To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust." This graphic novel biography relates the forward looking inspirational life of the great author, philosopher and pioneering ecologist. Henry David Thoreau was also the father of the concept, still fresh today (viz "Occupy Wall St."), of "civil disobedience" which he used against slavery and the encroachment of government.
The cross of Christ is undeniably central to the Christian faith. But, how can the cruelty and brutality of a two-thousand-year-old Roman cross touch base with a hedonistic world that has been so desensitized towards violence? Within the postmodern setting of a body-obsessed culture, Christianity urgently requires an innovative and stimulating way of understanding the cross and its atoning significance. At the heart of this book is the Naked Christ--an emblem through which the author draws on the rich resources of the Christian tradition in its portrayal of the cross. He explores how the metaphors of nakedness and clothing can encapsulate aspects of atonement and enable them to be understood within a variety of contemporary contexts. The Naked Christ is a useful resource for anyone seeking fresh ways to express what the cross of Christ means to contemporary culture.
Discusses the origins of the Florida Marlins baseball team, profiles team president Carl Barger and owner Wayne Huizenga, introduces the players, follows the events of the team's first season, and offers statistics
Dan Fante is an authentic literary outlaw." —New York Times From Dan Fante, son of novelist John Fante, comes an exploration of his family’s legacy—one of boozing, passion, writing, and survival. Long before his father achieved literary recognition for Ask the Dust or The Road to Los Angeles, and before Dan had conceived his novels 86’d, Chump Change, and Mooch, their difficult relationship as father and son evolved in a household where love and literary artistry were often overshadowed by emotional violence. Fante is the story of Dan’s struggle to find his own voice amidst the madness of his family’s dark inheritance, a memoir of his escape from his own vices and his eventual return to Los Angeles to embrace the man—and the calling—that once had driven him away.
Le virtuose Dan Panosian nous entraîne dans un polar stylisé et sexy, sur les traces d'un loser qui, au crépuscule de sa vie, doit faire face à des choix difficiles. Coups durs, douces caresses, trahisons et vieilles connaissances se croisent. Que dire de la vie de Stanley Dance, en dehors du fait qu'il l'a toujours menée à sa guise ? Malheureusement, il semble qu'il n'ait jamais pris en compte le fait qu'il vieillissait. Maintenant, cet ancien boxeur sur le retour est à la recherche de la rédemption et il est prêt à tout balancer. Une plongée dans un Las Vegas à couper le souffle, où tout ce qui est vieux peut devenir jeune... Ou pas.
Le Zixi fell into the era of the sky, Song and Wei dynasties." When the Song and Wei dynasties fought with the Hu countries, the soldiers, seeing that Le Zixi was dressed differently, took her into the tent of the Third Prince Yao Yu who had just been wounded by a sword.After a round of questioning, Yao was ready to treat Zi Xi as a spy for Hu Guo. With her own experience, Le Zixi could tell that the sword in Yao's hands was poisonous, so she offered to help him treat it.After comparing the opinions of the accompanying Li Imperial Physician and Le Zixi, Yao Yu decided to leave Le Zixi behind to treat him and the soldiers who were also hit by the arrows. After the arrow poison was dispelled, Le Zixi was left in the Base Camp prison, feeling apprehensive. In the battle between the two countries, Song Wei had won greatly. "On the way back to the city, Yao and Li discussed with each other about leaving and staying with Le Zixi.
