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University of Wisconsin Press Franco A Personal and Political Biography
Book SynopsisExamines in detail how General Francisco Franco became dictator and how his leadership led to victory in the Spanish Civil War that consolidated his regime. The authors also explore Franco's role in the great repression that accompanied the Civil War and examine at length his controversial role in World War II.Trade ReviewAn intimate portrait of Franco the man, provoking a lively and necessary debate about the nature of the dictator's regime.""- Julius Ruiz, author of Franco's Justice""This compelling biography of Francisco Franco situates the Caudillo in his Spanish and global context. It covers every aspect of Franco's life- from birth to death, from the political to the personal- displaying a judicious and critical understanding of this very controversial figure.""- Michael Seidman, author of The Victorious Counterrevolution: The Nationalist Effort in the Spanish Civil War""During and after his life, Francisco Franco garnered more than fifty studies of his life, but Franco: A Personal and Political Biography is quite simply one of the best. At last we are presented with a genuinely objective, balanced, above all dispassionate biography, written by two vastly experienced and distinguished scholars. The book's cool and measured conclusions- always lucidly presented- reflect almost uncannily the meticulously pragmatic approach of the subject himself to the numberless military and political issues his career confronted. From being a twentieth-century pariah of world politics, Franco has now come into his own in terms of serious academic attention.""- Robert Stradling, author of Your Children Will Be Next: Bombing and Propaganda in the Spanish Civil War""Francisco Franco is the only major twentieth-century dictator to die peacefully in his bed- after almost four decades in power. His regime was brutal, despicable, and in many respects ineffectual, yet it did not join the Axis powers in World War II and was a transitional type between traditional military dictatorships and more recent totalitarian regimes. This book, impeccably based on the available sources and displaying sober judgment, could well be the definitive work on the subject.""- Walter Laqueur, author of Fascism: Past, Present, Future""A very thorough and readable biography that masterfully combines research on Franco's life and regime with new and unique sources including Franco's private papers and interviews with Franco's only daughter. It will appeal to a broad readership including anyone interested in the history of twentieth-century Spain, the Spanish civil war, and the Franco regime.""- Joan Maria Thomàs, University Rovira-Virgili, SpainTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface 1 The Making of a Spanish Officer (1892–1913) 2 The Youngest General in Europe (1913–1926) 3 Director of the General Military Academy (1926–1931) 4 From Ostracism to Chief of Staff (1931–1936) 5 The Destruction of Republican Democracy (1936) 6 Franco Becomes Generalissimo (1936) 7 Forging a Dictatorship (1936–1939) 8 Winning the Civil War (1936–1939) 9 Franco and the Nationalist Repression (1936–1945) 10 From Civil War to World War (1939–1940) 11 The Great Temptation (1940–1941) 12 Surviving World War II (1941–1945) 13 Franco at Bay (1945–1953) 14 Franco at His Zenith (1953–1959) 15 Franco at Home 16 Development Dictator (1959–1964) 17 Facing the Future (1964–1969) 18 Franco and the Modernization of Spain 19 Twilight Years (1969–1974) 20 The Death of Franco (1974–1975) Conclusion: Franco in the Perspective of History Notes Index
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American Psychological Association Public Speaking for Psychologists
Book SynopsisA practical and lighthearted guide to planning, designing, and delivering a presentation.Table of Contents Preface Part I: General Principles of Public Speaking Chapter 1: Speaking (and Stammering) About Psychology Chapter 2: The First Commandment of Public Speaking: Know Thine Audience Chapter 3: Preparing and Delivering Your Talk Chapter 4: Answering Questions Chapter 5: Managing Anxiety Chapter 6: When Disaster Strikes: Handling Problems With Humor and Grace Part II: Help With Specific Presentations Chapter 7: Research Talks Chapter 8: Poster Presentations Chapter 9: Job Talks Chapter 10: Presentations for Lay Audiences Epilogue References Index About the Authors
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Crossway Books Reasonable Faith
Book SynopsisThis updated edition by one of the world's leading apologists presents a systematic, positive case for Christianity that reflects the latest work in the contemporary hard sciences and humanities. Brilliant and accessible.
