1 Institut für Mathematik, Universität Wien, Strudlhofgasse 4, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. 2 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia; e-mail: [email protected] 3 LaBRI, Université Bordeaux 1, 351 cours de la Libération, 33405 Talence Cedex, France. 4 Present address: Institut Gerard Desargues, Université Claude Bernard Lyon-I, Bâtiment B...

Araba Sevdası, written by Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem and one of the most important novels in Ottoman-Turkish literature, criticises “European snob type” who despises his own culture desires everything Western. Based on Alphonse Daudet’s impressions trip to Algeria 1861, Tartarin Tarascon “Provencal type Southern France” is overly fond exotic looks quite comical Eastern clothes. Both Ekrem’s protago...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 62, No. 2, 2013 (“Essays in Honor of W. Boyd Rayward: Part I,” edited by Alistair Black and Charles van den Heuvel), pp. 442–455. © 2014 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract The 1890s saw an explosion of ambitious projects to build a massive classification of knowledge that would serve as a basis for universal catalogues of scientific publishing. The large...

In the 19th century Alphonse the Lamartine (1790–1869), a French writer, said that “History Teaches Everything, Including the Future.” This is a very accurate statement; the definition of what makes whole nations, what characterizes patriotism, relates to the history of that particular place. This understanding about the importance of History has always been recognized by thinkers, philosophers...

Al Gerhardstein, noted Cincinnati civil rights attorney, has donated to the University of Libraries’ Archives and Rare Books Library papers documenting his nearly 50-year career in litigation advocacy, with focuses reproductive rights, prisoner’s policing, employment discrimination, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) rights. Material extensive collection includes briefs; pleadings; depo...