Informative Book Research Articles

A feira de livros a partir de narrativas orais: uma experiência simbólica na cultura informacional do Rio de Janeiro

A partir do entendimento de espaços diversificados de produção dos saberes e da informação, a proposta do estudo é construir subsídios para a compreensão das condições simbólicas de circulação e apropriação de saberes, tendo como foco as experiências urbanas das feiras de livro no Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Especificamente, a análise propôs um olhar sob as feiras de livro e suas camadas de produção simbólica de realidade no âmbito do uso dos artefatos informacionais. O delineamento do objeto de estudo ficou caracterizado através do que tratamos como “cultura feirante de informação e a informação sobre a cultura das feiras: produção, circulação e apropriação de fontes de informação sobre feiras de livro no Estado do Rio de Janeiro”. O foco central do presente artigo analisa como esse conhecimento se constrói no locus da feira, de modo a lançar luz nas experiências simbólicas e de apropriação de saberes que ocorrem nesses ambientes. Segundo uma abordagem qualitativa, tendo por base os registros orais de visitantes e livreiros da Primavera Literária de 2016, através de entrevista semiestruturada, intentou-se investigar como suas experiências com o universo informacional contribuem para a construção de um conhecimento sobre as feiras e para a criação de interações simbólicas, de modo a compreender como a vivência nas feiras produz significação simbólica de seus sujeitos e promove a apropriação de saberes sobre esses ambientes e seus artefatos informacionais.

The Portable Bunyan. A Transnational History of The Pilgrim's Progress (Isabel Hofmeyr)

This is a most interesting and informative book, the product of long and impressive research, dealing with the use made of The Pilgrim's Progress in the mission field, very largely through translation. Bunyan has been ''portable, has been carried all over the world into different cultures and languages.

Meaning Making with the Hypertext Informational Book: Implications for Literacy Instruction

Using multimodal perspectives, this article examines how the double-page spread layout of an informational book allows readers to make meaning, just as if they are navigating hypertexts.

A politician and his books: the Venizelos library in Chania

Eleftherios Venizelos loved books. He collected them, read them, andannotated them. With few exceptions, the most important being his translation of Thucydides into modern Greek, he did not write them. Books were an important part of his life, and he continued until the end to buy them. His collection of books is of historical and psychological interest. After his death in 1936, the books were transferred from his apartment in Paris and his wife’s house in Athens to the Venizelos family house in Halepa, near Chania in Crete. After many vicissitudes, especially during the German occupation of Crete, they came to rest in Chania Municipal Library, where they remain today. This paper explores Venizelos’ reading habits and preferences through this collection, showing that he used books both for professional information, for pleasure, and to improve his knowledge of foreign languages, in particular English. He was familiar with the great authors from Homer to Shakespeare; with philosophy from Aristotle to Bergson; with poetry, fiction, but especially with political thought, history and literature. It is good that the collection remains in the hands in the Municipal Library in the city where Venizelos lived and worked.

Regulatory and Methodical Support of the Transition to the BATs in Heat Power Engineering

Federal Law no. 219-FZ of July 21, 2014, “On the Amendments to the Federal Law On Environmental Protection and Certain Legislative Acts” of the Russian Federation established new principles of environmental policy aimed at significantly reducing the negative anthropogenic impact on the environment. Currently, active work is under way to harmonize the Russian environmental legislation with regard to the transition to a system of technological regulation of impacts using the best available technologies (BATs). A national regulatory system based on BATs can be developed only through the implementation of integrated measures that are adopted and regulated at different levels (from decisions of the government of the Russian Federation to normative documents). For this purpose, more than 50 sectoral information and technical reference books on BATs have been developed that include descriptions of BATs for particular types of activities and their technological indicators. Starting on January 1, 2019, an integrated environmental permit will be introduced for enterprises with the greatest negative impact on the environment (category I enterprises). In addition, these enterprises will have to implement automatic systems for continuous control and metering of contaminants emissions (ASCCMCEs) into the atmosphere. Therefore, the development and adoption of the preliminary national standard of the Russian Federation PNS 187–2017, which is to come into force on January 1, 2018, will significantly accelerate and facilitate the implementation of ASCCMCEs of thermal power plants (TPPs) in accordance with Federal Law no. 219-FZ. The main goal of implementing ASCCMCEs on TPPs is to consistently reduce the negative impact of thermal power plants on the environment.