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Crossway Books 7 Myths about Singleness
Book SynopsisThis book responds to 7 common misconceptions aboutsingleness, helping everyonemarried and unmarried alikevaluethe unique opportunitiesthat singleness affords to contribute to the flourishing of the church as a whole.
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Science of Conjecture
Book SynopsisThe Science of Conjecture provides a history of rational methods of dealing with uncertainty and explores the coming to consciousness of the human understanding of risk.Trade ReviewA remarkable book. Mr. Franklin writes clearly and exhibits a wry wit. But he also ranges knowledgeably across many disciplines and over many centuries. Wall Street Journal The Science of Conjecture opens an old chest of human attempts to draw order from havoc and wipes clean the rust from some cast-off classical tools that can now be reused to help build a framework for the unpredictable future. Science Franklin's style is clear and fluent, with an occasional sly Gibbonian aside to make the reader chuckle. New Criterion An admirably accessible study written in a crisp prose. It presents the reader with anarching historical perspective throughout many a century of human action. -- Giora Hon Centaurus Franklin gives a magisterial account of matters as diverse as the Talmud, Justinian's Digest, torture, witch hunts, Tudor treason trials, ancient and medieval astronomy and physics, humanist historiography, scholastic philosophy, speculations in public debt, and 17th century mathematics. His treatment of medieval law is among the best I have ever read. International Journal of Evidence and Proof Franklin's book is magnificent... Think of [it] as a non-fiction equivalent of Tolstoy's War and Peace. -- Peter Tillers The Jurist The Science of Conjecture is a masterly work, beautifully written, and based on encyclopaedic research... It is simply a tour de force that is unlikely to be surpassed for many a year. -- Barry Miller The Thomist Statistics teachers who like to sprinkle a little history and philosophy into their classes will find much here to delight and challenge them... This is a serious and scholarly work that I expect often will inform my teaching. -- Richard J. Cleary Journal of the American Statistical Association [This book has given me] sheer enjoyment in its density of strange information, in the wit and clarity if its writing, and in the vigour of its argumentation. I recommend it unreservedly to all interested in its subject. -- Oliver Mayo Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics This is the intellectual book of the year, and it ought to become one of the great classics of intellectual history. -- Scott Campbell Interdisciplinary Science Reviews The strength of The Science of Conjecture lies in its panoramic exposition of developments across the centuries and across intellectual disciplines and human endeavors. It is, as one reviewer wrote, 'a magesterial account of matters as diverse as the Talmud, Justinian's Digest, torture, witch hunts, Tudor treason trials, ancient and medieval astronomy and physics, humanist histriography, scholastic philosophy, speculations in public debt, and 17th century mathematics.' -- D. H. Kaye Law and History Review A remarkable book. Mr. Franklin writes clearly and exhibits a wry wit. But he also ranges knowledgeably across many disciplines and over many centuries. There are several reasons to read this book, but perhaps the best reason is its contemporary relevance. The lessons he discusses have pertinence to an age like ours, which has witnessed a gradual waning of faith in the objectivity of the relation of uncertain evidence to conclusion. Wall Street Journal In The Science of Conjecture, James Franklin shows us how deeply and subtly jurists and philosophers from ancient Greece onwards have explored how we can deal rationally with real-life cases (law cases, for instance, or scientific experiments) where the link between cause and effect is not obvious. -- J.M. Coetzee The Australian Since many in the nominalist/empiricist/positivist tradition deny that we can know natures, this book has a place in teacher education as well as legal education for the challenges it poses the reader on how we know, and how well we know, through induction, perception and abstraction. Metascience The text has an even wider importance in that it signals the need for more, not