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Cisło, Anna. "The language planning policy in Ireland and Irish-language books: A hundred year perspective." Beyond Philology An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching 18, no. 1 (March 16, 2021): 9–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/bp.2021.1.01.
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An element of a nation’s state policy is to support the use of a particular language or languages while prohibiting the use of other languages or their varieties in certain situations – usually formal. This is in the realm of language planning of which there are two basic types. Corpus planning involves establishing a standard language and promoting it among the language users. Status planning supports the use of a particular language through granting it the status of official language or auxiliary language in a given state or region, most often in the spheres of education, administration, services and media. This article discusses the Irish-language book in the context of language planning in Ireland. Particular observations are made from a perspective of a hundred years after most of Ireland seceded from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to form an autonomous state (1922), which required the establishment of new national policies.
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Senchenko, Mykola. "Book trade bibliography of Great Britain." Вісник Книжкової палати, no. 12 (December 11, 2020): 3–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.36273/2076-9555.2020.12(293).3-9.
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The article highlights the historical stages of development of the book trade bibliography and Books in Print systems in Great Britain.
It is noted that the first and most famous attempt to compile a book trade catalog dates back to the end of the XVI century and belongs to the englishman E. Montsell, who prepared and published the "Catalog of English Printed Books", which became a model of cataloging for many subsequent authors of bibliographic works.
It was found that the industrial revolution and the rapid development of industrial centers in the XVIII century, caused a rapid increase in the number of printing houses, publishing and book trade firms, thanks to which the book trade bibliography of Great Britain received a new quality — a stable periodicity of preparation and publication of bibliographic materials, as well as placement of bibliographic information on periodicals. Numerous samples of the book trade bibliography in chronological section are considered in detail, as well as the activities of the most famous companies in the production of Books in Print catalogs.
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Wilson, Marilyn. "MAKING SENSE OF A NEW WORLD: LEARNING TO READ IN A SECOND LANGUAGE.Eve Gregory. London: Chapman, 1996. Pp. 197. $25.95 paper." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 20, no. 3 (September 1998): 427–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0272263198243063.
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Eve Gregory's book fills a void in literacy education for bilingual students. This text provides solid theory, useful resources, and practical teaching suggestions for literacy development in a second language for young children. Describing the multilingual, multicultural complexity of early schooling in Great Britain, Gregory provides a strong rationale for her views of early literacy training, both formal and informal, for “emergent bilinguals”—children who are “the first generation in their family to receive formal schooling in the new country, who do not speak the language of the host country at home, and who are consequently at the early stages of second language learning” (p. 8).
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Lavell, Cherry, R. L. Otlet, and A. J. Walker. "The CBA/RCD computer database of radiocarbon dated sites." Antiquity 66, no. 253 (December 1992): 969–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00044902.
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The Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates for Great Britain and Ireland, pioneered by the Council for British Archaeology in 1971, is now being prepared as a fully computerized database. This note describes the genesis and format of this invaluable new tool.
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Tatarinova, Larуsa. "Features of book publishing in France." Вісник Книжкової палати, no. 6 (June 24, 2021): 26–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.36273/2076-9555.2021.6(299).26-31.
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The article is devoted to the peculiarities of book publishing and book distribution in France, changes in the French book industry over the centuries and recently. The French book industry is studied. Book publishing (as a branch of the country's economy) appeared in France at the end of the 18th century, and in the five centuries of its existence book publishing has come a long way, developed and improved, adapted to new conditions and actively used all the achievements of technical progress. The nineteenth century was the golden age of French literature. The European world spoke French. In the twentieth century France's position faltered. The United States, Great Britain and Germany took the first place. Therefore, in France, great importance is attached to book publishing as a way to spread knowledge about France and the French language.
The article analyzes the features of book publishing and book distribution in France before the COVID-19 pandemic, highlights some features and trends in the development of the French publishing industry during the pandemic restrictions.
The spread of the virus to stop or significantly reduce book production in France. The exploration analyzes the changes that have taken place in the industry as a whole and in its individual parts. The ways of development of retail trade and internet-trade before and during the pandemic in France are investigated.
The role and place of different book formats in the general system of book publishing in France, the advantages of a printed book, the place of an e-book and an audiobook in the value system of French readers are clarified.
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Silfverberg, Hans. "Review: The Moths ancl Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland." Entomologica Fennica 1, no. 2 (June 1, 1990): 122. http://dx.doi.org/10.33338/ef.83369.
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Emmet, A. M. & Heath, J. (eds.): The Moths ancl Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 7(1) Hesperiidae - Nymphalidae. The Butterflies. 380 pp. Harley Books, Colchester. ISBN 0 946589 25 9 Price GBP 49.50.
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Huldén, Larry, and Lauri Kaila. "Review: The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and lreland." Entomologica Fennica 3, no. 1 (January 1, 1992): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.33338/ef.83572.
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Emmer, A. M. & Heath, J. (eds.) 1991: The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and lreland, Vol. 7(2): Lasiocampidae - Thyatiridae with Life History Chart of the British Lepidoptera. 400 pp. - Harley Books, Colchester. ISBN 0 946589 26 7. Price GBP 49.50 (from 1992 raised to 55.00).
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Itämies, Juhani. "Review: The moths and butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland." Entomologica Fennica 8, no. 3 (September 1, 1997): 151–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.33338/ef.83941.
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A. Maitland Emmet (ed.) 1996: The moths and butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 3. Yponomeutidae-Elachistidae. - Harley Books, Martins, Great Horkesley, Colchester, Essex C06 4AH, England. 452pp. (11 colour plates, 8 duotone plates of larval cases, several hundred text figures and 240 maps). ISBN 0-946589-56-9 £75.00 net; P/B ISBN 0 946589 56 9 £37.50 net.
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Aston, Margaret. "Lap Books and Lectern Books: The Revelatory Book in the Reformation." Studies in Church History 38 (2004): 163–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400015801.
