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The papers presented in this volume analyze the civil uprising known as Euromaidan that began in central Kyiv in late November 2013, when the Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych opted not to sign an Association Agreement with the European Union, and continued over the following months. The topics include the motivations and expectations of protesters, organized crime, nationalism, gender issues, mass media, the Russian language, and the impact of Euromaidan on Ukrainian politics as well as on the EU, Russia, and Belarus. An epilogue to the book looks at the aftermath, including the Russian annexation of Crimea and the creation of breakaway republics in the east, leading to full-scale conflict. The goal of the book is less to offer a definitive account than one that represents a variety of aspects of a mass movement that captivated world attention and led to the downfall of the Yanukovych presidency.

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This book examines the role of translation - the rendering of texts and ideas from one language to another, as both act and trope - in shaping attitudes toward nationalism and colonialism in Korean and Japanese intellectual discourse between the time of Japan's annexation of Korea in 1910 and the passing of the colonial generation in the mid-1960s. Drawing on Korean and Japanese texts ranging from critical essays to short stories produced in the colonial and post-colonial periods, it analyzes the ways in which Japanese colonial and Korean nationalist discourse pivoted on such concepts as language, literature, and culture.

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Né à Corujas, dans le Nord-Est du Portugal, le 28 mars 1943 Francolino Gonçalves a fait sa profession religieuse dans l’Ordre dominicain en 1960 et fut ordonné prêtre le 9 novembre 1968. Envoyé d’abord à l’Ecole biblique de Jérusalem, il partit à Louvain faire son doctorat qui fut publié en 1986 dans les Études bibliques collection dont il fut ensuite le directeur, comme des Cahiers de la Revue biblique, pour des longues années. Son enseignement à l’École et dans plusieurs autres institutions académiques lui valut nombre d’honneurs et la nomination en 2008 à la Commission Biblique Pontificale. Après une vie de recherche, d’enseignement et de publications il est décédé peu avant l’aube du 15 juin 2017. Le présent volume est dédié à sa mémoire et contient des études prophétiques, historiques et épigraphiques de ses frères, collègues, étudiants et amis.

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Cette étude envisage l’÷uvre de Voltaire dans la diversité de ses formes et des genres que l’auteur a pratiqués. Elle étudie d’abord la mise en scène dialoguée par Voltaire des conflits discursifs sur la question de la vérité au XVIIIe siècle. Elle aborde ensuite la représentation ironique par l’écrivain de voix prétendant affirmer des formes autoritaires et dogmatiques de discours de vérité. En troisième lieu, elle se penche sur le travail de distinction formelle opéré par l’écrivain entre le récit de fiction et le récit historique. Enfin sont étudiés les éléments d’écriture qui trahissent chez Voltaire un besoin existentiel de vérité. Marc Hersant est professeur à l’université d'Amiens. Spécialiste des mémorialistes d’Ancien Régime et en particulier de Saint-Simon, il a consacré ces dernières années à l’étude de l’÷uvre de Voltaire et prépare actuellement un ouvrage sur Sade.

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Le corpus de la poésie du non-sens a été exhumé au XIXe siècle, mais ce n'est qu'au détour des années 1960 que cette forme de lyrisme devint un sujet digne d'attention pour le monde savant. Après un demi-siècle, il est devenu clair que la condition d'un dire neuf sur ces textes - et tout spécialement sur la fatrasie - passe par le dépassement, voire l'oubli, de la vulgate éditoriale fixée du temps des pionniers.Ce livre est une édition critique sur nouveaux frais du corpus «nonsensique», réduit 1) aux deux genres polaires éclos au XIIIe siècle: la rêverie (versant du «non-sens relatif») et la fatrasie (versant du «non-sens absolu»); 2) au genre hybride du fatras enté, tel qu'il était cultivé dans le premier tiers du XIVe siècle.

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Virtue Ethics collects, for the first time, the main classical sources and the central contemporary expressions of virtue ethics approach to normative ethical theory. Edited and introduced by Stephen Darwall, these readings are essential for anyone interested in normative theory. Introduced by Stephen Darwall, this collection brings together classic and contemporary readings which define and advance the literature on virtue ethics. Includes six essays which respond to the classic sources. Includes a contemporary discussion on character and virtue by Gary Watson. Includes classic essays by Aristotle, Francis Hutcheson and David Hume, and recent reactions to this work by philosophers including Philippa Foot, John McDowell, Alasdair MacIntyre, Annette Baier, Rosalind Hursthouse, and Michael Slote.

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Imaginez des jungles etouffantes, peuplees de monstruosites sans nom et d'hommes reptiles chasseurs de tetes. Imaginez des ruines devorees par la vegetation, ou sommeillent les tresors d'une civilisation perdue. Imaginez des temples cyclopeens degoulinant de sang sacrificiel. Imaginez d'arrogants sorciers emmures dans de mysterieuses cites d'or. Maintenant, imaginez que vous venez d'arriver dans cet enfer tropical, sans espoir de retour. Bienvenue sur l'ile Monstrueuse. L'Ile Monstrueuse est un cadre de jeu modulaire pouvant s'inserer dans n'importe quelle campagne existante de Mythras, quel que soit son style, de l'epee & sorcellerie au pulp des annees 30. Retournez a l'age d'or des meilleures uvres d'epee & sorcellerie : d'inestimables joyaux, de terrifiants dinosaures et des horreurs venues d'ailleurs n'attendent que vous!

