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Few writers rankle like Jonathan Franzen. Despite popular acclaim, robust sales, and august literary laurels, Franzen’s polarizing persona shares the spotlight with—and sometimes steals it from—his tragicomic novels of Midwestern family life.In this reconsideration of Freedom (2010), L. Gibson explores the difficulty of coming to terms with Jonathan Franzen. Freedom Reread considers the author’s distinctive narrative technique in light of the contradictions for which he is renowned: widely read curmudgeon, tweeted-about luddite, self-proclaimed partisan of fiction who frequently announces the novel’s death. Bookended by autofictional forays into the process of—and resistance to—taking a definite stance on Franzen, this book places Freedom in conversation with a playful, idiosyncratic array of interlocutors, including Middlemarch and You’ve Got Mail, Amitav Ghosh on climate change and Susan Sontag on metaphor, speculative fiction and Succession.Avowedly ambivalent about Franzen, Gibson offers both a fresh appreciation of the author’s work and a searching critical analysis of his pronouncements on the novel’s fate. Wide-ranging and stylistically ambitious, Freedom Reread delivers an assured, artful inquiry into Franzen’s novelistic technique and public persona.

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With The World Book of Happiness Leo Bormans launched a unique international project and a movement for happiness. After the success of this book (+200,000 copies sold) he spent two years studying the scientific research on love, gathering insights from the greatest experts. In this book, 100 researchers from 50 countries summarise in 1000 words their particular views on love. The result is a kaleidoscopic work full of wisdom and insight into the system and the mystery of love. The World Book of Love is all about attachment, passion and devotion, jealousy and abuse, Darwin, speed dates and brain scans. It's about parental love, friends, sex, marriage and divorce, butterflies in the stomach and elderly care. But above all it is a book about the secret of romantic love. In a globalised world we can all learn from each other. AUTHOR: Leo Bormans is a journalist, writer and public speaker. For more than twenty years, he was the chief editor of the school magazines Klasse and Yeti. At present, he travels around the world as the Ambassador of Happiness & Quality of Life. 75 colour images Also available: The World Book of Hope ISBN 9789401457804

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In the tradition of the eminently practical, top-selling guides such as How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself (9780823099771) and Problem Solving for Oil Painters (9780823040971), this straightforward handbook offers a fresh approach to watercolour mastery that bridges the gap between theory and practice. Through thoughtful discussion, expert instruction, and in-depth step-by-step demonstrations, Leslie Frontz shows readers how to eliminate common barriers to achieve beautiful, captivating watercolour paintings. Beginning with teaching readers how to see with an artist's eye, Frontz then establishes how watercolour painters build on this skill by making timely decisions throughout the creation process.

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This compact compendium of 20 cross-stitch charts uses a limited and identical palette of threads for each project. There are 20 circular designs in the book, and each of the patterns is accompanied by a full-colour and symbol chart for 14-count Aida or 28-count evenweave linen. Each design concentrates on a flower or a floral group that captures the very essence of the shapes and colours of the plant. The designs include seasonal wreaths, vases and jugs brimming with colour, gardens with lovely cottages and birds, flowers in a landscape, and single beautiful blooms. Each project re-creates a little bit of nature. AUTHOR: Lesley Teare is a leading textile designer and needlecraft designer and the author of several books on cross-stitch designs, including Fantasy Cross Stitch and Oriental Cross Stitch. Many of her designs appear regularly in top needlework magazines.

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Each of the 20 circular designs in this book is represented by a full-colour and symbol chart for 14-count Aida or 28-count evenweave linen. Every design can be displayed in a simple embroidery hoop to create an adorable gift for a new baby or young child, or for new parents. Many of the designs can be personalised by adding initials or a name and dates from the alphabet and number charts provided, making individual mementos for special occasions. AUTHOR: Lesley Teare is a leading textile designer and needlecraft designer and the author of several books on cross-stitch designs, including Fantasy Cross Stitch and Oriental Cross Stitch. Many of her designs appear regularly in top needlework magazines.

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Tatting is simple and portable, and this concealed spiral bound book can be laid flat for ease of use. It includes lots of useful tips throughout and a Tools and Techniques section. It features instruction to make 65 patterns or motifs and 60 designs. This is a great book from a U.K. author. Tatting is basically a handmade lace, with each stitch composed of two half-hitch knots. The appeal of the craft is that it is simple and portable, you can take your tatting equipment anywhere, and now that "Tatting Collage" is republished as a concealed spiral bound book it will be easy to use 'on-the-go'. As well as offering great fun and flexibility, it also avoids the need to handle large and complicated pieces of tatting - a bonus if you are pressed for time or are new to the craft and looking for encouragement.

