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Les écrits anti-sarrasins de Pierre le Vénérable ont d’emblée été voulus comme des ouvrages de controverse, ancrés dans le sillage de la traduction latine que leur responsable commanda du Coran et de documents symptomatiques de la religion coranique, dont l’objectif affiché ne souffre aucune nuance : informer pour réfuter, pourfendre, extirper le mal d’une confession hérésio-diabolique. L’entreprise témoigne d’un authentique effort, sans précédent aucun, de connaissance et d’analyse, honnête et perspicace dans la mesure de la fidélité de sa latinisation, pour rendre inattaquable le dossier à charge qu’il constitue dans le procès sans véritable plaidoirie de la foi musulmane. Il s’agit d’acculturer pour rejeter et exclure, de transmettre pour démettre. Visible et identifiable, l’ennemi n’en est que plus vincible. L’orthodoxie porte en son nom sa rigidité ; il faut y céder sans dévier et veiller à éradiquer la moindre plaie qui peut l’entamer plus avant, afin d’endiguer en même temps tout autre dessein hégémonique.

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THE TENSION-FILLED NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF NUMBER ONE DIGITAL BESTSELLER THE PRISONER .'Expertly plotted and compellingly told - a cautionary tale that will put you off ever having anyone to stay with you again. I raced through it!' HARRIET TYCE'A mesmeric, tense and twisting nightmare. Suffocating, controlled and hugely entertaining' CHRIS WHITAKERIris and Gabriel have just got home from a make-or-break holiday. But a shock awaits them. One of their dearest friends, Laure, is in their house - sleeping in their bed, wearing Iris' clothes, even rearranging the furniture. She has walked out on her husband - and their good friend - Pierre over his confession of an affair.Iris and Gabriel want to be supportive. But as Laure's mood becomes more unpredictable, her presence begins to unravel secrets in all their pasts - until things reach breaking point ...'A gripping plot which will make you think twice about having a guest - especially an uninvited one. B. A. Paris is a mistress at weaving family with fear, suspense and subterfuge' JANE CORRY'The Guest is a tense and twisty thriller that builds layer upon layer until the chilling climax. B. A. Paris's characters are so well written that I would recognise them instantly if they walked into a room' NIKKI SMITH'Stylish, complex twisty' JENNY BLACKHURST'I raced through this utterly addictive page-turner that kept me guessing right until the final shocking twist!' ROZ WATKINSFURTHER PRAISE FOR B.A. PARIS' NERVE-SHREDDING NOVELS:A rollercoaster ride, with plenty of twists' OBSERVER 'The explosive start of this book sets up a compelling plot [...] written in well-executed super-edgy, short, sharp chapters and the description of her confinement is full of claustrophobic detail and menace' DAILY MAIL 'Book of the Month: chilling, intense and frightening in places, you'll be left wondering what is real and what isn't' WOMAN & HOME' 'Paris skilfully stitches together domestic noir with a kidnap thriller and the result is a gripping read' DAILY EXPRESS'Claustrophobic, menacing and relentlessly tense, this is a fiendishly plotted thriller with a great central twist' SARAH VAUGHAN 'Gripping' DAILY MIRROR 'Elegant, taut, ingeniously plotted and extremely addictive. Superb!' WILL DEAN

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Les vingt-trois publications reprises dans ce volume sont consacrées à la LXX de Jérémie et à Baruch son secrétaire. Elles visent pour la plupart à montrer que le texte hébreu reçu (TM, texte long) est une refonte d’un modèle hébreu traduit en grec et conservé dans la Septante (LXX, texte court placé sous la responsabilité de Baruch). Pour ce faire, P.-M. Bogaert a mis en œuvre une exégèse «différentielle» qui compare, analyse et explique les divergences entre les deux formes du livre. L’ouvrage commence par des contributions plus générales; les suivantes portent sur des passages choisis en fonction de leur intérêt: différence de contenu et différence d’ordre. Une dernière contribution, inédite, offre une synthèse provisoire visant à caractériser le texte court pour lui-même. Le recueil est introduit par une préface en anglais du Professeur Emanuel Tov, de l’Université hébraïque de Jérusalem.