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The ability to perform heat treatments in the home workshop can be a very useful asset, enabling you to make, repair and maintain tools, to anneal and normalize work-hardened metals, and even to create decorative finishes. Heat Treatment is a practical guide to this valuable range of workshop techniques and how to employ them safely and effectively. Featuring step-by-step photography throughout, this book covers metals and their properties; building a heat treatment oven for the home workshop; case hardening, flame hardening and tempering and finally, decorative finishes with colour case hardening, oil blacking and enamelling.

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Les textes reunis dans le present recueil ont ete publies, au cours des vingt-huit dernieres annees, dans differentes revues et divers ouvrages collectifs. Chacun peut etre lu independamment des autres. Mais ils s'inscrivent tous dans une meme perspective, qu'ils tentent d'ailleurs de rendre explicite a partir de leurs points de vue particuliers respectifs. Ce recueil se situe dans le prolongement d'un autre ensemble de textes, qui a pour titre "Le temps du possible" et dans lequel il est question de l'auto-comprehension de la philosophie et de quelques themes relevant d'une perspective ontologique. Le dernier de ces textes a pour theme ce qui est indique dans le titre donne au recueil. Il evoque ce qui constitue l'horizon de ce recueil et ce qui lui donne son unite. Et il prepare la reflexion sur la raison qui est poursuivie dans le present recueil.

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In 1893 a small group of white planters and missionary descendants backed by the United States overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai‘i and established a government modeled on the Jim Crow South. In Nation Within Tom Coffman tells the complex history of the unsuccessful efforts of deposed Hawaiian queen Lili‘uokalani and her subjects to resist annexation, which eventually came in 1898. Coffman describes native Hawaiian political activism, the queen's visits to Washington, D.C., to lobby for independence, and her imprisonment, along with hundreds of others, after their aborted armed insurrection. Exposing the myths that fueled the narrative that native Hawaiians willingly relinquished their nation, Coffman shows how Americans such as Theodore Roosevelt conspired to extinguish Hawai‘i's sovereignty in the service of expanding the United States' growing empire.

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'One of the finest writers at work today.' Damon Galgut'A writer of show-stopping genius.' Guardian 'So vivid, so visceral, so vital.' Val McDermidFor almost a decade Rachel Caine has turned her back on home and worked in Idaho at a reservation for wolves. As one of the few experts in her field she is summoned back to England by the eccentric Earl of Annerdale to help with his plan for re-wilding wolves on his estate in the Lake District. As Rachel attempts a gradual reconciliation with her estranged family, her work with the Earl begins to generate public outrage and the threat of sabotage. Set against a backdrop of Scottish independence and tumultuous power struggles both locally and nationally, The Wolf Border is a novel steeped in wilderness and wildness, both animal and human.

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This book of contemporary monologues for women includes pieces from the best of the last three decades of contemporary playwriting, from Caryl Churchill and Michael Frayn to Martin McDonagh and Sarah Kane. Including pieces by award-winning British playwrights, here are pieces both serious and comic providing the actor with all the challenges of performing contemporary plays. The book is an invaluable resource for auditions, acting class, competitions and rehearsals. A fuller appreciation of each monologue is provided by Chrys Salt's invaluable commentaries, giving clues as to possible direction and setting each piece in the context of the play as a whole.Praise for Chrys Salt's Make Acting Work: "A really useful book for every actor to own" Prunella Scales; "This book should be part of every resourceful actor's armoury" Annette Badland

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This qualitative and applied introductory text has been revised and reorganised for a contemporary approach. Eighty-four case studies—three per chapter—and eighty-four videos produced by the Annenberg Foundation—one for each case study—complement the text and reflect the most current research and debates in economics.

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Explorations in New Cinema History brings together cutting-edge research by the leading scholars in the field to identify new approaches to writing and understanding the social and cultural history of cinema, focusing on cinema’s audiences, the experience of cinema, and the cinema as a site of social and cultural exchange. Includes contributions from Robert Allen, Annette Kuhn, John Sedwick, Mark Jancovich, Peter Sanfield, and Kathryn Fuller-Seeley among others Develops the original argument that the social history of cinema-going and of the experience of cinema should take precedence over production- and text-based analyses Explores the cinema as a site of social and cultural exchange, including patterns of popularity and taste, the role of individual movie theatres in creating and sustaining their audiences, and the commercial, political and legal aspects of film exhibition and distribution Prompts readers to reassess their understanding of key periods of cinema history, opening up cinema studies to long-overdue conversations with other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences Presents rigorous empirical research, drawing on digital technology and geospatial information systems to provide illuminating insights in to the uses of cinema