Mark Sedgwick. Western Sufism: From the Abbasids to the New Age.

This erudite and informative book is a sequel to the author’s Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century (2004). Whereas the latter discusses the vicissitudes of “traditionalism,” an amorphous religious-political and spiritual movement aimed at recovering the primeval “Oriental” belief and practice that the modern West has allegedly failed to appreciate and embrace, Western Sufism focuses on how Islamic asceticism-mysticism (Sufism), another “Oriental” tradition, has been received and practiced in the West from the fifteenth century to the present. The geographical scope of Western Sufism is broad. Its protagonists (both Muslim and non-Muslim) with various degrees of association with Sufism were highly mobile, especially in modern times. We find them journeying from India and Russia to Europe, and from Indonesia, the Middle East, and North Africa to North America. Mark Sedgwick masterfully shows how and why they resided permanently or temporarily in the West, contributing to the cultural and spiritual needs of their publics.

Integrated Reporting Practices in Europe and Value Relevance of Accounting Information under the Framework of IIRC

The research has been conducted on a sample of European companies with the aim to investigate whether the adoption of the Integrated Reporting (IR) affects the value relevance of summary accounting information. The relations between Market Value (MV) and traditional accounting information (Book Value and Earnings) are studied by a linear price-level model, typical of the studies on the value relevance of accounting information. The results of analysis show that the degree of value relevance of Earnings is significantly different for companies that publish an Integrated Report compared to companies adopting traditional financial reporting. The study confirms the assessment made by IIRC and the other advocates: Integrated Reporting is expected to improve the quality of traditional accounting information for providers of financial capital.

Do objects of different weight fall at the same time? Updating naive beliefs about free-falling objects from fictional and informational books in young children

ABSTRACTThis study examined whether children 4- and 5-years-old (N = 156) can revise a physical science misconception from different types of picture books. A realistic fiction book and informational book with identical images matched in word count and reading difficulty level were compared to a control book about plants. In the pretest and posttest, children were asked to make predictions about pairs of objects that either had the same or different weight. The pretest scores showed that many children began with the misconception that heavier objects fall faster than lighter objects. Posttest scores revealed that children revised this misconception after reading the realistic fiction and informational picture books but not after reading the control book. These findings provide evidence that children as young as age 4 can acquire physical science knowledge from picture books and that both realistic fiction and informational books can be used effectively to expose children to science concepts.

The pleasures of reading non‐fiction

AbstractThis article examines data gathered in a broader study of a school‐based reading challenge to children aged from 8 to 14 to read science information books, centred in their school or class library. A survey was conducted before they embarked on the reading challenge to establish the children's reading habits. After the period of time allotted to the challenge had ended, participating teachers and children completed questionnaires and a sample from each were interviewed. Evidence relating to reading non‐fiction for pleasure was identified and extracted from the dataset and analysed. Prior to the challenge, most children's attitude to science books was that they would be boring, difficult or at variance with what they perceived as their reader identity. More positive attitudes resulted from taking part in the challenge. Contemporary science information books were found to be in themselves a source of pleasure. It is concluded that it is possible to differentiate between the pleasures of fiction and non‐fiction and that different types of pleasure which are derived from reading science non‐fiction can also be differentiated, ranging from extrinsic to intrinsic and including efferent and aesthetic. A tentative typology of intrinsic pleasures is proposed.

Działalność Studenckiego Koła Naukowego Architektury Informacji w roku akademickim 2016/2017

The article presents activities of the Student Association of Information Architecture at the Institute of Information Science and Book Studies of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun in academic year 2016/2017.

Lots of Exciting Winter News!

