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Bilinguality and Bilingualism

By: Josiane F. Hamers,Michel Blanc

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This updated and revised edition of Hamers and Blanc's successful textbook presents state-of-the-art knowledge about languages in contact from individual bilingualism (or bilinguality) to societal bilingualism. It is both multi- and interdisciplinary in approach, and analyses bilingualism at individual, interpersonal, and societal levels. Linguistic, cognitive and sociocultural aspects of bilingual development are explored, as are problems such as bilingual memory and polyglot aphasia. Hamers and Blanc analyse the relationship between culture, identity, and language behaviour in multicultural settings, as well as the communication strategies in interpersonal and intergroup relations. They also propose theoretical models of language processing and development, which are then applied to bilingual behaviour. Other topics reviewed include language shift, pidgins and creoles, language planning and bilingual education. This book will be invaluable to students, teachers and scholars interested in languages in contact in a range of disciplines including psycholinguistics, linguistics, the social sciences, education and language planning.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521648432

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The Light of Battle

Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower

By: Michel Paradis

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The Light of Battle

Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower

By: Michel Paradis

A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American history. "This is hands-down the most deeply researched, sensitive, intimate, and nuanced portrait of Eisenhower." —DAVID KENNEDY, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for History | "A masterly portrait." —General WESLEY CLARK | "Gorgeously written. The only must-read book to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day." —ALEX KERSHAW, New York Times bestselling author | STARRED reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Library Journal On June 6, 1944, General Dwight Eisenhower addressed the thousands of American troops preparing to invade Normandy, exhorting them to embrace the “Great Crusade” they faced. Then, in a fleeting moment alone, he drafted a resignation letter in case the invasion failed. In The Light of Battle, Michel Paradis, acclaimed author of Last Mission to Tokyo, paints a vivid portrait of Dwight Eisenhower as he learns to navigate the crosscurrents of diplomacy, politics, strategy, family, and fame with the fate of the free world hanging in the balance. In a world of giants—Churchill, Roosevelt, De Gaulle, Marshall, MacArthur—it was a barefoot boy from Abilene, Kansas, who would master the art of power and become a modern-day George Washington. Drawing upon meticulous research and a voluminous body of newly discovered records, letters, diaries, and firsthand accounts from three continents, Paradis brings Eisenhower to life, as a complicated man who craved simplicity, a genial cipher whose smile was a lethal political weapon. With a page-turning pace and an eye for the overlooked, Paradis interweaves the grand arc of history with more human concerns, bringing readers into the private moments that led to Eisenhower’s most pivotal decisions. By deftly integrating the personal and the political, he reveals how Eisenhower’s rise both reflected and was integral to America’s rise as a global superpower. An unflinching look at how character is forged, and leadership is learned, The Light of Battle breathes new life into the man who made “the leader of the free world” the mantle of the American presidency.

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HarperCollins

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0063343991

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Last Mission to Tokyo

The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raiders and Their Final Fight for Justice

By: Michel Paradis

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Last Mission to Tokyo

The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raiders and Their Final Fight for Justice

By: Michel Paradis

A narrative account of the Doolittle Raids of World War II traces the daring Raiders attack on mainland Japan, the fate of the crews who survived the mission, and the international war crimes trials that defined Japanese-American relations and changed legal history.

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Simon and Schuster

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150110473X

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9781501104732

Good for Nothing

By: Michel Noel

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Good for Nothing

By: Michel Noel

Winner of the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction The year is 1959, and fifteen-year-old Nipishish returns to his reserve in northern Quebec after being kicked out of residential school, where the principal tells him he's a good-for-nothing who, like all Indians, can look forward to a life of drunkenness, prison and despair. The reserve, however, offers nothing to Nipishish. He remembers little of his late mother and father. In fact, he seems to know less about himself than the people at the band office. He must try to rediscover the old ways, face the officials who find him a threat, and learn the truth about his father's death.