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A beautifully illustrated study of the caves at Dunhuang, exploring how this important Buddhist site has been visualized from its creation to todaySituated at the crossroads of the northern and southern routes of the ancient silk routes in western China, Dunhuang is one of the richest Buddhist sites in the world, with more than 500 richly decorated cave temples constructed between the fourth and fourteenth centuries. The sculptures, murals, portable paintings, and manuscripts found in the Mogao and Yulin Caves at Dunhuang represent every aspect of Buddhism. From its earliest construction to the present, this location has been visualized by many individuals, from the architects, builders, and artists who built the caves to twentieth-century explorers, photographers, and conservators, as well as contemporary artists.Visualizing Dunhuang: Seeing, Studying, and Conserving the Caves is a paperback edition of the ninth volume of the magnificent nine-volume hardback set, and examines how the Lo Archive, a vast collection of photographs taken in the 1940s of the Mogao and Yulin Caves, inspires a broad range of scholarship. Lavishly illustrated with selected Lo Archive and modern photographs, the essays address three main areas—Dunhuang as historical record, as site, and as art and art history. Leading experts across three continents examine a wealth of topics, including expeditionary photography and cave architecture, to demonstrate the intellectual richness of Dunhuang. Diverse as they are in their subjects and methodologies, the essays represent only a fraction of what can be researched about Dunhuang. The high concentration of caves at Mogao and Yulin and their exceptional contents chronicle centuries of artistic styles, shifts in Buddhist doctrine, and patterns of political and private patronage—providing an endless source of material for future work.Contributors include Neville Agnew, Dora Ching, Jun Hu, Annette Juliano, Richard Kent, Wei-Cheng Lin, Cary Liu, Maria Menshikova, Jerome Silbergeld, Roderick Whitfield, and Zhao Shengliang.Published in association with the Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University

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This pathbreaking collection of essays recasts the prevailing conceptions of the historical roots and role of the U.S. Communist Party and its social setting. The contributors focus on the movement that formed around the party and the popular culture it expressed, particularly in the period from 1930 to 1960. They look at the impact of the party and its followers in the areas of education, literature, and the arts, in the African-American community, and on the women's and labor movements. In their preface, the editors place the book in the context of the broader critical examination of the history of the left in the United States. By analyzing the historical reasons for the party's appeal and its relationship to those outside its ranks, the volume contributes to a fuller understanding of the broader societal context within which all oppositional movements are formed. Contributors (in order of appearance in book): Michael E. Brown, Mark Naison, John Gerassi, Stephen Leberstein, Ellen Schrecker, Rosalyn Baxandall, Roger Keeran, Gerald Horne, Annette T. Rubinstein, Marvin E. Gettleman, Alan Wald, and Gil Green (interviewed by Anders Stephanson).

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Cette Table Ronde sur "Les revues scientifiques d'etudes juives: passe et avenir", qui s'est deroulee les 13 et 14 novembre 2002, a eu pour but de celebrer, avec deux annees de retard, le cent-vingtieme anniversaire de la creation, en 1880, de la "Revue des etudes juives" - une de toutes premieres revues specialisees qui ont marque l'emergence des etudes juives comme discipline scientifique a une epoque charniere. Au cours de ces deux jours, il s'est agi d'une part, de situer les origines de la "Revue des etudes juives" dans son contexte historique et intellectuel, d'autre part, de mettre en relief le role et le potentiel des revues scientifiques consacrees aux etudes juives dans le monde d'aujourd'hui.

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What was it like to live in Iraq before the earth-shaking events of the end of the twentieth century? The mid seventies to the late eighties witnessed Saddam Hussein's rise to power, the establishment of Kurdish autonomy in the north, and the Iraq-Iran war. It also brought an influx of oil wealth, following the 1973 war and the spike in oil prices, and a parallel influx of Arab talent, including many Egyptians, as the Egyptian left became disenchanted with Sadat. The massive migration also extended to workers and peasants, some of whom created an entire Egyptian village just outside Baghdad.We witness all of this and more through the eyes of an Egyptian woman married to an engineer working in Iraq. The narrator, who works for an Egyptian magazine's bureau in the Iraqi capital, has a behind-the-scenes view of what was really happening at a critical juncture in the history of the region. Moreover, she has a mystery to solve: an Iraqi woman from the marshes in the south of Iraq, who is also a communist journalist, has disappeared, and as the mystery unfolds we learn of her love for an older Egyptian Marxist journalist. This is Iraq before and beyond Saddam, Iraq as the Arabs knew it, in the lives of interesting people living in a vibrant country before the attempted annexation of Kuwait and the American invasion. This is the Iraq that was

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Annette runs away from her finishing school but learns more than she bargained for in the real world beyond; the fierce and melacholy Rosa is torn between two Polish brothers; Peter is obsessed by an indecipherable ancient script. This is a story of a group of people under a spell, and the centre of it all is the mysterious Mischa Fox, the enchanter.