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The size of books has always mattered – for manuscript books as well as printed books. It makes a great difference to the fate of its contents and eventual influence whether the page is in a heavy folio or a portable pamphlet. Differences of format affected authority and influence and had a direct bearing on the circulation of ideas, the critical lift-off that could take place when vocalization took the silent word into mouths and minds away from the lettered page. This may seem self-evident, but even so, given the recognized role of the book in the Reformation (or reformations) of the sixteenth century, some reflections on this aspect seem worthwhile. The revelatory quality of the book in this period is here approached first by looking at the role of small lap books, and then by considering the challenge in England to the accepted order of books, when the great lectern book of Scripture was first laid open for general reading in church naves.
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Altheide, David L. "Format and Symbols in TV Coverage of Terrorism in the United States and Great Britain." International Studies Quarterly 31, no. 2 (June 1987): 161. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2600451.
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Appeltová, Michaela. "Women’s Agency, Catholic Morality, and the Irish State." Radical History Review 2022, no. 143 (May 1, 2022): 212–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01636545-9566244.
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Abstract The text reviews four new books in Irish women’s history and the history of sexuality: Mary McAuliffe’s biography of the revolutionary Margaret Skinnider; Jennifer Redmond’s Moving Histories, exploring the discourses about Irish women migrants to Great Britain in the first few decades of the Irish state, and their everyday lives in Britain; Lindsey Earner-Byrne and Diane Urquhart’s The Irish Abortion Journey, which documents the repressive discourses and policies surrounding abortion in twentieth-century Ireland and relates stories of traveling to Great Britain to obtain it; and finally, Sonja Tiernan’s book examining the ultimately successful political and legal campaign for marriage equality in Ireland. These highly readable, well-researched books place gender and sexuality at the center of Irish history; provide insight into the contradictory political, religious, and medical discourses about Irish women, gays, and lesbians; and document the lives of women both in and out of Ireland.
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Hudson-Shore, Michelle. "Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2015 — Highlighting an Ongoing Upward Trend in Animal Use and Missed Opportunities for Reduction." Alternatives to Laboratory Animals 44, no. 6 (December 2016): 569–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026119291604400606.
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The Annual Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2015 indicate that the Home Office were correct in recommending that caution should be exercised when interpreting the 2014 data as an apparent decline in animal experiments. The 2015 report shows that, as the changes to the format of the annual statistics have become more familiar and less problematic, there has been a re-emergence of the upward trend in animal research and testing in Great Britain. The 2015 statistics report an increase in animal procedures (up to 4,142,631) and in the number of animals used (up to 4,069,349). This represents 1% more than the totals in 2013, and a 7% increase on the procedures reported in 2014. This paper details an analysis of these most recent statistics, providing information on overall animal use and highlighting specific issues associated with genetically-altered animals, dogs and primates. It also reflects on areas of the new format that have previously been highlighted as being problematic, and concludes with a discussion about the use of animals in regulatory research and testing, and how there are significant missed opportunities for replacing some of the animal-based tests in this area.
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Rodríguez Quiroga de Pereira, Andrea. "Reseña del libro “Time for change: tracking transformations in psychoanalysis -the three-level model”, editado por Marina Altmann de Litvan. Great Britain: Karnac Books, 2014, pp. 357." Palavras, no. 1 (September 1, 2015): 004. http://dx.doi.org/10.24215/24689831e004.
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Lyons, Gene M. "The Study of International Relations in Great Britain: Further Connections." World Politics 38, no. 4 (July 1986): 626–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2010170.
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Aside from language, students of international relations in the United States and Great Britain have several things in common: parallel developments in the emergence of international relations as a field of study after World War I, and more recent efforts to broaden the field by drawing security issues and changes in the international political economy under the broad umbrella of “international studies.” But a review of four recent books edited by British scholars demonstrates that there is also a “distance” between British and American scholarship. Compared with dominant trends in the United States, the former, though hardly monolithic and producing a rich and varied literature, is still very much attached to historical analysis and the concept of an “international society” that derives from the period in modern history in which Britain played a more prominent role in international politics. Because trends in scholarship do, in fact, reflect national political experience, the need continues for transnational cooperation among scholars in the quest for strong theories in international relations.
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Wrede, Maria, Maria Brynda, and Zofia Głowicka. "Informacja o zbiorach dawnego Muzeum Księży Marianów im. ks. Józefa Jarzębowskiego w Fawley Court (Wielka Brytania) – obecnie w Muzeum im. ks. Józefa Jarzębowskiego w Licheniu Starym koło Konina." Z Badań nad Książką i Księgozbiorami Historycznymi 14, no. 1 (March 24, 2020): 63–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.33077/uw.25448730.zbkh.2020.182.
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History of the Museum of Marian Fathers, founded at the college for boys in Bielany, the district of Warsaw, reconstituted in the Fawley Court at Henley-on-Thames, Great Britain, and finally moved to the Shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows in Licheń Stary, is the key to understanding the content and organization of this collection. Patriotic, religious and educational aspects of the museums, its role for the Polish diaspora in Great Britain, and its depletion in the results of historical changes. Presentation of the collection content” museum objects – sidearm, sculptures, artistic fabrics, drawings and watercolors, paintings, graphics, commemorative items; book collection – books from the 19th and 20th centuries, journals, music prints, maps, and cityscapes. A more detailed presentation of the collection of early printed books, ephemera, and journals from the 19th century.
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Shaughnessy, Michael F., Shyanne Sansom, and Bryan Barnes. "An Interview with Professor Patrick Allitt: Who is the Professor and Who is the Student?" World Journal of Educational Research 2, no. 1 (March 6, 2015): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/wjer.v2n1p32.
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<em>Profile: Patrick Allitt is Cahoon Family Professor of American History. He was an undergraduate at Oxford in England, a graduate student at the University of California Berkeley, and held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard Divinity School and Princeton University. At Emory since 1988, he teaches courses on American intellectual, environmental, and religious history, on Victorian Britain, and on the Great Books. Author of six books, he is also presenter of seven lecture series with “The Great Courses” (www.thegreatcourses.com), including “The Art of Teaching”.</em>
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Vincent, John, John S. Hill, Andrew Billings, John Harris, and C. Dwayne Massey. "“We are GREAT Britain”: British newspaper narratives during the London 2012 Olympic Games." International Review for the Sociology of Sport 53, no. 8 (February 9, 2017): 895–923. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1012690217690345.
