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Heirs of Roman Persecution: Studies on a Christian and Para-Christian Discourse in Late Antiquity
by Wendy Mayer Éric FournierThe subject of this book is the discourse of persecution used by Christians in Late Antiquity (c. 300–700 CE). Through a series of detailed case studies covering the full chronological and geographical span of the period, this book investigates how the conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity changed the way that Christians and para- Christians perceived the hostile treatments they received, either by fellow Christians or by people of other religions. A closely related second goal of this volume is to encourage scholars to think more precisely about the terminological difficulties related to the study of persecution. Indeed, despite sustained interest in the subject, few scholars have sought to distinguish between such closely related concepts as punishment, coercion, physical violence, and persecution. Often, these terms are used interchangeably. Although there are no easy answers, an emphatic conclusion of the studies assembled in this volume is that “persecution” was a malleable rhetorical label in late antique discourse, whose meaning shifted depending on the viewpoint of the authors who used it. This leads to our third objective: to analyze the role and function played by rhetoric and polemic in late antique claims to be persecuted. Late antique Christian writers who cast their present as a repetition of past persecutions often aimed to attack the legitimacy of the dominant Christian faction through a process of othering. This discourse also expressed a polarizing worldview in order to strengthen the group identity of the writers’ community in the midst of ideological conflicts and to encourage steadfastness against the temptation to collaborate with the other side.
The Unimagined Canadian Capital: Challenges for the Federal Capital Region
by Caroline Andrew Anne Gilbert Andrew Sancton André Juneau David L. Gordon Éric Champagne Guy Chiasson Meyer Burstein Almos TassonyiToo many stakeholders have neglected their duty of imagining an aspiring federal capital region for Canada. Under the auspices of the Forum of Federations, a number of persons interested in the fate of Canada’s federal capital region came together to examine the challenges facing the region and to put forward suggestions to deal with them.In this report on the brainstorming exercise conducted in January 2011, professionals, academics, and elected officials take stock of the vast array of assets on which the federal capital region can build; probe the many sources of failures in coping as effectively and creatively as one would expect with the diversity, trans-border, financial, and governance challenges; and make suggestions to ensure that the federal capital region does not remain “unimagined” in the future.
History of Quebec For Dummies
by Éric BédardGrasp the unique history of Quebec? Easy. Packing in equal parts fun and facts, History of Quebec For Dummies is an engaging and entertaining guide to the history of Canada's second-largest province, covering the conflicts, cultures, ideas, politics, and social changes that have shaped Quebec as we know it today. "My country isn't a country, it is winter!" sings the poet Gilles Vigneault . . . Indeed, Quebec is winter, snow, cold, and freezing winds. It is also the majestic river Saint-Laurent and its numerous confluences across America. It is vast, dense forests, countless lakes, magnificent landscapes of Saguenay, Charlevoix, Côte-Nord, or Gaspésie. Quebec is also the "old capital" perched on the Cape Diamond facing the sea. It is Montreal, the first French city of North America, the creative and innovative metropolis, junction for different cultures and heart of a nation yearning to belong to the world's history. History of Quebec For Dummies tells Quebec's fascinating story from the early fifteen hundreds to the present, highlighting the culture, language, and traditions of Canada's second-largest province. Serves as the ideal starting place to learn about Quebec Covers the latest, up-to-the-minute findings in historical research Explores the conflicts, cultures, ideas, politics, and social changes in Quebec Lifelong learners and history buffs looking for a fun-yet-factual introduction to the grand scope of Quebec history will find everything they need in History of Quebec For Dummies.
