La croix du secret.

La croix du secret. PDF Author: José GUILLAUME
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La croix du secret.

La croix du secret. PDF Author: José GUILLAUME
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Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN: 1446133184
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Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Secrets of Nature

Secrets of Nature PDF Author: William R. Newman
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262140751
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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A fresh look at the role of astrology and alchemy in Renaissance thinking and everyday life.

Family and Christian Ethics

Family and Christian Ethics PDF Author: Petruschka Schaafsma
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009324624
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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In this book, Petruschka Schaafsma offers an innovative appraisal of family. Eschewing the framework of worry and renewal that currently dominates family studies, she instead explores the topic through the concepts of 'givenness' and 'dependence'. 'Givenness' highlights the fact that family is not chosen; 'dependence' refers to being intimately included in each other's identities and lives. Both experiences are challenging, especially in a contemporary context, where independence and freedom to shape one's own life have become accepted ideals. Schaafsma shows the impasses to which these ideals lead in several disciplines – theology, philosophy, sociology, social anthropology and care ethics. She moves constructively beyond them by tapping literary, artistic and biblical sources for their insights on family. Grounded in a theological approach to family as 'mystery' rather than 'problem', she develops an understanding of the current controversial character of family that accounts for both its ordinary and transcendent character.

Culture

Culture PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Constitutionalism and Rights

Constitutionalism and Rights PDF Author: Louis Henkin
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231065702
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the "hair-of-the-dog" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect ones problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, "a grand excavation of drug myth." Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is a story of scientific and artistic achievement, war and greed, empires and religions, and lessons for the future. Ciaran Regan looks at each class of drugs, describing the historical evolution of their use, explaining how they work within the brain's neurophysiology, and outlining the basic pharmacology of those substances. From a consideration of the effect of stimulants, such as caffeine and nicotine, and the reasons and consequences of their sudden popularity in the seventeenth century, the book moves to a discussion of more modern stimulants, such as cocaine and ecstasy. In addition, Regan explains how we process memory, the nature of thought disorders, and therapies for treating depression and schizophrenia. Regan then considers psychedelic drugs and their perceived mystical properties and traces the history of placebos to ancient civilizations. Finally, Intoxicating Minds considers the physical consequences of our co-evolution with drugs -- how they have altered our very being -- and offers a glimpse of the brave new world of drug therapies.

Born to Write

Born to Write PDF Author: Neil Kenny
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192593579
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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It is easy to forget how deeply embedded in social hierarchy was the literature and learning that has come down to us from the early modern European world. From fiction to philosophy, from poetry to history, works of all kinds emerged from and through the social hierarchy that was a fundamental fact of everyday life. Paying attention to it changes how we might understand and interpret the works themselves, whether canonical and familiar or largely forgotten. But a second, related fact is much overlooked too: works also often emanated from families, not just from individuals. Families were driving forces in the production—that is, in the composing, editing, translating, or publishing—of countless works. Relatives collaborated with each other, edited each other, or continued the unfinished works of deceased family members; some imitated or were inspired by the works of long-dead relatives. The reason why this second fact (about families) is connected to the first (about social hierarchy) is that families were in the period a basic social medium through which social status was claimed, maintained, threatened, or lost. So producing literary works was one of the many ways in which families claimed their place in the social world. The process was however often fraught, difficult, or disappointing. If families created works as a form of socio-cultural legacy that might continue to benefit their future members, not all members benefited equally; women sometimes produced or claimed the legacy for themselves, but they were often sidelined from it. Relatives sometimes disagreed bitterly about family history, identity (not least religious), and so about the picture of themselves and their family that they wished to project more widely in society through their written works, whether printed or manuscript. So although family was a fundamental social medium out of which so many works emerged, that process could be conflictual as well as harmonious. The intertwined role of family and social hierarchy within literary production is explored in this book through the case of France, from the late fifteenth to the mid-seventeenth century. Some families are studied here in detail, such as that of the most widely read French poet of the age, Clément Marot. But the extent of this phenomenon is quantified too: some two hundred families are identified as each containing more than one literary producer, and in the case of one family an extraordinary twenty-seven.

Catalogue of the First [and Second Remaining] Portion of the Theological & Miscellaneous Stock of C.J. Stewart

Catalogue of the First [and Second Remaining] Portion of the Theological & Miscellaneous Stock of C.J. Stewart PDF Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
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Languages : en
Pages : 570

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Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Biographie Universelle, Ancienne Et Moderne

Biographie Universelle, Ancienne Et Moderne PDF Author:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1438

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