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• The life of Adam Boreel
• The thought of Adam Boreel.

"In Adam Boreel (1602-1665): A Collegiant's Attempt to Reform Christianity, Francesco Quatrini offers a reassessment of the life and thought of Adam Boreel, a leading member of the Dutch nonconformist Collegiant movement. Usually regarded as a less important member of this religious group, Boreel is described as a forerunner whose ideas influenced later Collegiants. Drawing on both archival and published sources, Francesco Quatrini provides the first modern biography of Boreel as well as a critical analysis of his writings. He corrects misconceptions about Boreel, who appears here as an intriguing figure who drew his views from several different sources. In this way, Francesco Quatrini revealed that Boreel was a major leader in the era's intellectual discourse"-- Provided by publisher.

• Cover
• Sussex Studies in Spanish History
• Title page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Prologue by Stanley G. Payne
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1. The Forging of a Rebel (1864-1899)
• 2. Revolutionary Organiser (1899-1909)
• 3. The Respectable Republican (1909-1923)
• 4. From Sceptical Conspirator to Minister of the Republic (1923-1931)
• 5. Leader of the Republican Opposition (1932-1933)
• 6. Prime Minister (1933-1934)
• 7. A Conservative against Anarchy (1934-1935)
• 8. Much Ado About Nothing (1935-1936)
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Primary Sources and Bibliography
• Index

• Prologue
• Mer et mère
• La liberté à l'école du documentaire
• Barcelone 1936
• Deuil et dépression, connaissance et reconnaissance, l'année 1937
• Les tentations d'outre-Atlantique
• Le retour de l'enfant prodig(u)e
• Naissance du Wozzeck britannique
• Adieu au cinéma, opéras de voyage
• Un petit Bayreuth maritime
• Le temps des déconvenues
• Un chef-d'oeuvre réparateur
• Désir d'Orient
• Revisiter Shakespeare
• Chaudes amitiés de la guerre froide
• Le tournant du demi-siècle
• Retour inégal à Henry James
• Miroir de Venise
• Derniers feux
• Epilogue.

"Originaire de la région du Suffolk, Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) est élève de Frank Bridge puis boursier au Royal College of Music de Londres. D'abord compositeur pour le cinéma, il rencontre le ténor Peter Pears (1910-1986, son futur compagnon et interprète) en 1937 avec qui il s'exilera trois ans aux USA pendant la guerre. Ses premiers opéras, Peter Grimes (1945) et Le viol de Lucrèce (1946), le poussent à créer sa compagnie, l'English Opera Group, privilégiant ensuite des formes réduites pour en faciliter les productions, comme Albert Herring (1947), Le tour d'écrou (1954) ou les Paraboles d'église (1964-68), tout en composant encore des pièces imposantes comme Billy Budd (1951), Le Songe d'une nuit d'été (1960) ou son testamentaire Mort à Venise (1973). Pacifiste et ami de Rostropovitch et Chostakovitch en pleine Guerre froide, il est anobli en 1976 par Elisabeth II. Parmi ses oeuvres orchestrales, le public affectionne toujours son Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra sur un thème de Purcell - qu'il a contribué à faire redécouvrir ainsi que son poignant War Requiem sur la Première Guerre mondiale. Ce nouveau volume de la collection horizons vous propose de partir à la rencontre d'une figure majeure de la musique anglaise du XXe siècle dans cette étude illustrée inédite et complétée de multiples annexes."--Page 4 of cover.

• Chapter 1. Posters and Flags - 2011.-
• Chapter 2. Carpets - 1976.-
• Chapter 3. Falluja - 1992.-
• Chapter 4. Re/Intermarriage - 1980.-
• Chapter 5. Moles - 1993.-
• Chapter 6. Cabins - 1981.-
• Chapter 7. Peace, Love, and Conflict - 1993.-
• Chapter 8. Orange Kinley - 1983.-
• Chapter 9. Buses and Cars - 1994.-
• Chapter 10. Razors - 1986.-
• Chapter 11. Panic - 2013.-
• Chapter 12. Tents - 1987.-
• Chapter 13. My Wadi - 2016.-
• Chapter 14. Cancel Culture - 2020.-
• Chapter 15. Dreams - 2020.
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In this gripping and honest memoir, Mira Sucharov shows what a search for political and emotional home looks like. Sucharov suffered from childhood phobias triggered by her parents' divorce, and she sought emotional refuge in Jewish summer camp. But three years spent living in Israel in her twenties shook her to her core. Ultimately, encounters with colleagues, students, friends and lovers force her to confront what it means to be able to write, advocate and teach about Israel/Palestine in a way that balances affirmation with authenticity.
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• Le faux idiot (1906-1966)
• Un beau Moldave
• N'importe qui, sauf cet imbécile
• Intelligent et doctrinaire
• Le dictateur aimable (1967-1974)
• Vigoureux et enjoué
• Le P-DG de l'URSS
• Les tripes sur la table
• Le héros ridicule (1975-1982)
• Un héros introuvable
• Un héros effrayé
• Une honte internationale.