Are Statistics Only Made of Data?: Know-how and Presupposition from the 17th and 19th Centuries (Methodos Series #20)
by Éric BrianThis book examines several epistemological regimes in studies of numerical data over the last four centuries. It distinguishes these regimes and mobilises questions present in the philosophy of science, sociology and historical works throughout the 20th century. Attention is given to the skills of scholars and their methods, their assumptions, and the socio-historical conditions that made calculations and their interpretations possible. In doing so, questions posed as early as Émile Durkheim’s and Ernst Cassirer’s ones are revisited and the concept of symbolic form is put to the test in this particular survey, conducted over long period of time. Although distinct from a methodological and epistemological point of view, today these regimes may be found together in the toolbox of statisticians and those who comment on their conclusions. As such, the book is addressed to social scientists and historians and all those who are interested in numerical productions.
Architectures of Hiding: Crafting Concealment | Omission | Deception | Erasure | Silence
by Federica Goffi Rana Abughannam Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon Pallavi SwaranjaliArchitecture manifests as a space of concealment and unconcealment, lethe and alêtheia, enclosure and disclosure, where its making and agency are both hidden and revealed. With an urgency to amplify narratives that are overlooked, silenced and unacknowledged in and by architectural spaces, histories and theories, this book contends the need for a critical study of hiding in the context of architectural processes. It urges the understanding of inherent opportunities, power structures and covert strategies, whether socio-cultural, geo-political, environmental or economic, as they are related to their hidescapes – the constructed landscapes of our built environments participating in the architectures of hiding. Looking at and beyond the intentions and agency that architects possess, architectural spaces lend themselves as apparatuses for various forms of hiding and un(hiding). The examples explored in this book and the creative works presented in the interviews enclosed in the interludes of this publication cover a broad range of geographic and cultural contexts, discursively disclosing hidden aspects of architectural meaning. The book investigates the imaginative intrigue of concealing and revealing in design processes, along with moral responsibilities and ethical dilemmas inherent in crafting concealment through the making and reception of architecture.
Lourdes: The Three Cities Trilogy (Classics To Go)
by Émile ZolaIn this moving depiction of a pilgrimage to Lourdes, the master French realist has created a novel of vivid characters and subtle commentary on suffering and the belief in miracles as the last desperate refuge from pain. Based on his own trip to the fabled grotto, the novel follows a simple five-part structure corresponding to the five-day train trip from Paris to Lourdes and back. (Goodreads)
Paris The Three Cities Trilogy (Classics To Go #3)
by Émile Zola"Paris" is the third of Emile Zola's "Cities" trilogy, following Lourdes and Rome. Abbe Pierre Froment has now been disillusioned in his faith twice, once at Lourdes and again in Rome. On his return to Paris he decides that, if he himself no longer believes, he can at least still give hope to others. He joins Abbe Rose in attempting to succour and assist the poor of Paris. (Goodreads)
The Debacle
by Émile ZolaConservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured deep personal loss. When he first meets the wealthy and mercurial Maurice Levasseur, who never seems to have suffered, his hatred is immediate. But after they are thrown together during the disastrous Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71, the pair are compelled to understand one other. Forging a profound friendship, they must struggle together to endure a disorganised and brutal war, the savage destruction of France's Second Empire and the fall of Napoleon III. One of the greatest of all war novels, The Debacle is the nineteenth novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart cycle. A forceful and deeply moving tale of close friendship, it is also a fascinating chronicle of the events that were to lead, in the words of Zola himself, to 'the murder of a nation'.
Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine)
by Émile P. TorresThis volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on "existential risks." Many leading intellectuals agree that the risk of human extinction this century may be higher than at any point in our 300,000-year history as a species. This book provides insight on the key questions that inform this discussion, including when humans began to worry about their own extinction and how the debate has changed over time. It establishes a new theoretical foundation for thinking about the ethics of our extinction, arguing that extinction would be very bad under most circumstances, although the outcome might be, on balance, good. Throughout the book, graphs, tables, and images further illustrate how human choices and attitudes about extinction have evolved in Western history. In its thorough examination of humanity’s past, this book also provides a starting point for understanding our future. Although accessible enough to be read by undergraduates, Human Extinction contains new and thought-provoking research that will benefit even established academic philosophers and historians.