less, study of the history, philosophy and social studies in science to occupy a greater space in undergraduate degrees so that an educated electorate is better able to evaluate what the STEM community tells us is good for the progress of society. MetascienceTable of ContentsContents: Preface Chapter 1: The Ancient Law of Proof Egypt and Mesopotamia; The Talmud; Roman Law; Proof and Presumptions; Indian LawChapter 2: The Medieval Law of Evidence: Suspicion, Half-proof, and the Inquisition Dark Age Ordeals; The Gregorian Revolution; The Glossators Invent Half-Proof; Presumptions in Canon Law; Grades of Evidence and Torture; The Postglossators Bartolus and Baldus; The Competed Theory; The Inquisition; Law in the EastChapter 3: Renaissance Law Henry VIII Presumed Wed; Tudor Treason Trials; Continental Laws: The Treatises on Presumptions; The Witch Inquisitors; English Legal Theory and the Reasonable ManChapter 4: The Doubting Conscience and Moral Certainty Penance and Doubts; The Doctrine of Probabilism; Suarez: Negative and Positive Doubt; Grotius, Silhon, and the Morality of the State; Hobbes and the Risk of Attack; The Scandal of Laxism; English Casuists Pursue the Middle Way; Juan Caramuel Lobkowitz, Prince of Laxists; Pascal's Provincial LettersChapter 5: Rhetoric, Logic, Theory The Greek Vocabulary of Probability; The Sophists and the Art of Persuasion; Aristotle's Rhetoric and Logic; The Rhetoric to Alexander; Roman Rhetoric: Cicero and Quintilian; Islamic Logic; The Scholastic Dialectical Syllogism; Probability in Ordinary Language; Humanist Rhetoric; Late Scholastic LogicChapter 6: Hard Science Observation and Theory; Aristotle's Not-by-Chance Argument; Averaging of Observations in Greek Astronomy; The Simplicity of Theories; Nicole Oresme on Relative Frequency; Copernicus; Kepler Harmonizes Observations; Galileo on the Probability of Copernican HypothesisChapter 7: Soft Science and History The Physiognomics; Divination and Astrology; The Empiric School of Medicine on Drug Testing; The Talmud and Maimonides on Majorities; Vernacular Averaging and Quality Control; Experimentation in Biology; The Authority of Histories; The Authenticity of Documents; Valla and the Donation of Constantine; Cano and the Signs of True HistoriesChapter 8: Philosophy: Action and Induction Carneades's Mitigated Skepticism; The Epicureans on Inference from Signs; Inductive Skepticism and Avicenna's Reply; Aquinas on Tendencies; Scotus and Ockham on Induction; Nicholas of Autrecourt; The Decline of the West; Bacon and Descartes: Certainty? or Moral Certainty?; The Jesuits and Hobbes on Induction; Pascal's Deductivist Philosophy of ScienceChapter 9: Religion: Laws of God, Laws of Nature The Argument from Design; The Church Fathers; Inductive Skepticism by Revelation; John of Salisbury; Maimonides on Creation; Are Laws of Nature Necessary?; The Reasonableness of Christianity; Pascal's WagerChapter 10: Aleatory Contracts: Insurance, Annuities, and Bets The Price of Peril; Doubtful Claims in Jewish Law; Olivi on Usury and Future Profits; Pricing Life Annuities; Speculation in Public Debt; Insurance Rates; Renaissance Bets and Speculation; Lots and Lotteries; Commerce and the CasuistsChapter 11: Dice Games of Chance in Antiquity; The Medieval Manuscript on the Interrupted Game; Cardano; Gamblers and Casuists; Galileo's Fragment; De Mere and Roberval; The Fermat-Pascal Correspondence; Huygens' Reckoning in Games of Chance; CaramuelChapter 12: Conclusion Subsymbolic Probability and the Transition to Symbols; Kinds of Probability and the Stages of Discovering Them; Why Not Earlier?; Two Parallel Histories; The Genius of the Scholastics and the Orbit of Aristotle; The Place of Law in the history of IdeasEpilogue: The Survival of Unquantified Probability The Port-Royal Logic; Leibniz's Logic of Probability; To the PresentAppendix: Review of Work before 1660
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Octopus Publishing Group How to Be Resilient: Tips and Techniques to Help
Book SynopsisSay hello to a brilliant, resilient new youLife sometimes throws us a curveball, but with a little bit of help you can learn how to summon your inner strength and bounce back from adversity.If you struggle to cope with big changes, or you wish you had the hardiness to handle pressure with ease, look no further. Bursting with tips, assertive statements and activities, this book will show you the way to a more flexible, strong and resilient you.