Ayant connu quelques déboires comme détective privé à New York, JD Fiorella est rentré se faire une santé au pays, plus précisément Point Dume, à Malibu, Californie. Tout a l'air de s'arranger pour lui : il a trouvé un job chez un revendeur de Toyota d'occase et Maman – 81 ans, une flopée de chats et un sale caractère – le loge en attendant mieux. Il pointe, et drague, aux Alcooliques Anonymes. Tout se gâte lors d'une rencontre musclée avec Sydnye, fille 100 % cinglée d'un producteur psychopathe. Et lorsque son vieux pote Woody est assassiné de manière franchement gore. Privé un jour, privé toujours : JD entreprend d'enquêter et met un doigt (cinq, de fait) dans un engrenage fatal. À la fois hilarant, destroy et d'une violence corsée, Point Dume est, s'il faut le classer, un lointain cousin des romans de Jerry Stahl. Et, comme dit Michael Connelly, " si écrire, c'est combattre, alors Dan Fante peut tenir quinze rounds et rester debout ". Né en 1944 à Los Angeles, Dan Fante est le fils de John Fante, auteur culte américain d'origine italienne. À 45 ans, il a commencé à écrire des textes – romans autobiographiques, poèmes, mémoires – inspirés par son expérience de la drogue et de l'alcool. Publiés par 13e Note, ils sont repris en format poche chez Points. Dan Fante vit à Los Angeles. Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Samuel Todd
Robert Langdon, professeur de symbologie a Harvard, se reveille en pleine nuit a l'hopital. Desoriente, blesse a la tete, il n'a aucun souvenir des dernieres trente-six heures. Pourquoi se retrouve-t-il a Florence ? D'ou vient cet objet macabre que les medecins ont decouvert dans ses affaires ? Quand son monde vire brutalement au cauchemar, Langdon decide de s'enfuir avec une jeune femme, Sienna Brooks. Rapidement, Langdon comprend qu'il est en possession d'un message code, cree par un eminent scientifique qui a consacre sa vie a eviter la fin du monde, une obsession qui n'a d'egale que sa passion pour Inferno, le grand poeme epique de Dante. Pris dans une course contre la montre, Langdon et Sienna font tout pour retrouver l'ultime creation du scientifique, veritable bombe a retardement, dont personne ne sait si elle va ameliorer la vie sur terre ou la detruire... On est contamine et on aime ca. Madame Figaro.
Y est le grand roman de la « négritude » : un exercice de haute voltige à coulisses, à tiroirs, à codes et à noms cryptés où Dan Franck met en scène, en abîme et en masques toutes les situations rocambolesques qu’il a connues dans sa vie antérieure de « nègre ». « Il travaillait pour les autres dans la journée, au premier étage. Il écrivait pour lui-même la nuit, au grenier. Les soixante-deux ouvrages qu’il avait fabriqués sous des identités étrangères avaient été dévorés par des centaines de milliers de lecteurs ; personne n’avait lu ses propres feuillets ... » Ainsi vit le personnage de Taro, tiraillé entre le jour, où se croisent agents véreux, éditeurs ambigus, poussières de stars, un magnifique footballeur héliporté (un certain « Z ») entouré de sa horde de parasites, et la nuit où l’obsède l’histoire de ce médecin juif anonyme enlevé au Liban en 1984 en même temps que les journalistes français pris en otage à Beyrouth. Mais voilà que les hasards de la vie vont permettre à Taro, en échangeant l’un de ses « clients » avec celui d’un ami nègre – comme on échange les meurtres dans un film de Hitchcock – de rassembler la comédie des imbroglios diurnes avec la tragédie de son récit nocturne, et de réconcilier ses amours capricieuses avec l’amour sublime d’un couple cimenté par la mort. Y, ce sont les noces brillantes, savoureuses et drôles du K de Kafka et du Z de Zidane, du vertige d’identité et de la satire sociale, du labyrinthe policier et du récit personnel.
Meet Rappy the Raptor, a velociraptor who speaks in rhymes all of the time, whether it's morning or noon, October or June. Now, how did it happen that he started rappin'? Well, here's Rappy's story in all its glory! New York Times bestselling author Dan Gutman and New York Times bestselling artist Tim Bowers team up for a funny, warm story that is sure to have readers snapping their fingers and tapping their toes! Parents and kids alike will love bopping along as Rappy learns to embrace his unusual way of speaking in this upbeat picture book with a dino-size beat.
C'est la veille de Noël et les rois convergent tous vers Excalibur, chacun déterminé à être celui qui règnera. Le chaos s'installe ! Et si personne n'avait la force de prendre l'épée ? Le monde connaîtra-t-il enfin la paix après tant de batailles, ou un personnage inattendu réclamera-t-il le trône ? Des rituels, des bombes et des batailles s'ensuivent, tandis que le destin final de Mary, Rose, Bridgette, Merlin va se jouer !
Dan O’Brien raconte les différentes étapes de sa vie qui l’ont mené à vouloir agir en faveur de la nature, par le biais de la Wild Idea Buffalo Company. Sa compagne, Jill, et Erney, son plus vieil ami, ont été essentiels à l’élaboration de son projet et à l’évolution du ranch de Broken Heart. Leurs routes croiseront celles du cheyenne Rocke Afraid of Hawk, et d’autres Indiens natifs dans leurs efforts pour réintroduire les bisons dans leur ancien milieu naturel. O’Brien, conscient des questions sociales et environnementales, nous laisse découvrir en toile de fond le rôle de son entreprise dans la conservation et la restauration des Grands Plaines américaines.