Mystics and Heretics in Italy at the End of the Middle Ages (Routledge Revivals)
by Émile GebhartOriginally published in 1922, this translation of French historian Émile Gebhart’s work by Hulme gives a detailed religious history of Italy in the middle ages clearly demonstrating Gebhart’s expertise in this area. Poetry, art and politics all centred around religion in the period studied and Gebhart identifies three key areas to be discussed; the Church in Rome, Christian concern and rationalism or secular independence whilst also focussing on famous heretics of the period including Arnold of Brescia and Francis of Assisi. This title will be of interest to students of History.
The Incas' Sky: From Myths to History and Astronomy
by Émile BiémontThis book introduces readers to the astonishing civilisation of the Incas. Its novelty lies in its general but highly informative synthesis of their history and astronomy through the accounts of contemporary chronicles and recent archaeological findings. Richly illustrated with the author’s own photographs, it will attract the attention of seasoned travellers interested in ancient civilisations and keen to discover what people were capable of achieving so long ago, but also any reader interested in the history and prehistory of South American peoples, including students or university researchers wanting to know more about the pre-Columbian civilizations of Peru. The Inca civilisation was in fact the culmination of cultural contributions from a dozen or so complex pre-Columbian civilizations, such as those of Chavín, Nazca, Wari, or Tiwanaku. Intensely spiritual, the Inca people attributed metaphysical powers to all manner of objects and places they considered sacred, but at the same time the numerous alignments in their buildings show that they result from careful observations of the Sun, the Moon, and the stars at different times of the year. Indeed, the Incas were an essentially agrarian people, so time measurement and calendar devices were essential for the purely pragmatic problem of planning agricultural tasks during the tropical year. The book sets out to describe the Incas in their historical and geographical context, avoiding specialization or excessive technicality, but retaining a certain scientific rigor, and including a detailed consideration of their interest in the sky and astronomy.
Mad with Freedom: The Political Economy of Blackness, Insanity, and Civil Rights in the U.S. South, 1840–1940
by Élodie Edwards-GrossiThe use of race in studies of insanity in the 1840s and 1850s gave rise to politically charged theories on the differential biology and pathologies of brains in whites and Blacks. In Mad with Freedom, Élodie Edwards-Grossi explores the largely unknown social history of these racialized theories on insanity in the segregated South. She unites an institutional history of psychiatric spaces in the South that housed Black patients with an intellectual history of early psychiatric theories that defined the Black body as a locus for specific pathologies. Edwards-Grossi also reveals the subtle, localized techniques of resistance later employed by Black patients to confront medical power. Her work shows the continuous politicization of science and theories on insanity in the context of Reconstruction and the Jim Crow South.
Silver Bullets
by Élmer MendozaTormented by past heartbreak and contemporary politics, for Edgar 'Lefty' Mendieta the news of the murder of lawyer Bruno Canizales represents just another day at the office in the drug-ridden city of Culiacán. It soon becomes clear that there is no shortage of suspects in a city where it's hard to tell the gangsters from the politicians. Canizales was the son of a former government minister and the partner of a drug baron's daughter, with his own penchant for cross-dressing and dangerous sex. What is less clear is why the assassin chose to use a silver bullet. And why, two days later, they seem to have struck again. In this sweltering city where a desire for the truth can be as dangerous as any drug, Mendieta's search for justice takes him from mansions to drug dens, in Élmer Mendoza's seminal founding text of Latin America's 'narco-lit' wave.
Silver Bullets
by Élmer MendozaTormented by past heartbreak and contemporary politics, for Edgar 'Lefty' Mendieta the news of the murder of lawyer Bruno Canizales represents just another day at the office in the drug-ridden city of Culiacán. It soon becomes clear that there is no shortage of suspects in a city where it's hard to tell the gangsters from the politicians. Canizales was the son of a former government minister and the partner of a drug baron's daughter, with his own penchant for cross-dressing and dangerous sex. What is less clear is why the assassin chose to use a silver bullet. And why, two days later, they seem to have struck again. In this sweltering city where a desire for the truth can be as dangerous as any drug, Mendieta's search for justice takes him from mansions to drug dens, in Élmer Mendoza's seminal founding text of Latin America's 'narco-lit' wave.