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British newspaper narratives were examined during the 2012 London Olympic Games to discern how the British press promoted specific “narratives of the nation.” For the London-based British press, the home Olympics became the ideal medium not only to sell newspapers and electronic format subscriptions, but also to (re)present their views on Britain and what it stood for. Using a qualitative textual analysis methodology, this study drew on Anderson’s theory of the “imagined community” and Edmunds and Turner’s concepts of benign and malign nationalism to provide insights about how Britishness was framed. For a country struggling to shake off the economic recession, early narratives about the Games were imbued with concerns about the escalating costs of hosting the Games and fears of terrorism. However, the critical early tone of British newspaper narratives was supplanted with uplifting, inspirational stories about the unprecedented success of Team GB athletes. This provided British journalists with an opportunity to reengineer Britishness to reinforce some traditional values and inject some new inclusive ones. Although at times, complex, contested and contradictory, the narratives generally linked the internationalism of the Olympics with a progressive, benign version of Britishness that emphasized inclusion, tolerance, and creativity and, at least temporarily, redefined how Britain regarded itself and was viewed.
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Carlin, Jane. "Heralding the future: the art publisher in Great Britain from the 1920s through the post-war era." Art Libraries Journal 17, no. 3 (1992): 18–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200007914.
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Major contributions to the publication of art books in the 20th century have been made by publishing houses in Great Britain. These include The Studio magazine and its associated publications, founded by Charles Holme late in the 19th century, a widely influential enterprise which was eventually to become the publishing house Studio Vista. Three other ventures resulted from initiatives by European émigrés. Anton Zwemmer arrived in England and commenced his activities as bookseller and publisher in the 1920s. Bela Horovitz’s Phaidon Press, founded in Vienna in 1923, was safeguarded from the Nazis by Sir Stanley Unwin and recommenced operations under its own name, in London, in 1946. And in 1949 Thames and Hudson was founded by Walter Neurath, who had fled Nazi Germany in 1938. The activities of these publishing houses were complemented by those of Albert Skira in Switzerland, who developed the production of art books illustrated with colour plates. After the Second World War, art publishing flourished as never before, with these and other publishers contributing to an expansion of art publishing on an international front which saw the emergence of the ‘coffee table’ book and of popular art books for a wide readership, the publication of international co-editions, and the multiplication of series. However, more art books has not always meant better art books.
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Shkurupii, Olha V., Alla V. Svitlychna, Iryna L. Zahrebelna, and Olha A. Svitlychna. "BREXIT: Preconditions, Consequences, Interests and the Main Vectors of Interstate Relations of Great Britain in the Sphere of Trade." PROBLEMS OF ECONOMY 3, no. 53 (2022): 12–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.32983/2222-0712-2022-3-12-19.
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The carried out analysis reflects the essence and course of the Brexit process. In terms of essence, the Great Britain’s exit from the EU should be considered a complex transformational process, which in a real form reproduces the model of structural changes occurring within the framework of a non-balanced open system (dissipative structure). Such a conceptual approach to the interpretation of this process allows us to specify the definition of Brexit as a solution to the intra-system contradiction that has formed within the most complex form of integration, which is the European Union. With the transformation (transformation of the form) and structural changes occurring along this process, a new quality of the basic system together with the separated former elements of this system, which have acquired the status of independent integral system units, is formed. In the future, the dynamics may take the form of either progress or regression. Accordingly, Brexit as a result of the transformation of the economic and political union of European countries is fraught with risks for both sides – as for Great Britain, so for the EU. The economic system of Great Britain is one of the largest and most productive in Europe and the world. Therefore, Brexit has significantly weakened the EU economy, but has not caused a critical deterioration in its condition. Similarly, the Great Britain’s loss of the EU membership, which the country had since 1973, had hindered the possibilities of growth, but did not cause a devastating change in the economy. The situation in the sphere of international trade appears to be similar. For Great Britain, the Brexit transition period has become extremely difficult, as it largely coincided with the protracted period of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a response to the challenges facing the country after Brexit, Great Britain is implementing a model of interstate relations aimed at preserving the partnerships acquired during the period of the EU membership and at the same time forming new ones, being no less effective. Within the limits of this model, the most likely format of equally close economic (including trade) relations «countries of Europe – Great Britain – the USA» will be formed. Trade relations with China remain mutually beneficial for Great Britain, although their context has become significantly politically determined, given the divergence of the interests of the USA and China and the Great Britain’s loss of the role of a conductor of Chinese interests in the EU. Great prospects are opened to Great Britain by the direction of Indo- and Asia-Pacific cooperation, which involves developing relations with countries, the vast majority of which are participants in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).
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Kozlova, E. I. "The Exhibition «Books and E-Resources of Cambridge University Press in the Holdings of the Russian State Library»." Bibliotekovedenie [Library and Information Science (Russia)], no. 2 (April 28, 2014): 128–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/0869-608x-2014-0-2-128-129.
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On February 18 - March 2, 2014 at the Russian State Library in the framework of the Cross-Year of Culture of Great Britain and Russia there was held the Exhibition «Books and Electronic Resources of Cambridge University Press in the Holdings of the Russian State Library».
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Richards, Graham. "Britain on the Couch: The Popularization of Psychoanalysis in Britain 1918—1940." Science in Context 13, no. 2 (2000): 183–230. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269889700003793.
