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Sold in packs of 6. Gorgeous, foiled, handmade greeting cards, blank inside and shrink-wrapped with a gold envelope. Themed with our art calendars, foiled notebooks and illustrated art books. Our greeting cards are printed on FSC paper and wrapped in biodegradeable cellobag, and are themed with our art calendars, foiled notebooks and illustrated art books. This design features 'Fairy Story' by Jean and Ron Henry.

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Jean-Paul Sartre is an undisputed giant of twentieth-century philosophy. His intellectual writings popularizing existentialism combined with his creative and artistic flair have made him a legend of French thought. His tumultuous personal life - so inextricably bound up with his philosophical thinking - is a fascinating tale of love and lust, drug abuse, high profile fallings-out and political and cultural rebellion. This substantial and meticulously researched biography is accessible, fast-paced, often amusing and at times deeply moving. Existentialism and Excess covers all the main events of Sartre's remarkable seventy-five-year life from his early years as a precocious brat devouring his grandfather's library, through his time as a brilliant student in Paris, his wilderness years as a provincial teacher-writer experimenting with mescaline, his World War II adventures as a POW and member of the resistance, his post-war politicization, his immense amphetamine fueled feats of writing productivity, his harem of women, his many travels and his final decline into blindness and old age. Along the way there are countless intriguing anecdotes, some amusing, some tragic, some controversial: his loathing of crustaceans and his belief that he was being pursued by a giant lobster, his escape from a POW camp, the bombing of his apartment, his influence on the May 1968 uprising and his many love affairs. Cox deftly moves from these episodes to discussing his intellectual development, his famous feuds with Aron, Camus, and Merleau-Ponty, his encounters with other giant figures of his day: Roosevelt, Hemingway, Heidegger, John Huston, Mao, Castro, Che Guevara, Khrushchev and Tito, and, above all, his long, complex and creative relationship with Simone de Beauvoir. Existentialism and Excess also gives serious consideration to Sartre’s ideas and many philosophical works, novels, stories, plays and biographies, revealing their intimate connection with his personal life. Cox has written an entertaining, thought-provoking and compulsive book, much like the man himself.

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Through a study of the evolution of inheritance issues in seventeen tragedies written over the course of half a century the Corneille brothers, Pierre and Thomas, and by Jean Racine, Richard E. Goodkin questions the pervasive assumption that classical tragedy, a form written for the aristocracy, is informed exclusively by an aristocratic ethic. Instead, a fresh reading of both canonical and noncanonical texts demonstrates that even the most formal body of literature produced by French classical writers expresses a conflict between a declining aristocratic hierarchy based on inherited privilege and a rising capitalistic ethic that favors competition and enterprise.

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______________Maggie Mason is the pen name of bestselling author Mary Wood***Previouslypublished as BLACKPOOL EVACUEE in hardback only***'In the grand tradition of sagas set down by the late and great Catherine Cookson'Jean Fullerton on Blackpool LassBlackpool's Angel - the first book in Maggie Mason's brand new Sandgronian trilogy - is OUT NOW.______________England, 1940Clara is forced to flee her home as the Nazis invade the beautiful island of Guernsey, leaving her mother Julia behind. She's scared and alone, but her spirits lift a little when she learns she's headed for Blackpool. Her slight hopes are crushed however when she is housed with and at the mercy of a cruel shopkeeper, Miss Brandon. Clara is worked like a dog, but the warmth of some newly made Blackpool friendships will go far to save her. Separated from her beloved daughter, Julia heads to London to try and track Clara down but she is thwarted at every turn. With no idea where her daughter is, and the trials of war keeping them far apart, will they ever be reunited?The perfect read for fans of Mary Wood, Kitty Neale, Val Wood and Nadine Dorries

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"Fiction est un mot perilleux, tout comme son correlatif, science" ecrivait Michel de Certeau. Et pourtant, si l'epistemologie a montre que les verites scientifiques s'inscrivent dans une historicite, elle n'en a pas fait de meme pour la fiction qui est longtemps restee indemne de tout relativisme: "elle est le non-reel", a-t-on souvent admis. C'est ce principe que l'auteur remet en question en montrant que la fiction est, elle aussi, un objet culturel. A ce titre elle varie non seulement historiquement, mais aussi en fonction du cadre conceptuel de son apprehension. La demonstration s'appuie sur l'etude d'un corpus narratif du XVIIe siecle: les histoires, souvent tragiques et sanglantes, de l'eveque Jean-Pierre Camus.

