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MER Paper Kunsthalle Jan Van Imschoot: You Can Use My Skin
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Confronting Totalitarian Minds: Jan Patocka on Politics and Dissidence
Jan Patočka was a Czech philosopher who not only lived through the turbulent politics of twentieth-century Central Europe, but he shaped his intellectual contributions in response to that tumult. One of the last students of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, he was a philosophical inspiration to Václav Havel and other dissidents who confronted the Soviet regimes before 1989, as well as being actively involved in authoring and enacting Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia. He died in 1977 from medical complications resulting from interrogations of the secret police, his political involvement cut short by an untimely death.Confronting Totalitarian Minds examines his legacy along with several contemporary applications of his ideas about dissidence, solidarity, and the human being’s existential confrontation with unjust politics. Aspen Briton puts Patočka’s ideas about dissidence, citizen mobilization, and civic responsibility in conversation with those of notable world historical figures like Mohandas Gandhi, expanding the current possibilities of comparative political theory. In adding a fresh voice to contemporary conversations on transcending injustice, Confronting Totalitarian Minds seeks to educate a wider audience about this philosopher’s continued relevance to political dissidents across the world.
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Aschendorff Verlag Jan Hus (Um 1372-1415): Prediger, Theologe, Reformator
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GRIN Verlag Jan Nerudas Zu den drei Lilien. Eine Textanalyse
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De Vecchi Ediciones EL CHOW CHOW Paperback Jan 01 1999 MilaniBaruffaldi
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Sandstein Verlag Alles Ist Landschaft: Der Sorbische Maler Jan Buck
£25.24
Stichting Promotie Archeologie Roman Material Culture: Studies in Honour of Jan Thijssen
£43.70
Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Jan Fabre: The Servant of Beauty: Seven Monologues for the Theatre
This volume of monologues is the second collection of works by Jan Fabre for the theatre in an English translation.
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Haynes Publishing Group Nissan Qashqai ('07 to Jan '14) 56 to 63
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Yale University Press Jan Tschichold and the New Typography: Graphic Design Between the World Wars
An original account of the life and work of legendary designer Jan Tschichold and his role in the movement in Weimar Germany to create modern graphic design Richly illustrated with images from Jan Tschichold’s little-known private collection of design ephemera, this important book explores a legendary figure in the history of modern graphic design through the artists, ideas, and texts from the Bauhaus that most influenced him. Tschichold (1902–1974), a prolific designer, writer, and theorist, stood at the forefront of a revolution in visual culture that made printed material more elemental and dynamic. His designs were applied to everyday graphics, from billboard advertisements and business cards to book jackets and invoices. This handsome volume offers a new understanding of Tschichold’s work, and of the underlying theories of the artistic movement he helped to form, by analyzing his collections: illustrations, advertisements, magazines, and books by well-known figures, such as Kurt Schwitters, El Lissitzky, Aleksandr Rodchenko, and László Moholy-Nagy, and lesser-known artist-designers, including Willi Baumeister, Max Burchartz, Walter Dexel, and Piet Zwart. This book also charts the development of the New Typography, a broad-based movement across Central Europe that included “The Ring,” a group formed by Schwitters in 1927. Tschichold played a crucial role in defining this movement, documenting the theory and practice in his most influential book, The New Typography (1928), still regarded as a seminal text of graphic design.Published in association with the Bard Graduate CenterExhibition Schedule:Bard Graduate Center, New York (02/15/19–07/07/19)
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Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company) In Our Time Hemingway Ernest Author Jan311996 Paperback
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Thames & Hudson Ltd Jan Tschichold - Master Typographer: His Life, Work & Legacy
Few have left a deeper impression on the world of typography than Jan Tschichold (1902–74), one of the most outstanding and influential designers of the 20th century. Not only was he was a master in his field, but he wrote a number of highly influential books and became instrumental in promoting the modernist design strategy called the New Typography. This substantial volume covers Tschichold’s life and career, placing the designer’s vision firmly in the rich cultural and historical context of his era. Tschichold embraced avant-garde ideas from movements such as the Bauhaus and De Stijl and made them accessible to working designers and printers, stressing clarity in communication, with form and function going hand in hand. The contributing writers discuss the designer’s major influences and the highlights of his varied career, including his seminal poster designs, his groundbreaking work with Penguin Books, and his creation of the classic typeface Sabon. Lavish illustrations – archive photographs, many published here for the first time, as well as copious examples of Tschichold’s work – accompany the text, confirming that Tschichold’s heritage lives on in the digital age, and proving that he is amongst the greatest typographic designers ever.
