Os físicos e a medicina da alma no Orto do Esposo by Marisa das Neves Henriques

“…In Orto do Esposo, a book from the end of the XIVth century or from the beginning of the XVth century, that explores monastic spirituality, one can find several physicians, all of them having a special role, in part due to the close relation between the spheres of profane and sacred.Nevertheless, the priority is taking care of the ill soul, instead of worrying too much about body. …”
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Freedom of Assembly in Poland by M. Moulin-Stożek

“…In the chapter of the book, the author describes the procedure for normative regulation of the organization and holding of assemblies in the Republic of Poland, given that the right to freedom of assembly is enshrined in the Constitution of Poland. …”
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Chronicler's women - a holistic appraisal by F. Olojede

“… This article attempts to fill, in part, the gap in scholarship on the role of women in the book of Chronicles by providing data to show that the Chronicler succeeded in highlighting the roles and status of women in ancient Israel, as he copiously employed materials that are otherwise unknown in the biblical text and modified his Vorlage. …”
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Biblioteca del Niño Mexicano (1899-1901) y Episodios Mexicanos (1981-1982) : ficciones históricas ilustradas, ¿sólo para niños ? by Marie Lecouvey, Helia Bonilla

“…In these two comic book series catering to children and teenagers, Mexican national history is made more appealing through the use of fiction and visual illustrations. …”
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Humanité et dépassement dans l’œuvre de Ferran Delèris (1922-2009) by Joëlle Ginestet

“…Besides essays and novels in French, he wrote narrative fictions, memoirs and a book of poems in Occitan. To this heir to war accounts heard in his family –1870 and mainly 1914-1918 –, to this member of the Resistance movement during the second world war and to this witness of the conflicts that would lead to the French colonies independence, going back to his mother tongue seems to have stimulated him in his attempt to understand why a man agrees to fight. …”
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« LE PAYSAGE SONORE » DE MURRAY R. SCHAFER by Luana STAN

“…In a world where background music (muzak) invades all public places, Canadian musicologist and composer Murray Schafer does an analysis of all types of sounds (natural, artificial, from the old days until today) in his book The Tuning of the World and advances a proposal to create sound museums. …”
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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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Juozas Narūnavičius–Naronskis, a mathematician and cartographer (1610–1678) by Evaldas Gečiauskas

“…In 1665 he wrote his work Artileria, and in 1669 – Complement to his book Arithmetica. He wrote his works in the Polish language so that the neighbouring slavonic peoples could understand them. …”
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Trasvasijes poéticos y literarios en el cine chileno.Entre Raúl Ruiz e Ignacio Agüero by Carolina Urrutia Neno, Felipe Blanco

“…The starting point is the book Written by filmmakers, which compiles essays by thirty Chilean filmmakers, including one written by Agüero and several others in which Ruiz emerges as an undeniable influence. …”
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Developing Strong Teamwork to Support Excellence in Extension Programming by Hannah Carter, Amy Harder, Kevan Lamm

“…In Patrick Lencioni’s iconic book on teamwork, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, five elements are outlined as necessary for highly functioning teams. …”
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The Competent Overview and Synthesis of Czech (Slovak) Polish Studies by Ivo Pospíšil

“…Nowadays, this debt has been gradually repaid, and the resolution of new generations of Czech polonists is perhaps a guarantee that this activity will continue; after all, this book monograph is proof of that. …”
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Brief introduction to distributions and to Hörmander spaces Bp,k by Alejandro Ortiz Fernández

“…As a model we have chosen H¨ormander’s book, [1], whose study and teaching will be a sign of great progress in this direction in our country. …”
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Qualques reflexions sul principi poetic e la temporalitat liura dins Sonets barròcs enta Iseut by Laurent Alibert

“…Rewriting the myth of Yseult in order to create a poetic work at the same time modern and freed from temporality is one of the main specific features of the Sonèts barròcs enta Iseut. If the book is freed from temporality, this is never with the aim of recreating an ersatz of Middle Ages. …”
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Only Dead Metaphors Can Be Resurrected: A Review of Jill Lepore’s These Truths by George Blaustein

“…This essay takes the form of a narratological interpretation of These Truths. The book is an occasion to consider what national history is and what it is for.…”
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God as father: the representation of the tenth plague in children's Bibles by J. S. du Toit

“… The Book of Exodus’ account of the ten plagues as moment of Israelite liberation from Egyptian servitude is particularly poignant. …”
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O romance dos pais, o romance dos filhos: os personagens secundários de Alejandro Zambra by Isabela Cordeiro Lopes

“…It’s the way this process is shown in the fiction that represents the book’s main interest, shown by thoroughly reading and analysing the roles played by each character.…”
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Du nouveau sur la géographie de l’Éthiopie. Poggio Bracciolini, Biondo Flavio et le témoignage de l’ambassade éthiopienne au concile de Ferrare-Florence by Nathalie Bouloux

“…Two humanists, Poggio Bracciolini and Biondo Flavio, are among the witnesses of the event that they report in their writings. In the fourth book of the De varietate fortunae, Poggio describes a prosperous and exotic Ethiopia, whereas Biondo, by transcribing the questioning of the monks by a commission of cardinals in his Historiarum ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii decades, shows the conflicts between the various representations of Ethiopia and their implications. …”
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دلالة حروف العطف في التفسير البديع للشيخ محمد شريف الله: سورة البقرة والنساء والأنعام أنموذجاً (دراسة تحليلية)... by SAMIA ABBASI

“…It also talks about the meaning of the conjunction linguistically and terminologically, their rules and meanings in context, and it also talks about the author’s life and the methodology in his book. It reaches out through the study that the writer has a solidarity and individuality in his field discussing linguistic issues with his style, and that the conjunctions have the multiplicity of meanings (primary and secondary). …”
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Révolution et politique de la culture à Sharjah, 1979-2009 by Alexandre Kazerouni

“…A cultural policy was born out of it with a book fair, theatre, the fine arts and higher education as its fundamental pillars. …”
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„HOMO TRANSFORMENS” по Пелевину („современные” оборотни, вампиры и андроиды – постмодернистские вариации Виктора Пелевина)... by Ewa Pańkowska

“…The following Pelevin’s novels are the subject of the analysis in this paper: The Sacred Book of the Werewolf (2004), Empire “V”. The Story of a Real Superman (2006), S.N.U.F.F. (2011), Batman Apollo (2013).…”
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