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Book SynopsisSalvador Dalí just couldn’t help being himself. When he was little, he wasn’t like the other children; he was a day dreamer who liked to play pretend. When he grew up, he became an artist, but he didn’t want to make art that looked like everyone else’s. He became the most famous painter of his time after he made a picture of melting clocks. He liked to do wild, attention-grabbing things: He drove a fancy car stuffed with 1,000 pounds of cauliflower. He gave a speech inside a deep-sea diving suit. And he took his pet ocelot Babou to lunch at snooty restaurants. He designed lollipop wrappers in exchange for free candy, a lobster phone that really worked, and a hat made out of a shoe! Here’s the true story of the one and only Salvador Dalí, an artist who never stopped being himself.Trade ReviewPraise for Just Being Dalí:"This paean to the avant-garde will resonate with those who march to their own drumbeats." —Booklist"A buoyant, kid-friendly distillation of Salvador Dalí’s life and art." —Kirkus Reviews"The irrepressible Dalí was as much a phenomenon as an artist, and this picture book biography wisely depicts him as both . . . Helquist’s familiar style of measured exuberance suits its subject well . . . An artist who focused on garnering attention and exploring absurdity has innate kid appeal." —The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books"[Helquist's] colorful illustrations are playful and detailed . . . Engaging and imaginative." —School Library Journal"Entertaining . . . In swirling lines and jewel-like colors, Helquist’s oil on paper illustrations realistically depict Dalí’s carnivalesque world." —Publishers Weekly"Appropriately flamboyant." —The Horn Book

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Book SynopsisThe so-called Lectura Thomasina, a commentary on Peter Lombard’s Sentences, was composed by the Dominican William of Peter of Godin at the beginning of the 14th century. The manuscript tradition provides the text with the title ‘Thomasina’ because of the large number of verbatim quotations from Aquinas’ writings. This text is not a mere compilation of Aquinas’ dicta, but represents an attempt to outline the fundamental elements of Thomas’ doctrine, giving them both unity and coherence. For this reason, Godin’s commentary is an important witness to the reception of Aquinas’ texts during the period between his death and his canonization. The critical edition of the Lectura Thomasina, presented here for the first time, is based on an examination of the entire manuscript tradition and is accompanied by an historical and philological introduction. In this part of his Sentences commentary (prologue and book I, distinctions 1-27), Godin deals with some central themes of scholastic theology, such as the scientific nature of theology, the knowledge of God, divine attributes, the doctrine of the Trinity, divine relations, the doctrine of caritas, the omnipotence of God, and the predication of God’s names. In addition to these theological questions, the text contains a philosophical digression in distinction 8, where Godin examines the distinction between essence and existence both in God and in created beings.

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