El descubrimiento del Nuevo Mundo en dos obras rabínicas sefardíes de Salónica (siglo xix) by Katja Šmid

“…Desde entonces se imprimió en cuarenta ediciones en hebreo, yídico y judeoespañol y se convirtió en un auténtico best seller de la literatura rabínica popular del siglo xix (Ruderman, 2014, 123–129, Appendix 1). …”
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Du conflit des codes à l’esthétique du centre. Automatismes, hypothèses et perspectives autour de la culture moyenne au Québec by Adrien Rannaud

“…Les cas du magazine et du best-seller au XXe siècle sont abordés dans le but de complexifier notre regard sur la vie littéraire d’avant la « Révolution tranquille ». …”
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Teaching the Logistic Growth Difference Equation Using Spreadsheets by Fred J Rispoli, Jeffrey Feuer, Richard Wilkens

“…James Gleick’s Chaos: Making a New Science is a national best seller). Moreover, the model has many real world applications in biology. …”
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INSIDE THE NUMBERS: USING PRIVATE COMMERCIAL DATA TO ANALYZE EAST AFRICAN IMPORTED SOAP CONSUMPTION, 1870-1914 by Laird Jones

“…Further, general purpose laundry soap was the overwhelming best seller. Personal toilette soaps lagged far behind. …”
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Paris vu par Corrado Augias : une quête d’identité(s) by Sophie Nezri-Dufour

“…I segreti di Parigi de Corrado Augias, récent best-seller italien qui oscille entre le guide et l’essai, offre une vision surprenante de Paris, de son territoire et de sa culture. …”
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“THE STRANGE CASE OF MACHADO DE ASSIS AND THE NOONDAY PRESS: RIGHTS AND PUBLICITY IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION” by ZEPHYR L. FRANK

“…The question of book sales was never one of large numbers or best-seller lists. Nevertheless, this article uses archival material to show that the publisher, Cecil Hemley, and his translators, including Helen Caldwell in particular, tried their best in improvised and opportunistic ways during the 1950s to generate interest and foment sales. …”
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A Tale of Two Textbooks: Experiments in Genre by Kaiser, David I.

“…In this brief essay I examine two idiosyncratic but highly successful physics books, each published in the mid 1970s, whose production, marketing, and adoption reveal some of the slippage between such categories as textbook, scholarly monograph, and popular best seller.…”
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the challenge continues : PARTICIPANT WORKBOOK / by Kouzes, James M., 1945-, author, Posner, Barry Z., Bozarth, Jane, 1961-, author

“…This companion to the international best-seller, The Leadership Challenge, was designed for those already familiar with the principles described in that modern classic and the Five Practices of Exemplary Leaders model. …”

Real and metaphorical hunger: the case of The Divergent Trilogy by Cristina Paravano

“…The present contribution investigates how the issue of hunger becomes a means of expressing and communicating personal and social identity in Veronica Roth’s best seller trilogy Divergent (2011-13). Roth portrays a dystopian future developing a multifaceted concept of hunger, both real and figurative, and using food as a cultural metaphor. …”
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« Never was there a happier partnership » : les illustrations d’Arthur Hughes pour At the Back of the North Wind de George MacDonald by Catherine Persyn

“…The present paper—in which a good number of Hughes’s seventy-six designs for MacDonald’s best-seller are examined—is built around three main lines. …”
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A ascensão social no romance histórico de Alexandre Dumas e de Camilo Castelo Branco by Luciene Marie Pavanelo

“… Este artigo propõe uma análise do best-seller histórico Os Três Mosqueteiros (1844), de Alexandre Dumas, focando na temática da ascensão social apresentada por meio do protagonista d’Artagnan e da vilã Milady. …”
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De Carolina a Carolina: sesenta y un años de la presencia de la autoría negra en el mercado editorial brasileño by Fernanda Felisberto

“…Los vínculos de Carolina con el mercado editorial en la década de 1960 para la publicación de aquel que llegaría ser el primer best seller de autoría negra en Brasil y las motivaciones actuales de este sector contienen algunas intersecciones que ilustran las intrincadas relaciones de este segmento con escritores y escritoras brasileñas, y serán parte de los entramados que tejen los contenidos que atraviesan el artículo.…”
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La opinión pública, “héroe” de la política: la contribución de Jacques Necker by Esteban López Escobar

“…No solamente publicó las cuentas de la monarquía francesa, sino que además escribió De l’administration des finances en France, donde expuso sus ideas sobre la opinión pública; y el libro fue un best-seller en el siglo XVIII. Pero, como ha afirmado la hija de Necker, la religión era aún más importante para él que la opinión pública. …”
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A nostalgia colonial como técnica de best-selling literário by Giorgio de Marchis

“…In addition to a fictional strategy of paralitera­ry character, the skilful recovery and banalization of the Queirosian lesson appears as one of the elements that, by offering a comfortable reading of a pleasure text (in a barthesian sense), justifies the great acceptance that this best-seller received in the Portuguese editorial market. …”
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Faces from the front: Harold Gillies, the Queen’s Hospital, Sidcup and the origins of modern plastic surgery by Andrew Bamji

“…All too often some popular history writer makes it to some best seller or must-read list but is riddled with over-exaggeration, over-simplification or inaccuracies.…”
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The Turkism Idea in Kızıl Tuğ Novel by Ahmet İhsan KAYA

“…The novel, published in 1927, was among the best seller until 1980s. Kızıl Tuğ, the important history adventure novels of the Turkish Literature, was also the first history novel of the Republican Period of Turkish Literature. …”
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Books of hours as codified compi-lations of compilations by Dominique Stutzmann, Louis Chevalier

“… Books of hours were the medieval best-seller. Imitating the model of liturgical books and intended for the faithful, these devotional manuscripts contain a common core of offices and texts, and they seem to have a standardized content. …”
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Die teoloog as sendeling – Op soek na ’n sleutel vir Calvyn se sendingbeskouing by Victor E. d'Assonville

“…While many studies, conducted over years, have demonstrated the contrary, this groundless allegation continues to assert itself from time to time, for example as found in a recent best-seller by one of the world’s leading church historians. …”
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Aspiraciones internacionales: el viaje europeo de Emma de la Barra/César Duayen by Karina Gisela Boiola

“…Se hace hincapié en aquellos que se centran en la visita que De la Barra y su marido, Julio Llanos, también escritor y periodista, le hicieron al célebre Edmundo De Amicis, autor de Cuore (1886), best seller que fue traducido a múltiples idiomas. El objetivo es revisar las ficciones autorales (Premat, 2008) que surgen de esos textos de viaje y rastrear los vínculos de sociabilidad que le permitieron a De la Barra reorientar su perfil autoral y proyectarse como una escritora de alcance internacional.…”
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As confissões de marca: identidades corporativas integradas à ficção by Emylianny Brasil da Silva, Silvia Helena Belmino

“…Tendo por objeto o romance “Os Delírios de Consumo de Becky Bloom”, um best seller que traz marcas reais e fictícias em seu texto, empregou-se a metodologia de Análise de Conteúdo para levantar e categorizar todas as marcas integradas à narrativa, visando identificar interações deste ‘novo’ elemento textual. …”
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