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The Miracle of St. Michael at Colossae

By: Leon of Mt. Athos,D.P. Curtin,Francois Nau

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The Miracle of St. Michael at Colossae

By: Leon of Mt. Athos,D.P. Curtin,Francois Nau

This apocryphal work from the 10th century chronicles the miraculous interventions of the Archangel Michael at the Greek city of Colossae, where he protected a holy site from destruction by rivers manipulated by adversaries, resulting in healings and conversions to Christianity. The narrative unfolds through a series of divine interventions and the unwavering faith of a servant of God, St. Archippus, showcasing the power of faith and divine protection.

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Dalcassian Press

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9798330266845

The Syriac Legend of Maximus & Dometius

By: Francois Nau,D.P. Curtin

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The Syriac Legend of Maximus & Dometius

By: Francois Nau,D.P. Curtin

This Syriac work recounts the story of Sts. Maximus and Dometius, allegedly the sons of the Emperor Valentinian, who sought a monastic life away from imperial duties. After receiving blessings from holy figures, they journeyed to the desert of Egypt, where they lived in isolation, dedicating themselves to prayer and labor. Their lives were marked by miracles and divine encounters, culminating in their deaths and subsequent veneration. The narrative highlights their commitment to God, their influence on the imperial family, and their legacy of holiness, showcasing the transformative power of faith.

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Dalcassian Press

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9798330326334

The Legend of Aaron of Serug

By: Paul of Batnan,Francois Nau,D.P. Curtin

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The Legend of Aaron of Serug

By: Paul of Batnan,Francois Nau,D.P. Curtin

Written by his disciple Paul of Batnan, the narrative of Mar Aaron details his transformation of the saint, from a child of privilege in Serug to a dedicated monk and miracle worker. After rejecting familial wealth for a monastic life, Aaron spent decades in solitude, performing miraculous healings and exorcisms. His spiritual journey included significant events such as healing a paralytic and a leper, receiving priesthood, and confronting demons. Ultimately, he became a revered figure, building a monastery and leading many to faith, before departing for Constantinople at the emperor's request.

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9798330326372

History of St. John the Baptist

By: Pseudo-Mark the Evangelist,D.P. Curtin,Francois Nau

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History of St. John the Baptist

By: Pseudo-Mark the Evangelist,D.P. Curtin,Francois Nau

This apocryphal text is attributed in Greek sources to St. Mark the Evangelist, and details the life of St. John the Baptist, from his birth and divine calling to his ministry, confrontation with king Herod, the baptism of Christ, imprisonment, and eventual beheading. It recounts the additional details outside of the events of the Gospels, detailing those things surrounding his death, including his prophetic words and the circumstances leading to his execution.

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Dalcassian Press

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9798330266852

Fragments of the Monastery of Qennesre

By: St. Samuel of Qartmin,D.P. Curtin,Francois Nau

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Fragments of the Monastery of Qennesre

By: St. Samuel of Qartmin,D.P. Curtin,Francois Nau

The monastery of Qennesré or Qenneàrine, founded by St. John Bar Aphtonia around 530 AD on the bank of the Euphrates opposite Europus (Jérabis), provided even more patriarchs of the Church of the East than Qartamin did. It was distinguished because of the body of scholarly Christian works being produced at the time under Sassanian and later Rashidun rule. This manuscript survives in fragmentary form, drawing under the writing of Daniel of Edessa regarding the dealings of the monastery sometime during the post-Arab conquest period.

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Dalcassian Press

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9798330228157

Impediments to Marriage

By: Mar Aba I of Seleucia,Francois Nau,D.P. Curtin

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Impediments to Marriage

By: Mar Aba I of Seleucia,Francois Nau,D.P. Curtin

This document, translated from Syriac, is a decree by Patriarch Mar Aba I addressing bishops and metropolitans regarding marriage impediments. It underscores the necessity of the fear of God as a guiding principle for life and marriage, condemning polygamy and various incestuous relationships. Mar Aba emphasizes the importance of church unity and moral integrity, warning against the consequences of unlawful unions. He provides a framework for repentance and correction for those who have sinned in these ways, reinforcing the idea that disobedience to these decrees will lead to exclusion from the church and divine condemnation.

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9798330303717

Persian Literature - A Bio-Bibliographical Survey

Poetry of the Pre-Mongol Period

By: Francois De Blois

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Persian Literature - A Bio-Bibliographical Survey

Poetry of the Pre-Mongol Period

By: Francois De Blois

This famous work from the Royal Asiatic Society is an indispensable tool for all serious students of Persian literature, history and culture, and a welcome companion to Persian literature in its most glorious period. This volume is the second, revised edition of three parts published in 1992 and 1994.

