The age of the crowd: A vision of modern civilization by Milivojević Snežana

“…Gustave le Bon had been writing 'the science vulgarizer' during the time when film and television were still unknown. During the half century of the film television, comics, political posters and advertising boards, it was materialized, therefore confirmed, what his 'mass psychology' contained at the very beginning. …”
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Review of "Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age" by Michel Feher (Zone Books) by Wei-Ping Chen

“…Michel Feher’s new book "Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age" offers both critical evaluations and political discussions of the existing socio-economic theories about the dynamics of capitalism in the past half-century and the possible alternative directions current capitalism could take. …”
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High-speed imaging polarimetry using liquid crystal modulators by Ambs P., Gendre L., Jaulin A., Foulonneau A., Bigué L.

“…The basics of modern polarimetry have been known for one and a half century, but no practical high-speed implementation providing the full polarization information is currently available. …”
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How we got from there to here and back by Derek Mahony

“…Angle dominated orthodontic armamentarium, diagnosis and treatment planning for almost a half century until Charles Tweed successfully challenged his mentor's nonextraction mantra. …”
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The Analysis on the Effecting Factor of Drought Disease in Qingyang, Gansu by Xiaodong Wang

“…The paper analyzes change of air temperature and precipitation change occurred from last half century to the beginning of this century in the Qingyang region, Gansu Province, China. …”
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The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus by Irving Rouse, Yale University Press, New Haven. 1992 by James A. Delle

“…Professor Rouse began his field work in the Caribbean in the mid- 1930's; this book is his synthesis of the vast amount of information he has accumulated on the region in the half century that has elapsed since that time. …”
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The "Annales" School and Archaeology, edited by J. Bintliff, New York University Press, New York, 1991 by Lawrence G. Straus

“…Does archaeology advance in its unending search for some new truth by merely borrowing and applying terms that have common in Continental history for at least a half century?…”
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Review of Auker, Kenneth. 2013. <em>Keeping the Trust: Issues Surrounding the Formation of the Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church</em>. Ephrata, PA: Eastern Mennonite Publicatio... by John Ruth

“…It places on record and gives access to a conservative view of defining events that in a half century are becoming “blurred” memories. Whereas “mere memories” may well have become—for many potential readers within and beyond the fellowship—mere curiosities, it freshly articulates convictions once deeply and more widely held among traditional “Old” Mennonites in America. …”
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The Dark Side of Cuba's Health System: Free Speech, Rights of Patients and Labor Rights of Physicians by Octavio Gómez Dantés

“…It argues that health policies in Cuba in the past half century have been implemented with limited concern for civil liberties and certain human rights which are considered a core component of a responsive, transparent, and accountable health system. …”
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The Scientific Contributions of Bernard Cohen (1929–2019) by Jun Maruta, Jun Maruta

“…Throughout Bernard Cohen's active career at Mount Sinai that lasted over a half century, he was involved in research on vestibular control of the oculomotor, body postural, and autonomic systems in animals and humans, contributing to our understanding of such maladies as motion sickness, mal de débarquement syndrome, and orthostatic syncope. …”
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Circulating value: convergences of datafication, financialization, and urbanization by Julia R. Wagner

“…Abstract Much scholarship has revealed the interrelationships of urbanization and financialization of cities in the past half century. However, these twin processes are modulating with the advent and application of digital platforms towards the production and experience of urban life. …”
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Le “Pot Belge” : hommage amical à un pays modèle pour l’étude des facteurs d’intégration territoriale by Claude Grasland

“…An analysis of the dynamic of the settlement system on the long term (1846-2009) and of the migration on a half-century (1955-2009) reveals the strong resilience of the country against forces of political division. …”
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The expression of emotions in 20th century books. by Alberto Acerbi, Vasileios Lampos, Philip Garnett, R Alexander Bentley

“…Finally, we show that, in books, American English has become decidedly more "emotional" than British English in the last half-century, as a part of a more general increase of the stylistic divergence between the two variants of English language.…”
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Arguments for a Spiritual Urbanism by Julio Bermudez

“…Fourth, the built environment is well suited to induce and reinforce some of these ‘new’ spiritual practices given (a) its shaping role in cultural affairs; (2) humanity being an urban phenomenon, and (3) the huge population growth of the next half century.…”
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Pathology and Pathogenesis of Radiation Bowel Disease: Histopathological Appraisal in the Clinical Setting by Najib Haboubi

“…Over the last half century, radiotherapy has been established as a very effective treatment modality for solid tumours. …”
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Created Lives: The Evolution of Literary Biography by Andrew Otty

“…In this paper, I will discuss the developments, and new forms, which have appeared in the genre of literary biography over the past half-century. However, anyone who takes the Times Literary Supplement or London Review of Books, or who has browsed the shelves of Waterstones—the UK's leading bookseller—recently, will be aware that documentary biography, in a form that has not changed significantly since Boswell's Life of Johnson, remains dominant. …”
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The Black Arts Movement Reprise: Television and Black Art in the 21st Century by Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar

“…This article explores the ways in which, a half-century after the Black Arts Movement, African Americans in television have cultivated an aesthetic and politics that resonate with the core thrust of the Black Arts Movement, one that sets black people in the center of their own cultural and political narratives, and inextricably bound to the wider movements of social justice in black communities.…”
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Advances on Bioanalysis: Recent Approaches in the Determination of Biomarkers, Drugs of Abuse and Medicines by Mário Barroso, Eugenia Gallardo, Luís A. Passarinha

“…New developments in instrumental approaches, for instance, hyphenated techniques, have allowed great advances in the bioanalytical field over the last half century, and there is no doubt that toxicology was one of the most improved areas [...]…”
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Pitfalls of assessment of autonomic function by heart rate variability by Junichiro Hayano, Emi Yuda

“…This simplified framework is no longer able to deal with much evidence about heart rate variability accumulated over the past half-century. This review addresses the pitfalls caused by the old framework and discusses the points that need attention in autonomic assessment by heart rate variability.…”
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Economic Development and Government Spending: An Exploration of Wagner’s Hypothesis during Fifty Years of Growth in East Asia by Hassan Mohammadi, Rati Ram

“…Applicability of Wagner’s hypothesis to six East Asian countries is studied for a period of nearly a half-century during which their economic growth has often been termed as a “miracle”. …”
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