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El libro es una historia social del renacimiento florentino. La manera en que se abordan los diferentes aspectos estudiados, desde el modo de vida en la Corte o el trabajo de los talleres de pintura hasta las relaciones de mecenazgo entre artista y príncipes o la función de la obra de arte en la vida social, permiten dar cuenta de la compleja situación en la que se desarrolla el arte y que se extiende durante, al menos, dos siglos y explicar las condiciones en las que es posible tales obras artísticas.

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Many people know that in 1928 Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin's antibiotic potential while examining a stray mould that had bloomed in a dish of bacteria in his London laboratory. But few realise that Fleming worked only fitfully on penicillin until 1935, and that he is merely one character in the remarkable story of the antibiotic's development as a drug. The others are Howard Florey, Professor of Pathology at Oxford University, where he ran the Dunn School; the German Jewish emigre and biochemist Ernst Chain; and Norman Heatley, one of the few scientists in Britain capable of the micro-analysis of organic substances. It was these three men and their colleagues at the Dunn School who would battle a lack of money, a lack of resources and even each other to develop a drug that would change the world. It was these three men and their colleagues who would be almost forgotten. Why this happened, why it took fourteen years to develop penicillin, and how it was finally done, is a story of quirky individuals, missed opportunities, medical prejudice, brilliant science, shoestring research, wartime pressures and misplaced modesty.

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The Egyptian Museum of Florence, in collaboration with the University of Florence, hosted the Eleventh International Congress of Egyptologists which took place from 23rd to 30th August 2015, under the patronage of the IAE – International Association of Egyptologists. This volume publishes 136 papers and posters presented during the Congress. Topics discussed here range from archaeology, religion, philology, mummy investigations and archaeometry to history, offering an up-to-date account of research in these fields.

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A major film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh and streaming on Netflix.'An old-school page turner with crackling intensity' Stephen King'Powerful, compulsively readable' Irish TimesEleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story . . .Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue's The Wonder – inspired by numerous European and North American cases of 'fasting girls' between the sixteenth century and the twentieth – is a psychological thriller about a child's murder threatening to happen in slow motion before our eyes.

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Let Secret Florence guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Florence guide book. Let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures and hidden places of this amazing city. Featuring over 150 unusual and unfamiliar places, this Secret Florence guide is ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike. Visit a church in a prison, learn how Florence became the centre of hermetism during the Renaissance and where you can still find traces of it today, escape from the crowds of tourists to visit little-known artistic masterpieces, head off to hunt for the 34 plaques displaying quotes from the “Divine Comedy”, fill up your tank at a vintage service station, have your children count the number of bees sculpted on the monument to the glory of Ferdinand I, look for the last wine distributors of the Renaissance, notice the minuscule windows designed to let children look out quietly onto the street, visit superb private gardens that even the Florentines don’t know about, learn how the purple colour of the Fiorentina football team is connected to the pee of a Florentine crusader in Palestine … Far from the crowds and the usual cliches, Florence offers countless off-beat experiences and is home to any number of well-hidden treasures that are revealed only to residents and travellers who find their way off the beaten track. An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew Florence well or would like to discover the other face of the city. The definitive insider’s guide to Florence.

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Fresh pasta, red wine, fine art… and love? Find enchantment this year in the magical city of FlorenceWhen Debbie Waterson’s bicycle crashes into handsome doctor Pierluigi, she wonders if her luck has changed. Determinedly single after ending a long relationship, at last, a man worth bumping into!Inspired to visit Florence, she soon runs headlong into that old foe: reality. But is Pierluigi the man of her dreams? Then there’s her booze obsessed boss, his forbidding secretary and her noisy inconsiderate neighbours. But could her luck be about to change? Will she find love after all?Warm-hearted and unputdownable, Dreaming of Florence is the perfect escape for readers of Holly Martin, Tilly Tennant and Jenny Oliver.Praise for Dreaming of Florence 'It’s fun, fresh and heart warming... Dreaming of Florence? I am now!' The Book Trail'Such a beautiful read... You could taste the wonderful food, it was so vividly written.' Blue Yonder'Just what I needed – a fantastic read that I thoroughly enjoyed from start to finish... get ready for a fun filled, heartwarming Italian adventure and romance.' Splashes into Books'Dreaming of Florence is a fabulous book that I loved every last second of.' Rachel's Random Reads'A really beautifully romantic and heartwarming novel. Another brilliant story by T.A. Williams.' Cosiest Corner

