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This book presents the most important issues related to infections with Mycoplasma bovis, an etiological agent of many disorders in cattle, such as bronchopneumonia, mastitis, arthritis, otitis, keratoconjunctivitis, meningitis, and endocarditis. It consists of one review and eight research articles that discuss lung local immunity in experimental M. bovis pneumonia, antimicrobial susceptibility of M. bovis isolates, aspects related to M. bovis antibody testing, new data on the efficacy of seminal extender in M. bovis, as well as the importance of imported bull examination for this pathogen.

Connaissez-vous Augustin Thierry ? Si le nom et la légende de cet historien aveugle, contraint dès 30 ans à écrire l’histoire de mémoire, sont un patronage encore recherché – avec trois prix éditoriaux éponymes – son oeuvre est largement oubliée. À peine est-il considéré comme un styliste de l’âge romantique, en rivalité avec son cadet, Jules Michelet, tant sur le plan de l’érudition désirée que de la maîtrise du récit. Car Thierry est un de ces classiques de l’histoire du xixe siècle que l’on évoque sans les avoir lus : il n’est « rien qu’un nom », « un de ces vieux noms que les manuels continuent à faire vivre d’une sorte de vie singulière et désincarnée » (Lucien Febvre). Condamné à une lecture anthologique – des extraits des Lettres sur l’histoire de France (1827) ou des Récits des temps mérovingiens (1840) figurent dans les recueils d’historiographie à l’usage des étudiants en histoire – Augustin Thierry occupe, avec son frère Amédée, la place de précurseur périmé du « roman national ». Entre politique de mémoire et fabrique de l’histoire, les travaux d’Augustin Thierry dessinent les revendications et les contradictions d’une discipline en pleine rénovation au lendemain de la Révolution et de l’Empire. C’est à la redécouverte du parcours et de l’oeuvre de l’« Homère de l’Histoire » (Chateaubriand) que cet ouvrage collectif invite.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book presents emerging themes and future directions in the interdisciplinary field of critical data studies, loosely themed around the notion of shifting response-abilities in a datafied world. In each chapter an interdisciplinary group of scholars discuss a specific theme, ranging from questions around data power and the configuring of data subjects to the intersection of technology and the environment. The book is an invaluable dialogue between disciplines that introduces readers to cutting edge arguments within the field. It will be a key resource for scholars and students who require a guide to this rapidly evolving area of research.

Cities and all the activities carried out in an urban environment significantly influence climate change causes but, at the same time, they are greatly affected by them. For these reasons, urban areas not only represent one of the problems, but also the main field of application of intervention strategies to be developed in order to mitigate the negative effects of climate change. Among the strategies to contrast climate change, the adaptation to its environmental effects has been pushed right into the background in scientific debate, mainly due to the difficulty experienced in transferring urban climatology into methods that can be easily implemented by planners to draw up land use plan. This volume is an attempt to strengthen the cultural background of urban planner, establishing solid connections with urban climatology, in order to build a new language, able to consider the relationships between urban morphology and climate change adaptation strategies to be implemented.

Une journée d’hommage à Jean Jacquart (1928-1998) a réuni des témoignages sur le professeur et ses méthodes d’animation de la recherche locale et générale, mais également sur les sociétés savantes et leurs fédérations. Pour aller plus loin dans l’analyse, les réflexions de Florence Tamagne sur l’homosexualité et celles de Denis Pelletier sur le catholicisme des années 1950 contextualisent ces souvenirs. Le Congrès national des sociétés historiques et scientifiques rassemble chaque année universitaires, membres de sociétés savantes et jeunes chercheurs. Ce recueil est issu de travaux présentés lors du 146e Congrès sur le thème « Périphéries ».

This book shows how religious and racial prejudice, in parternship with an oversized academic arrogance, were able to undermine sense of fairness even in fields pertaining to those sciences more apparently free form ideological or nationalistic motivations, as botany and pharmacology. Violently reacting against some polite comments made by portuguese physician Amato Lusitano, the italian well known botanist Mattioli showed how racial prejudice was still used as a scientific argumente. This book is also a good exemple of the importance of Humanist Latin as a tool even in the fields of science.

