Sobre a circulação de livros e a leitura na colônia brasileira by Raylane Andreza Dias Navarro Barreto, Ester Fraga Vilas-Bôas Carvalho do Nascimento, Tâmara Regina Reis Sales

“…Based on the method of historical research this article brings Brazilian historiography, books, bookstores and readers as well as booksellers the modus operandi that contributed to the transmission of religious knowledge in the country and with different communities of readers originating not only from religious congregation, of students and scholars, but lay people who cared and did circulate ideas in different media beyond the book.…”
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EXPERIENCE IN IMPLEMENTATION OF INNOVATIVE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS by Grigoriy G. Bubnov, Evgeniy V. Nikul’Chev, Evgeniy V. Pluzhnik

“…Such innovative technologies as LMSHenvironment, cloud technology, iBook technology, mobile apps, social networks, export of education services, are under consideration.…”
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Provoquer des archives et invoquer la mémoire by Marys Renné Hertiman

“…Starting from the presupposed non-existence of the comic book heritage and the unveiling of the backstage of a project of memorialization, this article returns to the components of the organic practice of the archive.…”
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Defiant Braceros : How Migrant Fought for Racial, Sexual & Political Freedom by Laureanne Rivard

“…In her book Defiant Braceros, Mireya Loza puts into writing the collective, individual and institutional memories of the binational Bracero Program, that was set aside by Mexico, the United States and the institutions involved. …”
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Die rol van die see in die Patmos-visioene by J du Preez

“… Older and newer commentaries on Revelation as well as other studies regarding this book, reveal virtually throughout a very negative view on the rol of the sea in John's visions. …”
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L'injure mise en scène. A propos d'un « insulteur public » dans la société baghdadienne du XIe siècle by Evelyne Larguèche

“…Baghdadi society, as it appears in the book of Abou-Moutahhar al-Azdî, translated from Arabic with the title 24 hours in the life of a "rabble", needed definitely a closer inspection. …”
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David Chidester: An Appreciation by Edward T. Linenthal

“… When the editors asked if I would write a short reflection on my long and enduring friendship with David Chidester for a book honoring David’s brilliant career, I of course said,‘Yes’. …”
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Franciscan Library and Museum with Pinacotheca in Ljubljana by Jan Dominik Bogataj

“…The library currently holds ca. 70,000 book units, including precious books such as incunabula – one-seventh of all incunabula in the country – and can thus boast the title of Slovenia’s most extensive monastic library. …”
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Die Masken aus der Nekropole von Lipari by Tommaso Ismaelli

“…The book, a reworking of the author’s Habilitationsschrift discussed at the Freie Universität of Berlin, tackles the complex phenomenon of votive offerings in the form of terracotta masks from the Classical and Hellenistic necropolis of Lipari. …”
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Contesting and Curating the Queer African Archive with Sacred Queer Stories by Megan Robertson

“…The discussion engages questions regarding knowledge production, method and (inter)textualities in relation to the book, Sacred Queer Stories: Ugandan LGBTQ+ Refugee Lives and the Bible (2021), co-authored by Adriaan van Klinken and Johanna Stiebert with Brian Sebyala aand Fredrick Hudson. …”
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La filantropía femenina en la construcción de la ciudadanía: Semillas, una experiencia mexicana by Nathalie Ludec

“…We will look into its activities, its book publications and the experiences of its members through the triple perspective of social class, gender and ethnicity.…”
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Van Coller, H. 2020. Regulating religion: State governance of religious institutions in South Africa. Routledge: London. 246 pages. ISBN: 978-1-138- 29871-2 (hardback). by Idowu A Akinloye

“… Prof Helena van Coller’s book is topical and timely relevant, given that South Africa is a multi-religious state, and more importantly because the intersection between law and religion has increasingly been a subject of controversy for some years in South Africa. …”
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Ranpo par inflexion ou Nagoya en mutation, recension de Ranpo et Nagoya : modernisme d’une ville de province et paysage originel du roman policier, de Komatsu Shōko by Hirotaka Ichiyanagi

“…How did the modernist urban culture of the late Meiji era, with its mix of conservatism and progressivism, influence Ranpo’s sensibility as an author? This book examines the trends in mystery novels revolving around the person of Ranpo.…”
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Ensayar sobre los ‘tiempos idos’, marcar nuestra presencia: Carta a un padre y Sara de Edgardo Cozarinsky by Maya González Roux

“…In the film Carta a un padre (2013) and the book Sara (2013), Edgardo Cozarinsky explores not so much the lives of his parents but the “gone times”, a dead past made of relics, remains, and silences. …”
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Ovidiu Papadima – de la „o viziune românească a lumii” la „creatorii şi lumea lor” by Iordan Datcu

“…In the first part of his life as a writer, he was mostly a literary critic.The main characteristic of his book A Romanian vision of the World is the orthodox perspective about the Romanian popular art. …”
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Petit traité de l’amour à l’usage des connards : Une approche économique de l’amour by François Cooren

“…François Cooren, the author of this book review, shows how Fauré manages to deploy, in a rather original way, the ins and outs of a monofactorial theory of love, a theory according to which this emotion would explain most of our behaviors and could even be taken as a basis for the organization of our societies.…”
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A New History of the Gdańsk/Danzig Organ Tablature by Marcin Szelest

“…They include a codicological description of the manuscript in which it was recorded (Gdańsk, State Archive, shelf mark 300,R/Vv,123) and recognition of the manuscript’s contents; distinguishing the scribes; identification of the owner of the book and the scribe of the music; a history of the music section of the manuscript; an analysis of groups of works, their function and features of their notation. …”
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Obhajoba oprávněného vzdoru vůči svrchovaným vládcům v díle Christophera Goodmana by Miroslav Beneš

“…However, Goodman’s radical way of thinking was stronger than Knox’s and that was the reason for the prohibition of his book. …”
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Venezuela such as an example of a stable dictatorship in Latin America by Alejandro Diaz Castro

“…Thus, this essay will focus on the five stages a government faces when it loses legitimacy, as described by Samuel Huntington in his book Democracy's third wave. Furthermore, after analysing them, it will draw some arguments explaining why Venezuela has not made a U-turn into democracy yet, to end with a conclusion.   …”
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Balancing an Unequal Partnership for Studying Ugandan Queer Refugees’ Appropriation of Bible Stories by Stella Nyanzi

“…The discussion engages questions regarding knowledge production, method and (inter)textualities in relation to the book, Sacred Queer Stories: Ugandan LGBTQ+ Refugee Lives and the Bible (2021), co-authored by Adriaan van Klinken and Johanna Stiebert with Brian Sebyala aand Fredrick Hudson.   …”
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