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Atlantic Books Bare Minimum Parenting: The Ultimate Guide to Not
Book SynopsisThe slacker's guide to parenting from the Twitter's most popular dad!Overachieving parents want you to believe the harder you work, the better your children your will turn out. That lie ends now. The truth is most kids end up remarkably unremarkable no matter what you do, so you might as well achieve mediocrity by the easiest possible route.In Bare Minimum Parenting, amateur parenting sort-of expert James Breakwell will teach you to stop worrying and embrace your child's destiny as devastatingly average. To get there, you'll have to overcome your kid, other parents, unnecessary sporting activity, broccoli, and yourself. Everyone will try to make your life more difficult than necessary. Honestly, by reading this far, you're already trying too hard. But don't stop now. You're exactly the kind of person who needs this book.Reviews for James BreakwellHilarious! - The Sun VERY funny Twitter feed - The Daily Mail The most hilarious man on Twitter - The Telegraph The funniest dad on Twitter - BuzzFeed Trade ReviewHilarious! * The Sun on James Breakwell *VERY funny Twitter feed * The Daily Mail on James Breakwell *The most hilarious man on Twitter * The Telegraph on James Breakwell *The funniest dad on Twitter * BuzzFeed on James Breakwell *
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Carnegie-Mellon University Press Winter Morning Walks
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Bonnier Books Ltd What I Love About You: Mum: The perfect gift for
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MP-MQU Marquette University Grosseteste on Light
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MB - Cornell University Press Memoirs of a Revolutionist
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsTable of Contents Illustrations Introduction: A Study in Rebellion Introduction to 1927 Volume Author's Foreword Book One: A Task Fulfilled I. My Family II. The Institute III. My Environment IV. In Zurich V. The Programme of the Narodniki VI. In the Village VII. Dissension VIII. Land and Freedom Splits IX. Revolutionary Attempts X. The Military Organisation XI. February Days XII. After the First of March XIII. The Centre of the Party Moves to Moscow XIV. In Kharkov XV. Degayev XVI. The Seizure of the Printing Press in Odessa XVII. In the Police Department XVIII. "The Court Is In Session" Book Two: When the Clock of Life Stopped I. The First Day II. The First Years III. Execution and Suicide IV. I Acquire a Friend V. The Punitive Cell VI. Paper VII. The Hunger Strike VIII. My Mother's Blessing IX. Some Comrades Leave Us X. Chautauqua XI. Correspondence XII. Workshops and Gardens XIII. A Wiry Cobweb XIV. Books and Magazines XV. Our Benjamin XVI. After Eighteen Years XVII. Shoulder Straps XVIII. Under Threat XIX. An Execution XX. A Broken Promise XXI. Fear of Life XXII. Mother XXIII. Polundra XXIV. The First Meeting Appendices
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The Gresham Publishing Co. Ltd Macrae Modern Red: Waverley Genuine Tartan Cloth
Book SynopsisThe Macrae Modern Red tartan pocket notebook is bound in cloth made in the UK. Notebook (9cm x 14cm). It has 176 pages with one page blank, and the next lined.
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MP-MQU Marquette University The Metamorphoses of Phenomenological Reduction
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Oregon State University Mink River
Book SynopsisLike Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, Brian Doyle's stunning fiction debut brings a town to life through the jumbled lives and braided stories of its people.