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The Artuqids were one of the successor dynasties that rose to power in the aftermath of the eleventh-twelfth century invasion of Western and Central Asia by the Seljuq Turks. While the political power of the Artuqids was limited to the Diyar Bakr, a small region in northern Jazira corresponding to Southeastern Turkey, their artistic legacy is noteworthy. The many surviving Artuqid monuments, built over three hundred years (early 12th – early 15th century), and their decoration exemplify the mastery of stone carving which is reflected in intricate designs and motifs. Mardin, alongside other Artuqid centers such as Amid, Mayyafariqin and Hisn Kayfa, was set within a larger zone of diverse Christian and Islamic artistic traditions. This book defines Mardin’s artistic context in relation to the other Artuqid centers, as well as the neighboring zones that encompass Anatolia, the Caucasus, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Egypt. During the Artuqid period an original style developed in Mardin and the Diyar Bakr, which itself was rooted in a well-established local school of stone carving. Connected with Christian traditions found in the Syriac Tur ‘Abdin and in Late Antique Syria, the decoration also compares with that of monuments in Armenia and Georgia, and resonates with artistic practices seen in areas controlled by the regional Muslim powers of the time: the Zangids, Ayyubids, Mameluks, Great and Anatolian Seljuqs and the Ilkhanids. The Artuqid buildings reflect the spirit of the time, when the Jazira served as an artistic platform, fostering the circulation of ideas that led to new inspiration, and open-minded rulers and patrons, curious and receptive to new creations, stimulated the creative efforts of architects, stone carvers and craftsmen. The decorated monuments also attest to the existence of significant economic wealth and the need to commission sophisticated buildings that magnified the political and social status of the ruling elite’s.

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Mgr Prignon (1919-2000), recteur du Pontificio Collegio Belga pendant le concile, a été un acteur particulièrement bien informé des événements conciliaires. En tant que recteur du Collège belge, il hébergeait le cardinal Suenens, la plupart des évêques belges et un bon nombre d’experts, dont Mgr Philips et le Père Congar. Devenu en 1963 peritus officiel du concile, il a surtout suivi de près les délibérations de la commission doctrinale. Conseiller ecclésiastique de l’Ambassade de Belgique auprès du Saint-Siège, il a également noué de multiples contacts dans le monde diplomatique. Ajoutons à cela que, dès 1963, Prignon était devenu l’homme de confiance du cardinal Suenens, dont le rôle au concile n’est plus à souligner. Conscient de l’importance des informations dont il disposait, Prignon a pris des notes personnelles – parfois fort éparses – concernant les événements du concile. Après quelque temps, il a privilégié l’enregistrement de ses remarques sur des bandes magnétiques, bandes qui déjà à l’époque ont été dactylographiées par son vice-recteur, L. Declerck. Pour la 4e session, ces bandes ont été éditées par L. Declerck et A. Haquin, Mgr Albert Prignon, Recteur du Pontificio Collegio Belga, Journal conciliaire de la 4e session, Cahiers de la Revue Théologique de Louvain, 35, Louvain-la-Neuve, 2003. Le volume actuel édite les notes sur les événements de la 2e session et de la 2e intersession. Période cruciale en raison du problème des 5 Propositiones (octobre 63), de la discussion sur la collégialité dans la commission de coordination en avril 1964, et des premières prises de position du cardinal Suenens au sujet du Birth Control. L’édition comporte un apparat critique, souvent indispensable vu le caractère assez succinct et peu ordonné des Notes de Prignon. Dans son Journal, Y. Congar donne un émouvant témoignage sur Prignon: «Il [Prignon] a à la fois le sens théologique, le sens pratique et le sens tactique. … Il est très renseigné. Il a présent à l’esprit tous les détails, sans perdre la ligne des intérêts plus grands … Sans tout cela, le Collège belge et le groupe belge n’auraient, ni été ce qu’ils ont été, ni joué le rôle qu’ils ont joué» (Mon Journal du Concile, Paris 2002, II, p. 72-73).

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The Author's Effects: On the Writer's House Museum is the first book to describe how the writer's house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomenon across Britain, Europe, and North America. Exploring the ways that authorship has been mythologised through the conventions of the writer's house museum, The Author's Effects anatomises the how and why of the emergence, establishment, and endurance of popular notions of authorship in relation to creativity. It traces how and why the writer's bodily remains, possessions, and spaces came to be treasured in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as a prelude to the appearance of formal writer's house museums. It ransacks more than 100 museums and archives to tell the stories of celebrated and paradigmatic relics—Burns' skull, Keats' hair, Petrarch's cat, Poe's raven, Brontë's bonnet, Dickinson's dress, Shakespeare's chair, Austen's desk, Woolf's spectacles, Hawthorne's window, Freud's mirror, Johnson's coffee-pot and Bulgakov's stove, amongst many others. It investigates houses within which nineteenth-century writers mythologised themselves and their work—Thoreau's cabin and Dumas' tower, Scott's Abbotsford and Irving's Sunnyside. And it tracks literary tourists of the past to such long-celebrated literary homes as Petrarch's Arquà, Rousseau's Ile St Pierre, and Shakespeare's Stratford to find out what they thought and felt and did, discovering deep continuities with the redevelopment of Shakespeare's New Place for 2016.