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Routledge

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1135467137

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9781135467135

Building Global Education with a Local Perspective

An Introduction to Glocal Higher Education

By: Emmanuel Jean Francois

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Building Global Education with a Local Perspective

An Introduction to Glocal Higher Education

By: Emmanuel Jean Francois

Glocal" education melds the economic advantages of globalizing higher education with the benefits of incorporating local perspectives. This book explores glocal education's rationale; social, cultural, and economic foundations; key concepts; and implementation.

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Springer

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1137386770

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9781137386779

Pluripotential Theory

Cetraro, Italy 2011, Editors: Filippo Bracci, John Erik Fornæss

By: Giorgio Patrizio,Zbigniew Błocki,Francois Berteloot,Jean Pierre Demailly

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Pluripotential Theory

Cetraro, Italy 2011, Editors: Filippo Bracci, John Erik Fornæss

By: Giorgio Patrizio,Zbigniew Błocki,Francois Berteloot,Jean Pierre Demailly

Pluripotential theory is a very powerful tool in geometry, complex analysis and dynamics. This volume brings together the lectures held at the 2011 CIME session on "pluripotential theory" in Cetraro, Italy. This CIME course focused on complex Monge-Ampére equations, applications of pluripotential theory to Kahler geometry and algebraic geometry and to holomorphic dynamics. The contributions provide an extensive description of the theory and its very recent developments, starting from basic introductory materials and concluding with open questions in current research.

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3642364217

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9783642364211

Victims of the Book

Reading and Masculinity in Fin-de-Siècle France

By: Francois Proulx

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Victims of the Book

Reading and Masculinity in Fin-de-Siècle France

By: Francois Proulx

Victims of the Book uncovers a long-neglected but once widespread subgenre: the fin-de-siècle novel of formation in France. In the final decades of the nineteenth century, social commentators insistently characterized excessive reading as an emasculating illness that afflicted French youth. Novels about and geared toward adolescent male readers were imbued with a deep worry over young Frenchmen’s masculinity, as evidenced by titles like Crise de jeunesse (Youth in Crisis, 1897), La Crise virile (Crisis of Virility, 1898), La Vie stérile (A Sterile Life, 1892), and La Mortelle Impuissance (Deadly Impotence, 1903). In this book, François Proulx examines a wide panorama of these novels, as well as polemical essays, pedagogical articles, and medical treatises on the perceived threats posed by young Frenchmen’s reading habits. Fin-de-siècle writers responded to this pathologization of reading with a profusion of novels addressed to young male readers, paradoxically proposing their own novels as potential cures. In the early twentieth century, this corpus was critically revisited by a new generation of writers. Victims of the Book shows how André Gide and Marcel Proust in particular reworked the fin-de-siècle paradox to subvert cultural norms about literature and masculinity, proposing instead a queer pact between writer and reader.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487532180

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9781487532185

Modelling of Mechanical Systems: Structural Elements

By: Francois Axisa,Philippe Trompette

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Modelling of Mechanical Systems: Structural Elements

By: Francois Axisa,Philippe Trompette

The modelling of mechanical systems provides engineers and students with the methods to model and understand mechanical systems by using both mathematical and computer-based tools. Written by an eminent authority in the field, this is the second of four volumes which provide engineers with a comprehensive resource on this cornerstone mechanical engineering subject. Dealing with continuous systems, this book covers solid mechanics, beams, plates and shells. In a clear style and with a practical rather than theoretical approach, it shows how to model continuous systems in order to study vibration modes, motion and forces. Appendices give useful primers on aspects of the mathematics introduced in the book. Other volumes in the series cover discrete systems, fluid-structure interaction and flow-induced vibration.*Axisa is a world authority in the modelling of systems*Comprehensive coverage of mathematical techniques used to perform computer-based analytical studies and numerical simulations*A key reference for mechanical engineers, researchers and graduate students in this cornerstone subject

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Elsevier

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0080461360

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Culture Politics and Linguistic Recognition in Taiwan

Ethnicity, National Identity, and the Party System

By: Jean-Francois Dupre

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Culture Politics and Linguistic Recognition in Taiwan