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Groundwood Books Ltd

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1554982677

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The Eden Democratic Kingdom

Part 1: The Pioneer Generation

By: Michel Pelletier

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The Eden Democratic Kingdom

Part 1: The Pioneer Generation

By: Michel Pelletier

Theophilus’ Bible Commentary Author returns in an entirely different style. This action-packed fiction may perhaps be worthy of movie producers’ attention. The story takes place in the mid-twenty-first century. It follows a series of worldwide crises that lead to the creation of a group of Island over the Atlantic ridge. A unique tax-free social system has been brought to reality within the boundaries of that new colony. The book is suitable for most age groups. Romance, suspense, and science-fiction fans should enjoy. Environmentalists should find enough material to satisfy them. Christian values, legal, political, and social issues are also brought forward. ‘THE EDEN DEMOCRATIC KINGDOM: The Pioneer Generation’ is the first of this science-fiction trilogy. ‘THE EDEN DEMOCRATIC KINGDOM: Project New Hope’ will enter the world of androids and the discovery of a new source of energy. In ‘THE EDEN DEMOCRATIC KINGDOM: Survival’, humanity will pack their bags and move to outer space. www.michelpelletier-author.com

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FriesenPress

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1460270673

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Handbook of Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Psychology, Adult Disorders

By: Michel Hersen,Peter Sturmey

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Handbook of Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Psychology, Adult Disorders

By: Michel Hersen,Peter Sturmey

Handbook of Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Psychology, Volume 2 covers the evidence-based practices now identified for treating adults with a wide range of DSM disorders. Topics include fundamental issues, adult cognitive disorders, substance-related disorders, psychotic, mood, and anxiety disorders, and sexual disorders. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of the evidence-based practice literature for each disorder and then covers several different treatment types for clinical implementation. Edited by the renowned Peter Sturmey and Michel Hersen and featuring contributions from experts in the field, this reference is ideal for academics, researchers, and libraries.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470335467

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La Renovation du Shi'isme Ismaelien En Inde Et Au Pakistan

D'apres les Ecrits et les Discours de Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan

By: Michel Boivin

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La Renovation du Shi'isme Ismaelien En Inde Et Au Pakistan

D'apres les Ecrits et les Discours de Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan

By: Michel Boivin

This French-language book is the first to propose a scientific approach to the Aga Khan's religious thought, placing it in its proper perspective by revealing how the Aga Khan responded to contemporary challenges. It will be of interest to both students and scholars of history, orientalism and Islamic thought and cultures, and to anyone interested in South Asia or in the fundamental issues of religion and modernity.

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1136850260

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Jeux d'errance du chevalier médiéval

Aspects ludiques de la fonction guerrière dans la littérature du Moyen Age flamboyant

By: Michel Stanesco

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Jeux d'errance du chevalier médiéval

Aspects ludiques de la fonction guerrière dans la littérature du Moyen Age flamboyant

By: Michel Stanesco

Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION: UN REGARD GLACE: L'AVENTURE CHEVALERESQUE COMME «JUSTIFICATION» DE CLASSE -- CHAPITRE PREMIER: L'EFFET DE ROMAN LA FASCINATION DU MODELE ROMANESQUE -- CHAPITRE II: UN 'PILIER DU MONDE' -- CHAPITRE III: LE RITUEL SYMBOLIQUE DE L'ADOUBEMENT -- CHAPITRE IV: LA PASSION DU TOURNOI ET SES INTERDITS -- CHAPITRE V: LE PLAISIR DES ARMES -- CHAPITRE VI: LA PERSPECTIVE DE LA MIMESIS -- CHAPITRE VII: JEUX D'AMOUR, JEUX D'ECHECS -- CHAPITRE VIII: LE CEREMONIAL DU JEU -- CHAPITRE IX: LES «MISTERES» DU PAS DE L'ARBRE D'OR ET LE CHEVALIER PRISONNIER -- CHAPITRE X: JEU ET RITUEL -- CHAPITRE XI: 'ENTRE SOMMEILLANT ET ESVEILLE' -- D'UNE TECHNIQUE CHEVALERESQUE A UNE EXPERIENCE POETIQUE -- CHAPITRE XII: L'EMPRISE DU VISUEL -- CHAPITRE XIII: LE HERAUT D'ARMES ET LA TRADITION LITTERAIRE CHEVALERESQUE -- CHAPITRE XIV: LA FETE CHEVALERESQUE -- CHAPITRE XV: LE TROUBLE-FETE -- CHAPITRE XVI: LE GOTHIQUE FLAMBOYANT ET L'ESPRIT BAROQUE: ESQUISSE THEORIQUE D'UNE EXPERIENCE ESTHETIQUE -- CHAPITRE XVII: LE PARADOXE DU JEU CHEVALERESQUE -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHIE -- INDEX DES AUTEURS ET DES OEUVRES.