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Contrary to general belief, the history of the Florentine patriciate did not end with the establishment of the State of Tuscany under de' Medici in 1532. Proud and self-confident patricians did not become subservient courtiers overnight, but remained significantly influential for a long period. They retained their urban identity and longstanding family traditions, while acquiring noble titles, estates, and villas at the same time. The mark that these patricians continued to leave on the city's cultural and artistic life was not ignored by the Medici grand dukes; on the contrary, they embraced these manifestations by incorporating them into their own visual expressions of power and prestige. A Cultural Symbiosis highlights these artistic expressions through eight specific case studies, focusing on the Valori, Pucci, Ridolfi, Vecchietti, Del Nero, Salviati, Guicciardini, and Niccolini families. Contributors: Carla D'Arista (Columbia University), Klazina D. Botke (University of Groningen / Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen), Julia Dijkstra (Museum MORE), Sanne Roefs (Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in The Hague), Henk Th. van Veen (University of Groningen), Bouk Wierda (Classical Academy of Art in Groningen), Andrea Zagli (University of Siena)

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Segundo libro de la Trilogía del jardínRica, independiente y con hijos ya mayores, Rosalind Harper ha renunciado a sus cuarenta y siete años a volver a amar.Rica, independiente y con hijos ya mayores, Rosalind Harper ha renunciado a sus cuarenta y siete años a volver a amar. Su negocio y la gran amistad que la une a Stella y Hayley son ahora su vida. Hasta que el secreto que alberga su casa le obliga a pedir ayuda y ante ella se abre un futuro inesperado.Trilogía del Jardín. Tres mujeres se conocen en un momento crucial de sus vidas: cuando es necesario dejar atrás el pasado, pero el futuro todavía parece incierto. Para Stella, Rosalind y Hayley, la mansión Harper (una vieja casa sureña en las afueras de Memphis) se convierte en un puerto seguro y un auténtico hogar. El pequeño y próspero negocio de un vivero de flores y plantas, en el que todas han depositado sus esperanzas, se erige en el símbolo de su independencia. Juntas encontrarán el valor para rehacer sus vidas y acept

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'Compelling... fascinating' Spectator'Abounding with excellent little stories' Financial TimesThis is the story of one of the most magnificent achievements of the Italian Renaissance, and the architect behind it.Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence still retains a rare power to astonish. Yet the elegance of the building belies the tremendous labour, technical ingenuity and bitter personal strife involved in its creation. For over a century after work on the cathedral began, the proposed dome was regarded as all but impossible to build. The greatest architectural puzzle of its age, when finally completed it was hailed as one of the great wonders of the world.This book tells the extraordinary story of how the cupola was raised and of the dome's architect, the brilliant and volatile Filippo Brunelleschi. Denounced as a madman at the start of his labours, he was celebrated at their end as a great genius. His life was one of ambition, ingenuity, rivalry and intrigue - a human drama set against the plagues, wars, political feuds and intellectual ferments of Renaissance Florence, the glorious era for which the dome remains the most compelling symbol.VOTED NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS

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El volumen contiene una rigurosa introducción que da paso a cinco escritos de Francesco Guicciardini. Son obras que hacen referencia a la España de Fernando el Católico: Diario del Viaje a España, Discurso de Logroño; Informe sobre España y otros dos escritos más breves, referentes al Gran Capitán. Discurso Quinto: Si el Gran Capitán debe aceptar la empresa de Italia, Discurso Sexto: Razones por las que el Gran Capitán debe desistir y no aceptar la empresa. El Discurso de Logroño constituye, sin embargo, una excepción, puesto que no se refiere a asuntos relacionados con España, sino que parte de la compleja y azarosa vida florentina y la constante preocupación que muestra Guiciardini por salvar a su ciudad de los ejércitos extranjeros que habían establecido en Italia sus campos de batalla, unido al problema de la falta del vivere civile que había corrompido la vida política de la ciudad. Guicciardini enviado como embajador ante el rey Católico, antes de haber cumplido la edad reglament

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Before they achieved renown as patrons of the arts and de facto rulers of Florence, the Medici family earned their fortune in banking. But even at the height of the Renaissance, charging interest of any kind meant running afoul of the Catholic Church’s ban on usury. Tim Parks reveals how the legendary Medicis—Cosimo and Lorenzo “the Magnificent” in particular—used the diplomatic, military, and even metaphysical tools at hand, along with a healthy dose of intrigue and wit, to further their fortunes as well as their family’s standing.