By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did “rights” come to justify such measures? In On the Spirit of Rights, Dan Edelstein answers this question by examining the complex genealogy of the rights that regimes enshrined in the American and French Revolutions. With a lively attention to detail, he surveys a sprawling series of debates among rulers, jurists, philosophers, political reformers, writers, and others who were all engaged in laying the groundwork for our contemporary systems of constitutional governance. Every seemingly new claim about rights turns out to be a variation on a theme, as late medieval notions were subtly repeated and refined to yield the talk of “rights” we recognize today. From the Wars of Religion to the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, On the Spirit of Rights is a sweeping tour through centuries of European intellectual history and an essential guide to our ways of thinking about human rights today.
La quarta edizione del libro “Fringe benefits e rimborsi spese”, rinnovata ed aggiornata con le previsioni della Legge Finanziaria per il 2010, L. 23 dicembre 2009, n. 191, in materia di tassazione agevolata dei premi di produttività, tiene conto di molte e importanti modifiche normative che sono diventate operative nel corso degli ultimi anni, per esempio l’eliminazione dei regimi agevolativi precedentemente previsti per le stock option o i limiti di deducibilità delle spese relative a prestazioni alberghiere e alle somministrazioni di alimenti e bevande. Il volume, pur conservando l’originaria agilità di consultazione, fornisce una trattazione completa ed esaustiva del quadro di riferimento per la qualificazione e quantificazione dei redditi di lavoro dipendente ed assimilati, ne analizza le varie fattispecie che si possono incontrare nella pratica professionale, con particolare attenzione alla disciplina delle trasferte, e le relative modalità di rimborso degli oneri sostenuti dai dipendenti, e a quella dei fringe benefits. L’ultimo capitolo è stato riservato all’esame della disciplina della deducibilità, sia ai fini delle imposte dirette (Irpef/Ires) sia ai fini IRAP, degli oneri connessi ai dipendenti e collaboratori, per aiutare nella determinazione degli importi deducibili specie quelli la cui deduzione è soggetta a limitazioni. Utile per chi deve affrontare la compilazione della dichiarazione dei redditi.
Le Zixi fell into the era of the sky, Song and Wei dynasties." When the Song and Wei dynasties fought with the Hu countries, the soldiers, seeing that Le Zixi was dressed differently, took her into the tent of the Third Prince Yao Yu who had just been wounded by a sword.After a round of questioning, Yao was ready to treat Zi Xi as a spy for Hu Guo. With her own experience, Le Zixi could tell that the sword in Yao's hands was poisonous, so she offered to help him treat it.After comparing the opinions of the accompanying Li Imperial Physician and Le Zixi, Yao Yu decided to leave Le Zixi behind to treat him and the soldiers who were also hit by the arrows. After the arrow poison was dispelled, Le Zixi was left in the Base Camp prison, feeling apprehensive. In the battle between the two countries, Song Wei had won greatly. "On the way back to the city, Yao and Li discussed with each other about leaving and staying with Le Zixi.
Humour encore plus noir, rebondissements encore plus nombreux, héros encore plus irrésistible : après Je ne suis pas un serial killer, Dan Wells enfonce le clou ! Dans Je ne suis pas un serial killer, le jeune John Wayne Cleaver était la proie de pulsions effrayantes et redoutait de devenir un tueur en série. Aujourd'hui il n'a plus de doutes : un assassin, qu'il a surnommé Mr. Monster, sommeille en lui, susceptible de se réveiller à tout instant. Ce qui, étrangement, n'a pas que des mauvais côtés. Sans Mr. Monster John n'aurait jamais pu débarrasser sa petite ville du tueur qui y sévissait. Mais à présent il n'est plus du tout sûr de pouvoir maîtriser son côté obscur. D'autant qu'autour de lui nombreux sont les importuns qui mériteraient d'avoir affaire à Mr. Monster. Sans compter ces nouveaux cadavres qui apparaissent aux quatre coins de la ville et cet inspecteur du FBI qui commence à sérieusement le suspecter d'être impliqué dans les meurtres. Il va ainsi devenir de plus en plus difficile de ne pas laisser les rênes à ses démons. Plaisir coupable auquel il serait tragique de prendre goût... Dan Wells dynamite de nouveau tous les clichés du thriller pour nous offrir une seconde nuit blanche aux côtés d'un des monstres les plus attachants qu'il nous ait été donné de rencontrer depuis longtemps. Dan Wells est né en 1977. Après Je ne suis pas un serial killer, Mr. Monster est le deuxième volume de la trilogie consacrée à John Wayne Cleaver. À propos de Je ne suis pas un serial killer : " Si vous aimez Dexter, vous aimerez Dan Wells. Efficace et tordu à souhait ! " Elle " Une heure et trente-neuf minutes : c'est le temps qu'il a fallu à Quentin Tarantino, avec Reservoir Dogs, pour pulvériser les limites du thriller et donner du même coup un sacré coup de vieux à tous les notables du genre. Avec Je ne suis pas un serial killer, Dan Wells réussit le même exploit en moins de 300 pages ! " Book Apart
This is a comprehensive study examining the changing concepts of Empire and Imperialism from the nineteenth century to the beginning of the 1960s. This study is not simply the biography of a word, but a history of political consciousness, important to historians and political scientists alike.
