Book review: Autobiography of my dead brother. Walter Dean Myers (author) and Christopher Myers (illustrator). by Angus Norquay

“…Walter Dean Myer's graphic novel highlights the daily realities of being a black teenager in the city, and the fear and danger that have to be overcome to stay alive.…”

Du panafricanisme à la réafricanisation : formation et actualité du mouvement akan aux États-Unis by Pauline Guedj

“…From panafricanism to reafricanizacion : Formation and realities of the Akan movement in the United States. …”
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En los estudios, en las ondas y en el hogar: la relación entre las mujeres y Radio Nacional de España durante el franquismo desarrollista (1960-1975) by José Emilio Pérez Martínez

“…In order to do so, we will consider realities such as the workers of the radio station, the women's programmes and their discourses of femininity and their consumption by the audience. …”
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Italian Literary Representations of China by Iside Carbone

“…Literary materials from medieval and modern times are analysed and compared with an emphasis on the constructive role of narrative in the synaesthetic experience of realities around us. The texts presented reveal an interplay between cultural identities: while guiding and inspiring people’s imagery of Chinese territories, inhabitants and culture, they reflect and define Italian cultural traits. …”
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Le commerce équitable : un des maillons du développement durable ? by Virginie Diaz Pedregal

“…Having summarized the history of the movement, the author underlines the structural indecision of Fair trade, pulled between its social ideals and the realities of the market. Several limits and ambiguities of the application of Fair trade are recorded, in the social, political, environmental and economic fields. …”
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Actual problems of Omsk region development in context of modern socio-economic processes in Russian Federation by M. U. Makovetsky, D. V. Rudakov, K. A. Voropaev

“…The article examines the factors and conditions of the Omsk region development in the context of modern socio-economic realities in the Russian Federation, identifies its strengths and weaknesses, analyzes the most acute problems that predetermined the low growth rates of key economic indicators. …”
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Mobilités et immobilités des femmes qui « restent » dans la vallée du Rio Negro (Nicaragua) by Anaïs Trousselle

“…We propose a typology of these forms “of staying” while analyzing the realities of absence. The objective is to understand the terms of the presence of these families in this rural area.…”
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INNOVATIONS AND PSEUDOINNOVATIONS IN HIGHER SCHOOL by Maxim V. Kochetkov

“…Reforms of the past fifteen years are considered as inadequate to the evolutionary development of national higher education and Russian socio-economic realities.Bureaucratization of all sectors of society, including education, increases pseudoinnovation trends, especially in the regions. …”
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The Challenges Confronting Public Hospitals in India, Their Origins, and Possible Solutions by Vikas Bajpai

“…The suggested solutions are in tune with these realities.…”
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Sohn-Rethel anthropologue ? by Frédéric Monferrand

“…The result of this comparison, which draws on Durkheim and Mauss’s account of “primitive forms of classification”, is that commodity-producing societies are defined by an ontological paradox: on the one hand, they are the only societies that regard themselves as conventional realities that are separated from nature and therefore transformable. …”
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Les violences envers les personnes trans* à l'université. Des conséquences sur la santé mentale aux pistes pour s’en sortir by Cha Prieur

“…There are only a few places for psychological support in and outside academia for trans* people dealing with this violence, as university-based and liberal psychotherapists are rarely trained in trans* realities. I propose some avenues for reflection to change the situation, such as training university staff and creating trans* networks. …”
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Human genetic engineering and social justice in South Africa: Moltmann and human dignity by M. Kotzé

“… The realities of social injustice in the present South African context, with its great and growing gap between rich and poor and unequal distribution of wealth and resources, are also acutely visible in the health-care sector. …”
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Applying a decolonization paradigm to planning theory for inclusion and equity by Dane Buttner, Verna Nel, Thulisile Ncamsile Mphambukeli

“…However, as this approach is inappropriate and inadequate, planning theories require decolonization from the continued focus on the Global North in order to reflect the realities of the South. This paper contributes to the scholarship of decolonization in planning by investigating how planning academics and professionals in South Africa view the progress made in the decolonization of planning theories for inclusion and equity.…”
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PEDIATRIC HODGKIN LYMPHOMA IN LOW- and MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES (LMICs). A NARRATIVE REVIEW by Maria Luisa Moleti, Anna Maria Testi

“…However, similar results cannot be achieved, particularly for advanced disease, in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where challenging socioeconomic realities and the consequent scarcity of local resources heavily impact on the treatment and patients’ outcome. …”
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The Concept of Sovereignty in the US International Studies at the Turn of the 21st Century by A. D. Katkov

“…The author emphasizes that at the turn of the 21 st century the US academic discourse was dominated by a desire to revise traditional approaches to sovereignty as they were considered unsuitable for new postbipolar international realities. Discussions revolved around few key issues. …”
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Interaction of the National Police of Ukraine and civil society institutions: concept and legal framework by V. V. Pylyp

“…Under the new conditions, not only the forms of activity have changed, but also its directions have expanded. In today’s realities, civil society institutions play a significant role in the implementation of the law enforcement function of the state, which is not only about ensuring public order and safety. …”
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Physicians’ moral distinctions between medical assistance in dying (MAiD) and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment in Canada: a qualitative descriptive study by Midori Matthew, Kieran Bonner, Andrew Stumpf

“…Theoretical debates that are divorced from the realities of terminal illness do not assist physicians with navigating the ethical terrain of ending a patient’s life. …”
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Les chemins de Compostelle : Du pèlerinage à la marque ! by Christophe Alcantara

“…It questions the role that the monastic products, but also the religious certifications (like halal, kosher and the Catholic brand Monastic), play in a new approach of economic realities. It examines the use of the religious imaginary by Greek advertising. …”
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La reversión de la figura del inmigrante y del porteño en las últimas décadas del siglo XX by Marina Sikora

“…The analysis of three plays, Gris de Ausencia (1981) written by Roberto Cossa , Y el mundo vendrá (1989) by Eduardo Rovner and Lejos de aquí (1993) co-written by  Roberto Cossa and Mauricio Kartun, will show that the sainete and the sainete-influenced comedy of the early XXth century stage quite efficiently the social realities of the sixties in Argentina. These types of theatre, popular in the early representation of the immigrant phenomenon, function as the metaphor of the rise of the middle class. …”
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Courbet, Catlin, and the Exploitation of Native Americans by Jane M. Roos

“…The article speculates on the resonance between Courbet’s disenfranchised figures and colonial realities implied by Catlin’s display. It also connects reactions to Catlin’s museum with the burgeoning of modernism in mid-nineteenth-century France and with the transformation in Courbet’s painting during the years marked by The Painter’s Studio.…”
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