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Oil, Power, and War

A Dark History

By: Matthieu Auzanneau

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The story of oil is one of hubris, fortune, betrayal, and destruction. It is the story of a resource that has been undeniably central to the creation of our modern culture, and ever-present during the darkest exploits of empire the world over. For the past 150 years, oil has become the most essential ingredient for economic, military, and political power. And it has brought us to our present moment in which political leaders and the fossil-fuel industry consider extraordinary, and extraordinarily dangerous, policy on a world stage marked by shifting power bases. Upending the conventional wisdom by crafting a “people’s history,” award-winning journalist Matthieu Auzanneau deftly traces how oil became a national and then global addiction, outlines the enormous consequences of that addiction, sheds new light on major historical and contemporary figures, and raises new questions about stories we thought we knew well: What really sparked the oil crises in the 1970s, the shift away from the gold standard at Bretton Woods, or even the financial crash of 2008? How has oil shaped the events that have defined our times: two world wars, the Cold War, the Great Depression, ongoing wars in the Middle East, the advent of neoliberalism, and the Great Recession, among them? With brutal clarity, Oil, Power, and War exposes the heavy hand oil has had in all of our lives—and illustrates how much heavier that hand could get during the increasingly desperate race to control the last of the world’s easily and cheaply extractable reserves.

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Chelsea Green Publishing

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1603589783

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9781603589789

Interpreting Israel's Scriptures

A Practical Guide to the Exegesis of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament

By: Matthieu Richelle

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Interpreting Israel's Scriptures

A Practical Guide to the Exegesis of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament

By: Matthieu Richelle

Many readers find exegeting a passage from the Old Testament to be a mysterious process. How should one begin? What methods should one use? Written in a pragmatic style, Interpreting Israel's Scriptures guides the reader by offering concrete methods for exegesis that are illustrated by numerous examples and accompanied by well-chosen references to secondary sources. This English translation of the 2012 original French version of Richelle's book has been expanded and revised and has been reorganized to have a tripartite structure: the making of the text, the various facets of the text, and "the reader in front of the text." The book is designed for use in exegesis courses or for personal study, and it is designed to be used both by students who know Hebrew and by those who do not. The book explores a variety of themes relevant for exegesis, including poetry literary genre, literary context, geographical context, historical context, structure, narrative analysis, intertextuality, and reception history. For those who know Hebrew, the book also includes chapters on translation, textual criticism, and compositional criticism. Finally, this English edition has two new chapters: one on feminist and gender studies, and one on postcolonial criticism.

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433

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Hendrickson Publishers

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1619709589

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9781619709584

Happiness

A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill

By: Matthieu Ricard

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Happiness

A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill

By: Matthieu Ricard

In this groundbreaking book, Matthieu Ricard makes a passionate case for happiness as a goal that deserves as least as much energy as any other in our lives. Wealth? Fitness? Career success? How can we possibly place these above true and lasting well-being? Drawing from works of fiction and poetry, Western philosophy, Buddhist beliefs, scientific research, and personal experience, Ricard weaves an inspirational and forward-looking account of how we can begin to rethink our realities in a fast-moving modern world. With its revelatory lessons and exercises, Happiness is an eloquent and stimulating guide to a happier life.

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Little, Brown

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0316054755

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9780316054751

The Practical Origins of Ideas

Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-engineering

By: Matthieu Queloz

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The Practical Origins of Ideas

Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-engineering

By: Matthieu Queloz

This book builds on a series of published articles...these articles grew out of a dissertation written under the auspices of Markus Wild and Martin Kusch"-- Acknowledgement.