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This is the first English translation of the memoirs of Jean-Nicolas Cur ly. Born in 1774, son of a labourer, Cur ly rose through the ranks to become a General in Napoleon's Light Cavalry. Although Cur ly did not fight in many of the most famous battles of the First Republic and the Napoleonic Wars, this reflects the role of the light cavalry; scouting ahead of the army, conducting reconnaissance to the flanks and launching raids. He did, however, take part in all Napoleon's great campaigns, including Austerlitz, Heilsberg, Essling, Raab, Wagram, Beresina, Wachau, Leipzig, Craonne and Laon, and served as an aide de camp to many of the French army's most famous light cavalry generals. Cur ly's memoirs give a unique and detailed glimpse into the day-to-day life of the light cavalry from someone who, although of lowly birth and with no education, became an exceptional General. He was a hussar at 19 years, second lieutenant at 32, squadron commander at 35, Colonel at 38 and General at 40\. He became Cavalier of the L gion d'Honneur in 1806, and was wounded five times in his career. His account describes in great detail the many actions he was involved in and the many exceptional scrapes he escaped. However, his narrative does not only describe combat but also the lengths he went to for the welfare of his men and horses, particularly during the retreat from Moscow which he survived with a hundred men and nearly all his officers still battleworthy. Stretching from Cur ly's enrolment with the Hussars in 1793 to Waterloo, capitulation of Paris and the disbandment of the army, this book is a 'must have' for anyone with an interest in the Napoleonic Wars.

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Jean Marie R. Tillard, o.p., (1927-2000) est l’un des plus brillants ÷cuménistes catholiques du XXe siècle. À Vatican II, il prend conscience des grandes ouvertures ÷cuméniques du Concile et de sa vocation à travailler pour la communion visible des Églises. Avec ténacité et persévérance, il décrira et développera les implications ecclésiologiques de cette nouvelle orientation conciliaire et cherchera à les mettre en ÷uvre dans les dialogues théologiques internationaux dont il fut membre. Jusqu’à la fin de sa vie, il sera en dialogue avec les anglicans, les disciples du Christ et les orthodoxes, et à Foi et Constitution, avec un éventail d’Églises. Au sein de ces instances, ses nombreux working-papers stimuleront les discussions des commissions et laisseront son empreinte dans les textes d’accord. Par sa rigueur théologique, sa capacité à dépasser les controverses et à ouvrir des horizons, Tillard a sans aucun doute contribué au rapprochement des Églises et à leur dynamisme ÷cuménique.

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With gorgeous prose, European glamour, and an expansive wanderlust, Christine Mangan's The Continental Affair is a fast-paced, Agatha Christie-esque caper packed full of romance and suspense.'Reads as if Jean Rhys and Patricia Highsmith collaborated on a script for Alfred Hitchcock; it is an elegant, delirious fever dream of a book.' The Irish TimesMeet Henri and Louise. Two strangers, travelling alone, on the train from Belgrade to Istanbul.Except this isn't the first time they have met.It's the 1960s, and Louise is running.From her past in England, from the owners of the money she has stolen―and from Henri, the person who has been sent to collect it.Across the Continent―from Granada to Paris, from Belgrade to Istanbul―Henri follows. He's desperate to leave behind his own troubles and the memories of his past life as a gendarme in Algeria.But Henri soon realises that Louise is no ordinary traveller.As the train hurtles toward its final destination, Henri and Louise must decide what the future will hold―and whether it involves one another.Stylish and atmospheric, The Continental Affair takes you on an unforgettable journey through the twisty, glamorous world of 1960s Europe.