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Originally published in 1967. With the waning of the Middle Ages, the life of the Italian polis underwent a gradual but unmistakable transformation. The leisurely decentralization of the medieval commune, which had its roots in feudalism, the code of chivalry, and religious faith, gave place to the tight despotism of the fourteenth century. This in turn yielded to democratized government and finally to a stricter legalistic and puritanical rule. Marvin Becker's two-volume study of Florence examines this metamorphosis and establishes its relationship to the emergence of the Renaissance state. Volume One traces the decline of the communal paideia in its political, social, and cultural aspects. Through an intensive examination of the fiscal and juridical records of the period and the documents of contemporary literature, Dr. Becker demonstrates the relationship between the death of communal ideals and the centralization of political power, and between the emergence of a strong middle class and a respect for public law. He shows the patricians discovering a community of interest with the burghers, and the vendetta being replaced by courts of law. Finally, he traces the growing ability of the Florentine citizenry to cope with crisis through the newly strengthened organs of the republic. Volume Two will discuss the establishment of Florence as a Renaissance city-state with particular emphasis on the continuum between the medieval commune of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries and the centralized city of the mid-fourteenth century. A unique contribution of this volume lies in the use made of painstaking and detailed investigation of the voluminous archival resources of the Archivio di Stato of Florence—some of which have since been destroyed by the 1966 flood. In pursuit of what actually took place during communal council meetings, what legislation was passed and what rejected, Dr. Becker scrutinized tens of thousands of documents in a variety of categories, obtaining first-hand knowledge of the careers of those in power, and gaining illuminating insights into motivations and actions. Political, social, and cultural historians will find Florence in Transition, Volume One, a helpful elucidation of the dynamics of historical change and the birth of a state.

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Peter Godman presents the first intellectual history of Florentine humanism from the lifetime of Angelo Poliziano in the later fifteenth century to the death of Niccolo Machiavelli in 1527. Making use of unpublished and rare sources, Godman traces the development of philological and official humanism after the expulsion of the Medici in 1494 up to and beyond their restoration in 1512. He draws long overdue attention to the work of Marcello Virgilio Adriani--Poliziano's successor in his Chair at the Studio and Machiavelli's colleague at the Chancery of Florence. And he examines in depth the intellectual impact of Savonarola and the relationship between secular and religious and oral and print cultures.Godman shows a complex reaction of rivalry and antagonism in Machiavelli's approach to Marcello Virgilio, who was the leading Florentine humanist of the day. But he also demonstrates that Florentine humanists shared a common culture, marked by a preference for secular over religious themes and by constant anxiety about surviving and prospering in the city's dangerous political climate. The book concludes with an appendix, drawn from previously incaccessible archives, about the censorship of Machiavelli by the Inquisition and the Index. From Poliziano to Machiavelli adds new depth to the intellectual history of Forence during his most dynamic period in its history.Originally published in 1998.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Luis Javier Moreno está entre nosotros en St. Louis. Puede, por ejemplo, detenerse en San Juan de la Cruz o en la poesía de Horacio con la misma soltura con la que habla de los tríos mexicanos que le gusta escuchar y que tararea mientras se sirve un poco más de Jack Daniel?s para volver a empezar a hablar sobre Goya o los desnudos de Florencia. O nos explica la actitud de la escultura y cómo uno puede pasar a visitarlas adentro de ellas mismas. Nos habla también de la idea de nosotros, de la traducción literal, de los paisajes de Segovia. Nos aclara por qué los lugares más tristes son aquellos en los que abundan las flores amarillas. Nos plantea un argumento ontológico y nos pone de cara a la pared para que podamos empezar a ver.Luis, entonces, como abandonado en St. Louis, hecho nuestro para dejarnos algo para eso que, él sabe, vendrá después, cuando él se vaya y nos quedemos solos. Como si Luis estuviera programando todo, como si lo hubiera escrito en alguno de sus versos en tier

