No other people over so long a history have shown a greater knack for survival than the Italians. In this wryly affectionate book, Hofmann reveals his adopted countrymen in all their glorious paradoxes, capturing their national essence as no other book has done since Luigi Barzini's classic, The Italians. The national art of "arrangement"-- dodging taxes, double-dealing, working only as hard as one must-- is counteracted by Italian inventive genius, gusto for life, fierce individuality, deep family bonds (as well as animosities), and a marvelously hedonistic sophistication.
Four hundred of the 3,800 people who permanently live or work in the State of Vatican City, the smallest sovereign and independent state on the globe, are women. They are nuns and members of the laity; some are housekeepers of churchmen; others are secretaries, translators, editors, lawyers, and middle-level officials of the papal administration. Expansive in scope and enlightening in detail, The Vatican's Women recalls women who wielded power in the Vatican, including St. Catherine of Siena, Queen Christina of Sweden, Mother Pascalina (Pope Pius XII's longtime housekeeper and confidante), and Mother Teresa. With an unflinching eye, Paul Hofmann examines the papacy's reaction to Catholic women's (and nuns') liberation, and women's struggles, especially today, to fortify their positions within the Church. The Vatican's Women is a thorough and revealing exploration that will herald a new level of insight and dialogue amongst feminists, theologians, and laypeople alike.
Wends his way through the city streets, stopping to chat with mail carriers and construction workers, or lingers over a cappuccino, letting his thoughts wander back into the city's history and half a century of personal experience there, one follows closely behind and listens to the voices of the city - past and present - rise up in his lucid prose. Hofmann speaks from the very heart of Rome.
Paul Hofmann, a native Viennese, brings this enchanted land of contradictions to life, covering two thousand years of Viennese personalities, politics and culture. 46 black-and-white photos.
The death of John Paul II was a grand historic tableau, as members of the pontifical household and devout Catholics across the world mourned the loss of the most beloved pope in memory. With the election of Pope Benedict XVI, the Catholic Church has turned a historic corner--into the reign of the first new pope of the twenty-first century. Years in the making, The New Pope is the riveting account by the ultimate Vatican insider--an acclaimed journalist who has covered the Vatican since 1945, lived in Rome for decades, and whose contacts include cardinals, papal ambassadors, and churchmen on every continent and within the Holy See The New Pope chronicles: * Benedict XVI: Vital biographical information and defining theological positions * The Conclave: The ceremony, rituals, politics, and prayer that will chose the new pope * John Paul II: Remembering a beloved pope and defining his place in history * The Future of the Church: In what direction will the new pope lead? With vivid first-hand analysis, The New Pope covers the last few weeks of John Paul's pontificate and his death, as well as the involved and "divinely inspired" election of a new pope: reactions of the faithful, conclave preparations, election politics, internal machinations, reaction to the new pope, information on the new pope, and looking forward into the new papal reign. This fascinating exploration is poised to shed light on the dark and involved process of the conclave, while forecasting the direction of the church through the new pope.
Of all topological algebraic structures compact topological groups have perhaps the richest theory since 80 many different fields contribute to their study: Analysis enters through the representation theory and harmonic analysis; differential geo metry, the theory of real analytic functions and the theory of differential equations come into the play via Lie group theory; point set topology is used in describing the local geometric structure of compact groups via limit spaces; global topology and the theory of manifolds again playa role through Lie group theory; and, of course, algebra enters through the cohomology and homology theory. A particularly well understood subclass of compact groups is the class of com pact abelian groups. An added element of elegance is the duality theory, which states that the category of compact abelian groups is completely equivalent to the category of (discrete) abelian groups with all arrows reversed. This allows for a virtually complete algebraisation of any question concerning compact abelian groups. The subclass of compact abelian groups is not so special within the category of compact. groups as it may seem at first glance. As is very well known, the local geometric structure of a compact group may be extremely complicated, but all local complication happens to be "abelian". Indeed, via the duality theory, the complication in compact connected groups is faithfully reflected in the theory of torsion free discrete abelian groups whose notorious complexity has resisted all efforts of complete classification in ranks greater than two.
Offers a personal account of the cities, towns, villages, and natural sights of Umbria, and reveals its hidden wonders from the great Etruscan and Roman ruins, medieval castles, cathedrals, and palaces to extraordinary works of art
Returning to the Southern Plains with fellow scout Sharp Grover, Donegan finds himself a captive in the opening skirmishes of the Southern Plains Uprising of 1873.
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