Feature Of Book Research Articles

MODERN UKRAINIAN PHOTO BOOK AS AN OBJECT OF CONCEPTUAL ART OF POSTMODERNISM

Purpose. The purpose of the study is to identify the features of modern Ukrainian photo books, which have become a striking example of following the trends of postmodern art. Methodology. The study is based on the integrated use of historical, comparative methods, systems analysis, synthesis, generalization. Results. The modern Ukrainian photo book is considered as a work of conceptual art of postmodernism. Certain artistic and compositional features and design techniques of Ukranian photobooks are identified; originality of form; author's presentation of textual, content and visual components of the indoor unit: inclusion of ready-made images (ready-made) and photo manipulation, use of collages, photos of utilitarian objects, etc. Scientific novelty. On the example of art history analysis of a number of well-known Ukrainian photobooks, the characteristic features of the photobook as an object of modern conceptual art is determined, the features of figurative, stylistic, artistic and compositional design solutions are systematized. Practical significance. The artistic and compositional features and design techniques used by photographers in the implementation of creative ideas have been identified, the theoretical basis of modern conceptual art have been expanded that can be useful in future creative projects of photobooks that will have both artistic and commercial value.

Affixation as a derivational process in Tiv

The study of morphology is of the essence in every language in order to understand the processes involved in word creation and inflection. Affixation in Tiv has been studied by many researchers, however, more attention is given to the inflectional aspect of Affixation in the language. Although, a well-cited book in Tiv treats both inflectional and derivational morphology in the language, this book does not study Affixation with a theoretical back up. In addition to that, the book features a misrepresentation about the derivational processes in Tiv, hence, the paper set to examine Affixation as a word-derivation process in Tiv using Hockett’s theory of Item-and–Arrangement and Item-and-Process. The researchers collected data for the study through primary and secondary sources. The study presents the following findings: nouns are derived from verbs by attaching the prefix {m-} to roots, formation of diminutive nouns is by adding the prefix {an-} to roots, and the derivation of nouns from adjectives is done through prefixation and suffixation of roots with {m-} and {-n} respectively. The study contributes to the existing literature on Tiv morphology by discovering the derivational processes in Tiv and removing the formation of agentive nouns from the derivational processes in the language in order to correct the misrepresentation of the agentive formation process as part of derivational Affixation.

Marks of Ownership of Russian Far Eastern Book Collectors in the Late 19th — Early 20th Centuries

The Russian pre-revolutionary book features many various provenance marks including marks of ownership. Such marks indicate that a particular item belongs to a particular owner. They can have forms of supralibros (or super ex-libris), ex-libris (or bookplates), book stamps, signatures and inscriptions. There are also “non-specific” ownership stamps and labels, which do not have indications of their book nature (such as phrases “from the books/library of...”, “ex-libris…”) and can be used on any objects. Usually these are word rubber stamps (rarely — labels) with a text consisting of a book owner’s name and occasionally some additional information (such as an owner’s address, title, etc.). In Russia, bibliophiles and bibliologists have been studying bookplates for about two centuries. However, there are still many blank spots in the history of the Russian bookplate. Regional book ownership marks are mostly unexplored. This article presents an attempt to describe and analyse book ownership marks of the Russian Far Eastern book owners. Studying of library holdings of 13 regional institutions and conducting bibliographic research allowed revealing 58 local marks of ownership (excluding signatures and inscriptions) that belonged to 23 local book collectors of the pre-revolutionary period. The study showed that they used all types of marks from supralibros to inscriptions, but mostly preferred the “non-specific” book stamps and super ex-libris. There was also established that the bookplate labels were particularly rare — the author discovered the only specimen in the Far Eastern State Research Library. The predominance of book stamps as marks of ownership can be explained by their multipurposeness, cheapness and easiness of manufacturing. Far Eastern book owners frequently used two or three different types of marks together on one book, for example, book stamp and supralibros, inscription and book stamp or supralibros and inscription, etc. Often one collector used several different stamps or supralibros: almost 40% of book collectors had two or three marks of ownership. At the same time, 11 of 23 book owners additionally marked their books with the inscriptions.