The Acid Test
by Élmer MendozaEgdar "Lefty" Mendieta investigates the death of a notorious stripper in this second sweltering "Narco-lit" noir from the Godfather of Mexican crime fictionAn intelligent, atmospheric police procedural series for fans of John Le Carré and Mick HeronWhen the mutilated body of Mayra Cabral de Melo is found in a dusty field, Detective Edgar "Lefty" Mendieta has personal reasons for bringing the culprit to justice. Mayra, a well-known stripper, had no shortage of ardent, deluded and downright dangerous admirers, and Lefty himself is haunted by the night he spent in her company.As Mexico's drug war ramps up, Lefty's pursuit of a gallery of jealous and powerful suspects, all with a murderous glint in their eye, leads him to Samantha Valdés, the godfather's daughter, who is battling to retain her father's empire. And as the mystery deepens, the bodycount rises.
The Acid Test
by Élmer MendozaEgdar "Lefty" Mendieta investigates the death of a notorious stripper in this second sweltering "Narco-lit" noir from the Godfather of Mexican crime fictionAn intelligent, atmospheric police procedural series for fans of John Le Carré and Mick HeronWhen the mutilated body of Mayra Cabral de Melo is found in a dusty field, Detective Edgar "Lefty" Mendieta has personal reasons for bringing the culprit to justice. Mayra, a well-known stripper, had no shortage of ardent, deluded and downright dangerous admirers, and Lefty himself is haunted by the night he spent in her company.As Mexico's drug war ramps up, Lefty's pursuit of a gallery of jealous and powerful suspects, all with a murderous glint in their eye, leads him to Samantha Valdés, the godfather's daughter, who is battling to retain her father's empire. And as the mystery deepens, the bodycount rises.
The Acid Test
by Élmer MendozaWhen the mutilated body of Mayra Cabral de Melo, a well-known stripper, is found by the side of a dusty road, detective Edgar "Lefty" Mendieta has personal reasons for bringing the culprit to justice. Mayra had no shortage of ardent, deluded and downright dangerous admirers, and Lefty himself is haunted by one steamy night he spent in her generous company. So begins an investigation that will bring him ever closer to the murderous world of the narcos, who are waging a war of bloody attrition against the Mexican state. The country is a powder keg, waiting for a spark, and Mendieta is about to enter the darkest days of his life. Corrupt politicians, failed boxers and unscrupulous arms dealers all lie in wait across the path to justice - none of which can prepare him for a brush with the F.B.I. when the father of the President of the United States is attacked on vacation. But for all these perils it is the weight of his own murky past that Lefty finds hardest to bear.And as he scratches around for clues, faced with a gallery of suspects who all have a motive and that murderous glint in their eye, the reappearance of Samantha Valdés, now the boss of the Cartel del Pacífico, adds one more piece to an already impenetrable puzzle.(P)2016 WF Howes Ltd
Feminist Peace Research: An Introduction
by Tarja Väyrynen Élise FéronThis textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the field of gender, feminism and peace.It is based on the argument that feminist thinking is necessary to understand and analyse the core issues in peace and conflict studies and is fundamental to thinking about solutions to global problems and to promoting peaceful conflict transformation. The book centres alternative and critical approaches missing in mainstream peace research and brings forward feminist perspectives on traditional peace research topics such as militarism, peacekeeping, arms trade and the articulation of different forms of violence. It also advances critical and alternative issues and topics that traditional peace research has sidelined, including, for example, artificial intelligence, technologies and peace; trauma and memory; human–non-human species relations; art; popular culture; post-colonial and decolonial feminist perspectives; and the queering of war and peace. In sum, this textbook contributes to the visibility of these feminist critical approaches to peace research and makes them accessible to scholars and students interested in the subject.This book will be of much interest to students of peace studies, feminist theory, gender studies and International Relations.
