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The definitive record of the surfing iconoclast who became an icon The surfing iconoclast who became an icon, Miki Dora was the epitome of 1960s beach culture. His dark good looks were the envy of Malibu. His talent earned him trophies (which he disdained) and the nickname “Da Cat.” And in the end, when he didn't like the commercial direction of the sport he helped define, he turned his back on the beach, wandered the world, served time in jail, and, finally in 2002, suffering from pancreatic cancer returned to his father's house in Montecito, California to die at age 67. A Malibu graffiti that appeared during his years on the road sums up his role in the surfing imagination and still holds true: “Dora Lives.” Years in the making and compiled with the cooperation of Dora while he was alive and his family after his death, Dora Lives is the definitive record of the legend. Transcribed interviews with Dora and texts by former Surfer magazine editor Drew Kampion and writer C.R. Stecyk are combined with nearly 100 photos and stills from photographers, filmmakers, and Dora's personal albums. The story starts out in Budapest, Hungary, where Miklos Dora was born in 1934, follows the child émigré to Hollywood High (except when the surf was up), and finds him at the center of the post-Gidget surf boom of the 60s. At that time, Dora stunt-doubled in a few films and competed when he felt like it, but mostly he embraced the hedonist milieu and burnished his antihero legend, culminating in a mid-wave mooning of the judges at the 1967 Malibu Invitational. Shortly after, he left for points (and point breaks) abroad in France, Indonesia, Australia and Madagascar until 2001, when he returned to the West Coast to die.

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Jamie James, a fifteen year old boy, lives in Cape Town with his mother. His parents are divorced and he has not heard from his father, a wildlife veterinarian living in Nelspruit, since he was five.

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In this richly comparative analysis of late Muscovite and early Imperial court culture, Ernest A. Zitser provides a corrective to the secular bias of the scholarly literature about the reforms of Peter the Great. Zitser demonstrates that the tsar's supposedly "secularizing" reforms rested on a fundamentally religious conception of his personal political mission. In particular, Zitser shows that the carnivalesque (and often obscene) activities of the so-called Most Comical All-Drunken Council served as a type of Baroque political sacrament—a monarchical rite of power that elevated the tsar's person above normal men, guaranteed his prerogative over church affairs, and bound the participants into a community of believers in his God-given authority ("charisma"). The author suggests that by implicating Peter's "royal priesthood" in taboo-breaking, libertine ceremonies, the organizers of such "sacred parodies" inducted select members of the Russian political elite into a new system of distinctions between nobility and baseness, sacrality and profanity, tradition and modernity. Tracing the ways in which the tsar and his courtiers appropriated aspects of Muscovite and European traditions to suit their needs and aspirations, The Transfigured Kingdom offers one of the first discussions of the gendered nature of political power at the court of Russia's self-proclaimed "Father of the Fatherland" and reveals the role of symbolism, myth, and ritual in shaping political order in early modern Europe.

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In 1864, amid headline-grabbing heresy trials, members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science were asked to sign a declaration affirming that science and scripture were in agreement. Many criticized the new test of orthodoxy; nine decided that collaborative action was required. The X Club tells their story. These six ambitious professionals and three wealthy amateurs--J. D. Hooker, T. H. Huxley, John Tyndall, John Lubbock, William Spottiswoode, Edward Frankland, George Busk, T. A. Hirst, and Herbert Spencer--wanted to guide the development of science and public opinion on issues where science impinged on daily life, religious belief, and politics. They formed a private dining club, which they named the X Club, to discuss and further their plans. As Ruth Barton shows, they had a clear objective: they wanted to promote "scientific habits of mind," which they sought to do through lectures, journalism, and science education. They devoted enormous effort to the expansion of science education, with real, but mixed, success. For twenty years, the X Club was the most powerful network in Victorian science--the men succeeded each other in the presidency of the Royal Society for a dozen years. Barton's group biography traces the roots of their success and the lasting effects of their championing of science against those who attempted to limit or control it, along the way shedding light on the social organization of science, the interactions of science and the state, and the places of science and scientific men in elite culture in the Victorian era.

