Guest Editorial Vol12 no2 by Janine Bolger

“…Increasing interest in social pedagogy throughout Scotland appears to be reflected, strategically, through the emergence of training by organisations such as ThemPra, the evaluation of training programmes (Milligan 2009, and see Evelyn Vrouwenfelder's article in this issue), through bi-annual meetings of stakeholders and practitioners via the social pedagogy Development Network, through study visits by agency staff to European projects (ThemPra Mobility Project 2012) and by the increasing number of related articles and books being published.…”

Las prácticas indígenas de pesca en la Amazonia, según la descripción de Spix y Martius by Pablo Diener

“…The naturalist expedition undertaken in the 19th century by two Bavarians, Spix and Martius, gave rise to a very significant editorial production. In their books, these scientists applied to link their works on animal and plant taxonomy with the studies upon indigenous peoples’ practices. …”
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The problem of self-consciousness of the French and Russian soldiers era of the Napoleonic wars (in their memoirs) by V. S. Kalmykov

“…About the battle and the war written numerous books and articles, but most interesting are the memoirs of direct participants in the events, which include the armed forces of the Russian and French armies. …”
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A door to the unknown: crossing boundaries through picturebook art by Katarzyna Smyczyńska

“…The juxtaposition of the two books that share the themes of visiting and hosting, of confronting otherness, and of cultural prejudice indicates differences in their narrative and artistic potential. …”
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Poručnictví, nebo partnerství? Status manželky a majetkové spoluvlastnictví manželů ve středověkém Brně by Michaela Antonín Malaníková

“…In addition to her legal status, which is reconstructed based on the analysis of valid legal norms, we pay attention mainly to the concept of property co­ownership of spouses and its functioning in everyday life, about which we can learn based on written cases that were part of the common agenda of the city council, that is gathered in the so­called Memorial Books. …”
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Development of distance learning courses on statistics by Vytautas Janilionis

“…The Internet resources (electronic books, video, simulation, animation, text, interactive experiments, software package which provides routines for statistical analysis via the WWW) and application of DL course development software are analysed. …”
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La Révolution mexicaine racontée aux enfants by Dalila Chine

“…As part of this article, we focus on representations of the Mexican Revolution in the textbooks of history which are free distributed in primary schools. In these books entitled «Mexico 2010, Bicentenario Independencia, Centenario Revolución» published the year of the centennial commemoration of the Revolution, appears a series of continuities but also iconographic breaks to illustrate this episode of Mexican history.If the multiplication of portraits of military leaders continues to illustrate the national pantheon as in the previous textbooks, a new visibility is given to people who played an important role in the revolutionary process.…”
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Spirituality: sense and gist. On meaning, God and being by C. Lombaard

“…The latter is illustrated by briefly juxtaposing the concepts of God and non-God and of self-implication and estrangement. The most important books for furthering such analyses are listed. …”
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Opowiedz mi "Miasto narysowane". O translinearnej możliwości poznawania Lublina z bliska by Jakub Jankowski

“…The aim of the exercise proposed in this article is to closely read five comic books about Lublin, looking for translinear connections between them. …”
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Além da nação: Sophie de Ségur no campo literário infantil brasileiro by Andréa Borges Leão

“…It aims at understanding translation practices as well as Sophie de Ségur's books adaptations, like Herberto Sales' workin Edições de Ouro. …”
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Les Inventaires européens, un exemple : English Heritage

“…English Heritage was the first to respond and to date the 'Service régional de l'Inventaire' has bought more than 200 books and CDs from it, whose series are presented below.…”
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Recent Advances in Paper Conservation Using Nanocellulose and Its Composites by Mei Jiang, Jingjing Yao, Qiang Guo, Yueer Yan, Yi Tang, Yuliang Yang

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Data-Driven Consumption Load Monitoring and Adjustment Strategy in Smart Grid by Bingjie He, Jinxiu Xiao, Qiaorong Dai

“…Nevertheless, the truth is that there is a great gap between the consumers’ booked electrical energy consumption and the optimal generation capacity, causing the power system overload and even outage. …”
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Poetic Utterances and Socio-Political Commitment in Ọbasa’s Poems by Lere Adeyemi

“…It is a corpus study or content analysis of the poetry books. Poems that are relevant to socio-political issues in the three books (Ìwé Kinni Awon Akéwì, ̣ Ìwé Kejì Awon Akéwì and ̣ Ìwé Kéta ̣ Àwoṇ Akéwì) were analyzed within the theory of Nativism. …”
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Evaluating EFL textbooks for vocational high schools in Indonesia: A corpus-informed and lexile-based model by Diana Omega Santi, Ignatius Tri Endarto

“…However, in terms of vocabulary profiles, the three books emphasize the target vocabulary at the expected level (B1), as suggested by the Directorate of Vocational High School Development. …”
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Model development of Rejang culture-cased Islamic religious education textbook to improve hard work character by Aziza Aryati, Riyanto Riyanto, Bambang Sahono, Wasidi Wasidi

“…The implication of this research is that as the distance between students and learning materials closes, the use of local culture in textbooks creates an attraction for reading books, fostering enthusiasm for learning, making it easier to absorb, understand, and achieve learning goals faster. …”
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ABOUT ‘ACADEMIC CAPITALISM’ AND ‘ENTREPRENEURSHIP UNIVERSITY’ by Alena I. Nefedova

“…Despite the fact, that the main books on this theme have been published nearly 20 years ago, their actuality is growing, especially in Russian context. …”
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Smit, Dirk J., Remembering theologians – Doing theology. Collected essays 5 by R. van Deventer

“…The publication – by Sun Press – of his academic articles in the form of “Versamelde  Opstelle” and “Collected Essays” – already five books up to date – furnishes ample reason why he is highly respected by fellow theologians. …”
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Note, à propos des noms vernaculaires chinois dans la Flora cochinchinensis (1790) de Loureiro by André-Georges Haudricourt, Georges Métailié

“…On the basis of this apparent contradiction, we have considered the Chinese plant names chosen by Loureiro in his Flora cochinchinensis (1791), and, comparing them to the names found in modern Chinese books, we have found that the two assertions are true; however, the first one reflects rather frequent cases contrary to the second one.…”
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La stéréotomie en Périgord à la Renaissance : un exemple de persistances architecturales reprises par la tratadistique française du XVIe siècle by Mélanie Lebeaux

“…In 1567, Philibert de L’Orme published the first tome of L’Architecture, in which books III and IV are devoted to stereotomy, the science of carving and assembling stones. …”
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