American Weed: A History of Cannabis Cultivation in the United States by Nick Johnson

“…The illegal cultivation of cannabis in the United States has a long history, the weight of which is currently propelling a number of US states to legalize and regulate the plant after more than eighty years of outright prohibition. …”
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Les rôles non institutionnels de représentation et de protection dans la Grèce antique by Gianluca Cuniberti

“…In particular, the tragedy of the \emph{Supplices} by Æschylus and the comedies of Aristophanes allow us to explore the roles of representative and guardian in both political-assembly and judicial contexts. …”
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« A Shadow behind the Heart » : l’Étranger au cœur de l’intime dans Pnin de Nabokov by Lara Delage-Toriel

“…So how does Nabokov succeed in making the reader sense the foreigner’s condition without depriving it of its edge, its aura of strangeness? How can he make us grasp what must usually evade definition? How does his writing achieve this double-bind, making us experience foreignness from the inside as well as the outside?…”
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Patrimonialisation de la nature et dynamiques touristiques : spécificités et singularités d’un « modèle » chinois contemporain by Sylvine Pickel Chevalier, Benjamin Taunay , Philippe Violier

“…Several years of studying the relationships between heritage of nature and tourism in Western civilisation had bring us to the observation of a phenomenon of co-constitution, similar to the one noticed with the heritage of culture. …”
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Developmental Principles: Fact or Fiction by A. J. Durston

“…The features we discuss were already known to us as parts of developmental mechanisms and defining developmental principles (how, and at which level?) …”
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Nouvelle professionnalité des enseignants d’éducation physique et sportive en lycée professionnel. Bonne distance, séquençage et extériorisation des règles du travail scolaire... by Sabine Coste

“…Reform of the interim course evaluation, requiring the construction of a new device evaluation and new scoring rules, has become for us a lever to access to the work of teachers. Our analysis allowed us to highlight revealing elements of a "new job” mobilized by teachers entering the profession, the most significants are presented in this article. …”
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The Alps as a Therapeutic Landscape in the Animation Series “Heidi, Girl of the Alps” (1974) by Oliver Salas Herrera

“…Focusing on this anime, we will study how the series, throughout its fifty-two episodes, uses various dramaturgical and visual resources to immerse viewers around the world in the imposing grandeur of the Alps, captivating us with its beauty and healing properties, while at the same time inviting us to reject the dehumanisation of the big cities. …”
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The Politics of Waiting: Transnational Identity and Exile in Achy Obejas’ Ruins by Kevin Concannon

“…In the novel Ruins, Obejas complicates understandings of the nation by conceiving of it in a larger global and temporal context, seeking to historicize the U.S.-Cuban expatriate experience within the broader Jewish diaspora. …”
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Le populisme aux Etats-Unis : la question du peuple by Jérôme Jamin

“…We illustrate the argument with US examples such as the People’s Party, Huey Long and Jesse Jackson on the left, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Donald Trump on the right, and Pat Buchanan on the extreme right. …”
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Is a European Recovery Possible Without High-Tech Public Corporations? by Daniele Archibugi, Vitantonio Mariella

“…Abstract Pervasive new technologies associated with information and communication technologies and software are dominated by a restricted oligopoly of US-based corporations. The challengers are no longer European firms, but rather Japanese or Chinese companies. …”
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Teaching American Studies within Intellectual History (idéhistoria) by David Östlund

“…The more courses with themes from the US (and Canada) become “American studies,” the better they contribute to prepare students to think about past thought in a way that defines the task of idéhistoria (in the author’s opinion), namely a strictly contextualist approach. …”
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Adapting Military Doctrines to Shifting Power Dynamics in the International System: Looking Beyond Unipolarity through the Analyses of Charles Kupchan by Erhan Büyükakıncı

“…With the end of the bipolar system at the end of the Cold War, the world order shifted to a unipolar era led by the United States (US). However, with the increase in asymmetric threats and diversity of actors in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks, this stabilization process has given way to uncertainties and multi-vector debates. …”
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A Critical Book Review of Civil Society and Democracy in the Middle East by SeyedSaeid ZahedZahedani

“…After World War II, at the time of the U.S. investments in Europe and the third world countries, development became a subject of study in social sciences.  …”
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Germany’s Strategic Contraction Following American Hegemony in the Context of Offensive Realism Theory by Tolga Öztürk

“…Since the 1990s, there has been ongoing debate regarding whether the international system will remain dominated solely by the United States (U.S.) as a hegemon or evolve towards a multipolar world. …”

The Role of Pensioners in the American Electorate by L. F. Lebedeva, E. V. Emelianov

“…The 2016 electorate has been the most diverse in the US history due to strong growth of young generations, and especially among Hispanic eligible voters. …”
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Sonde met die wese van die sondeleer - versteurde daad, verhouding of toestand? by F. B. Doubell

“…Therefore, as all of us are still caught in this condition, we need to have more empathy for one another. …”
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Fizyk jako element aksjosfery czasów Związku Radzieckiego (na przykładzie reportaży Hanny Krall i Jacka Hugo-Badera) by Daria Słupianek-Tajnert

“…The empirical material analysed allows us to conclude that within the Russian linguistic-cultural area, the physicist does not refer us only to a scientist dealing with a specific research discipline, but deserves to be called a concept that reflects a characteristic stage of the social and political life of the USSR, permanently inscribed into the axiosphere of that period.…”
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À la croisée des idées de Francisco Ferrer et Célestin Freinet : l’expérience de l’école Elisée Reclus à Barcelone en 1935-1936 by Cécile Morzadec

“…We will see how Félix Carrasquer brought these two educational models together in the concrete proposals of his school and how he brought his own writings together over time, since between 1935-1936 and 1981-1988, he left us several testimonies that reveal an evolution in his positions. …”
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Insect and Mite Pest Management in Florida Peanut by Isaac L. Esquivel, Xavier Martini, Ethan Carter, Silvana V. Paula-Moraes

“…The southeastern coastal plains harbor most of the US peanut acreage, and Florida is ranked among the top five major peanut producers in the US, with 160 thousand acres planted in 2022 and an annual production value of $130 million in 2021. …”
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Effective metric descriptions of quantum black holes by Manuel Del Piano, Stefan Hohenegger, Francesco Sannino

“…We have developed a framework that allows us to compute the latter in a self-consistent fashion from the deformed geometry, in the vicinity of the horizon. …”
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