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Over the past sixty years the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre have probably been more influential in the West than those of any other philosopher and literary figure. In his theoretical writings, Sartre laid the foundation for an original doctrine of Existentialism. His concern, however, was to relate his theory to human response and the practical demands of living. To achieve this, he carried his philosophical concepts into his novels and plays, and there subjected them to the test of imagined experience. His uniqueness lies in the success with which he demonstrated the utility of Existentialist doctrine while creating, at the same time, works of the highest literary merit. Thus Sartre became the populariser of his own literary thought. Originally delivered as a lecture in Paris in 1945, "Existentialism and Humanism" is Jean-Paul Sartre's seminal defence of Existentialism as a doctrine true to Humanism, as opposed to a purely nihilistic creed, and a plan for its practical application to everyday human life. This exploration of one of the central tenets of his philosophical thought has become the essential introduction to his work, and a fundamental text for all students of philosophy.

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Learn the core concepts of nursing care and apply them to the clinical setting! Concepts for Nursing Practice, 3rd Edition uses a simplified, intuitive approach to describe 57 important concepts relating to all areas of nursing practice. For easier understanding, this book also makes connections among related concepts and links you to other nursing textbooks. Exemplars for each concept provide useful examples and models, showing how concepts are successfully applied to practice. New to this edition are updated research evidence and a new Population Health concept. Written by conceptual learning expert Jean Giddens, this text will help you build clinical reasoning skills and prepare confidently for almost any clinical nursing situation. Authoritative content written by expert contributors and meticulously edited by concept-based learning expert Jean Giddens sets the standard for the rapidly growing concept-based curriculum movement. A total of 57 important nursing concepts are clearly defined and analyzed, spanning the areas of patient physiology, patient behavior, and the professional nursing environment. Case studies in each chapter make it easier to apply knowledge of nursing concepts to real-world situations. UNIQUE! Featured Exemplars sections describe selected exemplars related to each nursing concept, covering the entire lifespan and all clinical settings, and help you assimilate concepts into practice. UNIQUE! Logical framework of concepts by units and themes helps you form immediate connections among related concepts --- a key to conceptual learning. UNIQUE! Interrelated Concepts illustrations provide visual cues to understanding and help you make connections across concepts. NEW! UPDATED content reflects the latest research evidence and national and international practice guidelines. NEW! Population Health concept reflects the future of nursing, in which health care organizations learn to deliver care that is high in quality, patient-centered, cost-effective, and evidence-based. NEW! Featured Exemplars sections provide a brief explanation of some of the most important exemplars. NEW! Discussion questions in case studies reinforce your understanding of each concept. NEW! UPDATED exemplar links connect you to concept exemplars in other RN- and LPN/LVN-level Elsevier nursing titles.

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Psychological anthropologist Jean Briggs shows how Inuit adults use dramatic play to transmit cultural messages and moral lessons to their children"I could not be more enthusiastic about this brilliant book. . . . A mesmerizing ethnography."—Nancy J. Chodorow"Is your mother good?" "Are you good?" "Do you want to come live with me?" Inuit adults often playfully present small children with difficult, even dangerous, choices and then dramatize the consequences of the child’s answers. They are enacting in larger-than-life form the plots that drive Inuit social life—testing, acting out problems, entertaining themselves, and, most of all, bringing up their children. In a riveting narrative, psychological anthropologist Jean L. Briggs takes us through six months of dramatic interactions in the life of Chubby Maata, a three-year-old girl growing up in a Baffin Island hunting camp. The book examines the issues that engaged the child—belonging, possession, love—and shows the process of her growing. Briggs questions the nature of "sharedness" in culture and assumptions about how culture is transmitted. She suggests that both cultural meanings and strong personal commitment to one’s world can be (and perhaps must be) acquired not by straightforwardly learning attitudes, rules, and habits in a dependent mode but by experiencing oneself as an agent engaged in productive conflict in emotionally problematic situations. Briggs finds that dramatic play is an essential force in Inuit social life. It creates and supports values; engenders and manages attachments and conflicts; and teaches and maintains an alert, experimental, constantly testing approach to social relationships.