Greetings everyone! Well it seems winter weather has finally descended on much of Alberta. Before spring arrives there is still time to curl up under a quilt with some good books. In this issue’s news there are a number of new award winners and finalists you can look up to keep you occupied on snow days. There are also a number of events happening in late winter to early spring that you can put in your calendar to look forward to.2017 TD Canadian Children’s Literature AwardIn November the winner and finalists for the 2017 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award were announced. Jan Thornhill won the children’s book award with her book The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk. The book is a nonfiction picture book about the causes behind the North Atlantic Ocean bird's extinction in 1844. Ontario Library Association Forest of Reading AwardsFinalists for the OLA Forest of Reading Awards were announced in October of 2017.The competition is currently in process and voting concludes in April 2018.The Vancouver Children’s Literature RoundtableThe Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable (VCLR) awarded the 2017 Information Book Award to Jan Thornhill for The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk. Rocky Mountain Book Award NomineesNominees are in for the the Rocky Mountain Book Awards, the Albertan reader’s choice book award for grades 4 to 7. The 2017 Gold Medal Award was awarded to Svetlana Chmakova, author of the graphic novel Awkward. Serendipity 2018The Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable (VCLR) is hosting a meeting on March 3, 2018 at UBC Robson Square; the theme is Serendipity: Beasts, birds, and words: The poetics of children’s books. The event features several authors, including Isabelle Arsenault, Robert Heidbreder, Kyo Maclear, Tiffany Stone, and Frédéric Gauthier of Les Éditions de la Pastèque. Please visit the VCLR website for full details. Freedom to Read Week: February 25 to March 3, 2018Freedom to Read Week promotes advocacy against censorship across Canada. Events are being held across Canada, some include children’s and young adult authors whose work has been challenged. On February 28, 2018 from 1:00-2:00pm Jillian Tamaki will be speaking at the Toronto Public Library to discuss her graphic novel This One Summer, which was considered controversial at its publication in 2016 for LGBT characters, drug use, and mature content. A Celebration of Bilingual Books and Latinx CommunitiesOn March 3, 2018 in New York City the Bank Street Center for Children's Literature is hosting a Spring Mini-Conference. The keynote speaker is Duncan Tonatiuh.2018 Children’s & Teen Choice Book AwardsEvery Child a Reader Announces the Finalists for the 11th Annual Children’s & Teen Choice Book Awards. Launched in 2008, these are the only national book awards voted on only by kids and teens. Voting begins March 1 and runs through May 6.Children's Book Week April 30 - May 6, 2018Children’s Book Week will celebrate its 99th anniversary in May 2018. Established in 1919, it is the longest-running national literacy initiative in the US. You can learn more about events and how to host one through Every Child a Reader or the Children’s Book Center website. This year’s poster art can be downloaded here.Wishing you happy and warm reading for the winter!Hanne PearceCommunications Editor

“My Family Makes This!”: Including Cookbooks in the Classroom Library

AbstractFinding culturally relevant informational books for a classroom library can be difficult. However, expanding the definition of informational text to include procedural forms, specifically cookbooks, can enhance the cultural relevance, range, and number of books available for students to read. Reasons for placing cookbooks in the classroom library include promoting reader interest and providing opportunities for students to read short yet predictable texts. Additionally, cookbooks contain the technical vocabulary of the culinary arts, thus helping readers expand their knowledge of food science. Criteria for selecting cookbooks for the classroom library include layout, font, photographs, physical size, content, and representations of the world and its people.

Informational Books for Children

The ignorance of reading activity is a result of condition in which people are not accustomed to read because they are not familiar with the culture of writing. It is fueled by the entry of telecommunications technologies and broadcasting, especially children digital native generation. The ability to speak and communicate in children is very influential in the development of social interaction. Besides the language and communication skills are directly related to the process of thinking and developments in the search for solutions to problems in children. Informational books is one medium that can help the development of language and communication skills in children. Informational books can convey knowledge of all the things they want to know the child, about science, about everything that exists and happens around the child to see the writing in a language that has a characteristic and image. The method used is literature study and data collection techniques to conduct a study review of the relevant literature. Informational books children as a means of communication, various forms of media including books have a major influence in shaping attitudes and behavior of children. A wide variety of informational books that has developed its own current trend where its use on children in need of assistance

The future of us: what the dreams of children mean for twenty-first-century America

In The Future of Us: What the Dreams of Children Mean for Twenty-First-Century America, Dr. Irwin Redlener delivers an engaging, unique, and informative book on the adversities and social dispariti...

