Editorial by Anna Oksiutycz

“…This issue thus inserts itself into the long-running controversy over the Copyright Amendment Bill (CAB) that is predicted by three authors in this number to potentially damage the South African educational book publishing industry. The Bill aims to weaken protections as far as educational materials are concerned. …”
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Lithuanian DP book connection with Latvian and Estonian DP in West Europe in 1945-1952 by Remigijus Misiūnas

“…The living conditions in the camps were very difficult, but the social and cultural activity of the DPs was vibrant. Book publishing was one expression of this activity. Since DPs from the Baltic States lived in the same camps, they had book connections. …”
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Celebration of the 400th anniversary of the Lithuanian book by Vladas Žukas

“…Mažvydas were extensively investigated, defining their significance for linguistic science, cultural history, and the expansion of literature, and showing the historical development of Lithuanian book publishing. …”
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Dissemination of the Russian emigrant literature and the literature of the Book Program in East Europe in 1950-1990 by Alvydas Kazakevičius

“…Until now, the processes of transferring books published abroad to Lithuania and other countries of Eastern Europe have been largely ignored by researchers. …”
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A Review of the Book "Field Archaeology: An Introduction by amirsadegh naghshineh

“…Many books have been written about field archaeology universally, but the number of books published on this subject in Iran is rare. One of the books published on this area in Iran, is "Field Archaeology: An Introduction" by Peter L. …”
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Marcas de género en la producción de libros: las editoras en los estudios del libro y la edición by María Belén Riveiro

“…This article reviews a group of women book publishers –from the 20th and 21st centuries in Latin America– and focuses on four areas ( fields, objects, variables, and problems) to underscore relevant questions for Gender and Cultural Studies.…”
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Réflexion sur l’Etat mexicain et ses Institutions à partir de 2 chroniques de Carlos Monsiváis by Françoise Léziart

“…Through two chronicles included in Dias de guardar by Carlos Monsiváis, a book published in the 70s in Mexico, this article analyses the coercive system that rules the Mexican regime, dominated for a long time by one single party: the PRI, i.e. the institutionalized expression of the social Revolution that occurred at the beginning of the XXth Century. …”
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Children’s literature and tenderness: Pedagogical reflections on the gestures of care, the well-being of relationships and affection in picture books by Marcella Terrusi

“…The contribution offers some pedagogical reflections dedicated to the theme of tenderness in education through the exploration of a repertoire of excellent picture books published in the field of children’s publishing. …”
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St. Genevieve in the Revolution : Sylvain Maréchal’s Counter-History by Sheila Delany

“….), won the first Labarge Prize awarded by the Society of Canadian Medievalists for best book in medieval studies. Her new book, published by University of Alberta Press, is an annotated translation of Maréchal’s Nouvelle légende dorée, extending her work in medieval hagiography and her lifelong interest in revolutionary history.…”
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Arts et créations au prisme des TIC by Karelle Arsenault

“…This work is one of the five books published from the XIXe Congrès de la Société française des sciences de l’information et de la communication, held in June 2014 at Université de Toulon, in France. …”
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Komu było dedykowane dzieło Gwagnina Sarmatiae Europeae descripto? - rozwiązanie zagadki znanego polonicum XVI w. by Renata Wilgosiewicz - Skutecka

“…A unique copy of the book published in 1574 found by the author in Bibliothćque Mazarine in Paris has shed light on the question posed in the title. …”
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The Violence of Hiroshima: Hersey, Bataille and Caruth by Jocelyn Dupont

“…It then focuses on French philosopher’s Georges Bataille’s singular and disquieting review of Hersey’s short book, published the following year in Critique. Finally, it discusses the somewhat unexpected return of Bataille’s text in Cathy Caruth’s 1995 seminal collection Trauma: Explorations in Memory, and endeavors to assess Bataille’s contemporary relevance to trauma studies. …”
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Visual representations of war in Polish and Scandinavian picturebooks. A metaphorical perspective by Hanna Dymel-Trzebiatowska

“…The analysed material includes three Polish and two Scandinavian books, published within four years, 2011–2014: Pamiętnik Blumki1 (Blumka’s Diary, 2011) by Iwona Chmielewska, Powieki (The Eyelids, 2012) by Michał Rusinek and Ola Cieślak, Ostatnie przedstawienie panny Esterki (Miss Esterka’s Last Performance, 2014) by Adam Jaromir and Gabriela Cichowska, Lejren (The Camp, 2011) by Oscar K. and Dorte Karrebæk and Krigen (The War, 2013) by Gro Dahle and Kaia Dahle Nyhus. …”
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A Critique on the Book "Socioeconomic Situation of Malaali at the Beginning of Islam" Sayyed Mohammad Reza Hosseini by Sayyed Mohammad Reza Hosseini

“…One of the books published on the history of the early Islamic era is by Jamal Jawdah "Socioeconomic Situation of Malaali at the Beginning of Islam". …”
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Composed for Solo Guitar or String Orchestra? The Fluid Incarnations and Pedagogical Opportunities of Wallace Stevens’s The Man with the Blue Guitar by Bart Eeckhout

“…It ranges from a consideration of the title poem’s unpublished autograph and the preliminary appearance of a selection of cantos in Twentieth Century Verse and Poetry to the book published by Knopf in 1937, its subsequent repackaging in 1952, and the different ways in which especially the title poem has been integrated in selected, collected, and artistically augmented volumes for the English-speaking market, as well as in translation. …”
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Manfred Max Neef y la revolución ambientalista para América Latina, 1932-2019 (in memoriam) by Esteban Valenzuela-Van-Treek, Zoran Ostoic-Marroquín, Jaime González-González

“…The methodology used in this work is based on the review of the main books published by the author, such as Barefoot Economy (1982), Development on a Human Scale (1986), The Lost Dimension (2007), and The Unmasked Economy (2014). …”
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