Diccionario amoroso del psicoanálisis
by Élisabeth RoudinescoUna vuelta por el mundo del psicoanálisis en 89 entradas. Entretenido y caprichoso, este Diccionario amoroso de Élisabeth Roudinesco invita a un recorrido fascinante: el que cruza al psicoanálisis como cultura a través de la historia, el cine, el arte, la geografía y las mitologías. El psicoanálisis, una suerte de nuevo mesianismo nacido en Viena a comienzos del siglo XX, se propuso encontrar una nueva tierra prometida: el inconsciente, la clínica de las neurosis y de la locura. Fenómeno urbano, representa una revolución de lo íntimo fundada en la actualización de los grandes mitos de la antigua Grecia. Anuncia que el hombre, aunque determinado por un destino, puede liberarse de sus cadenas pulsionales mediante una exploración de sí mismo, de sus sueños y sus fantasmas. ¿Una nueva medicina del alma? Sin duda, pero también un desafío al mundo de la racionalidad. Extraña disciplina, fue atacada por fanáticos religiosos, regímenes totalitarios y cientificistas preocupados por reducir al hombre a una suma de circunvoluciones cerebrales, al tiempo que era adulada por sus adeptos, cuyas jergas contribuyeron a menudo a degradarla. «En este Diccionario amoroso del psicoanálisis he adoptado el estilo de la lección -clasificar, reflexionar, distinguir, nombrar- a los efectos de explicarle al lector la forma en que el psicoanálisis se nutrió de literatura, de cine, de teatro, de viajes y de mitologías para llegar a ser una cultura universal. He atravesado ciudades y museos, me he encontrado con personajes, poemas y novelas [...] De Amor a Zurich, pasando por Animales, Buenos Aires, El segundo sexo, Sherlock Holmes, Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe, New York, Psique o Leonardo da Vinci, se encontrará aquí una lista de experiencias y palabras que permiten trazar la historia y la geografía de esta saga del espíritu en permanente metamorfosis.»
Freud
by Élisabeth RoudinescoÉlisabeth Roudinesco's bold reinterpretation of Sigmund Freud is a biography for the twenty-first century--a sympathetic yet impartial appraisal of a genius admired but misunderstood in his time and ours. Alert to tensions in his character and thought, she views Freud less as a scientific thinker than as an interpreter of civilization and culture.
A Ladra Rouba o seu Conde
by Christina Mcknight Éli AssunçãoPARA SALVAR SUA FAMÍLIA, ELA TERÁ QUE SER MUITO, MUITO MÁ... A senhorita Judith Pengarden tem um problema: sua família está com dívidas, e em breve eles perderão a casa. O que uma irmã dedicada deve fazer para salvar as pessoas que mais ama da ruína? Bem, roubar alguns itens da casa de um aristocrata – itens que ele com certeza nunca sentirá falta – e vendê-los para pagar as dívidas da família. Sorte dela conhecer Simon Montgomery, o novo Conde de Cartwright, um recluso com antiguidades. Ele pode ajudá-la a manter a família longe da prisão dos devedores, e ele pode ter roubado seu coração também. Exceto que, em vez de ela roubar do vizinho de Simon, ela entra na casa errada... Simon está determinado a mudar a forma como o mundo vê a sua família, mesmo que isso signifique que ele não possa mais perseguir seu sonho de ser um acadêmico para assumir seu novo título. Quando um ladrão entra na sua casa e rouba uma preciosa relíquia de família, ele promete recuperar a peça. A última coisa que ele espera é que a garota que ele conheceu em uma festa no jardim seja a ladra! Quando Jude é descoberta com os seus pertences, como ela irá conseguir convencê-lo que, apesar do seu erro, seu amor por ele é verdadeiro?