Reader-Friendly Navigator for Global Tax Treaty Cases—Book Review of “A Global Analysis of Tax Treaty Disputes”

This paper is a book review for the informative and thoughtful book “A Global Analysis of Tax Treaty Disputes”, edited by Prof. Eduardo Baistrocchi. As one of the first readers of this book, I firmly believe that it is a most fascinating pioneering work on global and comparative analysis of tax treaty disputes from empirical approach.

Through Belgian Eyes: Charlotte Brontë's Troubled Brussels Legacy by Helen MacEwan

Reviewed by: Through Belgian Eyes: Charlotte Brontë's Troubled Brussels Legacy by Helen MacEwan Amber Pouliot (bio) Review of Helen MacEwan, Through Belgian Eyes: Charlotte Brontë's Troubled Brussels Legacy (Eastbourne: Sussex University Press, 2018) 258 pages, ISBN 978-1-84519-910-4 Between February 1842 and January 1844, Charlotte Brontë lived, studied, and worked at the Pensionnat de Demoiselles Heger-Parent, in Brussels. Much has been written about the impact of this continental sojourn on Brontë's literary development, which is especially evident in her two Belgian novels, The Professor (her first-written novel, completed in 1846 but published posthumously in 1857) and Villette (1853). There has also been a great deal of (often salacious) speculation regarding the nature of Brontë's relationship with Constantin Heger, her literary professor and the husband of her employer, Zoë Heger. Helen MacEwan's engaging and informative new book, Through Belgian Eyes: Charlotte Brontë's Troubled Brussels Legacy, offers readers something entirely original, redirecting our focus to consider Charlotte's impact on Brussels and the Belgians, tracing her reception from the first French translations of her novels, in the mid-nineteenth century, to the present day. MacEwan's book will, of course, be of interest to Brontë fans and scholars, as well as those with a more general interest in the family, especially now during their bicentenaries from 2016–2020. Written in an accessible style and featuring a timeline of Brontë's reception in Belgium (including translations of her novels, the publication dates of influential biographies, and the release dates of film adaptations), it will be useful to undergraduates and postgraduates studying Brontë and her literary legacy. But it includes so much fresh material that it will also be immensely useful to scholars researching and teaching the Brontës. Through Belgian Eyes also offers a fascinating history of Brussels in its own right, focusing on the period of Brontë's residence but extending from 1830, when Belgium gained its independence from the Netherlands, to the present. For this reason, the book will appeal to readers with even a general interest in the long nineteenth century or in Belgian history [End Page 320] and culture. Over fourteen chapters, an introduction, and conclusion, MacEwan paints a remarkably vivid picture of Brussels society, covering such varied topics as its religious expression and fondness for pageantry, its rigidly stratified class system and extremes of wealth and poverty, its political climate and expressions of patriotism, and its national character and cultural productions. Among its many virtues, MacEwan's book is richly illustrated. It features more than seventy images, ranging from landscapes and cityscapes to pictures of citizens in Belgian national dress, portraits and photographs of prominent people, maps, reproductions of paintings, and illustrations of many streets and buildings that are no longer in existence due to a relentless process of urban development and renewal. As MacEwan demonstrates, the Brussels of today would be nearly unrecognizable to the Brontës; the Pensionnat Heger-Parent, the Rue Isabelle, the Protestant Cemetery, and many of the streets that Charlotte and Emily traversed have all been razed in order to make way for new building projects, a process that has become known as "Bruxellisation." In addition to making it possible for readers to visualize the Brontës' Brussels, MacEwan puts Brontë's descriptions of Belgian life into context, and in this way, disrupts entrenched understandings of her relationship with Brussels and portrayal of its customs and people. Brontë's acerbic descriptions of Belgium in her novels and letters home, her insistence that the national character was cold, selfish, slow-witted, and prone to deceit, have often been dismissed as narrow-minded prejudice. More charitably, they have been read in terms of her personal unhappiness and homesickness while in Brussels and her depression on returning home to find Heger cold and uncommunicative. MacEwan enriches our understanding by placing Brontë's observations in the context of other writers, including William Makepeace Thackeray, Lord Byron, and Charles Baudelaire, who mocked the little capital in similar terms. Brontë's insistence that Villette is a city of spies—a claim that might strike modern readers as farfetched and bigoted—finds some justification in MacEwan's discussion of...