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Dat wij een bepaalde blauwdruk kunnen uittekenen voor de ideale gemeenschap om dit vervolgens politiek planmatig te realiseren, die gedachte is in de vorige eeuw op terreur en sociale ontbinding uitgelopen. De vraag aan elke sociale en politieke filosofie luidt sindsdien: hoe kunnen wij nog spreken over gemeenschap wanneer zowat elk referentiekader daarvoor weggevallen is? In die context moet men het hedendaagse debat over dit vraagstuk situeren. In dit debat is het werk van de Franse filosoof Jean-Luc Nancy opvallend afwezig gebleven, ook al heeft die van deze kwestie een van de centrale vragen van zijn tot nu toe onontgonnen oeuvre gemaakt. Nancy wijst ons op de enorme uitdaging waarvoor de gemeenschap vandaag staat: wij proberen voor het eerst in de geschiedenis te leven in een gemeenschap en een wereld zonder ontologische garantie, een existentie waarvoor geen enkel criterium, grond of maat nog gegeven is. Met deze fundamentele kwestie voor ogen wordt Nancy's sociale en politieke filosofie uitvoerig uiteengezet en binnen het maatschappelijke kader van onze tijd geplaatst.

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Les différentes formes de rationalité se déploient selon un projet et une normativité interne qu’une exigence critique cherche à rendre explicites. Dans l’impossibilité de constituer un métadiscours capable de juger de toute forme de rationalité, des épistémologies régionales en expriment l’autocompréhension historique. Dans ce contexte, la théologie est amenée à expliciter son autocompréhension et à justifier la prétention d’intégrer l’espace des rationalités contemporaines. Le discours philosophique sur la théologie est certainement une contribution indispensable à cet effort, mais non un discours ultime, puisque c’est à la théologie que revient la tâche de proposer son autocompréhension, à partir de l’analyse de ses pratiques. La théologie s’interroge ainsi sous une modalité qu’elle même doit élucider. L’÷uvre de Jean Ladrière témoigne d’un effort constamment renouvelé de rendre compte du devenir de la raison dans les diverses formes de rationalité en lesquelles elle se réalise historiquement, telles que la science, la technique, l’économie, le droit, l’éthique, la philosophie, l’art. Tout en restant sous un mode d’interrogation philosophique, le philosophe louvaniste mène encore une large enquête sur la rationalité de la théologie, dont les résultats sont de la plus haute pertinence pour l’élaborer une épistémologie théologique. Cette étude constitue une reprise interprétative de la contribution philosophique de Jean Ladrière, mais à l’intérieur d’une démarche proprement théologique qui réassume, certes, un héritage philosophique, mais qui le porte au delà des horizons qu’il détermine. Il s’agit de l’itinéraire singulier par lequel une forme de rationalité cherche à saisir la normativité interne à l’÷uvre dans ses pratiques. Il en résulte une autocompréhension de la théologie comme science herméneutique de la foi, c’est à dire comme un discours de la foi sur la foi.

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Every artist has a dream project an enterprise that he or she has continuously taken up but never completed. Via archived notes and drafts, a retrospective reconstitution of such projects can serve as a key for better understanding the authors artistic corpus. The present study reaches out to the authorship of Paul Claudel, Jean Genet, and Federico Fellini. Claudel deferred and never completed the fourth segment of his Trilogie des Coufontaine. The only indication of the existence of this prospective fourth part of the theatre sequence is a brief entry in his Journal. In 1949, he began writing a third version of his first great work Tête d'Or. Like the unfinished fourth section that was to be added to the trilogy, the draft of the third version of Tête d'Or reveals a dialogue between the Old and New Testaments a theme that appears to be central to Claudel's entire corpus. Genet labored over La Mort for many years. At the conclusion of Saint Genet, comédien et martyr (1952), Sartre mentions this final work of Genet. Genet discussed his progress on La Mort in correspondence and even published Fragments of La Mort in the literary magazine Les Temps Modernes. While the project never came to fruition, it nevertheless remains an important means through which to understand Genets work. The aborted production of Fellinis Voyage de G. Mastorna has become a legend. After 8" and Giulietta degli spiriti, Fellini wrote a screenplay that he began to film but subsequently abandoned, much to the chagrin of producer Dino de Laurentiis who had already invested in sets and costumes. Fellini would often revisit this project, but never completed it. This book also examines additional dream projects taken from different art forms: poetry (Mallarmés Le Livre); literature (Vignys Daphné); painting (Monets Nymphéas); music (Schoenbergs Moses und Aron); and various films (Clouzots LEnfer, Viscontis La Recherche, Kubricks Napoleon, etc.).