£35.96
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Ragnar A.K. Frisch, Jan Tinbergen and Lawrence R. Klein
This groundbreaking title brings together a critical selection of key papers by the Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics that have helped shape the development and present state of economics. The editors have organised this comprehensive series by theme and focuses on those Laureates working in the same broad area of study. The careful selection of papers is set in context by an insightful introduction to the Laureates' careers and main published works. This landmark title will be an essential reference for scholars throughout the world.
£189.00
Brepols N.V. Works in Collaboration: Jan Brueghel I & II
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Sonicbond Publishing Focus In The 1970s: The Music of Jan Akkerman and Thijs Van Leer
For a few short years in the 1970s, the unique music of Focus entertained the world. Build around the prodigious instrumental talents of Dutch masters Jan Akkerman (guitar) and Thijs Van Leer (keyboards and flute), the band produced three classic hit albums in quick succession, and scored two worldwide hits with 'Sylvia' and 'Hocus Pocus'. The latter piece is as ubiquitous as tunes from the 70s get, distinctive for Akkerman's famous riff and Van Leer's once-heard-never forgotten yodeling. Musical and personal tensions between the two lead to a split in 1976, the band limping on until 1978. However, the 1970s also saw seven solo albums each from these two hugely talented musicians, with Akkerman moving into jazzier territory while Van Leer had huge success with his Introspection series of light, classical flute-based albums. Stephen Lambe's enlightening book guides the reader through the band's early history year by year, dealing with all eight Focus albums song by song, while also giving the same treatment to Akkerman and Van Leer's lesser know solo work between 1970 and 1979. It makes for both an important potted history of the band and an insight into the tensions which lead to such a creative - if short lived - peak, but also acts as an essential guide to the astonishing music the two men made while at the peak of their powers.
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Cambridge University Press Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994) and the Rise of Economic Expertise
Jan Tinbergen was the first Nobel Prize winner in Economics and one of the most influential economists of the 20th century. This book argues that his crucial contribution is the theory of economic policy and the legitimation of economic expertise in service of the state. It traces his youthful socialist ideals which found political direction in the Plan-socialist movement of the 1930s for which he developed new economic models to combat the Great Depression. After World War II he was able to synthesize that work into a theory of economic policy which not only provided a lasting framework for economic policy around the world, but also secured a permanent place for economic experts close to government. The book then turns to an examination of his attempt to repeat this achievement in the development projects in the Global South and at the international level for the United Nations.
£34.06
Our Daily Bread Publishing Shout for Joy!: Psalm 100 Illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist
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Bradt Travel Guides Svalbard (Spitsbergen): with Franz Josef Land and Jan Mayen
The Bradt guide to Svalbard, including Spitsbergen, Franz Josef Land and Jan Mayen, is a unique, standalone guidebook to this evocative Arctic archipelago, a place that is plunged into darkness for four months each year and where there are 4,000 snow scooters for a population of just 2,500. This new sixth edition has been thoroughly updated throughout and offers new material on everything from adventure tours to accommodation, environmental change to restaurants. Also covered are the restoration of Barentsburg and the opening of Svalbard's historic mine to visitors Newly updated and amended, this edition reflects important recent changes in the archipelago, making it the perfect guide to a quintessential bucket-list destination. Possibly the most remote destination in the developed world, Svalbard is as off the beaten track as you can get in Europe today. It is the planet's most northerly settled land and the top (if not the end) of the world, and it was on and around Svalbard that most of David Attenborough's Frozen Planet was filmed. A trip to Svalbard easily lends itself to notching up geographic superlatives (most northerly kebab, most northerly souvenir shop, etc) and adventurous travellers seek out experiences such as husky driving and hikes across the permafrost. The main tourist period falls in Svalbard's brief summer, from June to August, when it's light around the clock and not very cold. However, increasingly popular for winter sports - especially because the next few years will enjoy unusually high Northern Lights activity - are the so-called 'light winter' months (March-May), when there is both sunlight and snow. The winter season (November/December-March) offers many possibilities for outdoor adventure - and the polar night is an experience in itself. Despite winter temperatures that can drop to over 40 below zero, Svalbard's glorious mountains, majestic fjords and sprawling valleys are the perfect setting for adventurous journeys out to the back of beyond. This brand-new edition of Svalbard provides all of the practical and background information you'll need to explore this wild place, turning the hostile into the hospitable.
