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G. I. Gurdjieff se valió de múltiples medios para transmitir su enseñanza, pero siempre dio especial importancia a este libro, cuya meta, según sus palabras, es nada menos que ?extirpar del pensar y del sentimiento del lector, despiadadamente y sin la menor componenda, las creencias y opiniones , arraigadas desde siglos en la psiquis de los hombres, acerca de todo cuanto existe en el mundo?.El protagonista, testigo y hábil narrador oral de estas historias, es un anciano y experimentado Belcebú, quien, tras haber pagado por sus pecados de juventud y haber sido perdonado por Su Eternidad, asume con tesón la educación de su nieto Jasín por medio de relatos y reflexiones perspicaces sobre la vida humana en nuestro lejano y atribulado planeta.El resultado es una de las obras más desafiantes y gratificadoras de la literatura filosófica moderna , un verdadero mar de cuentos y de ideas que uno podría explorar durante toda la vida. Majestuoso en escala y contenido, con una prosa y un esti

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G. I. Gurdjieff se valió de múltiples medios para transmitir su enseñanza, pero siempre dio especial importancia a este libro, cuya meta, según sus palabras, es nada menos que ?extirpar del pensar y del semiento del lector, despiadadamente y sin la menor componenda, las creencias y opiniones , arraigadas desde siglos en la psiquis de los hombres, acerca de todo cuanto existen el mundo?.El protagonista, testigo y hábil narrador oral de estas historias, es un anciano y experimentado Belcebú, quien, tras haber pagado por sus pecados de juventud y haber sido perdonado por Su Eternidad, asume con tesón la educación de su nieto Jasín por medio de relatos y reflexiones perspicaces sobre la vida humana en nuestro lejano y atribulado planeta.El resultado es una de las obras más desafiantes y gratificadoras de la literatura filosófica moderna , un verdadero ?mar de cuentos? y de ideas que uno podría explorar durante toda la vida. Majestuoso en escala y contenido, con una prosa y un estilo

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When the French edition of Confronting Images appeared in 1990, it won immediate acclaim because of its far-reaching arguments about the structure of images and the histories ascribed to them by scholars and critics working in the tradition of Vasari and Panofsky. According to Didi-Huberman, visual representation has an “underside” in which seemingly intelligible forms lose their clarity and defy rational understanding. Art historians, he goes on to contend, have failed to engage this underside, where images harbor limits and contradictions, because their discipline is based upon the assumption that visual representation is made up of legible signs and lends itself to rational scholarly cognition epitomized in the “science of iconology.” To escape from this cul-de-sac, Didi-Huberman suggests that art historians look to Freud’s concept of the “dreamwork,” not for a code of interpretation, but rather to begin to think of representation as a mobile process that often involves substitution and contradiction. Confronting Images also offers brilliant, historically grounded readings of images ranging from the Shroud of Turin to Vermeer’s Lacemaker.

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Until half a century ago, it was assumed that the forces of nature were symmetric and that they did not distinguish between right and left, between image and mirror image. The discovery of the violation of parity in 1956 was more than a sensation, for some it was a shock. It implied that the universe displays handedness, or chirality, and that it is fundamentally asymmetric. Remarkably, a most striking asymmetry is encountered in the realm of biology. Living organisms contain proteins built almost exclusively from L-amino acids, and nucleic acids derived from D-sugars only. Yet a mirror-image biochemistry, based on D-amino acids and L-sugars is, from a purely chemical standpoint, entirely conceivable. Where, then, does this extraordinary natural selectivity come from? Is it directly, or indirectly, connected to the universal violation of parity? This book is meant as a brief review of the various manifestations of handedness, or chirality, in the universe. It does not attempt to present a solution to basic questions which perhaps will never be unambiguously and conclusively answered. Rather, it is an excursion through nature, to observe and recognize how the chirality manifests itself at different structural levels. The excursion starts in the chemistry and physics laboratory. Then a journey into outer space and back in time is undertaken. After a return to our planet Earth, the focus is on the development of living organisms. The text should be accessible to anyone having the equivalent of a first-year university instruction in physics and chemistry. It is also hoped that a layperson with a more modest scientific formation may gain a general impression of the basic asymmetry in nature and of the fundamental significance of chirality. Mathematical expressions, wherever they occur, may then be overlooked. Some more difficult sections may be skipped. A Glossary preceding the Subject Index should be helpful.