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Dans sa Deuxieme Partie, le "Catechisme de l'Eglise catholique", approuve par Jean-Paul II en juin 1992, expose comment le mystere pascal est rendu present dans la liturgie, particulierement dans les sacrements et les sacramentaux.Dans le present volume, chaque chapitre, article et paragraphes de cette Deuxieme Partie est confronte - comme ce fut deja le cas dans le volume precedent ou figure une evaluation de la Premiere Partie, le Symbole des apotres - aux enseignements du Catechisme tridentin (1566), du "Directorium catechisticum generale" (1971) et des schemas preparatoires envoyes a des "consulteurs" (le 3e, 1987) et a tous les eveques (le 5e, 1989). Un regard sur les nouveaux rituels d'apres concile et sur les principaux catechismes pour adultes publies recemment par des conferences episcopales a egalement permis d'apprecier le texte finalement adopte.Avant de parcourir les 625 paragraphes sur "la celebration du mystere chretien", la question du plan du catechisme est soulevee: pourquoi avoir repris l'ordre deja suivi en 1566 par le Catechisme romain? Et un epilogue rassemble les principales conclusions de la confrontation des documents; il pose un certain nombre de questions sur les choix operes par le "Catechisme de l'Eglise catholique" (jusqu'en son edition typique de 1997) comme sur les omissions constatees et s'interroge sur la pertinence d'affirmations peu accessibles a de tres nombreux destinataires non inities.

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These lively memoirs date from the time of Barrs entry into the Chasseurs Velites (skirmishers, or light infantry) of Napoleons Imperial Guard in 1804. Always modest in recounting his own exploits, Barrs was not only at the cannons mouth, but also a participant at such spectacular events as the Coronation of the Emperor Napoleon in Paris and Rome, the torchlight procession on the eve of Austerlitz, the meeting of the two Emperors at Tilsit, and the magnificent military display in the Champ de Mars. His duties involved mounting guard at Malmaison and the palace of Saint-Cloud and also allowed him many fascinating glimpses of the Emperor at reviews, presenting awards and receiving trophies. This is a superb record of a serving soldier, making light of danger, sharing with the reader the fatigues and privations that attended so much campaigning in appalling weather and hostile country, and rejoicing as much in the outcome of a successful foraging expedition as his promotions and appointment as Chevalier de la Lgion dhonneur.

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This fresh and accessible ethnography offers a new vision of how society might cohere, in the face of on-going global displacement, dislocation, and migration. Drawing from intensive fieldwork in a highly diverse North London neighborhood, Daniel Miller and Sophie Woodward focus on an everyday item--blue jeans--to learn what one simple article of clothing can tell us about our individual and social lives and challenging, by extension, the foundational anthropological presumption of "the normative." Miller and Woodward argue that blue jeans do not always represent social and cultural difference, from gender and wealth, to style and circumstance. Instead they find that jeans allow individuals to inhabit what the authors term "the ordinary." Miller and Woodward demonstrate that the emphasis on becoming ordinary is important for immigrants and the population of North London more generally, and they call into question foundational principles behind anthropology, sociology and philosophy.

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Widely recognized by contemporaries as the most powerful theologian of his generation, Jean Gerson (1363-1429) dominated the stage of western Europe during a time of plague, fratricidal war, and religious schism. Yet modern scholarship has struggled to define Gerson's place in history, even as it searches for a compelling narrative to tell the story of his era. Daniel Hobbins argues for a new understanding of Gerson as a man of letters actively managing the publication of his works in a period of rapid expansion in written culture. More broadly, Hobbins casts Gerson as a mirror of the complex cultural and intellectual shifts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In contrast to earlier theologians, Gerson took a more humanist approach to reading and to authorship. He distributed his works, both Latin and French, to a more diverse medieval public. And he succeeded in reaching a truly international audience of readers within his lifetime. Through such efforts, Gerson effectively embodies the aspirations of a generation of writers and intellectuals. Removed from the narrow confines of late scholastic theology and placed into a broad interdisciplinary context, his writings open a window onto the fascinating landscape of fifteenth-century Europe. The picture of late medieval culture that emerges from this study offers neither a specter of decaying scholasticism nor a triumphalist narrative of budding humanism and reform. Instead, Hobbins describes a period of creative and dynamic growth, when new attitudes toward writing and debate demanded and eventually produced new technologies of the written word.

