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Church, King John: England, Magna Carta and the Making of a Tyrant (Pan Books, 2015)

open access: yesRoyal Studies Journal, 2016
Review of Stephen Church, King John: England, Magna Carta and the Making of a Tyrant (London: Pan Books, 2015).
Stephen Donnachie
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The Role of Book Features in Young Children's Transfer of Information from Picture Books to Real-World Contexts

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
Picture books are an important source of new language, concepts, and lessons for young children. A large body of research has documented the nature of parent-child interactions during shared book reading.
Gabrielle A. Strouse   +2 more
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Characterizing the Google Books Corpus: Strong Limits to Inferences of Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Evolution [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
It is tempting to treat frequency trends from the Google Books data sets as indicators of the “true” popularity of various words and phrases. Doing so allows us to draw quantitatively strong conclusions about the evolution of cultural perception of a ...
E. Pechenick, C. Danforth, P. Dodds
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A Theory of Undamageable Graphene

open access: yesEngineering Transactions, 2018
It is the aim of this work to develop and extend the theory of undamageable materials to graphene. An undamageable material is a material where the value of the damage variable remains zero throughout the deformation process.
George Z. VOYIADJIS, Peter Issa KATTAN
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Measuring cultural capital through the number of books in the household

open access: yesMeasurement Instruments for the Social Sciences, 2019
Cultural capital is frequently measured via the number of books in a respondent’s household. Despite this measure’s widespread use, its quality remains largely unclear. To remedy this, we conducted a comprehensive assessment of the measurement properties
Swen Sieben, Clemens M. Lechner
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Bessel Functions. (Scientific Books: A Treatise on the Theory of Bessel Functions)

open access: yes, 1923
1. Bessel functions before 1826 2. The Bessel coefficients 3. Bessel functions 4. Differential equations 5. Miscellaneous properties of Bessel functions 6. Integral representations of Bessel functions 7.
G. Watson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Differences in Parent-Toddler Interactions With Electronic Versus Print Books

open access: yesPediatrics, 2019
Through videotaped analysis of reading interactions between parent-toddler dyads, we found a higher quantity and quality of reading interactions around print compared with electronic books.
T. Munzer   +4 more
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Differences in sentence complexity in the text of children’s picture books and child-directed speech

open access: yesFirst language, 2019
Reading picture books to pre-literate children is associated with improved language outcomes, but the causal pathways of this relationship are not well understood. The present analyses focus on several syntactic differences between the text of children’s
Jessica L. Montag
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Modernism and the Growing Catholic Identity Problem: Thomistic Reflections and Solutions [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Gilsoniana, 2015
Philosophical forces gathered in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Catholic Modernism have crystallized into theological views which permeate the antinomian atmosphere in the Church today, resulting in an ongoing Catholic identity problem, both
Heather M. Erb
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Reading L.M. Montgomery: What Adult Swedish and Canadian Readers Told Us

open access: yesJournal of L.M. Montgomery Studies, 2020
This article provides an international comparison of the role of reading L.M Montgomery in the lives of adult leisure readers in Sweden and Canada. Our analysis of open-ended qualitative interviews with Canadian readers and written accounts submitted by ...
Catherine Sheldrick Ross, Ösa Warnqvist
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