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Jean-Paul Goude is a modern legend in the world of commercial art. From his New York days with Esquire magazine to his latest work for Galeries Lafayette, he has consistently provoked and delighted those who have encountered his work. He was Grace Jones’s Pygmalion, creating unforgettable images of her, from androgyne to cyber-superwoman to supreme diva. This volume, published to accompany a major retrospective at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, is a celebration of his creative zest and perfectionism, and his unique affinity for making fresh and engaging work. Around 600 images are on show, including many working documents published here for the first time, from inspired doodles to final images that sparkle with creative vigour. Selected and arranged by Goude himself, they present a gallery of artworks that have redefined advertising and brand photography as we know them. Sexy, irreverent and full of humour, this book will inform and instruct all those concerned with the art of image-making, whether professionals or simply those prepared to be entertained by chic, witty images that work.

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OFFRE DE PRIX!Achetez les deux volumes 4, I & 4, II ensemble et recevez € 20 de réduction. Vous ne payez que € 109 au lieu de 129 €!TWO-VOLUME SET!Buy volumes 4, I & 4, II together and receive € 20 discount. You only pay € 109 instead of € 129!Volume 4 est l'ouvrage le plus ambitieux de la série Jean-François Lyotard. Écrits sur l'art contemporain et les artistes. Il est composé de deux volumes: Textes dispersés I: esthétiques et théorie de l'art et Textes dispersés II: artistes contemporains.Volume 4 is the most comprehensive and ambitious work in the series Jean-François Lyotard: Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists. It is comprised of two volumes: Miscellaneous Texts I: Aesthetics on Contemporary Art and Artists and Miscellaneous Texts II: Contemporary Artists.Volume 4, I - Textes dispersés I : esthétiques et théorie de l'art/Miscellaneous Texts I: Aesthetics and Theory of Art >Ce quatrième volume dans la collection dédiée aux écrits de Jean-François Lyotard sur l'art contemporain et les artistes contient neuf essais sur l'esthétique générale et la théorie de l'art.This fourth volume in the series devoted to Jean-François Lyotard's writings on contemporary art and artists presents nine essays on general aesthetics and the theory of art.Volume 4, II - Textes dispersés II : artistes contemporains/Miscellaneous Texts II: Contemporary Artists >Ce second tome du quatrième volume rassemble trente-neuf textes de Lyotard qui concernent vingt-six artistes contemporains importants et novateurs.This second book of the fourth volume in the series brings together thirty-nine essays by Lyotard that deal with twenty-seven influential and innovative contemporary artists.This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

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Cruzada la frontera de los cincuenta años, con la imagen de la muerte delante y con la guerra rozándole los talones, Jean Cocteau ha llegado a la conclusión de que la comedia está ya muy avanzada. La dificultad de ser es el ajuste de cuentas que Cocteau hace consigo mismo, con el yo que fue en la época del esplendor social y con el yo que es en las angustias del presente. El autor de La sangre de un poeta escribe La dificultad de ser mientras rueda La bella y la bestia. Al ensalmo de esa joya del cine, el pasado emerge de un mar de sombras para acabar dando a luz un singular libro de memorias, donde las reflexiones morales se combinan con las literarias, y las unas y las otras con la evocación de personajes ?Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Jean Genet y tantos otros? del mundo del arte y la literatura. En ocasiones ?es el caso de Marcel Proust y de Nijinsky?, se diría que Cocteau nos los hace ver a través del ojo de la cerradura, sin que por ello se amortigüe el clima de ensimismado dramatismo

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Encuadernación: RústicaEsta primera novela de Jean Cocteau de 1919, todavía inédita en español, es un verdadero experimento trasgresor y significó su nacimiento como escritor. Cocteau nos ofrece un montaje de textos, acompañados por un centenar de dibujos de trazos sorprendentes y de inspiración cubista.En esta particular novela gráfica Cocteau nos presenta una obra poblada de seres fabulosos, enigmáticos e irreales, algunos de los cuales de una crueldad aterradora: los sanguinarios y voraces Eugènes que devoran a una ingenua y aburguesada pareja de recién casados, los Mortimer; el cocodrilo que "se come a mordiscos a Odilia", en un poema declamado por la Faringe, otra criatura extraña; el Minotauro que invita a Teseo a visitarle y a hacerle compañía; y, por supuesto, El Potomak, ese enigmático monstruo que vive en un acuario situado en los sótanos de la iglesia de La Madeleine.

