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Africa Trek : 14,000 Kilometers in the Footsteps of Mankind: v. 1. From the Cape of Good Hope to Mount Kilimanjaro

By: Alexandre Poussin,Sonia Poussin

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Africa Trek : 14,000 Kilometers in the Footsteps of Mankind: v. 1. From the Cape of Good Hope to Mount Kilimanjaro

By: Alexandre Poussin,Sonia Poussin

Three years, eleven countries, 1,200 families, 14,000 kilometers of adventures while walking in the footsteps of mankind through the Cradle of Life. Alexandre and Sonia Poussin undertake to walk the length of Africa entirely on foot, from the Cape of Good Hope to the Sea of Galilee. In a three-year trek along the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, their goal is to symbolically retrace the passage of early Man, from Australopithecus to Modern Man. Without sponsors, without support team, sharing the poverty of their hosts, they speak to us on each page of the generosity and enthusiasm of these men and women who populate the African continent. Day after day, Alexandre and Sonia become a bit more African themselves. In this volume, which recounts the first seven thousand kilometers up to Mount Kilimanjaro, we are privileged to share an intimate look into the heart of Africa and her people. The adventure continues in Africa Trek II.

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First Books

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1592993575

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9781592993574

Promiscuous Grace

Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt

By: Sonia Velázquez

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Promiscuous Grace

Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt

By: Sonia Velázquez

Theologians, poets, artists, and laypeople alike have been fascinated by Saint Mary of Egypt's legend since it was first recorded in the seventh century. Mary's prominence is religious and symbolic, encompassing sin and sanctity, the excesses of nymphomania and asceticism, the charms of nubile youth and the wrinkles of old age. In Promiscuous Grace, scholar of religion Sonia Velázquez thinks with Saint Mary of Egypt about what beauty has to do with holiness. With an archive spanning medieval Spanish poetry, Baroque paintings, a seventeenth-century hagiographic drama, and Balzac's treatment of Saint Mary in Le chef-d'oeuvre inconnu, Velázquez argues for the relevance of the appeal to the senses and the importance of the surface in religious texts. She draws on insights from philosophy, literary history and theory, and religious, visual and gender studies, and pays close attention to the texture of the words and images that make the legend of Saint Mary of Egypt come alive and remain relevant today"--

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243

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University of Chicago Press

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0226826104

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9780226826103

Ideas and Adventures, 1200 to 1700

By: Sonia P. Seherr-Thoss

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Ideas and Adventures, 1200 to 1700

By: Sonia P. Seherr-Thoss

With her refreshing new book, [i]Ideas and Adventures 1200 to 1700[/i], covering five centuries of world history, Sonia (Sunny) Seherr-Thoss adds time traveler to her already extensively published world travel reportage. It is a fascinating narrative of world history, accessible to the general reader. Her book reads like a conversation with someone who has camped out in the thirteenth century, transported gold by camel caravan, and returned to relate her adventures. She leaves to others the chronicling of rulers and reigns, the carnage of battles, and the cataloging of maps and dates. Her vision of history is a retrospective on civilization, and an exploration of our multicultural heritage. Mrs. Seherr-Thoss notably includes in her history civilizations which are not typical Western Civ fare. The book takes a multi-disciplinary and multicultural approach to world history, in language which encourages cover-to-cover reading.

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417

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BookPros, LLC

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1933538732

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9781933538730

Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity

By: Sonia Kruks

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Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity

By: Sonia Kruks

This, the first full-length study of Simone de Beauvoir's political thinking, both examines Beauvoir in her own politico-intellectual context and demonstrates her originality and continuing significance. Insisting upon the ambiguity of all human action, Beauvoir presents an affirmation of human freedom and also a somber warning about the inevitability of failures in politics.

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OUP USA

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0195381432

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Africa Trek : 14,000 Kilometers in the Footsteps of Mankind: v. 1. From the Cape of Good Hope to Mount Kilimanjaro

Africa Trek : 14,000 Kilometers in the Footsteps of Mankind: v. 1. From the Cape of Good Hope to Mount Kilimanjaro

Promiscuous Grace

Promiscuous Grace

Ideas and Adventures, 1200 to 1700

Ideas and Adventures, 1200 to 1700

Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity

Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity

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