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The ArgumentDespite the enormous historical attention psychoanalysis has attracted, its popularization in Britain (as opposed to the United States) in the wake of the Great War has been largely overlooked. The present paper explores the sources and fate of the sudden “craze” for psychoanalysis after 1918, examining the content of the books through which the doctrine became widely known, along with the roles played by religious interests and the popular press. The percolation of Freudian and related language into everyday English was effectively complete by the 1930s. Crucially, it is argued that in Britain the character of psychoanalytic theory itself demonstrably converged with the psychological needs of the British population in the postwar period. The situation in Britain was clearly different in many respects from that in the United States. This episode bears on numerous questions about scientific popularization, the distinctiveness of British psychoanalysis, and though it is treated here only peripherally the epistemological status or nature of psychoanalysis. More generally the present paper may be read as an exercise in reflexive disciplinary historiography, in which the levels of discipline (“Psychology”) and subject matter (“psychology”) are viewed as interpenetrating and mutually constitutive.
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Lacy, Tim. "Dreams of a Democratic Culture: Revising the Origins of the Great Books Idea, 1869-1921." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 7, no. 4 (October 2008): 397–441. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537781400000840.
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British and American intellectuals began to formulate ideas about so-called great books from the mid-1800s to 1920. English critic Matthew Arnold's writings served as the fountainhead of ideas about the “best” books. But rather than simply buttress the opinions of highbrow cultural elites, he also inspired those with dreams of a democratized culture. From Arnold and from efforts such as Sir John Lubbock's “100 Best Books,” the pursuit of the “best” in books spread in both Victorian Britain and the United States. The phrase “great books” gained currency in the midst of profound technical, cultural, educational, and philosophical changes. Victorian-era literature professors in America rooted the idea in both education and popular culture through their encouragements to read. Finally, the idea explicitly took hold on college campuses, first with Charles Mills Gayley at the University of California at Berkeley and then John Erskine's General Honors seminar at Columbia University.
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Mardanly, S. G., and A. S. Avdonina. "Immune blotting as a method for diagnosis of toxoplasmosis." Russian Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics 65, no. 11 (December 4, 2020): 693–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.18821/0869-2084-2020-65-11-693-698.
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Test kit for detection of IgG-antibodies to individual antigens of Toxoplasma gondii by immune blotting («Western blot» format) has been developed. Laboratory testing with first international WHO standard «Anti-toxoplasma serum (IgG), human, Lyophilized, 20 IU / ampoule» (NIBSC, Great Britain) demonstrated the analytical sensitivity of the new kit equal to 10 IU / ml. Study of the diagnostic efficiency of the new kit showed its high sensitivity, equal to 98.51 - 100%, and high specificity, equal to 99.5 - 100%. New test kit is intended for confirmatory testing in laboratory diagnostics of toxoplasmosis.
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Nation, Paul. "WHAT'S IN A WORD? VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT IN MULTILINGUAL CLASSROOMS.Norah McWilliam. Stoke on Trent, UK: Trentham Books, 1998. Pp. xiii + 192. £14.95 paper." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 22, no. 1 (March 2000): 126–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0272263100231069.
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THORSHEIM, PETER. "Salvage and Destruction: The Recycling of Books and Manuscripts in Great Britain during the Second World War." Contemporary European History 22, no. 3 (July 1, 2013): 431–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960777313000222.
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AbstractAn analysis of Great Britain's campaigns to recycle books and paper reveals the paradoxes of wartime waste policies: destroying history and culture for the sake of reusing materials, and the impact of recycling on the war machinery's own wastefulness. Conscious of systematic recycling in Nazi Germany and its own dependence on imports, the British government established a salvage department only weeks after the outbreak of war. Beginning in 1940, this department required all large towns to collect recyclable materials. Salvage, beyond lessening shortages, served ideological and psychological aims, because reused materials were turned into weapons. This led to a critical redefinition of recycling as the war progressed. People who previously characterised the Third Reich's recycling programmes as typical fascist control now considered compulsory recycling in Great Britain wholly positive. However, protesters claimed the government was causing irreparable harm by salvaging items whose value far exceeded their worth as scrap. The harvesting of books, periodicals and manuscripts as ‘waste’ paper proved particularly contentious, with some arguing that their own government was adding to the destruction that bombs were causing to Great Britain's cultural inheritance.
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Karpo, Vasyl, and Nataliia Nechaieva-Yuriichuk. "Information Component of Disintegration Processes in Spain and Great Britain: the Comparative Aspects." Mediaforum : Analytics, Forecasts, Information Management, no. 7 (December 23, 2019): 142–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/mediaforum.2019.7.142-154.
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From ancient times till nowadays information plays a key role in the political processes. The beginning of XXI century demonstrated the transformation of global security from military to information, social etc. aspects. The widening of pandemic demonstrated the weaknesses of contemporary authoritarian states and the power of human-oriented states. During the World War I the theoretical and practical interest toward political manipulation and political propaganda grew definitely. After 1918 the situation developed very fast and political propaganda became the part of political influence. XX century entered into the political history as the millennium of propaganda. The collapse of the USSR and socialist system brought power to new political actors. The global architecture of the world has changed. Former Soviet republic got independence and tried to separate from Russia. And Ukraine was between them. The Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine was the start point for a number of processes in world politics. But the most important was the fact that the role and the place of information as the challenge to world security was reevaluated. The further annexation of Crimea, the attempt to legitimize it by the comparing with the referendums in Scotland and Catalonia demonstrated the willingness of Russian Federation to keep its domination in the world. The main difference between the referendums in Scotland and in Catalonia was the way of Russian interference. In 2014 (Scotland) tried to delegitimised the results of Scottish referendum because they were unacceptable for it. But in 2017 we witness the huge interference of Russian powers in Spain internal affairs, first of all in spreading the independence moods in Catalonia. The main conclusion is that the world has to learn some lessons from Scottish and Catalonia cases and to be ready to new challenges in world politics in a format of information threats.
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Dunn, David J. "On perspectives and approaches: British, American and others." Review of International Studies 13, no. 1 (January 1987): 69–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210500113798.
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The relationship between the United States and Great Britain is a subject of apparently endless fascination. It has given rise to innumerable books, theses, articles, essays and speculations. It is, however, riven with misunderstandings, inconsistencies and stereotypes. For all that the relationship has been written about, investigated, discussed and analysed, the topic is ripe, even yet, for further discussion.