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Princeton University Press The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Volume 27: Jan.-June, 1913
The opening of this volume finds Wilson President-elect of the United States. After a post-campaign vacation in his beloved Bermuda, he plunges into New Jersey politics in an effort to achieve completion of his state reform program. With a large legislative majority, he achieves passage of stringent antitrust laws, ratification of the federal income tax amendment, a new grade crossings measure, and a host of other legislation. Meanwhile, he is busy choosing a Cabinet and conferring with Democratic leaders in Congress about a legislative program. In his eloquent Inaugural address, Wilson calls for new directions in domestic and foreign policies. During the following months, he oversees the writing of the Underwood tariff and Federal Reserve bills. He also repudiates the "dollar diplomacy" of the Taft administration in Latin America and the Far East. Virtually all of the documents in this volume are published for the first time. They shed bright new light on Wilson as party and parliamentary leader and diplomatist. Numerous personal letters, also published for the first time, reveal his warmth and capacity for friendship.
£162.91
Casemate Publishers General Jan Smuts and His First World War in Africa, 1914-1917
World War I ushered in a renewed scramble for Africa. At its helm, Jan Smuts grabbed the opportunity to realise his ambition of a Greater South Africa. He set his sights upon the vast German colonies of South-West Africa and East Africa - the demise of which would end the Kaiser's grandiose schemes for Mittelafrika. As part of his strategy to shift South Africa's borders inexorably northward, Smuts even cast an eye toward Portuguese and Belgian African possessions.Smuts, his abilities as a general much denigrated by both his contemporary and then later modern historians, was no armchair soldier. This cabinet minister and statesman donned a uniform and led his men into battle. He learned his soldiery craft under General Koos De la Rey's tutelage, and another soldier-statesman, General Louis Botha during the South African War 1899-1902. He emerged from that war, immersed in the Boer manoeuvre doctrine he devastatingly waged in the guerrilla phase of that conflict. His daring and epic invasion of the Cape at the head of his commando remains legendary. The first phase of the German South West African campaign and the Afrikaner Rebellion in 1914 placed his abilities as a sound strategic thinker and a bold operational planner on display. Champing at the bit, he finally had the opportunity to command the Southern Forces in the second phase of the German South West African campaign.Placed in command of the Allied forces in East Africa in 1916, he led a mixed bag of South Africans and Imperial troops against the legendary Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and his Shutztruppe. Using his penchant for Boer manoeuvre warfare together with mounted infantry led and manned by Boer Republican veterans, he proceeded to free the vast German territory from Lettow-Vorbeck's grip. Often leading from the front, his operational concepts were an enigma to the British under his command, remaining so to modern-day historians. Although unable to bring the elusive and wily Lettow-Vorbeck to a final decisive battle, Smuts conquered most of the territory by the end of his tenure in February 1917.General Jan Smuts and his Great War in Africa makes use of multiple archival sources and the official accounts of all the participants to provide a long-overdue reassessment of Smuts's generalship and his role in furthering the strategic aims of South Africa and the British Empire in Africa during World War I.
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Princeton University Press The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Volume 24: Jan.-Aug., 1912
This volume opens in January 1912 with the official beginning of the Democratic preconvention presidential campaign, and concludes in August following the Democratic nomination of Wilson for president. Documented here is Wilson's campaign for the nomination, focusing on the issues of tariff, trusts, and Wall Street control of credit, and incidentally foreshadowing his great New Freedom addresses later in 1912. Many personal and political letters are included that have never before been published, as well as the test and news reports of all Wilson's important speeches. Champ Clark seemed the likely nominee when the Democratic convention opened in Baltimore on June 25, but Wilson eventually won on the forty-sixth ballot. The end of this volume finds him preparing for the great campaign immediately ahead. The volume also gives significant attention to Wilson's continuing career as Governor of New Jersey and well illustrates the difficulties of a Democratic governor attempting to deal with a Republican legislature.
