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Abandoned Princess' Farm Space: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Mei WuZiTongLu Xueyan had reincarnated into someone else's body. Moreover, the original owner was feeling a bit sad.It was fine if she was an Imperial Concubine, but she still had a ball!It was one thing for her husband to go missing, but her big brother actually lost!It was fine that her mother had died, but her stepmother was still as vicious as a snake!It was one thing to be a side concubine, but he had been beaten down by the main concubine to such a pathetic state!Although there were still a few loyal people around, they didn't have anything to eat. Was he going to starve to death?
Abandoned Princess' Farm Space: Volume 5 (Volume 5 #5)
by Mei WuZiTongLu Xueyan had reincarnated into someone else's body. Moreover, the original owner was feeling a bit sad.It was fine if she was an Imperial Concubine, but she still had a ball!It was one thing for her husband to go missing, but her big brother actually lost!It was fine that her mother had died, but her stepmother was still as vicious as a snake!It was one thing to be a side concubine, but he had been beaten down by the main concubine to such a pathetic state!Although there were still a few loyal people around, they didn't have anything to eat. Was he going to starve to death?
Abandoned Princess' Farm Space: Volume 6 (Volume 6 #6)
by Mei WuZiTongLu Xueyan had reincarnated into someone else's body. Moreover, the original owner was feeling a bit sad.It was fine if she was an Imperial Concubine, but she still had a ball!It was one thing for her husband to go missing, but her big brother actually lost!It was fine that her mother had died, but her stepmother was still as vicious as a snake!It was one thing to be a side concubine, but he had been beaten down by the main concubine to such a pathetic state!Although there were still a few loyal people around, they didn't have anything to eat. Was he going to starve to death?
Abandoned Queen Hard To Please: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Liu XiIn the same rented apartment in a city, two men and women with completely different personalities were gathered together …He was indifferent, silent, indifferent to things that had nothing to do with him.She, beautiful and generous, kind and pleasant, full of vivacity and sometimes charm.In her mind, he was an eccentric "uncle"; in his mind, she was a gentle and lovely "sister". Perhaps the story of 'Uncle's Love Lolita' was an innocent fantasy, but what kind of touching story would actually happen between them …
Abandoned Queen Hard To Please: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Liu XiIn the same rented apartment in a city, two men and women with completely different personalities were gathered together …He was indifferent, silent, indifferent to things that had nothing to do with him.She, beautiful and generous, kind and pleasant, full of vivacity and sometimes charm.In her mind, he was an eccentric "uncle"; in his mind, she was a gentle and lovely "sister". Perhaps the story of 'Uncle's Love Lolita' was an innocent fantasy, but what kind of touching story would actually happen between them …
Abandoned to Lust: Sexual Slander and Ancient Christianity (Gender, Theory, and Religion)
by Jennifer KnustEarly Christians used charges of adultery, incest, and lascivious behavior to demonize their opponents, police insiders, resist pagan rulers, and define what it meant to be a Christian. Christians frequently claimed that they, and they alone were sexually virtuous, comparing themselves to those marked as outsiders, especially non-believers and "heretics," who were said to be controlled by lust and unable to rein in their carnal desires. True or not, these charges allowed Christians to present themselves as different from and morally superior to those around them. Through careful, innovative readings, Jennifer Knust explores the writings of Paul, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus of Lyons, and other early Christian authors who argued that Christ alone made self-mastery possible. Rejection of Christ led to both immoral sexual behavior and, ultimately, alienation and punishment from God. Knust considers how Christian writers participated in a long tradition of rhetorical invective, a rhetoric that was often employed to defend status and difference. Christians borrowed, deployed, and reconfigured classical rhetorical techniques, turning them against their rulers to undercut their moral and political authority. Knust also examines the use of accusations of licentiousness in conflicts between rival groups of Christians. Portraying rival sects as depraved allowed accusers to claim their own group as representative of "true Christianity." Knust's book also reveals the ways in which sexual slurs and their use in early Christian writings reflected cultural and gendered assumptions about what constituted purity, morality, and truth. In doing so, Abandoned to Lust highlights the complex interrelationships between sex, gender, and sexuality within the classical, biblical, and early-Christian traditions.
Abandoning American Neutrality: Woodrow Wilson and the Beginning of the Great War, August 1914-December 1915
by M. Ryan FloydDuring the first 18 months of World War I, Woodrow Wilson sought to maintain American neutrality, but as this carefully argued study shows, it was ultimately an unsustainable stance. The tension between Wilson's idealism and pragmatism ultimately drove him to abandon neutrality, paving the way for America's entrance into the war in 1917.
Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico
by Alberto GarcíaAbandoning Their Beloved Land offers an essential new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican men to work in the United States as seasonal contract farmworkers from 1942 to 1964. Using national and local archives in Mexico, historian Alberto García uncovers previously unexamined political factors that shaped the direction of the program, including how officials administered the bracero selection process and what motivated campesinos from central states to migrate. Notably, García's book reveals how and why the Mexican government's delegation of Bracero Program–related responsibilities, the powerful influence of conservative Catholic opposition groups in central Mexico, and the failures of the revolution's agrarian reform all profoundly influenced the program's administration and individuals' decisions to migrate as braceros.
The Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy
by Michael KimmageThis definitive portrait of American diplomacy reveals how the concept of the West drove twentieth-century foreign policy, how it fell from favor, and why it is worth saving.Throughout the twentieth century, many Americans saw themselves as part of Western civilization, and Western ideals of liberty and self-government guided American diplomacy. But today, other ideas fill this role: on one side, a technocratic "liberal international order," and on the other, the illiberal nationalism of "America First."In The Abandonment of the West, historian Michael Kimmage shows how the West became the dominant idea in US foreign policy in the first half of the twentieth century -- and how that consensus has unraveled. We must revive the West, he argues, to counter authoritarian challenges from Russia and China. This is an urgent portrait of modern America's complicated origins, its emergence as a superpower, and the crossroads at which it now stands.
El abanico de seda
by Lisa SeeEsta novela es una ventana a un mundo asombroso, lejano y desconocido, un retrato vivo de la vida de unas mujeres extraordinarias que dejará en el lector una impresión difícil de olvidar. En una remota provincia de China, las mujeres crearon hace siglos un lenguaje secreto para comunicarse libremente entre sí: el nu shu. Aisladas en sus casas y sometidas a la férrea autoridad masculina, el nu shu era su única vía de escape. Mediante sus mensajes, escritos o bordados en telas, abanicos y otros objetos, daban testimonio de un mundo tan sofisticado como implacable. El año 2002, la autora de esta novela viajó a la provincia de Huan, cuna de esta milenaria escritura fonética, para estudiarla en profundidad. Su prolongada estancia le permitió recoger testimonios de mujeres que la conocían, así como de la última hablante de nu shu, la nonagenaria Yang Huanyi. A partir de aquellas investigaciones, Lisa See concibióesta conmovedora historia sobre la amistad entre dos mujeres, Lirio Blanco y Flor de Nieve. Como prueba de su buena estrella, la pequeña Lirio Blanco, hija de una humilde familia de campesinos, será hermanada con Flor de Nieve, de muy diferente ascendencia social. En una ceremonia ancestral, ambas se convierten en laotong -«mi otro yo» o «alma gemela»-, un vínculo que perdurará toda la vida. Así pues, a lo largo de los años, Lirio Blanco y Flor de Nieve se comunicarán gracias a ese lenguaje secreto, compartiendo sus más íntimos pensamientos y emociones, y consolándose de las penalidades del matrimonio y la maternidad. El nu shu las mantendrá unidas, hasta que un error de interpretación amenazará con truncar su profunda amistad.
Abba Hillel Silver and American Zionism
by Mark A. Raider Jonathan D. Sarna Ronald W. ZweigThe essays collected here investigate Rabbi Silver's Zionist political leadership, his impact on American Judaism, ideological orientation and relations with the leaders of the Palestine Jewish community, World Zionist Organization and the Jewish State.
Abbas Kiarostami: Expanded Second Edition (Contemporary Film Directors)
by Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa Jonathan RosenbaumBefore his death in 2016, Abbas Kiarostami wrote or directed more than thirty films in a career that mirrored Iranian cinema's rise as an international force. His 1997 feature Taste of Cherry made him the first Iranian filmmaker to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Critics' polls continue to place Close-Up (1990) and Through the Olive Trees (1994) among the masterpieces of world cinema. Yet Kiarostami's naturalistic impulses and winding complexity made him one of the most divisive--if influential--filmmakers of his time. In this expanded second edition, award-winning Iranian filmmaker Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum renew their illuminating cross-cultural dialogue on Kiarostami's work. The pair chart the filmmaker's late-in-life turn toward art galleries, museums, still photography, and installations. They also bring their distinct but complementary perspectives to a new conversation on the experimental film Shirin. Finally, Rosenbaum offers an essay on watching Kiarostami at home while Saeed-Vafa conducts a deeply personal interview with the director on his career and his final feature, Like Someone in Love.