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9004246584

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Financial Crimes and Existential Philosophy

By: Michel Dion

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Financial Crimes and Existential Philosophy

By: Michel Dion

The aim of this book is to deepen our understanding of financial crimes as phenomena. It uses concepts of existential philosophies that are relevant to dissecting the phenomenon of financial crimes. With the help of these concepts, the book makes clear what the impact of financial crimes is on the way a human being defines himself or the way he focuses on a given notion of humankind. The book unveils how the growth of financial crimes has contributed to the increase of the anthropological gap, and how the phenomenon of financial crimes now distorts the way we understand humankind. Using the existential philosophies of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Buber, Heidegger, and Marcel, the book sheds light on how these philosophies can help to better perceive and describe financial crimes. Next it looks at prevention strategies from an organizational perspective, using concepts of Sartre, Gadamer and Tillich. The book provides readers with existential principles that will help them be more efficient when they have to design and implement prevention strategies against corporate crime.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400773269

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Rethinking the European Union and its global role from the 20th to the 21st Century

Liber Amicorum Mario Telò

By: Jean-Michel De Waele,Anne Weyembergh,Giovanni Grevi

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Rethinking the European Union and its global role from the 20th to the 21st Century

Liber Amicorum Mario Telò

By: Jean-Michel De Waele,Anne Weyembergh,Giovanni Grevi

Discover the various scientific debates that Mario Telò has been involved. This edited volume, which has been drafted in honour of Professor Telò’s research career, offers the reader an overview of the various scientific debates that he has been involved in throughout his distinguished career. The aim was to highlight, contextualise and build on his most innovative contributions to each of these debates. This book revolves around four thematic areas, each of which brings together a number of contributions that offer timely reflections on a given question or challenge covered by Professor Telò’s research. EXTRACT We wanted to have a personality of international calibre, espousing different political systems across the world. But we also wanted to bring a good teacher into the fold filling students with enthusiasm, able to lead them to develop their study projects, to establish their vocation as researchers and even to train personalities active in every day life, in fact to promote a European conscientiousness. We know that Mario Telò has perfectly fulfilled these many wishes, in particular through his commitments towards his colleagues as well as his very active role as member and President of the Institut d’études européennes – Institute of European Studies (IEE-ULB), but also through the support that he has given numerous researchers who have completed brilliant doctoral theses under his supervision. It is difficult to pay him tribute, however, as Mario Telò has engaged in and still engages in multiple and international academic activities. We have lost count of the number of foreign invitations that have been extended to him as well as his numerous speeches to defend and to explain the need for a European area. Mario Telò knows better than anyone that European values still need to be defended, that European studies cover several aspects, not just the political integration process in Europe but also the analysis of the behaviour of actors, decision-makers and citizens. We know that the ‘EU acquis’ is often temporary and several times the work has to be redone, as the difficulties of functioning with twenty-eight member states, and soon to be twenty-seven member states, show. The European Union does not always respond to the democratic deficit, the political integration approach needs to show the usefulness and expected benefits of European cooperation essential to its existence in a very tense global context. The energy of Mario Telò, his creativity, his international engagement, his academic openness will always be essential to the ULB. A member of the Académie Royale de Belgique [Royal Academy of Belgium], in the Classe des Lettres et des Sciences morales et politiques [section of letters and moral and political sciences], Mario Telò will always find the opportunity to express his analyses and proposals to get through the currently very troubled time of Europe’s and the world’s evolution.