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The Pseudo-Clementines are best known for preserving early "Jewish Christian" traditions, but have not been appreciated as a resource for understanding the struggles over identity and orthodoxy among fourth-century Christians, Jews, and pagans. Using the work of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, Nicole Kelley analyzes the rhetorical strategies employed by the Recognitions. These strategies discredit the knowledge of philosophers and astrologers, and establish Peter and Clement as the exclusive stewards of prophetic knowledge, which has been handed down to them by Jesus. This analysis reveals that the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions is not a jumbled collection of earlier source materials, as previous interpreters have thought, but a coherent narrative concerned primarily with epistemological issues. The author understands the Recognitions as a reflection of complex rivalries between several types of Christian and non-Christian groups such as that found in fourth-century Antioch or Edessa.

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In response to the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, central banks have used all available instruments in their monetary policy tool-kit to avoid financial market disruptions and a collapse in real economic activities. These actions have expanded the size of their balance sheets and altered the composition of the asset-side. This edited book highlights how these assets are managed, providing an intellectual and practical contribution to an under-researched field of central bank responsibilities. It first reviews the sources and uses of domestic and international assets and how they complement—or possibly conflict with—the implementation of monetary policy goals. Next, the book examines the asset management mandate in a balance sheet context before turning to the investment decision-making process from strategic and tactical asset allocation to investment strategies, risk management, governance, reporting and control. Finally, it presents new developments in the field of managing assets at central banks. The individual chapters are written by central bankers, academics, and representatives from International Financial Institutions, each representing a particular aspect of the asset management practice.Practical and powerful insights from a hall of fame of investors, central bankers and scholars, are packed into this one volume. If you could have only one book on central bank asset management, this would be it. —Peter R. Fisher, Clinical Professor, Tuck School of Business at DartmouthJacob Bjorheim draws on his long experience in sovereign asset management to pull together a rich collection of insights from a broad range of expertise. Asset management at central banks has evolved and expanded considerably over the past decade. This book is a timely source of information and guidance. —Guy Debelle, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of AustraliaCentral bank balance sheets have grown at a tremendous pace over the last decade and a half. Drawing on contributions from scholars and experienced central bankers from around the world, this timely and insightful book sheds light on how central banks are, and should be, managing their growing balance sheets. —Kjell G. Nyborg, Chaired Professor of Finance, University of Zurich, Author of Collateral Frameworks: The Open Secret of Central BanksCentral banks and monetary authorities are charged with, and being held accountable for, managing portfolios of foreign currency assets of unprecedented size. The essays in this admirable book, written by some of the worlds most highly experienced officials, cover the full range of why and how this is currently being done and how new developments are affecting old practices. Interesting conceptually and immensely useful practically. —William White, Senior Fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute, former Head of the Monetary and Economic Department with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and chairman of the Economic and Development Review Committee at the OECDAn excellent and timely review of modern international reserve management, which ought to be read by everyone working with, or simply interested in, international asset management and finance as well as monetary and economic policy. The spectrum of authors is broad and their combined insight is very valuable. —Tom A. Fearnley, Investment Director, Norwegian Ministry of FinanceWith “Asset Management at Central Banks and Monetary Authorities”, Jacob Bjorheim has achieved an editorial tour de force. The book assembles the insightful views of the leading experts in the field, both from an academic and practitioners’ perspective. It bridges the gap between the macroeconomics of central banks and the financial management of their reserves. A must read to understand how central banks are special in the group of institutional investors. —Eric Bouyé, Head of Asset Allocation and Quantitative Strategies, Treasury Department, The World BankThe balance sheet is a large and important toolbox for any central bank and specifically the foreign exchange reserves constitute one the more powerful of these tools. This book provides excellent insight in the various perspectives of managing reserves at a central bank. —Heidi Elmér, Director of Markets Department, Severiges RiksbankThe world of international reserves has changed since the global financial crisis. In this volume, Jacob Bjorheim has assembled a stellar cast of experts to explain how and what that means for reserves management. With chapter authors like Andrew Ang, Jennifer Johnson-Calari, Robert McCauley, Ravi Menon, Simon Potter and Philip Turner, it is a book that every reserve manager must read. —Eli Remolona, Professor of Finance and Director of Central Banking, Asia School of Business in collaboration with MIT SloanJacob Bjorheim has succeeded in bringing together a first-class team of experts, and organising their contributions in an articulated journey from the central banks’ policy mandate to their asset management practices. An indispensable post-crisis update of the subject and a a required reading for anyone professionally involved with central bank’s asset management, or simply curious about a topic benefitting otherwise from limited research. —Louis de Montpellier, Former Global Head, Official Institutions Group, SSGA, and former Deputy Head, Banking Department, Bank for International Settlements (BIS), BaselAt last, a book that shares with a wider audience, deep insight in a unique, challenging and ethical approach of asset management developed and implemented in the secretive world of central banks. If you wonder how to manage funds that stand ready for use at short notice in times of stress then this book is for you. Two features make it such a valuable read and a must-have reference: First, the very comprehensive list of themes covered from a rich diversity of angles. Second, the very impressive list of prominent institutions and authors that have contributed and shared their analysis and practical approaches of the issues presented. What is better than to get the information directly from first-hand practitioners, experts and managers themselves in their own words? —Jean-Pierre Matt, Former Head of Financial Analysis at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and founder of QuanteisThis book holds the promise to become the go-to guide for anyone wishing to learn more about the management of official foreign exchange reserves. Central bankers in particular, but also those providing services to central banks, will find benefit from the broad scope in subject matter and varied perspectives being presented. I am yet to see a compendium on official reserve management with similar reach in subject matter. —Leon Myburgh, Former Head Financial Markets Department, South African Reserve Bank (SARB), PretoriaThis is an immensely timely book at a time when central bank operations, and their balance sheets, remain “larger for longer”. Following the Financial Crisis 10 years ago, and with the Covid-19 Recession about to break, central bank balance sheets are at the forefront of the authorities’ response to economic issues as never before. Yet the management of their now large-scale assets remains a little known and little studied area. The authors of this book combine extensive technical and practical experience, and their observations will fill an important gap in the literature at a critical time. —Freyr Hermannsson, Former Head of Treasury, Central Bank of Iceland, Reykjavík