Dynamic properties of abstracts to works of fiction in english

The article is devoted to dynamic transformational processes within contemporary English minitexts (small-format texts). The paper reflects the findings of a research that encompasses 500 advertising abstracts to works of fiction. Transformational dynamics is disclosed in terms of linguosynergetics based on a dynamic-and-systemic representation of evolutionary developments in book abstract discourse. Particularly, the conventional invariant discourse features are considered; non-systemic stochastic elements are revealed in such texts; abstract discourse ability of generating senses which exceed mechanic addition of text units meanings, i.e. functional synergism, is under analysis. The authors argue that fluctuations are observed on the lexical, structural and contextual levels of text organisation. The analysis of the data obtained leads to the conclusion that the system features of book abstracts are currently undergoing transformation of their pragmasemantic parameters, which are moving towards those of purely advertising discourse. Today’s trend to the reduction of the verbal communication volume shows that the prospect for further investigation of minitexts (including book abstract discourse) lies in the elaboration of the pragmasemantic synergism concept, with the said discourse feature being of special significance to the texts aimed at compact incorporation of considerable contents.

Media Review: Sleep in Art: How Artists Portrayed Sleep and Dreams in the Last 7000 Years

Dr. Meir Kryger's Sleep in Art: How Artists Portrayed Sleep and Dreams in the Last 7000 Years, published in 2019, is a book likely to captivate the interests of those in sleep medicine. This book features hundreds of paintings, sculptures, and drawings by various artists. Artwork by Raphael, Henri Rousseau, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, and Norman Rockwell are among the many found in this book. The intersection between the worlds of science, religion, and art are all explored as each artist expertly depicts the human enthrallment with sleep throughout time.Johal A, Stahl SM. Media Review: Sleep in Art: How Artists Portrayed Sleep and Dreams in the Last 7000 Years. J Clin Sleep Med. 2021;17(12):2577.

Descriptive Bibliography. By G. Thomas Tanselle A Sample Bibliographical Description with Commentary. By G. Thomas Tanselle

Both publications distributed by Oak Knoll Books, New Castle, Delaware. ‘Descriptive bibliography, by recording and analyzing the physical features of books, contributes directly to the process of reading and is thus a crucial cultural activity.’ The links thus expressed by Professor Tanselle in 1992, between form and meaning, have been long established, if not always perfectly understood. They were expressed somewhat summarily by McLuhan, and with more finesse in McKenzie's much quoted (and much misquoted) ‘forms effect meaning’. That being the case, then a further question arises. Not just what can be seen, but also who was responsible for what, contributing in so essential a way to the process of reading: of what we extract from our reading, and how we understand it. In what exactly does this collaboration between author, manufacturer, and reader consist? Where is the common ground? So far as the printed and manuscript word is concerned, it lies in the physical object: something that can be described in terms that are neither equivocal nor ambiguous: precise within chosen parameters.

Florin Georgescu: A New Outlook on Romanian Capitalism

In 2021, the Romanian Sociological Association awarded economist Florin Georgescu its Award for Excellence. This essay covers the author’s magnum opus, titled Capital in Post-communist Romania, and focuses on the content most relevant to sociology. Unique in size and scope, the approximate 1,000 page three-volume book features three books in one: a 30-year economic history of Romania, a critical analysis of the way the Romanian capitalist economy developed in the second half of the 2010s, and a blueprint for structural reforms to foster development and reduce inequality. The essay includes a short author presentation and an overall review of the book’s contents, an appraisal of the work’s style and originality, and a review of the themes and subjects most salient for sociologists: capital ‒ labour relationship and the distribution and redistribution system, income and wealth inequality, precarious work, the transition and privatisation processes, structural problems of capitalism, and development policies.

The subject of waves in a new approach introductory steps of a Design Based Research (DBR)

Based on years of teaching, our team aims to elaborate a modern experimental manual with a modular structure meant to entwine the features of a traditional book on paper support with the advantages of an e-book. The chapter on the Wave Theory has been written as a start-up. In our vision, the core material of the manual is targeting those high-school students who do not wish to study Physics on a higher level, meanwhile the extensions to the lessons (such as the simulations, high-level extra information and any other attractive topics etc.) are for the students who are interested in Physics and who are thus given the possibility of a more profound study. The traditional manual would be designed to cover the core material, and the extensions would be made accessible via smartphones, as well as the QR-codes placed in the lessons. The webpage that has been added to the online version includes the written lessons, the extensions being placed into so-called boxes. Approach to the chapter largely differs from any previous approaches as the wave types are presented along with the description of the related wave phenomena. Practicality and efficiency testing of the webpage is ongoing in a rather close circle via questionnaires and a multiple choice test, the manual to be continuously improved and amended subsequent to the feedback we receive and according to our own teaching experiences..