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Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles

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2800416807

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9782800416809

Scratches

The Rules of the Game

By: Michel Leiris

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Scratches

The Rules of the Game

By: Michel Leiris

A dazzling translation by Lydia Davis of the first volume of Michel Leiris’s masterwork, perhaps the most important French autobiographical enterprise of the twentieth century Michel Leiris, a French intellectual whose literary works inspired high praise from the likes of Simone de Beauvoir and Claude Lévi-Strauss, began the first volume of his autobiographical project at the age of 40. It was the beginning of an endeavor that ultimately required 35 years and three additional volumes. In Volume 1, Scratches, Leiris proposes to discover a savoir vivre, a mode of living that would have a place for both his poetics and his personal morality. “I can scarcely see the literary use of speech as anything but a means of sharpening one’s consciousness in order to be more—and in a better way—alive," he declares. He begins the project of uncovering memories, returning to moments and images of childhood—his father’s recording machine, the letters of the alphabet coming to life—and then of his later life—Paris under the Occupation, a journey to Africa, and a troubling fear of death.

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Yale University Press

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0300227833

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9780300227833

A Key to the Louvre: Memoirs of a Curator

By: Michel Laclotte

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A Key to the Louvre: Memoirs of a Curator

By: Michel Laclotte

An art world insider provides a witty and penetrating account of fifty years at the center of international culture. Art historian, curator, and museum director Michel Laclotte has been at the forefront of French cultural life over the past half century. This informal autobiography sheds light on his brilliant career with warmth and directness. Highlights include twenty years as chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Musée du Louvre, heading the team that created the Musée dOrsay, and taking the reins of the Louvre to lead the effort that culminated in the museums transformation into the ?Grand Louvre,” one of the worlds preeminent cultural attractions. Raising the curtain on fifty years of Western art scholarship, intrigue, and achievement, Laclotte introduces an extraordinary cast of characters who set Frances cultural direction in the postwar period from Charles de Gaulle and André Malraux in the 1950s to François Mitterand in the 1980s and 1990s. His story overlaps with virtually every major scholarly figure in French art history of the last half-century, as well as Laclottes mentors and colleagues throughout and beyond Europe, from Roberto Longhi and Anthony Blunt to Sir John Pope-Hennessy and Millard Meiss. An incomparable testament to a period of seismic change in the museum world, this volume will be essential reading for art world afficianados and all students of art and modern culture.

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WW Norton

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0789260077

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Le Corps Humain

By: Maurice Godelier,Michel Panoff

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Le Corps Humain

By: Maurice Godelier,Michel Panoff

Pourquoi mourir? Comment survivre? De la naissance a la mort, c'est par le corps, c'est dans l'habitacle du corps que l'homme se situe dand l'unvers et fair l'expereince de ses congeneres. A l'occasion des rite de passage notamemnt, c'est par le coprps que la societe revendique l'individu comme sien, at c'est sure son corps qu'elle inscrit cette appartenance. Mais nulle branche de la famille humaine ne s'est jamais resignee aux limites naturelles que le corps assignait aux experiences vecues ou aux transformations subies par sa matiere jusqu'a la mort incluse. Toujours at partout on a imagine une ou plusieurs entites qui asurent la continuite de la personne a travers le temps et en illuminent le traits: ame, ombre, double, esprit, etc. Les noms variet, le metaphores aussi. Comment de telles entites accompagnent le corps, le forifient, s'en detachent ou se dressent contre lui, c'est ce que chaque culture a codifie a sa maniere par des pratiques que nous nommons par exemple- epreuves initiatiques, actes de sorcellerie, possession, ou cannibalisme. Tant at si bien que le corps agresse, possed, supplicie, cannibalise, devient en retour un moyen prvilegie d'analyser les cultures. Aux ethnologues at aux historiens de le mettre en oeuvre et de l'ecouter. Neuf d'entre eux se sont attaches a le faire dans des textes nourris de recherches menees en Asie, en Amerique du Sud, en Afrique at en Oceanie.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040278051