"Oui était vraiment Leonid Brejnev (1906-1982), l'homme aux sourcils broussailleux qui a succédé au bouillonnant Nikita Khrouchtchev à la tête de l'Union soviétique en 1964 ? Un vieillard sénile, bardé de médailles, collectionnant les voitures étrangères et les fusils de chasse ? Un réactionnaire qui a persécuté les dissidents, un gendarme qui a écrasé le printemps de Prague et occupé l'Afghanistan ? Un cynique qui a laissé prospérer la corruption et les pénuries, plongé son pays dans la "stagnation" jusqu'au drame de Tchernobyl et la fin de l'URSS ? Ou bien, était-il au contraire un dirigeant proche de ses racines ukrainiennes, un héros militaire qui a ressoudé les Russes autour d'un idéal de victoire, un diplomate rusé et aimable qui a éloigné le spectre de la Troisième Guerre mondiale ? En dépit de sa longévité, Brejnev est resté pendant longtemps enfermé dans une gangue de mépris. Armé de nombreux documents inédits dénichés dans les archives russes, passant au crible les "carnets" brejnéviens, Andreï Kozovoiii révise les idées reçues et dresse le portrait d'un dictateur pas comme les autres, d'un antihéros pragmatique qui a ouvert la voie à la Russie poutinienne."--Page 4 of cover.

• 1 De Gaulle before Gaullism, 1890-1940 2 Allies and rivals: De Gaulle, the Free French, and their partners 3 Free France: foundations, 1940-1942 4 Towards a provisional government, 1942-1944 5 Liberation and recognition, June-October 1944 6 The Liberation Government, October 1944-January 1946 7 A Study in failure, 1946-1958 8 The return, 1958 9 Setting an example? De Gaulle, decolonisation, and the Third World 10 De Gaulle's Constitution and the politics of presidential primacy 11 Superpowers and bombs 12 De Gaulle's Europe 13 May
• 1968: economy, society, and the limits of presidential power 14 Departure, death, afterlives, 1968-2020.
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In this new biography, Andrew Knapp concisely dissects each of the major controversies surrounding General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French during the Second World War and President of France from 1959 to 1969. From the beginning of de Gaulle's military career in 1909 to an analysis of legacies and myths after his death in 1970, this study examines the path by which the French came to honour him as the greatest Frenchman of all time, and as the twentieth century's pre-eminent world statesman. In each chapter, Knapp analyses de Gaulle's participation in key events such as the development of France's resistance against Nazi Germany, the decolonisation of Algeria, the birth of the French Fifth Republic, and the gigantic upheaval of May 1968. Simultaneously, this study questions de Gaulle's actions and motives throughout his life. By exploring the justification of the contemporary 'de Gaulle myth', Knapp concludes by shedding new light on the influence of de Gaulle in the political culture of twenty-first-century France. Through careful analysis of primary sources as well as recent scholarship, this biography is an invaluable source for scholars and students of modern history, the history of France, political institutions, and international relations.
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• Foreword Gloria Park Preface List of Figures Notes on Contributors
• PART 1: POETRY