Ethnicity, National Identity, and the Party System

By: Jean-Francois Dupre

The consolidation of Taiwanese identity in recent years has been accompanied by two interrelated paradoxes: a continued language shift from local Taiwanese languages to Mandarin Chinese, and the increasing subordination of the Hoklo majority culture in ethnic policy and public identity discourses. A number of initiatives have been undertaken toward the revitalization and recognition of minority cultures. At the same time, however, the Hoklo majority culture has become akin to a political taboo. This book examines how the interplay of ethnicity, national identity and party politics has shaped current debates on national culture and linguistic recognition in Taiwan. It suggests that the ethnolinguistic distribution of the electorate has led parties to adopt distinctive strategies in an attempt to broaden their ethnic support bases. On the one hand, the DPP and the KMT have strived to play down their respective de-Sinicization and Sinicization ideologies, as well as their Hoklo and Chinese ethnocultural cores. At the same time, the parties have competed to portray themselves as the legitimate protectors of minority interests by promoting Hakka and Aboriginal cultures. These concomitant logics have discouraged parties from appealing to ethnonationalist rhetoric, prompting them to express their antagonistic ideologies of Taiwanese and Chinese nationalism through more liberal conceptions of language rights. Therefore, the book argues that constraints to cultural and linguistic recognition in Taiwan are shaped by political rather than cultural and sociolinguistic factors. Investigating Taiwan’s counterintuitive ethnolinguistic situation, this book makes an important theoretical contribution to the literature to many fields of study and will appeal to scholars of Taiwanese politics, sociolinguistics, culture and history.

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190

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Routledge

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1317244192

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By Faith and Hospitality

The Monastic Tradition as a Model for Interreligious Encounter

By: Pierre-Francois De Bethune

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By Faith and Hospitality

The Monastic Tradition as a Model for Interreligious Encounter

By: Pierre-Francois De Bethune

Today more than ever it is important that our faith be linked to hospitality -- to welcome the stranger in our midst. This book testifies to the fruitfulness of the process when applied to interfaith dialogue, and shares the spiritual insights of experience, gained in the Zen Buddhist monasteries in Japan. The author is Secretary General of the Commission for Monastic Interfaith Dialogue.

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Gracewing Publishing

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0852445482

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9780852445488

Asile Hereditaire

The Life and Career of John O'Sullivan

By: Francois Nouvion

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Asile Hereditaire

The Life and Career of John O'Sullivan

By: Francois Nouvion

Francois Nouvion is well known collector and author of operatic subjects. He was born in Zurich and is a US citizen. He studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and at Stanford University in Palo Alto. He worked mostly in the semiconductor testing equipment fi eld and sold US Equipment from Russia to Tokyo. Early on he became very interested in Opera and developed his knowledge in singing from the reissues by Guy Dumazert. He currently maintains a comprehensive website on tenors (historicaltenors.com) and a YouTube channel on Historical tenors. Although his interest on Irish-French tenor John O`Sullivan dates from his early days, he fi nally started researching the tenor`s career in the early 90s after meeting O'Sullivan's children: Jacques, Colette and Raymonde. After much work contacting the different libraries all over the world, with the Paris and Marseilles libraries being the most diffi cult to work with, he fi nally started writing the O`Sullivan biography in 2007. It is now published. He only regrets that Jacques O'Sullivan, the tenor`s son, did not live to witness the publication.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1477151230

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9781477151235

The American Promise, Combined Volume

Concise Edition

By: James L. Roark,Michael P. Johnson,Francois Furstenberg,Sarah Stage,Sarah Igo

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The American Promise, Combined Volume

Concise Edition

By: James L. Roark,Michael P. Johnson,Francois Furstenberg,Sarah Stage,Sarah Igo

The American Promise, Concise Edition is a brief, affordable text that makes history relatable. Now with new co-authors, the eighth edition continues to deliver a strong narrative with political backbone and offers a new pedagogical design that reinforces that history is a discipline rooted in debate and inquiry. The American Promise, Concise Edition, includes the unabridged narrative, primary sources in each chapter, a full-color map and art program, and comprehensive supplement options, including LaunchPad and a free companion sourcebook. Available for free when packaged with the print book, the popular digital assignment and assessment options for this text bring skill building and assessment to a more highly effective level. The greatest active learning options come in LaunchPad, which combines an accessible e-book with LearningCurve, an adaptive and automatically graded learning tool that—when assigned—helps ensure students read the book; the complete companion reader with comparative questions that help students build arguments from those sources; and many other study and assessment tools. For instructors who want the easiest and most affordable way to ensure students come to class prepared Achieve Read & Practice pairs LearningCurve, adaptive quizzing and our mobile, accessible Value Edition e-book, in one easy-to-use product.

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