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Hospices have played a critical role in transforming ideas about death and dying. Viewing death as a natural event, hospices seek to enable people approaching mortality to live as fully and painlessly as possible. Award-winning medical historian Emily K. Abel provides insight into several important issues surrounding the growth of hospice care. Using a unique set of records, Prelude to Hospice expands our understanding of the history of U.S. hospices. Compiled largely by Florence Wald, the founder of the first U.S. hospice, the records provide a detailed account of her experiences studying and caring for dying people and their families in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Although Wald never published a report of her findings, she often presented her material informally. Like many others seeking to found new institutions, she believed she could garner support only by demonstrating that her facility would be superior in every respect to what currently existed. As a result, she generated inflated expectations about what a hospice could accomplish. Wald’s records enable us to glimpse the complexities of the work of tending to dying people.

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Uncovers the central and leading roles of women in the development of organised consumer activism in the UK and the USA between 1885 and 1920 Gives insight into the extensive influence of women activists around the turn of the twentieth century Works across academic disciplines to provide an historicised and critical analysis of the consumers' league movement and its impact Traces the international awareness behind campaigns against labour exploitation and for protective labour legislation Explores the roots of ethical consumerism and consumer activist strategies that remain current and recognisable Ethical consumption and consumer choice are at the heart of public debates today, but consumer activism has a long history. At the end of the nineteenth century, groups of women activists in different countries weaponised their reputation as consumers to mount campaigns against labour exploitation. By the early twentieth century, they had built an international network of Consumers' Leagues that influenced public opinion and achieved legislative change. Analysing the campaign writing of women activists, including both well-known and recently rediscovered historical figures, Flore Janssen provides new insights into the campaigns that underpinned important developments in the rights of workers and the social position of women. Highlighting the social, economic and political influence of women as activists, this book discusses campaign strategies, but also draws attention to problematic politics within these campaigns. Through its critically contextualised analysis of this specific consumer movement, the book reveals the origins of many consumer campaign strategies that remain familiar today.

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Este libro está dedicado a todos los niños y a los niños que han aprendido a ser adultos. Trata de la búsqueda del ser para recuperar esa libertad de soñar y de actuar, sin normas, sin reglas, siguiendo únicamente el impulso del espíritu que alberga.En lo profundo de cada uno de nosotros existe un niño/a interno que ha quedado ahogado por diversas razones, que tienen que ver con la lucha por la vida, por la supervivencia, por la adaptación a las diversas circunstancia que enfrentamos, que nos generan un peso terrible que ahoga cualquier intento por mantener la inocencia primigenia con la que salimos de origen a la vida. Sin embargo, es un objetivo primordial para todo ser humano, para todo adulto, el recuperar la sonrisa inocente de que alguna vez fue artífice.Cuando nacemos, todo lo que necesitamos aprender lo llevamos dentro de nosotros; la vida, la naturaleza, el sol, las estrellas, los demás seres humanos, no son sino libros en donde tú podrás recordar tus lecciones interna

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Lorenzo de' Medici: The embodiment of Florence's most powerful family, a brutal man who ruled the city with an iron fist, whilst protecting it from the shifting mire of Italian politics.Fra Girolamo Savonarola: An unprepossessing provincial monk whose sermons, filled with Old Testament fury, resonated with the disenfranchised population of the city.The battle between these two men would be a fight to the death, a series of sensational events - including a mighty foreign invasion, trial by fire, the 'Bonfire of the Vanities', terrible executions and mysterious deaths - featuring a cast of the most important and charismatic Renaissance figures.

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'A marvel of storytelling and a masterclass in the history of the book' WALL STREET JOURNALThe Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - the dazzling handiwork of the city's artists and architects. But equally important were geniuses of another kind: Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars and booksellers. At a time where all books were made by hand, these people helped imagine a new and enlightened world. At the heart of this activity was a remarkable bookseller: Vespasiano da Bisticci. His books were works of art in their own right, copied by talented scribes and illuminated by the finest miniaturists. With a client list that included popes and royalty, Vespasiano became the 'king of the world's booksellers'. But by 1480 a new invention had appeared: the printed book, and Europe's most prolific merchant of knowledge faced a formidable new challenge.'A spectacular life of the book trade's Renaissance man' JOHN CAREY, SUNDAY TIMES

