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Off Balance

A Memoir

By: Dominique Moceanu

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In this searing and riveting New York Times bestseller, Olympic gold medalist Dominique Moceanu reveals the dark underbelly of Olympic gymnastics, the true price of success…and the shocking secret about her past and her family that she only learned years later. At fourteen years old, Dominique Moceanu was the youngest member of the 1996 US Women’s Olympic Gymnastics team, the first and only American women’s team to take gold at the Olympics. Her pixyish appearance and ferocious competitive drive quickly earned her the status of media darling. But behind the fame, the flawless floor routines, and the million-dollar smile, her life was a series of challenges and hardships. Off Balance vividly delineates each of the dominating characters who contributed to Moceanu’s rise to the top, from her stubborn father and long-suffering mother to her mercurial coach, Bela Karolyi. Here, Moceanu finally shares the haunting stories of competition, her years of hiding injuries and pain out of fear of retribution from her coaches, and how she hit rock bottom after a public battle with her parents. But medals, murder plots, drugs, and daring escapes aside (all of which figure into Moceanu’s incredible journey), the most unique aspect of her life is the family secret that Moceanu discovers, opening a new and unexpected chapter in her adult life. A mysterious letter from a stranger reveals that she has a second sister—born with a physical disability and given away at birth—who has nonetheless followed in Moceanu’s footsteps in an astonishing way. A multilayered memoir that transcends the world of sports, Off Balance will touch anyone who has ever dared to dream of a better life.

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Simon and Schuster

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Collection of ICC Arbitral Awards 2012 – 2015

By: Jean-Jacques Arnaldez,Yves Derains,Dominique Hascher

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Collection of ICC Arbitral Awards 2012 – 2015

By: Jean-Jacques Arnaldez,Yves Derains,Dominique Hascher

The Collection of ICC Arbitral Awards 2012-2015 contains extracts of cases handled by the ICC Court of Arbitration, one of the world's most respected arbitral institutions. This most recent collection supplements six previous and successful volumes containing awards from the periods 1974-1985, 1986-1990, 1991-1995, 1996-2000, 2001-2007 and 2008-2011. This collection is a practical reference tool, containing three types of useful indexes incorporating information from all three volumes: – a consolidated analytical table, in both English and French, contains extensive cross-references based on the terminology used in awards and case notes; – a chronological index lists the awards; – a key word index, also provided in both languages, allows the reader to locate the material of interest quickly and easily. In addition to providing a wealth of information in a highly accessible manner, this book includes case notes end expert commentaries on the awards. This publication is an indispensable reference work for anyone interested in international arbitration and in the reasoning of international arbitrators on the interpretation and application of contractual clauses, international conventions, and the law of international trade. It is invaluable to both scholars and practitioners involved in the drafting and negotiation of international commercial contracts and the resolution of international commercial disputes.

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Kluwer Law International B.V.

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9403506024

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Debating Dissent

Canada and the 1960s

By: Lara A. Campbell,Dominique Clement,Gregory S. Kealey

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Debating Dissent

Canada and the 1960s

By: Lara A. Campbell,Dominique Clement,Gregory S. Kealey

Although the 1960s are overwhelmingly associated with student radicalism and the New Left, most Canadians witnessed the decade’s political, economic, and cultural turmoil from a different perspective. Debating Dissent dispels the myths and stereotypes associated with the 1960s by examining what this era’s transformations meant to diverse groups of Canadians – and not only protestors, youth, or the white middle-class. With critical contributions from new and senior scholars, Debating Dissent integrates traditional conceptions of the 1960s as a ‘time apart’ within the broader framework of the ‘long-sixties’ and post-1945 Canada, and places Canada within a local, national, an international context. Cutting-edge essays in social, intellectual, and political history reflect a range of historical interpretation and explore such diverse topics as narcotics, the environment, education, workers, Aboriginal and Black activism, nationalism, Quebec, women, and bilingualism. Touching on the decade’s biggest issues, from changing cultural norms to the role of the state, Debating Dissent critically examines ideas of generational change and the sixties.