• 1 Immigrant Background Students' Names and Identities in U.S. Schools: Voices from the Underground Lydiah Kananu Kiramba
• 2 This Is Our Summons Now R. Joseph Rodriguez
• 3 Gringo or Rican or Just Me Gabriel Teodoro Acevedo Velazquez
• 4 Spaces in Between Sharada Krishnamurthy
• 5 "!Vamos Mijo, I Know You Can Do This!" Manuel De Jesus Gomez Portillo
• 6 El Sacrificio de una Madre: A Mother's Sacrifice Ana Bautista
• 7 Domestic Tongues Mauricio Patron Rivera
• 8 Mariposa: A Two-Part Poem Zurisaray Espinosa
• 9 Beloved Jamie Harris
• PART 2: Personal Narratives
• 10 Subtle Bangla Traits Ben Haseen
• 11 You Had Better Turn off the Fan: Communicative Competence in Practice Jiyoon Lee
• 12 Como una Leona: Shielding My Son from Discrimination at School Aracelis Nieves
• 13 Every Word Is True: An Autoethnography to Unravel My Story Babak Khoshnevisan
• 14 Que Huong Ethan Tinh Trinh
• 15 I Lost My Language But Your Child Doesn't Have To May F. Chung
• 16 Pagbabalik: Does It Even Matter? Sandy Tadeo
• 17 My Life's Metamorphosis: Becoming Bilingual Luis Javier Penton Herrera
• 18 Giving back When Most in Need Geovanny Vicente Romero
• 19 Journeying through Transnational Spaces: A Reflexive Account of Praxis and Identity Construction Rajwan Alshareefy and Cristina Sanchez-Martin
• 20 Story Weaving: Tejidos de Conocimientos Que Nos Conectan al Territorio Judith Landeros
• 21 Entre la Tierra y los Suenos Pablo Montes
• 22 The Power of Digital Storytelling for English Language Education: A Reflective Essay Polina Vinogradova
• 23 Lost and Found: A Story of Reclaiming Identities Bashar Al Hariri and Fatmeh Alalawneh
• 24 The Weight of a Name: My Names and Stories across Lands and Time Tairan Qiu.
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This edited book is a beautiful and powerful collection of poems and personal and visual narratives of multilingual immigrants in the United States. The purpose of this book is to create a space where immigrant stories can be told from their personal perspectives. The contributors are immigrants from all walks of life who represent a diverse picture of languages, professions, and beliefs from the immigrant diasporas within the United States. Inspired by the use of autoethnography, authors examine their own lives through poems and personal and visual narratives to share with others who might have similar experiences. Contributors are: Gabriel Teodoro Acevedo Velazquez, Fatmeh Alalawneh, Bashar Al Hariri, Rajwan Alshareefy, Ana Bautista, May F. Chung, Zurisaray Espinosa, Manuel De Jesus Gomez Portillo, Jamie Harris, Ben Haseen, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Babak Khoshnevisan, Sharada Krishnamurthy, Judith Landeros, Jiyoon Lee, Pablo Montes, Aracelis Nieves, Gloria Park, Mauricio Patron Rivera, Luis Javier Penton Herrera, Tairan Qiu, R. Joseph Rodriguez, Cristina Sanchez-Martin, Sandy Tadeo, Ethan Tinh Trinh, Geovanny Vicente Romero, and Polina Vinogradova.
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• Le chemin de l'Horizon
• Habiter en passant
• Ambassadrices de sauvetage
• Ouvrez vos cahiers à la première plage
• L'enfant malade
• Les lignes d'écriture
• Le Petit Palet
• La vague jaune
• Facture
• Le 21 février 1956
• La piste de ski d'Arcachon
• De la poudreuse plein les yeux
• Le visage couvert
• Le paysage intérieur
• Le Pont qui traverse le Temps.