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Première édition bilingue anglo-française de l’œuvre de John Wilmot, comte de Rochester (1647-1680), l’ouvrage qui offre un appareil critique a pour objectif de faire connaître le poète au public français tout en poursuivant l’entreprise de la réhabilitation du « méchant comte » commencée outre-Manche il y a un demi-siècle. Une longue introduction insiste sur l’environnement littéraire et philosophique du poète où les sources du mouvement européen du libertinage de pensée prennent toute leur place. Florence Lautel-Ribstein propose en outre une réflexion approfondie sur l’approche traductive de textes parfois très complexes en raison de leur caractère poétique, de leur dimension ontologique ou de leur registre parodique. Plus de quatre-vingt textes lyriques, satiriques, philosophiques ainsi qu’une tragédie forment le corpus rochesterien à la paternité quasi certaine. Ils sont présentés ici avec leur traduction en regard. Chaque œuvre est accompagnée de l’historique de la publication de ses premières versions manuscrites ou imprimées, de notes textuelles et explicatives abondantes, ainsi que d’un commentaire qui, dans certains cas, est le premier du genre. L’introduction ainsi que les notices, notes et commentaires de cette édition sont rédigés en français. The introduction to this edition, as well as the annotations and commentaries, are written in French.

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Caravaggio's astonishingly naturalistic and provocative Cupid Victorious hung in the palace of a famous family at the heart of seventeenth-century Rome. Helen Langdon explores how the artist, famed for his originality, created a balance between a suggestion of his own world - a world of lively and rowdy street life - and a complex and ambiguous response to both ancient and Renaissance art and literature. Langdon also looks at the challenge the painting threw out to contemporary painters, whose world was characterised by extreme and bitter rivalries; often they reject his irony, sometimes embellish the painting's sexuality, and at other times convey an opposing sense of the harmony of the arts.

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Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness arising from the ideal of the classical republic revived by Machiavelli and other thinkers of Renaissance Italy. Pocock shows that Machiavelli's prime emphasis was on the moment in which the republic confronts the problem of its own instability in time, which Pocock calls the "Machiavellian moment." After examining this problem in the works of Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and Giannotti, Pocock turns to the revival of republican ideology in Puritan England and in Revolutionary and Federalist America. He argues that the American Revolution can be considered the last great act of civic humanism of the Renaissance and he relates the origins of modern historicism to the clash between civic, Christian, and commercial values in eighteenth-century thought. This Princeton Classics edition of The Machiavellian Moment features a new introduction by Richard Whatmore.

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This collection has been researched from the rich recipe bank of American dessert and cookie makers, plus many other international cooks. Their influences are from all around Europe and these cooks are passionate about their creativity. Because they are so wonderful to eat, Americans indulge too often, as we know. But in moderation we can enjoy ourselves in these little treats with friends, or make gifts of them that will be remembered forever. The secret of these pastry cooks isn't in fine cookery. It is in their imagination, their style and the sheer luxury of their approach. If it's worth doing at all, then you do it most generously in America! This is a great little book to have when you're feeling down and want to throw together a little treat to make you happy again.

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Ce livre présente l’édition, la traduction en français et l’analyse de tous les documents de chancellerie concernant les échanges diplomatiques et commerciaux entre Florence et le sultanat mamelouk (début XVe - début XVIe siècle). This book offers the edition, translation into French and analysis of all the chancery documents related to the exchanges established between Florence and the Mamluk sultanate from the third decade of the fifteenth century to the beginning of the sixteenth.

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‘A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence’ Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 1531 – after years of brutal war and political intrigue, the bastard son of a Medici Duke and a ‘half-negro’ maidservant rides into Florence. Within a year, he rules the city as its Prince. Backed by the Pope and his future father-in-law the Holy Roman Emperor, the nineteen-year-old Alessandro faces down bloody family rivalry and the scheming hostility of Italy’s oligarchs to reassert the Medicis’ faltering grip on the turbulent city-state. Six years later, as he awaits an adulterous liaison, he will be murdered by his cousin in another man’s bed.‘Nothing in sixteenth-century history is more astonishing’ Hilary Mantel

