On Topics Today by Nicholas McKay

“…It charts its development through two ‘generations’ of ‘topic theorists’. The first is constructed around three influential texts: Leonard Ratner’s seminal book that established the discipline in its own right, Classic music: expression, form and style (1980); Wye Allanbrook’s Rhythmic gesture in Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni (1983); and Kofi Agawu’s Playing with signs: a semiotic interpretation of classical music (1991). …”
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Kroesbergen, H. 2019. The language of faith in Southern Africa: Spirit world, power, community, holism. by Mookgo S. Kgatle

“…The second one belongs to postmodernists who embrace a realistic approach to African life and experiences. …”
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The New Apartheid by Masilo Lepuru

“…A trenchant contestation and rejection of Apartheid as the fundamental antagonism in the history of the struggle for national liberation is the defining trait of a liberation movement and liberation intellectual production.Having written a book entitled Democracy & Delusion: 10 Myths (2019), in which he debunks what he considers to be myths about the so-called post-Apartheid South Africa, Sizwe is back again only this time he is reinventing two myths.In the book under review, entitled The New Apartheid (2021), Sizwe promotes the delusion and first myth of Apartheid as the problem and the second myth of the ANC as a liberation movement. …”
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Seed quality of Aristolochia macrophylla Lam. and A. manshuriensis Kom. in St. Petersburg by K. G. Tkachenko, G. A. Firsov, A. V. Volchanskaya

“…Over a 200-year period of introduction, only flowering was observed. For the first time, fruiting in this species was registered in 2007; since 2014, second-generation plants have been grown. …”
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Legal Certainty Regarding the Conversion of Land Certificates To An Electronic System Based On Security Principles by H Holla, Rafi Salhi, Clarissa Oktaviriya Prakoso

“…Second is the issuance of replacement certificates from analog certificates to electronic certificates for land that has been registered, replacement is carried out through a request for land registration data maintenance services and replacement is carried out if the physical data and legal data in the land book and certificate are in accordance with those in the electronic system. …”
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Providing a paradigmatic model of return on investment in the training of employees in the petrochemical industry by Mehdi Farahani, Seyyed Ali Akbar Ahmadi, Mohammad Tamimi

“…Research Methodology The current research is of a mixed type (qualitative and quantitative) and includes two main parts of model design and model validation. In the first part, in order to design the model of return on investment in the training of petrochemical industry employees, the qualitative method of grounded theory was used according to Strauss and Corbin's point of view, using MaxQDA 20 software; and in the second part; the validation of the model, the indicators' expertise validation using the fuzzy Delphi method was discussed by coding in MATLAB environment. …”
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Interviews with multimedia comics creators—how Hannah Berry, Lance Dann and Tom McNally use audio drama to move their work into new areas of storytelling by Alex Fitch

“…These practitioners have moved from the practice of making comics into audio production or have lent their experience in comic creation to making related podcast dramas.In the first interview, former comic book writer Tom McNally, editor and publisher of the comics anthology Semiotic Cohesion [2006-2008], which promoted work by comic creators from South Africa to a wider audience, talks about his comedic fantasy audio drama Saga of the European King. …”
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Editorial by Pieter Vanhuysse, Antony Mason, Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche, Maria Lenk

“…The first article is a general overview essay on Generational Accounting, authored by Laurence Kotlikoff, a founding father of this methodology. …”
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Class and everyday media use by Hovden Jan Fredrik, Rosenlund Lennart

“…First, we analyse how such media use varies in the overall social space using multiple correspondence analysis. …”
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We Are Already Ghosts: Reflections on Composition by Kit Dobson

“…He analyzes the novel along at least three axes: first, as a novel that can be classified as a character-driven “summer read”; second, as a work of experimental fiction; and, third, as a text that analyzes and interrogates the spaces that make up the Canadian province of Alberta. …”
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A decolonial reading of the Third Chapter of the Gospel of John in Moffat’s Translation of the Catechism into Setswana (1826) by I.D. Mothoagae

“…In 1826, Robert Moffat also translated the first Setswana catechism. Rev. William Brown’s Catechism served as a source text. …”
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Nas trilhas de Paris, David Harvey e a capital da modernidade by Tadeu Alencar Arrais

“…Paris, capital of modernity can be read as a kind of synthesis of the work of David Harvey as it brings together two remarkable features of his intellectual trajectory. The first relates to the interest in urban studies, establishing a tradition dating back to the book Social justice and the city (Harvey, 1980). …”
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A Critical Study on the Persian Translation of Routledge History of Philosophy by Majid Sadrmajles

“…In the present paper, we first briefly introduce the book Routledge History of Philosophy: From the Beginning to Plato. …”
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Holy Terror!: Islamophobia and Intermediality in Frank Miller’s Graphic Novel by Frank Mehring

“…I will turn to the medium of graphic novels to first reveal how Miller’s narratives and silhouette aesthetics of (super)heroes have become complicit with Islamophobic responses to the crisis of 9/11; second, to trace the discourse of Islamophobia in post-9/11 America in Miller’s work; and, third, to reveal how this discourse interlinks with the patriotic logic of the fight against terrorism.…”
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Étudiants, sitters, nouchi et bakoroman by Muriel Champy

“…Secondly, a comparative parallel is drawn between these three books, with a view to formulating a few hypotheses on the implicit contours of “youth” that are sketched in them. …”
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The Iintroduction and Ccritique of Ssociology of Rrevolution & and Ssocial Rrevolutions by Saeedeh Amini

“…The author attempts to provide a book for sociology of revolution. In this book, at first, the concept of revolution and similar concepts like coup, riot, and social movement have been raised. …”
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“BYKHOV PERIOD” OF RUSSIAN GENERAL KORNILOV by N. V. Shevtsov

“…Journalists also did not have access to them, so articles in the newspapers about what happened to the Bykhovites appeared quite infrequently. Secondly, Kornilov’s stay in Bykhov turned out to be extremely short. …”
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Salaman and Absal in Abd al-Rahman Jami by Halilović Tehran

“…As Ibn Sina states, Salaman is a symbol of the human soul and Absal is an indicator of the level of gnostic knowledge. The second version is a Hermetic story translated from Greek into Arabic by Hunayn ibn Ishaq and first told by Jami in a poem of over a thousand lines. …”
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Twelve Million Black Voices: Let Us Now Hear Black Voices by Laurence Cossu-Beaumont

“…This paper examines the specificity of Twelve Million Black Voices within the frame of American documentary photography. The first part of this paper considers the original place of a photo-text book on black life in a decade of “documentary literature” (Kazin, 1942, 493). …”
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