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Janicki, Joel J. "Forgotten Books: On the Making of Jane Porter’s "Thaddeus of Warsaw"." Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólnopolskie Naukowe Pismo Bibliotekoznawcze i Bibliologiczne 47, no. 2 (July 10, 2020): 309–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.36770/bp.485.
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This article attempts to identify and examine some of the factors and sources that led to the creation of a largely forgotten prose work of English fiction titled Thaddeus of Warsaw (1803) which became an immediate and extraordinary success. Jane Porter’s novel deals with a fictitious Polish patriot Thaddeus Sobieski, who is modelled on the Polish national hero Tadeusz Kosciuszko. The novel presents an excellent illustration of the cultural links between Great Britain and Poland towards the end of the 18th century and constitutes a cautionary tale for Porter’s English readers, one that creates a basis for moral reform and political engagement.
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Downing, Joseph. "Tzvetan Todorov, The Fear of Barbarians. Great Britain: Polity Books, 2010. 233 pp. £15.99 (pbk), £50.00 (hbk)." Nations and Nationalism 18, no. 1 (December 15, 2011): 183–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8129.2011.00539_3.x.
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Boer, Tanja de. "The Museum of the Book in the Hague." Art Libraries Journal 25, no. 1 (2000): 19–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200011408.
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Established in 1960, the Museum van het Boek is known for its holdings and exhibitions of Western book art from the last 110 years. Building on the starter collections of two donors, a private printer and a bibliophile, the Museum’s acquisitions now focus mainly on modern book art. More than 25,000 of the 450,000 objects in the Museum are books showing the development of standard Dutch publishing, the work of individual book illustrators, type designers and calligraphers, contemporary Dutch private presses and artists’ books. There is also considerable foreign material, notably from Germany and Great Britain.
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Chmielecki, Michał. "Conceptual negotiation metaphors across cultures – research findings from Poland, China, The United States and Great Britain." Journal of Intercultural Management 5, no. 3 (September 1, 2013): 103–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/joim-2013-0022.
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Abstract Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the cultural dimensions of conflict resolution. Books, numerous studies, and courses have offered perspectives on the nature of culture and its complex relationship to the transformation of conflict. This article focuses on metaphors concerning negotiations across cultures. The study attempts to contribute knowledge in the field of cross-cultural studies on language and culture, especially with regards to negotiation metaphors. The article attempts to answer a question how does the usage of metaphors for the process of negotiation differ across cultures
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KAUFFMAN, JESSE. "The Unquiet Eastern Front: New Work on the Great War." Contemporary European History 26, no. 3 (July 13, 2017): 509–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960777317000194.
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In the introduction to their excellent survey of the First World War in Central Europe, Our War (Nasza wojna), Polish historians Włodzimierz Borodziej and Maciej Górny begin by wondering why the name of Przasnysz, a small Polish town north of Warsaw, carries today no connotations of misery or horror. In late 1914 and early 1915, they note, the Germans and Russians fought several ferocious battles in its vicinity, battles that ultimately claimed hundreds of thousands of casualties. And yet its name never became a part of the shared historical memory of the First World War. Przasnysz and its battles are long forgotten, not only, as might be expected, in Belgium, France and Great Britain, but also in Germany, Russia and the rest of Poland. This, Borodziej and Górny note, is symptomatic of the hold that the war's Western Front has exercised for generations on the imaginations of scholars and the wider public alike – even within the states that now occupy the territory on which the titanic clashes of the Russian, Austrian and German empires claimed millions of lives. To schoolchildren in Warsaw no less than to scholars in Great Britain and the United States, the First World War is synonymous with the trenches of Belgium and France, and with the haunted names of Ypres, Passchendaele and Verdun. But the evidence of Nasza wojna and the other three books under review here suggests that the Eastern Front is finally emerging as a subject of scholarly and popular interest. Moreover, these books illustrate that careful study of that Front has the potential to deepen our understanding of the war's complex dynamics and their impact on the states and societies that grappled with them. The sweeping conquests and extended occupations of ethnically, linguistically and religiously diverse populations; the migration of ethnic hostilities from the front lines to the home fronts of multinational states; the profound divide between urban and rural experiences of the war; the ways in which military institutions adapted to the industrialised brutality of modern warfare and the ways that venerable but sprawling imperial state systems tried to come to grips with the war's demands are just a few of the themes addressed by the books under review here. The history of the period, and of modern European history in general, stands to be greatly enriched by a renewed interest in ‘the forgotten Great War’.
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Salaman, William. "The Role of Graded Examinations in Music." British Journal of Music Education 11, no. 3 (November 1994): 209–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0265051700002175.
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The perceived benefits of graded examinations are compared with the actual benefits that they bring and are then weighed against the more general and widely accepted desirable outcomes of musical education in Great Britain. The syllabus of a typical graded examination is analysed in some detail and the conclusions drawn suggest that the time-honoured format of graded examinations serves only some of the musical needs of pupils. Some radical suggestions for up-dating examinations are discussed.This article is based on some of the materials prepared for the certificate course: Music Teaching in Private Practice to be mounted by the University of Reading Department of Arts and Humanities in Education in collaboration with the Incorporated Society of Musicians.
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Cass, Philip. "Review: How news media responded to India’s relationship with Britain." Pacific Journalism Review 21, no. 2 (October 31, 2015): 205. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v21i2.135.
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Cass, P. (2015). How news media responded to India’s relationship with Britain. Pacific Journalism Review, 21(2): 205-207. Review of Communications, Media and the Imperial Experience, by Chandrika Kaul. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 278 pp. ISBN 978-0-230-57258-4Chandrika Kaul’s latest book begins and ends with what she regards as carefully stage-managed displays of British power designed to establish enduring images of imperial rule; in one, Indians and Britons bonded by their love of their King-Emperor and in the other, a noble, benevolent Britannia handing power to India as its civilising mission comes to a natural and peaceful end. Kaul, from St Andrews University in Scotland, has written or edited a number of books exploring imperial media systems and in this latest volume she explores how the media reacted to various stages in India’s relationship with Great Britain during the 20th century.