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University of Toronto Press

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Equality Deferred

Sex Discrimination and British Columbia's Human Rights State, 1953-84

By: Dominique Clément

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Equality Deferred

Sex Discrimination and British Columbia's Human Rights State, 1953-84

By: Dominique Clément

In Equality Deferred, Dominique Clément traces the history of sex discrimination in Canadian law and the origins of human rights legislation. Focusing on British Columbia - the first jurisdiction to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex - he documents a variety of absurd, almost unbelievable, acts of discrimination. Drawing on previously undisclosed human rights commission records, Clément explores the rise and fall of what was once the country's most progressive human rights legal regime and reveals how political divisions and social movements shaped the human rights state. This book is not only a testament to the revolutionary impact of human rights on Canadian law but also a reminder that it takes more than laws to effect transformative social change.

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Pills, Power, and Policy

The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and Its Consequences

By: Dominique A. Tobbell

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Pills, Power, and Policy

The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and Its Consequences

By: Dominique A. Tobbell

Tobbell analyzes the political and economic history of the alignment of the pharmaceutical industry, academic institutions and their faculty and organized medicine. This book is essential reading for policymakers and their staff as well as persons who study the history of health policy and those who contribute to it through medical research, advocacy and journalism. " -Daniel Fox, author of The Convergence of Science and Governance: Research, Health Policy, and American States "Dominique Tobbell’s vivid, balanced and probing account of pharmaceutical politics is a significant, needed analysis of the relationships between the pharmaceutical industry, university researchers, the medical profession and government in the Cold War period. More than this, Pills, Power, and Policy shows why it continues to be difficult to agree in the United States on the relative roles of corporate enterprise, government regulation, technological innovation, freedom to prescribe, and consumer marketing and protection, all played out against the rising costs of health care. Timely and thought-provoking."--Rosemary A. Stevens. DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar, Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College "A superb and compelling account of the creation of one of America’s most reviled entities: Big Pharma. With clarity and subtlety, Pills, Power, and Policy weaves together the political, economic, and the medical to reveal the entangled history behind our modern pharmaceutical predicament."--Andrea Tone, Ph.D., Professor of History & Canada Research Chair in the Social History of Medicine, McGill University “Pills, Power and Policy provides an outstanding description and analysis of the evolution of drug policy. It is an extremely important contribution to our understanding of the political, scientific, and economic nature of pharmaceutical regulation." -Daniel S. Greenberg, Washington journalist and author of Science, Money and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion

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Univ of California Press

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0520271130

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Green Dog, Good Dog

Reducing Your Best Friend's Carbon Paw Print

By: Dominique De Vito,Robert S. Goldstein,Susan Goldstein

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Green Dog, Good Dog

Reducing Your Best Friend's Carbon Paw Print

By: Dominique De Vito,Robert S. Goldstein,Susan Goldstein

Offers simple ideas for reducing Fido's carbon paw print from choosing eco-friendly dog food and other pooch products to dealing with dog poop, and more.

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160059350X

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Collection of ICC Arbitral Awards 2016-2020

By: Jean-Jacques Arnaldez,Yves Derains,Dominique T. Hascher

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Collection of ICC Arbitral Awards 2016-2020

By: Jean-Jacques Arnaldez,Yves Derains,Dominique T. Hascher

The Collection of ICC Arbitral Awards 2016¿2020 contains extracts of cases handled by the ICC Court of Arbitration, one of the world’s most respected arbitral institutions. This most recent collection supplements seven previous and successful volumes containing awards from the period 1974 to 2015. This collection is a practical reference tool, containing three types of useful indexes incorporating information from all three volumes: a consolidated analytical table, in both English and French, contains extensive cross-references based on the terminology used in awards and case notes; a chronological index lists the awards; a keyword index, also provided in both languages, allows the reader to locate the material of interest quickly and easily. In addition to providing a wealth of information in a highly accessible manner, this book includes case notes end expert commentaries on the awards. This publication is an indispensable reference work for anyone interested in international arbitration and in the reasoning of international arbitrators on the interpretation and application of contractual clauses, international conventions, and the law of international trade. It is invaluable to both scholars and practitioners involved in the drafting and negotiation of international commercial contracts and the resolution of international commercial disputes.