£162.90
Kinderbuch Verlag GmbH Lommelchen Ein tschechisches Mrchen von Vladislav Stanovskyund Jan Vladislav
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Haynes Publishing Group Toyota Avensis Petrol (98 - Jan 03) Haynes Repair Manual
Every manual is written from hands-on experience gained from stripping down and rebuilding each vehicle in the Haynes Project Workshop. The practical step-by-step instructions and clear photos are easy to follow and provide information on maintenance, servicing, fault finding, the MoT, brakes, electrics and Haynes tips to make many tasks easier.
£25.20
Yale University Press Living Pictures: Jan van Eyck and Painting’s First Century
A significant new interpretation of the emergence of Western pictorial realism When Jan van Eyck (c. 1390–1441) completed the revolutionary Ghent Altarpiece in 1432, it was unprecedented in European visual culture. His novel visual strategies, including lifelike detail, not only helped make painting the defining medium of Western art, they also ushered in new ways of seeing the world. This highly original book explores Van Eyck’s pivotal work, as well as panels by Rogier van der Weyden and their followers, to understand how viewers came to appreciate a world depicted in two dimensions. Through careful examination of primary documents, Noa Turel reveals that paintings were consistently described as au vif: made not “from life” but “into life.” Animation, not representation, drove Van Eyck and his contemporaries. Turel’s interpretation reverses the commonly held belief that these artists were inspired by the era’s burgeoning empiricism, proposing instead that their “living pictures” helped create the conditions for empiricism. Illustrated with exquisite fifteenth-century paintings, this volume asserts these works’ key role in shaping, rather than simply mirroring, the early modern world.
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Peeters Publishers Nush-i Jan I: The Major Buildings of the Median Settlement
This first fascicule of the Final Report on the excavations at Tepe Nush-i Jan, located some 60 km south of Hamadan, provides a detailed account of the five seasons of excavation conducted between 1967 and 1977 as well as a comprehensive description of the temples and associated buildings belonging to the site's main Median occupation. The importance of the site lies principally in the architectural remains constructed in the eighth and seventh centuries BC when the Medes were the dominant population in central western Iran. In the order in which they were built, the monumental buildings of this hill-top sanctuary include an originally isolated tower-like temple which housed a stepped altar on which fire was burnt, a second temple, a strongly fortified storage facility, and a columned hall with three rows of four columns - a forerunner of the famed columned halls of the Persians at Pasargadae and Persepolis. In a remarkable development most of these distinctive structures came to be at least partly filled and encased with stones and mud-brick. As a result, the buildings proved to be in an exceptional state of preservation with intact doorways and, on occasion, intact ceilings as well. Subsequently, probably in the sixth century BC, squatters occupied those structures to which they could still obtain access. Before Tepe Nush-i Jan was investigated there was little or no evidence for the archaeology of the Medes from their own homeland. Today other sites, such as Godin Tepe and Ozbaki Tepe (not to mention fortified 'frontier posts' such as Tell Gubba), can be recognized as belonging to the same culture. Above all else, Nush-i Jan offers a striking picture of the achievements of the Medes, particularly in the field of architecture.
£109.64
Usborne Verlag Nina und Jan FarbenzauberMalbuch mit magischem Pinsel
£8.18
Trötsch Verlag GmbH Trötsch Jan und Henry Spiel und Malbuch
£6.59
Getty Trust Publications Miraculous Bouquets – Flower and Fruit Paintings by Jan Van Huysum
Precisely rendered to dazzle the eye with their botanical accuracy, the sumptuous arrays of fruit and flowers by Dutch painter Jan van Huysum (1682-1749) were among the most avidly collected paintings of the 18th century. The arrangements were painstakingly executed over many months and commanded exceptionally high prices from collectors throughout Europe. This delightful little book explores two of Van Huysum's most important still-life paintings, "Vase of Flowers" and "Fruit Piece", showing how his inimitable technique resulted in an illusion that continues to captivate us today. The book's sumptuous plates reveal the artist's highly nuanced palette, and his exuberant, asymmetrical arrangements reflect emerging rococo rhythms.