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Jiménez Morales, Luis Alberto. "Ontología Orientada a Objetos: una nueva teoría de todo." Análisis. Revista de investigación filosófica 7, no. 1 (June 29, 2020): 151–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/ojs_arif/a.rif.202014044.
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Reseña: Graham Harman (2018). Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything. Great Britain: Penguin Books. 295 páginas.
La Ontología Orientada a Objetos es relativamente una nueva corriente dentro de los problemas contemporáneos de la filosofía. Uno de sus principales exponentes es el filósofo norteamericano Graham Harman. Para comprender la filosofía de Harman, es necesario determinar cuál es el problema fundamental que le preocupa. Su propuesta se articula como un diálogo crítico con las ciencias naturales y con las implicaciones de la filosofía moderna y contemporánea. El objetivo de esta reseña es uno de sus más recientes trabajos: Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything, que apareció en Penguin Books en 2018
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Lecourt, Sebastian. "Matthew Arnold and the Institutional Imagination of Liberalism." Victorian Literature and Culture 49, no. 2 (2021): 361–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s106015032000042x.
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I first took up Matthew Arnold's essays as a dissertation writer circa 2008. Although I had not read much of Arnold's prose beyond the commonly anthologized pieces (“The Function of Criticism at the Present Time,” “The Study of Poetry,” bits of Culture and Anarchy), he was a figure very much out of favor, and I brought to the table a strong preconception of his polemic. Arnold, I had learned, was a kind of cultural nationalist trying to fight class divisions within Britain by prescribing a narrow canon of books that could shore up a common language for his compatriots. His main claim was that there was a singular tradition of great books called “culture” that embodied “the best that is known and thought in the world.” Everyone in Britain needed to keep reading these books if the nation were to retain a shared identity and not fall into chaos. Furthermore, as I understood it, Arnold thought that to experience culture you needed to remain “disinterested” and “aloof from what is called ‘the practical view of things’” (5:252). Arnold was a Victorian Mortimer Adler who sought to defend the authority of traditional literary canons as well as a Victorian Wimsatt-and-Beardsley who upheld disinterested close reading against hyperpolitical Theory.
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Mitchell, A., D. Bourn, J. Mawdsley, W. Wint, R. Clifton-Hadley, and M. Gilbert. "Characteristics of cattle movements in Britain – an analysis of records from the Cattle Tracing System." Animal Science 80, no. 3 (June 2005): 265–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/asc50020265.
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AbstractThis paper reviews the main temporal and spatial characteristics of cattle movements in Britain, based on an analysis of records in the British Cattle Movement Service's Cattle Tracing System (CTS) database, focusing on the period 2001 to 2003, during which notification of cattle movements was mandatory. Movements vary weekly and seasonally according to the production cycle, with peaks in late spring (April) and early autumn (October), and an average 1·63 million farm-to-farm movements per month, equivalent to 19·6 million per annum. The geographical distribution of these movements appears to be relatively stable from year to year, with the great majority of animals moving less than 100 km per journey, although many tens of thousands move over far greater distances of up to 1000 km. The procedures developed to extract, match, geo-reference, analyse and display movement records have greatly enhanced the utility of the CTS database, in that it is now feasible to assess, monitor and mapthe spatial dynamics and geographical distribution of cattle movements, and provide this information in standardized format on a regular basis.
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Smith, Helen. "Edward Garnett: Interpreting the Russians." Translation and Literature 20, no. 3 (November 2011): 301–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/tal.2011.0033.
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Constance Garnett has become justly celebrated for her translations from the Russian which brought the work of nineteenth century Russian novelists to prominence in Great Britain. This essay argues that her husband Edward Garnett played an equally important part in ‘interpreting’ the Russians. In his reviews, articles, and books Garnett sought to teach the British public how to read literature that many initially found baffling; through his work as a publisher's reader Garnett pressed the Russian example upon his protégés in an effort to revivify the British novel.
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Kutkauskaitė-Žilaitė, Lina. "How is Leonidas Donskis remembered in Lithuania?" Romanian Journal for Baltic and Nordic Studies 11, no. 1 (August 15, 2019): 101–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.53604/rjbns.v11i1_7.
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Mr. Donskis was a Professor at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania, where he served as the Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy, but he also taught students all over the world: Finland, Estonia, USA, Great Britain, Sweden, Hungary, etc. Donskis has been published widely in international refereed journals, and is the author or editor of more than 50 books, half of which are available in English. His works have been translated into 18 languages, including Romanian. Donskis also served as a member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2015.
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Tymoshyk, Mykola. "Ukrainian Diaspora in the Struggle with Russian Falsifiers of the History of Ukraine after World War II." Ukrainian Studies, no. 2(79) (August 3, 2021): 200–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.30840/2413-7065.2(79).2021.234291.
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The article is based on the author’s processing of the archives of Ukrainian emigration during his research internship in Great Britain. His task was to find out and clarify the means and ways used by the Ukrainian diaspora in its struggle against Moscow’s information and propaganda offensive against the Western community’s positive resolution of the “Ukrainian question” after World War II.That was the time when the Russian governmental machine intensified its counter-propaganda work in the Western direction. Under those conditions, the world continued to perceive Ukrainians as part of the “great Soviet people” who unanimously built communism, and Ukraine itself as only a formal state declaratively writing its name in UN documents as a country with a significant contribution to the victory over fascism.Under the conditions of statelessness, Ukrainian public institutions abroad replaced state embassies and official representations and took on the responsible task to constantly plant the Ukrainian information field.The Ukrainian diaspora used the following means in its struggle against Moscow’s information and propaganda offensive against the Western community’s positive solution of the “Ukrainian question”.In particular, it was a matter of checking the presence of materials on Ukrainian studies in the main libraries of the countries where Ukrainian emigrants lived compactly. Foreign authors’ interpretation of mentions was said about Ukraine and Ukrainians in those few texts was analyzed.Representatives of Ukrainian public organizations established personal contacts with directors of libraries in cities with a compact residence of Ukrainians. The goal was to create Ukrainian book and press departments there. In 1948, a centralized network was established in Munich to provide major foreign libraries with Ukrainian publications.The successful breakthrough of the Moscow information blockade on the issue of the Holodomor of 1933 happened due to publication of a series of English-language brochures on this issue at the expense of the Ukrainian Youth Association abroad.