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Follow a year in the life of an adorable sea otter as she creatively hunts for food, deftly avoids danger from a great white shark, and gives birth to a pup. Living off the coast of California in the Northern Pacific Ocean, Lutris the sea otter shares her life in a giant kelp forest habitat with many other otters and animals. Lutris is resourceful and relies on her keen sense of sight and smell to find food and survive. When her pup is born, Lutris lovingly tends to and teaches her daughter until she is ready to head out into the world on her own. Filled with important facts and gorgeous illustrations, readers will be fascinated by the story of these remarkable mammals. This latest title in the Secret Life series has been vetted by a sea otter expert and includes back matter with more in-depth information, a glossary, and further resources.

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This is the most essential information from the first six volumes of "Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide" series. Now in paperback, this step-by-step shop reference, culled from the first six volumes of "Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guides", covers all of the fundamental techniques every woodworker needs to know. Organised for quick access, this book makes it easy to find the information you are looking for. Over 1,200 photos and drawings illustrate how to accomplish essential woodworking tasks from setting up a shop to finishing. This book helps woodworkers of all levels choose the right method and tools to bring great results, pleasure and satisfaction to working with wood.

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Intended to show what to carve, rather than how to carve, this selection of classic designs and pattern ideas, orientated towards more traditional styles of woodworking, can be used for wood carving, wood burning or wood painting.

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In this contemporary look at the world of workbenches, Lon Schleining takes us on a guided tour of a wide variety of classic, modern, and specialty benches and offers hundreds of options for choosing or building that perfect bench and its accessories.

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This book examines regional monetary cooperation as a strategy to enhance macroeconomic stability in developing countries and emerging markets. Interdisciplinary case studies on Southern Africa, Southeast Asia and South America provide a cross-regional perspective on the viability of such strategy.

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Targeted at young aspiring artists seeking to develop their technical skills and build a repertoire of fantasy female subjects, this title is suitable for children aged 5-11 years old. Acclaimed author Lee J. Ames shows readers how to draw dozens of princesses with a comprehensive, step-by-step approach. His distinctive drawing method has proven to be successful for children and adults alike over the past thirty years and has shown artists, from amateurs to experts, how to draw everything from animals to airplanes. The revised "Draw 50" series gives an old favourite a fresh, new look.

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This book shows how to draw a range of aircraft, from airplanes to UFOs. It is aimed at age 12 years and upwards. Targeted at young aspiring artists seeking to develop their technical skill and build a repertoire of subjects, Lee J. Ames' "Draw 50" series shows you how to draw with ease using his signature step-by-step method. His clear instructions help budding artists explore their interests in a fun, familiar way. With over three million copies in print, the "Draw 50" series has successfully shown children how to create everything from a robin to a spaceship, Tyrannosaurus Rex to skyscrapers, and UFOs to racing cars.

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After the worldwide success of The World Book of Happiness and The World Book of Love, author Leo Bormans has spent two years studying the scientific research on hope and meeting the most prominent experts in the field. Hope is not a luxury of the privileged few. It represents a universal psychological resource that can be found in all corners of the world. Hope is all of this: a tool for envisioning definable goals, a coping resource, an expression of trust and openness as well as a spiritual gift earned by faith or ritual. In the course of a lifetime every individual is apt to experience these different shades of hope. The World Book of Hope is an inspiring quest to the breadth and depth of hope. It offers a universal framework for understanding and using the most powerful tool of mankind: hope. Without hope there is no life. In this book, 100 professional researchers from all over the world share what we know about hope. Not spiritual philosophy but evidence based knowledge of recent experiments and life-long research, set in a language everybody understands. This book unveils the secret power of hope in love and relationships, study and work, health and illness, education and care, freedom and prison, management and leadership, therapy and economy, youth and old age. It even shows how we can make pessimism work and how we can benefit from post-traumatic growth: one door closes, another one opens. AUTHOR: Leo Bormans is a journalist, writer and public speaker. For more than twenty years, he was the chief editor of the school magazines Klasse and Yeti. At present, he travels around the world as the Ambassador of Happiness & Quality of Life. SELLING POINTS: . A record of worldwide scientific research on hope . Including a selection of ten of the world's most hopeful projects . Full of inspiring examples 75 colour and 50 b/w images Also available: The World Book of Love ISBN 9789401422741