Feridun Oral's children's books' peritextual features and their text readability levels

In this study, it was aimed to determine the level of the peritextual features of Feridun Oral's children's books, the readability of the texts, what the subject and main ideas are. The research was designed according to the holistic multi-case pattern of the qualitative methods. 13 storybooks from the works of Feridun Oral were used as data sources. Document analysis method was used to collect data in the study. Both descriptive analysis and thematic content analysis were used in the analysis of the data obtained in the study. As a result of the analysis, although it was seen that all of the books, which are data sources, got close and high scores in terms of peritextual features, it was revealed that the author reflected certain practices in all his books in terms of design features. When the average level of readability of all the books considered within the scope of the research was examined, it was seen that the books are generally easy. When the data sources were examined in terms of the codes they contain, it included instilling the values of "responsibility, determination, respect, inclusiveness, solidarity, social aid, love of animals, protection of nature and living things" to the reader.

Portraying the Aztec Past: The Codices Boturini, Azcatitlan, and Aubin

Portraying the Aztec Past examines three interrelated Mesoamerican manuscripts created by sixteenth-century Nahua tlacuiloque (artist-scribes): the codices Boturini, Azcatitlan, and Aubin. The author, Angela Herren Rajagopalan, provides close analysis of each manuscript while also examining their intersections with and departures from one another. Through this comparative approach we learn the ways their creators utilized Indigenous and European modes of representation, writing, and making to communicate identity and sociopolitical alliances.Chapter 1, the introduction, discusses the state of scholarship on each manuscript and the author’s unique contributions, which include close analysis of their materiality, production, and, most importantly, the relationship between the three manuscripts.Chapter 2 focuses on what the author calls the “pictographic paradigm” of Codex Boturini, alternatively titled the Tira de la peregrinación de los Mexica. The codex, which remains unfinished, displays traditional Indigenous features in the use of amatl paper in a screen-fold format, and features black and red as dominant colors. Rajagopalan’s hands-on expert knowledge of the manuscript really shines through here with her examination of erasures, pentimenti, and various adjustments made by the tlacuilo over time. These clues lead to hypotheses about the author’s sources (pictographic or oral) and how the annals of Mexica history were carefully crafted to highlight Aztlan as their place of origin, the tutelary patron god Huitzilopochtli, and the celebration of the fifty-two-year calendar cycle with the New Fire Ceremony, all touchstones of Mexica identity. This chapter’s findings are particularly important for Codex Boturini’s relationship to the Codices Azcatitlan and Aubin, which unfold in subsequent chapters.Chapters 3 through 5 examine Codex Azcatitlan from various angles. Chapter 3 delves into a connoisseurship of Mesoamerican manuscript making that reveals a long and close familiarity with the objects. Rajagopalan differentiates between two hands, and the well-placed illustration details help the reader to quickly gain acuity. Curiously, the author refers to the tlacuiloque as male throughout the book. Scholars such as José Rabasa (2011: 2–3) have suggested that women were also artist-scribes, and he used female pronouns for the tlacuiloque of the Codex Telleriano-Remensis. Whatever their gender, Rajagopalan’s third chapter allows the reader a look into the period eye and hand of the tlacuiloque. By differentiating the hands, we are able to discern the various voices in the manuscript. The author attributes the manuscript to a master/apprentice relationship likely fostered at the Colegio de Santa Cruz Tlatelolco. She argues that the manuscript’s explicitly Tlatelolca-centered version of the Mexica past was drawn from Codex Boturini but was manipulated, perhaps through improvisation, or perhaps inspired by the tlacuilo’s knowledge of the Annals of Tlatelolco.Chapter 4 further cements the Tlatelolca voice of Codex Azcatitlan by focusing on the cosmic hero Don Martín Ecatl (or Ecatzin), a Tlatelolca warrior who famously captured a Spanish flag in combat. Rajagopalan spends some time comparing the codex with other sixteenth-century sources, which reveals that the Azcatitlan tlacuilo “celebrated indigenous victory and presented indigenous defeat as the inevitable result of cosmic destiny” (9). Chapter 5 delves deeper into the final postconquest pages of Codex Azcatitlan, dated 1521–27. Of particular interest is the manuscript’s relationship to oral traditions and the use of Indigenous, cyclical conceptions of time in recording the postconquest period.The final body chapter shifts to Codex Aubin, with particular interest in the ways in which the tlacuiloque was influenced by printed books. The section in this chapter titled “The Impact of Epidemic Disease” feels almost prescient in light of the current coronavirus pandemic. Here Rajagopalan highlights the individual voice of the tlacuilo, who records personal entries during the plague of 1576. During the epidemic at least two other hands appear in the manuscript, revealing the tlacuilo’s urgency to complete the annals history under the threat of disease and death. Our current pandemic, coupled with the violence by the dominant power against Black lives (a violence perhaps also familiar to the Indigenous tlacuilo), has created a similar sense of urgency, ultimately catalyzing a revolution focused on dismantling systemic racism. Beyond this compelling section, the chapter delves into the literary world of early colonial Mexico, examining the manuscript’s European codex-style construction, end papers, Latin sources, and the influence of the printed book. She argues that to protect the Indigenous subject matter within from perceived heresy, the tlacuilo deliberately adopted features of typical European books. This, perhaps the most compelling chapter in the tome, beautifully brings to life the educational context and training as well as the social factors, most notably the establishment of the Inquisition (1571), that impacted the tlacuilo and the manuscript itself.Overall Rajagopalan’s book is an excellent contribution to Mesoamerican manuscript studies and a compelling read for specialists and a more general audience alike. It is particularly notable for the focus on the materiality of the manuscripts, the artist and intended audience, and the social and political machinations that prompted their creation.

