Les cheveux de sainte Thérèse, ou le sacré comme dispositif by Marie Caillat

“…The objective of this research is to understand how the devices used to exhibit relics and the narration of the biographies of saints can produce both object and subject – souvenir, relic or saints – as well as thought, for example, of death.…”
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“Frizioni famigliari”. Lavoratori, salute e conflitti in un’area industriale siciliana by Andrea Filippo Ravenda

“…From this perspective, the families and the biographies of the workers themselves are spaces of friction useful for the understanding of the more complex system that connects global instances of environmental risk to local specificities and the experiences of the people who live and work in industrial areas.…”
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«Kolchak and Pepeliaev in prison»: memories of M. A. Grishina-Almazova by D. I. Petin, M. M. Stelmak

“…The publication is addressed to the researchers of the political everyday life of the Civil War, the White movement, the Red Terror, and those interested in the biographies of A. V. Kolchak, V. N. Pepeliaev, A. V. …”
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Art and the ‘Second Darkness’ by Catherine Lanone

“…He describes the Bloomsbury legacy in terms of aesthetic change, such as Virginia Woolf’s rhythmical sensuous prose or Lytton Strachey’s ironic, revolutionary biographies. But he also helps us to define this legacy in more political terms, as the ethos of art and personal relationships was confronted with the rise of fascism. …”
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Jan Kristián Swéerts-Sporck a František Girtler − na společné cestě mezi zbožností a ekonomickým zájmem by Veronika Čapská

“…An extensive group of preserved sources consisting e.g. of a hand-written travel diary, notebooks and printed spiritual biographies enables an in-depth analysis of both devotional and economic context of the rise of the Girtler officials in the service of the Swéerts-Sporck family. …”
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Jugendarbeitslosigkeit – eine große sozialethische Herausforderung in Europa by Joachim Wiemeyer

“…Ein verpasster Berufseinstieg kann für die Biographie junger Menschen gravierende Konsequenzen haben und ihr Vertrauen in die politische und wirtschaftliche Ordnung herabsetzen. …”
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« En femme » à la gare Saint-Charles : la prostitution des Algériens à Marseille by Laurent Gaissad

“…They materialize primarily in the distance that separates the world of standards, revealing original biographies often marked by radical transitions from one situation to another in daily life, and from an ethics of secrecy associated with public disorder that may result from these itineraries in terms of “gender” and sexuality.…”
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Écrire À partir de la parole ou l’appréhension des souvenirs : une réélaboration au présent du passé récent en Argentine by Paula Sombra

“…It presents a way of thinking about the past via the reinterpretative construction of the biographies of two groups of people: one belonging to an armed organization, the Peronist Armed Forces (FAP), and the other to the concurrent, unarmed Grassroots Peronism (PB). …”
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Intérpretes e notáveis da literatura e da cultura popular do Maranhão by Igor Gastal Grill, Eliana Tavares dos Reis

“…We analyzed Academic Profiles and Popular Culture Profiles taking into consideration: (i) the social and political position of the agents (biographers and biographiers), defined by the resources on which their “reputation” and their inscriptions are based on cultural and political struggles; (ii) the structuring strategies of the works, observing the selection and hierarchization of the cases, available space, assigned classifications, among others; (iii) and the contents, adjectives, definitions, finally, the representations explained in the pre-texts and laudatory texts. …”
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Błogosławieni wychowawcy świętej Teresy z Lisieux by Henryk Sławiński

“…First of all however the short biographies of Louis Martin and Zelie Guerin have been presented followed by the detailed description of their educational method and its validity for the contemporary parents.…”
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The Aftermath of Minds, Hearts, and Symbols: A Multidimensional Perspective on Digital Housework by Alina Silion

“…The results are drawn from a thematic analysis of 53 cultural biographies of domestic devices and indicate a distinction between cognitive, emotion, and symbolic digital housework tasks that lead to digital housework outcomes in the form of digital capital. …”
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Vestiges de collections by Margaux Dumas

“…Through the archives of the Commission de Récupération Artistique from 1944 to the 1950s, and by delving into Le Répertoire des biens spoliés published beginning in 1947, historians can bring to life rare objects, private collections, and dismantled and disappeared sets, recounting their respective biographies and offering a perspective on the tastes of the time, thanks to the descriptions, photographs and drawings that accompany the inventories. …”
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The 'Rush Hour' of Life: Insecurities and Strains in Early Life Phases as a Challenge for a Life Course-Oriented, Sustainable Social Policy by Ute Klammer

“…The extent to which precarious employments and other labour market risks in early life phases affect the people concerned in the long run can only be determined by looking at entire biographies, in particular at life and labour courses. …”
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Rotational dynamics between bureaucracy and electocracy by I. A. Lavrov

“…The present study, analyses the biographies of 800 politicians of the Russian Federation who hold public positions in the executive and legislative authorities of all three levels: federal, regional, and municipal. …”
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Diskuze o talmudickém původu Chevra kadiša v časopisech Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums, Die Neuzeit a Oesterreichische Wochenschrift by Jana Horáková

“…To put both of these discussions in a wider context and to uncover the motivations of particular authors, the paper presents the character of all three journals as well as the biographies of the individual authors and their relation to the then philological research concerning the topic of Hevra Kaddisha. …”
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Professional elevators to the Russian political elite by N. A. Yushkina

“…The paper takes as a basis the biographies of 800 representatives of all levels of executive and legislative power holding senior positions. …”
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Russian entrepreneurship in the formation of charitable activities: Yesterday, today, tomorrow by N. A. Shatalova

“…The study of this subject area involves the use of historiographical method and the study of biographies of prominent philanthropists. This allows us to understand more accurately the cause-and-effect relationships that condition the emergence and development of philanthropic practices. …”
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The War in the Historical Memory of Nations by N. V. Pavlov

“…This memory is alive in literature, in movies and plays, songs, in memorials, biographies and historical dates. The Russian and German descendants of those who fought against each other are doing an important work searching for the killed, looking after the burial places, compensating the damage to the victims of this inhuman massacre, trying to understand critically our common and controversial past. …”
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Institute of Philosophy of St. Petersburg State University: Pages of History by S. I. Dudnik

“…The example of the professors’ biographies revealed little-known pages of the history of Russian philosophy. …”
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Conflicting Images of Women in Hollywood 1930s Cinema by Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard

“…L’étude de A Star is Born (William Wellman 1937), de son ‘remake’ par George Cukor (1954), et de la biographie de Frances Farmer : Frances (Graeme Clifford, 1982), permet de mettre en lumière l’image de la femme dans l’industrie hollywoodienne des années 20. …”
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