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Ce volume porte sur l'évolution à l'époque hellénistique, et dans une perspective comparatiste, des cultes rendus aux rois et aux héros dans trois aires culturelles de l'Antiquité, soit l'Égypte, le Proche Orient (Mésopotamie et Levant) et la Grèce. Durant cette période, le culte royal, dans le cas de l'Égypte et de la Mésopotamie, ainsi que le culte héroïque, dans le cas de la Grèce, ont connu des transformations importantes, transformations qui sont à mettre en relation avec l'émergence et le développement d'une culture "hellénistique" dans le bassin méditerranéen.Le volume réunit une introduction en anglais évoquant la pertinence d'une approche comparatiste dans le cadre de cette thématique, ainsi que treize articles en français et en anglais.

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This collection uncovers how music criticism contributed to national and transnational preoccupations and agendas. Music Criticism in France examines the aesthetic battles that animated and informed French musical criticism during the interwar period (1918-1939). Drawing upon a rich corpus of critical writings and archival documents, the book uncovers some of the public debates surrounding classical music in the immediate aftermath of the Great War until the eve of World War II. As such, it provides new insights into the priorities, values and challenges that affected the musical milieu of this war-bound generation. This collection of essays brings together scholars from different areas of musicology and related humanities disciplines; it also draws on different anglophone and francophone intellectual traditions. As well as considering the reception of individual works, the contributors examine key individuals, composer-critic pairings, the composer as critic and technician, the role of influential journals, and music criticism as a pedagogical tool for concert-going and radio audiences. Focusing on the themes of authority, advocacy and legacy, it shows the contribution of principal critics such as Vuillermoz, Vallas, Prunières, Schloezer and Koechlin to shaping our understanding of music in the first half of the twentieth century in France. We see how criticism contributes to national and transnational preoccupations and agendas, which were of considerable importance throughout the interwar period and continue to have relevance today. BARBARA L. KELLY is Director of Research and Professor of Musicology at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. CHRISTOPHER MOORE is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Ottawa. Contributors: PHILIPPE CATHÉ, MICHEL DUCHESNEAU, KIMBERLY FRANCIS, JACINTHE HARBEC, BARBARA L. KELLY, PASCAL LÉCROART, CHRISTOPHER MOORE, RACHEL MOORE, JANN PASLER, CAROLINE RAE, DANICK TROTTIER, MARIANNE WHEELDON

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For almost three thousand years, Egypt and Mesopotamia were each ruled by the single sacred office of kingship. Though geographically near, these ancient civilizations were culturally distinct, and scholars have historically contrasted their respective conceptualizations of the ultimate authority, imagining Egyptian kings as invested with cosmic power and Mesopotamian kings as primarily political leaders. In fact, both kingdoms depended on religious ideals and political resources to legitimate and exercise their authority. Cross-cultural comparison reveals the sophisticated and varied strategies that ancient kings used to unify and govern their growing kingdoms. Experiencing Power, Generating Authority draws on rich material records left behind by both kingdoms, from royal monuments and icons to the written deeds and commissions of kings. Thirteen essays provocatively juxtapose the relationships Egyptian and Mesopotamian kings had with their gods and religious mediators, as well as their subjects and court officials. They also explore the ideological significance of landscape in each kingdom, since the natural and built environment influenced the economy, security, and cosmology of these lands. The interplay of religion, politics, and territory is dramatized by the everyday details of economy, trade, and governance, as well as the social crises of war or the death of a king. Reexamining established notions of cosmic and political rule, Experiencing Power, Generating Authority challenges and deepens scholarly approaches to rulership in the ancient world. Contributors: Mehmet-Ali Ataç, Miroslav Bárta, Dominique Charpin, D. Bruce Dickson, Eckart Frahm, Alan B. Lloyd, Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia, Ludwig D. Morenz, Ellen Morris, Beate Pongratz-Leisten, Michael Roaf, Walther Sallaberger, JoAnn Scurlock. PMIRC, volume 6