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This volume is devoted to the search for borders in archaeology and takes as a case study the archaeology of Anatolia and the South Caucasus in the Bronze and Iron Ages. Up until the mid-first millennium BCE, these regions differ in interregional and macro-regional interactions, political complexity, economic and mobility strategies, and communication of identities, among which is the use and spread of writing through time. They are united by their representation in ancient sources and modern literature as borderlands. These features represent the core of the discussion developed in the volume. Chapters include theoretical discussion of borders and boundaries, and regional investigations of the Early, Middle and Late Bronze Age (Assyrian colony period, Hittite empire in Anatolia, Kura-Araxes, Trialeti-Vanadzor, Van-Urmia and other traditions in the South Caucasus), the Early Iron Age and Middle Iron Age (Troy, Phrygia, Urartu), until the unification under the Achaemenid Empire. They offer a balanced interplay between site-based investigations and landscape archaeology in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey.

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À la suite des travaux de Peirce (1930), Haiman (1980, 1985), Tai (1985), etc., l’iconicité de la syntaxe a été un sujet à la mode, souvent dans un contexte de polémique contre l’arbitraire du signe saussurien. On se limitera ici à l’iconicité de la séquence temporelle: l’ordre des mots dans la phrase mime-t-il l’ordre des événements dans le monde de référence? L’heure de dresser un bilan était arrivée, et, pour cela, on a voulu ici relever un défi: tenter de «faire marcher» l’idée d’iconicité temporelle jusqu’au bout, de la pousser jusque dans ses derniers retranchements. Faisant converger étude de l’iconicité de l’ordre des constituants et étude de l’Aktionsart des verbes, nous proposons d’étendre le champ d’application de cette iconicité temporelle, des événements aux procès et, de là, aux phases qui les composent. Si, après enquête, l’iconicité semble, en chinois, être partout ou presque, c’est que les marques séquentielles (l’ordre des constituants), en même temps que les informations sur les prédicats (valence et Aktionsart) codées dans le lexique, sont essentielles au fonctionnement des langues isolantes du type du chinois, et que ces marques séquentielles obéissent le plus souvent, au moins dans le cas du chinois mandarin contemporain, à l’iconicité. C’est l’occasion de proposer de nouvelles classifications des verbes du chinois. On les trouvera abondamment illustrées par des exemples empruntés aux corpus les plus variés, puis récapitulées dans de nombreux tableaux dont nous espérons qu’ils seront utiles pour l’apprentissage et l’enseignement du chinois.

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1517 : fondation du Collegium Trilingue, ou « Collège des Trois Langues » de Louvain. L’histoire de cet établissement humaniste en est une non seulement d’une remarquable visée scientifique et pédagogique, mais aussi d’efforts obstinés, voire de combats courageux, couronnés d’un succès international sans précédent. Mettant à profit le legs de Jérôme de Busleyden, conseiller au Grand Conseil de Malines, décédé en août 1517, Érasme s’attela aussitôt à la création d’un collège où des savants de renommée internationale prodigueraient un enseignement public et gratuit de latin, de grec et d’hébreu. Dans ce collège « trilingue », étudiants-boursiers et professeurs vivaient ensemble. La fondation du collège, près du Marché aux poissons, au centre de Louvain, a dû affronter de nombreuses critiques et attaques de la part d’adversaires « traditionalistes ». Dans le premier siècle de son existence, le collège dut traverser des moments difficiles à une époque fortement marquée par des troubles politiques et religieux. Toutefois, pendant ce temps, le nouvel institut s’acquit une haute renommée scientifique à travers l’Europe. De l’étranger, des centaines d’étudiants y accouraient pour suivre les cours donnés par des professeurs de réputation internationale. À la fin du XVIIIe siècle, la Révolution française mit brusquement fin à trois siècles d’enseignement « trilingue ». Les contributions dans cet ouvrage fournissent une vue d’ensemble du projet pédagogique et scientifique animé par l’esprit d’Érasme, de l’histoire du Collège des Trois Langues, et de sa contribution didactique et scientifique à l’étude des langues et des littératures, dans son contexte européen.

