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El gorrión de Stalin. Historias. Revista de la Dirección de Estudios Históricos Num. 83 (2012) septiembre-diciembre
No full textSimon Sebag-Montefiore (1965) se ha dedicado a reconstruir y contar la vida y los tiempos de Stalin, por encima de su otra pasión: el siglo xviii ruso y sus autócratas. En español existen por el momento estos títulos: La corte del zar rojo (traducción de Teófilo de Lozoya Elzurdía, Crítica, 2004), Llamadme Stalin. La historia secreta de un revolucionario (traducción de Teófilo de Lozoya Elzurdía, Crítica, 2007, 2010), amén de su novela Sashenka (traducción de Máximo Sáez Escribano, Punto de Lectura, 2009, 2011). La hija de Stalin murió el pasado 22 de noviembre de 2011 en Richland, Wisconsin, bajo el nombre que asumió al casarse con un ciudadano estadounidense, Lana Peters. Esta nota se publicó el 3 de diciembre de 2011 en el Financial Times
Jerusalem "The Making Of a Holy City"
No full textHistorian and author, Simon Sebag Montefiore presents a fascinating series on Jerusalem: the place where God meets man, the shrine of three faiths - Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and the most fought over city in history
. 83 (2012) septiembre-diciembre. Historias. Revista de la Dirección de Estudios Históricos
No full text- Un poeta de casa por Alfonso Junco. - La familia Cseresnyés / Ĉerešnješ. Un comentario sobre un legado judío transilvano-bosnio por Stephen Schwartz. - Mi madre comparte sus secretos por Katie Roiphe. - El libro bien leído como objeto de belleza por Geoff Dyer. - El gorrión de Stalin por Simon Sebag-Montefiore. - El largo descubrimiento del Opera medicinalia de Francisco Bravo por Rodrigo Martínez Baracs. - Dos siglos, dos naciones: México y Francia 1810-2010 por Jean Meyer. - Los extranjeros en México. Reflexiones sobre una presencia diversa, de cifras difusas y cualidades evidentes por Delia Salazar Anaya. - El espectacular lanzamiento de la guerrilla urbana en Colombia, el M-19 en 1974 por Paulo César León Palacios. - La fotohistoria y el centenario de la Revolución mexicana: una aproximación biblio-hemerográfica por Daniel Escorza. - La traducción como generadora de imágenes por Salvador Rueda. - Recuento de la inmigración mexicana por María Dolores Morales. - Retratos de pasión por Rebeca Monroy Nasr. - De la fotografía de prensa por Daniel Escorza. – Crestomanía por José Mariano Leyva
Book Review: The World: A Family History of Humanity
Full text linkAuthor: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Reviewed by Lieutenant Colonel Zachary Griffiths (US Army), Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Army
The Harding Project’s Lieutenant Colonel Zachary Griffiths reviews this best-selling, epic in scope history of the world framed by powerful families and gives an honest evaluation of the book’s potential value (and shortcomings) for soldiers. Griffiths notes that the book provides insight into the “richness of the human experience” with “vignettes to give color to historical military campaigns and humanize those campaigns’ participants.”https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters_bookshelf/1057/thumbnail.jp
Review: "Kult Stalina. Studium alchemii władzy"/ Jan Plamper. Warszawa: Świat Książki, 2014. ISBN 9788379432752
No full textAmong the many books about the Soviet leader published in recent years in Poland, "Kult Stalina" is unique in its approach to the subject. The book is the Polish edition of Jan Plamper's "The Stalin Cult. A Study in the Alchemy of Power" published originally in English by Yale University Press in 2012 and does not include any additional material.
Plamper's work is not another biography of Stalin (among those that have been published in the last decades especially the works by Dmitri Volkogonov, Edvard Radzinsky and Simon Sebag Montefiore should be mentioned [1]); instead, the author offers a unique study on the "alchemy of power" – in other words, he looks at the cult of Stalin, answering the questions of its origin, evolution, central elements and the ways in which representations of the cult were created
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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