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9403540214

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Femme Fatale

Cinema's Most Unforgettable Lethal Ladies

By: James Ursini,Dominique Mainon

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Femme Fatale

Cinema's Most Unforgettable Lethal Ladies

By: James Ursini,Dominique Mainon

(Limelight). From the femme fatale of the early cinema to her post-feminist rebirth, this lavishly illustrated book and comprehensive guide traces the history of these dangerously alluring, manipulative, and desperate lethal ladies. Femme Fatale surveys the history of the femme fatale in world cinema, with more than 300 photographs testifying to the power of these mysterious women. The book begins with the silent period and its vamps, like Theda Bara, Pola Negri, Clara Bow, and Bebe Daniels, then moves on to the Pre-Code sound period of American films, which, showing liberated attitudes toward sex and women, featured actresses like Jean Harlow, Marlene Dietrich, and Greta Garbo. The story continues with the noir 1940s, when the femme fatale became truly lethal including actresses like Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, and Barbara Stanwyck. In the repressive 1950s, the international femme fatale took the fore Brigitte Bardot, Maria Felix, Elizabeth Taylor, Anita Ekberg, etc. Finally, the authors turn to the revolutionary post-feminist modern period, with an array of lethal ladies from all over the world, like Pam Grier, Salma Hayek, Gong Li, Angelina Jolie, and Sharon Stone.

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Human Rights in Canada

A History

By: Dominique Clément

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Human Rights in Canada

A History

By: Dominique Clément

This book shows how human rights became the primary language for social change in Canada and how a single decade became the locus for that emergence. The author argues that the 1970s was a critical moment in human rights history—one that transformed political culture, social movements, law, and foreign policy. Human Rights in Canada is one of the first sociological studies of human rights in Canada. It explains that human rights are a distinct social practice, and it documents those social conditions that made human rights significant at a particular historical moment. A central theme in this book is that human rights derive from society rather than abstract legal principles. Therefore, we can identify the boundaries and limits of Canada’s rights culture at different moments in our history. Until the 1970s, Canadians framed their grievances with reference to Christianity or British justice rather than human rights. A historical sociological approach to human rights reveals how rights are historically contingent, and how new rights claims are built upon past claims. This book explores governments’ tendency to suppress rights in periods of perceived emergency; how Canada’s rights culture was shaped by state formation; how social movements have advanced new rights claims; the changing discourse of rights in debates surrounding the constitution; how the international human rights movement shaped domestic politics and foreign policy; and much more. In addition to drawing on secondary literature in law, history, sociology, and political science, this study looked to published government documents, litigation and case law, archival research, newspapers, opinion polls, and materials produced by non-governmental organizations.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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1771121645

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The Serf, the Knight, and the Historian

By: Dominique Barthélemy

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The Serf, the Knight, and the Historian

By: Dominique Barthélemy

Dominique Barthélemy presents a sharply revisionist account of the history of France around the year 1000, challenging the traditional view that France underwent a kind of revolution at the millennium which ushered in feudalism.

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Cornell University Press

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Collection of ICC Arbitral Awards, 1996-2000

By: Jean-Jacques Arnaldez,Yves Derains,Dominique Hascher

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Collection of ICC Arbitral Awards, 1996-2000

By: Jean-Jacques Arnaldez,Yves Derains,Dominique Hascher

The Collection of ICC Arbitral Awards 1996-2000 contains extracts of cases handled by the ICC Court of Arbitration, one of the worldands most respected arbitral institutions. This most recent collection supplements three previous and successful volumes containing awards from the periods 1974-1985, 1986-1990 and 1991-1995. This collection is a practical reference tool, containing three types of useful indexes incorporating information from all three volumes: a consolidated analytical table, in both English and French, contains extensive cross-references based on the terminology used in awards and case notes; a chronological index lists the awards; a key word index, also provided in both languages, allows the reader to locate the material of interest quickly and easily. In addition to providing a wealth of information in a highly accessible manner, this book includes case notes end expert commentaries on the awards. This publication is an indispensable reference work for anyone interested in international arbitration and in the reasoning of international arbitrators on the interpretation and application of contractual clauses, international conventions, and the law of international trade. It is invaluable to both scholars and practitioners involved in the drafting and negotiation of international commercial contracts and the resolution of international commercial disputes. Collection of ICC Arbitral Awards (CIAA) Vol. 4

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Kluwer Law International B.V.

