Democracy and Social Movements: A Critical Review on the Book Can Democracy Be Saved? Participation, Deliberation and Social Movements by Behnam Joodi, Mohammad Yeganeh

“…Della Porta's book is two books in one. The first part of the book deals with the normative discussion of the evolution of the concept of democracy from liberal to deliberative in the last two centuries. …”
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Exploring the efficacy of writing comics as a tool for enhancing EFL writing skills of undergraduate Ecuadorian polytechnic students by Felix Estrella

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A Critique on the Book Silent Cinema by Liam O’Leary, Paul A. Schroeder Rodriguez, translated by Majid Mostafavi by Hamed Fardar, Hamid Dehghanpour

“…The first book, by Liam Olivier, is dedicated to the history of silent cinema in Western countries, and the second, written by Paul Rodrigues, analyses the history of that time in Latin America. …”
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A Critical Review on Safi Pirlooje’s Diachronic Narrative Study: On the Rhetorics of Persian Folktales and Literary Fictions by Abolfazl Horri

“…Firstly, the main four chapters of the book are reviewed. …”
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Special Manifestations of Spoken Language in Bahr al-Ansāb (a Book about the Family of Ahmad-e Jām-e Zhende Pil) by Mahmood Nadimi Harandi

“…The book is considered an authentic source about the members of Sheikh Ahmad-e Jām's family, their lives and social and official status, in the second half of the 10th century and the first half of the 11th century. …”
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Spins of Justice: A Critique of Liberal Justice from the Perspective of Libertarian Justice A Critical Review on the Book Statelessness, Government and Utopia by Shahab Dalili

“…Robert Nozick defended justice as entitlement in Rawls' critique of justice as fairness. They first introduced the welfare state and second the minimal government as eligible for justice in societies. …”
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Didactic criticism of the two works of Mohamed-Taghi Ghiassi, RaveŠe no dar āmuzeŠe zābān farānse (fifth edition 1993/1372) and Farānseje gām be gām (eighth edition 2013/1392)... by Kamyar Abdoltajedini

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Towards sovereign international rela- tions studies? Book review of ‘Liberal values in theory and practice. On the issues of intellectual decolonization of Russia’ by L.S. Voronkov... by V. V. Kochetkov

“…The reviewer discusses in detail several key topics and central ideas of the book under consideration. The first section covers the author’s views on a set of problems related to the specifics of power relations and the role of political elites in Western liberal democratic states. …”
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Analysis and Review of “The Story of the Beloved Ones’ Secrets” Researching the Historical Living and Experiences of Molana in Masnavi by Mostafa Gorji

“…To what extent our claim and research objectives are proven and fulfilled regarding the text based evidenced and statistics with an absolute emphasis on Masnavi is an important matter which we reviewed. This article, first, investigated the advantages and unique characteristics of the book in terms of methodology and insight, and second, it focused on the most important challenging features and defects.…”
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Violence and Memory in the Multiple Versions of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen by John K. Young

“…Subsequent printings have included more names—first Eric Garner then John Crawford, killed by a police officer while carrying a BB gun in an Ohio Walmart—and eventually sixteen more memorials, including Tamir Rice and Freddie Gray, with a fading stream of “In Memory” stretched across the remainder of the page, and with the recto reading, “because white men can’t / police their imagination / black men are dying.”This paper traces the post-publication variants in Citizen as an index of the book’s attempts to remake itself in response to new tragedies, and to portray white violence more broadly than in the “justice system” alone. …”
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An Introduction and a Critical Look at Metaphor: A Practical Introduction by Fatemeh Rakei

“…In the present article, the critic has studied the various aspects of the translated book and has proposed some suggestions to be employed in the second edition.…”
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Histoire de la réception et histoire du livre by Roger Chartier

“…For its demonstration the article develops two case studies devoted to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, which closely associate the materiality of texts with the signification of the works: firstly, the different modes of circulation of Shakespeare’s plays and poems (in quarto or folio formats, in collections linking them with other works and other authors, in commonplace books or as quotations in eighteenth-century Shakespearean “Beauties”), and secondly, the multiple forms of appropriation of Don Quixote in England: translations, theatrical adaptations, abridged editions. …”
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The evolution in perception of journalism history in the works of English and American researchers by V.M. Vinichenko

“…Hudson in the United States, who both treated the development of journalism as an inherent part of human history as a whole. The second phase starts with the opening of first Journalism Schools in the early 20th century. …”
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Intertexte et réécriture du Drame de l’Homme, de la Femme et de Dieu dans 'Partage de midi' de Paul Claudel by Samuel Bidaud

“…However, he places these elements in a different existential and religious context, marked by free will and the grace of a God who can always draw good from evil. The second intertext is with the Bible, in particular with two books of the Old Testament, the Song of Songs and the Book of Hosea, but also more broadly with the beginning of Genesis and the end of the Gospels, which allows Claudel to lead Mesa and Ysé to the repentance in the last act of the play and to affirm the reconciliation of Man and Woman in God. …”
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Internet et le Grand Siècle : les recueils collectifs de poésie au regard du Web by Christophe Schuwey

“…There are indeed striking similarities between the two formats, in terms both of their composition and their consumption. Much like twenty-first-century blogs, the poetry collections that proliferated in the second half of the seventeenth century resulted in a facilitated access to publication and a transformation of authorship; in both cases, such facilitation also gave rise to violent reactions. …”
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Bibliotherapy Services in Public Libraries: the Case of Lithuania by Jurgita Girčienė, Miglė Damijonaitytė

“…Summarizing the data of the latest research presented in the article and previous secondary sources, it can be stated that in the early 21st century, library bibliotherapy began to be developed at the formal level, and after the development breakthrough recorded at the turn of the first and second decades it has already established itself as a service provided by Lithuanian public libraries. …”
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Holocaust and its Legacy in the Light of the Contemporary Humanitarian Issues by E. S. Gromoglasova

“…The second one was ‘the grey zone’ - a spatial metaphor that P. …”
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THE RENAISSANCE FRENCH PSALTER. (THE ROMANIAN VERSIFICATION OF THE PSALMS WITH HUGUENOT MELODIES. ON THE OCCASION OF CELEBRATING THE 450th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST FRENCH PSALTER,... by Anamaria Mădălina HOTORAN

“…Celebrating 450 years since the first French Psalter (Le Psautier français) at Geneva (1562), the book represents the second Romanian version of the French Psalter, after the Psalter published in 1673 by Dosoftei, Bishop of Moldavia and it is the result of the work of 18 composers and poets and 13 scientific referents from Romania, France, Germany and USA, under the coordination of  Mircea Valeriu Diaconescu (composer, Germany), Ştefan Bratosin (Univ. …”
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Developing a Book for Teaching Reading Skills in the Context of Local Culture: The Department of Arabic Language Teaching at Indonesia University | Tathwir Kitab li-Ta'lim Maharat... by Suwandi Suwandi, Sutaman Sutaman, M. Samsul Ulum, Diaya Uddeen Deab Mahmoud Alzitawi, Supangat Supangat

“…This textbook is effective in improving students' abilities in maharah qiro’ah, as indicated by the scores obtained, which were 63.27 in the first trial (Pre-Test) and increased to 83.69 in the second trial (Post-Test). …”
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