Milwaukee Mayhem: Murder and Mystery in the Cream City's First Century by Matthew J. Prigge

Reviewed by: Milwaukee Mayhem: Murder and Mystery in the Cream City's First Century by Matthew J. Prigge Lawrence H. Larsen Matthew J. Prigge, Milwaukee Mayhem: Murder and Mystery in the Cream City's First Century. Madison: Wisconsin State Historical Society, 2015. 207 pp. $12.99. Matthew J. Prigge is a Milwaukee-based freelance author, historian, and radio personality. His fascinating and informative new book Milwaukee Mayhem: Mystery and Murder in the Cream City's First Century, covering the 1830s to 1930s, is a modern version of the Sins of the City books of the last half of the nineteenth century. These literary efforts, popular in their day but mostly forgotten now, dwelled on the unsavory side of life in the then-new urban America. The more lurid and sensational of the works described in great detail the interiors of widely patronized dance halls, taverns, and other places of amusement, giving the street addresses and warning visitors to stay away from them. Sins of the City books were considered fit for sale in religious book stores. Those for the Midwest included J. A. Dacus's and James W. Burel's 1878 A Tour of St. Louis or the Inside Life of a Great City and Harold Richard Vynne's 1892, Chicago by Day and Night: The Pleasure Seeker's Guide to the Paris of America. Like the nineteenth-century authors, Prigge accepts the proposition that urbanization inevitably has an underreported dark side: "There are few heroes and even fewer lessons to be learned. This is an incomplete history, dredged from the memory and prejudices of the times and unable to access those secrets the city wishes to keep," Prigge states. "This is a history that rides that dark and often senseless arc that slices through the daily happenings of a forgotten class of killers, liars, and crooks. This is the history of a city's one-hundred-year struggle to leave its past behind, to understand itself, and to make sense of the everyday mayhem of life in a metropolis being born" (xiv, which is incorrectly numbered and should be xvi). Prigge uses eighty-two short accounts to make his point. Some of what he calls the "orphans of history" run several pages and others only a couple paragraphs. They have such titles as "Love with a Bullet"; "Misfire"; "Dirty [End Page 63] Books"; and "The Missing Head." Many of the accounts are culled from the pages of Milwaukee newspapers, especially the Milwaukee Sentinel. The four chapters consist of eighteen entries under "Murders," seventeen under "Accidents," twenty-two under "Vice," and twenty-five under "Secrets." The various stories are not in chronological order. So, a 1928 tale is followed immediately by one from 1893, and so on. The stories range from the strange to the gruesome, as the following examples illustrate: • In 1929, a seventeen-year old high school girl was one of several people who received threatening letters. The police thought the sender an immigrant. The letters stopped, ending the matter. The note to the girl was signed, "Ed, the Bad Man."• In 1893, fift een skilled workers, trapped in a crib off the Milwaukee harbor during a Lake Michigan storm, faced possibly suffocating or opening a hatch. They opened the hatch. Water from high waves rushed in drowning fourteen workers. One escaped. • In 1871, police accepted the conclusion reached by a fortune-teller that a missing seventeen-year-old woman had been kidnapped. Eventually, her bloated body surfaced in a Milwaukee river. In the aft ermath, the city council passed an ordinance requiring fortune-tellers and other seers to have licenses in order to ply their trade. • In 1927, a nineteen-year-old woman candy store worker went on a blind date in a red car with an attractive man. A month later, police recovered her body, which did not appear to have been sexually molested. No one was ever arrested in the case. An assumption by the police that she had eloped proved wrong. • In 1892, a young switchman in a Milwaukee railroad yard left a switch open, causing the wreck of a shop train and the deaths of seven railroad workers. After only twenty minutes of...