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9041122052

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Making Black History

Diasporic Fiction in the Moment of Afropolitanism

By: Dominique Haensell

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Making Black History

Diasporic Fiction in the Moment of Afropolitanism

By: Dominique Haensell

The Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110722097

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Canada’s Rights Revolution

Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-82

By: Dominique Clément

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Canada’s Rights Revolution

Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-82

By: Dominique Clément

In the first major study of postwar social movement organizations in Canada, Dominique Clément provides a history of the human rights movement as seen through the eyes of two generations of activists. Drawing on newly acquired archival sources, extensive interviews, and materials released through access to information applications, Clément explores the history of four organizations that emerged in the sixties and evolved into powerful lobbies for human rights despite bitter internal disputes and intense rivalries. This book offers a unique perspective on infamous human rights controversies and argues that the idea of human rights has historically been highly statist while grassroots activism has been at the heart of the most profound human rights advances.

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0774858435

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They Called Us Savages

By: Dominique Rankin,Marie-Josée Tardif

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They Called Us Savages

By: Dominique Rankin,Marie-Josée Tardif

Born on the banks of the majestic Harricana River, deep inside Quebec’s James Bay territory, young Dominique Rankin was intended to succeed his father as Algonquin Hereditary Chief and Medicine Man. The Government of Canada had other designs. Its policies of Indigenous assimilation would tear the boy away from his family and his native forest, as well as the traditional education he was meant to receive there, and cause him to be handed over to the Saint-Marc-de-Figuery residential school, one of many such establishments operating under the infamous Indian residential school system. Inside those walls, Dominique would endure a terrible ordeal, a fate he shared with thousands of Indigenous children across North America. Only upon leaving the school years later would the young man finally be free to begin his long journey of healing and self-discovery—a journey that would reunite him with his heritage and his true destiny. Weaving the venerable teachings of the Prophecy of the Seven Fires with his own powerful narrative, from his dramatic birth and childhood training to his days as the leader of a nation and his accession to full-fledged Medicine Man a half century later, Chief Dominique Rankin delivers a vibrant testimony on respect, forgiveness, and healing. They Called Us Savages is more relevant now than ever, and contemplates our changing relationships with the environment, leadership, racism, reconciliation, and spirituality. In this poignant memoir, the residential school Survivor, Elder, Medicine Man, and former Grand Chief of the Algonquin Nation bares all—the dark and the light alike—to unshroud a chapter of our sombre collective past and to illuminate a path to a better, brighter future.

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4117654 Manitoba Ltée (Éditions des Plaines | Vidacom Publications

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1989282954

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A Jungian Understanding of Symbolic Function and Forms

The Dream Series

By: Dominique Boukhabza

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A Jungian Understanding of Symbolic Function and Forms

The Dream Series

By: Dominique Boukhabza

The purpose of this book is to clarify the function of the symbol and its place at the juncture of psychoanalysis and other social sciences, where the singular and the collective intersect and whose laws are identical. The debate between Freud and Jung about the symbol is well known; by examining the points of contradiction between their respective approaches, this book seeks to place them in fruitful tension, rather than categorical opposition and explore their similarities and differences. In later chapters, the author further analyses the function of the symbol in relation to the topics of myth, anthropology and dreams. This thoughtful book will appeal to those interested and involved in analytical psychology and psychoanalysis, as well as psychiatrists and psychologists.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000924475

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Une Degustation Topologique: Homotopy Theory in the Swiss Alps

Homotopy Theory in the Swiss Alps

By: Dominique Arlettaz,Kathryn Hess

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Une Degustation Topologique: Homotopy Theory in the Swiss Alps

