Une nouvelle source arabe sur l’océan Indien au Xe siècle : le Ṣaḥīḥ min aḫbār al-biḥār wa-‘aǧā‘ibihā d’Abū ‘Imrān Mūsā ibn Rabāḥ al-Awsī al-Sīrāfī... by Jean-Charles Ducène

“…While The Book of the Wonders of India was an important evidence about commercial relations in the Indian Ocean in the tenth century, its author remained subject to debate. …”
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Se rencontrer autrement by Stefana Squatrito

“…This article focuses on an extraordinary encounter: that between Giacomo, a Spanish bibliomaniac bookseller, and a book, a Latin Bible with Greek commentaries, the first incunabula of the Bible printed in Spain. …”
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Heine, écrivain français putatif ? by Lucien Calvié

“…Perhaps it is time to have a more balanced approach to Heine, using for example the notion that Heine himself developed for one of his texts, of a “German book in the French language”. These considerations lead us to define Heine as a “putative French writer”, in addition to his lasting identity as a “German poet”.…”
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Les albums utilisés avec les élèves : approche quantitative des choix différenciés des enseignants de cycle 3 by Stéphane Bonnéry, Jacques Crinon, Brigitte Marin

“…More specifically, in a sociological approach, we analyze the differences in the contexts (in all Educational Areas – priority or not) to understand the different choices of books that teachers make. The investigation involved a refined analysis (quantitative level and qualitative analysis of each book) to study the sociological breakdown of the use of books that may appear easy or difficult for the different classes at the end of primary school.…”
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Koselleck, a história dos conceitos e as temporalidades by Jose D\u2019Assunçao

“…The primary reference is the book Future Past, written by Koselleck in 1979 –an essay in which one the german historian establish his main considerations about the three levels of temporality– Past, Present and Future –using the concepts of “experience space” and “horizon of expectation”.…”
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Djelfa 41-43. Un camp d’internement en Algérie : addenda iconographique by Bernard Sicot

“…Un camp d’internement en Algérie (Paris, Riveneuve éditions, 2015), a book that gathers - to trace the history and life of this emblematic place where were deported, with many others and as Max Aub, hundreds of Spaniards - archive documents, texts, often unpublished testimonies and an iconography that I was not able to complete, some images which existence I supposed remained without finding. …”
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“Nós somos machistas”: entrevistas com escritores/as brasileiros/as by Christian Grünnagel, Doris Wieser

“…This dossier brings together seven interviews carried outat the Frankfurt BookFair in 2013 with the following Brazilian writers: Ana Paula Maia, BeatrizBracher, Bernardo Ajzenberg, Carola Saavedra, Ferréz, Luiz Ruffato andMarcelino Freire. …”
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Abraham in Galatians and in Genesis by S. D. Snyman

“… The aim of this paper is to focus on the portrayal of Abraham in the letter to the Galatians and the book of Genesis respectively and to put it in perspective. …”
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Play-write Poetry in Nicholson Baker’s The Anthologist by Yannicke Chupin

“…Whereas it is the competitive nature (agon) of literary creation that initially suspends the pleasure of creation, as will be reviewed in the first part of the analysis, it is through the virtues of educational play (paideia) and the creation of an alternative world that narrative creativity is released and produces the pages that constitute this book. Focusing on freedom as a pivotal concept in the creation of this contemporary Ars Poetica, the analysis then reviews the carnivalization of language and forms as a resourceful manifestation of literary play.…”
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The Future of the BRICS and the Role of Russia and China by Olerato Manyaapelo

“…To support the main argument of the author there are various chapters in the book Future of the BRICS and the Role of Russia and China that focus on The Evolution of Brics and the international system, Russia and BRICS, China and BRICS and Russia and China in BRICS: Convergences and Divergences. …”
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The Violence of Hiroshima: Hersey, Bataille and Caruth by Jocelyn Dupont

“…It then focuses on French philosopher’s Georges Bataille’s singular and disquieting review of Hersey’s short book, published the following year in Critique. Finally, it discusses the somewhat unexpected return of Bataille’s text in Cathy Caruth’s 1995 seminal collection Trauma: Explorations in Memory, and endeavors to assess Bataille’s contemporary relevance to trauma studies. …”
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Le Remix comme forme littéraire : essai sur les publications récentes de Caroline Bergvall by Vincent Broqua

“…Recent publications by poet and artist Caroline Bergvall shift the old paradigm of both the poetry collection and the book-poem. This shift can be analyzed with the notion of “remix” that Lev Manovich uses to characterize new media. …”
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La terre, dernier élément de Charles Darwin by Michel Prum

“…This article aims at understanding the reasons for the unexpectedly immense success the book immediately met with. Darwin was at the height of his fame and the Victorians were attracted to anything that stirred up their nostalgia for land and earth. …”
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ANALYSIS OF DOWNTIME IN A TYPICAL NIGERIAN MULTINATIONAL BOTTLING COMPANY by ABAFI JOEL, OKE ADEKOLA

“… Failure data were extracted from the report book of the case study company. These data were stratified and analysed.Data stratification was pivotal in the separation of failure data into smaller and more defined form based on a predetermined set of criteria. …”
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The Research on the Global Competitiveness of the Leading Russian Universities by V. S. Senashenko

“…Khalin, E.M. Anokhina. The book discusses the models and methods for university competitiveness assessment, approaches to the formation of university ranking, specific problems concerning improving of the competitiveness of Russian universities and the system of Russian higher education. …”
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The critical commitment of philosophy. On Marcuse’s critical project by Mauricio García Echeverri

“…As a personal exercise to clarify concepts, its aim is to provide an overview of Marcuse’s conception, based especially from his book One-Dimensional Man, about an advanced industrial society and how our thinking is being more and more rooted in what social elites want us to believe. …”
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METHODS OF PRICE MANIPULATION ON A STOCK MARKET DURING HOSTILE TAKEOVER OF A COMPANY by A. Gulyatkin

“…Irrational behavior of weak shareholders is examined in the article with an example of an order book. Common volume spread analysis signals are being studied from the point of view of acquisition originator, as a smart money shareholder of the company being acquired.…”
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Gender, race, and life writing in the ethnography of Ruth Landes in Bahia by Sally Cole

“…American anthropologist Ruth Landes (1908-1991) conducted ethnographic fieldwork in candomblé centers, terreiros, in Salvador, Bahia, in 1938-1939. In her book City of Women (1947) and journal articles she recorded her observations on matrifocality and gender variance and portrayed Afro-Brazilian culture as dynamic and innovative. …”
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Méprise, Errance et Métaphore Paternelle dans American Pastoral de Philip Roth by Béatrice PIRE

“…Merry is the character that errs and wanders most in the book, a Lacanian psychotic ‘non-dupe’ paradoxically helping to re-establish the repressed ‘name of the father’ or paternal metaphor in the end.…”
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Fins & Scales: An Introduction to Bony Fish—A Marine Science Project Guide for 4-H Leaders and Educators by Karen Blyler

“…The Leaders Guide follows the layout of the Youth Project Book and provides a suggested approach for each section. …”
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