Writing Pregnancy in Low-Fertility Japan by Amanda C. Seaman

Reviewed by: Writing Pregnancy in Low-Fertility Japan by Amanda C. Seaman Ayako Kano (bio) Writing Pregnancy in Low-Fertility Japan. By Amanda C. Seaman. University of Hawai'i Press, 2017. x, 230 pages. $62.00. Amanda Seaman's Writing Pregnancy in Low-Fertility Japan is an informative and thought-provoking book that offers many fascinating insights into pregnancy—in both its mundane and its outlandish modes—in the last few decades in Japan. As a study of pregnancy in Japan, it joins the ethnography Embodying Culture: Pregnancy in Japan and Israel (Rutgers University Press, 2010) by Tsipy Ivry. As a study of female authors foregrounding their bodily experiences, it joins books like Seaman's own Bodies of Evidence: Women, Society, and Detective Fiction in 1990s Japan (University of Hawai'i Press, 2004) and Julia Bullock's The Other Women's Lib: Gender and Body in Japanese Women's Fiction (University of Hawai'i Press, 2010). The book that most persistently calls for comparison with Seaman's, however, is Saitō Minako's Ninshin shōsetsu (Pregnancy fiction [Chikuma Shobō, 1994]), which is (in my opinion lamentably) not yet translated. Saitō's book does a masterful chopping and roasting job on canonical fiction written mostly, but not exclusively, by men, from the 1890s to the 1980s. In contrast, Seaman's deals primarily with the 1970s onward and exclusively focuses on works by women, also including works by manga artists and those blurring the line between fiction and nonfiction. Thus, in terms of the oeuvre discussed, there is hardly any overlap. The two contrasting books have much to tell us about pregnancy and about writing (or drawing) pregnancy in modern and contemporary Japan. What Saitō Minako ends up doing in her satirical study, I would argue, is not to describe a subgenre of Japanese fiction but to send up the institution of canonical "modern Japanese fiction" itself, in all its masculinist glory. [End Page 385] Pregnancy turns out to be crucial to the institution of modern Japanese fiction, a secret ingredient that exposes all manner of tired tropes and stereotypes about women and men and the meaning of life. What Amanda Seaman accomplishes is something quite different. As she points out, the decades since the 1980s are ones of low fertility, in which marriage and childbirth circumscribe less and less of women's lives. The dominant figure in cultural representation of women is not that of the mother, or the pregnant woman, but that of the girl (shMjo). For example, Nobuko Anan's Contemporary Japanese Women's Theatre and Visual Arts: Performing Girls' Aesthetics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) captures the cultural visibility of the girlish figure on stage and screen. Low fertility as social reality and the prevalence of the shōjo ideal means that the pregnant woman is rarely seen, on the page or in the streets. The topic of Seaman's study then is something of a paradox. On the one hand, pregnancy continues to be a defining feature of what is understood to be a woman's life-course in social common sense and in government policy. (As I describe in my own work, Japanese Feminist Debates [University of Hawai'i Press, 2016], the basic assumption of Japanese welfare policy is that all women marry and become mothers.) Yet, on the other hand, pregnancy is increasingly absent from women's lives. There is another paradox: In Seaman's words, "pregnancy makes for great literature: there is an alien creature growing inside a woman's body, sucking the life from her, parasitical and potentially horrific. When it painfully erupts, it is demanding and all-encompassing. On the other hand, stories about pregnancy are really boring" (p. 16) because modern medical development makes gestation non-eventful and parturition usually nonhorrific. Thus, pregnancy stories tend to be dominated by "intense personal reflection on the part of the woman" (p. 16) that may be variously insightful and enlightening, but might not make for entertaining reading. This is why in the works discussed by Seaman, something usually intrudes to make the pregnancy exciting and worthy of publication. Saitō Minako points to the same problem when she notes that in fiction, all pregnancy is unwanted, or...

Ariosto, Opera, and the 17th Century: Evolution in the Poetics of Delight by Edward Milton Anderson