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From an interview with Frankie Boyle: “I wanted to try to do something that came from the heart. The state-of-the-art in comics always seemed a bit linear and it seems so unambitious. I wanted to do different sections from an overall story you didn’t see all of. I just fucking love comics and I’m keen to develop the whole thing in the least comic book way possible! Rex is complex, but you don’t necessarily need to follow everything. I’m not asking the reader to work as much as have an open mind.” Each Rex Royd chapter takes us further into the vivid imagination of stand-up comedian and writer, Frankie Boyle – backed up by stunning, stylish art by Mike Dowling and Budi Setiawan. The action takes place at RexCorp, a corporation where violence is the day job. RexCorp is headed up by superscientist CEO Rex Royd, indestructible Alan Black, and Eve – yes, that Eve. How will they cope against the incalculable power of the extraterrestrial Proteoman? All this plus memory implants, drug-addicted schizophrenics, sex-travelling aliens, Thunder God suicides – and more.

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“The Contrast“, which premiered at New York City's John Street Theater in 1787, was the first American play performed in public by a professional theater company. The play, written by New England-born, Harvard-educated, Royall Tyler was timely, funny, and extremely popular. When the play appeared in print in 1790, George Washington himself appeared at the head of its list of hundreds of subscribers. Reprinted here with annotated footnotes by historian Cynthia A. Kierner, Tyler’s play explores the debate over manners, morals, and cultural authority in the decades following American Revolution. Did the American colonists' rejection of monarchy in 1776 mean they should abolish all European social traditions and hierarchies? What sorts of etiquette, amusements, and fashions were appropriate and beneficial? Most important, to be a nation, did Americans need to distinguish themselves from Europeans—and, if so, how? Tyler was not the only American pondering these questions, and Kierner situates the play in its broader historical and cultural contexts. An extensive introduction provides readers with a background on life and politics in the United States in 1787, when Americans were in the midst of nation-building. The book also features a section with selections from contemporary letters, essays, novels, conduct books, and public documents, which debate issues of the era.

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In the thirteenth century, Paris was the largest city in Western Europe, the royal capital of France, and the seat of one of Europe's most important universities. In this vibrant and cosmopolitan city, the beguines, women who wished to devote their lives to Christian ideals without taking formal vows, enjoyed a level of patronage and esteem that was uncommon among like communities elsewhere. Some Parisian beguines owned shops and played a vital role in the city's textile industry and economy. French royals and nobles financially supported the beguinages, and university clerics looked to the beguines for inspiration in their pedagogical endeavors. The Beguines of Medieval Paris examines these religious communities and their direct participation in the city's commercial, intellectual, and religious life. Drawing on an array of sources, including sermons, religious literature, tax rolls, and royal account books, Tanya Stabler Miller contextualizes the history of Parisian beguines within a spectrum of lay religious activity and theological controversy. She examines the impact of women on the construction of medieval clerical identity, the valuation of women's voices and activities, and the surprising ways in which local networks and legal structures permitted women to continue to identify as beguines long after a church council prohibited the beguine status. Based on intensive archival research, The Beguines of Medieval Paris makes an original contribution to the history of female religiosity and labor, university politics and intellectual debates, royal piety, and the central place of Paris in the commerce and culture of medieval Europe.