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Don't Let Go

By: Michel Bussi

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Don't Let Go

By: Michel Bussi

From the bestselling author of After the Crash, “a novel so extraordinary it reminded me of reading Stieg Larsson for the first time” (The Sunday Times). Holidaying in an idyllic resort on the island of Réunion, wealthy Parisians Martial and Liane Bellion are enjoying the perfect family moment with their six-year-old daughter. Turquoise skies, clear water, palm trees, a warm breeze. Then Liane Bellion disappears from her hotel room. The door to her room is open, the walls and sheets are spotted with blood. A hotel employee swears he saw Martial in the corridor at the time Liane went missing, and he becomes the number one suspect. But then Martial also disappears, along with his daughter. An all-out manhunt is declared across the island. Could Martial really have killed his wife? For fans of Gone Girl and The Fugitive, Bussi’s fast-paced, atmospheric thriller does not disappoint. “A nail biter of a manhunt across the spectacular terrain of the Indian Ocean island of Réunion drives this thriller after a tourist goes missing, triggering a police chase and exposing a cannily-constructed mystery with nods to both Agatha Christie and Harlan Coben.” —The Boston Globe “Suspenseful . . . vengeance proves a common passion on Réunion, as detailed in this twist-filled novel told from several characters’ perspectives.” —The Wall Street Journal “This novel, a multi-charactered French whodunit, squeezes all its frantic action into the 25 square miles of gorgeous but treacherous Réunion Island.” —Toronto Star “A top-notch puzzle . . . A wonderfully immersive thriller.” —Booklist

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Europa Editions

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1609454545

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La Production Du Corps

By: Maurice Godelier,Michel Panoff

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La Production Du Corps

By: Maurice Godelier,Michel Panoff

Dans quelle mesure le corps fait-il l'identité d'un être humain ? Et pour combien de temps si quelque chose survit de lui, après sa mort, ce n'est pas tout à fait son corps ? Dans toutes les cultures, il semble que l'humanité, sous des formes diverses, ait été amenée à imaginer l'être humain comme composé de deux parties : une partie périssable et une partie qui continue d'agir bien au-delà de la mort, même si elle n'est pas immortelle. Ces deux parties ne se réduisent pas nécessairement à un corps visible et à un animal double, invisible, mais qui meurt quand l'autre meurt. Chez les Maenge de Nouville-Guinée, l'individu a deux âmes, même s'il n'a qu'un seul corps. De nombreuses sociétés pensent qu'il faut plus de deux êtres humains pour faire un être humain. Il faut que l'esprit d'un ancêtre, ou l'action d'un dieu vienne sinon animer ce corps, du moins le rendre complet, le compléter. Chaque personne naît donc, s'étant inscrite en soi, formant comme une sorte d'intimité impersonnelle, un ensemble d'idées, d'images, de valeurs, par lesquelles l'ordre ou les désordres qui s'impriment dans son corps. règne dans sa société. Seize anthropologues et historiens ont exploré ces réalités culturelles dispersées dans l'espace et le temps.

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Routledge

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1000443701

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Gabriel Fauré

A Musical Life

By: Jean-Michel Nectoux

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Gabriel Fauré

A Musical Life

By: Jean-Michel Nectoux

This book traces Fauré's life and the rich cultural milieu in which he lived and worked.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521616956

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Language, Sexuality, and Ideology in Ezra Pound's Cantos

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

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Language, Sexuality, and Ideology in Ezra Pound's Cantos

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

Ezra Pound's Cantos remains among the most influential and difficult of twentieth century poetic writings. But now, for the first time, Rabaté's powerful and original study presents a theory of reading adequate to the challenge of Pound's writing. Using elements from Lacanian psycho-analysis and Heidegger's powerful meditation of poetry and language, this book constructs a theory of reading which both gives full force to the strategies of writing deployed in the Cantos and to the historical and political situations to which those strategies are a response. This study provides a fresh reading of the familiar Pound canon: Homer, Dante, Ovid but also of the less well-known: Ruskin, Browning, Frobenius. Pound's practice of quotation is understood in the context of a new poetic discourse characterized by parapraxis, ellipsis, condensation and autonomous "voices" which refer the division of the speaking subject back to an "omniform" intellect capable of taking on any new personality at will. Crucial to an understanding of Pound's situation is the relationship between Chinese and Greek culture, an analysis of which allows Rabaté to elaborate the tragic dimension in Pound's life and works. This book also parallels and contrasts Pound with his major contemporaries such as Eliot and Joyce and with his immediate heirs, like William Carlos Williams, H.D., Zukofsky, and Olson.