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E sta documentadísima obra analiza la historia de Rusia de los últimos ciento diez años, los que van desde los años finales del zarismo hasta la actual y difícil consolidación de la democracia bajo el mandato de Vladímir Putin. Sus páginas ponen de manifiesto las contradicciones de un país que, a caballo entre Europa y Asia, ha padecido el despotismo en todas sus manifestaciones, pero que también fue capaz de elaborar una elevadísima espiritualidad y en el que las formas de opresión despiadadas han convivido con la cultura más refinada.El historiador Jean Meyer, un gran conocedor del mundo eslavo, narra los avatares de la nación rusa a lo largo de las dos guerras mundiales, la Revolución de Octubre, la tragedia del Gulag, la guerra fría, la caída del comunismo, la desmembración de la URSS o los retos de los últimos años, como la irrupción del capitalismo salvaje y de los nacionalismos más agresivos. Junto al perfil de personajes clave del siglo xx , como Lenin, Stalin o Gorbachov, e

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Hasta la asunción de la filosofía griega por los padres apologistas, la primera teología cristiana adoptó una estructura semítica, cuyos restos perduraron incluso tras su extinción. Se trató de una teología visionaria, dominada por la apocalíptica. Tal es la tesis mantenida por Daniélou en este libro y, fiel a la misma, elabora en él una investigación de interés histórico pero, además, de resonancias teológicas. La traducción ha sido hecha a partir de la versión francesa de 1974, corregida por el autor.

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"Qué hacemos aquí? Por qué y para qué, o para quién, estamos aquí-? Qué debemos y qué podemos hacer? Qué no es permitido esperar? No hace falta invocar el testimonio de ilustres filósofos, estas son las preguntas fundamentales de la filosofía, las únicas que importan. (...) Toda filosofía, toda vida, se funde en la espera (esperanza). La espera (esperanza) de este libro es la de articular esta filosofía."Jean Grondin es profesor de filosofí-a en la universidad de Montreal y reputado estudioso de la obra filosóficade Martin Heidegger y de Hans-Georg Gadamer. Desde 1982, ha publicado una docena de libros en francés, inglés y alemán; también ha traducido al francés los libros más importantes de Gadamer.

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Culpabilidad? ¿VergÜenza? ¿Temor? No permitas que ninguna de esas cosas se interponga en el camino del grandioso plan de Dios para ti. PasiÓn por la moda revelarÁ que somos mÁs que la ropa que vestimos o los accesorios que aÑadimos a un conjunto; todo ello para lucir bien por fuera. Somos algo mÁs que un buen aspecto y ropa de moda. Aprende que nuestro exterior brilla sobre la base de lo que tenemos en el interior. Dios te creÓ para vivir con significado, propÓsito y gozo, y para ser una persona asombrosa. TÚ puedes ser esa persona. Recorre con seguridad la pasarela de la vida. Y puedes comenzar desde hoy. What keeps you Guilt? Shame? Self-doubt? Fear? Don’t let any of those stand in the way of God’s grand plan for you. Passion for Fashion will reveal that we are more than the clothes we wear or the accessories we add to an out?t—all for the sake of looking good on the outside. We are more than good looks and fancy clothes. Learn how our outside shines based on what we have on the inside. God created you to live with signi?cance, purpose and joy, and be an astounding person. You can be that person. Con?dentially walk the runway of life. And you can start today!

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Footsteps in an abandoned holiday resort as the cold weather settles in; a knock on the door of a hut in the middle of an isolated bog; a lane in Rotterdam perceptible to only one inhabitant in the city. In Cruise of Shadows, Jean Ray began to fully explore the trappings of the ghost story to produce a new brand of horror tale: one that described the lineaments of a universe adjacent to this one, in which objects sweat hatred and fear, and where the individual must face the unknown in utter isolation. First published in 1931, two years after he served his prison sentence for embezzling funds for his literary magazine, Ray's second story collection failed to find the success of his first one, Whiskey Tales, but has emerged over the years as a key publication in the Belgian School of the Strange. It has remained unavailable in its integral form even in French until recently, however, though it contains some of Ray's most anthologized and celebrated stories, including two of his best known, The Mainz Psalter and The Shadowy Alley. This is the book's first English translation, and the second of the volumes of Ray's books to be published by Wakefield Press.Alternately referred to as the Belgian Poe and the Flemish Jack London, Jean Ray (1887 1964) delivered tales of horror under the stylistic influence of his most cherished authors, Charles Dickens and Gregory Chaucer. A pivotal figure in what has come to be known as the Belgian School of the Strange, Ray authored some 6,500 texts in his lifetime.

