“…The authors' perspectives contrast with and supplement one another: Radakovic grew up in Tito's Yugoslavia and Abbott comes from the Mormon American West; Radakovic is the translator of most of Peter Handke's works into Serbo-Croatian and Abbott translated Handke's provocative A Journey to the Rivers: Justice for Serbia for Viking Press and his play Voyage by Dugout: The Play of the Film of the War for PAJ (Performing Arts Journal); Radakovic was a journalist for Deutsche Welle in Cologne and Abbott is a professor of German literature at Utah Valley University; Radakovic is the author of several novels and Abbott has published mostly literary-critical work; Radakovic was married to a theoretical physicist from Belgrade and Abbott was married to a homemaker with whom he had seven children; and so on. …”

“…The Apartment of Tragic Appliances, named as a finalist for a 2013 Lambda Literary Award, is a literal place in which a hapless, portable dishwasher "heats residue only to reimagine cleanliness as an art project," a recalcitrant microwave neglects to heat, and a refrigerator dies an inconvenient, bulky death. …”

“…This rather classical aspect is only a part of the whole, with the permanence of local culture (language, art, religion, onomastic) being the other part. …”

“…This book will interest students of anthropology, ethnomusicology, linguistics, verbal art, aesthetics, and cultural heritage…”

“…DuBois, from Nubia to Cuba, from Willie Doherty's terror in ancient landscapes to the violence of institutional Neo-Gothic, from Reagan's AIDS policies to Beowulf fanfiction, this richly illustrated volume brings together art historians and literature scholars to articulate a more inclusive, intersectional medieval studies. …”

“…"If at its most elemental, the theater is an art form of human bodies in space, what becomes of the theater as suicide capitalism pushes our world into a posthuman age? …”

“…In responding to such questions, the author traces the history of medievalism from its earliest appearances in the sixteenth century to the present day, across a range of examples drawn from the spheres of literature, art, architecture, music and more. He identifies two major modes, the grotesque and the romantic, and focuses on key phases of the development of medievalism in Europe: the Reformation, the late eighteenth century, and above all the period between 1815 and 1850, which, he argues, represents the zenith of medievalist cultural production. …”

“…It has been a long wait for the Australian-born surveyor who began his career as an anthropologist at the age of 52 with the 1893 publication of a brief paper on New South Wales rock art. Apart from a few short booklets, Mathews' book of 1905, Ethnological Notes on the Aboriginal Tribes of New South Wales and Victoria, was his only work of anthropology to be published as a freestanding volume. …”

“…En la segunda mitad del siglo xiii se concibe en torno a Alfonso X un nuevo arte de historiar. Nutrido por un conocimiento exhaustivo de las tradiciones historiográficas con incidencias culturales en el Occidente medieval, está tan eficazmente adaptado al ideal monárquico que, a pesar de los profundos disturbios con los que se enfrentará la realeza castellana, el modelo alfonsí seguirá rigiendo la técnica de los historiadores y configurando la visión histórica de las élites españolas hasta finales de la Edad Media y más allá. …”

“…La Convention internationale relative aux droits des personnes handicapées adoptée par l’ONU en 2006 énonce comme principe fondamental que ces personnes puissent prendre part aux décisions les concernant. Son art. 29 est consacré à leur participation à la vie politique et à la vie publique sur la base du principe de l’égalité de traitement. …”

“…L'ouvrage confronte les recherches et conceptions de spécialistes d'histoire, d'histoire de l'art et d'archéologie, aussi bien du monde chrétien oriental, principalement byzantin, que de l'Occident médiéval. …”

“…La Grèce est restituée dans la distance qui intègre l'histoire des savoirs et dans la présence renouvelée de ses inspirations cosmologiques ou théâtrales qui ne cessent de nous questionner. L'art contemporain fait l'objet d'une attention constante. …”

“…He says he usually passes out once each weekend, and also has black outs that he likes because it stimulates him with his art and music. He reports when he drinks he makes comments he regrets. …”

“…Developments in all of these fields of research into pediatric nutrition will be explored in this special issue together with state of the art reviews…”

“…This project is a feminist study of the idiosyncratic oeuvre of Kathy Acker and how her unique art and politics, located at the explosive intersection of punk, postmodernism, and feminism, critiques and exemplifies late twentieth-century capitalism. …”

“…Containing the contributions of leading researchers, industry professionals, and academics, this forward-looking reference provides an authoritative perspective of the state of the art in MANETs.The book includes surveys of recent publications that investigate key areas of interest such as limited resources and the mobility of the mobile nodes. …”

“…First book to systematically interpret various importance measures in the field of reliability engineering, to investigate the precise relationships among various importance measures, and to present their applications in the areas of reliability, operations research, and optimization Includes extensive coverage, from the early study of reliability importance to the state-of-the-art in network analysis, multistate systems, and applications in modern systems Contains many case studies, examples, illustrations and tables"--…”

“…Exploitant un ensemble de sources inédites, il retrace la genèse des fortifications, situe leur place dans l’histoire de l’art et étudie l’organisation et les techniques de construction dans une ville médiévale. …”

“…Il est conçu comme un dialogue entre archéologues, historiens de l’art, historiens et spécialistes de littérature ancienne, tous élèves ou collègues de Xavier Lafon, à qui ce livre est offert. …”

“…Pour décrire cette réalité embourbée dans ses contradictions, El-Daïf emprunte les voies de l’intime, de la sexualité, du sujet diffracté, du récit hallucinatoire, jouant des choix narratifs avec un art consommé. Cet ouvrage collectif explore les aspects distinctifs de cette oeuvre importante et largement traduite : il en interroge les fondements esthétiques, les héritages assumés comme la dimension transculturelle novatrice. …”