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This entirely different book on American Stonewares presents the history and the technology of production. Complete chapters describe the method of turning clay into pots, common and uncommon forms in which pots were made, the meaning of various marks and the varieties of decoration, the glazes employed, and the firing process. Never before have the various forms manufactured been so completely described and pictured. Temporal and regional variations are presented. Pots from different areas of the United States and Canada and dating from the earliest eighteenth century pieces into the twentieth century are included. A detailed chapter on glazes describes the characteristics of the four major forms of glaze used upon American Stonewares, including the curious Southern Alkaline glaze. The manner of preparation, components, characteristics and defects of these glazes are fully presented. A chapter on firing includes a description of various methods of stacking and furniture for this as well as a discussion of the effects of firing upon the body clay and the glazes.

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"Excellent." —The Reader's Review"Anybody contemplating the study and pursuit of folklore . . . will benefit from reading this presentation thoroughly to determine your place in this most exciting scholastic world." —Come-All-YeThis is the most complete and up-to-date study of folklore and folklore methodologies available. The authors describe the pervasiveness of folklore, including its uses in literature, films, television, cartoons, comic strips, advertising, and other media in a variety of cultures.

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David D. Newsom is a former Under Secretary and Assistant Secretary of State and served as U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Indonesia, and the Philippines. After retiring from the Foreign Service, he became Director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy and professor and dean at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and professor in the Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. He is currently a senior fellow at the University's Miller Center. He is the author of The Soviet Brigade in Cuba, Diplomacy and the American Democracy, and The Public Dimension of Foreign Policy.

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If you love Julia Quinn's Bridgerton, you won't want to miss Martha Waters' ingenious, laugh-out-loud and sweepingly romantic historical rom-com, To Marry and to Meddle!'Sweet, sexy, and utterly fun' Emily Henry'Awash with light, witty banter, unadulterated confessions of love, and plenty of steamy, corset-unravelling sex scenes' Kirkus Reviews'Meshing the classic Regency theme of defying societal expectations with all the wit and humour of a rom-com . . . a fun romp full of smiles' Publishers Weekly'Waters' prose harkens back to Georgette Heyer, but Emily and Julian's individual journeys of learning to like their authentic selves are timeless' BookPage..............................Marriage isn't always smooth sailing . . . Lady Emily Turner should really be married by now, but with a dowry of her father's debts, her only suitor is the odious owner of her father's favourite gambling house. Lord Julian Belfry is the second son of a marquess, but has managed to scandalise polite society with his acting career and the fact that he owns a less than salubrious theatre. Crossing paths at a house party, they discover that a marriage of convenience might benefit them both: Emily can use her society connections to add some respectability to Julian's theatre, while also managing to escape the dubious world of her father. With differing ideas on the roles each will play in their marriage, and an on-the-run actress, a murderous kitten, and some meddlesome friends adding to the complications, Emily and Julian will have to confront the fact that their marriage of convenience might be leading to some rather inconvenient feelings...................................Praise for Martha Waters' ingenious rom-coms To Have and to Hoax and To Love and to Loathe, out now:'A worthy addition to the trend for historical romantic comedies and highly recommended for fans of Evie Dunmore' Library Journal'Packed with saucy banter and delightful period details, this Regency rom-com is completely charming' Hannah Orenstein'Pure fun on every page' Sarah Hogle'A Regency author to watch. The sexual tension in this delightful debut was off-the-charts!' Lauren Layne'A laugh-out-loud Regency romp - if you loved the Bridgertons, you'll adore To Have and to Hoax!' Lauren Willig'Delights with hilarious, high-concept romantic schemes . . . this joyful, elegant romp is sure to enchant' Publishers Weekly, starred review'Cleverly conceived and brilliantly executed' Booklist, starred review'To Have and to Hoax is an authentic romantic comedy . . . This fun and fresh historical debut will delight readers with humor and romance' Shelf Awareness'Endlessly charming . . . absorbing and clever and at times laugh-out-loud funny' Kate Clayborn'To Have and to Hoax is a delightful battle of wits that's funny and touching all at once' Jen DeLucaThe Regency Vows series continues!To Have and to HoaxTo Love and to Loathe