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Since its discovery by a teenager in 1859, thousands of specimens of lustrous black tourmaline crystals from Pierrepont, New York, have found their way into both museum and private mineral collections worldwide. Pierrepont is a classic American mineral locality and a popular site for field collecting, and the discovery of new collecting sites there in the past decade has only enhanced its importance. Yet no detailed scientific research has been published until now. The six authors represent a team with comprehensive skills to tackle this study, which covers the locality's history, geology, and mineralogy. The origin of the mineralization, the true nature of the black tourmaline, and the extensive suite of accessory minerals are presented in detail. The authors also resolve identification questions about the tourmaline and its many accessory minerals.

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This is the first book-length study of James Pierrepont Greaves, the mystic, idealist, and sacred socialist. It explores the effects of his teaching on his very disparate followers and particularly on the community, Alcott House, he established. The bookOs chapters on Sophia Chichester, the ultraradical supporter of Greaves, will be of particular interest to feminists.

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'Cain was not just a great hard-boiled novelist but a great novelist, period ... To read MILDRED PIERCE now is to experience a double vision, in which we confront both how much and how little things have changed' LA TIMES'Vivid, gritty, real...this is crime writing at its very best' MY WEEKLYMildred Pierce is the story of a determined and ambitious woman who, after her feckless husband abandons her, by hard work and sacrifice builds a successful business to ensure the future of her pampered and selfish daughter. But she isn't prepared for the intrigues and devastating betrayals of those closest to her. This is James M. Cain's most substantial novel and a classic of the Depression years.

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Tras un riguroso estudio realizado sobre el perfil psicológico de los asesinos en serie que han venido actuando durante los últimos dos siglos de nuestra historia negra más reciente, se deduce que el ochenta y cinco por ciento de ellos sufrió un severo trauma infantil; asesinos tan sumamente despiadados como Jack el Destripador en 1888, la Viuda Negra en 1943, o Hannibal Lecter en 1981.Queramos o no, cualquiera de ellos forma parte de nuestro más oscuro pasado, pero ahora en el siglo XXI y en el mismísimo corazón de Manhattan, ha surgido un nuevo depredador, alguien con una mente tan retorcida que no necesita tocar a sus víctimas para poder acabar con ellas, y lo peor de todo es que el próximo en moriir podría ser cualquier ciudadano de a pie como tú.Seis extraños suicidios, cinco niños desaparecidos y una misteriosa pluma blanca sobre la almohada de cada una de sus víctimas...Procura no quedarte atrás porque...el último siempre pierdePVP

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Un boxeador que manda a la lona a sus adversarios a fuerza de resistencia, un hombre enamorado de la duplicada magia de unas gemelas, un apostador de hipódromo que finge fabulosas ganancias para financiar una amistad y un escritor cuya obra surgió de una pluma ajena... Protagonizadas por perdedores gloriosos y solitarios, que entienden el mundo a partir de códigos y éticas estrictamente personales, este libro ofrece insólitas visiones de la vida.La casa pierde es una reunión de diez historias que exponen, sin concesiones aunque con delicado sentido del humor, la condición de estos hombres que súbitamente han dejado de ser jóvenes y se encuentran frente a frente con el progresivo fracaso y el amplio coto de su soledad.

