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The article reviews the book "The Paleo-Typography of the French Renaissance: Selected Papers on Sixteenth-Century Typefaces" by Hendrik D. L. Vervliet.

The article reviews the book "From the Hand to the Machine. Nineteenth-century American paper and mediums: technologies, materials and conservation," by Cathleen A. Baker.

The article reviews volume one of the book "The Joseph Smith Papers: Journals, 1832-1839," written by Joseph Smith, edited by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald Esplin, and Richard Lyman Bushman.

The article reviews the book "The Middleton Papers: The Financial Problems of a Yorkshire Recusant Family in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," edited by José Bosworth, Pat Hudson, Maureen Johnson, and Denise Shillitoe.

Reviews the book "Paper Talk: A History of Libraries, Print Culture, and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada Before 1960," by Brendan Frederick R. Edwards.

The article reviews the book "Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents" by Lisa Gitelman.

The article reviews the book "The Anglo-American Paper War: Debates About the New Republic 1800-1825" by Joe Eaton.

The article reviews the book "Paper Memory: A Sixteenth-Century Townsman Writes His World," by Matthew Lundin.

The article reviews the book "Images and Texts on the Artemidorus Papyrus: Working Papers on P. Artemid," by Kai Brodersen and Jas Elsner.

The article reviews the book "The Hellenistic Monarchies: Selected Papers," by Christian Habicht.

Reviews the book "Middle Eastern Themes, Papers in History and Politics," by Meyer W. Weisgal and edited by Hanna Weiner and Barnet Litvinoff.

At the turn of the millennium, the world's political leadership adopted sustainable development as a leading model for societal development. However, the terms "sustainable development", "sustainability" and "sustainable" are sometimes over- and misused despite wide consensus about the concept's meaning among sustainability scholars and practitioners. While the concept allows various sustainability views to co-exist, random conceptualizations which do not respect the fundamental sustainability principles undermine the concept's objective to steer action. This lack of understanding of sustainability arguably inhibits its practical realization and a proper understanding of sustainability is urgently needed. In this paper we aim to contribute to a better understanding of sustainability by adopting a bird's eye perspective. We review the rich contemporary literature, with a specific focus on the terminology, genesis, fundamental principles, mainstream views of sustainability, and several governing aspects. Further, using the evolving body of sustainability literature, the paper provides arguments to combat common misconceptions of sustainability. OPEN ACCESS INSET: Box 1. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Romila Thapar, The Past Before Us: Historical Traditions of Early North India, Permanent Black, New Delhi, 2013, i–xvii + 758 pp., Harvard University Press, 2013. Hardcover: ₹3684, Paper Back: ₹945. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most popular Dutch educational enlightenment authors was Hieronymus van Alphen. His three volumes of Little Poems for Children published in 1778 and 1782 were extremely successful, both in the Netherlands and abroad. Inspired by the German poets Christian Felix Weisse and Gottlob Wilhelm Burmann, Van Alphen brought about an expansion of educational space based on the integration of moral education in the spirit of the educational ideas of Locke, Rousseau and the Philanthropinists with poetical ideas and the nature of the child in both the content and the form of his poems. His poems were translated almost immediately into English, French and, surprisingly, as many of his poems were more or less adaptations of poems by Weisse and Burmann, into German too. Van Alphen’s trump card was a reversal of former strategies of education: instead of pressing moral ideas upon the children from an adult point of view, he aimed at identification by (1) writing from the perspective of children, (2) situating the poems in the world of experience of children, (3) using a childlike style with a frolicking metre, rhyme scheme and prosody, and (4) combining text and images, so putting the moral message across visually and textually at the same time. In this paper, we follow the journey of poems for children as media for the cultural transmission of moral educational ideas from Germany to the Netherlands from the perspective of cultural transmission, moral literacy and educational space. We conclude that Van Alphen, with the combined power of text and image, successfully adopted and adapted former educational strategies, such as the moral poetics developed by his German predecessors Christian Felix Weisse and Gottlob Wilhelm Burmann. Taking their strategies on a poetic journey from Germany to the Netherlands, he not only transferred them, but transformed them as well. Van Alphen did so in a specific Dutch utilitarian way. His poems could be read for fun but were intended for learning. They were useful and entertaining at the same time, because he took the life and living environment of children into account, and particularly accounted for the concept of development as a distinguishing characteristic of the specific nature of the child with which child readers could identify. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper argues that John Lydgate's Bycorne and Chychevache marks an important shift in the literary uses of emotion by revising the discourse of melancholic suffering in order to help a merchant-class patron confront socio-economic anxieties. In his misogynist poem, Lydgate imagines a world where wives dominate their husbands and force them to fall victim to a man-eating monster. The poem thus focuses on a melancholic masculinity that is captive to grief and trapped in a feminized subject position. Bycorne and Chychevache 's masculine melancholy addresses the fifteenth-century merchant's concerns about household governance, business success, and the building of a lasting legacy. But, in a striking reversal, Lydgate reimagines melancholy as a sign of power and privilege, and departs radically from the traditional narrative of melancholy as he converts feelings of disempowerment into signs of masculine exceptionality. In so doing, Lydgate anticipates early modern writers' understanding of melancholic suffering as not only a mark of spiritual and intellectual greatness in men, but also an affect that a man might adopt by choice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the influence of Virgil on Martin Luther, paying special attention to a short verse composition of Luther's in Latin, Adversus Armatum Virum Cochlaeum, based on the first lines of the Aeneid. The study suggests that an adequate understanding of Luther's relationship to and use of Virgil needs to take into full account the fact that the Reformer not only knew Virgil's works and quoted from him frequently, but also himself composed verses based on Virgil's. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents contents of several essays related to world history which are published in the April 1, 1981 issue of the journal 'American Historical Review.' 'Essays in Economic and Business History: Selected Papers from the Economic and Business Historical Society, 1976, 1977, and 1978,' edited by James H. Soltow; 'Wealth and the Wealthy in the Modern World,' edited by W.D. Rubenstein.