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Lucy / your secret book / that you leaned over and wrote just in the dirt— / Not having to have an ending / Not having to last. . . . And so begins Jean Valentine’s provocative new work, Lucy, a poem that pays homage to the three million-year-old skeleton of the earliest known hominid. With a deep sense of gratitude and profound longing, this poem celebrates the creative power of the female by introducing us to one of our oldest human ancestors. In a dreamlike and often fractured syntax that is vintage Valentine, Lucy, the “wildgood mother” of our species, can once again be heard.

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Since the middle of the 20th Century yield design approaches have been identified with the lower and upper bound theorem of limit analysis theory – a theory associated with perfect plasticity. This theory is very restrictive regarding the applicability of yield design approaches, which have been used for centuries for the stability of civil engineering structures. This book presents a theory of yield design within the original “equilibrium/resistance” framework rather than referring to the theories of plasticity or limit analysis; expressing the compatibility between the equilibrium of the considered structure and the resistance of its constituent material through simple mathematical arguments of duality and convex analysis results in a general formulation, which encompasses the many aspects of its implementation to various stability analysis problems. After a historic outline and an introductory example, the general theory is developed for the three-dimensional continuum model in a versatile form based upon simple arguments from the mathematical theory of convexity. It is then straightforwardly transposed to the one-dimensional curvilinear continuum, for the yield design analysis of beams, and the two-dimensional continuum model of plates and thin slabs subjected to bending. Field and laboratory observations of the collapse of mechanical systems are presented along with the defining concept of the multi-parameter loading mode. The compatibility of equilibrium and resistance is first expressed in its primal form, on the basis of the equilibrium equations and the strength domain of the material defined by a convex strength criterion along with the dual approach in the field of potentially safe loads, as is the highlighting of the role implicitly played by the theory of yield design as the fundamental basis of the implementation of the ultimate limit state design (ULSD) philosophy with the explicit introduction of resistance parameters. Contents 1. Origins and Topicality of a Concept. 2. An Introductory Example of the Yield Design Approach. 3. The Continuum Mechanics Framework. 4. Primal Approach of the Theory of Yield Design. 5. Dual Approach of the Theory of Yield Design. 6. Kinematic Exterior Approach. 7. Ultimate Limit State Design from the Theory of Yield Design. 8. Optimality and Probability Approaches of Yield Design. 9. Yield Design of Structures. 10. Yield Design of Plates: the Model. 11. Yield Design of Plates Subjected to Pure Bending. About the Authors Jean Salençon is Emeritus Professor at École polytechnique and École des ponts et chaussées, ParisTech, France. Since 2009 he has been a member of the Administrative Board of CNRS (Paris, France). He has received many awards including the Légion d’Honneur (Commander), Ordre National du Mérite (Officer) and Palmes Académiques (Commander). His research interests include structure analysis, soil mechanics and continuum mechanics.

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Hailed as a masterpiece, Jean Rouaud's first novel, Fields of Glory, was awarded France's most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, and sold over a million copies worldwide. Of Illustrious Men establishes as fact what the first novel promised--that Rouaud is a writer of remarkable power, subtlety, and originality. Lovingly set in the same region as Fields of Glory, the novel is about the author's father, Joseph, and a traveling salesman who died at forty-one and left a family in shock behind him. In the mind of the grieving eleven-year-old son--too young to have really known him--his father was a hero, a warrior, a legend of the Resistance during World War II. But the narrator is no longer that eleven-year-old boy; he is a mature and gifted writer. And though he may still ache for the loss of his father, he also knows that Joseph's illustriousness can be found not only in the heady days of wartime glory but in moments of domestic tranquility. Of Illustrious Men evokes scenes of both war and peace with exquisite beauty and understated and poignant tenderness.

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Offers a real-life examples and suggestions to help women develop their leadership knowledge and skills and facilitate the development of others.

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