Revolution Rekindled: The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography by Jones Polly (review)

SEER, 99, 2, APRIL 2021 348 Jones, Polly. Revolution Rekindled: The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2019. ix + 296 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. £74.00. The very last thing that the post-Stalin Soviet leaders wanted was the resumption of any revolutionary activity anywhere in the USSR. They were far too busy promoting revolutions in the Far Abroad and crushing ‘counterrevolutions ’ in the Near Abroad (notably in East Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland). In her meticulously researched (with just one exception — see the next two paragraphs) analysis, Polly Jones asks a highly relevant question. Why, during the 1960s, at exactly the same time as various dissident movements in the Soviet Union were beginning to take shape, did the main publisher of political literature, Politizdat, decide to commission and issue a huge series of largely sympathetic biographies of Russian and other revolutionaries while ‘the Kremlin’ was gradually leading the country towards the first stage of Communism, likely to be reached by the end of the century? Might not such biographies somehow encourage, even inspire, a few, or more than a few, pernicious anti-Soviet individuals and increase the number of ‘antagonistic contradictions’ in the period of ‘mature socialism’? In her Introduction, Jones mentions a little-known editor, Vladimir Novokhatko, who is, I think, regardless of his motivations and strategy, the real hero of this book. He is the person most responsible for the ‘Fiery Revolutionaries’ (it sounds better in Russian) series of 156 biographies that were published between 1968 and 1990 and competed quite successfully with another series, ‘Lives of Remarkable People’, for sales and popularity. Some younger readers of the Introduction may misunderstand the atmosphere in the USSR during this period because the author uses the term ‘late Soviet’ some thirty times here (and many more times during the rest of the book). We know now that she is perfectly correct, but hardly anybody sensed this at the time (Andrei Amal´rik is a rare exception, but he is mentioned in this book only once, in the Bibliography, and is not discussed at all). This is strange, because Jones mentions Alexei Yurchak’s book (Everything was Forever, Until It Was No More, Princeton, NJ, 2005) several times, but appears not to realize how greatly the misperception that the Soviet regime would not, could not, come to an end in their lifetime guided the tactics and strategies of nearly everybody. (And indeed, thirty years after the demise of the USSR, Russia, led by an unrepentant KGB officer, is in some important ways still in a neo-Soviet, rather than post-Soviet, stage of development.) Chapter one, ‘Politizdat’s Literary Turn After Stalin’, touches on the role of the individual in history — sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse, and is centred on the partial ‘dethronement’ of Stalin’s personality cult in 1956 and later. The most amazing feature of this splendid book is that it REVIEWS 349 contains not a single mention of istmat, historical materialism, which most people in the USSR were obliged to study. The closest Jones gets to this is to state that ‘[b]iography was theoretically problematic for a regime based on an ideology of collective class consciousness and behaviour and on suprapersonal historical laws’ (pp. 49–50). This is inadequate, because, according to istmat, as crudely taught in the Soviet Union, the only way out from socialism was to progress into the first stage of Communism. A return to capitalism was theoretically inconceivable. The rest of this monograph is better, and I regret that I shall have to discuss it so briefly. Chapter two, ‘Authors, Editors, and the Niches of Late Soviet Literature’, starts with references to books by Boris Kagarlitskii and Vladimir Shlapentokh: ‘It has often been claimed that late Soviet intellectual life was primarily defined by collusion, compromise, and complicity with the state’ (p. 66). This is true, but I would add two more ‘c’ words, whose meanings are sometimes difficult to distinguish from one another: cooperation and collaboration by writers (and others) with the Soviet authorities. Some of the contributors to the ‘Fiery Revolutionaries’ series were completely supportive of the then authorities (so...