The article reviews the book "Words Between Us/ He Korero: First Maori-Pakeha Conversations on Paper," by Alison Jones and Kuni Jenkins.

The article critiques the stylistic elements of the poem "Venus and Adonis," by William Shakespeare, particularly focusing on inconsistencies of tone, characterization and voice. It addresses Roman poet Ovid's narrative poem "Metamorphoses" as Shakespeare's principal source, the sensuous sophistication and humor of the poem, and literary scholar Hallett Smith's placement of the poem in the genre of Ovidian mythological-erotic poetry.

The article reviews the book "Killing Green: An Account of Hand Papermaking in China," by Elaine Koretsky.

The article reviews the book "Hidden History of Memphis," by G. Wayne Dowdy.

The article reviews the book "An Illustrated History of the People and Towns of Northeast Shelby County and South Central Tipton County: Salem, Portersville, Idaville, Kerrville, Armourtown, Bethel, Tipton, Mudville, Macedonia, Gratitude, Barrettville, and Rosemark, Tennessee," edited by Jon B. McCalla, Penny Saucier Glover, Ruth Blakey Billingsley, and Louise Wooldridge Rhodes.

The article reviews the book "Lost Memphis," by Laura Cunningham.

The article reviews the book "Memphis Chronicles: Bits of History from the Best Times," by John E. Harkins.

The article reviews the book "A Guide To Historic Downtown Memphis," by William Patton.

The article reviews the book "Memphis and the Super Flood of 1937: High Water Blues," by Patrick O’Daniel.

The article reviews the book "Crusades for Freedom: Memphis and the Political Transformation of the American South," by G. Wayne Dowdy.

The article reviews the book "Confederate States of America: Catalog and Handbook of Stamps and Postal History," edited by Patricia A. Kaufman, Francis J. Crown, and Jerry S. Palazolo.