Aprisionada pelo Capitão
by Éli Assunção Amanda MarielA senhorita Prudence Drake não quer nada mais que voltar para a América e juntar o que sobrou da sua vida. Depois de ter sido refém no Black Dawn e testemunhar o assassinato do pai, a última coisa que desejava é se encontrar nas mãos de outro pirata – não importa que ele seja lindo e honrado. O Capitão Jasper Blackmore tinha deixado o passado pra trás, saindo dos portos da Inglaterra em busca de novas aventuras depois de a guerra tê-lo deixado fisicamente marcado e ter sido rejeitado pela única dama que se atreveu a amar. Uma diabinha americana nunca se encaixaria no seu mundo, não importa o quanto estivesse atraído por ela. Poderiam duas pessoas com caminhos tão distintos encontrarem algo em comum?
Como Beijar um Canalha
by Éli Assunção Amanda MarielEles ficarão juntos para compartilhar um natal inesquecível? Um mal entendido que terminou com seus laços de amizade, fez uma dama encontrar o amor de sua vida. O noivado de Lady Natalie estava terminado e ela estava livre para perseguir o homem dos seus sonhos. Durante uma festa de natal ela descobre que o lorde que ela deseja está presente. Então traça um plano para capturá-lo. Lorde Christian St. Vella, o Marquês de Knightly não tem o desejo de se casar. Quanto mais Lady Natalie o persegue, mais irritado ele fica. Enquanto a festa continua, ele não pode se impedir de ver através de seu exterior frívolo e reconhece uma dama pela qual ele pode se apaixonar. Eles ficarão juntos para compartilhar um natal inesquecível?
Diamante de Fogo
by Dawn Brower Éli AssunçãoLady Gemma Kemsley está em apuros. O primo, Alfie, herdou a propriedade do seu pai, gastou todo o dinheiro a uma velocidade impressionante e agora começou a olhá-la com lascívia. Alfie quer ter total controle sobre a sua herança. Sem a aprovação dele, Gemma não pode se casar. Então resta apenas uma opção – fugir e ir viver com a melhor amiga na América. Quando a irmã implora a Liam Marsden para ajudar Gemma, ele aceita com relutância. Tinha um passado com a referida dama que preferia esquecer – o que envolvia uma tentativa fracassada de noivado e uma declaração de amor. Quando vê Gemma novamente, percebe que não pode deixá-la ir embora. Em vez de enviá-la para a América ele usa um velho contrato de noivado para casar com ela. Mas agora, Gemma duvida que ele a ame de verdade. Será que Liam conseguirá convencer Gemma de que o seu amor é verdadeiro ou acabará perdendo-a para sempre?
Encantado por Lady Elianna
by Éli Assunção Amanda MarielUma mulher que perdeu tudo e o homem determinado a salvá-la enfrentam circunstâncias que estão além do seu controle. Uma mulher que perdeu tudo... Depois da morte do pai, Lady Elianna foi forçada pelo primo e sua família à uma vida de servidão. Por anos ela fez o que mandavam e assumiu várias funções: de criada pessoal a dama de companhia. Fez tudo sem reclamar. Mas isso foi até Lorde Sinclair aparecer na propriedade fazendo-a se atrever a sonhar mais uma vez. Um homem determinado a salvá-la… Lorde Sinclair fica intrigado com Elianna depois de um breve encontro no Hyde Park. Ele está convencido de que a mulher esteja escondendo algo e ele está determinado a descobrir os seus segredos. Quando a lady que Elianna está acompanhando lhe convida para uma festa no campo, ele aceita. Circunstâncias além do controle… A paixão ganha vida enquanto Elianna trabalha para esconder seus segredos, mas Lorde Sinclair faz tudo que está em seu poder para descobri-los. Uma noite fatídica muda tudo, trazendo seus segredos à luz e forçando uma atitude. Seria o amor deles a chave para superar o passado?