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What were the early visions of Empire in Regency France? The book offers a interpretation of Jean-Antoine Watteau’s Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera (1717) by framing it in the context of French colonial expansion in the years of the Regency. Born in Louis XIV’s reign, galant aesthetics contributed to frame the colonial encounter in French America. Fantasies of maritime departure, embarkation and/or debarkation, also expressed a longing for colonial travel and exploration. The imperial imagination fueled with codes of galanterie was very developed in the circles of Watteau’s amateurs. From Watteau’s Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera (1717) to its visual reenactment in 1763, the book argues that galanterie served as a visual and conceptual model of French commercial and colonial relations. Quelles furent les premières visions de l’Empire dans la France de la Régence ? Cet ouvrage propose une interprétation nouvelle du Pèlerinage à l’île de Cythère (1717) de Jean-Antoine Watteau en le replaçant dans le contexte de l’expansion coloniale française des années de la Régence. Née sous le règne et l’imperium de Louis XIV, l’esthétique galante a contribué à donner une forme visuelle à la rencontre coloniale en Amérique française. Les motifs du débarquement, de l’embarquement et du voyage maritime, essentiels dans ce tableau, exprimaient également un désir de voyage et de conquête. L’imaginaire impérial, alimenté par les codes de la galanterie était très développé dans les cercles des commanditaires de Watteau, eux-mêmes proches des cercles des Modernes, qui défendaient de nouvelles formes esthétiques en art et en littérature. Du Pèlerinage à l’île de Cythère (1717) de Watteau à son remploi visuel en 1763 dans une vue d’optique, le livre soutient que la galanterie servit comme ressource formelle au développement de l’imaginaire colonial français.

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This book is the first intellectual biography of Marcel Mauss (1872-1950), the father of modern ethnology and a leading early figure in the French school of sociology. Mauss left a rich intellectual legacy in the social sciences, influencing the work of Claude Levi-Strauss and others. His masterpiece, the 1925 essay The Gift, on reciprocity and gift economies among archaic societies, remains required reading in anthropology, and his work more broadly resonates today with students and scholars in fields from the history of religion to sociology. Mauss taught the first generation of French field researchers in anthropology and helped secure the legacy of his uncle, emile Durkheim, the founder of modern sociology. In Marcel Mauss: A Biography, Marcel Fournier situates Mauss's ideas in their biographical context, focusing not only on the details of Mauss's life but also on the people and the academic milieus with which he was associated in early twentieth-century France. He shows how Mauss--through his writings, teaching, and socialist politics--found himself at the center of the intellectual and political life of his country and of Europe through two world wars. The book addresses, among other topics, the effect of the Dreyfus Affair and the First World War on Mauss's thought, and the inner dynamics of the group of scholars around Mauss and Durkheim at the journal they helped establish, Annee Sociologique. The fruit of vast research, Marcel Mauss: A Biography is the life story both of a legendary scholar and of the institutionalization of sociology and anthropology.

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Correspondence, writes Mark Doty, is a fresh accomplishment, swift with feeling and intelligence, the work of a restless critical mind mapping its way toward a way to bear the weight of love. Kathleen Graber's debut book takes us on a trip through history and time, varying her subjects with speed and seamlessness, to a dizzying, dazzling effect. From the Philadelphia Eagles to Cornell's boxes, from a fertility clinic to Daguerre's prints, from Kafka to running over two cats, from Annette Benning to Marianne Moore, Kathleen Graber's poems embrace what her inquisitive mind traverses, ensnaring past and present, familiar and foreign, soulful and scientific, in a celebration of chaos that is generous and healing.

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Elaine Schwartz has spent her career sharing the interesting side of economics. At the Kent Place School in Summit, NJ, she has been honored through an Endowed Chair in Economics and the History Department chairmanship. At the same time, she developed curricula and wrote several books including Understanding Our Economy, and Econ 101 . Elaine has also written in the Encyclopedia of New Jersey and was a featured teacher in the Annenberg/CPB video project "The Economics Classroom." Beyond the classroom, she has presented Econ 101 talks and led workshops for the Foundation for Teaching Economics, the National Council on Economic Education and for the Concord Coalition.

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The Southern Sandstone climbing area is situated in the Southeast of England on the borders of Kent and East Sussex. It offers some superb top-rope climbing and bouldering on beautiful sandstone formations. This will be the first Rockfax guidebook to cover the climbing and bouldering. The book will use the usual Rockfax style - big full-colour photo-topos, detailed maps and full text descriptions - all lavishly supported by some great action photography.Crags CoveredBowles Rocks, Eridge Rocks, Harrison's Rocks, High Rocks, High Rocks Annexe, Happy Valley, Bull's Hollow, Toad Rocks, Mount Edgecumbe Rocks, Bassett's Farm Rocks, Under Rockes, Stone Farm

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A fascinating, bottom-up exploration of contemporary Russian politics that sheds new light on why Putin’s grip on power is more fragile than we think “Putin v. the People wrestles with perhaps the central conundrum of contemporary Russia: the endurance of support for Putin amid deepening disillusionment with the present and pessimism about the future.”—Daniel Beer, The Guardian What do ordinary Russians think of Putin? Who are his supporters? And why might their support now be faltering? Alive with the voices and experiences of ordinary Russians and elites alike, Sam Greene and Graeme Robertson craft a compellingly original account of contemporary Russian politics. Telling the story of Putin’s rule through pivotal episodes such as the aftermath of the "For Fair Elections" protests, the annexation of Crimea, and the War in Eastern Ukraine, Greene and Robertson draw on interviews, surveys, social media data, and leaked documents to reveal how hard Putin has to work to maintain broad popular support, while exposing the changing tactics that the Kremlin has used to bolster his popularity. Unearthing the ambitions, emotions, and divisions that fuel Russian politics, this book illuminates the crossroads to which Putin has led his country and shows why his rule is more fragile than it appears.