The Abbasid Caliphate: A History (Cambridge Studies In Islamic Civilization Ser.)
by Tayeb El-HibriThe period of the Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258) has long been recognized as the formative period of Islamic civilization with its various achievements in the areas of science, literature, and culture. This history of the Abbasid Caliphate from its foundation in 750 and golden age under Harun al-Rashid to the conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258 examines the Caliphate as an empire and institution, and probes its influence over Islamic culture and society. Ranging widely to survey the entire five-century history of the Abbasid dynasty, Tayeb El-Hibri examines the resilience of the Caliphate as an institution, as a focal point of religious definitions, and as a source of legitimacy to various contemporary Islamic monarchies. The study revisits ideas of 'golden age' and 'decline' with a new reading, tries to separate Abbasid history from the myths of the Arabian Nights, and shows how the legacy of the caliphs continues to resonate in the modern world in direct and indirect ways.
The Abbasid House of Wisdom: Between Myth and Reality
by Ekmeleddin IhsanoğluThis volume examines the library of the Abbasid caliphs, known as "The House of Wisdom" ("Bayt al-Hikma"), exploring how this important institution has been misconceived by scholars’. This book places the palace library within the framework of the multifaceted cultural and scientific activities in the era of the caliphs, Harun al-Rashid and al-Ma’mun, generally regarded as the Golden Age of Islamic civilization. The author studies the first references to the House of Wisdom in European sources and shows how misconceptions arose because of incorrect translations of Arabic manuscripts and also because of how scholars overlooked the historical context of the library in ways that reflected their own cultural and national ambitions. The Abbasid House of Wisdom is perfect for scholars, students, and the wider public interested in the scientific and cultural activities of the Islamic Golden Age.
Abbie's Child
by Linda CastleAbigail's Child… Widow Abigail Cooprel had been devastated by the news that her daughter had died at birth and been "switched" with a healthy baby. Now, six years later, she cherished her son as if her were truly her own, and there was nothing she wouldn't do to keep him. The years he'd roamed the Colorado mining camps searching for his long-lost wife and the child he'd never seen had taken their toll on Willem Tremain. Lonely and bereft, he'd almost given up hope, until Abigail and her blue-eyed boy made him ache to love again.
Abbie's Outlaw
by Victoria Bylin"You gotta face the ghosts."More poignant advice the Reverend John Leaf had yet to hear for dealing with his haunted past. A man of God now, he'd done things that would shame the devil himself, not the least of which was loving-and leaving-Abbie Windsor, a woman of true grit and uncommon courage, a woman who could make him whole...!Abbie Windsor had weathered dark days with only the steel of her will for cold comfort. Yet today John Leaf-who'd awakened her womanhood, who'd given her a daughter-offered her his protection. But could she accept a marriage in name only to the man who shared her soul?
The Abbot and the Rule: Religious Life at St Albans, 1290–1349 (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West)
by Michelle StillSt Albans was one of the greatest Benedictine abbeys of medieval England, and the early 14th century was a period during which the concerns of the community and the role of the abbot emerge particularly clearly. Yet the history of the abbey during this period has received little attention since general surveys undertaken over eighty years ago, and the manorial history by Levett in 1938. Basing herself on the unique and relatively unexploited Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani, Michelle Still examines the position of St Albans in both the secular and monastic worlds, with a focus on the period 1290-1349. The study includes discussion of the role of the abbot as a feudal landlord, a provider of education (at the abbey's grammar school), and a dispenser of charity. In conclusion, she notes the pivotal importance of the personality and influence of the abbot of St Albans in ensuring the strict observance of the Rule of St Benedict in an age when traditional monasticism was increasingly challenged. Through the detailed study of this one abbey, this book makes an important contribution to the overall picture of monastic life in medieval England.
Abbot Joachim of Fiore and Joachimism: Selected Articles (Variorum Collected Studies)
by E. Randolph DanielIn the articles included in this collection, Professor Daniel argues that Abbot Joachim of Fiore was a disciple of Bernard of Clairvaux whose tertius status was reformist, not millenialist. Like the other reformists, Gerhoch of Reichersberg and Hildegard of Bingen, Joachim looked forward to the coming of a thoroughly reformed, holy church to be achieved in the near future by reform of the episcopate and the clergy. The status of the Holy Spirit was the culmination of the preceding status, not a radically new beginning. Apocalypticism in both its reformist and in its imperialist versions was part of the mainstream, despite the efforts of the schoolmen to suppress it. The author also sheds significant new light on apocalyptic thinking in the mid-fourteenth century with a thorough analysis of Henry of Kirkstede's vade mecum, Cambridge Corpus Christi 404 and his first edition of Henry's De antichristo et de fine mundi. This study, and three others, are published here for the first time.