Homotopy Theory in the Swiss Alps

By: Dominique Arlettaz,Kathryn Hess

The talks given at the Arolla Conference on Algebraic Topology covered a broad spectrum of current research in homotopy theory, offering participants the possibility to sample and relish selected morsels of homotopy theory, much as a participant in a wine tasting partakes of a variety of fine wines. True to the spirit of the conference, the proceedings included in this volume present a savory sampler of homotopical delicacies. Readers will find within these pages a compilation of articles describing current research in the area, including classical stable and unstable homotopy theory, configuration spaces, group cohomology, K-theory, localization, p-compact groups, and simplicial theory.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821820788

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Shakespeare's Early History Plays

From Chronicle to Stage

By: Dominique Goy-Blanquet

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Shakespeare's Early History Plays

From Chronicle to Stage

By: Dominique Goy-Blanquet

Like many of his fellow playwrights, Shakespeare turned to national history for inspiration. In this study, Dominique Goy-Blanquet provides a close comparison of the Henry VI plays and Richard III with their historical and theatrical sources, demonstrating how Shakespeare was able to meet not only the ideological but also the technical problems of turning history into drama, how by cutting, carving, shaping, casting his unwieldy material into performable plays, he matured into the most influential dramatist and historian of his time. Recent criticism of Shakespeare's history plays has often consisted of fierce arguments over their ideological import and Shakespeare's position on the spectrum of current political opinions. This book, however, stems from the belief that a more constructive starting point for research is the exploration of the technical problems raised by turning heavy narratives into performable plays, rather than the political motives that could inpire a playwright's representation of national history. Illuminating and instructive, Shakespeare's Early History Plays includes not only close investigation of the verbal, poetic, and political texture of the plays, but also provides a broad overview of the wider sixteenth-century historiographical contexts of the plays, and their significance to Shakespeare's oeuvre more generally.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198119879

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Witchspark

By: Dominique Valente

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Witchspark

By: Dominique Valente

Fall under the spell of Witchspark. A magical adventure series perfect for fans of Greenwild, Harry Potter and The Hatmakers. Eglantine Bury can't find her Witchspark. But if her magic doesn't appear, her family and their magical house will fall into the terrifying clutches of the evil Whistlewitch. Across the land, Princess Victoria faces her own danger, as her secret magical powers start to spiral out of control and cause chaos in the Royal Palace. Eglantine and Victoria both turn to the disgraced witch Miss Hegotty for help. Her witch lessons are difficult and powerful, but can this secret magic match up to the dangers these two hopeful witches face? Two aspiring witches, one unusual teacher, a magical house, and a talking dragon-butler fight for what's right, in this major new series from Dominique Valente the bestselling author of Starfell.

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Usborne Publishing Ltd

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1836042574

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tHE ceLL

By: Dominique B. Hummel

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tHE ceLL

By: Dominique B. Hummel

This is a truly groundbreaking book! The author intentionally gives us warnings from the start and breaks the boundaries, deliberately creating some kind of unorthodox and genuinely anarchistic yet truly brilliant type of writing. His dimension is made of grim realities and astonishing truths about the world we live in and the history of mankind. He nails with vigor the main points of the axis of everything good and evil resulting in exactly the same thing. The structure of the story is non-linear and chronology becomes just an abstract concept, obsolete and unnecessary, with no need to be followed. The parallelism and the multifaceted dimensions of the main characters lead the reader in a labyrinth of sensorial perception and physical discomfort where we end up feeling the ambience and tune in with the author’s mindset and discover different ways of perceiving past present and future all transposed in a twisted timeline of mnemonic events no longer relevant for the sake of our and his understanding of what is it all about? Life beyond belief! Dom Hummel is an anomaly among the family of authors. His early life is well documented in his novel tHE ceLL, albeit with a touch of surrealism attached to his persona. Needless to say nothing could have been more challenging than imagining what a life was going to bring after such a difficult childhood, but thanks to an everlasting sense of belonging to a few survivors of the last resort, Dom’s life took a sharp turn towards some inner search of self-determination. After many years of travel around the world, which could become a sequel to tHE ceLL, the author finally found refuge in the country of his choice, Australia has been his home since, and it is where he presently lives waiting for the inevitable... To resume it all, Dom’s an ordinary man who perhaps had an extraordinary life, but who’s to say any wiser than reading his early biography in tHE ceLL.