""L'insaisissable m'a donné la clef du monde." De sable et de neige, ou l'art de vivre l'instant. Une splendide fresque pour célébrer la beauté des choses et la puissance de leur silence, de la Grande Dune d'Arcachon et la lumière du Cap Ferret jusqu'à la ville de Kyoto sous la neige, un 31 décembre. Les vagues venant rythmer le récit, comme si l'océan était le résumé de la vie, avec sa dimension tragique, inséparable du sentiment de joie et d'harmonie qu'il sait donner. Chantal Thomas poursuit ici son voyage dans l'intimité de la mémoire, à travers une langue d'élégance et de grâce, pour exprimer les sensations les plus fugitives et les plus essentielles dont nous sommes tissés. Et pour dire le lien d'amour entre une fille et son père : sa force d'absolu."--Page 4 of cover.

• Preface
• Part 1: Before the Disputationes
• 1 Scientia naturalis, Kabbalah and Celestial Spheres: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on Astrology (1486-1493)
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Commento alla Canzone d'amore
• 3 The Trilogy
• 4 The Heptaplus and the Expositiones in Psalmos
• Part 2: The Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem
• 2 Introductory Remarks
• 1 Text and Its Structure
• 2 Edition and Authorship
• 3 Reading Texts: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and His Sources
• 4 Me quoque adolescentem olim fallebat: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola versus Prisca theologia
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Prisca theologia in Giovanni Pico's Writings before the Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem
• 3 On the Origin of Astrology: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Versus Prisca theologia
• 4 Conclusion
• 5 'Princeps aliorum' and His Followers: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on the 'Astrological Tradition' in the Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Use of Astrological Techniques and Its Controversies
• 3 Pseudo-Ptolemy's Centiloquium in the Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem
• 4 The Great Conjunctions, Abu Ma'shar and 'Other' Astrologers
• 5 Medieval Christian Astrologers and the Problem of Religion in the Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem
• 6 Conclusion
• 6 Back to Aristotle? Natural Philosophy in the Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem
• Part 3: The Disputationes: Pro et contra
• 7 Ideological Appropriation of Giovanni Pico's Disputationes: Girolamo Savonarola and his Contro gli astrologi
• 8 Praenotio, Prisca haeresis and Astrology: Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola Between Savonarola and Giovanni Pico
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The De rerum praenotione and the Quaestio de falsitate astrologiae: Praenotio Versus Prophetia
• 3 The Controversial Use of (Anti-)Astrological Authorities in the De rerum praenotione
• 4 Prisca theologia as prisca haeresis
• 5 Aristotle and Natural Philosophical Arguments Against Astrology
• 6 Conclusion
• 9 With 'Latins' Against 'Latin Vice': Maximus the Greek on Astrology
• 10 Lucio Bellanti and the Return to 'Christian Astrology'
• 11 Poet, Astrologer, Courtier: Giovanni Gioviano Pontano versus Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
• 12 Astrology in Francesco Zorzi's De harmonia mundi: A Response to Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Disputationes adversus astrologiam?
• 13 Conclusion
• Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Literature Index.
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In Debating the Stars, Ovanes Akopyan sheds new light on the astrological controversies that arose in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries after the publication of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem (1496). This treatise has often been held responsible for a contemporary reassessment of the status of astrology, a discipline that attracted widespread fascination in the Renaissance. Akopyan's reconstruction of the development of Pico's views demonstrates that the Disputationes was a continuation of rather than a drastic rupture with the rest of his legacy. By investigating the philosophical and humanist foundations for Pico's attack on astrological predictions, Akopyan challenges the popular assumption that the treatise was written under Girolamo Savonarola's spell. He shows instead how it was appropriated ideologically by pro-Savonarolan circles after Pico's death. This book also offers a comprehensive study of the immediate reception of the Disputationes across Italy and Europe and reveals that the debates initiated by Pico's intervention pervaded all of the European intellectual oikumene.
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"Made famous by the great success of her psychological thrillers, The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith is lauded as one of the most influential and celebrated modern writers. However, there has never been a clear picture of the woman behind the books. The relationship between Highsmith's lesbianism, her fraught personality - by parts self-destructive and malicious - and her fiction, has been largely avoided by biographers. She was openly homosexual and wrote the seminal lesbian love story, Carol. In modern times, she would be venerated as a radical exponent of the LGBT community. However, her status as an LGBT icon is undermined by the fact that she was excessively cruel and exploitative of her friends and lovers. In this new biography, Richard Bradford brings his sharp, incisive style to one of the great and most controversial writers of the twentieth century. He considers Highsmith's bestsellers in the context of her troubled personal life; her alcoholism, licentious sex life, racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny and abundant self-loathing."--Amazon.

• Prologue
• Bristol--New York--Cincinnati
• Betweenity
• Admission
• Blockley almshouse
• Diploma
• Paris
• Setback
• London
• Practice
• Admission, again
• Edinburgh
• New faces
• Infirmary
• Recognition
• War
• College
• Divergence
• Coda.

"The vivid biography of two pioneering sisters who, together, became America's first female doctors and transformed New York's medical establishment by creating a hospital by and for women. Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for greatness beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity won her the acceptance of the all-male medical establishment and in 1849 she became the first woman in America to receive a medical degree. But Elizabeth's story is incomplete without her often forgotten sister, Emily, the third woman in America to receive a medical degree. Exploring the sisters' allies, enemies and enduring partnership, Nimura presents a story of both trial and triumph: Together the sisters founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first hospital staffed entirely by women. Both sisters were tenacious and visionary; they were also judgmental, uncompromising, and occasionally misogynistic--their convictions as 19th-century women often contradicted their ambitions. From Bristol, England, to the new cities of antebellum America, this work of rich history follows the sister doctors as they transform the nineteenth century medical establishment and, in turn, our contemporary one"-- Provided by publisher.

"After Danielle Geller's mother dies of a vicious withdrawal from drugs while homeless, she is forced to return to Florida. Using her training as a librarian and archivist, Geller collects her mother's documents, diaries, and photographs into a single suitcase and begins on a journey of confronting her family, her harrowing past, and the decisions she's been forced to make, a journey that will end at her mother's home--the Navajo reservation. Geller masterfully intertwines wrenching prose with archival documents to create a deeply moving narrative of loss and inheritance that pays homage to our pasts, traditions, heritage, and the family we are given, and the ones we choose"-- Provided by publisher.