Abbot Suger of St-Denis: Church and State in Early Twelfth-Century France (The Medieval World)
by Lindy Grant David BatesBased on a fresh reading of primary sources, Lindy Grant's comprehensive biography of Abbot Suger (1081-1151) provides a reassessment of a key figure of the twelfth century. Active in secular and religious affairs alike - Suger was Regent of France and also abbot of one of the most important abbeys in Europe during the time of the Gregorian reforms. But he is primarily remembered as a great artistic patron whose commissions included buildings in the new Gothic style. Lindy Grant reviews him in all these roles - and offers a corrective to the current tendency to exaggerate his role as architect of both French royal power and the new gothic form.
The Abbot's Agreement: The Seventh Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon
by Mel Starr"My life would have been more tranquil had I not seen the birds. Whatever it was they had found lay in the shadow of the oak, so I was nearly upon the thing before I recognized what they were feasting upon. The corpse wore black. " Master Hugh is making his way towards Oxford when he discovers the young Benedictine - a fresh body, barefoot. The nearby abbey's novice master confirms the boy's identity: John, one of three novices. He had gone missing four days previously, and his corpse is fresh. There has been plague in the area, but this was not the cause of death: the lad has been stabbed. To Hugh's sinking heart, the abbot commissions him to investigate.
The Abbot's Gibbet (Medieval West Country Mystery #5)
by Michael Jecks1319: Tavistock's fair has drawn merchants and tradesmen from all over England and beyond. In the middle of the merry-making, Will Ruby is shocked to discover a headless corpse. Baldwin and Simon are guests of Abbot Robert Champeaux, and Abbot Robert asks them to investigate. Not the easiest task, with no head to put to the body...
The Abbot's Tale: A Novel
by Conn IgguldenFrom New York Times bestselling Conn Iggulden comes a new novel set in the red-blooded days of Anglo-Saxon England. This is the original game for the English throne. In the year 937, the new king of England, a grandson of Alfred the Great, readies himself to go to war in the north. His dream of a united kingdom of all England will stand or fall on one field—on the passage of a single day. At his side is the priest Dunstan of Glastonbury, full of ambition and wit (perhaps enough to damn his soul). His talents will take him from the villages of Wessex to the royal court, to the hills of Rome—from exile to exaltation. Through Dunstan's vision, by his guiding hand, England will either come together as one great country or fall back into anarchy and misrule . . . From one of our finest historical writers, The Abbott’s Tale is an intimate portrait of a priest and performer, a visionary, a traitor and confessor to kings—the man who can change the fate of England.
El ABC del rock
by Manolo Bellon BenkendoerferUn libro que todos los amantes del rock deben tener. La música pop es, sencillamente, música popular. Cualquier géneromusical es popular, según la Gran Enciclopedia Larousse, cuando pordefinición es lo propio del pueblo, en contraposición a aquello quees culto; masivo, en contraste con los llamados géneros cultos y losno comerciales. Pero hay que tener claro que éstos no son otracosa que estilos menos populares, hechos no obstante con algunaintención comercial. Es un contrasentido, por lo demás. Cuando alguiencompone o interpreta una canción, busca que se conozca, que llegue, sino a las masas, al menos a un público considerable. Para que su creadorobtenga una retribución económica por su esfuerzo creativo, o al menosun cierto reconocimiento, se requiere algún tipo de comercialización.Como arte, también, debe llegar al público que habrá de consumirlo.
The ABC Murders: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries #13)
by Agatha ChristieThere's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way though the alphabet. There seems little chance of the murderer being caught -- until her makes the crucial and vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot to frustrate his plans ...
ABC Sports: The Rise and Fall of Network Sports Television (Sport in World History #4)
by Travis VoganABC Sports shaped how the world consumes sport. The American Broadcasting Company's sports division is behind some of network television's most significant practices, celebrated personalities, and iconic moments. It created the weekend anthology Wide World of Sports, transformed professional football into a prime-time spectacle with Monday Night Football, fashioned the Olympics into a mega media event, and even revolutionized TV news. Travis Vogan's cultural and institutional history of ABC Sports examines the development of network sports television in the United States and the aesthetic, cultural, political, and industrial practices that mark it. ABC Sports traces the storied division from its beginnings through the internet age to reveal the changes it endured along with the new sports media environment it spawned.