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Oxford University Press

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0198868707

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9780198868705

Martin Luther

By: Matthieu Arnold

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Martin Luther

By: Matthieu Arnold

Le combat de Martin Luther (1483-1546) contre les dérives de l’Église de son temps a été à l’origine d’un renouveau de la piété, mais aussi de la fracture de la chrétienté occidentale qui perdure jusqu’à aujourd’hui. À l’occasion du 500e anniversaire de la Réforme, Matthieu Arnold suit Luther à travers l’ensemble de sa vie et de son œuvre : ses grands traités, sa traduction de la Bible, sa correspondance, ses catéchismes, ses cantiques, ses prédications ou encore ses Propos de table. Il nous fait découvrir ainsi un personnage plus riche et plus complexe que le pourfendeur de la papauté ou l’adversaire d’Érasme : le porte-parole d’un message réconfortant et le génial inventeur de la langue allemande ; un mari facétieux, promoteur de l’instruction des femmes ; un homme d’une intense sensibilité religieuse, qui fut appelé à s’exprimer aussi dans le domaine de l’éducation, de l’économie et de la politique. Grâce à l’étude des écrits de ses contemporains, Matthieu Arnold resitue Luther dans son époque pour mieux en mesurer l’influence, dans tous les milieux sociaux. Professeur à la Faculté de théologie protestante de l’Université de Strasbourg, membre honoraire de l’Institut universitaire de France, Matthieu Arnold est le premier historien à avoir consacré une étude systématique à l’immense corpus des lettres de Luther. Il a notamment édité Martin Luther, Les Quatre-vingt-quinze thèses (Olivétan, 2014), et il co-dirige l’édition des Œuvres de Luther dans la Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (t. I, 1999 ; t. II sous presse).

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Fayard

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2213704198

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9782213704197

The Monk and the Philosopher

A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life

By: Jean Francois Revel,Matthieu Ricard

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The Monk and the Philosopher

A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life

By: Jean Francois Revel,Matthieu Ricard

Jean Francois-Revel, a pillar of French intellectual life in our time, became world famous for his challenges to both Communism and Christianity. Twenty-seven years ago, his son, Matthieu Ricard, gave up a promising career as a scientist to study Tibetan Buddhism -- not as a detached observer but by immersing himself in its practice under the guidance of its greatest living masters. Meeting in an inn overlooking Katmandu, these two profoundly thoughtful men explored the questions that have occupied humankind throughout its history. Does life have meaning? What is consciousness? Is man free? What is the value of scientific and material progress? Why is there suffering, war, and hatred? Their conversation is not merely abstract: they ask each other questions about ethics, rights, and responsibilities, about knowledge and belief, and they discuss frankly the differences in the way each has tried to make sense of his life. Utterly absorbing, inspiring, and accessible, this remarkable dialogue engages East with West, ideas with life, and science with the humanities, providing wisdom on how to enrich the way we live our lives.

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Schocken

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030778701X

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9780307787019

The Teal

By: Matthieu Guillemain,Johan Elmberg

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The Teal

By: Matthieu Guillemain,Johan Elmberg

Small, noisy and colourful, the Teal is a familiar duck throughout the wetlands and waterways Europe and Asia. Once hunted extensively for the pot, its numbers have recovered and it is now one of our commonest species of waterfowl. A flagship species for wetland conservation, the Teal is also an excellent model species for ecological research, and this forms the spine of this new Poyser monograph. The Teal looks at distribution and trends in numbers, foraging ecology, breeding behaviour), population dynamics, management and conservation of teal, looking at both the Eurasian Common Teal and its North American equivalent, the Green-winged Teal (which until relatively recently was considered to be the same species). The book provides a scientifically robust account on which wetland managers, research scientists and the ornithological community may rely, with wider implicatons for the conservation and management of other waterfowl, and for ecological research in general.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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147290852X

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The Role of Market Structure and Timing in Determining VAT Pass-Through

By: International Monetary Fund

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The Role of Market Structure and Timing in Determining VAT Pass-Through

By: International Monetary Fund

We examine the role of market characteristics and timing in explaining observed heterogeneity in VAT pass-through. We first extend existing theory to characterize the roles of imperfect competition and product differentiation, then investigate these relationships empirically using a panel of 14 Eurozone countries between 1999 and 2013. We find important roles for product market regulation and product quality, and little impact of advance announcement of reforms. Our findings have important implications for policy-makers considering VAT rate adjustments, by illuminating which of the consumers or the producers would experience the brunt of a reform across different settings.

