“…How do shanzhai practices and the omnipresence of fake stuffs challenge notions of the original and authentic? Which spaces for expressions and contestations has China's fast-developing digital world of Weixin, Taobao, Youku and Internet Plus Policy opened up? …”

“…On the one hand the archetypical notion of the house has always had an established place in poetry. …”

“…The contributions range from biographical considerations of the stars of popular music, contributions to critical discourses of stardom in the industry more broadly, and the various ways in which the use of astronomical metaphors, in both cultural commentary and academic discourse, demonstrate notions of stardom firmly embedded in popular music thought. …”

“…French-speaking literatures have in common that they are young literatures and their writers, placed in situations of “cultural contacts”, of being “at the crossroads of languages”. The notion of palimpsest takes on particular importance here, referring to the place of these literatures on the world stage and to the models available to the writer to account for his situation.To what extent does the hybridity that Francophone writers have to face give rise to “forced poetics”, to use Glissant's expression, or to the invention of new forms of literary saying? …”

“…De Souza's analysis dispels the notion that the tradition of commentary on the Guide is monolithic. …”

“…Contributions highlight the different and evolving notions of the governor, the choreography of rulers touring their realm, and the interpretations of sources describing such events. …”

“…Seventy-seven essays address nearly two hundred and fifty notions. The articles respond to each other, and form an ensemble which, behind the alphabetical order of the dictionary, draws the contours of a new reading of the painting seen through the eye of the painter and the eye of the spectator. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 2 Disorderly Identities: University rankings and the re-ordering of the academic mind -- 3 Becoming World Class: What it means and what it does -- 4 Three Notions of the Global -- Part II World-Class Around the World -- 5 The Kafkaesque Pursuit of 'World Class': Audit culture and the reputational arms race in academia -- 6 Complicit Reproductions in the Global South: Courting world class universities and global rankings -- 7 Realizing the World Class University: Litigation and the state -- 8 World Class at All Costs -- 9 The Paradox of the Global University -- Part III Playing the World-Class Numbers Game -- 10 World Class Universities, Rankings and the Global Space of International Students -- 11 What Counts as World Class? …”

“…The first chapters address the basic notions of drugs, homeostasis, pharmacopoeia, and receptor; then, the different pharmaceutical classes are introduced by analyzing their pharmacological and chemical aspects. …”

“…Les interrogations les plus redoutables — et les plus exigeantes — sont toujours celles qui concernent les prénotions ou les prétendues évidences : c’est une chose que d’utiliser le terme de crise pour s’expliquer et expliquer les difficultés que traverse la société ; c’en est une autre que de s’interroger sur le sens même de la notion. Or, comment s’étonner qu’une réflexion sur la crise soit avant tout critique ?…”

“…L’usage scientifique de la notion de notable n’est pas pour autant disqualifié. …”

“…The study highlights the significance of the notions of origin, ancestry and alliance in our understanding of East Timorese place-making and belonging to a particular locality. …”

“…Napier extends these developments to the traditional bioethical notion of dignity and argues that beliefs subject to epistemic diffidence should not be acted upon. …”

“…The book provides a comprehensive coverage of the main statistical analysis topics important for practical applications such as data description, statistical inference, classification and regression, factor analysis, survival data and directional statistics. The relevant notions and methods are explained concisely, illustrated with practical examples using real data, presented with the distinct intention of clarifying sensible practical issues. …”

“…For these spaces X also the sphere geometries of Möbius and Lie are studied (besides euclidean and hyperbolic geometry), as well as geometries where Lorentz transformations play the key role. The geometrical notions of this book are based on general spaces X as described. …”

“…These techniques are presented in a self-contained manner together with other basic notions of Hamiltonian PDEs and number theory. This text serves as an introduction to research in this fascinating and rapidly growing field. …”

“…A wide range of emotional phenomena is discussed, including the notion that humans’ sophisticated sensibility, as evidenced by our aesthetic appreciation of the arts, is based at least in part on a basic emotional sensibility that is found in young children and perhaps even some non-human animal species. …”

“…Interested in how a person becomes a torturer and executioner as well as the law's ability to grapple with crimes against humanity, Hinton adapts Hannah Arendt's notion of the "banality of evil" to consider how the potential for violence is embedded in the everyday ways people articulate meaning and comprehend the world…”

“…Il est constitué de cinq contributions qui mettent l’accent sur : la notion de « venir à la lumière, apparaître » ; l’invisible et le « double » dans la culture classique ; la vérité des images (selon Épicure) ; le sens de l’enargeia ; la phantasia dans les écrits intertestamentaires. …”

“…Drawing on a wide variety of historical examples, Schuyt looks into matters ranging from the codification of scientific integrity to the difference between misconduct, questionable practices, and honest errors, and the uses and abuses of the notion of plagiarism. Last but not least, he considers how the norms and values of academic research can best be transmitted to students and new generations of researchers…”