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Volume d'Hommage presente a Monsieur H. Limet, professeur de sumerologie honoraire. Le volume contient des articles sur des textes sumeriens et akkadiens, l'histoire et l'archeologie mesopotamienne.Papers on the sumerian and akkadian texts, mesopotamian history and archaeology offered to H. Limet, honorary professor of sumerology from the University of Liege.Table des matieres / Contents:Avant-propos - Bibliographie - B. ALSTER, He Who Pays With Valid Money: On the Status of Merchants in Early Mesopotamia - M. ANBAR, L'origine tribale de Zimri-Lim, roi de Mari - A. CAVIGNEAUX, Miettes de l'Edubba - M.E. COHEN, The Gods of Suburban Umma - G. COLBOW, Die spataltbabylonische Einfuhrungsszene. Zum Fortleben eines zentralen Bildmotivs der Ur-III-Zeit - P. FRONZAROLI, A propos de quelques mots eblaites d'orfevrerie - W.W. HALLO, Notes on Neo-Sumerian Animal Husbandry - J.-R. KUPPER, Les differents moments de la journee, d'apres les textes de Mari - B. LAFONT, L'extraction du minerai de cuivre en Iran a la fin du IIIe millenaire - J.-Cl. MARGUERON, Mari a l'epoque de "shakkanakku" - O. ROUAULT, Terqa et l'epoque des "sakkanaku" - M. SIGRIST, Deux signes, sous-multiples de gur - A.W. SJOBERG, UET VII, 73: An Exercise Tablet Enumerating Professions - A. SPYCKET, La role funeraire des ceintures a anneaux de coquille - H. STEIBLE - F. Yildiz, Kupfer ain ein Herdenamt in Suuppak? - M. STEPIEN, The Organisation of Animal Pasturing in the Light of Balanced Accounts, Inventories of Sheep and Goat Herdsmen from Umma - M. STOL, THe Reversibility of Human Fate in Ludlul II - Ph. TALON, Un nouvel exemplaire d'un cone de Nur-Adad de Larsa - M. TANRET, Noms sumeriens ou noms acadiens - M. TROKAY, Glyptique pseudo-kassite: glyptique kassite commune - D. DEHESELLE, la distribution "aklu" a Nippur a l'epoque kassite - O. TUNCA, A propos de la genese des orthostates neo-assyriens.

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The first of two volumes on the Axis campaigns in the Balkans, exploring Mussolini's fateful decision to move against Greece in October 1940. The Greek President Metaxas rejected the Italian ultimatum with a famous ‘Oxi’ ('No'), and what followed was Italy’s first debacle in World War II. In the wake of Italy's rapid annexation of Albania in April 1940, Mussolini’s decision to attack Greece in October that year is widely acknowledged as a fatal mistake, leading to a domestic crisis and to the collapse of Italy’s reputation as a military power (re-emphasized by the Italian defeat in North Africa in December 1940). The Italian assault on Greece came to a stalemate in less than a fortnight, and was followed a week later by a Greek counter-offensive that broke through the Italian defences before advancing into Albania, forcing the Italian forces to withdraw north before grinding to a half in January 1941 due to logistical issues. Eventually, the Italians took advantage of this brief hiatus to reorganize and prepare a counteroffensive, the failure of which marked the end of the first stage of the Axis Balkan campaign. The first of two volumes examining the Axis campaigns in the Balkans, this book offers a detailed overview of the Italian and Greek armies, their fighting power, and the terrain in which they fought. Complimented by rarely seen images and full colour illustrations, it shows how expectations of an easy Italian victory quickly turned into one of Mussolini’s greatest blunders.

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New essays on the burgeoning of pastoral and devotional literature in medieval England. Pastoral and devotional literature flourished throughout the middle ages, and its growth and transmutations form the focus of this collection. Ranging historically from the difficulties of localizing Anglo-Saxon pastoral texts tothe reading of women in late-medieval England, the individual essays survey its development and its transformation into the literature of vernacular spirituality. They offer both close examinations of particular manuscripts, and of individual texts, including an anonymous Speculum iuniroum, the Speculum religiosorum of Edmund of Abingdon and later vernacular compositions and translations, such as Handlyng Synne and Bonaventure's Lignum Vitae. The reading and devotional use of texts by women and solitaries is also considered. They therefore form an appropriate tribute to the work of Bella Millett, whose research has done so much to advance our knowledge of the field. Contributors: Alexandra Barratt, Mishtooni Bose, Joseph Goering, Brian Golding, C. Annette Grise, Cate Gunn, Ralph Hanna, Bob Hasenfratz, Catherine Innes-Parker, E. A. Jones, Derek Pearsall, Elaine Treharne, Nicholas Watson, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne