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International Monetary Fund

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1513571540

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The Bible and Archaeology

By: Matthieu Richelle

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The Bible and Archaeology

By: Matthieu Richelle

This book is a brief, popular (but informed and up-to-date) introduction to the relationship between the Bible and archaeology. Material culture (i.e., artifacts) and the biblical text illuminate each other in various ways, but many of us find it difficult to reach a nuanced understanding of how this process works and how archaeological discoveries should be interpreted. This book provides an irenic and balanced perspective on these issues, showing how texts and artifacts are in a fascinating "dialogue" with one another that sheds light on the meaning and importance of both. What emerges is a rich and complex picture that enlivens our understanding of the Bible's message, increases our appreciation for the historical and cultural contexts in which it was written, and helps us be realistic about the limits of our knowledge.

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Hendrickson Publishers

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1619709112

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Blockchain

The Advent of Disintermediation

By: Matthieu Quiniou

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Blockchain

The Advent of Disintermediation

By: Matthieu Quiniou

The dominance of trusted intermediaries could be weakened by blockchain, a distributed ledger technology, one of the functions of which is to constitute timestamped proofs by replacing inter-individual trust with algorithmic trust. Blockchain self-executing smart contracts allow us to rethink the practice in the domain of e-commerce, interbank communication, fundraising (and ICOs), justice (timestamping evidence, acts authenticated by blockchain) and businesses in numerous sectors (entertainment, AI, health, real estate, tourism, transport, etc.) which attempt to propose new services by benefiting from blockchains. This book aims to put into perspective the technical innovations and the uses brought about by blockchain, by identifying that which has a medium- or long-term impact, all while taking into account the social, economic, judicial and administrative resistances that are likely to develop.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119629551

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9781119629559

Luther

By: Olivier Jouvray,Filippo Cenni,Matthieu Arnold

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Luther

By: Olivier Jouvray,Filippo Cenni,Matthieu Arnold

« Ce à quoi tu te tiens, ce sur quoi tu t'appuies, c'est là véritablement ton Dieu. » 1505, Saint Empire Romain germanique. Sur le chemin pour Erfurt en Allemagne, Martin Luther est surpris par un terrible orage. Alors qu'il pense vivre ses derniers instants, il implore Dieu et ses saints et en réchappe. Persuadé que le Seigneur lui a laissé la vie sauve, il décide de lui vouer son existence. En se faisant moine, il espère aussi échapper à l'enfer et au purgatoire au jour de son trépas. Il entre dans une confrérie de moines augustins, où il impressionne ses supérieurs par sa ferveur et son zèle. Envoyé en mission à Rome, il découvre avec stupeur à quel point la ville sainte a été dévoyée et les clercs corrompus par les richesses. Surtout, il réalise que les hommes doivent revenir aux textes originels s'ils veulent trouver le salut et changer leur vision de Dieu. À une époque où la religion fait et défait des royaumes, où les idées circulent plus vite que jamais grâce à l'imprimerie nouvellement créée, la vision de Luther est sur le point de changer le monde...

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2331026688

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Oil, Power, and War

Oil, Power, and War

Interpreting Israel's Scriptures

Interpreting Israel's Scriptures

Happiness

Happiness

The Practical Origins of Ideas

The Practical Origins of Ideas

Martin Luther

Martin Luther

The Monk and the Philosopher

The Monk and the Philosopher

The Teal

The Teal

The Role of Market Structure and Timing in Determining VAT Pass-Through

The Role of Market Structure and Timing in Determining VAT Pass-Through

The Bible and Archaeology

The Bible and Archaeology

Blockchain

Blockchain

Luther

Luther

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