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Schwarz, Elisa, and Daniil Pakhomenko. "Wir müssen reden." Rhetorik 41, no. 1 (November 22, 2022): 104–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/rhet-2022-0010.
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Abstract Whereas debating societies look back at a long tradition in Great Britain, in Germany rhetorical training was mostly absent from schools and universities until the early 2000 s. Over the last 20 years, however, a young debating scene has developed from this vacuum of rhetorical practice. In universities, the Verband der Debattierclubs an Hochschulen (VDCH) has been established as the umbrella organization for student debating societies, and a lively tournament scene has emerged. At school level, a format called Jugend debattiert was created, which provides a debating-curriculum for German lessons. Also, an all-German debating-competition among students is organized every year. Time to take stock after all those years: How has the German debate scene developed? What are the expectations of young people when they join debating clubs? And are their expectations met?
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Dwyer, Melva J. "Art book publishing in Canada." Art Libraries Journal 17, no. 3 (1992): 34–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s030747220000794x.
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Canadian publishing was inhibited from the beginning by Canada’s colonial origins and dependence on Great Britain and the USA. Few art books were published until quite recently; the relatively small, scattered population, the flooding of the market with British, American and (in Quebec) French books, and limited (at best) or non-existent sales outside Canada continue to be constraining factors. The necessity to include both English and French texts adds to the cost of book production in Canada. The publication of art books, and of exhibition catalogues, depends on the availability of government grants. Publications on the art of the North American Indian and Inuit peoples are an exception, attracting widespread interest and leading in some instances to co-publishing initiatives. In addition to the larger publishing houses, a number of small presses produce occasional art books, thanks to grants and in a few cases with the added benefit of sales abroad achieved through international networking. A government programme of support for Canadian publishing, launched in 1986, is continuing.
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Marshall, P. J. "Presidential Address: Britain and the World in the Eighteenth Century: I, Reshaping the Empire." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 8 (December 1998): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3679286.
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By the end of the eighteenth century Britain was a world power on a scale that none of her European rivals could match. Not only did she rule a great empire, but the reach of expeditionary forces from either Britain itself or from British India stretched from the River Plate to the Moluccas in eastern Indonesia. Britain's overseas trade had developed a strongly global orientation: she was die leading distributor of tropical produce diroughout die world and in the last years of the century about four-fifths of her exports were going outside Europe. Britain was at die centre of inter-continental movements of people, not only exporting her own population but shipping almost as many Africans across the Atantic during die eighteenth century as all the other carriers put together. It is not surprising therefore that British historians have searched for the qualities that marked out eighteeth-century Britain's exceptionalism on a world stage. Notable books have stressed, not only the dynamism of die British economy, but developments such as the rise of Britain's ‘fiscal-military state’ or die forging of a sense of British national identity behind war and empire overseas.
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STRACHAN, HEW. "THE FIRST WORLD WAR." Historical Journal 43, no. 3 (September 2000): 889–903. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x99001399.
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The arming of Europe and the making of the First World War. By David G. Herrmann. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii+307. ISBN 0-691-03374-9. £29.50.Armaments and the coming of war: Europe 1904–1914. By David Stevenson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. xi+463. ISBN 0-19-820208-3. £48.00.Authority, identity and the social history of the Great War. Edited by Frans Coetzee and Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee. Providence and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1995. Pp. xxii+362. ISBN 1-57181-017-X. £40.Dismembering the male: men's bodies, Britain and the Great War. By Joanna Bourke. London: Reaktion Books, 1996. Pp. 336. ISBN 0-948462825. £19.95.Passchendaele: the untold story. By Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. xv+237. ISBN 0-300-066292-9. £19.95.Battle tactics of the western front: the British army's art of attack, 1916–1918. By Paddy Griffith. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996 (paperback edition). Pp. xvi+286. ISBN 0-300-06663-5. No price given.Government and the armed forces in Britain, 1856–1990. Edited by Paul Smith. London, Hambledon Press, 1996. Pp. xviii+324. ISBN 1-85285-144-9. £35.Whether or not arms races cause wars was a historiographical preoccupation of the Cold War era. The issue was then of more than academic concern. Those opposed to the proliferation of nuclear weapons saw previous arms races as having destabilized the international system at best and as having led ineluctably to war at worst. Their critics countered that arms races possessed the capacity to increase terror and so promote more effective deterrence.
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Letina, Natalia N., and Anna A. Kruchinina. "PSYCHOANALYTICAL DISCOURSE IN THE LIFE OF A MODERN TEENAGER – A CHARACTER OF THE SERIAL («SEX EDUCATION», USA, GREAT BRITAIN, 2019)." Verhnevolzhski Philological Bulletin 22, no. 3 (2020): 240–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.20323/2499-9679-2020-3-22-239-249.
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The article discusses the problem of psychoanalytical discourse of teenagersin a foreign youth serial. The main task is to find and study the meaning of psychoanalytical discourse in the life of a modern teenager – a character of « Sex education». The results of purposeful culturological analysis of psychoanalytical discourse is shown as the basis of artistic world of « Sex education»(2019)(USA, Great Britain, Netflix, directors – K. Herron and B. Tailor) on the material of 8 series of the first season. The main attention is given to the study of therapy sessions which the teenagerthe main character – gives to other teenagers. The scientific value of the article is defined both by culturological algorithm of psychoanalytical discourse analysis as the essence of the serial and by the introduction in the scientific use of modern culturalogically new and topical empirical material. A key angle of the research is studying of the psychoanalytical discourse realization as the plot essence of the serial, as for psychotherapy – as a method of teenage problems solving by teenagers themselves. The article also reflects shown in the serial psychoanalysis method, a circle of main problems which teenagers- serial characters face, as well as key meanings of psychoanalytical discourse realization in the serial. The authors give a classification psychotherapy sessions from the viewpoint of their effectiveness: unsuccessful, controversial, successful sessions. The research concludes that some principles of psychoanalysis and age teenage-youth psychology are seen in the artistic world of a serial and a complex of problems shown by the characters has variegated base and hides under the format of sexuality.