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2018 Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO) Award from the Western History AssociationA Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri offers the first annotated scholarly edition of Jean-Baptiste Truteau’s journal of his voyage on the Missouri River in the central and northern Plains from 1794 to 1796 and of his description of the upper Missouri. This fully modern and magisterial edition of this essential journal surpasses all previous editions in assisting scholars and general readers in understanding Truteau’s travels and encounters with the numerous Native peoples of the region, including the Arikaras, Cheyennes, Lakotas-Dakotas-Nakotas, Omahas, and Pawnees. Truteau’s writings constitute the very foundation to our understanding of the late eighteenth-century fur trade in the region immediately preceding the expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson in 1803. An unparalleled primary source for its descriptions of Native American tribal customs, beliefs, rituals, material culture, and physical appearances, A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri will be a classic among scholars, students, and general readers alike. Along with this new translation by Mildred Mott Wedel, Raymond J. DeMallie, and Robert Vézina, which includes facing French-English pages, the editors shed new light on Truteau’s description of the upper Missouri and acknowledge his journal as the foremost account of Native peoples and the fur trade during the eighteenth century. Vézina’s essay on the language used and his glossary of voyageur French also provide unique insight into the language of an educated French Canadian fur trader.

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The heartwarming new novel from the international million-copy bestselling author of THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP 'Everyone knows me, but none can see me. I'm that thing you call love' __________In a small town in balmy Provence, Marie-Jeanne has a gift.She can see the marks Love has left on the people around her. Glowing faces, hands that shimmer brighter when enclosed in another. Before long, Marie-Jeanne is playing matchmaker.When her foster father, Francis, sets up a mobile library travelling the many mountain towns of the Nyons region, Marie-Jeanne takes her quest further. Their library offers entertainment, guidance, reassurance and comfort - but for Marie-Jeanne, the books also allow her to bring soulmates together.The only person that Marie-Jeanne can't seem to find a partner for is herself. She has no glow of her own, though she waits and waits for it to appear.Everyone must have a soulmate, surely - but will Marie-Jeanne be able to recognise hers when Love finally comes her way?__________From the author of the million-copy bestseller The Little Paris Bookshop comes a tender story about how a love of books is a love of life itself.PRAISE FOR NINA GEORGE'A true gem for fiction lovers' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'An enchanting, uplifting read. The sort of book that acts as a soothing tonic' INDEPENDENT'Glowing . . . Layered with wit, enchanting writing and a love of books' DAILY MAIL'A charming tale' RED

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Little known today, Jean Baffier (1851–1920) was never far from the headlines during his own lifetime. Born into a poor peasant family, he became a self-taught sculptor whose work ranged from decorative objects to portrayals of peasant life and public monuments. But Baffier would probably not have received wide public attention if he had not also become a folklorist, a promoter of regional culture, and a militant nationalist with beliefs so violent that he attempted a political assassination. Monumental Intolerance explores the full gamut of Baffier’s activities and shows that he was pursuing a vast scheme of national purification and rebirth. Neil McWilliam’s discussion of the historical issues surrounding Baffier opens an extraordinary perspective on the culture wars and political struggles of a turbulent period in French history.This book will interest the art-historical community and historians of fin-de-siècle France.

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A richly illustrated book of hours was produced in the surroundings of the Parisian court at the beginning of the sixteenth century, presumably commissioned by Philippa von Geldern (1467– 1546), Princess of Lower Saxony and later Duchess of Lorraine. Jean Coene IV, one of the few illuminators of the time who is known by name, furnished the unusual work with a completely illustrated calendar and twenty-four — of formerly twenty-seven — large miniatures. The book of hours, which is privately owned, is now being presented to the public in its entirety for the first time — accompanied by an examination of the role of the client and of the classification of Jean Coene IV as an illuminator Roll within the context of Parisian book art around 1500.

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