La Flora Común es la Flora Medicinal by Brent Berlin, Elois Ann Berlin

“…This essay draws a definitive distinction between special or secret knowledge and popular [folk or common] knowledge of the medicinal plant species that form the core of the empirical herbal medicine of the Tzeltal and Tzotzil of the Chiapas Highlands. …”
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Yorùbá Proverbial Metaphor: A Rhetoric tool and Guiding Principle to Conflict Resolution by Emmanuel Oluniyi Ademola

“…To amplify this belief, Yorùbá at different occasions incorporate some of the proverbs that are relevant and applicable to conflicting situations in their attempt to resolve conflicts. This essay examines some of the selected proverbs while synthesized them as a rhetoric tools and guiding principles to constructive conflict resolution in the Yorùbá traditional Society. …”
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Theoretical Analysis Model of the Adoption of Reactive and Proactive Eco-Innovation Strategies: the Influence of Contextual Factors Internal and External to Organizations by Marlete Beatriz Maçaneiro, Sieglinde Kindl da Cunha

“…Therefore, this study is characterized as a theoretical essay, adopting the methodological procedure of literature review, through an analysis of national and international articles on the subject of eco-innovation strategy. …”
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Le langage de la diversité by Sara Ahmed

“…Feminist and postcolonial scholars have offered powerful critiques of the language of diversity. This essay aims to contribute to the debate by examining how diversity workers work with the term diversity within the context of education. …”
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The Intellectual and Developmental Character of Cardinal Newman’s University Preaching Style by Edward Ondrako

“…With this in mind, the essay examines several key events and examples of his university preaching style beginning with his final sermon to the university faculty at Oxford in 1843, through his time in Dublin in 1856, with a final look at his acceptance speech when named a Cardinal in 1879. …”
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The Spatial Extensions of the Right to Seek Asylum by Melina Philippou

“…It was the first time after the Second World War that Europe addressed statelessness in its territory. This essay discusses the spatial articulations of the EMR political reality through the analytical frame of the ethics of admissions. …”
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Birds of a Feather: Alexander McQueen’s Victorian Bestiary by Ariane Fennetaux

“…With fur, feathers, corals, antlers or butterflies a constant feature of his creations, Alexander McQueen created designs that gave the animal world pride of place whilst his fashion and the imagery of his catwalk presentations were deeply influenced by Victorian sartorial and visual culture. In this essay the Victorian inspiration of his retro-futuristic designs will be studied to illustrate the uncanny persistence of some of the animalistic fantasies of the Victorian era into the contemporary world. …”
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A Comparative Study of The Yorùbá News and Aláròyé Newspapers by Adefemi Akinseloyin

“…In the light of this, this essay therefore attempts a comparative study of The Yorùbá News and Aláròyé, a fast-selling contemporary Yorùbá newspaper. …”
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Reflection on the theology of Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) by J. Corkery

“… This essay looks at ways in which the theology of Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, shows affinities with Reformation theological thought. …”
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Metabolic cities of the future. Between Agriculture and Architecture by Leonardo Zaffi, Michele D'Ostuni

“…Resuming the fascination of mega-structures proposed in the second half of the twentieth century, in the gap between utopia and dystopia, this essay investigates models and solutions for the integration of agricultural production systems within above-ground architectures, designed to meet the demand for new living spaces in future ultra-populated cities, as a possible response to the soil impoverishment that made it difficult to implement traditional farming systems in and around urban areas.…”
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Photography and Archive Fever in Richard Kalinoski’s Beast on the Moon (1995) by Laurence Petit

“…Drawing from critics such as Jacques Derrida, Janine Altounian, and Melanie Klein, this essay examines the close links between photography, family, and traumatic suffering in their relation with the notions of “archive”, “survivance” (as opposed to “survival”), “reparation”, and “re-membrance”. …”
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„Ma santé commence à être un peu meilleure...“ Osvícenec a jeho zdraví. by Lenka Švandová Maršálková

“…Last but not least, the essay will try to find out Kaunitz’s sources of medical information, whether and how he reflected contemporary medical discourse, and if new findings and methods were somehow reflected in his approach to the illnesses and treatment that he and his relatives and friends underwent. …”
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Comenius : l’université, un atelier de l’humanité ? by Martin Strouhal, Magdalena Kohout-Diaz

“…This essay is a critical reflection on the paradoxes of contemporary university education. …”
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Oor die inhoud en boodskap van die Heidelbergse Kategismus by D. Smit

“… The essay argues that it is meaningful to speak about the theme, content and message of the Heidelberg Catechism, although these three should be distinguished. …”
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Performing Paint, Claiming Space: The Santa Fe Indian School Posters on Paul Coze’s Stage in Paris, 1935 by Jessica L. Horton

“…This essay examines sixty-one extant posters that were hand-painted by students at the Studio School of the Santa Fe Indian School and sent to Paris to advertise an exhibition of their artwork, Art peau-rouge d’aujourd’hui (Redskin Art Today), at the Musée d’Ethnographie du Trocadéro in 1935. …”
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Le Tigre, le Louvre et l’échange de connaissances archéologiques visuelles entre la France et la Grande-Bretagne aux alentours de 1850 by Mirjam Brusius

“…In return, the French were in the possession of photographs of fragments from Nineveh that were lost by the British. This essay will re-examine British-Franco relations in the history of archaeology in Mesopotamia against the backdrop of the use and exchange of images, which became the only and major records in a story of rivalry, dependence, loss of objects and control. …”
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Reminiscence Tours and Pilgrimage Sites by Katja Uusihakala

“…The notion of pilgrimage seems to capture both the physical as well as the emotional aspects that such movements contain. This essay examines how members of the ex-Rhodesian diaspora community in South Africa ‘travel back’ to the past in the present in two ways: firstly by concrete heritage journeys to Zimbabwe on reminiscence tours and secondly by constructing memory sites and commemorative venues, where the journeys back to the ‘homeland’ take the form of imaginative travel. …”
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« Certains lieux de la peinture », comme expérience ontologique, de révélation chez María Zambrano  by Camille Lacau St Guily

“…Through painting, as she testifies in several of her writings, among others in Algunos lugares de la pintura, through her autobiographical essay, Delirio y destino, or in her text entitled “El idiota” and in all her essays dedicated to Velázquez’s “Niño de Vallecas”, María Zambrano lives personal and “privileged” experiences, with the being. …”
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Social Cohesion in Ola Rotimi’s Kurunmi: A Resonance of History, Culture and Law by Yemi Atanda

“…This is the kernel of historical narrative used by Ola Rotimi, in constructing his play, Kurunmi, to refect rivalry between the Ibadan warriors and those of Ijaye. Tis essay examines the confict to refect and suggest the need for just, peace, and unity for social cohesion among Yoruba people, and by and large, Nigerians. …”
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Mexican Pointy Boots and the Tribal Scene: Global Appropriations of Local Cultural Practices in the Virtual Age by Helena Simonett, César Burgos Dávila

“…In this essay, we examine music and its performative power by engaging in issues such as the localization of global cultural practices, the embracing of cultural practices based on a shared sense of marginalization and peripheralization, as well as the appropriation and resignification of “odd” cultural practices for global consumption, resulting in a cultural mutation of such practices and their objects from “low” to “art.” …”
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