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State University of New York Press

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1438416679

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Poésies inédites d'Eugène MANUEL

By: Michel GERARD

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Poésies inédites d'Eugène MANUEL

By: Michel GERARD

Recueil de 112 poésies inédites d'Eugène MANUEL, poéte de la fin du 19éme siécle, auteur "des OUVRIERS". Ces poésies sont issues des manuscrits légués à la biliothèque de La Sorbonne.

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Lulu.com

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1291316868

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Space and Spatial Cognition

A Multidisciplinary Perspective

By: Michel Denis

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Space and Spatial Cognition

A Multidisciplinary Perspective

By: Michel Denis

All living creatures inscribe their activity in space. Human beings acquire knowledge of this space by traversing it, listening to verbal descriptions, and looking at maps, atlases, and digital media. We memorize routes, compare distances mentally, and retrieve our starting place after a long journey. Space and Spatial Cognition provides an up-to-date introduction to the elements of human navigation and the mental representation of our environment. This book explores the mental capacities which enable us to create shortcuts, imagine new pathways, and thus demonstrate our adaptation to the environment. Using a multidisciplinary approach which draws on psychology, neuroscience, geography, architecture and the visual arts, the author presents answers to a number of questions. Which mental capacities do people mobilize when confronted with space? Which brain functions do they implement? How do digital technologies extend these capacities? By presenting space at the crossroads of a number of disciplines, this volume reveals how each of them enhances our understanding of human behaviour in space. Space and Spatial Cognition provides a unique insight into all facets of spatial cognition, including spatial behaviour, language, and future technologies. It will be the ideal companion for all students and researchers in the field.

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Routledge

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1351596179

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From Society to System

The Social Theory of Michel Freitag

By: Michel Freitag

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From Society to System

The Social Theory of Michel Freitag

By: Michel Freitag

From Society to System presents sociologist Michel Freitag’s (1935-2009) distinctive, multifaceted and interdisciplinary work. Elaborated within the grand sociological tradition, his dialectical sociology redefines sociality as the realm of the symbolic to pinpoint its ontological frailty. Such a perspective expands the borders within sociology to rejoin classical philosophical preoccupations, revisiting social ontology as a radical critique of contemporary society where not only life and planet earth is at stake as a result of capitalism but reflexivity as well. This collection of essays touches on topics that have been of central concern for social theory since the end of the 20th century: the discussion about holism versus individualism and the dissolution of transcendental identity; the current state of the social sciences, both epistemologically and practically; the end-of-20th century debate over the nature of society along with its future in the context of globalisation. These essays show how Freitag’s sociology is part of a larger unified framework that integrates ontology, epistemology, anthropology and philosophy into a coherent vision of the world – testifying to the distinctiveness of Freitag’s social theory, standing next to other great social theorists such as Margaret Archer, Jürgen Habermas, Murray Bookchin and Ulrich Beck.

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1000756084

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The Voice in Cinema

By: Michel Chion

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The Voice in Cinema

By: Michel Chion

Chion analyzes imaginative uses of the human voice by directors like Lang, Hitchcock, Ophuls, Duras, and de Palma.

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Columbia University Press

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0231108230

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Interventions 2020

By: Michel Houellebecq

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Interventions 2020

By: Michel Houellebecq

The death of God in the West was the prelude to a formidable metaphysical soap opera that continues to this day. Christianity’s masterstroke was to combine a fierce belief in the individual with the promise of eternal participation in the Absolute. When that dream evaporated, various attempts were made to offer the individual a minimum of being. The latest of these attempts is advertising, which seeks to arouse desire and transform the subject into a docile phantom doomed to follow advertising’s every whim. But, like all previous attempts, this skin-deep, superficial participation in the world fails, and unhappiness and depression continue to spread. However, we can all produce a cold revolution in ourselves by stepping outside the flow of information and advertising. We need to take some time out, unplug the television, turn off our iPhones, stop buying stuff, stop wanting to buy stuff, temporarily detach ourselves and adopt an aesthetic attitude to the world. We just need to stay still for a few seconds. This is one of the key themes developed by Michel Houellebecq in this collection of his texts and interviews from the last three decades. Here he explains and elaborates his point of view, discusses his novels and addresses a wide range of topics from politics, religion and literature to suicide, euthanasia and paedophilia. An indispensable book for anyone interested in the work of one of the most widely read and controversial novelists of our time.

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