Borges Polesso (2018), although it circulates the subject, avoids a direct answer, but presents some affections densities and modulations of secret love, which are clues to the invisibility of lesbian affection. …”
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Quand la liberté de lire est menacée : la lutte de la Campaign for Reader Privacy contre l’article 215 de la loi USA PATRIOT. by Cécile Cottenet

“…One of these movements, led by actors of the book industry—booksellers, librarians, publishers, writers—rapidly saw the danger of an act that authorizes the government to intrude into private lives. …”
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Dangerous Conversations in The Duchess of Malfi by John Gillies

“…It is clear that Webster borrowed from The Civil Conversation (1586), as Steffano Guazzo’s book was known in English translation. As in Guazzo, honest conversation, in Webster's play, has a civil rather than courtly character, and as such the conversation theme corresponds with an antithesis that has been noted by John L. …”
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Radical orthodoxy: its ecumenical vision by G. Ward

“… The first book in the Series Radical Orthodoxy (RO) was not meant to be programmatic or set out to change the direction of modern theology. …”
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Migracja danych do zintegrowanego systemu bibliotecznego udostępnionego na licencji publicznej (open source). Dotychczasowe doświadczenia (przeł. Tomasz Olszewski). by Vandana Singh

“…In conclusion, the author identifies the role of the library as a center whose mission is to maintain the highest possible substantive level of its book collection and provided services.…”
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George Eliot and Islamic Culture by Dallel Chenni

“…Using as primary sources Eliot’s notebooks, letters, journals, book reviews and essays, the article demonstrates that Eliot’s original curiosity about Islam arose in conjunction with her keener, more sympathetic interest in Judaism, and examines whether Eliot’s reading of English and European intellectuals interested in Islamic culture had any impact on her own attitude towards Islam. …”
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CÜVEYNÎ’NİN “EL-AKİDETÜ’N-NİZAMİYYE” ADLI ESERİNE ÇAĞDAŞ BİR TA’LÎK ÖRNEĞİ by Ramazan Altıntaş

“…Author who is a Mutezile is to make criticism the Cuveyni’ book who is an Eş’ari. There are a lot of examples about his criticisms. …”
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Susan Howe’s Caesurae by Andrew Eastman

“…Three examples from Debths look at problems raised by the various ways in which Howe scissors the line, arguing that the line is a place where something happens to language, a frame for a caesura, a space where a silence can take place—as seen in the book’s title. Syntax and its caesuring then “make” the line, a line which works as a way of intimating voice, exploring the interstices of language and body.…”
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Die prediker as preek: basisteoretiese perspektiewe uit Handelinge by C. J. H. Venter, H. K. Kim

“…The following issues from the book of Acts are dealt with: the passion of the preacher for congruence between preacher and sermon; the integrity to proclaim God’s total plan of salvation; humility, the courage and boldness in preaching the Word of God; the will to suffer hardship in absolute obedience to God, and the holy indignation when God is not honoured. …”
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Spinozism, Kabbalism, and Idealism from Johann Georg Wachter to Moses Mendelssohn by Mogens Laerke

“…I am principally interested in the importance that Wachter’s book may have had for German philosophy in the second half of the eighteenth century. …”
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The dispute over classical sociobiology by Zbigniew Łepko

“…“Sociobiology: New Synthesis” is a book written by W. O. Wilson, which in l975 started the famous dispute over sociobiology. …”
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Asymptotic expansion for the density function of the series scheme of a random variables in the large deviation in Cramer zone by Dovilė Deltuvienė, Leonas Saulis

“…The work broadens theory of sums of random variables [1] and in special case improves S.A. Book [5] results of sums of random variables with weights. …”
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El Métraux haitiano. La construcción de una etnología religiosa by Fernando Giobellina Brumana

“…Métraux achieves several key theoretical and methodological innovations in this book: 1. the search for a kind of ritual syntax; 2. a focus on real practices instead of lettered formations of the cult; 3. an acknowledgement that voodoo is unmistakably Haitian and that its roots are European as much as African; 4. a rejection of the assumption that the Catholicism of voodoo adepts would be mere deception; 5. the identification of a narrative level where stories of the gods’ avatars are replaced by tales of their interventions in the life of humans. …”
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Bibliographic and printing activities of the central library of the Academy of Sciences Lit. SSR in 1946-1985 by Adolfas Ivaškevičius

“…Much attention was also given to publishing monographs on book science. …”
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DESCARTES’ MATHEMATICAL IDEAS IN THE EARLIEST LITHUANIAN TEXTBOOKS by Algirdas Ažubalis

“…He was also the firs to approach the methods of differential and integral calculations. The first Lithuanian book of problems in arithmetic was issued in 1885 (prepared by J. …”
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THE STATE OF THE POPULATIONS OF NECTAROSCORDUM BULGARICUM IN THE STRICTLY PROTECTED ZONE OF THE “CODRII” RESERVE, REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA by Natalia JARDAN

“…Nectaroscordum bulgaricum – Honey garlic, a vulnerable species, included in the Red Book of the Republic of Moldova, is territorially protected in the “Codrii” Reserve. …”
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Coloring with Spiders: Our Favorites from Florida by L. A. Taylor, Samm Wehman Epstein

“…This downloadable educational coloring book focused on spiders provides a creative way for people of all ages to appreciate the beauty and intrigue of spiders. …”
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