Natural right—the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are “natural” in origin—is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In The Terror of Natural Right, Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right concept of the “enemy of the human race”—an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities—to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror. Edelstein further contends that the Jacobins shared a political philosophy that he calls “natural republicanism,” which assumed that the natural state of society was a republic and that natural right provided its only acceptable laws. Ultimately, he proves that what we call the Terror was in fact only one facet of the republican theory that prevailed from Louis’s trial until the fall of Robespierre. A highly original work of historical analysis, political theory, literary criticism, and intellectual history, The Terror of Natural Right challenges prevailing assumptions of the Terror to offer a new perspective on the Revolutionary period.
The Avengers was a unique, genre-defying television series which blurred the traditional boundaries between 'light entertainment' and disturbing drama. It was a product of the constantly-evolving 1960s yet retains a timeless charm. The monochrome filmed Emma Peel season had established a cult following for a series which became an intrinsic part of the 'Swinging Sixties'. Backed by US dollars, the show was now filmed 'in color' and Avengerland becomes stranger and more playful than ever: Steed is shrunk to the size of a desk pad, forced to evade a machine-gun-toting nanny; Emma Peel is tortured in a medieval ducking stool and turned into a living cybernaut. Mrs. Peel, We're Needed draws on the knowledge of a broad range of experts and fans of The Avengers as it explores the wonderfully mad Technicolor world of Emma Peel.
Dan Saxon has been writing and publishing since the early 1960s when he contributed to and published Poets at Le Metro. Dans poems have been published in several magazines and anthologies including East Side Scene, American Poets 1960-1965 published by Anchor Doubleday, 1972 and In a Time of Revolution, Poems from our Third World, Random House, 1969. Born in the Bronx, New York Dan is a graduate of the Horace Mann School, The University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), and Montclair University (MA). He enjoys travel, the arts, tennis, family and friends. He is married, has two children and four grandchildren. He resides in Rutherford, New Jersey.
The concept of generation as a historical category has never been used more effectively than in Lost Comrades. The socialists of the Front Generation,young men in 1914, were driven into politicalactivity and ideological exploration by the experience of the First World War. Their efforts torenew socialism, to carry it beyond Marxism andbeyond the working class, were profound andoriginal, yet ultimately they failed. Lost Comrades follows the Front Generationsocialists from their questioning of Marxistorthodoxies in the 1920s into their confrontationswith the twin challenges of fascism and worlddepression in the early 1930s. Responding to thesedangers, they devised—with little success—counterpropaganda against the fascists and planningblueprints for the economy. Eventually, some ofthe most prominent—Sir Oswald Mosley inBritain, Hendrik de Man in Belgium, Marcel Déatin France—shifted their hopes to fascism or, dur-ing the Second World War, to collaborationism inHitler's Europe. Others, however, like CarloMierendorff and Theodor Haubach in Germany,ended as martyrs in the anti-Nazi resistance. Yeteven these divergent paths showed parallelsreflecting their common starting point. In tracing these unfulfilled careers, Whitebrings a new clarity to the hopes and limitationsof European socialism between the two worldwars.
This book presents a chronology of thirty definitions attributed to the word, term, phrase, and concept of “documentary” between the years 1895 and 1959. The book dedicates one chapter to each of the thirty definitions, scrutinizing their idiosyncratic language games from close range while focusing on their historical roots and concealed philosophical sources of inspiration. Dan Geva's principal argument is twofold: first, that each definition is an original ethical premise of documentary; and second, that only the structured assemblage of the entire set of definitions successfully depicts the true ethical nature of documentary insofar as we agree to consider its philosophical history as a reflective object of thought in a perpetual state of being-self-defined: an ethics sui generis.
This is a study of the French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault's 1976 work ""La Volonte de Savoir"". Dan Beer aims to uncover a network of ideas and linguistic patterns beneath the surface of the text. Through close textual analysis he addresses the issue of language and its effects on the world we inhabit. The book covers a range of references from the forgotten narratives of 19th-century European psychiatry, examining the scope of confessional literature, to the heated debates that surround Foucault's language and ideas.
