Donald Barthelme’s The King: The Manifold Guises of (an) American(’s) Memory by Aurélie Delevallée

“…Since The King (1990) transposes the Arthurian myth into World War II, this article first aims at analyzing the posthumous novel by Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) as an allohistory staging the meeting of history and memory, two somehow antithetical notions. …”
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THE CHILDFREE PHENOMENON: A MACROSOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS by T. Bolshunova

“…Its comprehension in the context of postmodernism makes it possible to identify macrosociological reasons for changing family values and reproductive behavior in the modern world. Pluralism, disorganization of moral regulation, decentralization of the individual, loss of gender identity, institutionalization of deviation in the sphere of sexual behavior lead to the transformation of the values of motherhood and parenthood as well as the dysfunctionality of the family. …”
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Étude anthropologique d’un cimetière de paroisse rurale : les sépultures (8e-19e s.) de Rigny (Rigny-Ussé, Indre-et-Loire) by Christian Theureau

“…It paints a singular picture of this rustic world which, over a long period of time, took in physically disadvantaged people and children from the neighbouring towns. …”
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Lactose Intolerance: What Consumers Need to Know by Matt Krug, Amarat Simonne

“…Lactose intolerance is often related to our age and genetic origin and the majority of the world’s population with Asian or African origins is lactose intolerant.Managing lactose intolerance and malabsorption depends on the intensity and severity of symptoms. …”
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TOURIST ACTIVITY AND ITS FEATURES AFFECTING THE ORGANIZATION OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING by J. Taktarova, I. Tretyakova

“…The tourist industry is the most profitable and fast-growing in the world. However the high level of competition in the industry makes the tourist companies to look for new approaches to the development and promotion of tourism product, lower costs, which affects the system of management accounting. …”
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Intolerance, Religious Lynchings and the Future of Indonesia by Andre Vltchek

“…Twice in the same week two gruesome attacks shook Indonesia and the world. On February 6, 2011, in Cikeusik Village, West Java – more than 1.000 furious Muslims lynched three members of a minority (or, as seen by some Muslims, ‘deviant’) Islamic sect Ahmadiyah. …”
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Evaluation of Petunia Cultivars as Bedding Plants for Florida by Richard O. Kelly, Zhanao Deng, Brent K. Harbaugh

“…Harbaugh, describes the history of petunia breeding in Florida and summarizes the results of field trials testing best performing cultivars in Florida and comparing the resulting standards with untested varieties from seed companies around the world. Includes a list of high performing cultivars, a table with detailed performance data and digital images of cultivars by class. …”
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An Overview of the U.S. Bell Pepper Industry by Trina Biswas, Zhengfei Guan, Feng Wu

“…Bell pepper is one of the most widely cultivated vegetable crops in the world; it is widely grown all over the United States, and production of bell pepper has been a major economic contribution to the vegetable industry in Florida and California. …”
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Biology and Control of Ragweed Parthenium in Non-Cropland by Dennis C. Odero, Brent A. Sellers, Jason A. Ferrell

“…Ragweed parthenium is considered a noxious weed in many parts of the world because of its allelopathic effect on other plants and the health risks it poses to humans. …”
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Shi‘i religious thinkers and the issue of Apostasy by G. R. Nuei, Faisal Ahmad Shah

“…‘Apostasy’ is one of the controversial issues in the Muslim world. According to Islamic teachings, an apostate must be killed. …”
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Les barrages qui cachent l’eau : l'oubli des vulnérabilités aux inondations lors de l’aménagement de la Dordogne (1917-1935) by Alexis Metzger, Jamie Linton

“…Given the historical prevalence of floods in the basin, it is striking to find virtually no mention of flood risk or vulnerability in the technical studies and documentation that preceded construction of dams between the two World Wars. Drawing from local archival research, this article attempts to understand why flood risk and vulnerability was forgotten, or ignored, in the development of these projects. …”
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CONSUMER SOVEREIGNTY AT A TIME OF GLOBALIZATION AND ICT EXPANSION by Bogdan Mróz

“…Living in a globalized world with robustly expanding information and communications technology, the 21st century consumer is exposed to innovative business models emerging in the cyberspace. …”
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How Problems Gain Importance and Become Contentious Issues through Agenda Setting by Courtney T. Owens, Alexa J. Lamm

“… A significant number of problems, like poverty, crime, and lack of resources, face people in the world today. This 4-page fact sheet discusses how a problem draws political attention through agenda setting and becomes a public issue, discusses the role the media plays in agenda setting, and provides a brief commentary on the influence of interest groups on public issues. …”
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Hierocracia e inovação, dinâmica do conceito na Sociologia da Dominação by Luciano Sathler

“…It makes some considerations about hierocracy as fundamental to the development of Weber’s sociology, as a necessary step to understand what is rationality, modernity, disenchantment of the world and heroic individualism, which are essential elements of the author’s theoretical constructs.…”
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Dancing the Numinous: Sacred and Spiritual Techniques of Contemporary American Belly Dancers by Jeana Jorgensen

“…In this paper, I explore how contemporary American practitioners of belly dance (as Middle Eastern dance and its many varieties are often called in the English-speaking world) conceptualize not only the spiritual dimensions of their dance, but also how the very notion of performance affects sacred and spiritual dance practices. …”
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Les représentations de l’Islam dans les imprimés en nahuatl au service de l’évangélisation du Mexique colonial (1575-1614) by Maxime Pluvinet

“…This article explains the evolution of these representations of Islam in missionary texts in Nahuatl according to the – real or imaginary – events of the Old World involving the struggle between Christianity and Islam.…”
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Navigating the Unprecedented: Leading Remotely Unexpectedly by Matthew Sowcik, Megan Stein

“…Leaders tend to have a set of assumptions or ideas about how to do their job. As the world moves quickly to social distancing and remote work, leaders rely on their assumptions to navigate this new landscape. …”
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Love and Social Generativity by Monica Crotti

“…Therefore, we introduce the concepts of human and social generativity and their dynamics (desire, bringing into the world, taking care and letting go) as well as their effects. …”
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La production du manque d’eau dans la région métropolitaine de São Paulo (RMSP) by Vanderli Custódio

“…Initially based on individual water-pipes, the system evolved to a public state company (1973), and later on to the so-called “Third World”…”
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Comidas del Zopilote by Dominique Raby

“…Using the “multispecies ethnography” perspective, the author underlines how the relations between human beings and the vulture are connected to food and empathy, and how the bird, as cleaner of the world, is involved in the complex network of relations framed by the basic Nahua concepts of working, feeding and loving. …”
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