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The 1959 Cuban Revolution remains one of the signal events of modern political history. A tiny island, once a de facto colony of the United States, declared its independence, not just from the imperial behemoth ninety miles to the north, but also from global capitalism itself. Cuba's many achievements - in education, health care, medical technology, direct local democracy, actions of international solidarity with the oppressed - are globally unmatched and unprecedented. And the United States, in light of Cuba's achievements, has waged a relentless campaign of terrorist attacks on the island and its leaders, while placing Cuba on its "State Sponsors of Terrorism" list. In this updated edition of her classic, Cuba and the United States: A Chronological History, Jane Franklin depicts the two countries' relationship from the time both were colonies to the present. We see the early connections between Cuba and the United States through slavery; through the sugar trade; then Cuba's multiple wars for national liberation; the annexation of Cuba by the United States; the infamous Platt Amendment that entitled the United States to intervene directly in Cuban affairs; the gangster capitalism promoted by Cuban dictator Fulgencio Battista; and the guerilla war that brought the revolutionaries to power. A new chapter updating the fraught Cuban-U.S. nexus brings us well into the 21st century, with a look at the current status of Assata Shakur, the Cuban Five, and the post-9/11 years leading to the expansion of diplomatic relations. Offering a range of primary and secondary sources, the book is an outstanding scholarly work. Cuba and the United States brings new meaning to Simon Bolivar's warning in 1829, that the United States "appears destined by Providence to plague America with miseries in the name of Freedom."

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The 1959 Cuban Revolution remains one of the signal events of modern political history. A tiny island, once a de facto colony of the United States, declared its independence, not just from the imperial behemoth ninety miles to the north, but also from global capitalism itself. Cuba's many achievements - in education, health care, medical technology, direct local democracy, actions of international solidarity with the oppressed - are globally unmatched and unprecedented. And the United States, in light of Cuba's achievements, has waged a relentless campaign of terrorist attacks on the island and its leaders, while placing Cuba on its "State Sponsors of Terrorism" list. In this updated edition of her classic, Cuba and the United States: A Chronological History, Jane Franklin depicts the two countries' relationship from the time both were colonies to the present. We see the early connections between Cuba and the United States through slavery; through the sugar trade; then Cuba's multiple wars for national liberation; the annexation of Cuba by the United States; the infamous Platt Amendment that entitled the United States to intervene directly in Cuban affairs; the gangster capitalism promoted by Cuban dictator Fulgencio Battista; and the guerilla war that brought the revolutionaries to power. A new chapter updating the fraught Cuban-U.S. nexus brings us well into the 21st century, with a look at the current status of Assata Shakur, the Cuban Five, and the post-9/11 years leading to the expansion of diplomatic relations. Offering a range of primary and secondary sources, the book is an outstanding scholarly work. Cuba and the United States brings new meaning to Simon Bolivar's warning in 1829, that the United States "appears destined by Providence to plague America with miseries in the name of Freedom."

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Christa Meuter gibt mit ihrem Buch Trauerbegleiterinnen und Trauerbegleitern wie auch anderen Menschen, die trauernden Eltern begegnen, einen Einblick in den Kosmos trauernder Eltern. Die zahlreichen Fallbeispiele öffnen Fenster zur Elterntrauer. Es gibt festhaltende oder loslassende Eltern und beides darf sein. Für manche Eltern ist es gut, weitere Kinder zu haben, für andere ist es gut, keine weiteren Kinder zu haben. Es kann so sein oder genau entgegengesetzt oder alles dazwischen. Ausgewählte Ansätze und damit verbundene nützliche Werkzeuge werden mit Beispielen aus der Trauerbegleitung veranschaulicht. Die Autorin zeigt, dass es für eine gelingende Elterntrauerbegleitung vor allem eine annehmende, offene und positive innere Einstellung braucht. Das Buch macht Mut, sich auf die Begleitung trauernder Eltern einzulassen.

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Kunstwerke lassen sich nicht allein auf die Lebensgeschichte von Künstlerinnen und Künstlern zurückführen, doch es wäre auch falsch anzunehmen, dass die Bedingungen der Produktion, seien sie sozialer, technischer oder persönlicher Natur, am Werk keine Spuren hinterlassen und für dessen Wirkung unerheblich wären. Es ist dieses Verhältnis, das die in diesem Band versammelten Texte diskutieren. Der Autor setzt sich mit den Künstler:innen Bill Traylor, Heinrich Anton Müller, Elie Nadelman, Annemarie von Matt, Sonja Sekula, Robert Müller, Patrick Ireland, Marcel Duchamp, Brian O’Doherty, Niele Toroni, Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol, Helmut Federle, Anselm Stalder, Pawel Althamer sowie Mai-Thu Perret auseinander und beleuchtet die Entstehungsgeschichten ihrer Kunstwerke im Kontext ihrer Lebensgeschichten.

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“A vivid, moving and sometimes funny account of the reality of life during Russia's invasion,” Marc Bennetts, The Times “Uplifting and utterly defiant,” Matt Nixson, Daily Express “No-one with the slightest interest in this war, or the nation on which it is being waged, should fail to read Andrey Kurkov,” Dominic Lawson, Daily Mail   “For centuries, attempts have been made to force Ukrainians to forget their native language, to stop singing Ukrainian songs and to abandon their history. For almost 400 years, Russia has been fighting against Ukrainian identity.”   Ten years on from the annexation of Crimea, two years on from Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian people continue to fight back. In the second volume of his war diaries, Andrey Kurkov gives a fresh perspective on a people for w