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La Biblia de Estudio para Mujeres te dará herramientas para profundizar más en la Palabra de Dios. Tal vez el aspecto más poderoso de esta Biblia son las 'hebras' de estudio especializado tejidas con esmero de principio a fin, que te señalan la historia más grande de Dios y permiten que el Espíritu Santo escriba Sus verdades reveladas en tu corazón. En La Biblia de Estudio para Mujeres, te unirás a una multitud de mujeres académicamente preparadas en los idiomas originales de la Biblia y apasionadas por la Palabra de Dios. Con ellas te sumergirás de manera íntima y profunda en la Escritura, para recibir las herramientas que te ayuden a desentrañar las riquezas y la majestad de Su Palabra, y para encender la pasión para guiar a otros a tu alrededor a que hagan lo mismo. La Biblia de Estudio para Mujeres incluye el texto completo de la Biblia Versión Reina Valera 1960. Algunas de sus caracte

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La esperada cuarta entrega de la serie El día que...Una historia sobre el amor, la superación y el crecimiento personal, sobre cambiar los ritmos frenéticos de la vida y vivir una vida pausada en armonía con los ritmos de la naturaleza.Tras tres años infernales junto a Ben y un hijo en común Mel siente la valentía de acabar con la relación tóxica en la que se ha convertido su vida. La idea huir a Montana, comprar una pequeña cabaña en Yellowstone para rehabilitar y convertirla en una casa rural en la que vivir junto a su hijo, servir desayunos caseros, disfrutar de las flores, las sábanas colgadas en el jardín, las tardes de té y lectura entre montañas nevadas le agita el corazón.Lo que Mel no se imagina es la gran aventura que le espera por vivir, lo difícil que es salir de una relación tóxica donde el maltrato está a la orden del día. Lo difícil que es emprender sola y más con un hijo. Lo increíble de volver a enamorarse y sanar las heridas del pasado.A Mel

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Al lado del mundo de la Belle Époque, ese fin del siglo XIX produjo una literatura que tenía en la belleza de la palabra y en un mundo de vaguedades y personajes etéreos sus mejores logros. El joven Marcel Proust se incorpora a la literatura precisamente en ese momento y acoge ese afán sutil por la belleza en Los placeres y los días, su primer libro, en el que, por debajo del cestillo de flores que quiere ser, aparecen soterrados los temas que iban a convertir su narración mayor, A la busca del tiempo perdido, en la gran novela del siglo XX. En los relatos, poemas y prosas poéticas que forman Los placeres y los días, surgen aquí y allá esos temas: desde el cálido beso de la madre hasta la idea de culpa por una sexualidad que no se adapta a las normas sociales, pasando por la fina ironía con que el autor contempla el mundo aristocrático que le rodea, en el que aspira a insertarse, y del que en A la busca del tiempo perdido se convertirá en el cr

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?En la República Popular Democrática de Corea del Norte, hay dos personas más importantes que nuestro padre y nuestra madre, nuestro querido general Kim Il-sung y su hijo Kim Jong-il. Como los queremos mucho, colgamos sus fotos en todas partes... En las calles, las fábricas y las casas. Incluso hemos levantado estatuas gigantescas donde depositamos flores por su cumpleaños. Me llamo Jun Sang, tengo 8 años y soy un joven de la Corea liberada. La vida es importante para mí, la esperanza en un futuro radiante, también. Sin embargo, mi vida, mi esperanza, mi felicidad valen menos que la patria?. Así describe Jun Sang, un niño normal y corriente de Corea del Norte, los pilares que rigen su vida diaria.Su padre trabaja en la mina y su madre en una fábrica de confección, tejiendo uniformes. En la escuela le han enseñado que sus enemigos son los americanos y los surcoreanos, y que la única persona que los puede proteger de todos los males es Kim Jong-il, también llamado ?dirigente mundial d

