Marges, gloses et décor dans une série de manuscrits arabo-islamiques by Annie Vernay-Nouri

“…Nonetheless, a small group of Arabic books, preserved in the National Library of France (BNF), contain glosses of micrographic writing which are composed of figurative motifs which, in the most finished work among them, have an aesthetic quality over a double page when the book is laid out open. …”
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Nutrition of Florida Citrus Trees, Third Edition by Davie Mayeso Kadyampakeni, Kelly T. Morgan

“…<a href="http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/topic_series_nutrition_of_florida_citrus_trees">See also this topic page</a> for links to individual chapters in HTML and PDF formats. This 115-page book was edited by Kelly T. Morgan and Davie M. Kadyampakeni, and published by the UF/IFAS Department of Soil and Water Sciences. …”
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Manual of References, Creating Tables and Figures in Scholarly Publications: APA 6 Rules by Mehmet Ali Akkaya

“…This study deals with adaptation of the latest edition of the American Psychological Association (APA) rules. This book, where the APA rules -already a universal authority in citing and referencing- are enriched with specific examples for every type of information source, is a basic reference source after Prof. …”
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A decolonial reading of the Third Chapter of the Gospel of John in Moffat’s Translation of the Catechism into Setswana (1826) by I.D. Mothoagae

“…The introduction of the Setswana spelling book in 1826 epitomised the vernacularisation and standardisation of Setswana. …”
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Espaços ficcionalizados em Desterro,de Luis S. Krausz: um ensaio em geografia literária by Georg Wink

“…Krausz, following this premise. The book offers a range ofsophisticated representations of fictionalized real spaces, some of themrepresenting a past that no longer exists.Through my analysis I will test a specialmethod that has beendeveloped recently under the name of “literary geography”.This approach addresses the relevant questions of text-space relations in general,as well as the different forms of referring to geographical spaces (indicating,suppressing, anonymizing, transforming). …”
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“The Ages Humble Servant” : l’écriture de la catastrophe entre modernité et tradition dans The Storm (1704) de Daniel Defoe by Nathalie BERNARD, Emmanuelle PERALDO

“…Daniel Defoe’s first book-length work, The Storm, was published in 1704, i.e. a few months only after the violent storm that destroyed the southern counties of England and Wales in November 1703. …”
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« Extraterrestres ou spéculatives » by Aurore Turbiau

“…This article is an exploration, problematized from the perspective of the notion of “constellation”, of the book QuebeQueer: Le queer dans les productions littéraires, artistiques et médiatiques québécoises, published in 2020 by the Presses de l’Université de Montréal, edited by Isabelle Boisclair, Guillaume Poirier Girard and Pierre-Luc Landry. …”
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Cacería ritual y sacrificios huicholes: entre depredación y alianza, intercambio e identificación by Johannes Neurath

“…Parting from the heterogeneity of Huichol sacrificial practices, I’ll analyze the articulation between them. In my book Las fiestas de la Casa Grande (2002a), I underscored the dualism of sacrifice and self-sacrifice. …”
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The Canonization of Ibn Mâjah: Authenticity vs. Utility in the Formation of the Sunni Ḥadîth Canon by Jonathan AC Brown

“…In Sunni Islam, the canonical ‘Six Books’ of hadith derive their authority as doctrinal references from scholarly consensus on their reliability as representations of the Prophet’s Sunna. …”
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The Political Economy of Sino-South African Trade in the Context of Asia-Pacific Regional Competition by Tinuade Ojo

“…The different case studies presented in the book (Taiwan, Japan, India, and the United States) highlighted a ‘differentiated engagement’ between Pretoria and Beijing. …”
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Katechizm biblijny Kościoła kartagińskiego by Tomasz Kaczmarek

“…Cyprian’s work, the bishop of Carthagina (210–258) which can be thought of as a remarkable biblical catechism. This book, composed of thirty Christological thesis together with corresponding biblical citations, is dedicated to “the mystery of Christ” (sacramentum Christi) understood as concise presentation of salvation economy where Christ is its centre and the interpretative key for the Bible. …”
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TOO MANY OR TOO FEW NORMS: “NORMAL ANOMIE” AS A NEW DEFINITION OF THE PRESENT TIMES by I. V. Katernyi

“…Book under review: “Normal’naya Anomiya” v Rossii i Sovremennom Mire [Normal Anomie In Russia And Modern World]. …”
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Describing Ethiopian Bookbinding in TEI by Eliana Dal Sasso

“…This paper presents some applications offered by the Beta maṣāḥǝft project that use the recorded bookbinding features, and it shows how the encoding of this large amount of previously ignored data could open new research perspectives on Ethiopian book production.…”
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Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1829-1894) : un intellectuel sceptique, critique des idées libérales de son temps by Catherine Hajdenko-Marshall

“…Sir James Fitzjames Stephen is known for his book entitled Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873) in which he opposed John Stuart Mill’s liberal ideas. …”
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Reading Augustine’s Confessions in Normandy in the 11th and 12th Centuries by Lauren Mancia

“…This study hopes to demonstrate how an analysis of contemporary intellectual interpretations of texts in Normandy can be used alongside paleographical examination of surviving copies to uncover both the ways in which and the reasons for which books circulated among the monastic houses.…”
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Monstruos, prodigios y maravillas en los viajes de Pero Tafur by Pablo Castro Hernández

“…This paper analyzes the concept of the monstrous in travel books from the late Middle Ages. We review the work Andanças e viajes by Pero Tafur, a Spanish travel book written during the fifteenth century. …”
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Spiritualiteit in het Lucasevangelie: geschiedenis en bevrijding by H. Welzen

“…Luke presents his work as a history guided by God in which the reader of his book participates. God takes initiative in history to liberate the people of God and each of its members. …”
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“His cramped and claustrophobic brain”: Confinement and Freedom in John Wray’s Lowboy by Pascale Antolin

“…This article shows that ambivalence is a major symbolic pattern in John Wray’s 2009 neuronovel Lowboy, and it affects the major aspects of the novel, including the characters’ identities and the narrative structure of the book. Ambivalence may refer either to the split personality of the schizophrenic hero (psychoanalytic approach) or to the structure of the brain (neurologic approach). …”
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Маяковский – новатор языка? Словообразовательная структура неологизмов Маяковского и их роль в современном русском языке... by Jana Kitzlerova

“…The paper is a result of the analysis of all Mayakovsky’s neologisms listed in A. Humesky’s book Majakovskij and His Neologisms (1964), except for those originated by the simple connection of two words or word components. …”
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