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When Sylvia Ann Russell's louche and philandering English father is murdered in scandalous circumstances, she soon discovers that for a young woman with a black mother, 1930's Georgetown is a place of hazard. This is a world where men seek either respectable wives from 'good' families, or vulnerable young women to exploit. Here the fall from respectability to prostitution at the Viceroy Hotel can be all too rapid. The Life and Death of Sylvia is a pioneering and affecting novel of social protest over the fate of women in a misogynist world – and a richly imagined study of character, that inhabits Sylvia's psyche with great inwardness. But Mittelholzer's ambition extends beyond character and protest. His goal is to present Sylvia's individual fate as cosmically meaningful, both when she redeems herself by reclaiming her own story through writing, and by making her story part of the larger patterns of sex and death, creativity and decay, sound and silence that he composes in this onwards surging 'Georgetown symphony' of life.Edgar Mittelholzer was born in British Guiana in 1909. He wrote more than twenty novels. He eventually settled in England, where he lived until his death in 1965, a suicide predicted in several of his novels.

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Enthusiasm studies what Kant calls a "strong" sense of the sublime, not as an aesthetic feeling but as a form of political judgment rendered not by the active participants in historical events but those who witness them from afar. Lyotard's analysis, preparatory to his work in The Differend and subsequent publications, is a radical rereading of the Kantian "faculties," traditionally understood as functions of the mind, in terms of a philosophy of phrases derived from Lyotard's prior encounters with Wittgenstein's theory of language games. The result is a kind of "fourth" critique based in Kant's later political and historical writings, with an emphasis on understanding the place of those sudden and unscripted events that have the power to reshape the political/historical landscape (such as the French Revolution, May 1968, and others).

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An engaging and visually exciting look at some of South America's major cities.This series offers readers of 9 and up an engaging and visually exciting look at some of the world's major cities. Cityscapes draw in the reader with facts about the iconic buildings that help to shape each city's unique identity. Data-packed pages give the essential details about each featured city, including where to go, what to do and things to eat on a visit, as well as information about the city's history. The cities of South America covered in the book are Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Bogota, Columbia; Santiago, Chile; Caracas, Venezuela; Quito, Ecuador; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Cuzco, Peru; Montevideo, Uruguay; Georgetown, Guyana; La Paz, Bolivia; Paramaribo, Suriname; Santa Cruz, Bolivia; Lima, Peru; Manaus, Brazil; Cuenca, Ecuador; Potosi, Bolivia; Cartagena, Columbia and Asuncion, Paraguay.Titles in the 6-book series feature the cities of Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America and South America.

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Philosophical thinking is interrupted by the finitude of what cannot be named, on the one hand, and that within which it is subsumed as one of multiple modes of sense-making, on the other. Sense and Singularity elaborates Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophical project as an inquiry into the limits or finitude of philosophy itself, where it is interrupted, and as a practice of critical intervention where philosophy serves to interrupt otherwise unquestioned ways of thinking. Nancy’s interruption of philosophy, Van Den Abbeele argues, reveals the limits of what philosophy is and what it can do, its apocalyptic end and its endless renewal, its Sisyphean interruption between the bounds of infinitely replicating sense and the conceptual vanishing point that is singularity. In examinations of Nancy’s foundational rereading of Descartes's cogito as iterative, his formal experimentations with the genres of philosophical writing, the account of “retreat” in understanding the political, and the interruptive play of sense and singularity in writings on the body, sexuality, and aesthetics, Van Den Abbeele offers a fresh account of one of our major thinkers as well as a provocative inquiry into what philosophy can do.