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Featuring evocative artwork plates and carefully selected photographs, this book assesses the US Marines and Japanese troops who contested the islands of Tarawa, Roi-Namur, and Eniwetok during 1943–44. On November 20, 1943, amphibious vehicles carrying Marines of the 2d Marine Division reached the shores of Betio Island in the Tarawa Atoll, defended by a determined Japanese garrison that would fight to the last man. This began a test by combat of over two decades of US studies, analyses, and planning for capturing and defending naval bases in Micronesia. The Tarawa assault was followed in February 1944 by the rapid capture of the Kwajalein and Eniwetok atolls in the Marshall Islands. In these battles US Marines fought a mix of Imperial Japanese Navy and Imperial Japanese Army ground units. All but a handful of the defenders, whether they were organized ground combat troops or infantry improvised from aviators and service troops, were determined to die for the Emperor while killing as many of the enemy as possible. In this study, Gregg Adams shows how the US Marine Corps and US Navy drew upon these pivotal actions to improve their tactics, organization, and equipment for the next round of amphibious operations. He also explains how their Japanese opponents – realizing that isolated island garrisons were doomed to destruction or isolation if the Imperial Japanese Navy could not defeat the US Navy at sea – moved from seeking to repel an invasion to one inflicting maximum American casualties through prolonged defensive fighting.

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This book provides a guide to the process of accrediting training programs, sets out how to achieve consistent measurement of the results of training, and explains why accreditation is critical for capturing and developing today’s workers’ skills, aiding retention, and boosting strategic organizational credibility with millennials. Workplace and executive training is a multi-billion dollar industry and yet an enormous percentage of that budget is spent on programs that have never been rigorously examined to ensure that they are fit for purpose and deliver value for the money. If you’re signing off on that budget, or asking your people to spend time on training programs, shouldn’t that concern you? Training accreditation offers vital quality assurance, ensures global consistency of results and delivers accountability for learning and performance outcomes. Apart from delivering better results and greater ROI, organizations can differentiate themselves from their competitors in the employment marketplace by offering accredited proprietary training. After all, digital natives, and indeed all of today’s most talented potential employees, expect (and increasingly demand) the high quality, engaging and transferable employee development that only accredited programs can deliver. Aligning with the standards set by the International Association of Continuing Education and Training (IACET) – today’s premier accreditation body for training programs – the authors offer principles for quality program structure, delivery, and improvement needed to achieve accreditation. They share practices used by high quality training program managers today, covering business alignment and program administration along with the planning, design, delivery and evaluation of learning systems.

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Dans la periode qui va du regne de Philippe IV le Bel (1285-1314) a celui de Louis XIII (1610-1643) la royaute francaise se transforme d'une monarchie aux accents "seigneuriaux" en une monarchie presque souveraine ou tous les habitants deviennent les sujets de "Sa Majeste", titre aux accents romains officialise sous Henri II. Le parcours qui mene vers cette sujetion se trouve cependant etre balise de sentiments. Tant que le pouvoir royal n'est pas encore bien en selle, il exploite pleinement le theme de l'affection: le roi est le pater patriae ou le "pere" qui aime ses sujets et qui les consulte volontiers dans les assemblees de notables et dans des Etats, provinciaux, regionaux ou generaux. L'affection atteint son apogee dans l'assemblee de notables de 1506 ou les deputes conferent a Louis XII le titre de "pere du peuple", qualification qui est ressassee a l'infini par la machine propagandiste: le roi de France est le "pere" de ses sujets.L 'etiquette "pere du peuple" ne sert cependant qu'a masquer des velleites centralisatrices et autoritaires, car le "pere" de la bienheureuse famille francaise se souvient du statut du pere dans l'Ancien Testament et de celui du pater familias de l'Empire romain. Ces peres-la voulaient etre obeis.L'issue est previsible. Des que le principe de la souverainete du roi s'est impose, les rois de France abandonnent le theme de la paternite affective qui leur a rendu de si bons services et, sauf rare exception, ils refusent d'inviter encore leurs sujets bien-aimes a venir discuter de problemes touchant "le roi et le royaume". La voix du peuple a beau etre la voix de Dieu, toujours est-il que les assemblees de notables et, a fortiori, les Etats generaux sont des obstacles incommodes et incontrolables. Cela deplait foncierement au roi de France qui regne par la grace de Dieu et qui n'a des comptes a rendre qu'a Lui. Tous les habitants du royaume - et peu importe leur statut - deviennent des sujets du roi-"pere". Les Etats generaux de 1614-15 sont les derniers. Il y a encore deux assemblees de notables (en 1617 et 1626), mais elles ne changent pas la donne: la voix du peuple est etouffee. Ce n'est qu'en 1789 qu'elle se fait entendre de nouveau.