Reviewed by: Ariosto, Opera, and the 17th Century: Evolution in the Poetics of Delight by Edward Milton Anderson Colin Timms Ariosto, Opera, and the 17th Century: Evolution in the Poetics of Delight., by. Edward Milton Anderson. By Edward Milton Anderson. (Historiae Musicae Cultores, cxxiii.) Appendice documentaria su CD-ROM, Nicola Badolato in collaboration with Amyrose McCue Gill. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2017 [xii, 280 p. ISBN 978-8-82226-501-2. £32 This is an original, informative and fascinating book on a large and important subject—the corpus of seventeenth-century Italian dramatic texts, mostly opera librettos, based on Orlando furioso, and what those texts reveal about the development of Italian opera during its first hundred years. Orlando furioso is the masterpiece of Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), one of the greatest Italian poets of all time and the illustrious precursor of Torquato Tasso (1544–95) and his Gerusalemme liberata. The title character is the medieval Frankish paladin Roland (died 778), his "fury" the frenzy or madness induced by his obsessive but unrequited infatuation with Angelica, the beautiful daughter of the king of Cathay who married the African soldier Medoro. The poem tells of Orlando's superhuman exploits in war and in love, and of his travels across Europe and beyond. Over the course of its forty-six cantos—38,736 lines in 4,842 stanzas of ottava rima (eight lines of eleven syllables)—this monumental epic also recounts the adventures of, for example, Alcina, Ariodante, Atalante, Bireno, Bradamante, Ginevra, Olimpia, Rinaldo, Rodomonte, and Ruggiero, ranges over a vast geographical area and probes almost every corner of human experience. First published in 1516, Orlando furioso had, by the end of the sixteenth century, achieved over 150 Italian editions and been translated into French and English. It is not surprising, therefore, that in the following two centuries it furnished material for musico-dramatic works by many composers, including Marco da Gagliano, Francesca Caccini, Luigi Rossi, Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti, Giovanni Alberto Ristori, Carlo Francesco Pollarolo, Vivaldi, Handel, Leonardo Leo, Wagenseil, Graun, Paisiello, Hasse, and Haydn. Some librettists supplied their own ending to the story of Angelica, which Ariosto had deliberately left incomplete ("forse altri canterà con miglior plettro"), but most went in other directions. Edward Milton Anderson (1966–2013) was an American scholar, a historian of Italian literature with interests also in music and art. His book is not the first attempt to trace the use of Ariosto in sixteenth-, seventeenth-, or eighteenth-century vocal music. Most well-known, perhaps, are Tim Carter's lists of works based on Ariosto and Tasso in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (London: Macmillan, 1992), but a start on both poets had already been made by Alfred Einstein in his article "Orlando Furioso and La Geru-salemme Liberata: As Set to Music during the 16th and 17th Centuries" (Notes 8, no. 4 [September 1951]: 623–30). Ariosto in music was subsequently explored by Renate Döring (1973), Maria Antonella Balsano and James Haar (1981), and Irène Mamczarz (1983), with Balsano and Thomas Walker (1988) conducting further research into the contribution of Tasso. Stefano Tomassini's 110-page study—"Un 'Orlando' novissimo: Ripresi teatrali, melodrammi e intermezzi dal Cinquecento al Settecento", in Lina Bolzoni, et al. (eds.), L'"Orlando furioso" nello specchio delle immagini (Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana fondata da Giovanni Treccani, 2014)—appeared too late for the author of the book being reviewed. Anderson was fortunate, however, in being able to draw on Claudio Sartori's catalogue of Italian opera librettos, I libretti italiani a stampa dalle origini al 1800: catalogo analitico con 16 indici, 7 vols. (Cuneo: Bertola & Locatelli, 1990–1994). His debt to Sartori is clear from his two appendices providing lists of Italian dramatic texts inspired by Ariosto, the first devoted to the seventeenth century, the second to the eighteenth. Appendix A includes forty-three works, compared with twenty-one in Grove Opera. The difference is explained by a variety of factors: Anderson's list includes manuscript as well as printed texts, items intended for music but not set, and works other than opera librettos—including a prologue that was printed in a larger collection, a favola maritima (Sebastiano Martini...

Konaklama İşletmelerinin Web Sayfa Tasarımlarının Pazarlama Uygulamaları Açısından İncelenmesi: Eskişehir Örneği

The purpose of this research is analyzing website of the hotels which have tourism management certificate in Eskisehir in terms of marketing practices. For this purpose, while hotels in Eskisehir represent the universe of this study, hotels which have tourism management certificate have been selected by purpose sampling method. Within this scope, websites were analyzed and content analysis was used. The majority of website have not had features such as online help form, exchange rate information, online questionnaire, proposal form, and visitor book. From these findings, it can be said that attention should be paid to the fact that the websites of the hotels should be more active and that marketing practices are used effectively.