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MP-MQU Marquette University Mystery and Truth
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John Wiley & Sons The Australian Electoral System
Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive study of the design of Australian electoral systems. This book focuses on the two electoral systems, both 'preferential', that are most closely associated with Australia: namely the alternative vote and the single transferable vote. It examines voter reaction to these systems, both in Australia and also cross-nationally.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Australian electoral system design; Australian electoral systems: origins and variation; Studying the operation of Australia's electoral systems; Locating preferential electoral systems in Australia; Assessing Australia's electoral systems; 2 Australia's national electoral systems, 1902-83; Early debates over electoral system design; The 1902 Commonwealth Electoral Act; The adoption of AV for House of Representatives; Reform of the Senate electoral system, 1918-83; Conclusion: accident and intent in electoral system design; 3 Australia's contemporary electoral systems; Australia's evolving electoral systems; The alternative vote and its variants; The single transferable vote and its variants; Australia's experiments with alternatives to AV and STV; Conclusion; 4 Preferential systems and their consequences; AV as a non-proportional system; STV as a proportional system; Preferential systems and the fate of individual candidates; Conclusion; 5 The voter versus the party; Party service among election candidates; Candidates views of their representative roles; Campaign activity by Australian parliamentary candidates; Conclusion; 6 Compulsory voting, party control and the voter; Compulsory voting in Australia; Preferential voting and the strategic voter; Ticket voting and the 'preferential voter'; Compulsion, complexity and voter engagement; Conclusion; 7 Preferential systems and voter satisfaction; Ballot structures and democracy; Preferential Systems and voter satisfaction with democracy; Electoral systems and political attitudes; Conclusion; 8 Preferential voting and electoral system design; The politics of electoral system design; Variations in electoral system families; Electoral and behavioural consequences; From innovation to stagnation: electoral system design; Where to now?; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cornell University Press The Machiavellian Enterprise A Commentary on The
Book SynopsisScholars have long maintained that Machiavelli's "The Prince" does not develop a single sustained argument but rather presents a set of disparate reflections. This book takes a different view. It demonstrates that there is an internal consistency in "The Prince" built upon a key argument.Trade ReviewA thorough analysis. De Alvarez provides extraordinary guidance in explaining the intricate unity of the work. * Perspectives on Political Science *A magnificent study of Machiavelli's The Prince. -- Vickie Sullivan, author of Machiavelli's Three RomesProfessor de Alvarez has done a useful service by providing a degree of structure to The Prince, grouping its chapters into a series of sections that share common overarching themes. * The NYMAS Review *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction Part I: Of Principates Part II: Of Arms Part III: Of the Qualities of The Prince Part IV: Of the Prudence of The Prince Conclusion Index
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John Wiley & Sons Human Communication as Narration Toward a
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Crossway Books ESV Scripture Journal
Book SynopsisESV Scripture Journal: Nehemiahis designed to facilitate in-depth study ofNehemiah, providing all the guidance, tools, and space needed to dig deep into the biblical text.
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University of Chicago Press Heaven and Hell
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with James Baldwin
Book SynopsisThis collection of interviews with James Baldwin covers the period 1961 to 1987, from the year of the publication of Nobody Knows My Names, his fourth book, to just a few weeks before his death. It includes the last formal conversation with him.
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Ohio University Press Javanese A Cultural Approach
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Ohio University Press Threatening Others
Book SynopsisDuring the last two decades, a decline in public investment has undermined some of the national values and institutions of Costa Rica. The resulting sense of dislocation and loss is usually projected onto Nicaraguan “immigrants.”Threatening
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MJ - Ohio University Press The Story of Swahili
Book SynopsisSwahili was once an obscure dialect of an East African Bantu language. Today more than one hundred million people use it: Swahili is to eastern and central Africa what English is to the world.Trade Review“The story of Swahili is one of globalization, cosmopolitanism, and creolization over the past 500 years. This book will stand on the shelf next to works such as Paul Gilroy’s Black Atlantic and Abdul Sheriff’s Dhow Cultures of the Indian Ocean: Cosmopolitanism, Commerce and Islam.”