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his collection of essays honors Thomas G. Barnes, Professor of History and Law at the University of California, Berkeley. It addresses some major issues and themes in English history from the 1590s to the 1840s that have been central to Dr. Barnes's own work in law and authority in the same period. The essays, all written by specialists in the field, illuminate the complex, sometimes conflicted, relationship between royal authority and the law and the impact of both upon the governed. While the essays deal with apparently different and discrete topics, certain common themes emerge that provide an overall unity to the volume. These themes are: the common law and its rivals, the growth in parliamentary authority, the assertion of royal authority, and royal authority and the governed.

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Natan est une figure secondaire souvent laissée dans l’ombre dans l’histoire de l’interprétation des épisodes qui le mettent en scène (2 S 7 ; 12 et 1 R 1). Une étude narrative attentive montre qu’il est le personnage clé du processus qui mène à la succession de David et à l’instauration de sa dynastie à Jérusalem. Présenté d’emblée comme un prophète fiable, témoin privilégié de la promesse d’une lignée qu’il communique à David dans un célèbre oracle, Natan est étroitement lié à l’engagement de Dieu envers le roi dont il dénoncera le péché avant de lui annoncer une fin de règne troublée. Après avoir « rebaptisé » Salomon à sa naissance, il sera l’un des protagonistes principaux de sa montée sur le trône à la place de son père. L’étude synchronique de ces trois textes met en lumière le continuum narratif entre eux. Loin d’être des épisodes distincts qui dessinent chacun un portrait différent de Natan, ils constituent le lieu d’une cohérence narrative dont la trame est formée par la succession de David et le rôle crucial que ce prophète y joue. Le serment par lequel Dieu s’engage à donner une dynastie à David (2 S 7) crée chez le lecteur une attente, qui rebondit suite à la faute du roi et à la naissance de Salomon (2 S 12) avant d’être satisfaite lorsque, pour contrer les man÷uvres d’Adonias, Natan amène le vieux souverain à imposer le fils de Bethsabée, se faisant ainsi le véritable catalyseur de l’accomplissement de la promesse divine (1 R 1).

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This beautifully bound illustrated edition of the Authorized King James Bible celebrates the 2023 Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III and Her Majesty Queen Camilla. To mark the occasion, it features the King's royal cypher on the cover, a special gifting bookplate, and four colour images: Westminster Abbey exterior and interior, the Coronation Chair, and the new King and Queen. Although an ideal presentation gift for this special event in the nation's life, the Bible comes in a handy pocket format perfect for daily use in one's own spritual life. The text also features traditional colour illustrations of scenes from Biblical stories.

