Northern Sea Route: Past, Present, and Future. Results of the International Scientific Megaproject by Vladislav I. Goldin

“…The author characterizes the idea, concept, implementation process and results of the international scientific project devoted to the history, modernity and prospects of the Northern Sea Route development, which resulted in a collective monograph published in 2022. The content and structure of this publication are presented, its participants, scientists from four European countries, are indicated. …”
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The founding of Marxist study of religion and its theoretical sources of humanities by Chuanhui Zeng, Xiaoxiao Zhang

“…Engels firstly applied the newly founded worldview and methodology to the systematic study of religion in his monograph Peasant War in Germany in 1850. Both events marked the founding of the Marxist Study of Religion. …”
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Some Episodes from E. Turauskas' Life and Activities by Aldona Vasiliauskienė

“…Turauskas' life and activities and expresses a hope that it may serve as a step leading to a detailed monograph on E. Turauskas.   …”
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«The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity» (The 100th anniversary of the first publication of the book by the group of T.H. Morgan) by E. B. Muzrukova

“…Historical analysis of the monograph sheds light to key points in the formation of genetics as a science in the early 20th century. …”
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American Studies by V. O. Pechatnov

“…Back in 1934 he published a monograph "On the history of capitalism in the United States," which initiated a series of research culminating in the fundamental work "The United States. …”
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Proverbs and African Modernity: Defining an Ethics of Becoming by Oyekan Owomoyela

“…Another evidence of the interest the subject has enjoyed among African scholars is the wealth of publications they have produced in recent years, for example, Adeleke Adeeko’s monograph Proverbs, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature; Ambrose Adikamkwu Monye’s Proverbs in African Orature: The Aniocha-Igbo Experience; Kwesi Yankah’s The Proverb in the Context of Akan Rhetoric: A Theory of Proverb Praxis; and my Yoruba Proverbs. …”
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The 500-year Cultural & Economic Trajectory of Tobacco: A Circle Complete by Christopher A. Jones, Amanda Wassel, William Mierse, E. Scott Sills

“…In subsequent years, these developments led to significant curtailment of tobacco use. This monograph explores aspects of the intersection of tobacco with themes of behavioral incentives, religion, culture, literature, economics, and government over the past five centuries.…”
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The work of Glenn F. Webb by William E. Fitzgibbon

“…Beginning with Glenn's first paper [1],one observes a constant stream of productivity and high impact work.Glenn has authored or co-authored over 160 papers, written one research monograph,and co-edited six volumes. He has delivered plenary lectures, colloquia,and seminars across the globe, and he serves on the editorial boards of11 archival journals. …”
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New Challenges Require New Solutions. Book review of ‘The Soft Power of the United Kingdom’ by E.M. Kharitonova by N. V. Yudin

“…The book under review is a new monograph ‘The Soft Power of the United Kingdom’ by Elena M. …”
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WORLD REGIONAL STUDIES AS A RESEARCH FRAMEWORK AND ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE by E. V. Koldunova

“…Vullers from German Institute of Global and Area Studies analyzing in 2014 three leading International Relations journals (International Organization, World Politics, European Journal of International Relations) diagnosed a serious geographic imbalance in the international studies, which meant a very limited number of articles based on the nonWestern empirical data.Even with such geographic imbalance in IR studies more important for preserving eurocentrism there was the absence of non-Western IR theories or IR theories originating from non-Western political context. The collective monograph edited by Barry Buzan and Amitav Acharya focused exactly on this problem. …”
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The Orthodox Church and «Russian Dissolve»: reflecting on lessons of the past (Review of the book Firsov S. L. «A Time for War and a Time for Peace». The Orthodox Russian Church an... by V. V. Kalinovsky, A. S. Puchenkov

“…The main theses expressed in the monograph are considered, its strengths and weaknesses are named. …”
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Rec. ad op.: Kuzembayuly A., Abil’ E., Alibek T. The Siberian ulus and Kazakhs: Problems of ethnic continuity and historical memory by Maslyuzhenko D.N.

“…The fourth chapter is devoted to the history of the Siberian ulus, divided into separate stages (13th–14th centuries, the period of the collapse of the Golden Horde, the Siberian Khanate). The reviewed monograph is an important stage in the formation of modern Kazakh historiography on the issues of further study of the late medieval history of Western Siberia. …”
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Philosophy and Sociology Studies by S. A. Kravchenko, A. V. Shestopal

“…Other works Shishkin, including monograph "XX century and the moral values of humanity", played a in reorienting national philosophy from class interests to universal moral principles. …”
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Regional Economic Development of the PRC through the Data of the World Economic Statistics by Andrei V. Ostrovskii

“…The article analyzes the results of a forecast on the socio-economic development of Chinese regions made ten years ago in a collective monograph by the Institute of the Far East of the Russian Academy of Sciences. …”
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COVID-19 Pandemic as a Factor for the Paradigm Shift in International Communications. Book Review of ‘Pandémie médiatique. Com de crise/crise de com’ by S. Fouks by T. Yu. Lebedeva, L. V. Minaeva, A. D. Krivonosov

“…The reviewers emphasize that the monograph by Stefan Fouks goes beyond the traditional formats of communication studies, which tended to focus either on the various crises, or on the organization of media structures in diff erent states, public-private partnership, and corporate communications, and thus were too narrow in scope. …”
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Development of Stylistics and Rhetoric in Lithuania by Irena Smetonienė, Marius Smetona

“…The first monograph presents a clear conception of rhetoric, applying rhetorical analysis principles to 19th-century Lithuanian literature and updating the tradition of rhetorical culture in Lithuania. …”
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Kleist vs. Musschenbroek – a difficult way to truth by Jerzy Sawicki

“…This gap is bridged by a scientific monograph written by the author of the present article. …”
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Die Entstehung der Entstehung by Thomas Christensen

“…First among these writers was Heinrich Besseler, whose monograph Bourdon und Fauxbourdon (1950) placed the origins of harmonic tonality squarely on the shoulders of Dufay and his contemporaries. …”
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Territorios rurales en transformación: desafíos y oportunidades frente al reto de la despoblación by Néstor Vercher

“…As discussed throughout the monograph, depopulation is a multidimensional phenomenon, where economic, social and environmental factors are intertwined, and therein lies the future of these territories. …”
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Territorios rurales en transformación: desafíos y oportunidades frente al reto de la despoblación by Néstor Vercher

“…As discussed throughout the monograph, depopulation is a multidimensional phenomenon, where economic, social and environmental factors are intertwined, and therein lies the future of these territories. …”
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