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Multivariate Data Analysis

In Practice : an Introduction to Multivariate Data Analysis and Experimental Design

By: Kim H. Esbensen,Dominique Guyot,Frank Westad,Lars P. Houmoller

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Multivariate Data Analysis

In Practice : an Introduction to Multivariate Data Analysis and Experimental Design

By: Kim H. Esbensen,Dominique Guyot,Frank Westad,Lars P. Houmoller

Multivariate Data Analysis - in practice adopts a practical, non-mathematical approach to multivariate data analysis. The book's principal objective is to provide a conceptual framework for multivariate data analysis techniques, enabling the reader to apply these in his or her own field. Features: Focuses on the practical application of multivariate techniques such as PCA, PCR and PLS and experimental design. Non-mathematical approach - ideal for analysts with little or no background in statistics. Step by step introduction of new concepts and techniques promotes ease of learning. Theory supported by hands-on exercises based on real-world data. A full training copy of The Unscrambler (for Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51 or later versions) including data sets for the exercises is available. Tutorial exercises based on data from real-world applications are used throughout the book to illustrate the use of the techniques introduced, providing the reader with a working knowledge of modern multivariate data analysis and experimental design. All exercises use The Unscrambler, a de facto industry standard for multivariate data analysis software packages. Multivariate Data Analysis in Practice is an excellent self-study text for scientists, chemists and engineers from all disciplines (non-statisticians) wishing to exploit the power of practical multivariate methods. It is very suitable for teaching purposes at the introductory level, and it can always be supplemented with higher level theoretical literature."Résumé de l'éditeur.

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8299333032

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Order & Exclusion

Cluny and Christendom Face Heresy, Judaism, and Islam, 1000-1150

By: Dominique Iogna-Prat

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Order & Exclusion

Cluny and Christendom Face Heresy, Judaism, and Islam, 1000-1150

By: Dominique Iogna-Prat

Order and Exclusion is a rare and magnificent book of medieval history with clear relevance to today's headlines. Through the lens of the polemics of Peter the Venerable, abbot of Cluny, Dominique Iogna-Prat examines the process by which christianity transformed itself into Christendom, a powerful spiritual, social, and political system with pretensions to universality. Iogna-Prat's close examination of a set of writings central to the history of Catholicism resolves into a deeply troubling study of the origins of attitudes that continue to shape world events. Iogna-Prat writes that "versions of fundamentalism nourished by the soil of an often terrible common history" show that Christianity, Judaism, and Islam have all been capable of intolerance.Peter the Venerable's writings had a far-reaching impact: the powerful network of Clunaic houses expanded from the founding of the original monastery of Cluny to dominate Christendom by the twelfth century. This Christendom, Iogna-Prat demonstrates, defined itself in part through its increasingly bitter struggles against its perceived enemies both within and without. Peter the Venerable's all-pervasive logic pitted the "order" of the monastery and its hierarchical society against all those--heretics, Jews, Muslims, lepers--outside its bounds. In his proclamations against Jews and Muslims, Peter devised a Christian anthropology: in his view, to be non-Christian was to be non-human. The power of the Church came at a great and lasting price.

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Cornell University Press

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0801437083

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Collection of ICC Arbitral Awards, 2001-2007

By: Jean-Jacques Arnaldez,Yves Derains,Dominique Hascher,International Chamber of Commerce

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Collection of ICC Arbitral Awards, 2001-2007

By: Jean-Jacques Arnaldez,Yves Derains,Dominique Hascher,International Chamber of Commerce

The Collection of ICC Arbitral Awards 2001-2007 contains extracts of cases handled by the ICC Court of Arbitration, one of the world's most respected arbitral institutions. This most recent collection supplements four previous and successful volumes containing awards from the periods 1974-1985, 1986-1990, 1991-1995 and 1996-2000. This collection is a practical reference tool, containing three types of useful indexes incorporating information from all three volumes: a consolidated analytical table, in both English and French, contains extensive cross-references based on the terminology used in awards and case notes; a chronological index lists the awards; a key word index, also provided in both languages, allows the reader to locate the material of interest quickly and easily. In addition to providing a wealth of information in a highly accessible manner, this book includes case notes end expert commentaries on the awards. This publication is an indispensable reference work for anyone interested in international arbitration and in the reasoning of international arbitrators on the interpretation and application of contractual clauses, international conventions, and the law of international trade. It is invaluable to both scholars and practitioners involved in the drafting and negotiation of international commercial contracts and the resolution of international commercial disputes. Collection of ICC Arbitral Awards (CIAA) Vol. 5

