Neil Gaiman’s Use of Antiquity in Television Series: American Gods and Calliope by Elżbieta Olechowska, Marta Pszczolińska

“… American Gods (Starz 2017–2021) and The Sandman (Netflix 2022– ), two highly watchable audiovisual series are adaptations of Neil Gaiman’s popular novel (2001) and of his earlier comic book series (1989–1996). They are both inspired by classical and Norse mythologies and reflect the evolution of culturally and socially important themes that occurred between the publication of their literary models and the airing of the television series. …”
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A Critical Review of the End of Development, Post-Developmentalism and Development Paradigm Impasse by Ghodrat Ahmadian

“…It is worth mentioning that the present review is based on the book entitled “The End of Development? Modernity, Post-Modernity and Development” by Trevor Parfitt who is a Professor at the Department of Political Sciences and International Relations, University of Nottingham, England.…”
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MEASURING QUALITY OF READING MATERIALS IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK: THE USE OF LEXICAL DENSITY METHOD IN ASSESSING COMPLEXITY OF READING MATERIALS OF INDONESIA’S CURRICULUM – 13 (K13) ENGL... by Dian Sari

“…It is important as the basis to decide whether the K13 English textbook assessed has met the aspired quality in terms of content and suitable teaching strategy to handle difficulties of the reading materials within the book. The finding revealed that higher levels of texts do not necessarily guarantee higher lexical density indexes, that is to say, the levels of texts analyzed in this study did not match the expected indexes of lexical density. …”
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A Handlist of Illustrated Early Solomonic Manuscripts in German Public Collections by Sophia Dege-Müller, Jacopo, Vitagrazia

“…We believe that the resulting work sheds new light on the history of book illustration in early Solomonic Ethiopia and hope that it will provide researchers with a valuable instrument to foster comparative research and a more integrative approach to the study of Ethiopian art. …”
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Incest, Lit(t)erally: How Joyce Censored The Wake by Stéphane Jousni

“…Under the charge of obscenity, the book was prosecuted by The New York Society for the Prevention of Vice in 1920, before being banned in the United States for the subsequent thirteen years.Curiously enough, Joyce’s last opus, Finnegans Wake (1939), did not incur any legal trouble. …”
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A New Theory in the Appearance of Andalusian Stanzas (A Critical Review of “Andalusian Stanzas and Zajel and Its Impact on Troubadour Poetry” by Sayyed Hussein Mara`ashi

“…In this article, we review Mohammad Abbasa's book, which is one of the last studies on this subject. …”
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Comparative analysis of Propp’s perspective with Greimas and Bermond about narration from Structuralism viewpoint by Reza Ghanbari Abdolmaleki, Ailin Firoozian Pouresfahani

“…Among formalists, Vladimir Propp’s theory, manifested in the book “Morphology of Folktale”, can be mentioned as the first attempt in theorizing narration that later attracted French narrative structuralists' attention. …”
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Die vergleichenden linguistischen Untersuchungen im Bereich der Sportsprache – Methoden und Tendenzen by Jakub Dzidek

“…The review article discusses the book ‘Language and Football’ by Eva Lavric and Gerhard Pišek (ed.), published in 2024. …”
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Peníze, nebo prestiž? Soudní spor o autorství Vančurových Obrazů z dějin národa českého by Bohumil Jiroušek

“…Vladislav Vančura was writing this book at the end of the 1930’s, while some papers (historical facts) were submitted by young historians Václav Husa, Jaroslav Charvát and Jan Pachta. …”
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Reflexões críticas em torno de Rubén Darío: relendo as interpretações de José Enrique Rodó e de Manuel Gondra by Elisângela da Silva Santos

“…This article aims to retake two criticisms made to the book Prosas profanas y otros poemas, by Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío (1867-1916), criticisms that were written by Manuel Gondra (1871-1927) and José Enrique Rodó (1871- 1917). …”
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Representing Irishness in Words and Images ; Erskine Nicol’s Illustrations of Tales of Irish Life and Character by Amélie Dochy

“…Some of his works were used to illustrate books about Ireland, such as Anna Maria Hall’s Tales of Irish Life and Character, published in London in 1909. …”
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«Cold War 2.0» and neo-kennanite approach to Russia: Siberia and Russian Nation by A. V. Sushko

“…The article contains the analytical commentary on Russian translation of the separate chapter from the book «Long Telegram 2: Neo-Kennanite Approach to Russia» by American anthropologist, historian and political scientist Peter Eltsov. …”
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The Determinants of Pain Revisited: Coordinates in Sensory Space by Kenneth L Casey, Jürgen Lorenz

“…This led to the publication of a book chapter that would someday be referred to by some as 'the classical view' of pain mechanisms. …”
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A New Monograph on the Bulgarian Mission of Dr. Albert Long by Lilia Zheleva

“…The review highlights the rich documentary basis and illustrative material, the scholarly rigor, and the fascinating style of the book that allow the readers to immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the years before and after the Liberation of Bulgaria, to learn about the Bulgarian reality at that time better and to deeply consider the high social significance of the activity of Dr. …”
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Between Destructiveness and Vitalism: Simmel’s Sociology of Crowds by Christian Borch

“…The following parts are based on less familiar material, not least Simmel’s book reviews of Gustave Le Bon, Scipio Sighele, and Gabriel Tarde. …”
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L’area di Temesa tra confini geografici e interazioni culturali by Margherita Perri

“…Mentioned in the first book of the Odyssey as an emporium for the exchange of metals, Temesa is described as an eminent centre of the indigenous Italian world, to which the Greeks are attracted. …”
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A Life Committed by Sbonelo Radebe

“…Pahad served as the Minister in the Presidency from 1999 until 2008 under former President Thabo Mbeki who wrote a foreword to this book, “I am happy to commend this educative tour through many decades of exciting struggles for our liberation and a better world, as contained in this autobiography” (p17). …”
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Les illustrations en pleine page du cartulaire du XIIe siècle (ms 210 d’Avranches), problèmes d’interprétation et sources textuelles by Jacques Le Maho

“…The illustration on folio 25v, depicting two miracles that occurred on the Mount, seems to have two main sources: a life of William the Long Sword and the late eleventh-century book of Miracula. One of the two miracles is not associated with any of the charters in the cartulary, which raises the question of why the image was included in this collection.…”
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Transformation of educational practices in the conditions of the digital environment by Natalia V. Ageenko, Elena A. Barashkina, Natalia A. Maslenkova

“…The authors identify several mechanisms of disciplinary power working in the educational environment and experiencing a significant transformation in the transition from traditional book culture to digital one. It is concluded that there is a need to redistribute the normalizing functions between the teacher and the student, change the type of activity of both subjects of educational activity; working out of new training formats are actualized.…”
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Narratologiese ondersoek na Daniël 1: God beloon getrouheid by M. Nel

“…Whereas the tales in the Daniel book pretend to be about historical figures, they are literary tales that encourage people in a historical crisis situation. …”
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