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The essential introduction to modern statistical mechanics—now completely updated and expandedStatistical mechanics is one of the most exciting areas of physics today and has applications to subjects ranging from economics and social behavior to algorithmic theory and evolutionary biology. Statistical Mechanics in a Nutshell provides a self-contained introduction to this rapidly developing field. Starting with the basics of kinetic theory and requiring only a background in elementary calculus and mechanics, this concise book discusses the most important developments of recent decades and guides readers to the very threshold of today’s cutting-edge research. Features a new chapter on stochastic thermodynamics with an introduction to the thermodynamics of information—the first treatment of its kind in an introductory textbook Offers a more detailed account of numerical simulations, including simulated annealing and other a

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This deeply insightful ethnography explores the healing power of caring and intimacy in a small, closely bonded Apostolic congregation during Botswana's HIV/AIDS pandemic. "Death in a Church of Life" paints a vivid picture of how members of the Baitshepi Church make strenuous efforts to sustain loving relationships amid widespread illness and death. Over the course of long-term fieldwork, Frederick Klaits discovered Baitshepi's distinctly maternal ethos and the 'spiritual' kinship embodied in the church's nurturing fellowship practice. Klaits shows that for Baitshepi members, Christian faith is a form of moral passion that counters practices of divination and witchcraft with redemptive hymn singing, prayer, and the use of therapeutic substances. An online audio annex makes available the examples of the church members' preachings and songs.

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Join Corrine Kenner as she recounts gentle hauntings of her Florida antique shop. Meet the ghost of Annette Dennis, who holds everyone in the shop to her high musical standards and the spirits of Jim and Rossie Hearne, who possess the store s newlywed dolls. Whether they are attracted to the century-old bungalow or the collectables sold within it, these spirits interact with the living to show us life s joys. In addition to hopeful stories, this book provides numerous tips for using psychometry, pendulums, dowsing rods, and tarot cards to help you reach out to friendly shadows of the past. Corrine s experiences with objects that appear out of nowhere, move on their own, and radiate psychic energy reassure us that we can still connect to loved ones on the other side.

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Ce fascicule contient une notice sur la carriere scientifique de Hansjakob Seiler et une bibliographie complete de ses publications, suivie d'un apercu critique de la reception en France de son 'uvre. La partie bio-bibliographique est suivie par la traduction francaise d'un entretien sur la linguistique universaliste et la typologie linguistique, et par deux textes de synthese. Dans le premier, H. Seiler dresse le bilan des travaux du groupe UNITYP, qu'il a dirige pendant 20 annees, et ouvre des perspectives de recherche dans le domaine de la linguistique des universaux; le second texte offre une reflexion sur la notion de continuum permettant d'expliquer l'agencement de positions et de strategies linguistiques en tant que reponses a des 'problemes' cognitifs. Biographical sketch, followed by a full bibliography of H. Seiler's writings, a study of his reception in France, a dialogue on universalist and typological linguistics, and two texts by H. Seiler on the goals, methodological principles, and perspectives of language universals research.

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Colonial Constitutionalism exposes one of the great failures of American democracy. It posits that the creation of a U.S. "empire" over the last century violated the basis of American constitutionalism through its failure to fully admit annexed offshore territories into the Union. The book's focused case studies analyze each of America's quasi-colonies, revealing how the perpetuation of a this "imperialist" strategy has rendered the inhabitants second class citizens. E. Robert Statham, Jr.'s work emphasizes the pressing need—in the face of increasingly strident calls for sovereign independence from America's offshore territories—for a modern American republic, fundamentally incompatible with imperialism and colonialism, to grant full U.S. statehood to its overseas possessions.

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Artists design spaces and buildings, including furnishings and lighting, and offer interior design consulting, while designers create purposeless objects as a one of a kind or in small numbers. Where is the dividing line between liberal and applied art, considering that artists and designers are increasingly establishing themselves in new disciplines, the markets for liberal and applied arts are leveling out, and arguments about the unequal taxation of creative products are flaring up? Internationally renowned scientists, curators, artists, and designers present quite contrasting points of view in this volume. With contributions by Katia Baudin, Alex Coles, Christine Hill, El Ultimo Grito, Louise Schouwenberg, Wolfgang Ullrich, Annett Zinsmeister.

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In 1899, U.S. Secretary of State John Hay wrote six world powers calling for an Open Door in China that would guarantee equal trading opportunities, curtail colonial annexation, and prevent conflict in the Far East. Within a year, the region had succumbed to renewed colonisation and war, but despite the apparent failure of Hay's diplomacy, the ideal of the Open Door emerged as the central component of U.S. foreign policy in the twentieth century. Just as visions of Manifest Destiny'shaped continental expansion in the nineteenth century, Woodrow Wilson used the Open Door to make the case for a world safe for democracy, Franklin Roosevelt developed it to inspire the fight against totalitarianism and imperialism, and Cold War containment policy envisioned international communism as the latest threat to a global system built upon peace, openness, and exchange. In a concise yet wide-ranging examination of its origins and development, readers will discover how the idea of the Open Door came to define the American Century.