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Stephen Leather's BESTSELLING breakthrough thriller, previously published as THE CHINAMAN - perfect for fans of Lee Child and James Patterson. He understood death.Jungle-skilled, silent and lethal, he had killed for the Viet Cong and then for the Americans. He had watched helpless when his two eldest daughters had been raped and killed by Thai pirates.Now all that was behind him. Quiet, hard-working and unassuming, he was building up his South London take-away business.Until the day his wife and youngest daughter were destroyed by an IRA bomb in a Knightsbridge department store.Then, simply but persistently, he began to ask the authorities who were the men responsible, what was being done. And was turned away, fobbed off, treated as a nuisance.Which was when, denied justice, he decided on revenge. And went back to war.Praise for Stephen Leather'Explores complex contemporary issues while keeping the action fast and bloody'Economist'Action and scalpel-sharp suspense' Daily Telegraph'The sheer impetus of his story-telling is damned hard to resist'Sunday Express

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Charlotte Voake is an award-winning illustrator whose titles include Ginger and Hello Twins.Pierre Babin is a children's author.

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En este libro la autora nos dará las claves nutricionales para alimentarnos de manera sana.Nos desvelará, a través de su experiencia personal con la comida real, cuáles son los alimentos básicos para tener una buena despensa, nos hablará de las bondades de comprar en el mercado y de qué tipos de alimentos mínimamente procesados también son buenos para consumir.Nos enseñará a organizarnos para cocinar solo durante 2 o 3 horas a la semana y tener comida sana para todos los días, de lunes a domingo.Además, contará con menús semanales organizados por desayunos, comidas y cenas.

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Esta colección de cuentos está inspirada en nuestra tradición oral. Su autor ha puesto en ellos la esperanza de proporcionar un repertorio de narraciones populares que sirva de unión entre la infancia de los padres y la de los hijos, en un momento en que esta rica tradición hispánica está casi perdida. Por eso Rodríguez Almodóvar ha mantenido en su redacción aquel tono incomparable de los viejos cuentos de nuestras abuelas, con excitantes mezclas de realidad y fantasía, humor y dramatismo, rusticidad y ternura. Pocas veces tendremos tan a la mano un motivo para colaborar en un empeño cultural auténticamente nuestro.

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Building a bridge between political philosophy and the analysis of current affairs, as well as between the author's personal experience and the collective dramas of the twentieth century, Pierre Hassner stresses two major features of our time: the decline of interstate war as a realistic prospect, and the increase in domestic and transnational violence.

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CADA LIBRO DE ESTA NUEVA COLECCIÓN MUESTRA UN PITUFO EN PARTICULAR COMO EL PERSONAJE ESTRELLA, REVELANDO LOS ASPECTOS ÚNICOS DE SU PERSONALIDAD Y LA MANERA EN LA QUE INTERACTÚA CON OTROS PERSONAJES DEL PUEBLO DE LOS PITUFOS.

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Cult French author Jean-Pierre Martinet’s obscenely tragic novella, translated into English Adolphe Marlaud’s rule of conduct is simple: live as little as possible so as to suffer as little as possible. For Marlaud, this involves carrying out a meager existence on rue Froidevaux in Paris, tending to his father’s grave in the cemetery across the street, and earning the outlines of a living through a part-time job at the funerary shop on the corner. It does not, however, take into account the intentions of the obese concierge of his building, who has set her widowed sights on his diminutive frame, and whose aggressive overtures are to trigger a burlesque and obscene tragedy. Originally published in 1979, The High Life introduces cult French author Jean-Pierre Martinet into English. It is a novella that perfectly outlines Martinet’s dark vision: the terrors of loneliness, the grotesque buffoonery of sexual relations, the essential humiliation of the human condition and the ongoing trauma of twentieth-century history. Jean-Pierre Martinet (1944–1993) wrote only a handful of novels, including what is largely regarded as his masterpiece, the psychosexual study of horror and madness, Jérôme. Largely ignored during his lifetime, his star has only recently begun to shine in France, and he is now regarded as an overlooked French successor to Dostoyevsky. Reading like an unsettling love child of Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Jim Thompson, Martinet’s work explores the grimly humorous possibilities of unlimited pessimism.

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