• The world before her
• The redeemer's children
• Patriarchs under pressure
• Satisfaction
• A coquette?
• You belong to me
• Like a virgin
• The butterfly
• The sorcerer's apprentice.

"A study of sexual politics in 19th century New England through the life of one woman"-- Provided by publisher.

• Une minute, encore
• Un tapis à tête de lion
• Le départ précipité
• Des canons braqués
• Maître de tout l'Orient
• Luttes intestines
• La machine infernale
• Le talon d'Achille
• Le réveil des nations
• Au milieu des flammes
• Il n'est pas l'heure
• Le dernier carré
• Dans son immense gloire
• Deux cents ans après.

"Et si Napoléon ne devait pas seulement sa gloire à ses conquêtes, mais à son extraordinaire bravoure face aux dangers? David Chanteranne nous raconte ces douze moments méconnus, où le plus célèbre des empereurs s'est imposé en héros immortel face à ses contemporains en échappant de peu à la mort : une épidémie de peste qui décime son armée en Égypte en 1799; un attentat à la bombe dans les rues de Paris, la veille de Noël, en 1800; une balle perdue qui l'atteint lors de la bataille de Ratisbonne en 1809; un homme qui voulait le poignarder à Vienne la même année; un suicide manqué au château de Fontainebleau en 1814 ; ou encore son miraculeux sauvetage par les soldats de sa garde à la bataille de Waterloo en 1815. À la faveur de ces spectaculaires mises en abîme, ce livre revisite, autour de Sainte-Hélène et sous une forme totalement inédite, l'existence d'un des plus grands héros du XIXe siècle et de la France."--Page 4 of cover.

From Eusebius of Caesarea, who first compiled a collection of martyr narratives around 300, to Thierry Ruinart, whose Acta primorum martyrum sincera et selecta was published in 1689, the selection and study of early hagiographic narratives has been founded on an assumption that there existed documents written at the time of martyrdom, or very close to it. As a result, a search for authenticity has been and continues to be central, even in the context of today's secular scholarship. But, as Eric Rebillard contends, the alternative approach, to set aside entirely the question of the historical reliability of martyr narratives, is not satisfactory either. Instead, he argues that martyr narratives should be consider as fluid "living texts, " written anonymously and received by audiences not as precise historical reports but as versions of the story. In other words, the form these texts took, between fact and fiction, made it possible for audiences to readily accept the historicity of the martyr while at the same time not expect to hear or read a truthful account. In The Early Martyr Narratives, Rebillard considers only accounts of Christian martyrs supposed to have been executed before 260, and only those whose existence is attested in sources that can be dated to before 300. The resulting small corpus contains no texts in the form of legal protocols, traditionally viewed as the earliest, most official and authentic records, nor does it include any that can be dated to a period during which persecution of Christians is known to have taken place. Rather than deduce from this that they are forgeries written for the sake of polemic or apologetic, Rebillard demonstrates how the literariness of the narratives creates a fictional complicity that challenges and complicates any claims of these narratives to be truthful.
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• Foreword Introduction - A Brilliant Clan: Matsuoka Yosuke and the Three Sato Brothers Ichiro, Nobusuke, and Eisaku
• Chapter 1 - From Being the "Slowpoke" of the Ministry of Railways to "Triple-Jump Eisaku"
• Chapter 2 - "An Honor Student of the Yoshida School": Sato's Turn to Politics
• Chapter 3 - "The Politics of Waiting": From Finance Minister in the Kishi Cabinet to MITI Minister under Ikeda
• Chapter 4 - "Social Development" and "Independent Diplomacy": The First Sato Government
• Chapter 5 - The Reversion of Okinawa and the "Secret Agreement": The Second Sato Government
• Chapter 6 - 2,797 Days: The Third Sato Government, Longest and Undefeatable Conclusion - The Nobel Peace Prize: The Glory of Sato's Final Years and his Sudden Death Afterword Notes.
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This book is a biography of Eisaku Sato (1901-75), who served as prime minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972, before Prime Minister Abe the longest uninterrupted premiership in Japanese history. The book focuses on Sato's management of Japan's relations with the United States and Japan's neighbours in East Asia, where Sato worked to normalize relations with South Korea and China. It also covers domestic Japanese politics, particularly factional politics within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), where Sato, as the founder of what would become the largest LDP faction, was at the centre of LDP politics for decades. The book highlights Sato's greatest achievement - the return of Okinawa from United States occupation - for which, together with the establishment of the non-nuclear principles, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the only Japanese to receive the Prize.
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