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Rutgers University Press Judaism The Genealogy of a Modern Notion
Book SynopsisJudaism makes the bold argument that the very concept of a religion of ‘Judaism’ is an invention of the Christian church. The intellectual odyssey of world-renowned Talmud scholar Daniel Boyarin, this book will change the study of Judaism—an essential key word in Jewish Studies—as we understand it today.Trade Review"A brilliant book that marks a fresh beginning for scholarly conversations about Judaism, religion, and even the historical utility of categories." -- Annette Yoshiko Reed * author of Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire *"A significant and radical contribution." -- Michael Satlow * author of How the Bible Became Holy *"This book offers a reflective, and even-meta reflective discussion of the term 'Judaism.' Boyarin, as always, offers provocative, trail blazing insights to reckon with." -- Dina Stein * author of Textual Mirrors: Reflexivity, Midrash, and the Rabbinic Self *"What Boyarin does in Judaism is offer us a complex map, a detailed topography, of how the term Judaism came to be used to define Jewish 'doings,' and for some, to define Jews....One of the greatest things a scholar of Boyarin’s stature can do is make arguments that create the requisite space for future scholars to do their work. A book of this scope can never, and should never, close a conversation, but rather open one. Judaism is a term we all use reflexively but do not quite know what it actually means. Boyarin’s contribution to that reflexivity is a major contribution to scholarship." * H-Judaic *"Boyarin’s book provide[s] [the reader] to think through some of these theoretical questions, and to continue our ongoing conversation about the ancient individuals, groups, and ideas that continue to resonate down to the present." * Marginalia *" Boyarin’s provocative new book... succeeds at its primary goal: to destabilize the automatic use of 'Judaism' by scholars." * Marginalia *"A wonderfully clever argument that demands we reconsider much of what we write and teach about Judaism." * Marginalia *"Provocative and challenging." * Marginalia *"What we thus have from Boyarin’s philological genealogy is one reading of 'Judaism' that begins as a negative, is turned into a positive, and then becomes irrelevant, except for those who share it with something else....Boyarin’s genealogy teaches us that Judaism can never stand alone or be alone. If Judaism is all there is, then the term 'Judaism' ceases to exist, mostly because it is no longer necessary." * Marginalia *"Brief and powerful." * Marginalia *"Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notion attests once again to Daniel Boyarin’s restlessly inquisitive mind and to his persistent need to challenge commonly held assumptions in a manner meant to be provocative and contrarian." * Marginalia *"How Christians Invented 'Judaism,' According to a Top Talmud Scholar," by Tomer Persico https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-how-christians-invented-judaism-according-to-a-top-talmud-scholar-1.7417536 * Haaretz *"Boyarin has created a very interesting argument." * Histoire sociale/Social History *Table of ContentsContentsPreface What Are We Talking About When We Talk About “Judaism”?Part 1 The Terms of the DebateChapter 1 Debate of the TermsPart 2 The State of the Lexicon: Questioning the ArchiveChapter 2 Jewry without Judaism: The Stakes of the QuestionChapter 3 Getting Medieval YahadutPart 3: A New Dispensation: The Christian Invention of “Judaism”Chapter 4 “Judaism” out of the Entrails of ChristianityChapter 5 From Yiddishkayt to Judentum; From Judentum to Yahadut;, or Philology and the Transformation of a FolkEpilogueBibliography
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Fordham University Press The Guide to Gethsemane
