Teaming up with termites—Appraising termites’ contributions to earth technologies in West Africa by Jan Jansen, James R. Fairhead

“…This essay explores the role and impact of termites in the social and cultural history of West Africa. …”
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C. McGinn. Absurd Utilitarianism / trans. from Engl. A. V. Nekhaev by A. V. Nekhaev

“…The essay contains a radical critique of the total act utilitarianism. …”
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The Play's the Thing by Annlinn Kruger

“…This is a question of pragmatics and/or analysis.  This essay will examine language, used in our profession, to elucidate the question.  …”
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Legenda geral do mapa ambiental de Londrina: ensaio metodológico de cartografia by Rosely Sampaio Archela, Nathália Prado Rosolém

“…This methodological essay is part of a research that focus on achieving a reflection on the methodology cartographic of André Journaux (1984) for environmental cartography, from the analysis of work performed and directed by this researcher and the study of its specific legend. …”
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L’ordre des mots dans le temps de la phrase by Jean-Jacques LECERCLE

“…The essay examines the various spaces in which a sentence is deployed (point, line, plane) and their role in determining word order, i.e. their relationship to syntax and its exploitation for purposes of iconicity. …”
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Imagens dos objetos das Transferências Voluntárias da União em mapas by Diego Tenório da Paz

“…This essay comments on images that present the situation of Union Voluntary Transfers (TVU) in Brazil, which are financial resources intended for the execution of projects with infrastructure objects and/or services carried out by subnational entities. …”
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C. McGinn. Selfish Genes and Moral Parasites / trans. from Engl. A. V. Nekhaev by A. V. Nekhaev

“…The essay raises questions about the origins of altruistic behaviour. …”
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La finesse du paysage by Franco Farinelli

“…In “The arguzia del paesaggio”, the article presented here in translation (which is part of an essay published in I segni del mondo, 1992) F. Farinelli presents a critical and a historico-philosophical analysis of the concept of landscape as it was developed in geographical sciences (particularly in the reflection of Humboldt) and as considered today (though the article was published in 1991) in the social sciences.…”
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Función de los micro-relatos en la teatralización del horror: La gran Semíramis de Virués by Françoise Gilbert, Teresa Rodríguez

“…The purpose of this essay is to show the functions of the micro-narratives in Cristóbal de Virués’s tragedy La gran Semíramis. …”
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Creating New Pasts: Reality, Facticity and Interpretation in Peirce and Heidegger by Susanne Rohr

“…Peirce’s pragmatism and Martin Heidegger’s hermeneutics of facticity been fully acknowledged and assessed–the profound differences that, of course, exist between them, notwithstanding. This essay draws relationships between the central assumptions of the two theories and establishes between them what can be called a dialogue.…”
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Mapping American Literature with The Great Gatsby by Cathryn Halverson

“… Taking The Great Gatsby as its central case study, this essay discusses my method of teaching regional American literature in Nordic classrooms through a liberal use of maps. …”
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Contested Spaces. Meaningful Places. Contemporary Performances of Place and Belonging in Spain and Brazil by Maria J. C. Krom

“…This essay aims to contribute to current anthropological debate on space and place, analysing in two instances of festival performance how, on the one hand the politics of appropriation of space contributes to the configuration of power relations, and how on the other hand, participants in these festivals engage individually and collectively with physical space(s) to create places which they experience as meaningful in terms of identity and belonging.…”
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Actualité de la pensée de Georges Millardet en linguistique et dialectologie romanes à travers sa contribution à la RLaR by Jean Léo Léonard

“…The prepublication of this seminal essay constitutes a milestone in the history of Romance studies, especially for the epistemological development of Romance linguistics. …”
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Health security—Why is ‘public health’ not enough? by Delaram Akhavein, Meru Sheel, Seye Abimbola

“…The essay challenges the assumption that securitising health or framing health as a security issue necessarily leads to good outcomes. …”
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Christology and the Catholic Encounter with World Religions by Francis V. Tiso

“…Taking into consideration both of the statements of the Catholic magisterium and the pastoral environment of Catholic institutions, this essay offers some observations on the roots and objectives of interreligious dialogue. …”
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Fooling the eye: trompe l’oeil porcelain in High Qing China by Chih-en Chen

“…Moreover, based on Huoji dang, this essay aims to understand how Qing dynasty emperors and the Imperial workshop’s reception of trompe l'oeil works of art and their iconographic connotations.…”
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Poetics by S. N. Nyeck

“…The  exploration  of poetry as a spiritual practice of the queered self in this essay blurs the boun- daries between religion and politics in order to offer an integral account of gender diversity within the Africana household. …”
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Toward Inculturated Preaching by Michael E. Connors

“…Drawing upon the work of Robert Schreiter and others in understanding the formation of local theologies, the essay advances some methodological considerations in order for the church to move toward the possibility of authentically inculturated preaching. …”
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‘Des mémoires sur la vie de cet illustre philosophe’: George Leman Tuthill’s Unwritten Biography of Diderot by Caroline Warman

“…The final section of the essay considers why Naigeon did not reply, and looks at the position of known atheists and Naigeon in particular at that time.…”
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Envisioning Metropolis—New York as Seen, Imaged and Imagined by Heinz ICKSTADT

“…The essay first sketches the geography of literary New York from the Bowery and the Lower East Side to Harlem; then fills out the geographic space with chapters of New York’s literary history from modernism and its myth of metropolis (in Dos Passos, Joseph Stella and Hart Crane) to the collapse of this vision of an urban sublime during the Great Depression. …”
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