£10.45
Edward Everett Root A Boyhood Under Nazi Occupation: The Personal Story of Jan Duijvestein
£16.98
Headline Publishing Group The Glow: 'Jane Austen on steroids' (Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours)
'Jane Austen on steroids. It's that sharp, that wicked, that laceratingly true' Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours'Intoxicating . . . A wellness tonic for people who like to make fun of the wellness industry' Leigh Stein, author of Self Care____________Jane Dorner has two modes:PR Jane is twenty-five, breezy, clever in a non-threatening way and eager to sell you a feminist vibrator.Actual Jane is twenty-nine, drifting through mediocre workdays and lackluster dates while paralysed by her crushing mountain of overdue bills. Enter the impossibly gorgeous Cass, whom Jane discovers scrolling through Instagram - the guru of a 'wellness retreat' based out of a ramshackle country house that may or may not be giving off cult vibes. Suddenly Jane realises she might have found the one ladder she can climb.But inner peace and glowing skin will always come at a price...
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Moment Point Press Inc,US Speaking of Jane Roberts: Remembering the Author of the Seth Material
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Peeters Publishers Syriac Polemics: Studies in Honour of Gerrit Jan Reinink
This Festschrift honours Dr. Gerrit Reinink on the occasion of the end of his professional career as a senior lecturer of Syriac and Aramaic studies at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. The Festschrift includes, in addition to a brief biography and a complete bibliography of Reinink's scholarly writings, fifteen articles, arranged according to the chronology of their topics and covering a wide variety of subjects, ranging from the days of Julian the Apostate to the year of the fall of Constantinople, through the period of Late Antiquity, the Byzantine period, early Islam and the Middle Ages. The authors are all prominent experts in the field of Syriac studies and adjacent areas. The title of the book, Syriac Polemics, is a clear reference to one of Reinink's favourite research topics: Eastern Christian reactions to the rise of Islam. This volume is a valuable contribution to the study of Syriac literature and culture in general.
£90.83
Oxford University Press Oxford Reading Tree Word Sparks: Level 2: Jan in a Jam
Jan has lost the key to her jam factory. Pip and Kit set out to find it. Using the world's largest known database of writing for and by children, our experts have defined 300 ambitious words to help children succeed at school. We've combined these with fully-decodable books that help you match your phonics teaching and practice, while inspiring and engaging your young readers. Specially developed to enhance children's vocabulary alongside their decoding skills, these books are perfect for sharing.
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Trötsch Verlag GmbH Trötsch Jan und Henry Mein erstes Spielbuch Pappenbuch mit Schiebern
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Academica Press The Solidarity of The Shaken: Jan Patočka’s Legacy in the Modern World
The phrase “solidarity of the shaken” was introduced into the today’s political vocabulary by Jan Patočka, one of the last students of the philosopher Edmund Husserl and undoubtedly the most important Czech philosopher of the twentieth century. In January 1977, Patočka became – together with Vaclav Havel and Jiri Hajek -- one of the first three spokespersons of Charter 77, Czechoslovakia’s anti-communist resistance movement. He died less than three months later, as a result of total exhaustion caused by days-long police interrogations.Patočka’s Socratic death is an unavoidable component of his philosophical legacy. Is his main message still relevant today, after the “short” twentieth century ended with the collapse of communism in Europe in 1989? Is it still in circulation and perceived as an important Central European contribution to the new “dialogue of mankind” taking place today, as we approach the end of the second decade of new millennium?Six years ago, the Vaclav Havel Library organized a seminar in Prague where a group of scholars sought to answer these questions. This book offers any readers concerned with human rights the results of these incisive discussions. Patočka’s life and work are decidedly not diminishing with time. On the contrary, they have been actualized by our current spiritual crisis.