Paysage dominé par des murailles et une citadelle, lieu d'échanges des biens et des savoirs, la ville d'al-Andalus reste avant tout plurielle. Elle est ici envisagée de deux manières : la ville achevée et adulte, la ville en mouvement et en formation.On entre d'abord dans la ville achevée, pour y observer les formes du paysage urbain, le cœur de la sociabilité urbaine — le marché et la mosquée — , la place du pouvoir — la citadelle — , mais aussi pour saisir la ville vécue avec ses difficultés quotidiennes de gestion de la rue et de l'eau, avec sa conscience urbaine, avec ses espaces qui parfois se déplacent, naissent ou disparaissent.Car la ville achevée a trouvé sa personnalité au terme d'une évolution dont sont présentés les phases et les acteurs : depuis le début du viiie siècle jusqu'à la fin du xve siècle, des vestiges de la ville antique jusqu'à la Grenade nasride, les villes d'al-Andalus connaissent de nombreuses transformations ; deux forces essentielles y président, les élites politiques et les initiatives des citadins. Enfin, la ville né saurait se développer sans puiser ses ressources dans un territoire que définissent des bornes administratives et une zone d'influence économique et culturelle.

After the dissolution of the USSR, the new post-Soviet borders became a valuable research laboratory both for social scientists from the region and international scholars. Persisting Soviet legacies, on the one hand, and the continuing re-bordering processes in the post-Soviet space, on the other, make post-Soviet borders an object of enduring scholarly interest and constitute post-Soviet border studies as a specific research field. This chapter outlines the contours of this multidisciplinary field and seeks to map its main research institutions, projects, and publications in multiple political, geographic, and academic contexts. It identifies regional ‘schools’ of border studies in the post-Soviet space as well as their origins. The chapter argues that the institutionalisation of border studies in the post-Soviet context has been closely connected, first, to the new geopolitical imaginaries of the post-Cold War era and, second, to some important paradigmatic shifts in social sciences that arrived in post-Soviet academia in the 1990s.

"[...] Caro Leitor, valerá a pena que, ao lado da minha Recolha Poética te ofereça agora os meus Contos Escolhidos, dois livros marcantes da minha caminhada literária que as circunstâncias não permitiram que fosse mais fecunda. Espero, contudo, que juntamente com as outras obras – romance, ensaio e intervenção cívica – deem testemunho, embora modesto, de um escritor comprometido com o seu tempo por considerar que a literatura deve ser «a expressão da sua própria humanidade e da Humanidade toda».

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This book provides a detailed introduction to how the Länder (the sixteen states of Germany) function not only within the country itself but also within the wider context of European political affairs. Some knowledge of the role of the Länder is essential to an understanding of the political system as well as of German federalism. This book traces the origin of the Länder. It looks at their place in the constitutional order of the country and the political and administrative system. Their organization and administration are fully covered, as is their financing. Parties and elections in the Länder and the controversial roles of parliaments and deputies are also examined. Because of their role in the Bundesrat, the second legislative chamber, the Länder are clearly an important part of the national legislative process. They participate in policy-making with regard to the European Union, and have limited influence on Germany's foreign affairs outside of Europe. This is the first English language book that considers the Länder in this depth.

Montgomery uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine questions of identity construction and multiracialism through the experiences of mixed-race Native American students at a tribal school in New Mexico. She explores the multiple ways in which these students navigate, experience, and understand their racial status and how this status affects their educational success and social interactions. Based on in-depth interviews with nine students who identify as mixed-race (Native American–White, Native American–Black, and Native American–Hispanic), Montgomery challenges us to scrutinize how the category of "mixed-race" bears different meanings for those who fall under it based on their their outward perceptions, including their ability to "pass" as one race or another.

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The article aims to present how the American newspapers manipulated the media image of Sharon Tate and what consequences of that can be observed today. The first part focuses on concepts of manipulation and linguistic manipulation. Author introduces perceptions of criminality, criminal offenders, and their victims in media, following by the outline of the circumstances of the Tate-LaBianca murders. Finally, the article presents the analysis of Sharon Tate's media image in selected press releases in the context of linguistic manipulation techniques.

The volume collects the reports presented during the study day held in San Miniato on December 1, 2007, dedicated to the historiographical investigation and to an assessment of the long archaeological research conducted on the site of San Genesio in the lower Valdarno, a village that witnessed settlement continuity from Antiquity to the middle thirteenth century and which was definitively abandoned following a violent destruction by the inhabitants of the nearby village od San Miniato al Tedesco. From written sources we know that the locality is renown for relevant political meetings and assemblies held there between the 11th and 12th centuries; these assemblies were destined to play a significant role in the wider context of municipal Tuscany. The inhabited area was brought to light during an almost ten-year excavation campaign that has provided very important results making it a very interesting case study. The volume is a comparison between historical and archaeological methodology and aims to highlight the great utility of interdisciplinary collaboration on the analysis of especially relevant samples. At the same time, it provides a first overall picture on the history of an abandoned centre offering a rich and exceptionally documented past, proposing a point of reference for other similar investigations intended to shed light on political events, on ecclesiastical institutions and on the dynamics of population in the Medieval Italy.