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Jer 2:1-4:2 is a locus classicus of the prophetic marriage metaphor, which describes the turbulent relationship between Israel and her God. The literary form of the Book of Jeremiah preserved in the Septuagint (LXX) invites a new diachronic study of this text. The systematic, comparative study of the LXX and the Hebrew (MT) makes up a substantial part of the present book (ca. 200 pages). The redaction-critical reconstruction follows the literary form thus retrieved. The edition preserved in the MT introduces the marriage metaphor where the earlier text used general feminine imagery, or suggested rather a filial relationship. The inspiration for the revision came from the Books of Hosea and Ezekiel. The interpretations specific to the translator of the LXX do not point to any coherent agenda. The earliest passages clearly applying the marriage metaphor were introduced at the latest stages of the redaction history. Their results demonstrate the growing importance of the marriage metaphor, as well as the ancient editors’ conviction about the unity and interconnection of the books which make up the Bible. Jr 2,1-4,2 est un locus classicus de la métaphore prophétique du mariage pour décrire la relation tumultueuse entre Israël et son Dieu. La forme littéraire du livre de Jérémie dont témoigne la Septante (LXX) invite à reprendre, à frais nouveaux, l’étude diachronique de ce texte. L’étude comparée, systématique, de la LXX et du TM forme la partie importante du livre (ca. 200 pages). La critique rédactionnelle qui suit se fonde sur les résultats obtenus par cette étude. L’édition conservée par le TM a introduit la métaphore du mariage là où le texte plus ancien appliquait des images féminines plus générales, ou suggérait plutôt une relation filiale. L’inspiration de ces révisions est venue des Livres d’Osée et d’Ézéchiel. Les interprétations propres au traducteur de la LXX ne montrent pas de plan cohérent. Le passage le plus ancien employant clairement la métaphore du mariage a été introduit dans les dernières phases de l’histoire de la rédaction. Ces résultats montrent l’importance croissante de la métaphore du mariage, ainsi que la conviction des éditeurs anciens sur l’unité et l’interconnexion des livres qui composent la Bible.

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From November 3 to 6, 1999, scholars from various countries gathered in Leuven to participate in the second biannual 'Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology' (LEST), dealing with 'Sacramental Presence in a Postmodern Context'. The volume consists of two collections of papers presented at this conference. A first part is devoted to Louis-Marie Chauvet's reconstruction of sacramentology. It includes the main lecture given by Chauvet at the Congress, together with related papers offering innovative viewpoints on Chauvet's sacramentology. The second part contains contributions from practical-theological, sacramentological and liturgical perspectives. By focusing upon the differing facets of 'sacramentality', each contribution seeks to explore the 'sacramental contours of a God incarnate' by bringing to light the vital role of 'sacramentality' in theological reflection as well as some of the aporias entailed in doing 'sacramento-theology' in the present postmodern context.

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Le birom, parle par environ 200.000 personnes au centre du Nigeria appartient au sous-groupe occidental des langues "Plateau", famille linguistique qui est encore aujourd'hui fort mediocrement documentee et pour laquelle il n'existe qu'un nombre restreint de descriptions. Ce dictionnaire fait suite a une grammaire et un recueil de textes publies en 1970.Il comporte trois parties d'inegale importance. Un premier livre est exclusivement consacre a la langue, presentant chacun des items, avec ses caracteristiques grammaticales, une traduction explicite en francais et en anglais et, le cas echeant, avec son equivalent hausa, langue vehiculaire de cette region. La plupart sont illustres d'exemples. Un deuxieme livre presente les Lexiques alphabetiques des langues cibles, francais, anglais, hausa, avec leur correspondant birom. Le troisieme livre, le Dictionnaire thematique, est le plus innovant. Reprenant le vocabulaire en fonction des matieres, il a pour objet de donner un apercu de la vision birom du monde a travers sa langue. Il est divise en quatre sections: milieu naturel, milieu interieur et relationnel, societe, techniques.De nombreuses illustrations, photographies ou dessins, ont pour objet de donner un aspect plus concret a l'ensemble de l'ouvrage en presentant les realites specifiques au milieu et a la population birom.

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Learn all about the elephant in this nonfiction picture book that explores every aspect of these giant mammals.This latest title in the Strange and Wonderful series allows young readers to journey into the lives of elephants in various habitats throughout the world. Kids will learn how elephants use their trunk, how they communicate, what they eat, and about their family groupings. The book also shows how we can ensure that elephants continue to live and thrive. Combining careful research and beautiful illustrations, this book is perfect for those who have an interest in animals and conservation.

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Since its founding in 1976, the non-profit Habitat for Humanity International has built more than 255,000 houses for more than one million people and families in need world wide. First published in 2002, "How to Build a House" has helped thousands more build simple, energy efficient homes of their own by helping guide them from foundation to roof, through all interior finishes and fixtures. Written by long-time carpenter and Habitat volunteer, Larry Haun, this extensive revision features up-to-date information on residential codes, construction methods, and materials - as well as an updated design inside and out. Haun also provides new sections on tools, siding, ventilation, and landscaping. With clear information on everything from obtaining a site and permit to finishing touches like installing door locks and cabinets, this is the best single-volume resource for the beginning homebuilder.

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