Riotous rhymes

Join in with the zany humour and rhyming fun that are a feature of Colin McNaughton's classic picture books. Support children as they learn new words, try out repeated refrains and design their own aliens.

WISE National Conference 2021: Connections - Together from Afar

Our goal at Women in Science and Engineering – University of Toronto Chapter is to support and empower all women in STEM fields and to help them achieve their full potential as future engineers, entrepreneurs, scientists, and leaders. Since its inception in 1999, the organization has developed into one of the largest and highly regarded campus organizations with over 1500 members to champion gender equity, counter biases, and build confidence in all STEM fields. Our annual National Conference aims to empower and inspire individuals to pursue their passions, explore new opportunities, and to make meaningful, lasting connections. One of the events we hold at the conference is the 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, which challenges undergraduate and graduate delegates to present their research in 3 minutes with one static slide to a non-specialist audience. This abstract book features the research that some of the 3MT competitors presented at the WISE NC 2021.

Ink of Nostalgia: A Review Article of Home is Not Here, Dear China, and Recent Scholarship on China and the Chinese Overseas

Abstract This article reviews Wang Gungwu, Home is Not Here (Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2018) and Gregor Benton and Hong Liu’s Dear China: Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820–1980 (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2018) in terms of how they reflect and revisit recent scholarship on China and the Chinese overseas published in English. Adopting different approaches, both books feature family correspondence within Chinese migrant families. This new focus unpacks concepts between ethnicity and language, and between family and homeland in migrants’ identity-making. Beginning from these studies, the article defends “Chinese overseas” as an intellectual concept and as a framework that allows an examination and comparison of the connections between China and its migrants as well as their descendants worldwide. In conclusion, the article argues that diasporas are made up of those who have left home but who miss that home, touching on the concept of nostalgia. Passing down the sense of nostalgia through successive generations via narrating, writing, and verifying, both in Sinophone and other languages, is a way by which Chinese diasporas construct their heritage. The process of retelling, rewriting, and reworking family heritage keeps the idea of home alive, wherever it might be, and whether or not it still exists.

Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA

Neil Shubin’s latest book picks up where his others left off. In typical Shubin style, he does a fantastic job of meshing storytelling with modern science. The overarching theme here is that the evolutionary changes we often associate with new species (e.g., feathers, legs, lungs) were present in creatures much farther back than we realize: “Massive changes came about by repurposing ancient structures for new uses.” The book is filled with examples and the stories of scientists who dedicated their careers to discovering and explaining these changes. Some of the topics were discussed in Shubin’s previous books (e.g., the Sonic hedgehog gene). But we continue to learn more about existing species, and this book provides updated information.The book features a variety of scientists of different countries, sexes, and scientific backgrounds. Given today’s social climate, I truly appreciate the lengths to which Shubin goes to give credit to some of the less discussed scientists (and their graduate students!). This technique also does a great job of illustrating the truly collaborative nature of science that is often difficult for our students to see. The context of each story ties the how and why of the science into history and culture seamlessly.I have long been a fan of using Shubin’s books in my classroom because he provides descriptions of the scientific process while also imparting scientific knowledge. The true way that scientists work is crucial for students to understand, especially when things don’t go as planned – “they repeated the process and reanalyzed the results. But try as they might, the result stood.” This book provides plenty of points where students might stop and hypothesize or think about how they would design their own experiments to answer the questions posed by scientists in the stories. Teachers can also use this book to guide students’ reflections on their understanding of concepts (e.g., RNA’s role in protein synthesis). The book could even provide cross-curricular opportunities with social studies teachers as students read about scientists of different times and places.The main part of the book is only 218 pages long (eight chapters), followed by a lengthy list of additional resources for readers. The chapters could be used by teachers as stand-alone supplements, or students could dive into the entire book if time allows. Some sections are more focused on genetics, but they do a great job of supporting evolutionary theory. As the book builds the foundation of the genetic similarities (and differences) between species and organisms, it becomes easier to understand how far back different species branched from one another. “All land-living animals have the Arc gene; fish do not. This means that about 375 million years ago a virus entered the genome of the common ancestor of all land-living animals.” By tying together a branch that students can see and manipulate, and that is incredibly relevant to their lives (genetics), they come to see how evolution does happen (and it’s not just about dinosaurs and primates). We might not find salamanders or fruit flies the most exciting creatures in the world, but Shubin has found a way to make us want to read about them!

