The outline of Levas Vladimirovas' professional career by Genovaitė Raguotienė

“…Vladimirovas' comprehensive work The History of the Book ("Knygos istorija", 1979) provides a broad panorama of world book history, starting with primitive scripts up to the 17th century. …”
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Kigezi Mountain Mosaic by Ian, Cantwell

“…Kigezi Mountain Mosaic is so named because the landscape, flora and fauna, peoples, sources and this book are mosaics. Every history has a history. I had no plans to write this book and knew nothing about the area when I joined Edirisa in Kabale in March 2011 for two weeks of editing a new guidebook. …”
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Çin Siyasi Düşüncesi ve Siyasi Tarihi Bağlamında Çinli Siyasi Elitler by Tuğrul Keskin

“…Structured across multiple sections, the book explores various periods and transitions in China's political history. …”
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Swedish Foreign Policy, 1809-2019 by Julia Forsberg

“… Reading Graeme D. Eddie’s book – Swedish Foreign Policy, 1809–2019: A Comprehensive Modern History – is a remarkable history lesson. …”
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The bookplates of the fund of Lituanica of the 18th century at the library of Lithuanian academy of science by Alma Braziūnienė

“…This review of bookplates is material that will help in studies of book history and especially in studying the history of libraries of Lithuania, their dispersion, and the history of book travel. …”
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The Multiple Modernities of Sweden by Janina Gosseye

“…Through twelve contributions by a group of international scholars, Mattsson and Wallenstein aspire to initiate the construction of an emblematic Swedish modernism. The book offers an intricate and diversified reading of the history of the Swedish Folkhemmet, including political history, social sciences and media studies. …”
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La constellation comme pratique créatrice chez Virginia Woolf et Annie Ernaux by Suzel Meyer

“…The Years (1937), a novel by Virginia Woolf, and Les Années (2008), a non-fiction book by Annie Ernaux, are two ways of a feminine writing of history, written by and through the mind and experience of particular women. …”
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25 years of publishing "Knygotyra" by Vanda Stonienė

“…During its 25 years of publication history, "Knygotyra" has published 256 research articles, 35 archival documents, and 25 book reviews. …”
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Memories of Africa, Home, and Abroad in the United States by Olayombo Raji-Oyelade

“… There are certain books that will continue to be relevant to contemporary discourse as it fashions themselves out of history, Toyin Falola’s book, Memories of Africa, Home, and Abroad in the United States, is one of those. …”
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THE OLD NEW DISCIPLINE by Tatyana D. Venediktova

“…The validity of the book’s content and methodology is regarded within the new trends in the Russian education and the emergence of academic writing as a new discipline, although it has a long history in the Western tradition, reflected in the book.…”
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Examining the Claims about the Relationship Between the Holocaust, and the Armenian Deportation by Murat Köylü

“…In particular, the book attempted to establish a similarity between the Armenian deportation and the Holocaust, and in order to strengthen the "so-called Armenian Genocide" allegations, some media outlets supporting the Armenian allegations began to support the book. …”
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Les promenades de Paris de Charles-Adolphe Alphand by Chiara Santini

“…In this text, which mentions the first results of a research on theoretical skills and know-how implied in the implementation of the project of Haussmannian open spaces, we shall offer an editorial history of the book and its narrative structure, as well as its originality within the wider framework of literature about gardens’ Art history (financing, circulation, address, conception).…”
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The Points of Concurrence Theory in Guidobaldo del Monte’s Scenography by Leonardo Baglioni, Marta Salvatore

“…The treatise elaborates a scientific method of universal validity to construct scenes, based on the theory of the points of concurrence explained in the first book of this work, a theory that deeply influenced the history of perspective and descriptive geometry. …”
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A Review of Dying for Freedom: Political Martyrdom in South Africa by Jacob Dlamini (Polity Press, 2024). by Taurayi Munemo

“… Dlamini’s latest book delivers an incisive review of necropolitics in the history of South Africa’s political life. …”
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L’innovation à l’épreuve de l’anthropocène. Compte rendu de lecture de L’Innovation, mais pour quoi faire ? de Franck Aggeri by Agnès Labrousse

“…In this incisive, interdisciplinary book on innovation, Franck Aggeri gives pride of place to the critical social sciences—critical management studies, institutional economics, sociology of innovation, environmental history etc.…”
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Elphick, Richard, The Equality of Believers. Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa by J. J. Kritzinger

“… From text: This book is a major contribution to the political and religious history of South Africa. …”
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O Ponto Cego de Wilson Martins: Identidade paranaense e as transformações no espaço intelectual brasileiro by Natalia Romanovski

“…In spite of the book’s prominent place in the history of the state, Martins contested its recognition, refusing to acknowledge its wide reception and its continuity with Paranism. …”
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