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?. En el Zen hay una gran diferencia entre aprendizaje y conocimiento. Déjame que te explique. El conocimiento es prestado; el aprendizaje es tuyo. El conocimiento se adquiere a través de las palabras, el lenguaje, los conceptos; el aprendizaje se adquiere a través de la experiencia. El conocimiento siempre se acaba: ya lo sabes, así que ya está. El aprendizaje nunca se acaba, siempre está en el camino. El aprendizaje es un proceso: uno sigue aprendiendo hasta el último momento. El conocimiento llega hasta un punto donde se para, y se convierte en ego. El aprendizaje no se para nunca, se mantiene humilde.? ?. Si te muestro una flor, tú no la verás directamente; dirás: Sí, es una hermosa rosa. Qué necesidad hay de decir que es una rosa? En cuanto dices que es una rosa, se han metido en ella todas las rosas que has conocido en el pasado. En el instante que dices que es una rosa, la estás comparando con otras flores, la estás identificando, la estás categorizando. En el momento que dices

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In 1919, Florence Deshon—tall, radical, and charismatic—was well on her way to becoming one of Hollywood's brightest stars. Embroiled in a clandestine affair with Charlie Chaplin, she continued to remain romantically involved with the well-known writer and socialist Max Eastman. By 1922, she was found dead in a New York apartment, rumored to have committed suicide.Love and Loss in Hollywood: Florence Deshon, Max Eastman, and Charlie Chaplin uses previously unpublished letters between Deshon and Eastman to reconstruct their relationship against the backdrop of the "golden age" of Hollywood. Deshon's tragic life and her abuse at the hands of powerful men—including Chaplin, Eastman, and Samuel Goldwyn—resonate with the concerns of today's MeToo movement. Above all, though, this is a book about an extraordinary woman unjustly forgotten: a brilliant writer and campaigner for women's rights, driven both by her ambition to succeed and a boundless desire for life.Rich in tantalizing detail, Love and Loss in Hollywood chronicles crucial years of American film history, overshadowed by the pervasive fear of Bolshevism after World War I, the Red Riots, and the emergence of the big studios in Hollywood. This beautiful edition features dozens of unpublished photographs, among them six mesmerizing full-length portraits of Deshon by Adolph de Meyer, Vogue's first fashion photographer.

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As a bored, moody teenager, Emma Beddington came across a copy of French ELLE in the library of her austere Yorkshire school. As she turned the pages, full of philosophy, sex and lipstick, she realized that her life had one purpose and one purpose only: she needed to be French. Instead of skulking in her bedroom listening to The Smiths or trudging to Betty's Tea Room to buy fondant fancies, she would be free and solitary, sitting outside the Café de Flore with a Scottie dog at her feet, a Moleskine on the table and a Gauloise trembling on her lower lip. And so she set about becoming French: she did a French exchange, albeit in Casablanca; she studied French history at university, and spent the holidays in France with her French boyfriend. Eventually, after a family tragedy, she found herself living in Paris, with the same French boyfriend and two half-French children. Her dream had come true, but how would reality match up? Gradually Emma realized that she might have found Paris, but what she really needed to find was home.Written with enormous wit and warmth, We'll Always Have Paris is a memoir for anyone who has ever worn a Breton T-shirt and wondered, however fleetingly, if they could pass for une vraie Parisienne.

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En este nuevo libro, Juan Antonio Masoliver Ródenas reúne dos poemarios, La negación de la luz y El cementerio de los dioses, en los que elabora su universo poético de madurez, impregnado de erotismo y vitalidad, pero también de nostalgia y desgarro: Recorrer con la mirada lo que otros captan con la memoria. No con la mirada: con los ojos. Regresar más allá del pasado a las cuevas del pedernal y de los signos [.] Convertir la materia en movimiento, el aire en partitura, la vida en un mural donde bailan las madres de la primera mujer entre el pulular de hombrecillos con sombrero perdidos en los laberintos de la nada, el mundo en un baúl con peces de nácar, semillas, flores de algarrobo, ojos y dientes de caballo. Recorrer con la mirada el vacío, llenarlo de trazos, de maleza y regresar a los desvanes de Àger donde una madre duerme en el olvido, entre sombras de tinta y flautas indias, acunada por el llanto del hijo que le pide la llave donde se ocultan todos los

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Set within the context of the struggles in the Florentine Republic over the distribution of political power and the search for stability, Florence in the Age of the Medici and Savonarola, 1464–1498: A Short History with Documents illuminates a key moment of fifteenth-century Florentine history with a focus on the monumental personalities and actions of Lorenzo de’Medici and Fra Girolamo Savonarola.

