Internationalizing the National University by Elizabeth Buckner

“…Abstract This article, which is a translated excerpt from the book Degrees of Dignity: Arab Higher Education in the Global Era, focuses on internationalization of higher education in the Arab Middle East and North Africa. …”
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Cri(me)s et Hurlements dans Wuthering Heights by Claire Bazin

“…I will first analyse the various forms of violence in the novel, then its effects on and within the different characters, before concluding that such excess is self-destructive. The end of the book is placed under the aegis of peace and harmony, which might mean that Emily Brontë has opted for a more traditional Victorian ending. …”
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Current Problems of Saker Falcon Conservation in The Republic of Kazakhstan by Nurlan Kh. Ongarbayev

“…Today the Saker Falcon is included in the Red Data Book of Kazakhstan and has the status of "EN (Endangered)" on the IUCN Red List. …”
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Clichés tremblés dans deux poèmes de Louis MacNeice et Paul Muldoon by Florence Schneider

“…This is the case in the two poems under study here – “Homage to Clichés” written by Louis MacNeice in 1935 and “The Old Country,” a central poem in Horse Latitudes, a book written by Paul Muldoon in 2006.…”
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“On our way to dig up Dad’s empty coffin” by Caroline Magnin

“…This study intends to highlight the aesthetic strategies used by the novelist which result in the fact that absence is not simply a topic but informs the very structure of the book. The traumatic event resists any inscription into language as well as into the subject’s consciousness. …”
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Le concept de « Britishness » dans les emblèmes de Henry Peacham (1612) : vers une reconquête identitaire ? by Julie Corre

“…Henry Peacham’s book of emblems, Minerva Britanna (1612) is both an artistic achievement and a statement of identity. …”
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The Boy’s Froissart de Lanier ou la réappropriation d’une mémoire européenne à destination des garçons en Amérique

“…Why did Sidney Clopton Lanier decide, shortly after the Civil war, to write a book for young male American readers in which he adapted the Chronicles of Froissart, chronicler of the 14th century who had recounted at the time the Hundred Years’ war ? …”
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Religious experience and sacred text by A. Holder

“…In some historical instances, experience was supposed to render the text unnecessary, or to sit in judgement over it. But the Book of Revelation implies that the sacred text will no longer be needed, only because its promises have been fulfilled by direct experience of the divine presence. …”
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Sociologia, cultura e arte: um debate entre espaços e tempos by Eliska Altmann

“…Based on the volumes of the Brazilian anthropologist Gilberto Velho - Sociologia da arte; Sociologia da arte II; and Arte e sociedade - ensaios de sociologia da arte (1966, 1967 and 1977) - in light of the book A sociologia da arte (2008), of the French sociologist Nathalie Heinich, the article highlights Brazilian publications comprising thinkers of sociology of art and culture through space-time dialogues. …”
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Au rendez-vous allemand (1) by Agnès Bouvier

“…Even the title of his book is an invitation to consider the Bible from the point of view of art, that is, for its effects.  …”
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Pressions et expressions de normes dans les pratiques d’enseignement de l’histoire au secondaire by Sabrina Moisan, Frédéric Saussez

“…The results show that this group of professionals has a specific disciplinary culture, which focuses on the organization and transmission of historical knowledge and the construction of what we call the "homemade learning book".…”
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Locus geometricus by Céline Trautmann-Waller

“…In Pierre Bourdieu’s 1967 Postscript to his translation of Erwin Panofsky’s Gothic Architecture and scholasticism, in which he quotes mostly theoreticians of art, culture and society from Germany and Austria, the expression “lieu géométrique” (in English texts locus geometricus) points to methodological and theoretical questions about the relation between the individual and the collective. From his first book publication in Germany (Zur Soziologie der symbolischen Formen, 1970) to the Outline of a Theory of Practice (1972, Engl. 1977), this expression articulated questions related to habitus, categories of perception and thinking, figuration, statistics and field theory. …”
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Honest to God and the South African churches in 2016 by M. Prozesky

“…Robinson (1919-1983), who was Bishop of Woolwich at the time. The book became a bestseller. The research question that gave rise to the present article is how relevant and sound its main ideas are for South Africa, in particular, and for his own church in 2016. …”
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Adsorptive and Membrane-Type Separations: A Bibliographical Update (1998) by Martyn S. Ray

“…The papers included here have been divided into the following subject groups: theory; design data; adsorbents; PSA and cyclic systems, and applications; liquid-phase adsorption; ion exchange, chromatography and related separations; membranes; and membrane-type separations. A new edited book (Dabrowski 1999) concerned with adsorption and related separations also contains extensive bibliographies prepared by this author. …”
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Living out nonconformity: Restoration ministers and their diaries by Colin HARRIS

“…Ministers were ordered to declare in front of their congregations their “unfeigned assent and consent” to the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. The act stipulated the deprivation of those who refused and three months imprisonment for those who continued to preach. …”
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Lexicon and Humor: Considerations about the witty functioning of the meanings in the Dictionnaire des mots qui n’existent pas by Anderson Braga do CARMO

“…The aim of this study is to understand and analyze the processes involved in the production of humour and new lexical units and verify the constitution and the witty functioning of the senses in entries that make up the book Le dictionnaire des mots qui n’existent pas (1992). …”
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Le cru de l’écrit ou les archives de la sauvagerie by Alice Delmotte-Halter

“…The ethnocritic ethnographer here observes that the principles of taboo, prohibition and shame, are those that maybe reorganize the most strongly rewritings up to their final book form. Or how to make presentable life in its beauty and chaos.…”
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Représenter le crime : permanences et inflexions (France, xixe siècle) by Dominique Kalifa

“…This trend has been very clearly described by Louis Chevalier in his book about working classes and dangerous classes (Classes laborieuses, et classes dangeureuses à Paris...). …”
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La vérité du regard : l’idée de paysage chez Elisée Reclus by Federico Ferretti

“…For example, his first book is entitled Voyage à la Sierra Nevada de Sainte Marthe : paysages de la nature tropicale. …”
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A Day in the Life of the American Woman: Construction and Mediation of the “American Woman” in Photographic Essays by Jane Bayly

“…Through a close analysis of the photographs and accompanying texts this article questions to what extent the definition proposed by the book A Day in the Life of the American Woman remains faithful to a “traditional” vision of the American woman, or on the contrary to what extent this definition reflects an empowered and diversified vision of women since the 70s feminist movement. …”
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