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Fondateur des Concerts Defauw, directeur musical de l'Association des concerts du Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, directeur musical des Concerts d'hiver à Gand, conseiller musical et 1er chef d'orchestre de l'INR/NIR, Désiré Defauw (1885-1960) a été omniprésent dans la vie orchestrale belge pendant l'entre-deux-guerres. Pourtant, il n'existe toujours pas de biographie de Defauw, originaire de Gand mais naturalisé américain en 1946. À partir du dépouillement d'archives et de l'examen de la presse, Erik Baeck, tout en soulignant les conditions politiques et sociales de l'époque, a reconstitué la carrière de Defauw pendant une période mouvementée de la vie des concerts en Belgique.Gràce à ses tournées en Italie, l'URSS et l'Allemagne, Defauw jouissait d'une renommée internationale et Arturo Toscanini l'a invité à diriger l'orchestre de la NBC à New York. Le livre est complété par de nombreuses annexes qui présentent tous les programmes dirigés par Defauw pendant l'entre-deux-guerres.

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The Sevrier kiln, discovered in 1974 on a submerged island in Lake Annecy in the Haute-Savoie region of France, is a headline find of alpine archeology. Almost fifty years later, it continues to provoke debate. This study looks back at the history of an artefact considered in turn as one of the earliest Western pottery kilns, as an enigmatic stove for domestic use, and as a technological link in the Final Bronze Age which would herald the professionalization of pottery, hitherto a purely domestic industry, seasonal and self-sufficient. It takes the form of a multidisciplinary investigation where archaeological, ethnoarchaeological and experimental approaches are brought together to consider the contradictory hypotheses, broaden the focus and put forward new perspectives. In particular the study focuses on technological history, and on the changing social structure of Bronze Age communities, which contributed to the advent of proto-artisans specialising in pottery production, a few centuries later.

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Twelve-year-old Hunter Higgins has been dreaming about his first hunting trip for as long as he can remember. He’s taken the classes, earned his license, and become one of the best marksmen in his family. Now he’s old enough to join his father, grandfather, and uncle at their cabin for the first weekend of hunting season. There’s only one problem: Hunter isn’t sure he can kill an animal. To make things more complicated, when they arrive at the cabin, his cousin Yumi is there with her friend Annette, who Hunter secretly has a crush on. Anxious about the hunt and the humiliation of possibly failing, Hunter grapples with what it means to have the power of life and death in his hands, and must decide what role he wishes to play in his relationship to nature and to wildlife.

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Sculpture Studies is a publication from the Sculpture Institute, the research centre for modern and contemporary international sculpture affiliated to the Beelden aan Zee Museum, Scheveningen. Museum Beelden aan Zee, was founded in 1994, and expanded in 2003 with an institute for the research of international modern and contemporary sculpture. Everybody who is interested in the subject can use the services of the Sculpture Institute. The Library and documentation centre are the nucleus of the accommodation designed by architect Wim Quist. The building, interior design and promotion were supported by important single or multiannual contributions. The sixth title in the series, this book focuses on posthumous castings and present classicism in Dutch sculpture. Features works by Ursel Berger, Annemieke Ganzinga, Ger Jacobs, Jadwiga Pol-Tyszkiewicz, Hans Roozeboom, Jan Teeuwisse and Nelleke van Zeeland.

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Born to a divided kingdom. Destined to unite it.AD 1286: The King of Scots is killed, leaving no heir. Twelve-year-old Robert Bruce, heir to the great House of Bruce, comes of age amid the bitter rivalry of Scotland's most powerful nobles to claim the vacant throne.The boy is schooled in the arts of warfare and the manipulation of ruthless and violent men, but when the Scottish Crown is bestowed upon Bruce's greatest enemies, Robert travels with his family to England, swearing feudal loyalty to King Edward Plantagenet - known as 'Longshanks'.But Longshanks's increasing treachery and his brutal attempts to annexe Scotland see Robert turning renegade and returning to his home country. The Battle of Bannockburn lies ahead and a legend is born.This is the story of one man's resistance, and the bravery of a country that would not yield.

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The Roman fort at Bearsden and its annexe, together with areas beyond its defences, were extensively excavated from 1973 to 1982. The report on these excavations was published in 2016. This ‘popular’ account of the discoveries looks at the material recovered from the site in a different way, examining the process of archaeological excavation, the life of the soldiers at the fort based on the results of the excavation as well as material from elsewhere in the Roman Empire, the presentation and interpretation of the bath-house and latrine, and a discussion of possible future work arising out of the excavation. The excavation report was well illustrated with reconstruction drawings and the process of creating these is also discussed.

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Hope is an integral part of social life. Yet, hope has not been studied systematically in the social sciences. Editors Hirokazu Miyazaki and Richard Swedberg have collected essays that investigate hope in a broad range of socioeconomic situations and phenomena across time and space and from a variety of disciplinary vantage points. Contributors survey the resilience of hope, and the methodological implications of studying hope, in such experiences as farm collectivization in mid-twentieth-century communist Romania, changing employment relations under Japan's neoliberal reform during the first decade of the twenty-first century, the dynamics of innovation and replication in a West African niche economy, and Barack Obama's 2008 political campaign of hope in the midst of the unfolding global financial crisis. The Economy of Hope shifts the analytic of anthropological and sociological investigations from knowledge to hope, presents case studies on the loss of collective hope, and concludes by offering techniques for replicating hope. In the hands of Miyazaki and Swedberg and their distinguished contributors, hope becomes not only a method of knowledge but also an essential framework for the sociocultural analysis of economic phenomena. Contributors: Yuji Genda, Jane Guyer, Hirokazu Miyazaki, Annelise Riles, Richard Swedberg, Katherine Verdery.

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