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Lors de la 65e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale organisée à Paris du 8 au 12 juillet 2019, les spécialistes étaient invités à réfléchir sur les notions de «Dieux, rois et capitales dans le Proche-Orient ancien». Ce compte rendu réunit dans deux tomes cinquante-et-une des communications présentées à cette occasion. Le premier rassemble les contributions sur le thème des capitales. En quoi cette dernière se différencie-t-elle des autres villes et quels sont ses limites territoriales et ses liens avec l'extérieur? À quoi ressemblaient les centres politiques du Proche-Orient ancien et quel souvenir ont-ils laissé à la postérité? Comment Ville et Capitale étaient-elles définies au regard du droit et comment leurs structures juridiques ont-elles évolué au gré des siècles et des systèmes politiques? La pluralité des lieux et des époques étudiés ainsi que la diversité des sources mises à contribution par les auteurs (documentation écrite, architecture, statuaire, glyptique…) offrent plusieurs approches et points de vue qui permettent de saisir la notion de capitale dans toute sa profondeur: une entité instable, qui recouvre tout à la fois une réalité politique, religieuse, culturelle et architecturale. Parmi les métropoles étudiées se trouvent les légendaires villes d'Ur, Mari, Khorsabad et Babylone, mais les capitales de la périphérie du monde mésopotamien ne sont pas négligées. < Le deuxième rassemble les contributions mettant l'accent sur les divinités et les lieux de culte d'une part, et d'autre part sur la figure et l'action royales. Comment concevoir la notion de divinité dans le monde mésopotamien et quelles preuves a-t-on qu'il existait un imaginaire «global» au Proche-Orient ancien? Comment affiner notre compréhension de termes aussi connus que celui désignant le «roi» ou aussi précis que ceux désignant les temples et bâtiments cultuels? Certains auteurs se sont intéressés à la figure royale en tant que telle. L'image du roi victorieux et les moqueries contre les souverains ennemis sont étudiées, des monuments disparus sont reconstitués. Plusieurs articles portent sur la justice et ses variantes locales à l'intérieur d'un même royaume. Les savoirs et croyances des rois sont examinés, ainsi que la vie et les usages de la cour. Des études de concepts aux examens philologiques pointus, de l'analyse iconographique à l'édition de textes nouveaux : le champ des sujets traités est vaste. Nul doute que chaque lecteur trouvera de quoi l'intéresser et nourrir ses propres recherches.

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Winchester’s identity as a royal centre became well established between the ninth and twelfth centuries, closely tied to the significance of the religious communities who lived within and without the city walls. The reach of power of Winchester was felt throughout England and into the Continent through the relationships of the bishops, the power fluctuations of the Norman period, the pursuit of arts and history writing, the reach of the city’s saints, and more. The essays contained in this volume present early medieval Winchester not as a city alone, but a city emmeshed in wider political, social, and cultural movements and, in many cases, providing examples of authority and power that are representative of early medieval England as a whole.

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En un entorno empresarial de transformación constante, las empresas corren el riesgo de perderse en movimientos estratégicos que no les llevan a ninguna parte. La transformación digital, los mercados omnicanal, y los constantes cambios en la tecnología y en los comportamientos de los consumidores y negocios, son solo algunos de los desafíos a los que se enfrentan los gerentes en la actualidad. Hay algo de cierto en esto, pero qué tan cierto es para su organización? Es hora de enfocarse en resultados monetarios cuantificables. Está usted o su empresa preparado para hacerlo?Este libro le ayudará a reorientar los procesos comerciales con el objetivo de priorizar el valor económico real detrás de campañas comerciales, proyectos de mercadotecnia y todo tipo de evaluación de intangibles, desde la gestión de stakeholders hasta la implementación de programas de sostenibilidad. Esta metodología, orientada a la consecución de resultados, una vez en marcha, reubica el foco de atención de los e

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The African prince Anniaba is the first black hero in French fiction. With his French queen, he also forms the first mixed-race couple. Based on fact, Historie de Louis Anniaba was first published in 1740 but has never before been reprinted. The story allows a degree of narrative and geographical fantasy, but the legal context of the period, in this volume brought into play for the first time, throws into relief the author’s free-thinking stance. In other respects it is a period piece, full of travel and adventure in Africa, on the high seas, in France and on the Barbary Coast. Anniaba’s relatively fair complexion, impalusable for some, is a mark of his common humanity and of the author’s refusal to accept that everything out of Africa is monstrous. It is important to rediscover this forgotten text in a world still bearing ths cars of racism. This is a volume in the Textes littéraires/Exeter French Texts. The text, introduction and essential notes are all in French.

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