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To free his father and himself from his mother's tyranny, Pierre Rivière decided to kill her. On June 3,1835, he went inside his small Normandy house with a pruning hook and cut to death his mother, his eighteen-year-old sister, and his seven-year-old brother. Then, in jail, he wrote a memoir to justify the whole gruesome tale. Michel Foucault, author of Madness and Civilization and Discipline and Punish, collected the relevant documents of the case, including medical and legal testimony, police records. and Rivière's memoir. The Rivière case, he points out, occurred at a time when many professions were contending for status and power. Medical authority was challenging law, branches of government were vying. Foucault's reconstruction of the case is a brilliant exploration of the roots of our contemporary views of madness, justice, and crime.

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Pierre Elliott Trudeau – radical progressive or unavowed socialist? His legacy remains divisive. Most scholars portray Trudeau’s ties to the left as evidence either of communist affinities or of ideals that led him to found a progressive, modern Canada. The Constant Liberal traces the charismatic politician’s relationship with left and labour movements throughout his career. Christo Aivalis argues that although Trudeau found key influences and friendships on the left, he was in fact a consistently classic liberal, driven by individualist and capitalist principles. While numerous biographies have noted the impact of the left on Trudeau’s intellectual and political development, this comprehensive analysis showcases the interplay between liberalism and democratic socialism that defined his world view – and shaped his effective use of power. The Constant Liberal suggests that Trudeau’s leftist activity was not so much a call for social democracy as a warning to fellow liberals that lack of reform could undermine liberal-capitalist social relations.

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French novelist and essayist and leading writer of the Nouveau Roman, Michael Butor was thematically concerned with changes in space and time and the artist's dilemna in recreating reality. This book is a study of Michael Butor's collaboration with three visual artists- Jacques Monory, Jiri Kolar, and Pierre Alechinsky, specifically those in which the artwork preceded the text and thus provided Butor with inspiration for his texts.

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Pierre is a bear who loves hair! From beehives to buzzcuts, to mullets and mowhawks! His favourite roller skating team, The Poodle Squad have the best hair around! Pierre and his friends decide to enter a roller skating competition to impress The Poodle Squad and put in hours of practice, training, hair styling and costume planning. What will happen though when Pierre can’t get the perfect quiff and is running late? Will he make it to the competition on time? And will he still have the confidence to skate with his friends?

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"A stunning portrait of a woman blossoming into her full power…this is Alka Joshi's best book yet!” —Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond EyeFrom the author of Reese's Book Club Pick The Henna Artist, the final chapter in Alka Joshi’s New York Times bestselling Jaipur trilogy takes readers to 1970s Paris, where Radha’s budding career as a perfumer must compete with the demands of her family and the secrets of her past.Paris, 1974. Radha is now living in Paris with her husband, Pierre, and their two daughters. She still grieves for the baby boy she gave up years ago, when she was only a child herself, but she loves being a mother to her daughters, and she’s finally found her passion—the treasure trove of scents.She has an exciting and challenging position working for a master perfumer, helping to design completely new fragrances for clients and building her career one scent at a time. She only wishes Pierre could understand her need to work. She feels his frustration, but she can’t give up this thing that drives her.Tasked with her first major project, Radha travels to India, where she enlists the help of her sister, Lakshmi, and the courtesans of Agra—women who use the power of fragrance to seduce, tease and entice. She’s on the cusp of a breakthrough when she finds out the son she never told her husband about is heading to Paris to find her—upending her carefully managed world and threatening to destroy a vulnerable marriage.The Jaipur TrilogyBook 1: The Henna ArtistBook 2: The Secret Keeper of JaipurBook 3: The Perfumist of Paris

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Acta apostolorum et conte fantastique, récit post-résurrectionnel et parabole de la quête du Royaume, hymne à la résistance face aux persécutions mais aussi mythe fondateur de la mission chrétienne, ouvrage de propagande tout autant que précis d’évasion, le premier écrit du codex VI de Nag Hammadi se prête à de multiples lectures. Cette polysémie découle d’un processus rédactionnel complexe, dont le texte conserve de nombreuses traces, qui se cristallise en quatre discours distincts dissimulés dans autant de récits à la fois autonomes et interdépendants : une théologie plurivoque, en même temps extatique et symbolique, véhiculée par l’histoire hybride de Lithargoël, à la fois allégorie du salut de l’âme et psychanodie, un enseignement euthymique transmis par le Jésus ressuscité d’une scène épiphanique, une théologie diaconale et une théorie novatrice de la mission chrétienne, corollaires d’un récit missionnaire, et enfin une théologie ascétique et une apologie de la perpétuation de l’Église, renfermées dans une ample métaphore de l’endurance. Si la dernière étape de sa composition peut être attribuée à un cercle mélétien du tout début du IVe siècle, cet apocryphe semble circuler, non seulement en Égypte mais aussi à Rome, en Nubie et en Palestine, au moins jusqu’au XIIe siècle.

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Les représentations de Mars Ultor sur les pierres gravées is principally devoted to engraved stones representing the Mars Ultor type and aims to restore them to their rightful place. When Adolf Furtwängler, in his study of the Somzée collection, determined the Mars Ultor type from a statuette in the same collection, he chose to use only two artefacts for comparison: the engraved gem from the Marlborough collection and a sesterce of Antoninus Pius. Monumental sculpture and reliefs did not provide reliable anchors for the type. Even the famous statue from the Capitoline Museum did not find favour with him. Paradoxically, the studies that followed Furtwängler's focused on the ‘high arts’, intentionally leaving aside the intaglios and the glass pastes, which are the only contemporary examples of the original statue, now lost. Gems representing the Mars Ultor type were produced between the 1st and 4th centuries. They attest to the longevity and impact of the Augustan image in Roman iconography and allow us to follow the variations in meaning of the motif. Scattered around the world and without documented contexts, the 240-odd engraved stones gathered here prove – if it were still necessary to do so – that the great masterpieces of art history have had a much more important survival on these small objects than on the great monuments traditionally at the centre of iconographic studies. Comparison with statuettes and coins representing the Mars Ultor type also offers a historical and religious view of the cult of the god, promoted by Octavian after the Battle of Philippi.

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