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Surozhskij, A. "Pastoral Care for the Sick and the Dying." Консультативная психология и психотерапия 24, no. 5 (2016): 5–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/cpp.2016240501.
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Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh (nee Andrey Borisovich Bloom, 19.06.1914— 04.08.2003) was the Head of the Russian Orthodox Church in Great Britain and Ire- land from 1957 till 2003, from 1966 till 1974 he also served as the Patriarchal Exarch in Western Europe. Honoris Causa Doctor of Divinity of Aberdeen and Cambridge Universities, Hon. DD of Moscow and Kiev Spiritual Academies for theological and missionary work. His word, broadcast by the BBC and spread by means of Samizdat was greatly valued by the believers in the USSR. His books on prayer and spirituality have been translated in many languages worldwide. From 1991 his texts are being widely published in Russia.
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Mäeots, Olga. "“The Three Little Pigs”: Evolution of a fairy tale plot in a picture book of the twentieth century." Children's Readings: Studies in Children's Literature 19, no. 1 (2021): 215–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.31860/2304-5817-2021-1-19-215-234.
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“The Three Little Pigs” is one of the most famous folk tales and has been adapted many times. The paper is devoted to the evolution of the classical narration as it was presented in picture-books in the 20 th century. The revisions examined are: Walt Disney’s book based on the animated film (1933), Russian adaptation made by Sergey Mikhalkov (1936, 1957) as well as two picture-books which were published at the end of 20 th century in USA and Great Britain and suggest new versions of the classical story — Jon Scieszka’s and Lane Smith’s “The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs” (1989) and “The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig” by Eugene Trivizas and Helen Oxenbury (1993). All the books demonstrate different variants of interaction between the textual and visual contents. The recent versions of the tale reveal important trends: visual narrative presents a substantive semantics and plays increasingly significant role in modern picture-books. The evaluation of the genre introduces multiple perspectives and challenge reader to interact, to create ambiguous meanings rather than suggest a define statement — thus making reception more complicated and inspiring.
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Piazza, Antonella. "Media 'Tempests': Preliminary Notes to a Comparative Reading of Some Film Adaptations of the Eighties in Great Britain and the United States." Linguaculture 1, no. 2 (December 30, 2010): 113–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.47743/lincu-2010-2-0247.
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In this paper two British movies — Derek Jarman’s The Tempest (1980) and Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books (1991) — will be compared to the American Mazursky’s (1982). Their different settings of the island, in particular, will reveal different cultural attitudes towards a number of issues: if the Greek island of Mazursky underlines the Atlanticism of the play associated to a realistic European recolonization, Jarman’s and Greenaway’s postmodern choices – although often in conflict — emphasize the dreamy, fantasmatic quality The Tempest shares with the movies.
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STAFFORD, WILLIAM. "SHALL WE TAKE THE LINGUISTIC TURN? BRITISH RADICALISM IN THE ERA OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION." Historical Journal 43, no. 2 (June 2000): 583–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x99001028.
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Intertextual war: Edmund Burke and the French Revolution in the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine, and James Mackintosh. By Steven Blakemore. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1997. Pp. 256. ISBN 0-8386-3751-5. £32.Radical expression: political language, ritual, and symbol in England, 1790–1850. By James Epstein. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. xi+233. ISBN 0-19-506550-6. £30.Tom Paine: a political life. By John Keane. London: Bloomsbury, 1996. Pp. xxii+644. ISBN 0-7475-2543-9. £8.99.Gothic images of race in nineteenth-century Britain. By H. L. Malchow. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. xii+335. ISBN 0-8047-2664-7. £35 (hb). ISBN 0-8047-2793-7. £12.95 (pb).Popular contention in Great Britain, 1758–1834. By Charles Tilly. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. Pp. xvii+476. ISBN 0-674-68980-1. £31.50.Radical culture: discourse, resistance and surveillance, 1790–1820. By David Worrall. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992. Pp. ix+236. ISBN 0-7450-0960-3. £40.Most of these books are influenced by current philosophical or methodological concerns which might be labelled, according to taste, as poststructuralism, postmodernism, or the linguistic turn; but they are influenced to very varying degrees. At one end of the spectrum stands Tilly's substantial study, essentially modernist, rejecting the latest fashions. At the other stand the books by Blakemore and Malchow, their colours firmly nailed to the mast of deconstruction. Blakemore teaches in a department of English, and although Malchow's institutional affiliation is as an historian, his book is a hermeneutic of literary texts. The great majority of ‘postmodern’ analyses of texts from this period have come from the stable of literary studies, perhaps especially from scholars concerned, as Malchow is, with the construction of gender, that great growth area of the present time. None of these books subscribes in practice to a postmodern relativism, declaring itself to be merely a construction or representation of the past: all arrive at some kind of closure, explicitly or implicitly asserting the truth of their interpretations. Historians concerned to justify their subject to funding bodies may judge this to be prudent; nevertheless a greater degree of reflexivity, of self-doubt, would have been welcome in some instances, as we shall see.
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Shaw, Tony. "The Politics of Cold War Culture." Journal of Cold War Studies 3, no. 3 (September 2001): 59–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/152039701750419510.
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This article examines the relationship between politics and culture in Great Britain and the United States during the Cold War, with particular emphasis on the period from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. The article critically examines several recent books on British and American Cold War cultural activities, both domestic and external. The review covers theatrical, cinematic, literary, and broadcast propaganda and analyzes the complex network of links between governments and private groups in commerce, education, labor markets, and the mass entertainment media. It points out the fundamental differences between Western countries and the Soviet bloc and provides a warning to those inclined to view Western culture solely through a Cold War prism.