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Nationalists Who Feared the Nation

Adriatic Multi-Nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice

By: Dominique Kirchner Reill

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Nationalists Who Feared the Nation

Adriatic Multi-Nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice

By: Dominique Kirchner Reill

We can often learn as much from political movements that failed as from those that achieved their goals. Nationalists Who Feared the Nation looks at one such frustrated movement: a group of community leaders and writers in Venice, Trieste, and Dalmatia during the 1830s, 40s, and 50s who proposed the creation of a multinational zone surrounding the Adriatic Sea. At the time, the lands of the Adriatic formed a maritime community whose people spoke different languages and practiced different faiths but identified themselves as belonging to a single region of the Hapsburg Empire. While these activists hoped that nationhood could be used to strengthen cultural bonds, they also feared nationalism's homogenizing effects and its potential for violence. This book demonstrates that not all nationalisms attempted to create homogeneous, single-language, -religion, or -ethnicity nations. Moreover, in treating the Adriatic lands as one unit, this book serves as a correction to "national" histories that impose our modern view of nationhood on what was a multinational region.

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Stanford University Press

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0804778493

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The Medieval Tradition of Thebes

History and Narrative in the Roman de Thebes, Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Lydgate

By: Dominique Battles

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The Medieval Tradition of Thebes

History and Narrative in the Roman de Thebes, Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Lydgate

By: Dominique Battles

As the story of the war between the sons of Oedipus and their cursed race, the Theban legend rivaled that of Troy in popularity and importance for medieval poets and audiences. Dominique Battles explores the vernacular Theban narratives of the Middle Ages, including the Old French Roman de Thebes (1154), Boccaccio's Teseida , Chaucer's Theban poems (Anelida and Arcite (1370s), the Knights Tale , and the Theban subtext of the Troilus (1380s)), and John Lydgate's Siege of Thebes (1422). The Medieval Tradition of Thebes constitutes the first comprehensive study of the classical legend of Thebes in the Middle Ages. Far from representing a single consistent legend, the story of the civil war between Eteocles and Polynices took on a variety of forms and purposes, each of which presents its own historical paradigm. By tracing the relationship between these texts, Battles demonstrates how each succeeding adaptation of Thebes builds upon and challenges those before it.

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Routledge

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1135879494

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Cinema of Obsession

Erotic Fixation and Love Gone Wrong in the Movies

By: Dominique Mainon,James Ursini

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Cinema of Obsession

Erotic Fixation and Love Gone Wrong in the Movies

By: Dominique Mainon,James Ursini

Cinema of Obsession traces the history of obsessive love and erotic fixation. Seminal works of obsession, The Blue Angel, Peter Ibbetson, and Phantom of the Opera are seen as setting the groundwork for films that follow. The book defines and surveys examples of the explosive nature of amour fou, issues of male control (no matter how tenuous), and the fugitive couple - love on the run - in such films as Romeo and Juliet, Last Tango in Paris, Vertigo, Basic Instinct, and Wild at Heart. Male masochism is explored through film noirs, including Criss Cross, The Killers, Gilda, and The Postman Always Rings Twice. The book shifts gears in its finale and concentrates on the female gaze, films of female obsession: Jane Eyre, The Piano, The Lover, Fatal Attraction, and Vanilla Sky.

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Aquinas and His Role in Theology

By: Marie-Dominique Chenu

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Aquinas and His Role in Theology

By: Marie-Dominique Chenu

Chenu also portrays the religious and spiritual personality of Aquinas, showing how his typically systematic theology is rooted in personal contemplative roots and a passion for pastoral preaching."--BOOK JACKET.

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