£107.00
Peeters Publishers Voetsporen van Devotie. Processies in Vlaams-Brabant: Met Foto's van Jan Locus
Processies lijken aan het begin van de eenentwintigste eeuw te behoren tot een ver katholiek verleden. Straatnamen als 'Processiestraat' of 'Processieweg' roepen beelden op van bloemblaadjes, prevelende pastoors en weerbarstige engeltjes die niet in de rij willen lopen. De voorbije eeuwen waren die optochten alomtegenwoordig in het katholieke leven. Hun verhaal is echter niet afgerond. Alleen al in de provincie Vlaams-Brabant benaderde het aantal jaarlijkse processies in 2008 de kaap van de honderd. Voetsporen van devotie bundelt de resultaten van het studieproject 'Processies in Vlaams-Brabant, van 1750 tot heden'. Het werd door KADOC-K.U.Leuven uitgevoerd in het kader van het onderzoeksprogramma 'Accenten uit het verleden van Vlaams-Brabant', dit in opdracht van het provinciebestuur. Na een inleidende typologie van het processiegebeuren omvat het eerste deel van de publicatie een algemene, toegankelijke geschiedenis van het processiegebeuren door de eeuwen heen, met een bijzondere aandacht voor de regio's die vandaag deel uitmaken van Vlaams-Brabant. Deze synthese biedt basisinformatie over de evoluerende vormgeving, invulling en betekenis van het processieritueel in relatie tot de historische context. Daarbij wordt teruggegaan tot de late middeleeuwen en wordt stilgestaan bij de inschakeling van de processies in de Contrareformatie, hun kritische benadering tijdens de verlichting en hun heropbloei tijdens het katholieke reveil van de negentiende eeuw. Ten slotte komt ook de glorietijd van de processies aan bod in het rijke roomse leven en hun ontworteling vanaf de jaren 1960. Dit verhaal wordt rijk geillustreerd met eigentijdse prenten en vaantjes, foto's en affiches. In het tweede deel worden zeven actieve Vlaams-Brabantse processies voor het voetlicht gehaald. De gevalsstudies werden daarom zorgvuldig uitgekozen. Niet zozeer hun bekendheid was een bepalend criterium, maar bovenal hun verankering in het plaatselijk gemeenschapsleven. Tussen beide delen presenteert fotograaf Jan Locus zijn eigen kijk op de huidige Vlaams-Brabantse processies. Hij geeft niet louter een documentaire kijk op dit immateriele erfgoed. Zijn foto's getuigen van een persoonlijke blik vanop de zijlijn. Als bijlage bij de publicatie wordt een kaart gevoegd met een inventaris van de vandaag (2007-2008) in Vlaams-Brabant actieve processies.
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Aufbau Taschenbuch Verlag Kristus Das unerhrte Leben des Jan Beukels Roman
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Simon & Schuster Ltd The High Moments: 'Addictive, hilarious, bold' Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Adults
Don't miss Nothing I Wouldn't Do, the compelling, original and hilarious new novel from Sara-Ella Ozbek. 'Addictive, hilarious, bold' Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Adults ‘If you were a fan of Lena Dunham’s Girls then Sara-Ella Ozbek’s latest could be your new best friend’ heat 'A beautiful, messed-up mash-up of The Devil Wears Prada and Fleabag’ Sarra Manning author of The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp *Scarlett is far from perfect. She changes herself to please others.She makes mistakes – over and over again.She repeatedly goes back to people that have hurt her. Scarlett has a tricky relationship with her mother and is desperate for people to like her. She moves to London without a plan, but when she manages to land a job at a modelling agency she thinks that her life is finally on track. Scarlett soon discovers that the fashion industry is far from what she had imagined and her life begins to spiral out of control. But at least people know who she is. She is starting to become someone. And surely it’s better to be someone – even if it’s someone you hate?With a vein of dark humour at its core, The High Moments offers an astute, often stark, look at the fashion industry and the challenges you can face as a woman in your twenties. Fans of Emma Jane Unsworth's Animals and shows like Girls will love this.Why readers love The High Moments . . . ‘I loved this sharp, beautifully written debut about finding out what really makes you happy. A