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsTranslator’s Note xiii Preface to the English-Language Edition xv Opening: The Isenheim Altarpiece or “The Taking on Board of Suffering” xvii Introduction: Shifting Understandings of Anxiety 1 PART I: THE FACE-TO-FACE OF FINITUDE 1 From the Burden of Death to Flight before Death 7 §1 The Burden of Death, 7 ■ §2 Fleeing from Death, 8 2 The Face of Death or Anxiety over Finitude 10 §3 Death “for Us” Humans, 10 ■ §4 Genesis and Its Symbolism, 11 ■ §5 The Mask of Perfection, 12 ■ §6 The Image of Finitude in Man, 13 ■ §7 Finitude: Finite and Infinite, 16 ■ §8 Finitude and Anxiety, 16 ■ §9 The Eclipse of Finitude, 17 ■ §10 The Face of Death, 18 ■ §11 To Die “with,” 19 3 The Temptation of Despair or Anxiety over Sin 22 §13 Inevitable Death, 22 ■ §14 The Conquest of Sin, 22 ■ §15 Sin and Anxiety, 23 ■ §16 The Temptation of Despair, 24 4 From the Affirmation of Meaninglessness to the Suspension of Meaning 26 §17 The Life Sentence, 26 ■ §18 The Christian Witness, 27 ■ §19 Meaninglessness and the Suspension of Meaning, 27 PART II: CHRIST FACED WITH ANXIETY OVER DEATH §20 Two Meditations on Death, 29 ■ §21 Alarm and Anxiety, 31 5 The Fear of Dying and Christ’s “Alarm” 33 §22 Taking on Fear and Abandonment, 33 ■ §23 The Cup, Sadness, and Sleep, 34 ■ §24 Resignation, Waiting, and Heroism, 35 ■ §25 The Silence at the End, 36 ■ §26 The Scenarios of Death, 37 ■ §27 The Triple Failure of the Staging, 38 ■ §28 From Alarm to Anxiety, 39 6 God’s Vigil 41 §29 Remaining Always Awake, 41 ■ §30 The Passage of Death, the Present of the Passion, the Future of the Resurrection, 42 ■ §31 Theological Actuality and Phenomenological Possibility, 43 7 The Narrow Road of Anxiety 45 §32 Indefiniteness, Reduction to Nothing, and Isolation, 45 ■ §33 The Strait Gate, 46 ■ §34 Anxiety over “Simply Death,” 47 ■ §35 Indefiniteness (Putting off the Cup) and the Powerless Power of God, 47 ■ §36 Reduction to Nothing and Kenosis, 52 ■ §37 The Isolation of Humankind and Communion with the Father, 54 ■ §38 Of Anxiety Endured on the Horizon of Death, 55 8 Death and Its Possibilities 57 §39 Manner of Living, Possibility of the Impossibility, and Death as “Mineness,” 57 ■ §40 Being Vigilant at Gethsemane, 59 ■ §41 From the Actuality of the Corpse to Possibilities for the Living, 60 ■ §42 The Death That Is Always His: Suffering in God; The Gift of His Life and Refusal of Mastery, 63 ■ §43 The Flesh Forgotten, 66 PART III: THE BODY-TO-BODY OF SUFFERING AND DEATH §44 Disappropriation and Incarnation, 69 ■ §45 Embedding in the Flesh and Burial in the Earth, 70 9 From Self-Relinquishment to the Entry into the Flesh 73 §46 Suffering the World, 73 ■ §47 Living in the World, 74 ■ §48 Otherness and Corruptibility, 74 ■ §49 Self-Relinquishment, 75 ■ §50 Passing to the Father, 76 ■ §51 Oneself as an Other, 77 ■ §52 Destitution and Auto-Affection, 78 ■ §53 Alterity and Fraternity, 79 ■ §54 Entry into the Flesh, 80 ■ §55 The Anxiety “in” the Flesh, 81 ■ §56 Toward Dumb Experience, 82 10 Suffering Occluded 84 §57 An Opportunity Thwarted, 84 ■ §58 Called into Question, 86 ■ §59 Toward a Phenomenology of Suffering, 86 11 Suffering Incarnate 88 §60 Perceiving, or the Challenge of the Toucher-Touching, 88 ■ §61 The Modes of the Incarnate Being, 91 ■ §62 The Excess of the Suffering Body, 94 12 The Revealing Sword 97 §63 Sobbing and Tears, 97 ■ §64 Fleshly Exodus, 99 ■ §65 The Vulnerable Flesh, 100 ■ §66 The Non-Substitutable Substitution, 101 ■ §67 The Act of Surrendering Oneself, 103 ■ §68 Toward a Revelation, 104 ■ §69 Useless Suffering, 104 Conclusion: The In-Fans [without-Speech] or the Silent Flesh 107 Epilogue: From One Triptych to Another 111 Notes 115 Index 157
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MB - Cornell University Press Meaning and Interpretation Wittgenstein Henry
Book Synopsis'What is the meaning of a word?' In this thought-provoking book, Hagberg demonstrates how this questionwhich initiated Wittgenstein's later work in the philosophy of languageis significant for our understanding not only of linguistic meaning but of the meaning of works of art and literature as...