Cultivating Nature: The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape by Sarah R. Hamilton

Reviewed by: Cultivating Nature: The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape by Sarah R. Hamilton Judit Gil-Farrero (bio) Cultivating Nature: The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape By Sarah R. Hamilton. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. Pp. 312. Cultivating Nature: The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape By Sarah R. Hamilton. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. Pp. 312. The protection of natural areas has generated extensive literature in many different disciplines, including environmental history. In Cultivating Nature, Sarah R. Hamilton presents the complex history of the Albufera de Valencia, a freshwater lagoon and estuary located on Spain's Mediterranean coast, 10 km south of the city Valencia. The issues addressed in this book feature in other works on protected areas, such as by Roderick P. Neumann (Imposing Wilderness, 2002), Emily Wakild (Revolutionary Parks, 2011), Patrick Kupper (Creating Wilderness, 2014), or Karl Jacoby (Crimes against Nature, 2014). In Spain, a growing number of doctoral theses analyze landscapes in transformation and conflict, like those of geographer Francesc Romagosa i Casals (2007) and historian of science Judit Gil-Farrero (2018). Hamilton's monograph, winner of the 2019 Turku Book Award from the European Society for Environmental History, contributes to the literature on protected natural areas by focusing not on a fragment of apparently unspoiled nature, but on a territory that has been transformed, cultivated, and worked for centuries, like so many other protected natural areas around the world. The author chronologically traces the changes in this landscape between 1874 and 2012, based on a wide variety of sources, including archives and collections, newspapers, journals and newsletters, legislation, and stakeholder interviews. Each chapter contains basic information to place the reader in the political, social, and economic context of the historical period treated. Hamilton then describes the transformations in the [End Page 939] Albufera environment at that time. These changes go hand in hand with the development and application of various techniques and technologies, ranging from the construction of irrigation canals, to enclosure and land reclamation, or the use of machinery and agrochemicals. Cultivating Nature narrates how, over the course of 150 years, the territory and the access, use, and management of the natural resources it offers have been a source of conflict that changed depending on both Spanish and international political, economic, and social trends. The main tension today is between rice farmers and those wanting to conserve the area, but there are also hunters; developers interested in urbanizing the land to attract sun and beach tourism; industries and towns that dump their waste untreated into the lagoon canals; and towns located upstream, whose water use reduces the amount that reaches the Albufera. Hamilton captures the inherent complexity of environmental issues very well. First, the number and diversity of stakeholders, their different interests, and their ideas make it difficult to reach agreements that satisfy everyone. Second, the different levels of Spanish politics (European, national, regional, and municipal) create different areas of power with conflicting competencies. Third, although environmental issues are intrinsically multidisciplinary, they are divided into policies on the environment, industry, agriculture, or tourism. Finally, the existence of environmental regulations does not necessarily imply that they are enforced. These themes flow throughout the book, but come to the fore when the area became protected as Albufera Natural Park in 1986. Spanish Natural Parks aim to make compatible the conservation of the environment, the rational use of resources, and the public use of nature. However, neither the new regulations nor the compatibility of uses reduced the tension among the various stakeholders. Although time and European economic contributions have relieved some of the friction, it has never completely disappeared. Also noteworthy is the discussion between what is natural and what is artificial in any environment. Farmers claim the legitimacy of the tradition they represent; developers argue that they will improve the natural landscape. The park's managers applied active rewilding techniques in certain areas, creating new landscapes in order to diversify and increase its ecosystems. The Albufera Natural Park has been and is a changing landscape, far from the mistaken perception of landscape as a static and immobile image over time. Understanding this dynamism is what will allow this unique space and others...

