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The article reviews the book "New Aspects of the Central and Eastern European Upper Palaeolithic: Methods, Chronology, Technology and Subsistence," edited by Christine Neugebauer-Maresch and Linda R. Owen.

The article reviews the book "Studies on Fibulae and on the Relative Chronology of the Late La Tene Period" by Drgan Bozic.

The article reviews the book "Asseria 7 Zadar, Museum of Ancient Glass and City of Benkovac" by Marina Jurjevi&#263.

The article reviews a book of inventories of the three family archival funds: HR DAVZ 1105, of the Costellanfy family (1382-1710); HR DAVZ 1115, of the Vragovic family (1616-1749); and HRDAVZ 1110, of the Gotal family (1528-1729). The records of the Costellanfy Family are classified chronologically, and according to family members, and include a list of copies of documents. The inventory of the Gotal family’s records is more detailed; in addition to historiographic data, information on the condition, contents, and value of the archival material is given. The records of the Vragovic Family are the largest fund of the three. Even though the three inventories are not described according to the ISAD international standard archival description, they nevertheless offer adequate and methodical descriptions. [ABSTRACT FROM CONTRIBUTOR]

The article reviews a book consisting of ten articles by the deceased author Zdravko Sundrica and is intended to reconsider and reevaluate the author’s underestimated status during his lifetime. The articles are based on archival material and deal mostly with "diplomatic" themes from different periods of the Dubrovnik Republic ranging from 14th to the early 19th centuries. Among the topics dealt with are: the history of the Dubrovnik archives, including their foundation, maintenance, and protection; the Dubrovnik intelligence service in the 18th century during the Austrian-Turkish war (1737-39); Dubrovnik diplomatic missions and diplomatic relations in the 16th-18th centuries with the Ottoman Empire; Serbian rulers; and the foreign policy of Dubrovnik and its control over neighboring areas. [ABSTRACT FROM CONTRIBUTOR]

The article reviews Davor Kovacic's book on the organization and structure of the police intelligence system in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) based on the primary sources kept in the Croatian State Archives and the Zagreb City Archives. The book describes the authoritarian regime based on the Nazi model, focusing on the Directorate for Public Order and Security, and the Ustashi Control Service (UNS), a counterpart of the Nazi Gestapo regime from 1941 to 1943. These were abolished in 1943 and incorporated into the new Main Directorate for Public Order and Security,1943-1945. The repressive apparatus operated against groups such as Jews, Serbs, Roma, and Communists, and considered and treated as internal enemies. The members of the NDH police were incompetent and primitive but politically aligned. [ABSTRACT FROM CONTRIBUTOR]

The article reviews John Ridener's book in which he traces the evolution of concepts and ideas that have guided archivists in their work from the late 19th through the early 21st centuries. Ridener explores the importance of theory and its key segment -- archival appraisal for archival work within a socio-historical context -- in order to understand how archiving is shaped by social and technological factors. The focus is on the three archivist manuals in their socio-historical contexts: a late 19th-century Dutch manual (Muller, Feith, and Fruin); Hilary Jenkinson’s manual, produced a generation later; and a post-World War II American manual, Schellenberg’s "Modern Archives." Chapter 7 examines the work of subjectively selected contemporary archivists who use postmodern and critical theories in appraisal of archival records and the challenges of technology to create new archival paradigm. [ABSTRACT FROM CONTRIBUTOR]

The prominent Bulgarian musicologist Ivan Kamburov (1883-1955) wrote and published the book HÕrvatska muzika. Minalo i sÕvremenost [Croatian Music. Past and Present] in Sofia in 1942. On the 99 pages of that small book he presented material in several chapters, without illustrations, music examples etc. Proceeding from similarities in the Bulgarian and Croatian past, Kamburov laid stress upon their cultural and, in particular, music connections. His basic thesis was that Croatian secular music started to develop in the 19th century during the Illyrian Movement, that is, the National Revival. In the earlier periods, music in Croatia belonged to the category of church music. Although he mainly relied on Bo¾idar ©irolaÕs Pregled povijestihrvatske muzike [Survey of Croatian Music History, 1922], in which the writer mentioned the Croatian secular music of earlier centuries, Kamburov didnot take that information into account for reasons that remain unclear. A significant amount of crudity and inaccuracy testifies to the fact that Kamburov did not consult his Croatian colleagues. Written in the Bulgarian language, KamburovÕs book was obviously meant for the Bulgarian public. Its reception in Bulgaria has not been yet researched. To the best of our knowledge, two reviews were published in Croatian daily newspapers, and a very short note in the music journal Sv. Cecilija pointed out some of the factual mistakes. However, no strictly musicological review was published. It is possible that Croatian musicologists valuedKamburovÕs hard work and did not want to speak detrimentally about the book and its oversights and superficialities at that time of intensive revitalization of Croatian-Bulgarianrelations. In any case, that book is still the only musico-historiographical synthesis on Croatian music by a non-Croatian author. As such, it must not be overlooked in works dealing with the very discipline of Croatian music historiography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Medical Geography," by Melinda S. Meade and Robert J. Earickson.

The article reviews the book " Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination," edited by Joan M. Schwartz and James R. Ryan.

The article reviews the book "Hrvatska Arhitektura u XX. Stoljeću (Zbornik)" [Croatian Architecture in the 20th Century (Conference Proceedings)].

The article reviews the book "Tietz Fundamentals of Clinical Chemistry," edited by Carl A. Burtis, Edward R. Ashwood and David E. Bruns.

The article reviews the book "Clinical Chemistry: A Laboratory Perspective," by Wendy Arneson and Jean Brickell.

The article reviews the book "Clinical Biochemistry," 3rd edition, by Allan Gaw, Michael J. Murphy, Robert A. Cowan, Denis St. J. O’Reilly, Michael J.Stewart and James Shepherd.

The article reviews the book "Mapping Global Cities: GIS Methods in Urban Analysis," by Ayse Pamuk.