fast-paced lesson in being careful what you wish for’ Daily Mail 'Very funny' Bella 'This crisp, funny debut novel offers a stark look at the modelling industry and the awkward situations frequently faced by twenty-something women . . . While there are moments of darkness, it'll also leave you feeling *seen*' Cosmopolitan ‘'One of the most seductive and accomplished debuts I have ever read . . . I was obsessed with the insight into the murky world of modelling, and the way Sara-Ella explores the feelings of "other" that can consume so much of our twenties' Laura Jane Williams author of The Love Square 'Ozbek’s hugely entertaining debut is an enjoyable takedown of the fashion industry which also asks what does it take to be truly seen?' iNews 'Brilliantly highlights the insecurities of being a young woman and not feeling like you've “become” anything yet’ Emma Gannon 'Set in the seedy underbelly of the high octane world of fashion, modelling and Instagram influencers, Scarlett is the perfect heroine for our times. Essential reading for anyone relieved to be done with their twenties and a cautionary tale for those who are still living them!' Sarra Manning 'An exhilarating, edgy, roller coaster of a story from start to finish. The High Moments is a fascinating window into the bright lights - and underbelly - of the fashion industry' Helly Acton
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Peeters Publishers Memorabele Mystiek: De "Rationale"-passage Uit Jan Van Ruusbroecs "Vanden Geesteliken Tabernakel"
"Vanden geesteliken tabernakel" (ca. 1350) is het omvangrijkste werk van de bekende Brabantse mysticus Jan van Ruusbroec. Net als in zijn andere traktaten verwoordt Ruusbroec in het "Tabernakel" zijn visie op het mystieke leven, ditmaal aan de hand van een uiteenzetting over het tabernakel uit het boek Exodus. De exegetische opzet en de morele doelstellingen brengen met zich mee dat het "Tabernakel" vooral veel gedetailleerde beschrijvingen en talloze ver doorgedreven allegoriseringen bevat. Deze aanpak sprak het laatmiddeleeuwse lezerspubliek aan - het "Tabernakel" kende een ruime verspreiding - maar is er tegelijkertijd voor verantwoordelijk dat dit werk vandaag de dag nog maar weinig lezers vindt. Met uitzondering van enkele theologische studies is het amper het onderwerp geweest van wetenschappelijk onderzoek."Memorabele mystiek" is een van de eerste pogingen om dit hiaat op te vullen, en wel met een literaire analyse van de passage waarin de borstlap of het "rationale" van de hogepriester wordt geallegoriseerd. Met de middeleeuwse visie op de rol van het geheugen of de memoria als uitgangspunt, wil deze tekstuele studie meer inzicht bieden in de intenties van de auteur met betrekking tot de manier waarop het "Tabernakel" bij zijn publiek diende te functioneren. Ruusbroec blijkt geheugentechnieken toe te passen die de interiorisatie van de morele boodschap bij de lezers dienden te bevorderen. Dat doet vermoeden dat het "Tabernakel" naast zijn didactische opzet ook en misschien wel vooral de ambitie had om als vertrekpunt en leidraad te fungeren bij het meditatieproces van de lezer.
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Stichting Promotie Archeologie Medieval Material Culture: Studies in Honour of Jan Thijssen
£41.58
De Gruyter Exquisit: Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts: Schenkung Jan und Friederike Baechle
Mit „klein aber fein" umschrieben Jan und Friederike Baechle selbst ihre Sammlung. Damit treffen sie den Kern ihrer über Jahrzehnte behutsam aufgebauten Sammlung. Im Mittelpunkt des Sammlerinteresses stand das „lange 19. Jahrhundert" mit all seinen unterschiedlichen Facetten. Die Künstlerliste der 27 Werke weist signifikante Positionen der Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts auf und stellt als testamentarische Schenkung an das Museum Wiesbaden eine ideale Ergänzung für den vorhandenen Bestand dar und ist ein weiterer Glücksfall im Kontext einer geplanten „Galerie des 19. Jahrhunderts". Das Buch präsentiert ausgewählte Arbeiten des 19. Jahrhunderts aus dem Museum, darunter Werke von Eugen Bracht, Ferdinand Brütt, Karl Hofer, Max Liebermann, Alfred N. Oppenheim, Eugen Spiro, Hans Thoma, Wilhelm Trübner und Ernst Wilhelm Nay.
£36.50