Notas para la lectura de álbumes sin palabras. Discurso no ficcional y viaje migratorio

One of the most distinguishing features of wordless picture books is a visual and multimodal conception within the context of the complexity of postmodern children’s literature. Reading them challenges child readers and also mediators in the development of visual literacy and art education in educational contexts. This study aims to provide guidance for reading based on the analysis of works that address the migratory phenomenon from the experience of the journey. These books are usually analysed from social and ideological approaches but this work aims to contribute a new perspective in order to prompt multireferential, critical and reflective readings. The analysis shows how non-fictional discourse is latent behind a seemingly fictional account. This discourse is revealed as a constructive strategy through collective characters, common places, authorship voices or symbols that reflect a universal and collective view of the migratory experience, which, in turn, would explain the uniform portrait of migrants and refugees in these works. As a result, these picture books are closer to the documentary genre in which fiction is a foundation that involves the reader.

Shifting Paradigms: Ideas, Materiality and the Changing Shape of Grammar in the Renaissance

What is the meaning of historical changes to the visualisation of knowledge? This article examines the long history of the Latin grammar from antiquity until early modernity and traces shifts in graphics through hundreds of manuscripts and printed books. It shows how the table—today the most common means for representation of grammatical paradigms—only became a common feature of grammar books in the Renaissance. To account for this visual change requires teasing apart the effects of intellectual from material factors on one of the most basic branches of knowledge and learning. It brings to the fore educational practices which are often unnoticed by scholars and shows how humanism, paper and print interacted in forming a new learning experience. Following the evolution of one schoolbook genre throughout a millennium and a half, the articles challenges some of our notions regarding transmission of ideas and entails some important methodological lessons about dealing with visualisations in scientific texts more generally. Above all, it underscores the importance of cognitive considerations in shaping epistemic genres and whole fields of knowledge.

Аграрная миграция крестьянства губерний Центральной России в конце XIX - начале ХХ века по документам Государственного архива Орловской области

The article analyses archival materials from the State Archive of the Oryol Region on agrarian migration of the peasantry in the late 19th – early 20th century. Migration processes are an integral part of demographic behavior of the society. The Oryol peasantry, which preserved some features of traditional society just stepping onto the path of modernization of its socio-economic relations, was drawn into agrarian migration policy of the country in the period under review. It is the insufficient knowledge of causes and process of the peasantry migration outside the boundaries of Central Russia that makes the study significant. Its territorial frameworks coincide with administrative borders of the Oryol gubernia in the late 19th – early 20th century. The study is to review the complex of archival materials as a main source on re-settlement of Russian rural population in the late-imperial period and to introduce it into scientific use. The article presents office documentation in form of reports, reports, circular letters. Of greatest value are reports of the organizers of the resettlement movement, descriptions of natural and geographical conditions in the resettlement regions, of emotional distress of the participants. The study of the regions of departure and those of resettlement allows the author to identify the causes of resettlement and backtracking. The information potential of archival sources permits the conclusion that migration process was not just mechanical movement of the population, but a social-demographic phenomenon that stemmed from on social and economic problems of Central Russia development. Complex study of archival materials has been conducted via traditional scientific methods (systems analysis, structural approach, retrospective approach, etc.) and new ones (civilization approach and theory of agrarian society modernization arising from it). One of the most important results of studying archival documents on migration of the population of the Oryol gubernia in the studied period is the discovery of information potential of metric books concerning resettlement and return migration. This feature of metric books is being described in the scholarship for the first time. Introduction into scientific use of the mass record keeping documents on migration from individual settlements allows us to look at this important historical and demographic process in a new way.

Shared Reading Implementation During the Literacy Period of a Child with Hearing Loss

Shared reading, in which children acquire new experiences in the field of lanugage, is one of the fundamental instructional practices that facilitate the development of literacy skills in children from an early age. This descriptive and holistic case study aims to investigate the SR practices carried out in the Primary 1st Grade literacy studies. The subject of the study is a child with hearing loss that receives auditory-oral education. Data in this study have been collected through the educational program, classroom observations, documents, the records of the validity and reliability committee, process products and the researcher’s log. During the analysis of the data,the educational program and the process products have been examined, observation sessions of shared reading practices have been documented, and prominent findings have been identified. It could be safely claimed, in accordance with the findings of this study, that the features of the story book, the literacy strategies applied during SR practices and the follow-up acitivities contribute significantly to the benefits of shared reading practices.