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Pluto Press Hidden From History
Book SynopsisHow class and sex, work and the family, personal life and social pressures have shaped and hindered women’s struggles for equalityTrade Review'Groundbreaking ... One of the first books to make women's history available to a wide audience.' -- Guardian'I admire Sheila Rowbotham's directness. Women should be grateful for a book of this kind, which fills our inadequate record of the past' -- New Statesman'An important and valuable achievement.' -- New York TimesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface 1. Work, the family and the development of early capitalism 2. Puritans and prophetesses 3. The restoration 4. The new radicalism of the eighteenth century 5. The agricultural and industrial revolution 6. New means of resisting 7. Birth control and early nineteenth century radicalism 8. Feminism in the radical and early socialist movement 9. Middle-class women begin to organise 10. Feminism and rescue work 11. The position of working-class women in the nineteenth century 12. Women and trade unions 13. Socialism, the family and sexuality 14. The struggle for birth control at the end of the nineteenth century 15. The vote 16. Some responses to feminism in the socialist movement before 1914 17. The war 18. Anti-feminism 19. Work, trade unions and the unemployed after World War 1 20. The family and sexual radicalism 21. Motherhood and the family 22. Birth control, abortion and sexual self-determination 23. Feminism and socialism after World War 1 Postscript Bibliography Index
£22.49
The University of Chicago Press Engineering the Eternal City Infrastructure
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Pamela Long's wonderful book brings the reader into the streets and squares of late Renaissance Rome, and recreates the lost cultures of knowledge and practice that took shape there. She shows in vivid detail how scholars and engineers, artists and prelates struggled to recreate ancient Rome and rebuild the infrastructure of the modern city."--Anthony T. Grafton, Princeton University "In Engineering the Eternal City, Pamela Long recaptures the energy and efflorescence of the Eternal City in the late sixteenth century, when Rome appeared to many visitors to be a vast and never-ending construction site. During these crucial decades after the Sack of Rome popes, architects, engineers, physicians, antiquarians, humanists, and city officials devised numerous solutions to the problems of repairing an ancient city as part of making an early modern city a magnificent expression of Rome's unique legacy as the heart of an ancient empire renewed by faith. Readers who love this city and want to learn more about it will enjoy this book."--Paula Findlen, Stanford University
£37.05
Haynes Publishing Group Honda 250350cc Twins 6474
Book SynopsisSpecific Models Covered:CB250 64-74; CL350 68-73; CL250 64-74; SL350 69-73; CB350 68-73
£33.00
Black Rose Books Memoirs Of A Revolutionist
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£22.50
University of Texas Press A Mile Above Texas
Book SynopsisStunning aerial photographs taken during a 3,822 mile-circumnavigation of Texas offer fresh views of the beauty and diversity of the state’s natural and human landscapes.Trade ReviewFrom sprawling cities to coastlines to deserts, Sauceda’s 3,822-mile journey in the course of five days presents a view of Texas like you have never seen it before. * Alcalde *The photographer's collection of aerial images shot from a single-engine Cessna will have you seeing the Lone Star State from a whole new angle. * Texas Monthly *Wherever you look, A Mile Above Texas provides a fresh perspective on our state. * Austin Chronicle *[Sauceda's] images illustrate the stunning diversity of the state's landscape. * Zócalo Public Square *
£31.50
University of Illinois Press Lincolns Confidant
Book SynopsisTrade Review"By getting to know Noah Brooks, readers will learn a great deal about Abraham Lincoln, thanks to the careful attention of the devoted scholar, Wayne C. Temple."--Samuel Wheeler, Illinois State Historian"Temple's biography of Brooks is first-rate. The density and breadth of his primary source research is unmatched. Nobody else has presented as thorough a portrait of Brooks from such a wide array of sources."--Matthew Pinsker, author of Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home"The complete story of a reporter's interesting life . . . with dutiful attention to detail." --Wall Street Journal"Lincoln's Confidant is the work of a rigorous scholar. Temple excels at describing the friendship between Lincoln and Brooks." --Annals of Iowa"Temple presents a fascinating story about Brooks and California patronage." --H-Net Reviews
£25.19