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International Space Law and Space Laws of the United States provides helpful practice tips for representing clients and doing business in today's commercial space industry, as well as important coverage of the essentials for students of Space Law. Each chapter explores a nuanced space law issue and concludes with review questions.Written by two Georgetown Space Law professors who are also Space Law practitioners, with more than 50 years of combined expertise having worked as legal counsel for NASA, in the halls of Congress and in the Executive Branch, this book explains complex regulations in approachable language and is thoroughly annotated.This work is valuable for students of Space Law as well as practitioners. It will serve as a handy desk reference for years to come.

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This collection responds to the critical legacy of Penn R. Szittya, the recently retired former chair of Georgetown University’s English Department. Inspired by Georgetown’s Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice and its statement that poetry “traverses the fields of aesthetic, social, political, and religious thought,” this work investigates how medieval poetic language reflects and also shapes social, political, and religious worlds. At a moment in contemporary culture when poetry finds its value increasingly challenged, Medieval Poetics and Social Practice looks to the late Middle Ages to assert the indispensability of poetry and poetics in the formation of social structures, actions, and utterances. The contributors offer new readings of canonical late-medieval English poetic texts, such as Langland’s Piers Plowman and Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls, and, of equal importance, explore texts that have hitherto not held a central place in criticism but make important contributions to the literary culture of the period. Introduced by Seeta Chaganti, the collection includes essays by Richard K. Emmerson, J. Patrick Hornbeck, John C. Hirsh, Moira Fitzgibbons, John T. Sebastian, Nicholas R. Havely, Kara Doyle, Anne Middleton, Jo Ann Moran Cruz, and Mark McMorris.

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The setting is October 1879. The stage is New Georgetown, West Virginia.A mysterious figure by the name of 'The Maker' has entered this small community and, almost immediately upon doing so, started entering the minds of the townsfolk.Townsfolk who are as curious as The Maker himself. Like Dr Umbründ, the pint-sized physician with a prodigious capacity for sin; like the three sisters in the house on the hill - one stern, one wild, one mysterious; like the tavern's semi-mythical siren, 'The Bird', who plays spellbinding music from behind a black velvet curtain, and whom no patron has ever laid eyes on; like Odell, a youth with dreams and ambitions that his craven disposition will forever prevent him from seizing; and who has spent the entirety of his erstwhile existence under the crushing heel of Clay, New Georgetown's lead cad and chief alpha male.As we enter these characters' lives, and lightly tread our way through their brains, their bedrooms, their backstories and beyond, we will see what it is they all hope for and hide - and learn just why The Maker has chosen to meet them.

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This book focuses on coaching leaders in the context of the organizational systems within which they lead, drawing on the curriculum of the Georgetown University Leadership Coaching Certificate Program, one of the premier coach training programs in the world and the only one with this particular focus.

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En juillet 1908, les officiers de l'armee de Macedoine entraient en dissidence et contraignaient sous la menace le sultan d'Istanbul a retablir la constitution ottomane, suspendue depuis trente ans, et a reunir le parlement : la revolution jeune turque etait en marche. Accueillie avec enthousiasme, dans l'"ivresse de la liberte", elle marqua profondement l'histoire des Balkans, du Proche et du Moyen-Orient au XXe siecle. Il etait temps de revisiter cette "revolution oubliee".Partant d'abord en quete des origines de la revolution, le present ouvrage etudie la mise en place du nouveau regime au niveau du gouvernement, de l'administration et des communautes. Puis, il nous emmene dans les provinces de l'empire, parties prenantes elles aussi de la revolution, avant d'analyser 1908 comme un evenement "global", en interaction et en resonance avec son environnement geographique et le reste du monde.

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A inicios de los sesenta, Las Aventuras de Tintín empezaban a cosechar éxitos. Hergé, que empezaba a prestar especial atención al arte contemporáneo, decidió romper las normas creativas y hacer algo sorprendente. Y lo consiguió. Así nació Las joyas de la Castafiore. Antes de concebir la edición definitiva en álbum, conocida en todo el mundo, el dibujante había elaborado una primera versión publicada en la revista Tintin, cuyos originales dormían en los archivos desde hacía 60 años. Restaurados con esmero y minuciosidad, estos documentos nos permiten hoy mostrar al público Las joyas de la Castafiore tal como apareció integralmente, entre 1961 y 1962, en la revista semanal para jóvenes de 7 a 77 años.

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