This new interpretation of the early history of Chinese argues that Old Chinese was typologically a 'mixed' language. It shows that, though its dominant word order was subject-verb-object, this coexisted with subject-object-verb. Professor Xu demonstrates that Old Chinese was not the analytic language it has usually been assumed to be, and that it employed morphological and lexical devices as well as syntactic means. She describes the typological changes that have taken place sincethe Han period and shows how Chinese evolved into a more analytic language, supporting her exposition with abundant examples. She draws where possible on archaeological findings in order to distinguish between versions of texts transmitted and sometimes modified through the hands of generations ofcopyists.The author focusses on syntactic issues, including word order, verbs, causative structures, resultative compounds, and negation, but also pays close attention to what she demonstrates are closely related changes in phonology and the writing system.The book will interest scholars and graduate students of Chinese linguistics, philology, classical literature as well as general linguists interested in word-order typology and language universals. It may be also be used as a text for advanced courses in Classical Chinese and Chinese diachronic syntax.
2035. L'Amérique a beaucoup changé. Le monde aussi. En faillite financière, politique et morale, les États-Unis se sont désintégrés. Le Nouveau-Mexique a été envahi par les Hispaniques de la reconquista, la Californie risque de l'être. Plusieurs États ont proclamé leur indépendance. Le multimilliardaire japonais Nakamura – qui tire un pouvoir presque illimité de son immense fortune mais aussi de son rôle de conseiller plénipotentiaire pour la reconstruction de l'Amérique – charge Nick Bottom, ancien policier de Denver, de reprendre l'enquête sur l'assassinat de son fils Keigo, survenu six ans plus tôt. Nick a travaillé à l'époque sur cette affaire. Mais depuis la mort de sa femme dans un accident de voiture, devenu accro au flashback, drogue illégale, il a quitté la police. Le flashback permet de revivre des souvenirs parfaits ; en ce qui concerne Nick, ceux de sa vie avec sa femme. Toute l'Amérique s'y adonne : pour les jeunes c'est le moyen de revisiter leurs turpitudes, pour les vieux celui de retourner dans le monde idéal d'autrefois... Nick est assisté par Sato, le chef des gardes du corps de Nakamura, samouraï d'un Japon néoféodal qui veille à ce qu'il n'utilise pas, à des fi ns personnelles, la drogue qui lui est fournie afin qu'il puisse revivre les moments de sa première investigation... Mais pourquoi Nakamura tient-il tant à ce que Nick replonge dans cette enquête qui a échoué six ans plus tôt ?
Between 1997 and 2014, Tom Kristensen won the world's toughest motor race, the Le Mans 24 Hours, a record nine times and finished on the podium on five more occasions. Every time his car made it to the finish, in fact, he was in the top three. It is no wonder that this great sports car driver is known as 'Mr Le Mans' to motorsport fans around the world. Now retired from racing, Kristensen shares in this book his deepest personal reflections and insights from inside and outside the cockpit. He looks back on more than 30 years spent striving for perfection in racing and tells of the battles and setbacks that sometimes seemed impossible to overcome, including a terrible accident in 2007. Climbing the racing ladder, from karting into Formula 3 single-seaters, including championship titles in Germany (1991) and Japan (1993), then Formula 3000 and a Formula 1 testing role with Tyrrell. Winning as an underdog on his first visit to Le Mans, in 1997 driving an elderly Joest-run privateer Porsche in which he impressed all onlookers with a night-time charge to vanquish Porsche's factory-entered favourite. His second Le Mans victory came in 2000 on his maiden drive for Audi in the R8, a car that was to become all-conquering. Kristensen won the next five editions of Le Mans, four times with Audi and once with Bentley (in 2003), his last victory in this sequence taking him past Jacky Ickx's previous record at the Circuit de la Sarthe. His eighth win came in one of the all-time classic contests at Le Mans, in 2008, a rollercoaster of a race in which his ageing diesel-powered Audi was never expected to beat the fancied works Peugeots. One more victory with Audi in 2013 sealed his reputation as a true legend of Le Mans. His story includes exploits at other racetracks all over the world, none more prolific than Sebring, home of America's long-established classic endurance race that Kristensen won six times. Personal reflections together with contributions from notable observers -- including English journalists Gary Watkins and Charles Bradley -- complete a truly rounded portrait of the man and his achievements. Voted 'Sports Book of the Year' when originally published in Kristensen's native Denmark, this thoughtful memoir is now available in English.
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