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Writing letters to powerful people to win their favor and garner rewards such as political office, tax relief, and recommendations was an institution in Renaissance Florence; the practice was an important tool for those seeking social mobility, security, and recognition by others. In this detailed study of political and social patronage in fifteenth-century Florence, Paul D. McLean shows that patronage was much more than a pursuit of specific rewards. It was also a pursuit of relationships and of a self defined in relation to others. To become independent in Renaissance Florence, one first had to become connected. With The Art of the Network, McLean fills a gap in sociological scholarship by tracing the historical antecedents of networking and examining the concept of self that accompanies it. His analysis of patronage opens into a critique of contemporary theories about social networks and social capital, and an exploration of the sociological meaning of “culture.”McLean scrutinized thousands of letters to and from Renaissance Florentines. He describes the social protocols the letters reveal, paying particular attention to the means by which Florentines crafted credible presentations of themselves. The letters, McLean contends, testify to the development not only of new forms of self-presentation but also of a new kind of self to be presented: an emergent, “modern” conception of self as an autonomous agent. They also bring to the fore the importance that their writers attached to concepts of honor, and the ways that they perceived themselves in relation to the Florentine state.

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In der vorliegenden Studie widmet sich Jasmin Hauck Gesuchen um Dispense von Ehehindernissen aus der Erzdiözese Florenz (ca. 1455-1540), die mehrheitlich Fälle von zu naher Verwandtschaft betrafen. Erstmals untersucht die Autorin hierbei ein regionales Korpus dieser speziellen päpstlich delegierten Verfahren für die vortridentinische Zeit auf breiter lokaler und römisch-zentraler Quellenbasis in monographischer Breite. Dabei beleuchtet sie die einzelnen Stationen des Verfahrens und seine Akteure multiperspektivisch, nimmt Norm, Doktrin und Praxis zugleich in den Blick, verquickt quantitative und qualitative Analyseebene und wählt zuletzt einen interdisziplinären Zugang, der von rechtsgeschichtlichen bis hin zu historisch-anthropologischen Fragen und Methoden reicht. So erweist sich das Verfahren zur Exekution von Ehedispensen als Feld konkurrierender sozialer und rechtlicher Normen, das neben dem römisch-kanonischen Prozessrecht von lokalem Recht und Vorstellungen von Geschlecht und Verwandtschaft, wie der agnatischen Prägung des familiären Bewusstseins, geprägt wird.

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Florence Nightingale is known as a hospital reformer, a social reformer, and the founder of professional nursing; few realize that she worked closely with doctors on these issues. As Nightingale’s first supporters and colleagues, doctors contributed to reducing the high death rates in Crimean War hospitals and learned from the consequential reforms.Beginning with an overview of Nightingale’s life and continuing with an exploration of her Crimean War work with army doctors, her post-Crimea work with civilian doctors, and her collaborations with the peacetime army and with army doctors in later wars, Lynn McDonald details the involvement of doctors in Nightingale’s legacy. At a time when hospitals’ death rates were universally high (including at top teaching hospitals), Nightingale formed connections with leading public health doctors and produced heavily cited work on safer hospital design. Her later writings cover her relations with early women doctors and the controversy over state regulation of nurses, bacteriology, and germ theory; here, McDonald argues against flawed secondary literature and the myth of Nightingale’s lifelong opposition to germ theory. The final chapter discusses the legendary nurse’s enduring legacy.Florence Nightingale and the Medical Men provides timely insight into Nightingale’s principles of disease prevention, data visualization, and the impacts of high disease and death rates – issues that persist in the global health crises of the twenty-first century.

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Based on a detailed study of rich archival sources, Model experts explores practices of model production and display, and reveals the often invisible labours of the co-operating artisans, anatomists, and administrators. The book shows that the models were central to a remarkable political experiment: 'La Specola' opened in 1775 as the Royal Museum of Physics and Natural History, one of the first public science museums in Europe. As a venue for public enlightenment, the museum displayed model anatomies to create the model citizen. The study also moves beyond the borders of Tuscany, following a set of Florentine waxes to Vienna to explore the diverse reactions of medical professionals and general audiences as the models travelled in enlightened Europe.The book will be of interest to historians of medicine, science, art, and enlightenment, to scholars in museum studies and in science & technology studies interested in the historical emergence of expertise, public engagement with science, and the relationship between science and the state.

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